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  1. McCAUGHEY: Americans are dying too young and health policy needs a shake-up

    The American public is being sold a bill of goods that enrolling everyone in government-approved health insurance — primarily managed care — will improve the nation’s health and close the troubling disparities between the health of Black and white Americans. Former president Barack Obama made insurance coverage the signature issue of the Democratic Party.

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  3. WARMINGTON: Trudeau started killing Canada, now Trump trying to finish job

    Donald Trump is now merely threatening to finish the job of destroying Canada that Justin Trudeau started in 2015. The woke warriors tried to apply modern politically correctness to leaders in the era of the horse and buggy and before the use of electricity was widespread. The first casualty of Canada’s history was removing Macdonald from the $10 bill. With Trudeau cheerleading, Macdonald’s name was removed from schools and his statue was not only torn down in Montreal and Victoria, but also from his hometown of Kingston. A statue of him remains boarded up outside of Queen’s Park, as well. Macdonald’s Bellevue House in Kingston has become a museum to punch at his legacy and the anti-Canada crew didn’t stop there because they also cheered on the dismantling of the Queen Victoria statue in Winnipeg, the Egerton Ryerson statue in Toronto and the renaming of Ryerson University to Toronto Metropolitan University, while taxpayer’s money was used to scrub Henry Dundas’s name from Yonge-Dundas Square — now called Sankofa Square. Canada has even seen a movement to try to make the treasured Anne of Green Gables more diverse and to drop the name pioneer from Black Creek Pioneer Village. Trudeau saying “there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States” was fine, but it was ironic that under this guy, no one knows exactly what Canada is anymore. With legal marijuana, massive debt financing, leaning on people to be vaccinated against COVID-19, a modern form of martial law to break up a lockdown protest, and Trudeau wearing blackface, Canada has become unrecognizable. They changed the national anthem, suggested people say “peoplekind” instead of mankind, and did little to battle against Christian churches being burned while dropping everything to call out Islamophobia. The people who have been ruining Canada hate Canada and never tried to hide it. Trudeau actually said new Canadians are “more” Canadian than those born here. And while he was famous for saying a “a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian” when it came to terrorists’ keeping their citizenship.  If anyone spoke out against him, he would call them racist or misogynist and was more than happy to see statues of Canadiana come down faster than the value of the dollar. One of the most important statues to erect again is the one at Queen’s Park, where Premier Doug Ford can let it be known he wants Macdonald released from his tomb there and shown off to the world as Canada’s first prime minister. That way, he’d send a message to Trump that not only is Canada out of bounds, but that Canadians are taking their country back. WARMINGTON: Legacy of Canada's first PM cancelled by a crane WARMINGTON: Woke-Canada sets sights on making Anne of Green Gables more diverse

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    Work crews remove a statue of Canada's first prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald from City Park in downtown Kingston, Ont., where it has stood since 1895, on Friday, June 18, 2021.

  6. JAY GOLDBERG: Liberal leadership candidates must embrace fiscal reckoning

    No matter who Canada’s next prime minister is, it’s time to lay down a marker: The party with Canada’s finances is over. Canadians have had it with the Trudeau government’s irresponsible spending. One of the reasons Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s popularity has taken a nosedive is because Canadians are sick and tired of his government’s debt and deficits. Canadians are tired of the spending sprees. We’re tired of billion-dollar announcements at which politicians congratulate each other for spending money borrowed on the backs of our children. Shockingly, former finance minister Chrystia Freeland might have said it best in her resignation letter last month. Canadians are tired of “costly political gimmicks, which we can ill afford and which make Canadians doubt the gravity of the moment.” No doubt those words were ringing through Trudeau’s head as he delivered his resignation speech. Freeland resigned as finance minister because Trudeau wanted to borrow and spend even more money on initiatives Freeland saw as gimmicks. If Freeland is the source of sober advice in the fiscal drunk tank, there can be no doubt it’s time for a reckoning. Freeland didn’t resign because Trudeau loves deficits. She resigned because the government crashed through her $40.1-billion “fiscal guardrail” by some $20 billion and Trudeau wanted to go even further. As finance minister, Freeland was responsible for adding hundreds of billions of dollars to Canada’s national debt; a debt which Trudeau has single-handedly doubled in just nine years. Freeland is no fiscal hawk. Her record is not an ode to fiscal responsibility. But if she’s calling for restraint, the moment must truly be at hand. Here’s the reality: Interest charges on the nation’s debt now cost taxpayers $53.7 billion a year. That’s more than the federal government spends on health care. And Canada’s debt interest payments now exceed every single penny brought in by the GST. If ever there was a moment for a political consensus to end deficit spending, it’s now. In the coming days, candidates will throw their hats in the ring to succeed Trudeau as Liberal leader and become the next prime minister of Canada. But if those candidates want Canadians to consider giving the Liberals another mandate, they need to pitch the biggest fiscal U-turn in the history of Canadian politics. There are three key points candidates must address to get Canadian taxpayers’ attention. First: Take the mantle of Paul Martin and slay the deficit. It’s time to end deficit spending. Not in five years. Not in three years. This year. Candidates need to lay out a plan to immediately balance the budget. Second: No new spending that isn’t paid for. Every dollar of new spending should be paired with a spending cut. If candidates want to propose any new spending, there must be a clear offset on exactly what will be scrapped. Not a vague generality of where savings can be found. A specific program must be put on the chopping block. Third: No new taxes. The deficit should be eliminated, but not on the backs of Canadian taxpayers. This government has raised taxes left, right and centre. The Liberals have introduced and repeatedly increased the carbon tax. Just days ago, the government once again hiked payroll taxes. Canadians are stretched to the max. Fifty per cent of Canadians say they’re $200 away from being unable to pay their bills. It’s time for the government to tighten its belt, not its citizens. Poll after poll has shown Canadians have tuned out the Liberals. Folks are sick and tired of debt and deficits. And the more Trudeau tried to fix his popularity problems by borrowing and spending more, the more unpopular he became. If Liberal leadership candidates want to be taken seriously, they need to run away from Trudeau’s fiscal record as fast as they can. And the way to do that is to offer a serious plan to immediately balance the budget without raising taxes. If they propose anything less, Canadian taxpayers will tune them out, just like Trudeau. Jay Goldberg is Ontario director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation

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  3. SHAPIRO: Welcoming an end to the age of censorship

    This week, in a stunning volte-face, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would be revising its censorship policies to accord with his older vision of free speech. Specifically, Zuckerberg committed Facebook to revising a series of standards: Reliance on left-wing fact-checkers will end, replaced by an X-like community notes system in which fact-checking will be crowdsourced; political content will no longer be artificially muted; censorship will be ended around controversial issues like transgender ideology and immigration; the content moderation team will be shifted from California to Texas to better account for the varying views of Americans; and Facebook will work with Donald Trump’s administration to push American-style free speech standards around the world.

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    Ben Shapiro 6 days ago Columnists
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