Opinion General

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"Nobel-Prize-winning economists and other experts agree that the cost of the war with Iran to Americans - even if it stops this year - will exceed $1 Trillion, that’s Trillion. And, more people will die, unnecessarily."

"The First Nations that sent their children to that school owe neither me nor you anything."

"A bad penny has a way of showing up, time and time again."

"If you’ve been reading this newsletter for any time, you know how badly I wanted to tell you this week that the campaign to recall Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream MLA Tara Armstrong was on."

"There is good reason to worry about America."

"It looks like they are abandoning any pretext of being a home for centrist-right voters."

"A week in 98-degree F with 98 percent humidity will make you wish you were knee-deep in snow. Better yet, go after President Trump leaves office…and you’ll have a better political climate, as well."

"Canada has deemed the risks of using the 1960s-era tutor jets too great. They are expected to return with a new fleet in 'the early 2030s'."

"People throw the term artificial intelligence around - AI for short - like a household word. But while pretty much all of us have heard it - even peppered it in our conversations - most of us can’t really say exactly what AI is…or exactly what it even does."

"This is about the coughing, sputtering system of justice in this province, this country, that can't seem to see the forest for the trees."

"Beyond policies and actions that have hurt America immeasurably, Trump has every appearance of suffering dementia…and a variety of mental illnesses."

"I've been through periods of high unemployment before and this just doesn't feel the same somehow."

"I really do wonder why anyone might think Canada would ever be a 51st state of the United States?"

"How much longer can the folks who voted for Donald Trump stand by him? That is more or less a rhetorical question because the answer is all-too-obvious."

"If I have had one consistent peeve through my life it's feeding wildlife."

"After decades of umpiring baseball games, I can tell you a sense of humour is indispensable."

"MLAs Tara Armstrong and Amelia Boultbee both quit within months the BC Conservative Party that got them elected. Armstrong will be recalled over it. Boultbee said on social media she plans to remain an independent, may have been her strategy all along."

"Twenty-five years or so from today, students of history will look back at the tipping point that signalled America’s decline as the singular world power with the most control of the fate of everyone on Earth."

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"While Black men and other men of colour suffer from a deck stacked against them - and it is true that women face more discrimination than men - it is Black women and other women of colour who suffer the most today."

"He's left more than a few folks wondering who the real Peter Milobar is."

"The U.S. has spent $1.3 Million per minute…PER MINUTE…for a month. That’s more than $50 Billion."