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Happy Canada Day for ordinary Canadians, that is. No such good wishes for our federal politicians, who have caused untold damage to our country over the past two years: (1) They allowed a foreign autocrat to dictate our domestic legislation, most notably by extending copyright durations by twenty years, against the will of Canadians. (2) The autocr... at is gone now, but the federal parties have done nothing to repair the damage he caused. Why not? (3) There is a new outrage, Bill C-10 , which among other things will subject Canadians' social media postings to government censorship. To their credit, the Conservatives oppose this bill. No other party does. The federal parties should stop boasting about themselves, and start paying attention to Canadians: this summer, before a federal election, would be an excellent time to do this, A good first step would be to begin the process of getting rid of the copyright extensions. Our politicians claim that the "new NAFTA" is the fully acceptable outcome of a legitimate process. But this trainwreck of a process happened in full view of the Canadian public. We all witnessed: - the signing of an "agreement" under obvious duress, contrary to Canadian and to international law. And then, with the COVID-19 pandemic already raging, everything was rushed through Parliament in a single day. And in this single day Canada became a puppet state, a colony of the United States. The last US presidency ended in a wave of lawlessness and insurrection. This is a warning to Canadians: we need to renounce our colonial relationship with the US before it becomes further entrenched! Marauders by Night (1951) [A Gilbert Larose novel, set in 1925! As the novel opens, a very serious conference is underway at Scotland Yard. In the Eastern Counties (Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk) there have been no fewer than five major robberies. In attendance is Gilbert Larose, "then in his twenty-ninth year and the youngest Detective Inspector at Scotland Yard... a good-looking young fellow with a pleasant smiling ...Read More