Life is more than politics

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So Ron James the comedian came to Ottawa and I interviewed him for my radio show on Newstalk 580 CFRA – you can listen live M-F from 7-10 ET.
Anyway, some conservative types told me they were not happy that I interviewed him because he didn’t like Stephen Harper.
Well frankly, we didn’t talk politics. He mentioned Trump once an I kept going on about comedy and mental health.
I think Ron is hilarious and at his best when touching on those parts of life we all relate to.
And he was in town to promote a comedy festival in Ottawa that raises money for mental health. So screw politics for a few minutes.
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Was There Nothing That Obama Couldn’t Do?

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The story’s behind the WaPo paywall, but if you hit the ‘Esc’ key repeatedly as it loads, you can usually grab the page.

Opioid deaths continued to surge in 2015, surpassing 30,000 for the first time in recent history, according to CDC data released Thursday.
That marks an increase of nearly 5,000 deaths from 2014. Deaths involving powerful synthetic opiates, like fentanyl, rose by nearly 75 percent from 2014 to 2015.
Heroin deaths spiked too, rising by more than 2,000 cases. For the first time since at least the late 1990s, there were more deaths due to heroin than to traditional opioid painkillers, like hydrocodone and oxycodone.
“The epidemic of deaths involving opioids continues to worsen,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden in a statement. “Prescription opioid misuse and use of heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl are intertwined and deeply troubling problems.”
In the CDC’s opioid death data, deaths may involve more than one individual drug category, so numbers in the chart above aren’t mutually exclusive. Many opioid fatalities involve a combination of drugs, often multiple types of opioids, or opioids in conjunction with other sedative substances like alcohol.
In a grim milestone, more people died from heroin-related causes than from gun homicides in 2015. As recently as 2007, gun homicides outnumbered heroin deaths by more than 5 to 1.

Say It Isn’t So, Joe!

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Stephane Dion threatens to “use economic levers to push Trump on climate change”. So… a pair of vaguely effeminate French Canadian men are going to put the screws to an alpha male billionaire American President?
Maybe something was lost in the English-to-English translation.
Morning update: “Heading into the mtg with PM/Premiers. I will NOT be signing any agreement that imposes a carbon tax on Saskatchewan”

Rogue One Promising to be Another SJW Sermon Against White Males

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“We can pick on Brett [White] all we want (and I will because I and about 60 million other white males are done being accused of evil because of “melanin and penis” by talentless, worthless people like him), but Brett and Rogue One’s anti-white male politics is merely Hollywood’s confession that they are plumb out of talent, intelligence, originality, innovation or ability. They are so incapable of coming up with new ideas that, like a talentless trustfund baby minimalist artist, their only idea is to “add leftist/racist politics” to an already existing work of art. It’s nothing more than an inferior scumbag “tagging” the Mona Lisa with political-graffiti because they lack the real talent to make something as great as the original. And it’s proven by all the remakes, reboots, and sequels Hollywood is making.”

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