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Eroding our freedoms — quietly

by Thomas Walkom October 10, 2008October 5, 2021

This is Canada. Things rarely happen dramatically here. They are usually incremental. So it is with the erosion of freedom. In the United States, this erosion is there for all see. A government spoo

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