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This is one of the greatest weeks in sport every year.  We find ourselves generally deep in the NHL playoffs while at the same time the Memorial Cup takes place to crown the best Junior Hockey team in Canada so it is an opportune time to speak to the one thing that’s even more important to Canadians than their future financial security: hockey!

• $80 million in tax-on-tax collected from Albertans this year
     
• Alberta families pay $787 in gas taxes every year

CALGARY, AB: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) held its 15th annual Gas Tax Honesty Day today as it called on the federal government to end the practice of charging tax-on-tax for gasoline and diesel.

Tempers flared recently in Ottawa when the Harper government tabled new legislation that will give it tighter control over negotiations with unions at crown corporations, such as Canada Post, Via Rail and the CBC.

WASHINGTON, DC — “The decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes,” George Orwell wrote in Politics and the English Language, a prescient 1946 essay that anticipated the political correctness that would befall the English language half a century later.

From Fox News

Dear colleagues,

The recent news about the FBI’s seizure of the phone and email records of Fox News employees, including James Rosen, calls into question whether the federal government is meeting its constitutional obligation to preserve and protect a free press in the United States.

ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN are now The enemy to the public.

Obama’s Justice Department just can’t leave Fox News alone.  It’s not just James Rosen they’re after, the Dailymail is reporting that William La Jeunesse and his producer Mike Levine were also investigated by the DOJ. In fact, they were the subject of subpoenas, but never notified by the government.

Spotted: @joshtpm @capehartj @ezraklein & other lefty columnists headed into the West Wing as a group. POTUS coffee? Carney meeting? Anyone?

The Washington Post apparently doesn’t care how ridiculous it looks as it embarks on the process of destroying Ken Cuccinelli and other Republican candidates for top statewide offices in Virginia.