The Soft Totalitarians in our Neighbor to the North are attempting to tighten their grip by labeling \u201cgoing to Mass\u201d as \u201ccultic activity\u201d and trying to punish somebody for not knuckling under to the jealous god who is Caesar. <\/a> I hope sane Canadians stamp their feet and shout \u201cEnough!\u201d while they still have time.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Soft Totalitarians in our Neighbor to the North are attempting to tighten their grip by labeling \u201cgoing to Mass\u201d as \u201ccultic activity\u201d and trying to punish somebody for not knuckling under to the jealous god who is Caesar. I hope sane Canadians stamp their feet and shout \u201cEnough!\u201d while they still have time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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