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Gad Saad says he is leaving Canada due to rising antisemitism, and the tax bill on his way out has left him numb.

Saad, a professor of marketing at Concordia University and author of the best-selling book Suicidal Empathy, posted Thursday night about what an “exit tax” would cost him to leave Quebec and Canada.

As far as national touchstones go, it stands somewhere above poutine and “Eh?”

For those of us who grew up on Voltaire’s “few acres of snow” over most of the past century, Hockey Night in Canada – its familiar theme song and blue blazers, Murray Westgate wishing “Happy motoring” and on-air controversies over flipped pencils and poppies – was our Saturday night neighbourhood. 

CBC will air Transgender Cricket matches starting this fall.

It is often taken for granted that Canada is a democracy. Between the constant invocation of “our democratic institutions” by both government and opposition, Canadians are encouraged to believe that public policy ultimately reflects the will of the electorate. What this assumption ignores is the increasingly obvious reality that Canadian politics is shaped less by citizens than it is by organized institutional interests.

If you were to listen to Liberal MPs, and to CBC, Canadians just won’t be able to watch hockey come the new NHL season. In reality, hockey is just returning to being broadcast solely on the private sector stations that initially aired the games before CBC stole it all.

As of this fall, if you want to watch most NHL games in Canada, you will need to subscribe to cable or directly to Sportsnet, owned by Rogers.

I’m no fan of today’s CBC but back when I followed hockey HNIC was a regular part of my life.

There’s room for nostalgia of the CBC that used to be.

Newly uncovered videos and images show Canadian-made sniper rifles in the hands of Sudanese paramilitary fighters and a Libyan militia, as well as openly advertised online by Yemeni arms dealers, according to a CBC News visual investigation.

Sudan and Libya are both under Canadian arms embargoes, while Yemen faces targeted sanctions, precisely because they are home to groups known for committing widespread human rights abuses, torture and mass killings.

“If Canada was doing enough then we wouldn’t see a pattern of the illicit diversion of Canadian weapons systems in violation of UN arms embargoes,” said Kelsey Gallagher of Project Ploughshares, a Canadian peace research institute, reacting to CBC’s findings.

Canada supplies Ukraine with sniper rifles of various makes.

However I’m sure there are multiple routes to conflict zones.