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One of Canada's top radio hosts, Charles Adler, read my letter to the Nobel Prize Committee on the air.

It's about 28 seconds in.

Did an interview on The Commentary.ca.

We discussed politics, the Libertas Post and of course, The Office.

Check it out.

Yesterday Marni Soupcoff had a column in the National Post which revealed Toronto had hired a left-wing activist to serve as the city's "poet laureate."

This led me to write the following letter to the editor, which was published in today's paper:

Poetic injustice

Re: A Job No Outspoken Poet Would Want, Marni Soupcoff, Oct. 8.

So Toronto is paying Marxist and militant feminist Dionne Brand a cool $30,000 to act as the city's "poet laureate."

It's news like this which makes me wish I could hire a poet laureate of my own.

I need somebody to help me find a phrase which rhymes with "ridiculous waste."

It’s wrong for governments to use tax dollars to promote partisan political agendas, says Gerry Nicholls, president of Libertas Post.

“All too often governments will run so-called information ad campaigns that are thinly disguised propaganda,” says Nicholls. “That’s not only a waste of tax dollars it’s undemocratic. It's wrong to force Canadians to support a political opinion through their tax dollars.”

Nicholls was reacting to media reports which indicate the Conservative government is spending $34 million in an ad blitz to highlight its “economic action plan,” an ad campaign that seems to boost the Conservative Party.

The Libertas Post president notes these costly ad campaigns highlight the political hypocrisy concerning the issue of money and elections.

“Politicians justify election gag laws, which severely restrict the ability of citizens and groups to spend money on political advertising, because they say they want to stop the `buying of votes’,” says Nicholls. “Yet these same politicians will then spend millions of tax dollars on self-promotional ads.”

Nicholls says governments should be prohibited from running any ad which cross the line between legitimate information and partisan spin.

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