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VANCOUVER - Two Vancouver lawyers have filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the British Columbia government and the governing Liberal party alleging misuse of taxpayer dollars for partisan advertising.

David Fai and Paul Doroshenko filed a notice of claim in B.C. Supreme Court alleging the provincial government spent taxpayer dollars on advertising last year that enhanced the B.C. Liberal Party's image while promoting the province.

They claim the government spent as much as $15 million on ads enhancing the Liberal party and they want the party to reimburse the province for those commercials the court finds are partisan.

Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson responded on behalf of the government, saying in a statement that it has informed the public about important services and programs including the opioid overdose crisis that killed more than 900 people last year.

None of the allegations made in the statement of claim have been proven in court.

The Liberal party was not available to immediately respond to the claims.

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Nick Clegg was smiling broadly as he told the Liberal Democrat spring conference at the weekend that he had discussed his next Evening Standard column with the papers new editor George Osborne. I told him it would be a coruscating attack on Theresa May, the former deputy prime minister said. He loved it. But it was not really a joke. The former chancellor who promised to be the voice for the liberal mainstream majority after he was fired by Mrs May now clearly intends to take this role out of parliament and into the media. For all the controversy over the appointment, its real political significance is as part of a wider resurgence of liberalism.

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I am a democrat, and similar to many of my fellow liberals we tend to be biased against many conservatives. Although there is a common misconception that young people do not care about politics, that is my no means the case in my school community. All of us, conservatives and liberals alike, zealously feed off of like-minded individuals and scoff at the opposing side. At my school, Saint Marys College High School in Berkeley, conservatives are severely outnumbered which makes sense given the bay areas history: from being the birthplace of the free speech movement decades ago, to recently hosting the womens march in protest of the election of president trump.

Due to this, conservatives are not always afforded the dignity and respect that is their basic human right. For many fellow liberals, this notion is absurd. Those who do not believe in a womans right to chose, who not only support a president that is notorious for spewing rhetoric that degrades women but is also officially backed by numerous hate groups such as the KKK.

Keeping this in mind, surely we, the left who champion various social justice issues and advocate for the equality of all human beings must be on the side of right.

Right?

Wrong.

I hate to break it to us but it appears that the so-called side of right seems to be in the wrong.

Mali M.Dandridge is a Bridge Journalism student at Youth Radio. She was raised in the Bay Area- specifically, Oakland, Ca. It was there that her love of storytelling blossomed. Her pieces have thus far followed the theme of untold stories which reflects her dedication to revealing the undisclosed truths of others. She currently attends Saint Marys College High School in Berkeley, and she plans to graduate in the spring of 2018. She then plans to continue her education at a university of her choosing.

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Jon Johnston 3:56 p.m. ET March 20, 2017

Been thinking about Democratic Party tactics specifically conflating (associating or overlapping two disparate ideas/dynamics with each other) as means to (1) scam Obama's and Hillary's base (not people one associates with those who are well-read or prone to do their homework) and/or (2) change the debate (whatever the subject du jour). By its nature this tactic is more successfully utilized by leftists (as opposed to normal people) who can achieve and advance power only through obfuscation, lest the proverbial "light of day" expose them for what they are.

A multitude of recent examples spring to mind. Leftists (proven to be no friends of our Constitution), being repeatedly hammered for supporting/encouraging unfettered access to our country for illegal aliens now conflate the terms immigration and illegal immigration to wind up with just the term immigration.

So, while normal people hear immigration as applying to those who actually obey our laws and respect our national sovereignty, Obama's/Hillary's base hears that word applying both to the aforementioned as well as to liars, criminals, or cheats (essentially, the definition of illegal aliens). Conflating the two terms (legal and illegal) allows party officials and their "useful idiots" (to borrow from an apt Soviet term) a platform to advance their plan for open borders.

Paraphrasing the O.J. Simpson trial "sidebar": somebody at York Democratic Party HQ please step up to the plate, and tell the rest of us in York County what 1,000,000 illegal immigrants flooding across open border during the next 12 months will look like, either downtown or in the burbs? I'm thinking, for instance, jobwise? How many jobs are available in York County? Who, exactly, is going to support the rest of that 1,000,000 influx?

A favorite leftist topic has been Russian hacking into the presidential election. Now here is a conflator's dream (again, a Democrat). First there's the conflating of hacking with interfering. The implied, always implied, thought implanted in small minds is that those dirty Russkies changed the vote count (in the voting machines). But, if Hillary and her co-conspirators can scam her base into thinking that is what happened ("Please pay no attention to that man behind the curtain" John Podesta whose hacked account exposed Hillary for the criminal mastermind she is) or (OR) conflate that news by associating presidential candidate Trump "talking to the Russian. Voila! Trump and those Ruskies stole the election!

How about this one. MSNBC's Rachel Madcow made a point of telling her robotic listeners that it is not illegal to "publish" the two-page 2005 IRS tax return of Donald Trump. (A) It is a felony for an IRS employee to disclose someone's tax returns, (B) knowing that it is illegal, no one pointed a gun at Madcow's head, and told her she must tell everyone about the details. By using the tactic of conflating, she misdirects the Hillary/Obama base instead toward her scoop.

And the ongoing conflating of the AHCA (Republican version) versus Obamacare is true rhetorical genius. Note the left's tired rhetoric that replacing Obamacare would result in millions of people winding up sans insurance. I could be stretching the definition of insurance coverage a tad, but it doesn't require a MENSA-level IQ to realize that as we sit here, millions of Americans who have five-figure family deductibles as well as monthly insurance premiums higher than a car payment don't have insurance!

Although I'm partisan, I'm not fanatical enough that I don't realize there are many, many folks who voted Democrat who are not politically ignorant. The question is how many will exhibit the integrity to step forward, renounce what the party has become, recognize that each vote for a Democrat fuels the party machine, and that party officials will crush whatever sane people attempt to reform that group.

I'm not one to "hog the ball" so I'll let someone else jump in to discuss conflating global warming with man-made global warning.

Jon Johnston lives in Windsor Township.

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Comedian Tim Allen said being a Republican in Hollywood can be difficult because the majority of people in show business tend to be staunchly liberal.

"You gotta be real careful around here, you know. You'll get beat up if you don't believe what everybody believes," Allen told ABC's Jimmy Kimmel.

"This is like 30s Germany," the "Last Man Standing" and "Home Improvement" star said. "I don't know what happened. If you're not part of the group: 'You know what we believe is right', I go 'Well, I might have a problem with that.'"

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Allen, 63, is one of a few known Republican or conservative-leaning actors in Hollywood, the list of which also includes Dennis Miller, Jon Voight, Kelsey Grammer and James Woods.

Allen's political views have occasionally ruffled feathers, like when his current program reportedly edited-out his jokes about President Obama being "a Communist," as well as banter about Hillary Clinton, according to Fox News Radio.

He supported Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) in the Republican primary, according to the Independent Journal Review.

Allen also told Kimmel he attended President Trump's inauguration in Washington, and attended a veterans' ball at the time.

He also discussed his concerns about privacy from government surveillance.

"If a government drove by down the street with like a gray sedan with a camera on it, you'd be rioting and going to Washington. But if it's white with emojis and Google on it, 'yay', you're waving at it [while] they're taking pictures of your house."

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