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Ben Franklin said nothing is certain in life except death and taxes, but apparently for one elderly Canadian it’s just taxes.

Mary Gibeault, of Winnipeg, has been declared dead by Canada’s IRS twice in the past year. Her son has now received two letters months apart addressed to “the estate” of his “late” mother, who is still alive.

We hope it’s only in the name for one Netherlands senator.

Tiny Kox, a socialist, has been elected president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which is kind of like the European Union’s ugly stepsister. Apparently his first name is Martinus, but he likes to go by Tiny.

Not his type of eye candy. Fox News star Tucker Carlson blasted M&M’s for updating their chocolate characters to be more inclusive.

On his show Friday, Carlson complained that the brown M&M is not “sexy” now that the company took away her high heels, and he railed against the changes made to the beloved candy creatures.

“When you’re totally turned off, we’ve achieved equity,” he said. He told viewers the new brown M&M is “deeply unappealing and totally androgynous” and said he wouldn’t want to share a drink with her.

A Texas woman allegedly offered a fellow Walmart shopper $500,000 for her baby.

She was charged with sale or purchase of a child after begging a woman next to her in the self-checkout to sell her 1-year-old. The woman originally offered $250,000, but upped the amount in the parking lot after the mother said her kid was not for sale.

A UK sperm bank says it will be shooting blanks if men don’t start showing up.

The Birmingham center reopened after a long COVID closure and said the pandemic left their stock of sperm depleted. It issued an “urgent call for action” and said it particularly needs donations from blacks and Asians. Ben Kesslen,Wires