Pope says assisted dying not ‘normal’

Pope says assisted dying not ‘normal’

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday said assisted dying was not “normal”, as he continued a landmark visit to France, where parliament has legalized the practice for certain patients.

“No human law should ever make you lose the certainty of your dignity,” he told believers who were sick or suffered from disabilities, at the French pilgrimage site of Lourdes.

“We must reject the temptation to cause death under the guise of false compassion. It is impossible to regard causing death as something normal,” he added.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, Pope Leo

New U.S. bans to take effect Tuesday: Here’s what’s affected

New U.S. bans to take effect Tuesday: Here’s what’s affected

U.S. import bans on select Canadian items are set to take effect this week, the latest salvo between the two countries in an ongoing trade war.

The ban is set to come into effect on Tuesday at 12:01 a.m., and will see a full import ban on Canadian-made cheese and other dairy products, as well as alcoholic beverages and Canadian-made motorcycles.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Poilievre urges tax cuts to make diesel fuel more affordable, ensure future supplies

Poilievre urges tax cuts to make diesel fuel more affordable, ensure future supplies

OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is pitching a plan to cut federal taxes on diesel fuel and help ensure Canada has affordable supplies of the fuel in the future.

Poilievre says Canada already produces enough diesel to meet national demand, but transportation bottlenecks leave some regions dependent on U.S. imports.

He proposes eliminating all tax on diesel sales until at least Canada Day by extending the full fuel excise tax cut until July 1 of next year and removing the GST from the purchase of fuel.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics"

A World War II-era feud is threatening a pivotal alliance for Ukraine

A World War II-era feud is threatening a pivotal alliance for Ukraine

BOROVE, Ukraine—This summer, a small crowd gathered around six freshly exhumed human skeletons protruding from the ground on the edge of a sunflower field in Ukraine.

They didn’t belong to victims of Russia’s war on Ukraine, but to Poles massacred by Ukrainian ultranationalists who briefly allied with Nazi forces in World War II.

The discovery of burial sites like the one here has long eaten away at relations between the neighbors. Kyiv has lionized the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, known in Ukraine as the UPA, as freedom fighters who fought both the Soviets and Germans, but they are remembered in Poland for the slaughter of tens of thousands of Poles near the two countries’ modern-day borders.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Poland

Liberals Hold 12-Point Lead as Carney Reaches New High and Optimism About Canada Rises Again

Liberals Hold 12-Point Lead as Carney Reaches New High and Optimism About Canada Rises Again

Our latest national tracking survey was conducted from September 18 to 23, following one of the busiest and most consequential stretches of federal politics in some time.

Since our previous survey left the field on September 9, Prime Minister Mark Carney met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Calgary, where the two countries signed a 100-year partnership declaration focused on defence, security, trade, reconstruction and technology. Carney then convened his cabinet in Banff for a two-day planning retreat focused on the fall agenda, the economy and the intensifying trade dispute with the United States.

I think a lot of delusional Elbow types imagine they’ll be working from their Tuscan villa this time next year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUncategorized

Iran ready for ‘doomsday war’ after Trump rejects ceasefire, foreign minister says

Iran ready for ‘doomsday war’ after Trump rejects ceasefire, foreign minister says

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that Iran was prepared for a “doomsday war” after President Donald Trump rejected its ceasefire offer.

Trump publicly confirmed that he rejected an Iranian ceasefire offer on Saturday, one that offered a halt on attacks on Strait of Hormuz shipping and a resumption of nuclear talks in return for the lifting of the U.S. naval blockade. In an appearance on NBC News’s Meet the Press, Araghchi was asked about a report from the Wall Street Journal claiming that Trump may seek a return to intensive bombing after the midterm elections. In response to the two developments, Araghchi said Iran was confident in its position in the case of a resumption of the war.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Corrections Canada to distribute items for ‘safe snorting’ in federal prisons

Corrections Canada to distribute items for ‘safe snorting’ in federal prisons

The Correctional Service of Canada has confirmed that paper straws will soon be distributed in federal prisons to facilitate safe snorting of drugs.

This week a social media post included photos of a memo distributed to Corrections staff stating that paper straws were being newly “introduced” for “safer snorting” and “intended for inhaling substances in powdered form or inhaling vapour from heated substances.”

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GOLDSTEIN: OECD downgrades Canada’s economic growth as Carney moves away from U.S.

GOLDSTEIN: OECD downgrades Canada’s economic growth as Carney moves away from U.S.

Prime Minister Mark Carney warned that pivoting our economy away from the U.S. would come at a cost to Canadians and the latest numbers show that’s true.

An Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report released last week downgraded Canada’s expected economic growth by 25% for this year and by almost the same amount in 2027 – 23.53% – compared to its last report in June.

Anand’s UN speech worked like a charm!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Bare nails are a white supremacist beauty standard say top experts

Bare nails are a white supremacist beauty standard say top experts

In recent months, Paloma Buddemeier has watched a stream of people walk into her nail salon with the goal of looking as if they’d never been there at all.

“It’s crazy,” the owner of Wumman Spa in London says.

These customers still get their nails filed, buffed, and trimmed. “You still do the cuticle, you do the soaking and hydrate everything,” says Buddemeier, “but you just put no polish on.”

… “They are often called elegant or tasteful, and these are often usually euphemisms that perpetuate white supremacist standards of beauty.”

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Bonus Racist. GRRRRR!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Anand tells UN Canada is courting more partners as ‘great powers’ retreat from economic co-operation

Anand tells UN Canada is courting more partners as ‘great powers’ retreat from economic co-operation

Canada is reducing its economic reliance on the United States by diversifying its ties, including renewed partnerships with China and India, under a policy of “values-based realism,” because

Ottawa “can no longer afford to be overly reliant on any one partner,” Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand told the United Nations on Saturday.
The Foreign Minister’s speech to the UN General Assembly reflects Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government’s efforts over the past 18 months to rebuild ties with Beijing and New Delhi after years of diplomatic disputes.

Anand works for India and China not Canada.

I bet no more than 5 people were in the audience.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Counter-terror police investigate Iran link to suspected RAF base bomb plot

Counter-terror police investigate Iran link to suspected RAF base bomb plot

Counter-terrorism police are investigating whether Iran was behind a suspected bomb plot targeting an RAF base used by US forces.

Five men have been arrested under the Explosives Act and on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act after three suspicious vans were spotted travelling towards RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire in the early hours of Sunday.

Police received a call at around 12.45am reporting three suspicious vehicles apparently heading towards the air base, prompting armed officers to respond. The five men were arrested in the nearby Whelford area.

BBC has a live stream

h/t Lenny S

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West