Author: Blazingcatfur
LILLEY: What Carney should pitch Trump in D.C. to restart trade talks
Mark Carney heads to Washington — but not the White House — on Friday, yet he should use this brief encounter with Donald Trump to put trade on the table.
Carney will be attending the World Cup draw that determines which countries play in which cities in next year’s tournament.
Bavaria Reports Surge in Far-Left Attacks
Left-wing extremists are behind nearly all recent attacks on infrastructure and businesses in Bavaria, newly released state data show. Figures provided to lawmakers link far-left actors to 243 of 263 infrastructure attacks and 447 of 465 offences against the economy between 2019 and 2024.
Annual figures show a sharp increase in attacks: 34 cases in 2019 surged to 190 incidents in 2023, with 125 directly linked to left-wing extremism. Arson and explosives offenses also surged, with 27 incidents in 2023, including 16 targeting infrastructure. Property damage remains the most common offense, with 242 left-wing-motivated cases targeting infrastructure and commercial sectors alike.
Joly says feds will serve Stellantis with notice of default on funding contracts … and vigorously wag finger in their general direction
The federal government is escalating its fight with automotive giant Stellantis over the company’s decision to move some production to the U.S., despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in Canadian taxpayer incentives in recent years.
Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said Thursday that the government will serve Stellantis with a notice of default under the funding contracts related to projects in both Windsor and Brampton, Ont.
I don’t think Stellantis much cares what Ms. Joly thinks.
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa: It’s a great day for us… because it’s a day where we see CAFE regulations reconcile with real customers’ demands. That’s why, at Stellantis, we decided to invest $13B in the next 4 years… because we believe in what you, @SecDuffy, and all your… https://t.co/OXQ3rHTwzr pic.twitter.com/MrZUnbyWTg
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 3, 2025
h/t Mauser
ENOUGH FOR A DOZEN EGGS: Senators say Carney tax cut gives working poor just $11 a year
A federal income tax cut pitched by Prime Minister Mark Carney as a major affordability measure will save low-income Canadians roughly $11 a year, senators heard this week, despite the measure carrying a $5.8 billion annual cost.
The Lie Of Third-World Assimilation Is Finally Dead
Recently, the Trump administration announced that it had not only paused processing all immigration applications from Afghanistan, but also halted immigration applications of people from 19 countries subject to travel restrictions earlier this year. Officials are also seeking to remove legal immigrants who were born in countries the White House deemed “high risk.”
Cancel Net Zero: Wind Turbines Cause Ocean Heating
Your correspondent’s work is done. Offshore wind farms cause ocean heating, with localised surface sea temperatures rising by a persistent 0.3°C-0.4°C and interannual variability up to 1°C. This is according to ground-breaking calculations made by a group of American scientists and recently published by Science. Cascading effects rippling through eco-systems not only affect sea and atmospheric temperatures but reshape the upper ocean by destabilising marine food supplies and affecting plankton and larval growth. Disruption of the Mid-Atlantic Cold Pool, a key subsurface water mass supporting regional fisheries and ecosystems, can be affected. So no more ghastly inefficient wind turbines then – if similar fears arose about hydrocarbon extraction, the operation would be shut down quicker than you could say Christopher Gary Packham.
From Exception to Routine: Why Canada’s State-Assisted Suicide Regime Demands a Human-Rights Review
OTTAWA — Canada’s state-assisted suicide program, called MAiD, was sold by the Liberal government as a “stringently limited, carefully monitored system,” a rare option of last resort for people at the very end of life. New data from Health Canada show that in 2024, 16,499 Canadians died by MAiD — 5.1 percent of all deaths in the country.
Does it not follow logically, from these data, that Ottawa’s original framework has, cloaked in the rhetoric of progressively humane ideals, insidiously crept into something far more sinister than what Supreme Court justices, in their wisdom, affirmed in a society-altering Charter of Rights ruling in 2015?
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s blubfest is a sorrowful sight
There is nothing brave or boundary-breaking about the Wicked: For Good stars’ relentless emoting.
Laurel and Hardy. Morecambe and Wise. Many showbiz double acts have been extremely fond of each other, to the extent that, like these pairs, they would often be shown onscreen sharing a bed. But surely no showbiz duo has ever demonstrated as much of a mutual tendresse as Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, the stars of the Wicked film franchise.
Another satire of Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo that isn't that far from the truth! pic.twitter.com/JZl5AXmWEd
— Hollywood Horror Museum (@horrormuseum) December 2, 2025
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande before vs after Wicked.
What happened to them? pic.twitter.com/x9x3GmrjFo
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) November 23, 2025
Iranian Matchmaking Platform Lets Parents Sign Up Girls as Young as 13 for Marriage
A 13-year-old girl in the Islamic Republic of Iran is getting a bit long in the tooth for getting married, and now there is an app for that. Iran International reported last Sunday that “an investigation by the reformist daily Shargh found that a licensed Iranian matchmaking platform lets parents sign up children as young as 13 for marriage, with no age filters or meaningful safeguards in place.” Those who are familiar with the life of Muhammad as he is depicted in traditional Islamic sources, and with Islamic law, will find it odd that the matchmaking site sets the age that high.
PM Carney Breaks Ethics
Conservative Member of Parliament John Brassard states the obvious, pointing to the Brookfield Elephant in the room, “No one should be naive in thinking that Carney left a $1 Trillion company, making millions of dollars in both salary and deferred compensation, for some virtuous reason, to make $400,000 as the Prime Minister, to save us from ourselves”
Jamie Sarkonak: Alberta’s gun-grab resistance is part of a bigger Canadian tradition
Once upon a time, there was a provincial justice minister who abhorred a new, far-more-expensive-than-originally-quoted federal gun program that infringed upon the lives of private citizens. So, he decided not to enforce any of it.
I’m not referring to Alberta Justice Minister Mickey Amery and his move against federal gun seizures on Wednesday, which signalled to all provincial entities that they should not participate in the buyback program. This is about a group of justice ministers in the early 2000s who refused to play ball when it came to the federal long-gun registry.
Crying woman begged ‘I have said no, please stop’ to asylum seeker living in migrant hotel ‘as he raped her’,
A young woman was heard begging ‘please stop’ to an asylum seeker in a secret recording as he ‘raped her’, a jury has heard.
Distressing audio clips which were secretly recorded by the alleged victim were played to the jury in a rape trial.
Chret Callender, 28, drunkenly forced himself onto the young woman after he turned up at her home following a night out on June 14, Bournemouth Crown Court heard.
When Biological Reality Becomes a Crime: Swiss Man Imprisoned Over Facebook Post
A Swiss wind instrument repairman is serving a ten-day jail sentence after refusing to pay a fine imposed for a comment he made on Facebook about biological sex. Emanuel Brünisholz, from Burgdorf in the canton of Bern, responded to a December 2022 post by Swiss National Councillor Andreas Glarner, writing: “If you excavate LGBTQI people after 200 years, you will only find men and women among the skeletons; everything else is a mental illness that was fostered by the curriculum!”
AUBUT: How Canada broke its own economy
Economically, how did Canada get to where it is, where investors either sit on what money they have left or have fled to friendlier countries, leaving behind a stagnant economy and an ever more expensive welfare state? The answer lies in the long arc of Canada’s political economy from Confederation to the present. It is a story that began with nation builders who understood the link between sovereignty, growth, and disciplined ambition, then shifted toward a governing class that mistook ideology for insight and lost sight of the limits of its own knowledge.