Author: Blazingcatfur

CBC’s five-year plan includes grooming kids & foreigners to build audience

OTTAWA – CBC/Radio-Canada says it wants to expand its audience by pitching itself to Canadians who “under-value” its services — or don’t watch, listen to or read its offerings at all.

In its new five-year strategic plan, released Tuesday evening, the public broadcaster says it can’t “afford to rely solely on existing users and fans as confirmation of its value to the public.”

The strategy calls on CBC/Radio-Canada to build up its audience by reaching out to children and youth, newcomers and “non-users or dissatisfied users.”

What value?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCBC, WTF?

Seize China’s Companies Now

On October 12, the Dutch government, citing concerns about technology transfers, announced it had taken control of Chinese-owned Nexperia, a commodity microchip maker. The Netherlands invoked for the first time the Availability of Goods Act to assume management of a company.

Finally, a government is moving to deny China the ability to pillage a foreign technology business. Other nations should follow Amsterdam’s action.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Netherlands

Canadians skeptical White House warmth will ease trade tensions

Despite cordial exchanges in Washington this week, most Canadians remain unconvinced that progress is coming in the U.S.–Canada trade dispute, according to new data from the Angus Reid Institute.

Two-thirds (67%) of Canadians say the friendly tone between U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney is merely optics and will not lead to a meaningful deal.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Asylum seeker ‘danced and laughed after stabbing woman 23 times’

An asylum seeker stabbed a woman who worked at the hotel he was staying at 23 times with a screwdriver, a murder trial was told.

Deng Chol Majek, who is from Sudan and claims to be 19, followed Rhiannon Skye Whyte, 27, from the Park Inn hotel, which was being used to house asylum seekers, to Bescot Stadium station, where he attacked her on October 20 last year, Wolverhampton crown court was told.

Majek stabbed Whyte “over and over again” with a screwdriver, mainly to the head, left her “bleeding to death and then casually went back to his hotel”, Michelle Heeley KC, for the prosecution, told the court.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, UK

Donald Trump was the essential element for the Gaza ceasefire

For the last two years, when Israelis or diaspora Jews would talk about bringing the last living hostages home, there was a belief their spoken words would never betray: the hostages would not come home. Not all of them. Not all at once.

The hostages were too valuable to Hamas, serving as their only real bargaining chip in a war that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) will win on strength, military intelligence and strategy every time. In 2011, Israel exchanged 1,027 prisoners for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured by Hamas and held in captivity for five years. So what concessions could Hamas extract holding onto a handful now?

But he’s still a despot!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

DEI Hire?

You can’t park there! Boeing 737 Max dramatically collides with two other jets as hapless airport ground staff misjudge space on the tarmac

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Melanie Joly pushing F-35 maker for economic benefits in Canada

The federal industry minister is putting pressure on U.S.-based Lockheed Martin to provide more economic benefits in Canada if the government is to proceed with its planned purchase of 88 F-35 fighter jets.

Otherwise, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said in a French-language interview on Radio-Canada’s Les coulisses du pouvoir, Ottawa could move forward with a smaller fleet of F-35s and the acquisition of a second fleet of Gripen-E fighter jets manufactured by Sweden’s Saab. That company has offered to assemble Gripens in Canada.

Joly made the comments as Prime Minister Mark Carney says he is still mulling the fate of the $27.7-billion fighter jet contract.

Yes you read that right. Melanie Joly.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"RCAF", Canada, USA

Ford calls on Stellantis to ‘live up to their promise’ to Brampton workers

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on Stellantis to “live up to their promise” to Brampton workers after the automaker was reported to be moving production slated for an assembly plant to Illinois.

In a statement, Ford says he has spoken with Stellantis to stress his “disappointment with their decision to prioritize investment into the U.S.”

If I were Ford I would be calling Trump bad names and stuff.

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

Case dropped against woman who unfurled Union Jack at migrant hotel protest

A woman arrested and charged after unfurling a Union flag from a council building during an anti-migrant protest has been told she faces no further action.

Sarah White, 40, was due to appear in court on Wednesday over a protest against migrants being housed at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex.

The Bell Hotel has been the scene of protests this summer after an Ethiopian migrant staying there sexually assaulted a girl.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civil Unrest", "Civilizationists"

Canada’s plan to donate refurbished armour to Ukraine appears to be on the scrap heap

Ukraine has yet to receive the more than two dozen refurbished light armoured vehicles Canada promised to the war-torn country in September 2023, CBC News has learned.

The vehicles remain stuck in bureaucratic and corporate limbo — even though the Department of National Defence delivered the decommissioned vehicles to an Ontario-based company for reconstruction almost two years ago.

The fate of the restoration contract, publicly acknowledged around Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s high-profile visit to Ottawa and believed to be worth between $150 million and $250 million, yet is now shrouded in secrecy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Ukraine, WTF?

Greta Thunberg: I was tortured, beaten and starved by Israel

Greta Thunberg has claimed she was “hit, kicked, starved and tortured” during her time in Israeli custody.

The Swedish activist accused Israeli guards of defacing her suitcase with the words “whore Greta”, drawings of a penis and images of the Star of David.

The 22-year-old was detained by Israel earlier this month after taking part in an attempt by the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Cars or canola? Canada between a rock and a hard place

“One of the remarkable things about life,” said the great sage Calvin — co-star, along with Hobbes, the tiger, of “the last great newspaper comic strip” — is that “it’s never so bad it can’t get worse.” So did the Canadian auto industry find out last Sunday, when the Chinese ambassador to our country, Wang Di, told CTV News reporter Vassy Kapelos that “China [would] remove the tariffs on the relevant products of Canada” if we, in turn, eliminated the tariffs we’ve imposed on Chinese electric vehicles.

Tough call for the Elbow people ahead.

Carney luvs China as does our China class but his Liberal Party also hates the West.  

Trump is fulfilling a campaign promise to re-shore auto assembly and as we have seen with Stellantis  auto manufacturers are heeding his call.

It may be that Canada’s auto-industry or what’s left of it is part supply only.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA