Author: Blazingcatfur

Modular housing was a hit in Sweden but a bust in the U.S. How will Canada do?

Like Sweden, Japan and the U.S. before it, Canada will start experimenting with scaled-up factory-built housing next year — and it has plenty of lessons to learn from countries where the industry has already matured.

Build Canada Homes, the federal government’s newly launched homebuilding agency, aims to fund the construction of 4,000 modular homes on federal land across the country starting next year. The public-private project — currently limited to six cities — could eventually scale to build 45,000 homes, according to Ottawa’s announcement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Rempel Garner says push needed to end automatic citizenship for children of non-residents

Calgary Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner says it’s time for Canada to end automatic citizenship for children born to temporary or undocumented residents, arguing the country’s current policy is being exploited and erodes the meaning of citizenship.

In a detailed statement, Rempel Garner said a decade of Liberal “post-national” immigration policies has flooded Canada’s system, leading to housing, healthcare, and job shortages while undermining shared Canadian values.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Democrats Aren’t ‘Insane’ Or ‘Unhinged.’ They’re Deliberately And Methodically Anti-American

One thing right-wingers have got to stop doing is brushing off the deliberate intentions of Democrats as “insane,” “crazy,” or “unhinged.” They’re not, and to do so is to give them an excuse for their sick behavior, the way a proven murderer hopes to get off with a “temporary insanity” defense.

The temptation is admittedly strong. Democrats do a lot of crazy things, like support and champion every single policy that makes life for the average American poorer, more dangerous, and less meaningful. They’re in favor of open borders and rampant crime. They’re opposed to free speech and fair elections. Anyone would be forgiven for calling them insane.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

New Harvest: AI, Automation, and the Displacement of College-Educated Workers

I currently volunteer a couple of days a week as a tutor for the STEM program at a local community college. I’ve also recently taken some HVAC courses.

As one of the older folks on campus, I ask questions and mostly listen, and I find students’ perspectives on AI fascinating, varied, and perhaps naive. A few admit to being active users, but the majority don’t seem to use it or even know much about it. Others are firmly against it, citing accuracy issues. Even the instructors often shake their heads, showing little confidence in it and viewing it more as a frustration they have to deal with because of students who don’t do their own work.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Jamie Sarkonak: The Supreme Court is embarrassed of Canada. The black robes prove it

If you wanted to show an oblivious outsider everything that was wrong with the culture of the Supreme Court of Canada, you could start with Monday’s session-opening ceremony that marked its 150th year of existence. It was essentially one long speaking panel about the importance of tradition and democracy by people who take great joy in discarding the former and overruling the latter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Jews for Mamdani? Jews Against Tommy Robinson?

From New York to London, progressive Jews are betraying their coreligionists’ interests.

Two years after the atrocities of October 7, 2023, it looks as if Zohran Mamdani, a previously obscure New York State assemblyman who became a U.S. citizen in 2018 (he remains a citizen of Uganda, where he was born) and who somehow manages to be both a Communist and a radical Muslim, will be elected mayor of New York City in November. Among other things, Mamdani looks fondly upon jihadist terrorism, hates Israel, calls it an apartheid state, supports Palestinians, considers Israel’s war in Gaza an act of genocide, supports the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, and has said he would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he set foot in New York. In 2017, Mamdani put out a rap song celebrating the leaders of the Holy Land Foundation, an ally of Hamas.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Robert Jenrick is right – Britain feels more and more Balkanised

Robert Jenrick has only gone and forgotten the golden rule of the woke era. Namely, that you are permitted to bemoan a surplus of white people, but you must never clock an absence of white people. Wailing about the pale, stale males who clog up our institutions is fine. Wondering where the white people are at when you visit certain parts of the Midlands is evil. How did these rules of the new racialism slip his mind?

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

Trump mocks ‘woke’ transgender ideology in meeting with Mark Carney

U.S. President Donald Trump did not hold back during an in-person meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney today, openly blasting the “woke” extreme transgender ideology of men in women’s sports and genital mutilation surgery of minors.

“We have no men’s and women’s sports. I mean, basic things. We’re not going to take your child away and change the sex of your child,” he told Carney in the White House.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

UNMASKED: Uber driver accused of starting fires that killed 12 and decimated LA… as his disturbing online behavior is exposed

A 29-year-old Uber driver has been arrested in connection to the Palisades Fires that decimated Los Angeles and destroyed thousands of homes in January.

Jonathan Rinderknecht was charged with ‘maliciously’ starting the catastrophic fire, according to Acting US Attorney Bill Essayli.

‘The complaint alleges that Rinderknecht’s started a fire in Pacific Palisades on New Year’s Day – a blaze that eventually turned into one of the most destructive fires in Los Angeles history, causing death and widespread destruction,’ Essayli said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

OLDCORN: No, we don’t ‘honour martyrs’

Two events this week tell us something’s gone wrong on Canadian university campuses and streets.

On Tuesday, the University of Toronto (U of T) Students’ Union will be organizing a rally titled “Honouring Our Martyrs.” This event will commemorate the second anniversary of the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel.

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

A Writer’s Take on the State of the American Left Should Send Chills Down the Spines of Libs

You might not like some of the language he uses, but Noah Smith’s lengthy take on the state of American politics is worth a read. It’s not drivel spewed on Salon or MSNBC. It’s a fair take on the MAGA movement and the structural and political disadvantages of the Left, which aren’t going away if they keep this destructive march on most of their action items. Smith concedes there are kernels of truth to the ‘great replacement theory,’ noting the changes in California’s politics. Again, you might not agree with the authoritarian observations he makes about the MAGA movement, but he also slaps down the notion that this is some fascistic plot.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Canada must come ‘second’ to U.S. in auto sector, Howard Lutnick warns behind closed doors

Canada will not achieve a free trade deal with no American tariffs, and must settle with coming “second” to America when it comes to the auto sector, according to U.S. President Donald Trump’s point man on trade.

Appearing virtually, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick bluntly told an audience at a Canada-U.S. conference in Toronto on Wednesday that the United States is determined to dominate the car-making industry.

According to five sources who were in the room for the discussion, which was held under the ”Chatham House Rule” that bars reporters and media coverage, Lutnick said Canada has to consider the “big picture” and realize that it could be in an excellent place, but that trade between the two countries is never going back to the way it used to be under three decades of free trade agreements.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA