Author: Blazingcatfur

“Rally Round The EV Boys”

EVs have become a litmus test for whether we’re still America’s buddy — or ready to be a global Canada say two Cranks

There are few Canadian markets more integrated with the U.S. than vehicles. And not just the cars we build in Ontario, but the ones we drive across this country.

We rely on U.S. safety standards that effectively determine which cars end up on dealership lots, align our tailpipe emission standards and when the U.S. under Biden erected a 100 per cent tariff wall on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), did Canada look to Europe’s much lower tariff or the U.K.’s lack of one? No, we put up a 100 per cent tariff wall too.

And then a few things happened.

These are not serious people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Crackdown on Channel crossing social media adverts

Doctors Galore!

People advertising illegal Channel crossings online could face up to five years in prison under a new offence the government plans to introduce.

The offence, which the government is seeking to create under the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill currently going through Parliament, would form part of a crackdown on the number of migrants coming to the UK on small boats.

Assisting illegal immigration to the UK is already a crime, but officials believe the offence would give police and other agencies more power to disrupt criminal gangs.

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

Carney wants to spend an extra $9B on defence by April. Is that possible?

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s goal of hitting NATO’s defence spending target of two per cent of gross domestic product this year will be an uphill — nearly impossible — battle, say experts and critics.

An extra $8.7 billion is earmarked for defence spending by the Department of National Defence (DND) or other government departments, and $370 million for the Communications Security Establishment (CSE). Allies had been pushing Canada to meet NATO’s goal for nearly 20 years — but actually actually doing so became imperative with Donald Trump in the White House.

Never underestimate the LPC’s talent for graft.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Spoon Amnesty To Follow …

Dozens of police stations amongst 45 drop-off points in Victoria to dispose soon-to-be illegal machetes amid spike in knife crime

Dozens of police stations in Victoria will become drop-off points for machete-wielding owners as the state becomes the first to implement a ban on the weapons.

Locations of the drop-off points have been revealed ahead of a three-month amnesty to dispose of the soon-to-be illegal weapons, which from September 1 will be criminalised in Victoria, resulting in jail terms or fines of up to $47,00.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Avraham Shalev: Sorry, Carney — ‘Palestine’ does not meet the test for statehood

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s statement that Canada intends to recognize a Palestinian state is a mishmash of good intentions, western naivete and wilful blindness.

The statement pays lip service to Israeli security concerns, saying that the Palestinian Authority (PA) must undergo fundamental reforms, that Hamas can have no role in Palestinian governance and that a Palestinian state must be demilitarized. Unfortunately, none of these conditions is grounded in reality.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Members of Afghan Family Receiving Nearly €7,000 in Citizen’s Benefit Showcase Wealth on Social Media

Burgergeld – Citizens Money or Welfare in Germany

At the end of April, an Afghan family contacted the local employment center in Hamburg. The parents and their five children, as a needy household, applied for Bürgergeld, the citizens’ benefit paid when people have no income or do not earn enough money to support themselves and their dependents. According to official documents obtained by German investigative portal Nius, the employment center approved monthly payments of €6,733.83 from June to November 2025, with an increase to €6,814.83 starting in January 2026. Of this amount, approximately €5,100 is earmarked for Fördern und Wohnen, the city-owned social enterprise that runs the refugee accommodation where the family currently resides.

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

Donald Trump’s next target could be deal that shields most Canadian imports from tariffs, experts warn

Canada’s biggest shield against U.S. tariffs is still intact after Donald Trump’s latest trade deadline, but that could change by next year, experts warn, as Prime Minister Mark Carney prepares for a new round of talks with the mercurial American president.

While Trump raised the tariff on Canadian goods to 35 per cent in an executive order Thursday night, an exemption for goods which comply with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) was maintained. The order was signed after Ottawa and Washington failed to reach an economic and security deal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Hamas negotiators demand Jerusalem be Palestinian state capital

Hamas says it will not disarm unless an independent Palestinian state is established with Jerusalem as its capital.

The statement, which reasserts a long-held demand by the group, seemingly came in response to a declaration by the Arab League last week that called for Hamas to lay down its weapons and release all remaining hostages. On Tuesday, the 22 member nations called for Hamas to relinquish control of Gaza and hand it over to the Palestinian Authority, which rules the West Bank.

I assume Carney agrees.

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

Canada Post is a case study in Canadian dysfunctionality

Canada Post, which predates Confederation, is a vital national institution, playing a particularly important role in serving rural, Northern and Indigenous communities across our vast country.

But today, Canada Post is effectively insolvent. Indeed, it would have run out of cash had the government not recently extended a billion-dollar lifeline.

This situation is no surprise, and it has been developing for a long time. Canada Post has been impeded from adapting to modern business realities because of long-standing labour inflexibility as well as oscillation by prior governments between political indifference and political interference.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

White House backs anti-Islam preacher in two-tier policing row

The Trump administration is backing a controversial Christian preacher at the centre of a “two-tier” policing row over his right to criticise Islam, The Telegraph can reveal.

Dia Moodley, a father of four, met US officials dispatched to interview British “victims of censorship” amid growing concern in Washington that free speech in the UK is under threat.

In the past four years, the evangelical pastor, from Bristol, has been the subject of repeated enforcement action by Avon and Somerset Police over his street preaching, which includes comparisons between Christianity and Islam, as well as sermons on abortion and homosexuality.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFreedom, freedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech, UK, USA

MORGAN: Junkies aren’t harmless

Junkie is a harsh term and that’s why I’m using it. It represents a harsh reality and I want to tear the sugarcoating from it. People addicted to substances who live on the streets of Canada are putting themselves and other citizens in danger every day. Activists, bureaucrats, and politicians dancing around the problem using euphemisms and refusing to acknowledge the harm caused by unchecked addiction are killing people and making the catastrophe worse.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDrug Legalization, Drugs

Why more fentanyl production could be moving to Canada

Fentanyl Precursor Chemical 4-Piperidone

Although there’s no evidence of any significant flows of fentanyl into the United States from Canada, an American authority on “criminal supply chains” warned Friday that that could change abruptly if U.S. efforts to better seal its border with Mexico are successful.

Jonathan Caulkins, who researches supply chains that support illegal markets for the Manhattan Institute think tank and Carnegie Mellon University. said the drug cartels that control the North American fentanyl trade may well shift large chunks of their operations to Canada if the northern border becomes the path of least resistance.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, USA

We Don’t Need The Durham Annex To Know Hillary And The FBI Set Up Trump. We Watched It Happen

Just hours after the release of bombshell intelligence showing that the Clinton campaign orchestrated the Trump-Russia hoax, The New York Times and Washington Post rushed out articles that misrepresented the intelligence entirely — one falsely claimed Durham dismissed it, the other falsely claimed the FBI investigated it. In reality, Durham treated the intelligence as credible and preserved it in a classified appendix to his report without disclaiming or refuting it — because the facts were confirmed by what unfolded in real time.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Clintons", "Deep State", Trump Derangement Syndrome

London: a city of strangers – A housing crisis, rampant crime and uncontrolled immigration are corroding our once vibrant capital.

Donald Trump attacked mayor of London Sadiq Khan this week for doing a ‘terrible job’ of running a formerly great city. It is hard not to think the US president has a point.

Yes, London has long been – and remains – a global powerhouse. Economically, it continues to be a key hub for the world’s commercial and financial activities. And in almost every cultural domain, it still stands out. It houses some of the greatest collections of art in the world. Its theatre scene is second to none. And with more than 50 universities and colleges, it has the highest concentration of higher-education institutions in Europe.

Sounds just like the GTA.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", The Great Replacement

Piece by piece, cranes lift 84 prefabricated rentals into place in downtown Calgary

Along a busy street on the west end of downtown, another new rental building is going up — but instead of being built from scratch, prefabricated units are being craned into place, piece by piece.

Each box being stacked contains two studio apartments, already filled with appliances like fridges, stoves, washers and dryers.

Altogether, the pieces will make up 84 studio apartments across six storeys.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"