Author: Blazingcatfur

What the U.S. dairy industry really wants from Canada

U.S. dairy producers insist they’re not looking for Canada to dismantle its supply management system, but they do want Canada to follow the letter and spirit of the existing deal that governs the dairy trade between the two countries.

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly blasted Canada as “unfair” and “ripping us off” with massive dairy tariffs, in a way that isn’t fully accurate.

However, senior figures in the U.S. dairy industry are concerned there’s also some misrepresentation happening north of the border, creating a false perception of what U.S. producers are actually seeking in terms of access to the Canadian market.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Inside socialist Zohran Mamdani’s posh wedding bash at secluded Uganda compound — complete with phone jamming system, armed guards

Socialist NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani celebrated his recent nuptials with a lavish, three-day affair at his family’s ritzy, secluded Ugandan compound — complete with masked security guards and a cellphone jamming system, The Post has learned.

The gates of the bustling, private compound, which sits in the wealthy Buziga Hill area outside the capital city of Kampala, were heavily guarded by military-style, masked men this week, with guests streaming in and partying until midnight, according to sources in the town who wished to remain anonymous for security reasons.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

LILLEY: CBC pushes left-wing political values in effort to cancel Christian singer

CBC went on a religious war against a Christian singer this past week in an effort to cancel his concerts.

Instead, CBC raised the profile of Sean Feucht in Canada and showed just how politicized their news coverage has become.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCBC, WTF?

Elite police squad to monitor anti-migrant posts on social media

An elite team of police officers is to monitor social media for anti-migrant sentiment amid fears of summer riots.

Detectives will be drawn from forces across the country to take part in a new investigations unit that will flag up early signs of potential civil unrest.

The division, assembled by the Home Office, will aim to “maximise social media intelligence” gathering after police forces were criticised over their response to last year’s riots.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Camp Of The Saints, UK, WTF?

A Separatist Movement Is Brewing in Canada — But Don’t Count on a 51st State

HUNTSVILLE, Ontario — Many Canadians are furious with President Donald Trump, aghast at his trade war and his calls to annex their country. Then there’s Danielle Smith, premier of Alberta. “We have a longstanding relationship with the Americans that goes back over 100 years, and it’s going to last 100 years or more,” she says in an interview with POLITICO Magazine.

Smith’s approach may be distinct in part because she’s a Conservative who meets regularly with Trump administration officials. Her oil-and-gas-rich Alberta also has a large trading relationship with the United States that is largely tariff-free.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino shocked to his core over FBI’s recent corruption discoveries: ‘I’ll never be the same’

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino boldly declared Saturday that he made recent discoveries about government corruption and weaponization that shocked him down to the core.

Without elaborating on what he found out, Bongino teased that investigations into those discoveries are ongoing and being done “by the book.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFBI, WTF?

Vancouver First City in Canada to Ban Sale of Gun-Shaped Lighters

Vancouver City Council has voted unanimously to ban the sale of gun-shaped lighters, in a move they say will free up police resources that are being used to respond to emergency calls related to the lighters being mistaken for real firearms.

The motion, put forward in June and made a bylaw on July 23, prohibits the sale of novelty gun-shaped lighters, and includes fines of up to $1,000 for infractions. The lighters are small handheld or torch lighters that have parts like a trigger, barrel or handle that make it resemble a real firearm.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Revealed: the former asylum seeker ‘smuggling oil to fund Iran’

A businessman granted asylum in Britain is at the centre of a billion-dollar oil smuggling operation that is helping to finance Iran’s overseas terrorism and domestic repression, according to US officials.

Salim Ahmed Said has been accused by the Trump administration of running a network of companies illicitly trading in Iranian oil by passing it off as a product of neighbouring Iraq.

Profits from the sophisticated smuggling operation are alleged to have been sent to Iran in trucks full of cash, which is used to bankroll the activities of an elite wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s huge federal government bureaucracy needs to be downsized

While the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives warned last week that over 57,000 federal public service jobs could be cut between now and 2028 due to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s restraint measures – assuming they occur – the reality is that a downsizing of the federal civil service is long overdue.

During Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government from 2015 to 2024, the federal bureaucracy grew in size by 43%, from 257,034 employees to 367,772, an increase of 110,738.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

HANNAFORD: Loser-Ville, as the NDP casts its net again

Let’s see. You are a member of the NDP’s national organizing committee. Your party has just been creamed in a national election, reduced in the House of Commons to seven members out of 343 members. In fact, for the purposes of parliamentary proceedings, you’re not even a ‘recognized party’ any more.

Your last leader lost his seat (if not his pension) and has gone home to BC where Conservatives hope he will reincarnate himself as an advisor to BC’s NDP government…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNDP

At least 11 stabbed at Traverse City Walmart in terrifying scene before armed shopper helped detain knife-wielding madman

At least 11 people were stabbed in a bloody scene inside a Michigan Walmart Saturday night — causing terrified shoppers and employees to flee — before a brave armed citizen helped detain the knife-wielding maniac, according to police, witnesses and harrowing video.

The terror unfolded around 5 p.m. when the alleged 42-year-old male attacker began randomly stabbing shoppers with a “standard” folding knife in various sections of the big-box chain store in Traverse City, about 255 miles northwest of Detroit, Grand Traverse County Sheriff Michael Shea said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Casualty Event"

Covid vaccines ‘saved far fewer lives than first thought’

Covid vaccines saved far fewer lives than first thought, a major new analysis has concluded, with researchers criticising “aggressive mandates”.

Last year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) claimed jabs had prevented the deaths of 14.4 million people globally in the first year alone, with some estimates putting the figure closer to 20 million.

However, new modelling by Stanford University and Italian researchers suggests that while the vaccines did save lives, the true figure was “substantially more conservative” and closer to 2.5 million people worldwide over the course of the pandemic.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

The Ulsterisation of English politics – Westminster is losing legitimacy

In his 1977 book The Break-Up of Britain, the socialist and Scottish nationalist writer Tom Nairn titled his chapter on the United Kingdom’s then-most restive province “Northern Ireland: Relic or Portent?” On this, as with so much else, Nairn may have been prescient. A year ago, it was natural to speculate on whether anti-migrant disturbances would become a feature of the English summer, as those deriving from the province’s traditional, and now largely ceremonial, ethnic conflict are in Northern Ireland. Today, it appears that “rioting season” has become England’s new routine. Rather than a freak occurrence, to be dealt with by harsh sentencing, the mixed protests and clashes in Epping, like the demonstrations in Diss and now Canary Wharf, still seem like only tremors before a greater earthquake. When Nigel Farage warned this week that “nobody in London understands how close we are to civil disobedience”, the response from Left-liberals, confused and frightened by a predictable course of events nevertheless incomprehensible to their worldview, was to cast him as a sort of English Ian Paisley, threatening violence at a safe remove for political gain.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

Michael Geist: When it comes to antisemitism, the sound of silence is loud in Canada

Deborah Lyons, Canada’s recently retired envoy for combating antisemitism, this week lamented that the effort to shine a light on increasing antisemitism in Canada had left her “despondent and despairing about the fact that it was hard to get people to speak up, to speak with clarity, to speak with conviction about what we were seeing happening here on Canadian soil.”

Jewish communities have long known silence. At its worst, it has manifested in some communities as synagogue floors covered in sand to mask the sound of feet shuffling during silent prayers or by those hidden during the Holocaust to escape capture by the Nazis. In today’s Canada, silence comes in different ways. Some Jews quietly conceal their identity by refraining from displaying a Star of David or kippah, families remove mezzuzahs from their front doors to avoid telegraphing that it is a Jewish home, and the community avoids widespread promotion of events hosted in community centres due to security concerns.

“In fact, even political views on the founding of the State of Israel or expressions of support for Zionism, which as former prime minister Justin Trudeau noted “is the belief, at its simplest, that Jewish people, like all peoples, have the right to determine their own future” runs the risk of being labelled as “racist” in today’s educational environment, thereby silencing the perspectives.”

What about Canada? I am called a racist colonizer with no right to exist here and am labeled the APEX predator within the DEI/CRT hierarchy of evil solely because I have white skin.

How is it a prof has never heard of Islam or thought about the impact of Muslim immigration on current events?

 

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

Saturday Schadenfreude: Elon Musk stomps Media Matters like a bug

Remember Media Matters?

The proto-censor of conservative media, founded by conservative turncoat David Brock in 2004, forerunner to the vast NGO empire of outlets such as NewsGuard, the Stanford Internet Observatory, the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, and the U.K.’s Centre for Global Resilience, and other self-proclaimed ‘fact checkers’ has found itself in hard times and on the rocks.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Journalists"