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Pessimism, anger still dominate Canadian attitudes toward Americans, poll shows

More than 70 per cent of Canadians still pick a negative emotion such as anger to describe their feelings toward Americans, but the intensity of this ire has cooled even as a damaging trade war with the United States continues, a new poll shows.

There’s been a slight uptick in those saying their dominant emotion is instead disinterest or even optimism, the survey indicates.

More than 7 in 10 Canadians polled said pessimism or anger best describe their views toward Americans, an early July poll by Nanos Research for The Globe and Mail found.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2025July 13, 2025•0•Canada, USA

The Iran Ceasefire: A Dicey Intermission

The recent attack by Israel and the US on parts of Iran’s nuclear project has already been dubbed by some commentators as the Twelve Day War.

However, that cut-off time was chosen by Tehran to back a claim that Iran managed to fight twice as long as Arab states led by Egypt did in the Six Days War of 1967.

In fact, with varying degrees of intensity and a diversity of locations, this war started more than four decades ago when the new revolutionary authorities raided the Israeli diplomatic mission in Tehran and handed it over to PLO leader Yasser Arafat on a visit as special guest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. A few months later, the new revolutionary regime repeated the exercise by raiding the US Embassy and seizing its diplomats as hostages.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2025July 13, 2025•0•Iran

HUNTER: Killers, thugs thrive in justice system that refuses to repent

This is the Canadian justice system on drugs.

Every day, we’re bombarded with tales of incompetent judges, unrepentant criminals, softer-than-cotton parole decisions, and bail that never, ever seems to be denied. At the same time, the Chief Justice of Canada, Richard Wagner, moans that people are mean.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2025July 13, 2025•0•"Justice", "Law and Order"

How hundreds of Irish babies came to be buried in a secret mass grave

No burial records. No headstones. No memorials.

Nothing until 2014, when an amateur historian uncovered evidence of a mass grave, potentially in a former sewage tank, believed to contain hundreds of babies in Tuam, County Galway, in the west of Ireland.

Now, investigators have moved their diggers onto the nondescript patch of grass next to a children’s playground on a housing estate in the town. An excavation, expected to last two years, will begin on Monday.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2025July 13, 2025•0•Ireland

Police face questions in Quadeville after attack on Ontario child

Residents of a tiny rural community in eastern Ontario pressed police on Saturday for answers about a disturbing attack on a young girl that investigators believed was caused by an animal — until they arrested a teenager in the case.

Nearly 100 people filled a small community centre in Quadeville, about 170 kilometres west of Ottawa, for a town hall organized by Ontario Provincial Police to address residents’ questions and concerns about their investigation.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2025July 13, 2025•0•Crime

Musicians fight uphill battle as AI infiltrates streaming platforms, cutting into royalties

Musicians are calling for regulations and finding creative ways to fight back as AI “bands” climb the charts on streaming platforms, soaking up already meagre royalty payments.

But as a major musicians’ union works for legal change, a copyright expert says the law is failing to keep up with artificial intelligence. This comes as an act called The Velvet Sundown has hit 1.2 million monthly listeners on Spotify after stirring controversy over its use of AI, sparking conversations about the future of the music business.

“It’s obviously a challenge in the industry,” Allistair Elliott, director of Canadians affairs for the American Federation of Musicians, which represents 70,000 professional musicians in the U.S. and Canada, told CBC News.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2025July 13, 2025•0•"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

The Trump Administration Is About to Make a HUGE Move Against the Deep State

In a bombshell revelation, investigative journalist John Solomon confirmed to Steve Bannon on Real America’s Voice that the Department of Justice and the FBI have been quietly building a major criminal conspiracy case targeting the Deep State’s decade-long effort to derail Donald Trump. According to Solomon, the scope of the investigation could finally deliver the accountability that many in the MAGA movement have long demanded.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2025July 13, 2025•0•"Deep State"

Oh No!

Canadian musician Matthew Good cancels U.S. shows due to Trump administration

Canadian musician Matthew Good says he’s cancelling his U.S. tour dates because of President Donald Trump’s government.

The “Load Me Up” rocker is pointing to Canada’s cancellation of the digital services tax as a main factor in the decision.

I fully expect Trump to cave by supper time.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2025July 13, 2025•0•Canada, USA, WTF?

All Palestinians in Gaza Are Eligible for Asylum in France, Court Rules

All Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip will be eligible for the first time to apply for asylum in France, a court ruled on Friday.

Deciding on a case brought by a Palestinian mother seeking asylum in the wake of the Islamist Hamas October 7th terror attacks on Israel, France’s National Court of Asylum (CNDA) ruled in her favour given the “war methods” of the Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza, which the court found were “serious enough to be regarded as methods of persecution.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2025July 13, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

DROVER: BUSTED! CBC caught trying to keep Canadians in the dark

The CBC just got caught trying to shut the courtroom doors on Canadians.

Yes, the same CBC that spent years preaching about transparency and the public’s right to know. Now, when it suits them, they’re the ones trying to keep journalists out of courtrooms.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2025July 13, 2025•0•CBC

Kash Patel denies rumors he’s quitting the FBI over DoJ ruling on Epstein files

FBI director Kash Patel has denied swirling resignation rumors over reported unhappiness at a justice department decision to close the book on Jeffrey Epstein after administration officials teased a big reveal earlier in the year.

In a Saturday social media post, the agency director said: “the conspiracy theories just aren’t true, never have been. It’s an honor to serve the President of the United States – and I’ll continue to do so for as long as he calls on me.”

Over the past week, Maga hardliners, including Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, former White House adviser Steve Bannon and – reportedly – FBI deputy director Dan Bongino, have been strongly critical of a joint decision by US attorney general Pam Bondi and the FBI to not release further information about Epstein held in government files, including a so-called client list.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2025July 13, 2025•0•"Deep State", WTF?

Mark Carney needs to explain to Canadians how we’re going to pay for our national defence

It wasn’t so long ago that Canada perennially cashed in on its so-called “peace dividend.” The logic went like this: while our tanks might rust, the salaries of our Armed Forces members stagnate, and our ammunition stockpiles dwindle, the government could reallocate military spending toward areas of more immediate concern — entitlement programs, infrastructure and other “flavours of the day.”

Point to whichever geopolitical disaster from recent history you like, one thing is painfully clear: the dividend has been spent. But the problem isn’t just that our leaders have been slow to acknowledge this new reality — it’s that they’ve been even slower to act on its implications. Because the inverse logic now applies: in a more volatile world, there is a crisis fee to pay. A big one.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2025July 13, 2025•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Lab-grown cheese is coming

In an unassuming building in Stratford, east London, British start-up Better Dairy is making cheese that has never seen an udder, which it argues tastes like the real thing.

It is one of a handful of companies around the world hoping to bring lab-grown cheese to our dinner tables in the next few years.

But there has been a trend away from meat-free foods recently, according to the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB).

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2025July 13, 2025•0•"Lab Grown Food", WTF?

‘He’s Nuts, Your Trump.’ Canada Unites Against America.

So united a member of the RCMP hoped to see Trump assassinated

Even here, among the sparsely populated lakes and thickly forested hills of the Laurentians, it is hard for an American not to feel the anger and incredulity President Trump has stoked with his tariffs, talk of a 51st state and offhand insults.

Much of that may be lost on Americans buffeted by the ceaseless rush of crises and clashes generated by the president’s agenda. But up here, in what used to be the most friendly neighbor a country could possibly ask for, the rage is tangible.

A TDS suffering author from Quebec no less.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2025July 13, 2025•0•Canada, Trump Derangement Syndrome, USA

Live Aid at 40: Hope, hype and hard questions

“It’s 12 noon in London, 7 a.m. in Philadelphia, and around the world it’s time for Live Aid.”

This television announcement on July 13, 1985, heralded over 16 hours of music broadcast from Wembley Stadium in London and John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia that united close to 2 billion people across more than 100 countries.

Live Aid was no ordinary gig. With the primary aim of raising funds for famine relief in drought-stricken Ethiopia, it was the largest satellite linkup and television broadcast of its time.

Oh No! It lacked diversity!

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2025July 13, 2025•0•WTF?