Author: Blazingcatfur

FUREY: Clean up the TDSB this summer before kids return to class

As Toronto public school students enjoy a summer full of camps, play and sports, let’s hope the system that they return to in September undergoes significant change.

Public education in Ontario has become a mess. That is why it is welcome news that the provincial government has appointed supervisors to take over a number of school boards across the province, including the Toronto District School Board (TDSB)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEducation, Education K-12

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Elon Musk’s company removes posts praising Hitler from Grok chatbot

Elon Musk’s company xAI removed social media posts by its chatbot on Tuesday after complaints from X users and the Anti-Defamation League that it had produced content with antisemitic stereotypes and praise for Adolf Hitler.

The Grok chatbot, which answers questions from users on Musk’s X social media platform, had produced some “inappropriate” responses which had to be deleted, the company said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence", WTF?

Federal Court says RCMP must hand over solicitor-client information in terror plot case

The Federal Court says the RCMP must hand over solicitor-client information to the country’s national security review agency — allowing a long-stalled review into whether the Mounties mishandled the case of a Canadian convicted of plotting ISIS-inspired terror attacks in the U.S. to move ahead.

The case centres on a complaint from Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy’s father Osama El Bahnasawy, who alleged the RCMP played a role entrapping his son, now serving a decades-long sentence in a U.S. maximum security prison.

The reason I posted this link is to rekindle memories of a real RCMP entrapment case, they almost got away with an FBI style frame-up.

Keep this in mind as the CAF “Anti-Government” militia case unfolds.

RCMP entrapment of B.C. couple in legislature bomb plot was ‘travesty of justice,’ court rules

B.C.’s Appeal Court has upheld a ruling that gave a couple convicted of planting explosive devices on the grounds of the legislature their freedom in 2016.

In a unanimous decision released Wednesday morning, the Appeal Court sided with a B.C. Supreme Court judge who stayed proceedings in the terrorism trial of John Nuttall and Amanda Korody on the grounds that the police investigation was a “travesty of justice.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Justice"

Trump told Putin he would ‘bomb the s— out of Moscow’ in leaked audio

Donald Trump claims he threatened to “bomb the s— out of Moscow” if Russia invaded Ukraine during his first term, according to new leaked audio.

“With Putin I said: ‘If you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the s— out of Moscow. I’m telling you I have no choice’,” Mr Trump told a group of donors before last year’s presidential election.

“And then [Putin] goes, like, ‘I don’t believe you’. But he believed me 100 per cent.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Braid: Carney promises development but keeps the Trudeau laws that hinder it

A friendly breeze blows out of Ottawa these days, but there’s a chance it’s nothing more than wind.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is all about development, energy, pipelines — one big Canadian economy.

He speaks of Alberta’s energy industry with none of the contempt so common in the Justin Trudeau years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Public skeptical over Canada’s high immigration quotas: Government report

OTTAWA — Focus groups struck to gauge public sentiment on the federal government’s immigration policy reacted negatively to high immigration quotas.

The public opinion panels, commissioned by the Privy Council Office and facilitated by Toronto pollster The Strategic Council showed most respondents reacted negatively to Canada’s mass immigration policies, according to reports published in Blacklock’s Reporter.

Canada’s demographic is being so drastically altered that soon all polls will support open borders and 3rd world immigration.

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

Days after Texas floods, at least 161 people are still missing in one county

At least 161 people are still missing in a single Texas county four days after deadly and devastating flash floods hit parts of the state, Governor Greg Abbott said, as hope fades for survivors to be found.

The missing in the hard-hit Kerr County include five campers and a counsellor from Camp Mystic, a Christian all-girls summer camp located on the banks of the Guadalupe River.

At least 111 people have died in the disaster, according to the latest county-by-county tolls published by US media. More than 90 were in the Kerrville area.

Meanwhile in New Mexico

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You"

John Robson: We Have Far Less Time Than We Think to Balance the Budget

Kaboom. It’s loud, scary, and urgent. But it’s not the sound of new Canadian munitions going off as we ramp up to $150 billion a year in defence spending because they said so. It’s the federal budget detonating. And if anyone’s minded to call the bomb squad instead of waiting to be blown to insolvency come, now would be a good time. A really good time.

In C2C Journal, Gwyn Morgan snidely recalled a former prime minister’s assurance that there’d be modest initial deficits of under $10 billion for three years then a balanced budget by 2020, which led to nine consecutive often-massive deficits that essentially doubled the national debt. And alas, that part was the good news.
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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Polish Farmers Leave EU Protests To Join Migrant Patrols on German Border

Polish farmers on protest since mid-May against EU green policies have left their posts in the town of Szczecin, close to the German border, to join the growing Civic Border Defense Movement against the German federal police’s unlawful migrant dumping operations.

Despite PM Donald Tusk reinstating temporary checks on the German border earlier this week—after weeks of initially dismissing the concern as unfounded, right-wing “hysteria”—the scandal and growing diplomatic dispute have not subsided.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, WTF?

Terry Newman: Travis Dharanj is a journalist. He doesn’t belong at CBC

Travis Dhanraj joined CBC with the intention of doing real journalism. He quickly found out that wasn’t why they hired him.

It’s important to note that Dhanraj didn’t leave any old job at CBC, he was the host of his own show — Canada Tonight: With Travis Dhanraj — the kind of achievement most aspiring television journalists only dream of. He was on the path to a Peter Mansbridge-level of success after working hard for it over his 20-years in journalism which included roles at CBC, but also, CP24, Global News, and CTV News.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCBC