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The dairy industry’s outsized influence explained, in charts

Canada’s dairy farms are growing in size and shrinking in number, and the sector has failed to grow at the same rate as other large agricultural industries.

Yet dairy farmers are largely protected from international competition by a half-century old policy called supply management. And this policy – which sets a production quota and price point for dairy products – threatens to hurt other Canadian industries as U.S. President Donald Trump assails what he calls unfair protectionist measures and threatens to walk away from trade deals.

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2025July 8, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Report: 99 Percent of Late-Night TV Show Guests Have Been Liberal So Far This Year

A look at the list of guests for the various late-night TV comedy shows finds that 99 percent of them have been liberals and only one was center right.

According to a review of all the guests on the five major late-night shows, there was nearly no inclusion of center right guests. The survey was compiled by the Media Research Center and followed the guests on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show.

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2025July 8, 2025•0•Hollywood

Canadians see the U.S. as a top threat and top ally: poll

WASHINGTON — As U.S. President Donald Trump pursues his global trade war and talk of annexation, a new poll suggests the percentage of Canadians who view the United States as a top threat has tripled since 2019.

The survey by the Pew Research Center also suggests that 55 per cent of Canadians say the U.S. remains this country’s most important ally.

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2025July 8, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Inside the Virginia Giuffre family’s legal battle over Prince Andrew’s millions

Virginia Giuffre’s family is preparing for a legal battle with her allegedly abusive husband to stop him inheriting her wealth, which includes an estimated $10 million of Prince Andrew’s money.

Giuffre, who died by suicide at her Perth home in April, had built up a multimillion-dollar estate from victim compensation funds and civil lawsuit settlements resulting from abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and his high-profile friends.

The Times can reveal the California-born 41-year-old died intestate, meaning her husband, Robert Giuffre, could be entitled to as much as a third of that estate under Australian law.

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2025July 8, 2025•0•Crime

Axworthy’s not wrong: Carney does look like he’s taking a ‘bootlicking’ approach to Trump, so far

Prime Minister Mark Carney, who campaigned and won the recent federal election by promising to stand up for Canada, has so far acquiesced to United States President Donald Trump’s significant demands. Carney agreed to increase spending on our national defence to five per cent of our GDP, agreed to rescind our digital services tax on American tech giants, and seemed to suggest that Canada may take part in Trump’s Golden Dome, modelled after Israel’s Iron Dome. On the dome issue, Trump is now saying it would cost Canada $61-billion, or we can participate for free if we become America’s 51st state. Hopefully Carney is playing the long game here and will eventually fight back, but so far, at least publicly, he has not.

This is not standing up for Canada’s values.

What could he realistically do? Besides he and his cronies will profit deal or no deal, likely the most if Canada is broken up.

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2025July 8, 2025•0•Canada, USA

The Malibu Fires 6 Months Later

Six months after the devastating January 2025 Malibu Fires, Adam returns to survey the scene—what’s been rebuilt, what’s still damaged, and what recovery really looks like for Malibu.

One 6000 sq. ft. lot is on sale for 6 million bucks.

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2025July 8, 2025•0•"Mother Nature Hates You"

Alberta, Ontario premiers want ‘several’ oil pipelines built under Carney government

OTTAWA — The premiers of Alberta and Ontario both said at a meeting Monday that they are cautiously optimistic that Prime Minister Mark Carney will successfully get a new oil pipeline built in Canada. But Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said the planning should not be limited to just one.

Meeting with her Ontario counterpart in Calgary, Smith said Alberta crude oil should have access to a “growing share” of pipelines. “I’m of the view there’s probably room for more than one pipeline, probably several.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2025July 8, 2025•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Alberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Ontario

Political Assault in Brussels: Young Man Attacked for Wearing Trump Cap

On the night of Thursday, July 3rd, a young German citizen was assaulted in Place du Luxembourg in Brussels, just steps from the European Parliament. The incident occurred at the well-known bar ’The Network,’ a popular gathering spot for EU officials, parliamentary assistants, and visitors.

According to the testimony of the 24-year-old victim, the incident began when a woman approached him and snatched a white baseball cap with the slogan “Make America Great Again,” associated with former U.S. President Donald Trump. After calling him a “racist,” three men, reportedly of North African origin, joined in, allegedly insulting and physically attacking him, leaving him with multiple bruises, facial injuries, and a head wound that required several stitches.

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2025July 7, 2025•0•WTF?

Islamophobia in Montreal: Prosecution smears Mohammedan with terrorist label for wanting to perform his religious duty & kill a big bunch of infidels for Allah his death cult idol

Prosecution seeks life sentence on terrorism grounds for alleged mass killing threat in Montreal

A Crown prosecutor is now treating a man’s alleged threat of a mass killing in Montreal in May as a terrorist act and wants to secure a life sentence for the accused.

Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, 51, was arrested by the RCMP last month and charged with one count of uttering threats. According to the Mounties, he allegedly told an employee at a local homeless shelter in late May that he wanted to “commit an attack with the goal of killing a large number of people.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2025July 8, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Spanish Right-wing party vows to deport eight million people ‘have not adapted to our customs’

African migrants climb the border from Morocco to Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta

Vox promises to expel people of foreign origin who ‘have not adapted to our customs’

Spain’s far-Right party Vox has vowed to deport around eight million people if it wins the next election.

This week, party leaders said they wanted to remove all people of foreign origin who have not adopted Spanish customs – a shift from their previous position of only deporting those in the country illegally.

Rocío de Meer, Vox’s spokeswoman for demographic emergency and social policies, said the policy would mean expelling “millions of people who have recently come to our country and have not adapted to our customs”.

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2025July 8, 2025•0•Camp Of The Saints, Spain

RCMP charges CAF members with trying to create ‘anti-government militia’ and seize land

Three men face a terrorism charge for allegedly planning to create an anti-government militia and seize land in Quebec, according to the RCMP.

According to a news release Tuesday morning, the Mounties say the group was involved in an alleged ideologically motivated violent extremism plot “intending to forcibly take possession of land in the Québec City area” and included active members of the Canadian Armed Forces.

I bet at least two are RCMP.

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2025July 8, 2025•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, Terrorism - Domestic, WTF?

WTF?

Coming soon to Canada if we don’t put a stop to this now. @fancypants_s https://t.co/IF48NN0wuT https://t.co/jTfrCFDSSm

— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) July 8, 2025

Why is India’s Ganges river so polluted?

h/t Auntie Polly

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2025July 8, 2025•0•WTF?

Texas floods death toll climbs to more than 100

The death toll from flash floods that struck central Texas on Friday has now climbed to more than 100 people and an unknown number of others are missing.

Search and rescue teams are wading through mud-piled riverbanks as more rain and thunderstorms threaten the region, but hope was fading of finding any more survivors four days after the catastrophe.

Camp Mystic, a Christian all-girls’ summer camp, confirmed at least 27 girls and staff were among the dead. Ten girls and a camp counsellor are still missing.

Texas really has been handling this tragic situation very well.

I mean, 2 trillion gallons of water fell over the Texas Hill County and Edwards Plateau on Friday morning-

That’s 4 months worth of rain in just 4 hours, creating a 30 foot wall of water in the middle of the night.… pic.twitter.com/EEGFiuIsy3

— The Heart Speaks (@SGabardi1111) July 5, 2025

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2025July 8, 2025•0•"Mother Nature Hates You"

Canadians will see wages pick up as immigration slows, Conference Board argues

OTTAWA – The Conference Board of Canada expects wage hikes will pick up speed in the coming years as the pace of population growth slows down.

The think tank said in a new economic forecast Monday that Canada’s labour market has been “resilient” this year despite tariff pressures from the United States.

The national unemployment rate ticked up to seven per cent in May, though the Conference Board noted overall employment is still 0.3 per cent higher than it was at the end of last year.

Except immigration numbers have not really decreased.