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New supply management law won’t save the system from Trump, experts say

A new law meant to protect supply management might not be enough to shield the system in trade talks with a Trump administration bent on eliminating it, trade experts say.

“It’s certainly more difficult to strike a deal with the United States now with the passage of this bill that basically forces Canada to negotiate with one hand tied behind its back,” said William Pellerin, a trade lawyer and partner at the firm McMillan LLP.

“Now that we’ve removed the digital service tax, dairy and supply management is probably the No. 1 trade irritant that we have with the United States. That remains very much unresolved.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 4, 2025July 3, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Christ-Mocking Queer DJ Honoured With High Decoration by French Culture Minister

French Culture Minister Rachida Dati has awarded DJ Barbara Butch the «Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres» decoration.

In case you have never heard of this person, well, she made the headlines when during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris she appeared in a parody of Christ during a mock Last Supper scene.

by Blazingcatfur•July 4, 2025July 3, 2025•0•WTF?

How Trump’s EV Policy Reversal Could Reshape Canada’s Mandates

The Canadian government has made electric vehicles (EV) a priority over the last few years, with sizable funding for battery factories, a rebate program to improve affordability, and a mandate to phase out the purchase of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035.

But with the U.S. government signing resolutions blocking a similar EV mandate in California and some 17 other states, coupled with continued issues related to affordability, Ottawa’s plan could be facing increasing obstacles.

by Blazingcatfur•July 4, 2025July 3, 2025•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, USA

NATO defence pledge will fuel huge annual deficits averaging $77.7-billion: report

Election promises and massive defence spending increases promised by Prime Minister Mark Carney at a NATO summit last month will fuel huge annual federal budget deficits averaging more than $77-billion a year, a new report predicts.

A fiscal forecast released by the C.D. Howe Institute Thursday said the combined cost of Liberal Party election platform pledges, plus a June 25 commitment by Canada to boost military expenditures by as much as $90-billion each year, will drive Ottawa deeper into the red.

by Blazingcatfur•July 4, 2025July 3, 2025•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

What the grooming-gangs inquiry needs to ask

The role of culture, ethnicity and religion must not be brushed under the carpet.

Keir Starmer was left with no choice but to commit to a national statutory inquiry into the grooming-gangs scandal, following the publication of Louise Casey’s damning national audit last month. This inquiry is long overdue and it is vital that no stone is left unturned in the search for truth.

The earlier reluctance to even hold an inquiry was undoubtedly due to the racial sensitivities involved. The UK prime minister and much of the establishment have long been unwilling to acknowledge the backgrounds of many of the perpetrators. But Casey’s report surely points to a pattern that no inquiry can ignore.

by Blazingcatfur•July 4, 2025July 3, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Muslim Rape Gangs

Mass deportation is the only issue

Zohran Mamdani is probably going to be the mayor of New York.

Mamdani was born in Uganda to a Marxist academic, becoming a US citizen only in 2018. He effortlessly switches between a bobblehead Indian accent, a multiculti South-African Ali G, and the flat respectable Broadcast American that he now campaigns on. He got married this year so he can be Definitely Officially Not Gay for the 0.5% of over-65 New York Democrats for whom that still matters.

by Blazingcatfur•July 4, 2025July 3, 2025•0•"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", USA

Samidoun exposes failures in Canada’s anti-terror efforts

On Oct. 15, 2024, Canada finally added Samidoun to its list of terrorist entities under the Criminal Code. Many observers had long called for this important step, given the group’s well-documented ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terrorist organization listed in Canada since 2003. The designation came only after mounting public pressure and disturbing events, including a Vancouver rally in which Samidoun-affiliated demonstrators chanted “Death to Canada” and burned our national flag.

WHY? Because most of the LPC caucus approves.

by Blazingcatfur•July 4, 2025July 3, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

The real reason Americans hate the media

It is now taken as settled science that the media largely—and this is a professional, expert term—sucks. The reasons for that are well-known and also settled, accepted science. Who would dare be a science denier? The media suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome, they hate America and Americans and they’re among the self-imagined elite who think themselves better than everyone else. They’re not. They’re mostly white but think white people racist. They’re congenital liars and have no idea what a sincere apology might be. Actually, they’re pretty clueless on the whole sincerity thing. They’re the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party, yet some of them weakly continue to deny that.

by Blazingcatfur•July 4, 2025July 3, 2025•0•The Media

Why we should broadcast hate

The 2025 Glastonbury festival came to a close on Sunday, and tired bodies with sore heads will have packed their tents and trudged home knowing that they have to wait two years until the next festival.

Next year the festival will take a fallow year — the music festival takes a break every five years to give the land of Worthy Farm time to rest, and to give the cows some extended peace and quiet.

by Blazingcatfur•July 4, 2025July 3, 2025•0•"Diversity", "Far Left Extremism", "Immigration from incompatible cultures"

‘Nothing was ready’: Inside Canada’s Vaccine Injury Support Program

A$50-million program the federal government created to help Canadians seriously injured by COVID-19 vaccines is in disarray, current and former staffers say.

The Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP), created during the pandemic, was designed to compensate people who have been seriously and permanently injured by any Health Canada-authorized vaccine administered in Canada on or after Dec. 8, 2020.

by Blazingcatfur•July 4, 2025July 3, 2025•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Kathy Griffin looks unrecognizable as she steps out in LA after anti-Trump TikTok drama

Kathy Griffin looked nearly unrecognizable as she stepped out in Los Angeles this week amid backlash over her recent anti-Trump TikTok post.

The comedian, 64, was spotted enjoying a walk with a male friend near her $8.8million Malibu home on Tuesday, July 1.

Griffin was noticeably makeup-free and her flaming red hair looked wild as it blew around in the breeze.

by Blazingcatfur•July 3, 2025July 3, 2025•0•WTF?

Greta: The Poster Child for Progressive Contradictions

Fresh from her attempt to invade Gaza by boat and getting deported by the Israeli Defence Forces for her efforts last month, Swedish political activist Greta Thunberg showed up in Budapest on June 26 to back the global LGBT intifada.

“Today I joined thousands of people on the streets of Budapest, Hungary, where Orbán, in a desperate attempt, banned the Pride march,” she announced on Instagram. “It’s another fascist attack on human rights. Pride is both a protest but also a celebration of love and who we are. Fascists will never be able to ban love.” If she’d made it to Gaza, she would have found out otherwise.

by Blazingcatfur•July 3, 2025July 3, 2025•0•Batshit Crazy "Anti-Zionists", Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

The sweet silence of Pierre Poilievre. Enjoy it while you can … says disturbed man

Could be twins, at least on spiritual plain says Star

To more than a few Canadians, he was as irritating as a neighbour’s leaf-blower, or a yapping dog next door, or a crying baby across the aisle in a plane, or a pneumatic drill on local sidewalks.

His voice hit the ear like an assault, a whining, scolding, hyperpartisan blast of relentless grievance.

As such, the sound of silence of late from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is one of the summer’s blessings.

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•July 3, 2025July 3, 2025•0•The F$CKING Toronto Star, WTF?

COOPER: Mask up for sex and other lessons from Canada’s pandemic honour roll

Around the middle of the last century Marx — Groucho, not Karl — declined to join the Friars Club in Hollywood. His classic line: I refuse to join a club that accepts people like me as members. Two recent appointments to the Order of Canada, Theresa Tam and Bonnie Henry, extend the appropriateness of Marx’s remark to the Order of Canada.

Let us start at the top, with the motto of the Order: Desiderantes Meliorem Patriam, ‘They desire a better fatherland (or country.)’

It originally appeared in St. Paul’s epistle to the Hebrews, Ch. 11:16.

These are just handed out to friends and family it seems. Crackerjack box distribution would be more fair.