Blazingcatfur – Page 159

Davos on the dock

Muskoka residents were baffled. As thick wildfire smoke descended from Northern Ontario in mid-July, producing a mysterious daytime fog, RCMP boats with powerful triple-400 engines emerged in the heart of cottage country.

The locals were curious: Was it a training operation? A bust of some sort? Security for someone special?

By late Thursday, they had their answer. Prime Minister Mark Carney was coming to town, visiting the JW Marriott resort on Lake Rosseau, and his public schedule later revealed he attended an annual conference that brings together chief executives, wealthy entrepreneurs, top politicians, world-renowned scientists and venture capitalists. They call it The Dock.

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2026July 25, 2026•0•"Elite Decadence & Decay", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

What’s behind Maga influencer Laura Loomer’s about-face on Ukraine?

Laura Loomer, the online Maga provocateur, has never worked in the White House or anywhere else in the government, but her sudden conversion to the Ukrainian cause this week is significant because her social media posts often have real policy implications in the second Trump administration.

The rightwing commentator has spent the last few days in Kyiv, where she announced a newfound sympathy for Ukraine in its long war with Russia, and admitted that she had previously fallen for Russian propaganda.

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2026July 25, 2026•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Why the Gordie Howe International Bridge was ‘a bad deal for Canada from the start’

We learned this week the outcome of Canada’s gunpoint re-negotiation with the United States over revenue from the new Gordie Howe International Bridge, an impressive $6.4-billion cross-border span that Canada paid for and is now finally able to open for traffic on Monday.

The reality of the forced amendments — hammered out under threat from U.S. President Donald Trump who demanded changes to a long-standing binational contract at the eleventh hour — is not so much that it makes the new bridge a terrible deal for Canada, it’s that the changes made a bad deal even worse, according to a source with high-level knowledge of the business of border infrastructure.

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2026July 25, 2026•0•Canada, USA

WTF?

What if this is normal and we are the weird ones? pic.twitter.com/DgpCVecwVd

— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) July 24, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2026July 25, 2026•0•WTF?

Trump orders warning signs near Smithsonian, escalating fight over history

President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the installation of signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History that warn people that the museum does not accurately reflect American history while pointing them to material that does — a dramatic escalation in his campaign to wrest control of how the nation’s story is told.

The executive order, signed at the end of a week of contentious congressional hearings on the museum, directs Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to erect temporary signage along the National Park Service-controlled sidewalks and walkways the public uses to reach the museum. The signs would inform visitors of the White House’s criticisms, tell them the museum’s exhibits “should be renovated” and direct them elsewhere “to locations and resources for accurate information regarding America’s history.”

I’m not an American but I’d vote for this.

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2026July 25, 2026•0•"Peak Woke"

WTF?

My goodness, it’s like watching Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel.

(Adambartashow) pic.twitter.com/icmaXeNwkW

— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) July 25, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2026July 25, 2026•0•WTF?

Like a bad ex, Donald Trump is accidentally making Canada become its best self

Here’s the thing about awful, soul-destroying relationships: sometimes, you come out on the other end a stronger, better person.

It’s hard to see the benefits when you’re constantly being lied to, cheated on and disparaged. It’s emotionally exhausting and you know you need to get out, but you signed a lease together and you need his income to make the payments. Plus, you think you love him.

So you ride out his unpredictable mood swings and grit your teeth as you watch him smother his steak in ketchup. You don’t know how you’ll survive – but somehow, you do.

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2026July 25, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Meta Now Wants a Video Selfie of Your Face

Meta is rolling out a badge on Facebook that requires users to record a video of their own face.

The feature, massively accelerating the normalization of face scanning and biometric data collection, is called Facebook Verified, and asks a user to record a short video selfie, which the company checks against the photos already on their profile to confirm a match.

The process is free and takes a few minutes.

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2026July 25, 2026•0•"Surveillance Society"

CROSSON: Making residential school ‘denialism’ a crime would criminalize historical debate

Survivor accounts of residential schools vary — sometimes from the very same person. Nunavut Senator Nancy Karetak-Lindell told Nunatsiaq News in 2001 that her time at Akaitcho Hall was “a home-away-from-home” and that “it’s not like what you’re hearing about all the residential school issues today.” In the same piece, she said, “At Akaitcho, we were in a structured environment compared to where we came from. That taught us perseverance and how to discipline ourselves.” “It taught us a lot about doing things in life that we didn’t always want to do, but those things had to be done … We had to learn how to live with people from different cultures who spoke different languages and came from different parts of the NWT,” she continued, adding that those friendships helped her political career.

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2026July 25, 2026•0•"Aboriginal Fatigue", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

The Winning Strategy for Iran: Unconditional Surrender

When confronting the task of eradicating the Iranian regime — the world’s top state sponsor of terrorism and enthusiastic violator of human rights — it is essential to go in with all options on the table: economic sanctions, military operations, and political isolation all working in concert. The Nazi regime under Hitler, for instance, was not defeated through proportionate responses or limited engagements. The WWII Allies committed to total victory, dismantling the machinery of aggression, root and branch. The same principle applies today. President Donald Trump has a winning strategy on Iran. The military campaign should not stop until Iran’s regime delivers an unconditional surrender, as Germany and Japan did in World War II.

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2026July 25, 2026•0•"US Israel Iran War"

EV fast chargers in Canada are only being used 10% of the time

Canada’s public direct current (DC) fast-charging network continues to stretch beyond EV driver demand, leaving many stations operating well below utilization levels considered financially sustainable.

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2026July 25, 2026•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

Here Are the Big Moments From the Rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Friday marked the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) following the April 25 dinner being postponed following another alleged deranged leftist who sought to assassinate President Trump.

With a third of the original attendance and a different venue, the show went on with all of the awards for anti-Trump screeds, remarks by the President, and outgoing White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) President Weijia Jiang of CBS News, and a mind-bending performance from Oz Perlman.

"After hearing the gunshots, many people yelled, ‘Get down! Get down!,' which caused Nicki Minaj to start twerking. Can you believe it? She’s the only one that really understood what that meant.”

—Donald Trump on the White House dinner shooting pic.twitter.com/8mXltnzrrX

— Complex Music (@ComplexMusic) July 25, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2026July 25, 2026•0•"Journalists"

Parks Canada charges hikers after grizzly bear run-in with off-leash dog in Banff National Park

A pair of hikers with an off-leash dog were charged after coming close to a well-known grizzly bear on a popular hiking trail in Banff National Park.

Parks Canada charged them after a social media video on TikTok generated several million views since being posted July 21. The video, recorded by a woman, shows a man with bear spray and a small off-leash dog running between the two of them as grizzly bear No. 142 walks toward them on the trail.

It sucks but it’s safer.

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2026July 25, 2026•0•"Mother Nature Hates You"

NYT Opinion: ‘Land Acknowledgements Are Infuriating’

Yes, yes they are. But in this case the author is a Native American woman coming from a slightly different perspective. She recounts a land acknowledgement given at a church in upstate New York.

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2026July 25, 2026•0•"Peak Virtue Signalling", "Peak Woke"

Canadian-Born Wealth Falls Behind Immigrants After Real Estate Bubble

Being Canadian-born isn’t the wealth advantage many assume, according to a new study. Statistics Canada (StatCan) researchers compared Canadian-born households with established immigrants who had lived in the country for at least 10 years. They found the immigrant group came out ahead across every wealth quartile, though the gap narrowed at the top. The difference was driven almost entirely by Canada’s real estate bubble in its largest cities.

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2026July 25, 2026•0•Canada, WTF?