Author: Blazingcatfur

Local feral not guilty of murdering homeless man she helped stabbed to death – gets off with manslaughter

Girl accused of fatally stabbing Kenneth Lee in swarming case not guilty of murder

The teen girl accused of stabbing Kenneth Lee to death is not guilty of murder, a Superior Court judge has ruled.

The girl, who was 14 at the time, is guilty of manslaughter — a lesser offence she pleaded to at the outset of her trial in February. That admission was rejected by Crown prosecutors as they pursued the murder conviction.

Justice Philip Campbell’s decision Friday afternoon means none of the eight girls charged with swarming 59-year-old Lee will be found to have actually been the one to fatally stab him.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Crime, WTF?

‘Secret’ memo reveals how Canada’s refusal to join missile system in 2005 hurt our reputation

Canada’s armed forces are ready for emergency pronoun deployment under battlefield conditions.

OTTAWA — A “secret” memo from the Department of National Defence last year said Canada’s 2005 decision not to join the U.S. ballistic missile defence system harmed the country’s reputation as a security partner and could make it harder to participate in the AUKUS military collaboration between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The memo also raised Canada’s long-standing failure to meet its defence spending commitments with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as “the elephant in the room” that has raised doubts about whether Canada is willing to pull its weight for international security.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, NATO, USA, WTF?

Diaspora Jews under siege

(JNS) Traveling in America over the past three weeks to speak about my new book, I found a Jewish community in shock, bewilderment and, after the murderous attack last week on a young couple outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., gripped by rising fear.

Some of the most poignant reactions came from liberals who, on Oct. 7, 2023, had been mugged by a sickening reality. Their belief in achieving harmony between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs—a badge of their liberal identity—had been shattered by the barbaric and depraved attacks mounted upon Israelis that day by the people of Gaza.

… It’s why the most “progressive” countries—Britain, Canada and Australia—are the most viciously hostile to Israel. It’s rank, murderous, racist bigotry, all in the name of conscience and justice.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Trump-Hating Intelligence Official Busted for Trying to Share Classified Info With Foreign Government

The FBI arrested a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) employee on Thursday for trying to share national defense information with a foreign government.

The Justice Department issued a press release with the details of the alleged crime.

Nathan Vilas Laatsch, 28, of Alexandria, Virginia, was arrested today in northern Virginia, and will make his initial court appearance in the Eastern District of Virginia tomorrow.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Terry Newman: Profs call out their association for left-wing mayhem

Some Canadian academics are accusing the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) of straying from its core mission of advocating for academic rights and fair working conditions to pursuing a politicized agenda that undermines its fundamental purpose. Specifically, they accuse CAUT of — issuing an unsubstantiated U.S. travel advisory, producing a likely skewed academic freedom report with soon-to-be added anti-Israel rhetoric, and encouraging administrative overreach into equity-based hiring that risks faculty autonomy — betraying its founding principles.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Batshit Crazy Professors, Batshit crazy Universities

Why Is the Trump Administration Selling Weapons to the World’s Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism?

“[US] colleges and universities have accepted $6.25 billion from Qatar since 2001. However, Qatar’s total spending likely exceeds that figure… Qatar is a major exporter of Islamist ideology, which it amplifies on the Qatar-owned Al Jazeera network. By pumping money into the American higher education system and across the United States, Qatar avoids scrutiny as it advances hostile ideologies.” — Natalie Ecanow, of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, in testimony to the Texas Legislature House Committee on Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans’ Affairs, April 2, 2025.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inQatar, Qatar - funding terror, USA

PBS Host Invokes ‘1984’ and Mussolini To Urge Harvard Grads To Resist Trump

CNN and PBS host Christiane Amanpour stopped by the Harvard Kennedy School on Wednesday to deliver what was billed as a commencement address, but was really just a plea for the graduates to find the courage to fight back against nameless forces—but understood to be President Trump and people who support him—who are pushing America into a 1984 or Mussolinian state of affairs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Autonomous robots take to GTA sidewalks in food delivery pilot

Autonomous delivery robots are rolling along sidewalks in Markham, Ont., turning heads and dropping off food as part of a new pilot project that could pave the way for expansion across the country.

The three-month project involves four delivery bots equipped with insulated compartments that can carry nearly 60 kilograms of food. The bots are outfitted with a screen that displays friendly facial expressions, designed to navigate sidewalks and deliver meals within a two-kilometre radius of participating restaurants.

And just where will all the Doctors and Nurses of the Temporary foreign workers cohort go to find work?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

30 MPs accepted $230K in free travel last year, mostly for trips to Taiwan

Members of Parliament accepted more than $230,000 in flights, hotels and gifts from foreign governments, advocacy groups and private companies last year according to an annual report from the conflict of interest and ethics commissioner.

Konrad von Finckenstein’s report on the sponsored travel accepted by MPs for 2024 reveals that 30 MPs accepted trips to locations around the world including Colombia, the Ivory Coast, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, France and Germany.

But more than half of the $230,000 in travel accepted by federal legislators was paid for by Taiwan, which spent just over $126,000 bringing MPs to their country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Loretta Swit, Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on ‘M*A*S*H,’ Dies at 87

Loretta Swit, the actress and animal activist forever known for her pioneering turn as the disciplined Maj. Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on the acclaimed CBS sitcom M*A*S*H, has died. She was 87.

According to a police report, Swit died just after midnight Friday of suspected natural causes at her home in New York City, her publicist, Harlan Boll, announced.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPassings

Pierre Poilievre can’t ‘Bring It Home,’ alone

When the Conservative party adopted the slogan “Bring it Home,” it was a catchy phrase reportedly inspired by Leader Pierre Poilievre’s wife. It signalled a return to fundamentals, to a familiar place of security and prosperity. It’s now clear that the promise of bringing it home has not fully materialized.

Despite the slogan’s apparent simplicity, it was so diluted by multiple meanings that it took a four-minute video from Pierre Poilievre to explain what it actually meant. One of those meanings has become even more relevant now that the party has failed to form the government and its leader has lost his seat: “You know, when a sportscaster is broadcasting a game and the home team is up two points and there’s five minutes left, they might say ‘they’re up two but can they bring it home?’ So it really means getting it done.”

Always take Star advice to conservatives with a truck load of salt.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party