Author: Blazingcatfur

Three quarters of Canadians say misinformation affected the federal election: poll

OTTAWA – More than three quarters of Canadians believe misinformation had an impact on the outcome of the federal election, a new poll suggests.

The Leger poll, which sampled more than 1,500 Canadian adults from April 29 to May 1, suggests that 19 per cent of people think false information or misinformation had a major impact on the election.

Almost a third (32 per cent) said it had a moderate impact, while 26 per cent said it had a minor impact on the election’s outcome.

Our gov’t bought media wants to talk to us about disinformation. Sounds legit.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation", Canada's Government Owned News Media, Election 2025

‘I Saw You Come Out of the Church’: The Persecution of Christians, March 2025

“Our imam had assured us that when you kill a kafir [infidel], Allah rewards one with a Jannah [paradise]… so I wanted to get that Jannah.” — Hanifa Hamiyat, a Muslim woman who poisoned and killed three people: a young Christian couple, as well as her own 18-year-old daughter, who accidentally ate the same poisoned food the Muslim woman had offered to the Christians; Morning Star News, March 28, 2025, Uganda.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence

Pro-Separation Albertans Hold Rally, Say Things Won’t Change Under Confederation

EDMONTON—Katheryn Speck said she used to be a Canadian nationalist, travelled the world with a maple leaf on her backpack and once lived in Quebec so she could become fluently bilingual.

But on Saturday she was among hundreds of people who rallied at the Alberta legislature to support separation from Canada, with many in the crowd waving Alberta flags and a few even displaying the U.S. Stars and Stripes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation"

Harry’s return to royal fold now impossible after dramatic interview

Two weeks ago, a Telegraph reader wrote in to ask: “What will it take for this rift between the King and Prince Harry to end?”

Back then, the answer seemed straightforward. When the security court case was over, whether the Duke of Sussex won or lost, there was a world in which they could conceivably talk again.

When the dust settled, whether the Duke was vindicated or at least felt he had tried his best, it was fractionally possible that father and son could reconnect – without leaks, without showdowns, without fears of jeopardising a Court of Appeal case in which the King must be scrupulously uninvolved.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

GOLDSTEIN: Liberals and Conservatives must accept new reality of minority governments

Minority governments are the new norm in Canadian politics and it’s time the two major political parties in Canada started acting like it.

In the past 25 years, since the last of three consecutive Jean Chretien majority Liberal governments was elected in 2000 – at a time when the federal conservative movement was divided – eight federal elections have produced six minority governments.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Gateshead fire: fourteen children arrested after death of boy, 14

Layton Carr died in the blaze at Fairfield Industrial Park in Gateshead, with eleven boys and three girls arrested on suspicion of manslaughter

Fourteen children have been arrested over the death of a 14-year-old boy in a fire at an industrial unit in Gateshead.

The blaze broke out at Fairfield Industrial Park on Friday evening and was extinguished by the fire brigade, but the body of 14-year-old Layton Carr was later discovered, Northumbria police said. His family have been informed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

How Carney’s election win will change direction of trade war

On Mark Carney’s final day of a gruelling race to be elected PM of vast and sparsely populated Canada I was with him.

It was his last push, not just to win, but also to get the majority he said he needed to stand up to the chaotic territorial and trade ambitions of his “neighbour to the south”.

For someone who had got to see Carney as a cerebral technocrat, a crisis-managing central bank governor a decade ago, the transformation into public orator was quite something.

I recall endless interviews trying to get the then governor to say something newsworthy, or something that would make a good headline.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trump derangement syndrome hijacks an election

Just hours before Canada’s federal election, a man treated a street festival here in Vancouver like it was a bowling lane and his vehicle was the ball. Eleven people have died as a result, with several others injured. But sure, let’s make the federal election all about U.S. President Donald Trump.

Local police quickly ruled out terrorism. How could they possibly know so fast?

Well, because they were apparently like, “Oh, it was just THAT guy.” And not because he hangs out at the doughnut shop with them and shoots the breeze, but because he’s out there doing enough criming that they know his exact brand of crime – and it isn’t terrorism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025, Trump Derangement Syndrome, USA

Michelle Obama complains living in White House was expensive: “You’re paying for every bit of food you eat”

Former first lady Michelle Obama got heavily trolled as a clip from her podcast, where she was seen complaining about the cost of living in the White House, went viral. In ‘The Diary of a CEO’ podcast, Michelle said though you don’t have to pay for living in the White House, every bit of the food is on you — prompting backlash from social media users on how out-of-touch she could be.

h/t DM

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Trump, in a new interview, says ‘highly unlikely’ military force needed to make Canada 51st state

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump, in a new interview, was circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the Constitution.

He also said he does not think military force will be needed to make Canada the “51st state” and played down the possibility he would look to run for a third term in the White House.

The comments in a wide-ranging, and at moments combative, interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” came as the Republican president’s efforts to quickly enact his agenda face sharper headwinds with Americans just as his second administration crossed the 100-day mark, according to a recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA