Author: Blazingcatfur

German Leopard 2 tanks flop on battlefield in Ukraine

Germany’s prized Leopard 2 tanks are failing on the battlefield in Ukraine, according to an assessment by its defence ministry.

In a classified transcript of a meeting between a German defence attaché stationed in Kyiv and about 200 Bundeswehr soldiers, the diplomat revealed the difficulties Ukrainians are facing in operating the heavy weaponry.

Eighteen of the Bundeswehr’s mainstay Leopard 2 tanks made their way to Ukraine in 2023 after months of foot-dragging by Chancellor Olaf Scholz and a full-on national public debate about whether Berlin should send heavy weapons to Ukraine.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Is it time for Canada to lower the federal voting age to 16?

OTTAWA — Jaden Braves, 16, says being unable to vote in this federal election is a “disappointment” — and he’d like to be one of the last young Canadians to be left out of the conversation.

Braves and the organization he leads, Young Politicians of Canada, want to see the federal voting age lowered to 16.

“I hope that by the time I am 18, 16-year-olds that will be two years younger than me will have the chance to show up to the polls and cast a ballot,” said Braves, who is also involved with Vote 16 Canada and has a motion before Toronto city council that would extend municipal voting rights to 16- and 17-year-olds.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Landmark antitrust trial could force Zuckerberg to sell Instagram

A trial in the landmark antitrust case against social media giant Meta kicks off in Washington on Monday.

The US competition and consumer watchdog alleges that Meta, which already owned Facebook, bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 to eliminate competition, effectively giving itself a monopoly.

The FTC reviewed and approved those acquisitions but committed to monitor the outcomes. If the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) wins the case it could force Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to sell off both Instagram and WhatsApp.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Big Tech Oligopoly"

Adam Pankratz: Like it or not, Canada’s economy is tied to the U.S.

Donald Trump’s tariff crusade has frequently made Lewis Carroll’s Mad Hatter look like a paragon of sanity. While is it is tempting to mock and deride the United States at the moment, Canadians need to remember where our economic bread is buttered. Despite anything politicians or leaders may say, and like it or not, Canada’s economic future and success is tied to the United States for the foreseeable future.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

British Steel tries to reverse Communist Chinese ‘sabotage’ of Scunthorpe furnace

Engineers are racing to save the furnaces at British Steel’s Scunthorpe site after a “sabotage” attempt by its owners to push reliance on Chinese steel, the Times understands.

Ministers have stopped short of publicly accusing Jingye of deliberately trying to shut down the site, but sources told The Times that a string of actions pointed to the company taking steps that would lead to Britain becoming reliant on cheap Chinese steel.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", UK

‘It’s disrespectful’: Smith pushes back at Carney comments

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Prime Minister Mark Carney was being disrespectful last week with comments he made about her role in the trade war with the U.S.

Last weekend in Victoria, Carney joked about Canadian premiers appearing on Fox News, the conservative U.S. media outlet, saying it would be a “bad idea” to put Smith on the network to advocate for cross-border diplomacy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Gates Foundation Gives In and Stops Discriminating by Race

We hate poor white people but the law forced us to cease discriminating against them even though they keep calling our daughter a dhimmi skank.

The Gates Foundation says it will end racial exclusion in its flagship college-aid initiative, the Gates Scholarship. As of Sunday afternoon, the foundation’s website still describes the program as being limited to high-school seniors who are “from at least one of the following ethnicities: African-American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian & Pacific Islander American, and/or Hispanic American.” But in a statement to the Journal late Friday afternoon, a spokesperson said “it has been decided to expand eligibility to all Pell Grant-eligible students”—i.e., those with low incomes, regardless of race.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Affirmative Action", "Anti-White Racism"

Not surprised …

The police repeat a pattern I and others noted many protests ago.

Being small of number and much less prone to violence it was just a whole lot easier for the police to “move us along for our own safety”.

Those previous efforts to maintain Community cohesion aka surrender to the Islamist mob have lead us to where we are today.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

We spoke to voters who are ‘truly undecided.’ Here’s why Poilievre and Carney are both failing to win them over

An online panel discussion of readers hosted by The Star this week found that to be undecided in this election is not to be unopinionated, inattentive, or untroubled.

In fact, the undecided voters, who gathered in an online video chat, were deeply concerned about their country’s future, absorbing as much information as possible and taking their vote exceedingly seriously.

Variously known as swing voters, “floaters,” and “persuadables,” they are doing their due diligence in working towards a vote they feel comfortable with.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Mother banned from playground after complaining about trans identity lessons

A mother was banned from her daughter’s primary school after complaining that staff were teaching children about transgender identity, The Telegraph can reveal.

Karina Conway, 42, was ordered to stay away from the playground before being told eight months later she could come back if she agreed not to post anything negative about the school online.

The mother-of-two had raised concerns that the school was teaching 11-year-old children that “transgender identity” was a protected characteristic.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

BEST: Does Ontario’s police force have something against Christianity?

‘How Canada’s third-largest police force erases Ontario’s majority faith.’

The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP,) under the leadership of Commissioner Thomas Carrique, has embraced an expansive recognition of religious and cultural observances.

Yet throughout 2024 and to now in April 2025, Christianity — including Christmas and Easter — has been notably absent from the force’s official acknowledgments. While nearly every major religious and social heritage celebration was publicly marked by the OPP with enthusiasm, Ontario’s most widely observed Christian holidays were reduced to generic seasonal greetings stripped of any reference to their religious significance.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristianophobia

The generational fault line that could shake up the federal election

Pollsters and political campaigners don’t deny it; there’s a generational fault line in the federal election. Boomers are leaning toward the Liberals, since Mark Carney won the LPC leadership. And younger generations (Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z), angry about the cost of living, endorse the platform of Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives.

Admittedly, it’s an odd dynamic. Younger people preferring a conservative government and seniors wanting to retain a progressive status quo. I’m a boomer with Millennial kids, so this is personal.

Why?

Protecting. Home. Equity. Means. Supporting. Mass. Immigration.

Young. People. Cannot. Afford. To. Buy. Or. Rent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Poilievre accuses Liberals of mixed messaging as candidate calls Gaza war ‘genocide’

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is accusing the Liberals of mixed messaging over the war in Gaza as video emerged of one candidate calling the crisis a “genocide” just days after leader Mark Carney clarified his own remarks.

Poilievre’s comments were in response to a reporter’s question which referenced, in part, a video of Liberal candidate Adam van Koeverden speaking at a mosque.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

More cowbell: While insane leftists keep screaming, DOGE finds more outrageous spending

We’re now seeing what looks like the gasps of a dying ideology.

Like clockwork, the left has decided to turn out its faithful fascist minions to project its collectivist ideology on the pro-freedom right. They run around with signs proclaiming that President Trump and his DOGE chief, Elon Musk, are ‘fascists,’ but it doesn’t make any sense.  Fascism is economically and practically defined as socialism with a capitalist veneer, a public/private partnership where industry is privately owned but government-controlled.

That’s hardly the economic freedom advocated by Trump or Musk by any stretch of the imagination.  In reality, that describes them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State"

CHARLEBOIS: Counter-tariffs, not Trump, hurting Canada’s food economy

Canada’s food processing sector is becoming increasingly vulnerable – not merely due to global market volatility, but as a direct consequence of Ottawa’s policy decisions.

In choosing to retaliate against U.S. protectionism with formal counter-tariffs, Canada now finds itself aligned with China as one of only two countries to pursue such measures. While these actions may serve domestic political optics, they are inflicting measurable and lasting harm on Canada’s food manufacturing ecosystem.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA