Blazingcatfur – Page 2029

It’s time to end our obsession with bloated big cities, like Vancouver and Toronto

Douglas Todd: The future of housing affordability in Canada lies in providing support to mid-sized centres, such as Kamloops and Kitchener-Waterloo

For a vast country like Canada, the second largest in the world by land mass, we are a strangely urban place.

Our biggest cities continue to grow larger — and more unaffordable — while populations in our rural regions dwindle and many smaller cities struggle.

Canada, oddly, is far more urban than countries like Italy, where more people reside in rural areas, often in elegant towns that are the envy of North Americans.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2025February 2, 2025•0•Canada

WTF?

Atlanta, Georgia: Protest against ICE mass deportations

Again, Mexico Flags as far as the eyes can see. You’d never guess this was in America

They all love Mexico, want to represent Mexico, send our money to Mexico, they just don’t want to live there

Make it make sense pic.twitter.com/PID5ZIzMnY

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 2, 2025

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

Trump says EU tariffs will ‘definitely happen’

Donald Trump has threatened to widen the scope of his trade tariffs, repeating his warning that the European Union – and potentially the UK – will face levies, even as he conceded that Americans could bear some of the economic brunt of a nascent global trade war.

It comes as Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, announced on Saturday, sparked retaliation from all three countries. Mexico and Canada have vowed levies of their own while China and Canada are seeking legal challenges.

Trump said on Sunday night that new tariffs on the EU will “definitely happen”, repeating previous complaints about the large US trade deficit with the bloc and his desire for Europe to import more American cars and agricultural products.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2025February 2, 2025•0•European Union, USA

Trump’s trade war isn’t as mad as it seems

After Trump slapped tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, economists of Left and Right called him a lunatic: protectionism surely means higher prices, disrupted supply chains, trade war. Super triple bad!

Yet philosophically it makes sense, and the inability of journalists to see the President’s point of view betrays how far free trade has become a religion – a faith, like any other, that’s prone to myth and hypocrisy.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2025February 2, 2025•0•President Trump

Sweden’s gang violence has become the new normal

The murder of notorious Quran burner Salwan Momika this week has shaken Sweden to its core. But this incident only tells part of the story of the brutal violence which has become increasingly commonplace in the Scandinavian country.

Just a day before the shooting of Momika, a relative of internationally wanted drug dealer Rawa Majid — also known as “The Kurdish Fox” — was killed in a suburb just outside Stockholm. This swiftly followed a suspected gang murder in the small university town of Lund, where a career criminal was gunned down by a 17-year-old at a train station. Yet the statistic which most shockingly lays bare the extent of Sweden’s descent into criminality is that there were over 30 bombings across the country in January alone — more than one a day.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2025February 2, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Manitoba Law Restricting Protests at Abortion Clinic Now in Effect

Manitoba’s new law prohibiting protests and demonstrations outside abortion clinics went into effect on Feb. 1.

The province’s NDP government introduced the bill last year. The Safe Access to Abortion Services Act creates buffer zones of 150 metres around abortion clinics, as well as around the homes of abortion providers.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2025February 2, 2025•0•Abortion debate

Ottawa silent on funding for Kamloops graves monument

The Department of Canadian Heritage declined to comment on whether it would fund a proposed national shrine to commemorate 215 children allegedly buried at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, despite millions in federal funding allocated for excavation efforts.

Blacklock’s Reporter says no remains have been recovered to date, according to public records.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2025February 2, 2025•0•"Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

CBS to hand over Harris interview after Trump, FCC pressure.

CBS News plans to provide the Federal Communications Commission with the transcript of a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris that is at the heart of a lawsuit against the network filed by President Donald Trump — the latest development in a battle that critics say is being used to target press freedom.

When did “press freedom” become 1984 like historical revisionism?

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2025February 2, 2025•0•The Media, The Media Lies, USA, WTF?

Zionist Organization Naming Names in Light of Trump’s Executive Order Targeting Terror Sympathizers in America on Visas

In light of President Trump’s executive order that paves the way for officials to revoke the visas of international students and faculty members who support foreign terrorist organizations, one Zionist advocacy group is working closely with the new administration to make sure the order gets put to use.

Betar U.S., an American Zionist organization that traces its origins to Russian author and Zionist leader, Vladimir Jabotinsky, has been compiling a list of names of pro-terror actors on college campuses, along with evidence of their infractions, for months. Now that Mr. Trump signed an executive order that calls for the deportation of foreigners, including students, who express support for designated terrorist groups, the organization is pouncing at the opportunity to hand the administration a list of names on a silver platter.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2025February 2, 2025•0•"Oct 7 2023"

The bitter cocktail of British decline

Rangoon is a symbol of how far we have fallen

You can’t get a Pegu in Rangoon any more. That may not sound like a disaster for the ages – nothing, say, compared to the ongoing chancellorship of Rachel Reeves, MP for Blankstare-upon-Derr – but it is quite telling, once you know the background. To explain, the Pegu is a cocktail. Here’s the recipe, if you fancy making one…

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2025February 2, 2025•0•UK

We need to stop wetting ourselves about the weather

You may have seen the glorious painting, Flaming June by Frederic Leighton, showing a sleeping woman in an orange dress. Samuel Courtauld once called it ‘the most wonderful painting in existence’. But if it were to be painted today, I doubt whether the sensual masterpiece would be given the same name. Or, if it was, it might be given a trigger warning. The eco-activists wouldn’t be impressed: ‘June’s “flaming” because of climate change, you irresponsible boomers – let’s chuck some soup on it!’

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2025February 2, 2025•0•"Environmentalists"

Trump’s First ‘Hundred Days’: The ‘Greatest’ in History?

Love him or hate him, Trump’s political comeback and his early executive actions make him an historic figure.

Ever since Election Day 2024, various supporters and conservative journalists have been voicing the prediction that President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office will be “the greatest ever.” Former aide Steve Bannon has prophesied for months that Trump’s start will be “the most aggressive” rollout since FDR’s first presidential term in March 1933. The New York Post went even further on Inauguration Eve. With visions of a new Camelot, the newspaper headlined that Trump’s second term promises to inaugurate “a golden age in the U.S.” As if on cue, President Trump used the same phrase in his inaugural address on January 20.

Come April 30, Donald Trump — and countless allies — will compare his opening salvo favorably with the achievements of FDR and LBJ.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2025February 2, 2025•0•President Trump

Canada Is A Failed State and Mark Carney is BlackRock’s Bankruptcy Trustee

25% tariffs will ruin us. The tariffs mean one million small businesses – all which sell to the U.S. – will contract and many will close their doors. And then Trump, as he promised the unions, will pull “our” auto industry. Then we’re done.

Who is to blame for this?

Is Trump the new McKinley?

President Trump has indicated he wants tariffs on a grand scale, and that the McKinley presidency is his model for doing so

Why’s that important?

McKinley saved America with his responsible attitude and protection-minded tariffs, and Trump could do the same

h/t XC

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2025February 2, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Fear grips DC as Musk gains access to sensitive Treasury Department payment system that controls $5TRILLION

Elon Musk has gained access to the Treasury Department’s payment system, which controls trillions of dollars of government funds that go to programs like Social Security and Medicare.

Fear gripped Washington DC this morning as it emerged that Musk had forced out a top civil servant after he refused to allow the billionaire access to the payments system.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) the green light to have full access to the payments system, according to The New York Times.

Many are scared with good reason I bet!

by Blazingcatfur•February 2, 2025February 2, 2025•0•USA

Wall Street Journal editorial calls Trump tariffs ‘dumbest trade war in history’

US business leaders are offering a mixed reaction to steep trade tariffs that Donald Trump’s administration has imposed on Canada, Mexico and China, as the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal called it “the dumbest trade war in history”.

Donald Trump hit Canada and Mexico with a 25% tariff on imports, and China with 10%, on Saturday in a move that launched a new era of trade wars between the US and three of its largest trading partners. The tariffs against Canada exclude oil and energy products.

by Blazingcatfur•February 2, 2025February 2, 2025•0•Canada, USA