Blazingcatfur – Page 277

GIESBRECHT: The list of ‘status’ Indians is growing longer

Parliament is being urged by the Senate to pass Bill S-2. As amended by the Senate, this bill would, among other things, end the so-called “second generation cut-off” rule. These were changes to the Indian Act introduced in 1985 to prevent the transfer of status to a person who has at least one grandparent and one parent who does not have status — the so-called “second generation cutoff.” If passed by Parliament, S-2 is projected to add approximately 300,000 new registrants to the Indian Act status list by 2066. These amendments are estimated to result in at least $1 billion in annual benefit expenditures, driven primarily by the Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) program and post-secondary funding.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2026June 18, 2026•0•"Aboriginal Fatigue"

The New York Times’s twisted reporting of Henry Nowak’s murder

Last week’s headline in the New York Times was obfuscating: ‘In the UK, a Violent Cycle: Hateful Attacks, Right-Wing Agitation and Riots.’ Because hatred is now irrevocably associated with the ‘right-wing’, innocent American newspaper readers will have presumed that these agitating, rioting reactionaries were also the authors of the ‘hateful attacks’.

The New York Times and the PBS News Hour delivered such twisted, incomplete and minimised versions of recent incendiary events in the UK that I was obliged to tell the stories of Henry Nowak and Stephen Ogilvie to more than one ordinarily up-to-date American friend, because the salient details had been omitted from left-leaning reports. My friends’ news sources had left the hazy impression that ructions on the streets of Southampton and Belfast were simply the ‘right-wing’ creating mayhem for the sake of it, because that’s what the ‘right-wing’ do. This was merely more Brexity hatefulness.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2026June 18, 2026•0•"Journalists"

Poilievre finally gets some good polling news — but it’s not about the Conservatives

OTTAWA — The Liberal government’s lead over the Conservatives has dipped to single digits, a new opinion poll has found, but the second-place Tories may be getting a boost from a surprising source – the New Democrats.

The poll from Liaison Strategies found that the Liberals remain at the top of the heap in federal politics with the support of 41 per cent of Canadians who identify themselves as “decided and leaning voters,” with the Conservatives at 32 per cent.

Elbow people should not be allowed to vote.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2026June 18, 2026•0•"Canadian Politics"

Is California Reaching Critical Mass?

By any measure, California is a failed state—and a national embarrassment.

Taxes? It has the highest income and gas taxes in the nation.

Roads? A Reason Foundation survey ranks it 49th among the states.

Mass flight? Between 250,000 and 350,000 more Californians leave the state than move in each year. Housing, gas, insurance, and electricity prices? The highest in the continental U.S.

Sounds like Canada under the Liberals.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2026June 18, 2026•0•"Progressive Paradise", California

Anti-hate bill that provoked bitter clashes over religious freedom poised to become law

The government’s anti-hate bill, which provoked a bitter parliamentary battle with the Conservatives about whether it threatens religious freedom, cleared its final parliamentary stage on Wednesday and is poised to become law.

The new law, due to gain royal assent within days, would make it a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison to obstruct someone from accessing a place of worship or other sites where Jews, Muslims and other identifiable groups gather.

The bill also criminalizes the willful promotion of hatred toward religious and ethnic groups by publicly displaying terror or hate symbols.

This isn’t being done for the Jews and certainly not for Christians. It’s the LPC’s payment for the Islamist vote.

How much time do we have left before the hammer falls?

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2026June 18, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

WTF?

Gen X was so feral that the television had to remind parents to go find their kids at ten p.m. pic.twitter.com/jpyFRdbIkI

— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 18, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2026June 18, 2026•0•WTF?

Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Questions That Won’t Go Away

“For at least a decade, Clinton has been prone to extramarital affairs, often more than one at a time, and to numerous one-night stands. According to the troopers, the clandestine sexual encounters occurred even after the presidential election and continued through Clinton’s final days in Little Rock.”

So writes David Brock in The American Spectator’s most famous article, “His Cheatin’ Heart,” which was published thirty-two years ago.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2026June 18, 2026•0•"Clintons"

WTF?

Sometimes I think I’m weird because I do things like laugh at inappropriate things and organize my shirts by color.

And then I see something like this and realize I could be worse. pic.twitter.com/BfCsyVmiT3

— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 18, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2026June 18, 2026•0•WTF?

How a $15 Billion Fujian Scam Empire That Preyed on Americans Bought Protection Inside China’s Security State

WASHINGTON — When United States prosecutors moved last October to seize roughly 127,271 bitcoin — about $15 billion, the largest forfeiture in American history — the headlines fixed on the number. But The Bureau’s investigation into Chinese-run Cambodian scam compounds — operations that prey on Western citizens — finds something more explosive buried in hundreds of case records.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2026June 18, 2026•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA

Cannabis commercialisation not decriminalisation drives up usage, study finds

Decriminalising the possession of cannabis or strictly regulating access to the drug do not appear to drive up usage, but when the drug is sold commercially the number of users increases and more mental health problems are seen, a review has found.

An international team analysed the dramatic shift in policies on cannabis between 2000 and 2025, including how the numbers of people taking the drug, its potency, and rates of psychosis changed after new rules came in.

In places that opened up commercial markets for cannabis, such as the US and Canada, researchers saw more users and increases in drug potency. More people also visited hospital with psychosis and other mental health issues linked to the drug, they found.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2026June 18, 2026•0•Marijuana

GOLDSTEIN: Prime Minister Mark Carney’s accounting tricks won’t save taxpayers

When it comes to a choice between raising taxes and hiking deficits, governments increasingly opt for raising the debt.

The problem is, it’s a false choice for taxpayers because higher deficits are simply deferred taxes, which must eventually be paid.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2026June 18, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trump’s Iran ‘Deal’ Has Already Emboldened Hamas

A first reaction to US President Donald J. Trump’s “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) has already come from Tehran’s terrorist proxy, Hamas. The Iranian-backed group responsible for the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel is openly calling to escalate attacks against Israel and signaling its intention to shift the center of its jihad (holy war) from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank.

The timing is not a coincidence.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2026June 18, 2026•0•"US Israel Iran War"

Canada Qatar Live Updates – Canada wins 6 nil over the Muslim Brotherhood funders Qatar

The Guardian is serving this up

A little something to provide incentive for supporting Team Canada.

Yup. This is life in Canada 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/foYlmIyy9H

— 🇨🇦 Antonio Tweets (@AntonioTweets2) June 18, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2026June 18, 2026•0•"Bread and Circuses"

Canadian government should ‘indefinitely exclude’ people with mental illness from MAiD, committee recommends

A special parliamentary committee is recommending that the federal government “indefinitely exclude” people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness from applying for medical assistance in dying (MAID).

In a report tabled in the House of Commons Wednesday, the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (AMAD) recommended that the government “amend the Criminal Code” to add this exclusion.

The 88-page report — which comes on the 10-year anniversary of MAID being legalized in Canada — reviews whether the country is ready from a clinical, health systems and regulatory perspective based on expert testimony.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2026June 18, 2026•0•MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

‘We had to get out of the way’: The backlash over delivery robots

The first time Chicago resident John Roberts saw a delivery robot trundling down the sidewalk on his street he was impressed.

“I actually thought they were kind of neat – it felt futuristic,” he says.

But his attitude started to change when, soon after, he was out for a walk with his family. As another robot approached, they found themselves having to dodge it.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2026June 18, 2026•0•"AI - Artificial Intelligence"