Author: Blazingcatfur

Conrad Eder: Does the government prioritize hiring competent workers?

Conrad Eder: Does the government prioritize hiring competent workers?

Two candidates pass each other in a corridor: one is heading into a job interview; the other has just finished. Neither will be evaluated merely by ability, education and experience. Who gets the job will also depend on skin colour, gender and other factors of group identity. This is Canada’s federal public service, today.

A new study by the Aristotle Foundation reviewed 301 federal job postings across 59 departments, agencies and Crown corporations. Forty-two per cent prioritized, or potentially prioritized, applicants based on identity characteristics, while 4 per cent restricted, or potentially restricted, a candidate’s eligibility on the same basis.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion"

MORGAN: Land acknowledgements aren’t harmless — Canadians should push back

MORGAN: Land acknowledgements aren’t harmless — Canadians should push back

You just can’t escape it. At hockey games, city council meetings, school assemblies, and town hall meetings. You see it at the bottom of email signatures, and it’s even done at the beginning of monthly meetings of the rock and lapidary club I belong to (I stopped going to those meetings because of it). The prayer begins, and we are expected to bow our heads in observance and shame. Someone must recite that we are gathered on the traditional, ancestral, and frequently unceded territory of whichever nations the script committee selected this year. Then everyone nods, the real business begins, and nothing of consequence changes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue"

Premier Danielle Smith caught by tears during forum on Alberta referendum, grievances

Premier Danielle Smith caught by tears during forum on Alberta referendum, grievances

Premier Danielle Smith was overcome with emotion as she launched into speech at an online forum Saturday, tearfully relaying painful losses some Albertans have shared with her as she works to address grievances with Ottawa that have led to the Oct. 19 referendum question of separation from the country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta

The Harassment of the Holdout Lindsay Clancy Juror Sets a Dangerous Precedent

The Harassment of the Holdout Lindsay Clancy Juror Sets a Dangerous Precedent

Forget the Lindsay Clancy trial itself for a moment. Near the conclusion of the trial, Clancy’s lawyer began targeting and threatening the holdout juror. This was already the stuff of mistrial and disbarment, but it set the stage for the harassment of the juror by online conspiracy theorists, for the eventual exposure of his name and location, and for the media joining in that same behavior.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Justice"

‘Britain is a dangerous place for anyone who thinks independently’

‘Britain is a dangerous place for anyone who thinks independently’

Poll after poll tells the same story: Britons are losing faith in their country, trust in their institutions and hope for the future. And no wonder. The economy is stagnant, the social fabric is fraying and politicians appear powerless to act. Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens was sounding the alarm over Britain’s decline long before it was fashionable to do so. He recently joined Brendan O’Neill on his podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show, to discuss what has gone wrong, why and whether we might ever recover. What follows is an edited extract from the conversation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Can a civilization commit suicide?

Time to lower our elbows and make a deal

Time to lower our elbows and make a deal

Canada’s “elbows-up” approach to American tariffs has been unique among market-based economies. What have the EU, Japan, South Korea, U.K. and especially Mexico done differently and what lessons might we learn from them? Mexico has recently announced it wants to complete trade negotiations with the U.S. before the November midterms. That would leave Canada as a jilted bride.

The prime minister and the country obviously had a difficult hand to play in dealing with President Donald Trump — erratic, unreliable, crude and rude — and his clear desire to make Canada the 51st state rightfully angered Canadians.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Piddington migrant camp dealt another blow after discovery of one of world’s rarest bats at planned asylum site

Piddington migrant camp dealt another blow after discovery of one of world’s rarest bats at planned asylum site

The migrant camp set to be opened close to the Oxfordshire village of Piddington has been dealt another blow following the discovery that one of the world’s rarest bats is living on the site.

Barbastelle bats, a rare species of bats whose numbers are thought to have declined across Europe, have been detected by wildlife experts.

The discovery of the bats could lead to severe delays or scupper plans to house up to 1,256 asylum seekers on the Ministry of Defence (MoD) Bicester site.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints

BRULOTTE: The North Atlantic is a strategic front again — Canada is not ready

BRULOTTE: The North Atlantic is a strategic front again — Canada is not ready

For most of the generation that followed the Cold War, Canadians had the luxury of forgetting about the North Atlantic. The Soviet Union disappeared, NATO expanded eastward, and the waters between North America and Europe seemed less like a strategic front than a vast and secure highway connecting friendly countries. That comfortable assumption is now dangerously out of date.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Arctic Sovereignty", "CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Canadian Sovereignty", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trump considering ‘blowing up entire nation’ of Iran

Trump considering ‘blowing up entire nation’ of Iran

Donald Trump said he was considering “blowing up the entire nation” of Iran amid claims the US was preparing to resume military action against the regime.

The US president also suggested he could “let them rot economically”, as Tehran is squeezed by a naval blockade, or strike a peace deal.

Iran on Sunday said it was preparing for possible air strikes and threatened to retaliate. US embassies and the US state department issued security alerts this weekend amid fighting between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthis.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Why would Canada want to hitch itself to the EU?

Why would Canada want to hitch itself to the EU?

“Canada has what the world wants,” Mark Carney likes to tell people. But what does Canada want? The European Union, apparently. The bloc’s President, Ursula von der Leyen, has announced that Canada would become its first “associate member.” This is happening, she said, because “above all… Europe and Canada believe in democracy.”

Really? The EU spent years trying to block Brexit. And in 2015, when Greece voted to reject the conditions on EU loans, Brussels replied with even more stringent conditions. “There can be no democratic choice against the European treaties,” von der Leyen’s predecessor said at the time. But the rise of right-wing parties across Europe – most recently, the AfD’s election victory in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt – is proof many have lost confidence in the EU project.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, European Union