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God, guns and grievances: Alberta’s separatists make their case for independence

It’s barely 8 a.m. and Darcy Gerow is talking about tearing Alberta’s political system down to its very foundations.

Gerow, a podcaster and former deputy leader of the Libertarian Party of Canada, is addressing a crowd of Alberta separatists in a low-ceilinged conference room a few minutes’ drive from the Calgary airport. In his speech, called “the anarcho-capitalist case for Alberta,” he advocates for a system of government by the same name, which would privatize all aspects of society.

“The long-term goal is the complete replacement of state monopoly,” Gerow said.

by Blazingcatfur•October 15, 2026October 14, 2026•0•Alberta

Marine Le Pen says she would stop aid to Ukraine within six months of being elected and criticises Europe’s ‘energy war’ with Putin as polls put her ahead in French presidential race

France’s hard-Right candidate Marine Le Pen has accused Europe of waging a war over energy with Russia and vowed to stop funding Ukraine should she win next year’s presidential election.

Ms Le Pen, who is a front-runner in the polls, pledged to stop bilateral aid for Kyiv within six months, saying France can no longer afford it.

She claimed the ‘honest thing’ the EU should do would be to tell Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky it ‘can’t manage’ to financially support his cause any more.

by Blazingcatfur•October 15, 2026October 15, 2026•0•"Ukraine - Russia", Marine Le Pen

As Americans play ‘power game,’ draft document shows Canada-EU response

MONTREAL — Canada and the European Union are laying out concrete steps to strengthen ties around digital security, critical resources and a would-be fleet of Canadian water bombers, according to a draft joint statement ahead of a major summit at month’s end.

The document, seen by The Canadian Press, states that Ottawa and Brussels aim to let Canadian companies bid on cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure contracts typically reserved for European companies in another push away from dependence on the United States.

by Blazingcatfur•October 15, 2026October 15, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, European Union, USA

Trump calls off livestream for Fort Hood shooter’s execution by firing squad

US President Donald Trump has called off plans to livestream the execution of former US army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan by firing squad.

Trump had previously said he approved of showing online the death of the Fort Hood attacker, while Vice-President JD Vance cast doubt on whether it would happen and said he would not watch it.

As criticism over the public display mounted, Trump said on Thursday that “many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die”.

The West will need to be more Sparta less Athens soon.

by Blazingcatfur•October 15, 2026October 15, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

In Unreliable Boyfriend, Chrystia Freeland details the rift between her and Trudeau

In Unreliable Boyfriend, one-time finance minister and deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland digs into how her political relationship with Justin Trudeau went from a warm face-to-face invite into public service to a cold Zoom call where he booted her from the finance role years later.

While the book’s “unreliable boyfriend” is the United States under U.S. President Donald Trump, readers could be forgiven for thinking the title is actually inspired by Trudeau.

Polish that turd all you want it ain’t gonna smell better.

by Blazingcatfur•October 15, 2026October 15, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ukraine resumes attacks on Russian refineries, Zelenskyy says

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Thursday said that his country’s military had resumed strikes on Russian energy infrastructure despite US President Donald Trump’s insistence that such attacks stop.

Zelenskyy made the statement in an interview with London’s Financial Times (FT) newspaper, saying: “The block [on energy infrastructure attacks] is out. We’re done.”

The announcement came after Russia reported Ukrainian attacks on oil processing plants in Ryazan, where fire broke out, and Saratov.

That didn’t take long.

by Blazingcatfur•October 15, 2026October 15, 2026•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

AI is an ‘alien being’ and humanity is running out of time to adapt, says British-Canadian Nobel laureate

British-Canadian Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, often revered as the “Godfather of AI,” said AI is one of “three big revolutions where people ceased to be so important,” the others being Copernicanism — the understanding that planets revolve around the Sun, not the Earth — and Darwinism.

“Now we’re creating alien beings — meaning we’re not the only intelligent beings around,” the 78-year-old told The Guardian in a story published Tuesday. “And the reality is, we only have a couple of years to adapt to that.”

by Blazingcatfur•October 15, 2026October 14, 2026•0•"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Zelensky: I feel betrayed by Trump

Volodymyr Zelensky has said he feels that he has been betrayed by Donald Trump, and warned the US president was not acting on the “right side of history”.

“It is a pity that we are losing a strong partner,” the Ukrainian leader said on Wednesday amid an escalating public clash with his American counterpart.

Relations between Kyiv and the White House have sharply deteriorated after Mr Trump agreed on Friday to waive sanctions on Russia to import diesel.

by Blazingcatfur•October 15, 2026October 14, 2026•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

PM Carney Prepares Mass Immigration Push as India Floats 15M Workers Prospect

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is preparing the ground for another mass immigration push, despite the pressure Justin Trudeau’s open-door policies placed on housing, public services and Canadian workers.

Rather than abandoning the already flawed model that helped create the crisis, the Liberal Party is considering reviving it, while India’s High Commissioner to Canada has already floated the prospect of 15 million additional immigrant workers over the next decade.

by Blazingcatfur•October 15, 2026October 14, 2026•0•"Liberal Party Criminal Abuse Of Immigration Policy For Private & Political Gain", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Somali-born Ilhan Omar’s birthday ‘cover-up’ laid bare as Jeanine Pirro digs into her millions and feds subpoena her family

Ilhan Omar’s congressional staff pushed to change the Minnesota Democrat’s birthdate in official state records months after she won her seat in 2018, according to a bombshell new report.

The Somali-born congresswoman had been listed as born on October 4, 1981 by the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library throughout her time in the state House. Wikipedia and news outlets including the BBC carried the same date on her biography.

However, in May 2019, her aides asked the library to move the year forward to 1982, according to emails obtained by the New York Post.

by Blazingcatfur•October 15, 2026October 14, 2026•0•"Islamist Entryism", "Islamophobia", Islam, Islamization of the West, USA

Ford outlines plan to protect Ontario amid U.S. trade uncertainty

TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford told the Empire Club of Canada Wednesday that Ontario’s plan to protect the province is already producing results and that the province must treat U.S. tariffs as a permanent feature of the relationship with its largest trading partner.

Speaking at the club’s annual state-of-the-province event, Ford said Canada’s economic partnership with the United States “has changed permanently” and that the province needs to plan accordingly.

We’re done.

by Blazingcatfur•October 15, 2026October 14, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada, USA

Britain is Accelerating Towards Crisis

Something is going badly wrong across Western societies, and the sense of political dislocation is no longer a fringe concern. Trust in institutions has fallen, established political parties are losing support and arguments over immigration and national identity have become sharp dividing lines.

In Germany, the President now warns openly of a return to the political divisions of the Weimar era. In France, a protest movement that began in schools has spread across the country, bringing arson, mass arrests and violent clashes with riot police to cities from Strasbourg to Marseille. Across Europe, insurgent parties of Left and Right prosper on dissatisfaction with political systems that seem increasingly unable to correct themselves. Britain exhibits the same symptoms. The question is why governments confronted by such conditions so often appear to aggravate the problems rather than address their causes.

by Blazingcatfur•October 15, 2026October 14, 2026•0•Camp Of The Saints

If Canada’s population isn’t shrinking, our economic numbers aren’t so good after all

Just when we thought Canada’s population was falling by 0.5 per cent over the past year as of July – it turned out to be the other way around: it grew by that amount, as the improved counting of non-permanent residents revealed.

The latest upward revisions to population estimates by Statistics Canada are substantial enough to change the picture of our economy: The tiny bit of positivity we have had recently in our numbers may prove greatly exaggerated.

WTF?

This is literally mesmerizing…

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 14, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•October 15, 2026October 14, 2026•0•WTF?

Jamie Sarkonak: Supreme Court downplays ‘non-Indigenous legal traditions’ to enshrine sentencing circles

On Friday, in deciding the appeal of a part-Mi’kmaq man who brutally beat his Mi’kmaq girlfriend in the street, a majority of the Supreme Court of Canada declared that judges are now required to hear out what sentencing circles have to say in the sentencing of an Indigenous offender.

by Blazingcatfur•October 15, 2026October 14, 2026•0•WTF?