Blazingcatfur – Page 43

Caucus a ‘fractured mess’ as Poilievre gathers Conservatives in B.C.: source

$Caucus a ‘fractured mess’ as Poilievre gathers Conservatives in B.C.: source$

CALGARY — As he gathers his caucus in B.C. this week, Pierre Poilievre faces a tall order: unite factions and find a way to punch through in Parliament this fall, according to a number of sources who spoke to CTV News.

Federal Conservatives from across the country meet in Penticton Wednesday and Thursday, before heading back to Ottawa later this month.

Speaking to CTV News on background ahead of the retreat, one caucus source described the group as a “fractured mess,” saying many members view the event as a sort of vacation from their ridings, after working hard at home this summer, worried about losing their seats.

by Blazingcatfur•September 17, 2026September 17, 2026•0•Conservative Party

Uncontrolled AI could lead to ‘silicon species’ rivalling humans, warns Microsoft

The head of Microsoft AI has warned that without adequate safeguards, the development of AI could lead to the emergence of a new “silicon species” which competes with humans.

Mustafa Suleyman said rival firm Anthropic is treating AI like it is human, an approach he called “misguided” which could create technology that humanity cannot control.

Speaking to the BBC’s Today programme, the chief executive said it was “right” for people to be concerned about AI, but there were “very practical things that we can do” to control it.

by Blazingcatfur•September 17, 2026September 17, 2026•0•"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

James Stranko: Dear Canada, Americans still love you but please stop insulting us

Toronto FC fans recently booed the American national anthem, the same way Canadians across the country have done countless times over the past 18 months. We get it, you’re mad.

But consider this week, when the Barenaked Ladies will perform “O Canada” at the Buffalo Bills home opener. In contrast, I can confidently predict that the crowd will sing along and erupt in cheers. Unlike Canadians, Americans don’t currently boo Canada’s national anthem or angle a political dig into a conversation about the weather. Many Canadians do this, and for the ones who do, it’s sort of all they do these days.

With 45% of the population foreign born or recently descendant of the foreign born there will be no turning back.

Our elites deliberately imported 3rd World migrants who hate the USA as much as they do while our so called education system indoctrinates the same attitudes in the young.

Roosevelt called us the “Aerodrome of Democracy” future presidents may simply refer to us as the enemy at the gate.

by Blazingcatfur•September 17, 2026September 17, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada, USA

Canada’s great European misadventure

Canada, understandably, has no interest in becoming the 51st state, but becoming the honorary 28th member of the European Union would be foolhardy.

On Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen invited Canada with great fanfare to become the bloc’s first “associate member.” The arrangement is intended to reorient Ottawa from Washington toward Brussels by integrating manufacturing, technology, security and energy. Details will be negotiated at a summit next month.

by Blazingcatfur•September 17, 2026September 17, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, European Union

Iceland and Norway keep saying no to Europe. We should, too

It was smiles, applause and handshakes all around on Wednesday in Strasbourg as Mark Carney sat in on EU President Ursula von der Leyen’s “state of the union” address, in which she floated the idea of Canada becoming the EU’s first “associate member,” whatever that means. But let’s not get carried away by all the well-wishing and good fellowship. The EU is a bloc that sensible countries like Iceland and Norway keep refusing to join. They already have the market access Carney wants and live right next door to the regulators he is courting, and yet they have repeatedly rejected closer integration.

In August, Icelanders voted 52.8 per cent against restarting accession talks that were abandoned more than a decade ago. Turnout was high at 82.5 per cent and the question was not membership but simply whether to reopen negotiations. And still the voters said no.

A word from VDH

by Blazingcatfur•September 17, 2026September 17, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, European Union

Why Ilhan Omar can’t be kicked out of the US for marrying brother: Immigration officials

Oh, brother!

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s marriage to her alleged brother won’t get her kicked out of the US, but other matters in her immigration file might, sources told The Post.

In 2009, Omar wed self-described ‘dirty dandy’ Ahmed Elmi, a UK national long rumored to be her brother. But the federal probe into Somalia-born Omar’s past is more likely to focus on how she became as US citizen as a teenager and paperwork filed by her father.

by Blazingcatfur•September 17, 2026September 17, 2026•0•Camp Of The Saints, USA

In nod to Trump, Carney says Canada, Europe aren’t ‘fair-weather allies’ in EU speech

Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling for a “deeper partnership” between Canada and Europe in order to hedge against great powers encroaching on the sovereignty of smaller nations.

“Together, Canada and the European Union can anchor our ground to hold our values while forming a protective canopy under which our citizens can thrive,” Carney said in an address to the European Parliament on Thursday morning.

I’ll feel so much safer in EU hands!

by Blazingcatfur•September 17, 2026September 17, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, European Union

Lena Dunham announces birth of first baby via surrogacy

Lena Dunham, creator of the hit TV series Girls, has welcomed her first child with husband Luis Felber via a surrogate.

The writer and actress announced the birth of her daughter in an op-ed published by Vogue on Wednesday, where she wrote she was “bashful and dizzy with joy”.

Dunham, 40, has spoken publicly about her struggles with fertility and chronic illness, and grief around her dreams of motherhood after undergoing a hysterectomy when she was 31 years old.

by Blazingcatfur•September 17, 2026September 17, 2026•0•WTF?

Canada’s Europe pivot worries US senators amid trade war

OTTAWA — US lawmakers from both parties are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada, with one Republican senator warning Ottawa’s growing relationship with Europe could make it harder to repair ties with Washington.

Republican Maine Senator Susan Collins and Democratic Delaware Senator Chris Coons spoke with CBC News Washington correspondent Katie Simpson as frustration with the Canada-U.S. trade dispute grows on Capitol Hill.

by Blazingcatfur•September 17, 2026September 16, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Democrats Admit They Want To Bring Third-Worlders To America To Put Them On Welfare

ew York City’s socialist-in-chief, Zohran Mamdani, announced Monday that the Big Apple will lead a new lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging a rule that would expand the list of public benefits under which immigration officials can deny green cards to immigrants who are “likely at any time to become a public charge,” that is, to take advantage of welfare benefits. The programs that would be included in the new rule include SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) and WIC (Women, Infants, and Children).

by Blazingcatfur•September 17, 2026September 16, 2026•0•Camp Of The Saints, USA

Offer to Ottawa opens EU can of worms

Ursula von der Leyen’s proposal to make Canada the EU’s first-ever “associate member” risks stoking political tensions with EU candidate countries that have been waiting for progress towards full membership for years.

On Thursday morning, Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, is set to take the podium in the European Parliament following von der Leyen’s pitch.

His predecessor, Justin Trudeau, did so twice already, in 2017 and 2022. Yet this time, the scene is different.

Carney of the EU makes speech!

The alliance between Canada and Europe is not defined by what we oppose. It is about what we are for: freedom, solidarity, prosperity, sustainability. An alliance strong enough so that no one can dictate our choices.

Europe and Canada are each strong. Europe and Canada are even… pic.twitter.com/RW85Z0EauJ

— Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) September 17, 2026

BBC feed of Carney’s speech

by Blazingcatfur•September 17, 2026September 17, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, European Union

EU wheels out its Miss Havisham, dressed all in white and truly deranged

Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, began her sixth state of the Union address in Strasbourg by invoking the spirit of Charles Dickens. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” she quoted from the start of A Tale of Two Cities, adding: “If I look at Europe today, I would say the state of our union is the strongest it has ever been. The state of our union can feel as precarious as it has ever been.”

by Blazingcatfur•September 17, 2026September 16, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, European Union

Canada’s ‘associate’ EU membership a new title, but an old idea

It is a novel title, but not a new idea.

And it’s not one that has been universally appreciated.

Associate membership in the European Union, as was proposed Wednesday by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, would be another Canadian first.

by Blazingcatfur•September 17, 2026September 16, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, European Union

Illegal immigrant filmed screaming ‘f**k Trump, Biden forever’ during arrest is deported back to his native Haiti

A Haitian illegal immigrant who went viral for a video of him shouting ‘Biden forever’ and ‘F*** Trump’ when he was arrested has been deported back to his homeland.

Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles, 25, was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Boston in January. Authorities said the illegal migrant had a lengthy rap sheet of at least 17 convictions.

An alleged member of the Back Block Money Gang, Charles’ convictions included assault on a public employee, resisting arrest, possession of controlled substances and carrying a dangerous weapon.

The Haitian gang member who screamed "F–k Trump, Biden forever!" and "I'm not going back to Haiti!" …. is now back in Haiti.

DHS confirms to Fox News that Wisteguens Jean Quely Chargles was deported Thursday, 19 months after his arrest.

Sources tell @BillMelugin_ he was… pic.twitter.com/RyU71X8702

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 15, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•September 17, 2026September 16, 2026•0•Camp Of The Saints, USA

Taxpayer group calls for Carney to cut the cord on CBC, Senate, past GGs

PENTICTON, B.C. — Canada’s leading taxpayers’ watchdog is calling on the Carney government to make about $60-billion in annual spending cuts, including the end of taxpayer support for corporations, the CBC, the Senate and expense accounts for past governors general.

In its pre-budget recommendations to the federal government, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) also calls for slashing the costs of the federal bureaucracy and Parliament itself as part of a plan to make government more affordable and to reduce the costs of the fast-growing federal debt.

by Blazingcatfur•September 17, 2026September 16, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government