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John Ivison: Canada has the capacity to do more to arm Ukraine, so why hasn’t it?

OTTAWA — There will be many prayers offered up this Christmas that the guns fall silent across Ukraine in the New Year.

But let’s hope that any peace is prompted by Russia’s realization that it cannot win, rather than because the Ukrainians have run out of ammunition.

The latter is a very real prospect. As retired Australian Major Gen. Mick Ryan wrote last week in an influential Twitter thread: “In 2023, the Ukrainian army may run out of munitions before it runs out of fight. Based on current usage of ammunition in the war, production of munitions is increasingly lagging battlefield needs.”

#Ukraine: A Ukrainian 9A310M1 TELAR of the Buk-M1 air-defense system was destroyed by a Russian Lancet loitering munition in Oleksandrivka, #Kherson Oblast. pic.twitter.com/8bI8tl2FRl

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) December 20, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Idaho cops may finally have lead in student murders as they probe abandoned white Hyundai

Idaho police are investigating a white Hyundai Elantra found abandoned in Oregon for a possible link to the unsolved slayings of four college students last month.

Aware that Moscow, Idaho, officials were on the lookout for a vehicle fitting that description, Eugene police called the department to alert them to the car, which was badly damaged and had no license plates.

Idaho police have appealed for help finding a white 2011-2013 model Elantra seen in the “immediate area” of the off-campus home where the friends were stabbed to death in the early hours of Nov. 13

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•Crime

Ottawa approves purchase of 16 F-35 jets worth $7B: sources

The Department of National Defence recently received quiet approval to spend $7 billion on 16 F-35 fighter jets and related gear.

Two defence sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss matters not yet made public, said a funding request sent to the Treasury Board got the green light earlier this month.

The Canadian Press also viewed a document summarizing this request to Treasury Board, which is the department that controls the federal purse strings, and independently verified its accuracy.

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•Canada

Unmitigated Gall: Trudeau says ‘it sucks’ when ethics breaches occur, but system is working

On the heels of the latest confirmed ethics breach within his cabinet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says, while “it sucks” when such cases of improper conduct arise, the fact the public knows about them is a sign the system is working.

“We have a system that has the kind of accountability and transparency that works and that is clear to reassure Canadians that if someone is taking advantage of the system — either deliberately or by accident — they’ll get caught and called out on it. And that’s an example of the institutions working,” Trudeau said in a year-end conversation with Chief News Anchor and Senior Editor of CTV National News Omar Sachedina, airing in full on Dec. 31.

“Now, from my perspective, it sucks. Because you don’t want people to be making mistakes, you want people to be able to focus on delivering good things for Canadians.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

WTF?

Apparently people are using emoji pronouns like “🐶” in place of words

This is the content kids are consuming on TikTok pic.twitter.com/XUHlqoWFDw

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 16, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•WTF?

Reader Fave Christmas Carols – Day 5!

Welcome to Day 5 of Reader Fave Carols. A nice selection as usual tonight. Enjoy and leave your faves in the comments, we’ll play them in the run up to the Big Day.

Thanks!

For KING & COUNTRY – Little Drummer Boy – from ElephantInTheThread

Dear Nuala – 12 Days of Christmas – From Frances

And … Huron Carol (Twas In the Moon of Wintertime) – Prairie Rose Rangers

Also… Susan Boyle – In the Bleak Midwinter

Maoz Tzur (Rock of Ages) – from Norman in New York

And… Beethoven, 12 Variations on “See the Conquering Hero Comes” from Handel’s “Judas Maccabeus.”

Francesca Battistelli – “Heaven Everywhere” – from kiki982

Boney M. – Mary’s Boy Child – from very old white guy

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•Christmas

Can Jeremy Clarkson’s critics take a joke?

There is always a tipping point in Twitterstorms. A moment at which the digital hysteria over something somebody said becomes far more offensive, and far more dangerous, than what that person said.

You can feel when it happens, when the shift takes place, when it is the behaviour of the howling mob that becomes the truly shameful and anti-social thing, far more than the utterance that so outraged the mob in the first place.

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•"Woke Royals"

Chilled – On lack of heat and other essentials

The Guardian newspaper recently ran a story about a library in Suffolk where, among others, “young families, restaurant workers and a former NHS cleaner” were taking refuge from the cold. They couldn’t afford to heat their homes because energy prices have risen so steeply in the last few months. Such “warm banks”—that is to say, heated public spaces where people may go to keep warm—are springing up everywhere.

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•"Energy Matters"

January 6 committee: What’s next for Trump legally and politically

Donald Trump should be charged with crimes related to the assault on the US Capitol, according to the congressional committee investigating the 6 January, 2021 attack.

The committee claimed the former president instigated the attack by his supporters and provided “aid and comfort” to the rioters in violation of multiple federal laws. “None of the events of January 6 would have happened without him,” the summary of its final report says.

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•Trump Derangement Syndrome

China’s Deal with Saudi Arabia is a Disaster for Biden

Nothing better illustrates the utter ineptitude of the Biden administration’s dealings with the Middle East than Saudi Arabia’s decision to forge a strategic alliance with China.

This is a time when Washington should be working overtime to strengthen its ties with long-standing allies like the Saudis to combat the mounting threat Iran poses to the region’s security.

Apart from the deeply alarming progress the ayatollahs are said to be making with their efforts to produce nuclear weapons.

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Saudi Arabia, USA

Sudden Jihad Syndrome?

Woman arrested after six people assaulted on TTC subway

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•WTF?

What is the mysterious Aspen Institute and why did it hold a Hunter Biden ‘exercise’?

A US government-funded nonprofit known as “the mountain retreat for the liberal elite” sponsored a “tabletop exercise” intended to influence coverage of a leak of documents related to Hunter Biden, the latest installment of Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” reveals.

In a series of tweets Monday, independent journalist Michael Shellenberger posted confidential documents from the Aspen Institute’s September 2020 event, which he said was attended by Twitter’s then-head of trust and safety, Facebook’s head of security policy and top national security reporters from The New York Times and The Washington Post.

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•WTF?

8 teen girls charged after alleged ‘swarming’ attack in downtown Toronto that left man dead

Eight teenage girls, some as young as 13 years old, have been charged in connection with a “swarming” attack in downtown Toronto that left a man dead on Sunday.

Toronto police said it happened in the area of York Street and University Avenue at around 12:17 a.m.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday afternoon, Det. Sgt. Terry Browne from the homicide unit said paramedics were flagged down by a group of individuals in the area and notified them about a man that had been assaulted.