Author: Blazingcatfur

Canada’s China Class At Work: Pension Funds Invested In Communist China’s Slave State

Could your pension plan be funding human-rights abuses in China?

At least three federal and six provincial pension funds in Canada are investing in Chinese companies complicit in human rights abuses in Xinjiang, a new report alleges.

Pension funds in a number of western countries have also invested in companies involved in a Chinese government labour-transfer program accused of subjecting the country’s Uyghur minority to forced labour or internment, according to the report by U.K.-based human rights organization Hong Kong Watch, in collaboration with Prof. Laura Murphy at Sheffield Hallam University.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State"

Cold and dark: Kyiv readies for ‘worst winter of our lives’

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When the power is out, as it so often is, the high-rise apartment overlooking Ukraine’s war-torn capital feels like a deathtrap. No lights, no water, no way to cook food. And the risk of not being able to escape from the 21st floor in time should a Russian missile strike. Even when electricity comes back, it’s never on for long.

“Russian strikes are plunging Ukraine into the Stone Age,” says Anastasia Pyrozhenko. In a recent 24-hour spell, her 26-story high-rise only had power for half an hour. She says the “military living conditions” have driven her and her husband from their apartment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

CSIS head advised Trudeau to invoke Emergencies Act during convoy, inquiry hears

… David Vigneault, the head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told the Public Order Emergencies Commission about his advice to the prime minister during a closed-door interview earlier this month, according to an unclassified summary.

That summary, released on Monday morning, said Vigneault did not believe the convoy posed a national security threat under the CSIS Act but that invoking the Emergencies Act was still necessary.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Univ. of Idaho killer was ‘sloppy,’ left ‘mess’ of evidence, victim’s family says

The investigation into the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students is slow and painstaking because the killer was “sloppy” and left a “mess” of evidence behind, according to the parents of a victim.

Steve and Kristi Goncalves, whose daughter Kaylee was one of the four students killed at an off-campus house on Nov. 13, said they’ve been told by police that examining the chaotic crime scene will take time.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Toronto police board says renowned gunsmith killed in raid was ‘author of his own misfortune’

The Toronto Police Services Board says the renowned gunsmith who died in a police raid just over a year ago “was the author of his own misfortune” in a recently filed statement of defence.

The statement, filed on Sept. 2, is in response to a $23 million lawsuit filed by Rodger Kotanko’s family, which alleges an “unlawful” raid led to his “wrongful death.”

An officer shot the 70-year-old while executing a search warrant on Nov. 3, 2021 at his gunsmithing workshop in Ontario’s Norfolk County.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Shamima Begum trafficked by ISIS to Syria for sexual exploitation, court hears

Shamima Begum, who left the UK for Syria as a teenager to join the Islamic State group, was a victim of human trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation, a court has heard.

Ms Begum travelled to Syria in 2015, with her citizenship stripped on national security grounds in 2019.

A five-day immigration hearing is considering a new attempt to challenge the removal of her UK citizenship.

The Home Office insists she continues to pose a threat to national security.

Bullshit.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Looking back at Canada’s plan to tax the unvaccinated

Back in January of this year, the Canadian province of Quebec announced a plan to impose a tax on the unvaccinated. Officials there claimed that most of the impacts on the healthcare system were being caused by unvaccinated people and that the vaccinated should not be made to shoulder the costs. The following month, after a large outcry from the public, the plan was scrapped. But the government never gave up on the idea entirely. Some are still suggesting that the plan could be retooled and brought up for consideration again.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Canada

Did drugs, fake money and office ‘sleepovers’ cause crypto’s $32bn blow-up?

As the sun beat down on the Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas, Sam Bankman-Fried was living his very best life.

On stage and before an invited audience, Sam was in his usual work attire of trainers, shorts and a T-shirt, but Tony Blair tried to put the founder at ease. “I’m feeling a little overdressed here,” Blair assured him. Between them, the former US president Bill Clinton chuckled.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency", Crime

Michael Taube: Recession is coming, but Trudeau keeps spending like the good times will never end

Every world leader has a favoured set of ideas, policies and programs. When times are good, their preferred strategies can be employed on a regular basis. If economic conditions change and a country’s political direction needs to make a dramatic shift, that same leader has to pivot and be flexible in his or her approach. Unless we’re talking about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Those time-honoured political traditions somehow don’t apply to him.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Russian Conscripts Have ‘No Clue What to Do’ in Ukraine: Soldier’s Wife

Stories continue to emerge suggesting that new Russian military conscripts are being deployed to the frontlines in Ukraine without adequate training.

Amid ongoing and increasingly significant military failures in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a partial mobilization order in late September, the country’s first since World War II. The stated goal was to draft 300,000 men into service, though the last figure given by officials was 220,000 before the mobilization was concluded.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Haitian political parties must all agree to Canadian military intervention, says Trudeau

Canadian military intervention in Haiti can’t happen unless all political parties in the troubled nation agree to it, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday.

Trudeau was speaking from Tunisia where leaders of French-speaking governments and international organizations held a roundtable on Haiti on the final day of the two-day Francophonie summit.

NO.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Haiti, WTF?

Biden Pushes ‘Assault Weapons‘ Ban After Gay Nightclub Shooting

President Joe Biden pushed an “assault weapons” ban in response to the Club Q shooting that occurred Saturday night in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Breitbart News reported that the 911 calls about the shooting were placed just before midnight Saturday, and KOAA noted the incident ended when the suspect was subdued and disarmed by patrons.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden"

NATO secretary general says alliance must prepare for ‘long haul’ in Ukraine

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance needs to reinvigorate its military capacity in order to support Ukraine for the “long haul.”

In an interview Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live, Stoltenberg said the alliance had depleted much of its own supplies of weapons and ammunition and would need to work with industry to “ramp up production” in order to continue its support of Ukraine.

He also told CBC chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton that alliance states needed to be ready to pay some price, in the form of higher energy costs and other economic fallout, in order to bolster Ukraine’s defence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Defence minister insists Canada is prepared to face evolving global threats provided they are no more complex than gum chewing and walking

National Defence Minister Anita Anand insists Canada is ready to handle evolving global threats, after missile explosions in Poland prompted concerns about Russia’s war in Ukraine spilling into a NATO country, a tense interaction between the prime minister and China’s president was caught on video, North Korea tested a ballistic missile, and a new report from Canada’s auditor general states there’s a lack of preparedness to properly survey the Arctic, this week.

In an interview with CTV’s Question Period with Joyce Napier, airing Sunday, Anand said it’s vital Canada “be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Ukraine says negotiating with Russia would be ‘capitulation’: Zelensky’s presidential advisor condemns West’s ‘bizarre’ attempts to persuade them to enter peace talks

The West’s attempts to persuade Ukraine to negotiate with Moscow are ‘bizarre’ and amount to asking for its capitulation, a key adviser to the Ukrainian presidency has declared.

‘When you have the initiative on the battlefield, it’s slightly bizarre to receive proposals like: ”you will not be able to do everything by military means anyway, you need to negotiate,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s adviser Mykhaylo Podolyak.

This would mean that the country ‘that recovers its territories, must capitulate to the country that is losing,’ he added during an interview in the presidency building in Kyiv this week.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"