Blazingcatfur – Page 447

Thousands of ‘lost Karens’ have applied for dual citizenship – is Canada ready?

As the youngest of five children, Joe Boucher learned a lot from his older brothers and sister – how to ride a bike, how to navigate the miles of forest behind their house and how to skate and play hockey. But one thing he didn’t really pick up from them is how to speak French.

Although both of Boucher’s parents were of French-Canadian descent and spoke French with each other, it was once illegal to teach French in school in the US state of Maine, where the Bouchers lived. And so his siblings, amongst themselves, defaulted to English.

“Shame was heaped upon French speakers as being second-class citizens,” he recalls.

by Blazingcatfur•May 2, 2026May 2, 2026•0•Canada, USA, WTF?

What Took Us So Long to Learn About World War Eleven?

One of the jokes in high rotation in the late M. Stanton Evans’s repertoire involved a teleprompter miscue, a la Ron Burgundy in Anchorman, in which the newsreader discussed events concerning World War Eleven. Other listeners of the joke, I assume, also regarded it as of dubious origin, told to illustrate not a literal but a figurative truth, i.e., human evolution took a U-turn on intelligence several decades back.

by Blazingcatfur•May 2, 2026May 2, 2026•0•WTF?

Doug Ford says he hasn’t lost his way, despite recent backlash

Premier Doug Ford said Thursday he does not feel he’s lost touch with the average person, despite a backlash over a scrapped plan to buy a jet and new polling numbers showing his popularity declining.

“I’m in touch with the people on a daily basis,” Ford told CTV News Toronto in an exclusive interview.

He said no other politician “in the entire world” hands out his phone number to people as much as he does.

by Blazingcatfur•May 2, 2026May 2, 2026•0•Ontario, Ontario - Your Future Is Elsewhere

The War’s Severe Damage to Iran’s Economy Comes Into View

The economic toll of more than two months of war is visible in Iran, as a U.S. naval blockade and the effective halt of the Islamic Republic’s maritime trade triggers mounting pressure across the economy. The sharp depreciation of the Iranian rial is the clearest sign so far of a broader economic breakdown now unfolding.

On April 29, 2026, the U.S. dollar surged 12 percent against Iran’s national money in a single day to nearly 1.8 million rials, marking one of the steepest daily declines in the currency’s history. The rial had already lost 4 percent of its value between April 20—one week after the U.S. blockade began—and April 28, but the subsequent collapse suggests the currency crisis may be entering a more accelerated phase.

by Blazingcatfur•May 2, 2026May 1, 2026•0•"US Israel Iran War"

‘Denial of care’: Doctors worry about benefit seeking freeloaders as payment requirements take effect

‘Denial of care’: Doctors worry about refugees as payment requirements take effect

Refugees now have to pay out of pocket for part of their drug prescriptions, mental health counselling, dental services, vision care and health equipment — including wheelchairs — as changes to a federal program take effect.

For decades, Canada’s Interim Federal Health Program has provided complete health coverage to refugees and refugee claimants until they are eligible for provincial health plans and benefits.

But starting Friday, they must pay $4 for every prescription and 30 per cent of the cost of supplemental health products and services.

Remigration is the answer.

Be nice if our medicos cared as much for citizens.

by Blazingcatfur•May 2, 2026May 2, 2026•0•"Liberal Party Criminal Abuse Of Immigration Policy For Private & Political Gain", "Remigration"

To the Trump Administration: Beware the So-Called Moderates

No one since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 has read the Iranian regime better than US President Donald J. Trump. Despite the criticism from commentators, the opposition party, social media voices, and members of the foreign policy establishment, no political leader has understood Tehran’s methods more clearly, or acted against them with greater decisiveness. Many negotiated with Iran’s regime. Many hoped it would change. Trump recognized a central truth that others have either ignored or refused to confront: the Iranian regime survives by deception, delay, and the constant purchase of time.

by Blazingcatfur•May 2, 2026May 2, 2026•0•"US Israel Iran War"

This Researcher Thinks Canada Is an Easy Target for the CCP

As a NATO member and U.S. ally, Canada is a natural target for Beijing’s overseas influence operations, according to Peter Mattis, China expert and president of the U.S.-based think tank The Jamestown Foundation.

However, Canada is particularly vulnerable, Matti says, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) views it as an easy target for several reasons.

One factor is a lack of strong controls against CCP interference in Canada, Mattis said in an interview with Jan Jekielek, senior editor and host of The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 2, 2026May 2, 2026•0•"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada in decline", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Cuba says Trump’s fresh sanctions on its economy amount to ‘collective punishment’

Cuba’s government has said new sanctions imposed on the island by Donald Trump amounted to “collective punishment”, as an enormous 1 May procession outside the American embassy in Havana vowed to “defend the homeland”.

In an executive order on Friday, the US president said he would impose sanctions on people involved in broad sections of the Cuban economy, as he seeks to put more pressure on Havana after ousting Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, earlier this year.

The latest sanctions constituted “collective punishment” of the nation’s people, said Cuba’s foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez. “We firmly reject the recent unilateral coercive measures adopted by the #UnitedStates government,” he posted on X in English.

by Blazingcatfur•May 2, 2026May 2, 2026•0•Cuba, USA

Why the families of Tumbler Ridge shooting victims may face ‘difficult’ issues with OpenAI lawsuits

The families of victims of the Tumbler Ridge, B.C., school shooting who are suing OpenAI could face some significant legal hurdles in their attempt to hold the artificial intelligence company partially responsible for the attack.

“As with so much in AI, the lawsuit takes us into unchartered territory,” said Robin Feldman, director of the AI Law & Innovation Institute at UC Law San Francisco.

Feldman said there a number of legal issues that the court will have to grapple with that will be “difficult for the plaintiffs,” who allege OpenAI failed to warn police about the shooter’s interactions with the company’s chatbot ChatGPT.

by Blazingcatfur•May 2, 2026May 2, 2026•0•"Mass Shooting"

Nolte: Transvestite ‘Animal Farm’ Star Demands Men Be Allowed in Women’s Sports

Laverne Cox, a transvestite and one of the stars of the pro-Communist, anti-Trump Animal Farm, is demanding that men be allowed to participate in women’s sports.

Here’s his rationale…

I didn’t need another reason to avoid this crappy abuse of Animal Farm.

by Blazingcatfur•May 2, 2026May 2, 2026•0•Hollywood

‘Destroyed in less than a year’: Granville St. SRO resident wants public to see conditions

As the province prepares to close the Luugat single-room occupancy (SRO) building on Vancouver’s Granville Street by the end of June, it appears BC Housing doesn’t want the public to see inside the former hotel that taxpayers paid millions of dollars to convert to supportive housing during COVID.

“I’m happy to get out of there,” Luugat resident Stewart Holcombe said with a chuckle Friday.

How was this allowed to happen?

by Blazingcatfur•May 2, 2026May 2, 2026•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", WTF?

Some pro-Palestinian protests could be banned amid attacks on British Jews

Some pro-Palestinian demonstrations could be stopped, the prime minister has warned, as the UK’s most senior police officer said the threat to the Jewish community was greater than it had ever been.

Keir Starmer indicated he wanted the language expressed on some protest marches to be subjected to “tougher action” as he sought to allay the fears of British Jews after a series of attacks on their communities in recent weeks.

“When you see, when you hear some of those chants – ‘globalise the intifada’ the one that I would pick out – then clearly there should be tougher action in relation to that,” Starmer told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

I doubt GB has the means or the will to ban the Islamist marches.

by Blazingcatfur•May 2, 2026May 2, 2026•0•"Oct 7 2023"

Canada Now Officially A 3rd World Shithole State

🚨BREAKING – Fraudulent Nigerian medical graduates in Canada causing real harm.

Months-long undercover investigation in Africa by @BezirganMocha uncovers fraud, corruption – and Canadian patients in Canada suffering at the hands of unqualified imported medical personnel from… https://t.co/qb2ZmIfuAk

— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) May 2, 2026

I pray they’re wrong. h/t Patti Jo

by Blazingcatfur•May 2, 2026May 2, 2026•0•"Immigration from incompatible cultures"

U.S Troop Withdrawal Expands Yawning Rift Between U.S. and Europe

BERLIN—German officials shrugged off President Trump’s decision to withdraw 5,000 U.S. troops from the country as symbolic, but analysts warned the broader trans-Atlantic rift risks leaving Europe’s economy and security dangerously exposed.

Trump’s latest increase in tariffs on European cars, his apparent U-turn on plans to station long-range missiles in Germany and the economic and military fallout from the war in Iran will have a bigger impact on the region, they warned.

“All of these are a bigger deal than a symbolic 5K-troop reduction,” said Thorsten Benner, director of the Global Public Policy Institute, a Berlin security think tank. “So is the rapid depletion of U.S. arsenals due to wasting enormous amounts of precious assets in the Iran war.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 2, 2026May 2, 2026•0•Europe, USA

Trump’s trade czar tells Canadians that ‘America First’ is policy, not a slogan: sources

United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Canadians looking for insights into the future of bilateral trade this week that “America First” is policy, not a slogan, and they should not expect a return to the way things were.

Sources who attended a roundtable with U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade czar in Washington on Wednesday told The Canadian Press that Greer was measured and pragmatic as he laid out the administration’s policy goals ahead of the coming review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico-Agreement on trade, better known as CUSMA.

by Blazingcatfur•May 2, 2026May 1, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"