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‘Despicable’ and ‘abhorrent’: Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson testifies at Emergencies Act inquiry

The behaviour from the so-called “Freedom Convoy” protesters in February was “despicable” and “abhorrent,” Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson told the Emergencies Act inquiry on Tuesday.

Watson is spending the day providing his long-awaited testimony on municipal efforts to handle the three-week demonstration, after his chief of staff and Ottawa’s city manager appeared Monday.

“We had some people dancing on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. We had other people urinating at Cenotaph. We had a group that went and stole meals from the (homeless shelter) Shepherds of Good Hope,” Watson said.

by Blazingcatfur•October 18, 2022October 18, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Freeland apologizes for saying Africans must be ‘prepared to die for their democracy’ … makes pathetic ass of herself doing so

“If a white western person has offended someone, the first answer is to say, ‘I really didn’t mean to offend you.’”

Her initial comment was fine, her patronizing “apology” was racist.

There’s no bullshit quite like White Liberal Woman Bullshit.

by Blazingcatfur•October 18, 2022October 18, 2022•0•"Peak Virtue Signalling", "Peak Woke", "White Guilt"

‘This is an emergency’: David Suzuki addresses profanity-laden climate rant

The Canadian government’s baby steps toward addressing the climate crisis are “embarrassing,” famed environmentalist David Suzuki said Monday while expanding on the profanity-laden criticism he launched during a federal announcement last week.

“We are the only one of the G7 nations that hasn’t reduced our greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels,” Suzuki told CTV News Channel’s Power Play.

Down Under blunder: David Suzuki unmasked as a know-nothing huckster on Australian TV

by Blazingcatfur•October 18, 2022October 17, 2022•0•Green-Scam

Images emerge of mangled Nord Stream: 165ft of blown-up Baltic Sea gas pipe is ‘either missing or buried under the seabed’

Extraordinary first images of a mangled Nord Stream pipeline have emerged, three weeks after it was blown up ‘with extreme force’ in a suspected act of sabotage.

Footage, released on Tuesday, showed at least 165 feet of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline was destroyed or buried under the seabed, following an explosion on September 26 – assumed by many to have been a Russian attack.

Release of the images came as Danish police said ‘powerful explosions’ were behind damage to the two gas pipelines (Nord Stream 1 and 2) in the Danish part of the Baltic Sea. On October 6, Swedish investigators said their own initial investigations had come to a similar conclusion.

by Blazingcatfur•October 18, 2022October 18, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

John Ivison: Emergencies Act inquiry uncovers government failure at every level

Anyone wondering why public trust in government has tanked should review the testimony of Ottawa’s city manager at the inquiry into the federal government’s use of emergency legislation last winter. Residents and businesses were casualties of almost encyclopedic misjudgments by police, the city, the province and the federal government.

Trust in government tanked long before the Convoy arrived on the scene. It was the symptom.

by Blazingcatfur•October 18, 2022October 17, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Afghan woman hangs herself to avoid being stoned to death in public by Taliban

An Afghan woman has hanged herself to avoid being stoned to death in public by Taliban forces after she was accused of running off with a married man.

The 24-year-old woman, named locally as Salima, was caught with the married man by the Taliban after she ran away from her home in Ghor Province, central Afghanistan, on October 10.

Salima, who was also married, was sentenced to death for adultery and was due to be stoned on Friday, while her lover, identified locally as Sirajuddin, was shot dead by the Taliban.

by Blazingcatfur•October 18, 2022October 17, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence

Four years after legalization, illegal cannabis market still thriving in Canada

While Canada marks four years of legal cannabis on Monday, industry observers are wondering why it’s taken so long for a legal, government-regulated weed marketplace to overtake the illicit market.

During the 2015 federal election campaign, cannabis legalization for the Trudeau Liberals was framed as a means to protect young people from an entrenched and dangerous criminal black market.

by Blazingcatfur•October 18, 2022October 17, 2022•0•Marijuana

“Canadian Man”

Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi gets 20-year sentence for recruiting Islamic State fighters

Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi – Muslim Terrorist

A Canadian national who lived in southern California was sentenced to 20 years in U.S. prison on Monday for helping at least a half-dozen Canadians and Americans join the Islamic State group in Syria in 2013 and 2014 — including the first known American to die fighting for the militant organization.

Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi directly funded “violent acts of terrorism,” including the kidnapping and killing of people in Syria, said U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman in a statement.

by Blazingcatfur•October 18, 2022October 17, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

NDP ‘Greedflation’ motion calling for grocery pricing probe gets unanimous support from MPs

An NDP motion calling on the federal government to take steps to tackle “greedflation,” and investigate grocery chain profits, received unanimous support from MPs on Monday.

The motion called out grocery store giants for making “massive profits in the last year,” while the cost of groceries keeps rising. It also calls on the government to “recognize that corporate greed is a significant driver of inflation, and to take further action to support families during this cost-of-living crisis.”

I don’t like our corporate class for lots of reasons and I especially despise the grocery barons who conspired to literally steal bread from the mouths of children for 14 years.

No one went to jail because Canada is as corrupt as a Banana Republic.

Nothing will come of this NDP grand standing.

by Blazingcatfur•October 18, 2022October 17, 2022•0•Canada

How a plan to end the convoy protest came together — and why it failed

Ottawa city manager Steve Kanellakos revealed new details Monday about a last-ditch agreement between police, protesters and politicians to move trucks out of residential areas and onto Wellington Street during last winter’s convoy protest in the capital — a deal that would ultimately fall apart just days before the federal government gave police special powers to end the occupation.

Kanellakos was testifying on the third day of the Public Order Emergency Commission, which was triggered when the Emergencies Act was invoked on Feb. 14.

by Blazingcatfur•October 18, 2022October 17, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Pentagon equity chief praises book calling 9/11 first responders ‘menaces’ as she pushes for ‘revolution’

A self-described “woke” Pentagon equity chief, who is currently under probe over anti-White tweets uncovered by Fox News Digital, recommended a “social justice” book for classrooms which called 9/11 first responders “menaces.”

Kelisa Wing is a diversity, equity and inclusion chief at the Pentagon’s education wing – the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA). She is involved in curriculum at DoDEA, which services over 60,000 military-connected children at 160 schools around the globe, according to a press release announcing her position in December 2021.

by Blazingcatfur•October 18, 2022October 17, 2022•0•Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists

President Xi can’t bank on young couples to bear China a healthier future

Ruling party highlights declining birthrate but potential parents are imbued with spirit of defiance

At one point during Shanghai’s long pandemic lockdown in the spring, police arrived on the doorstep of a young couple and ordered them to go to a quarantine facility for several days, even though neither of them was infected with the coronavirus.

The punishment for failing to comply would affect not only them but their future children and grandchildren, an officer said.

Calmly, the husband replied: “I am sorry, we are the last generation. Thank you.”

by Blazingcatfur•October 18, 2022October 17, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Poll: 64 Percent of Americans Blame ‘Woke Politicians’ for Crime Spike

The fact that a majority of Democrats aren’t just ceding that “wokeness” is a problem in the abstract, but that it’s directly responsible for one of the defining issues of the 2022 election — crime and public safety — is bad news for the Left.

by Blazingcatfur•October 18, 2022October 17, 2022•0•"Peak Woke"

The Politicization of the Police

Last week, Caroline Farrow, a Catholic mother of five and UK director of CitizenGo, was arrested in her home for allegedly committing ‘malicious communications’ online (she strenuously denies these allegations).

Farrow’s account of the arrest—supported by cell phone photos and statements—details heavy-handed police forcing their way into her home, seizing her electronic devices, searching her, and whisking her away in a police car, all in front of her children and without a search warrant. This account is shocking, but by no means unique.

by Blazingcatfur•October 18, 2022October 17, 2022•0•"Good Intentions Paving Company"

Europe’s energy policy reversal an unintended consequence of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

History may well judge Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to be a great gift to Western civilization. That is not to say that Russia’s invasion of that sovereign country was not unwarranted and a crime against humanity. Clearly, it has been both of those things. But how is it that the West, and the rest of the world by extension, will benefit from Mr. Putin’s heinous acts? It is related to the law of unintended consequences, which I will simply define as the following: “for every act intended to produce a specific outcome, there is a set of one or more unintended consequences that result.”

by Blazingcatfur•October 18, 2022October 17, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"