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Carney names advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations as CUSMA review nears

Carney names advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations as CUSMA review nears

Prime Minister Mark Carney has released the names of his new advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations.

The list includes experts, industry and union leaders and retired high-profile politicians such as former Quebec Premier Jean Charest, former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole and former Conservative cabinet minister Lisa Raitt.

According to a government statement, the committee will serve as a forum where members can develop strategy for how Canada should approach its economic relationship with the U.S.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada in decline", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Majority of French Think Country Experiencing ‘Great Replacement‘

Majority of French Think Country Experiencing ‘Great Replacement‘

Six in ten adults in France believe that their country is facing a “great replacement” with the mass importation of non-European immigrants.

A survey conducted by the Institut français d’opinion publique (Ifop) research firm has found that 60 per cent of French people believe that their country is experiencing a “profound demographic transformation” and that the French are being “progressively replaced by non-European populations, primarily from the African continent.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, France, The Great Replacement

Schizophrenic man behind Toronto army recruiting centre knife attack approved for Mecca pilgrimage

Schizophrenic man behind Toronto army recruiting centre knife attack approved for Mecca pilgrimage

A man found not criminally responsible on three counts of attempted murder for a March 2016 knife attack at a Canadian Forces Recruiting Centre in Toronto has been granted a three-week travel pass for Saudi Arabia and Somalia, despite the fact that he “continues to pose a significant threat to public safety.”

Ayanle Hassan Ali, who is Muslim, plans to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca with his father and meet a potential bride his dad found for him in Somalia.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Nearly 80% of Canadians say cost-of-living outpaces their income: poll

Nearly 80% of Canadians say cost-of-living outpaces their income: poll

OTTAWA — Despite saying they earn a decent salary, more than half of working Canadians say they’re having trouble making ends meet.

That’s according to a new survey commissioned by H&R Block that paints a bleak picture of Canada’s ongoing affordability crisis, with those in Atlantic Canada reportedly the most concerned.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Germany wants reservists up to 70 as troop shortage bites

Germany wants reservists up to 70 as troop shortage bites

The Reservist Association of the German Armed Forces has called for the government to raise the age limit for army reservists from 65 to 70 years.

As Bastian Ernst, the association’s new president, told news agency RND today, this was necessary to counter the army’s manpower shortage problem:

“We should raise the age limit for reservists from 65 to 70. In our view, this makes sense in many respects. After all, the retirement age is rising in other areas too.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany

Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation

Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation

Two U.S. embassy officials who died in an automobile accident in northern Mexico as they returned from the scene of a counternarcotic operation worked for the Central Intelligence Agency as part of a significantly expanded role in battling narcotics trafficking in the Western Hemisphere, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The deadly car crash Sunday in the state of Chihuahua also took the lives of two Mexican officials and prompted Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to say she would investigate whether the operation ran afoul of the country’s national security laws.

The CIA declined to comment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

Sudanese Canadians don’t feel western nations care about Sudan’s humanitarian crisis and that means you’re probably a racist say experts

Sudanese Canadians don’t feel western nations care about Sudan’s humanitarian crisis and that means you’re probably a racist say experts

Sudanese Canadians, former politicians and humanitarian groups are ramping up pressure on the Canadian government to take more action to aid Sudan — in what the United Nations has called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

But in marking the three-year anniversary of the brutal civil war, those same groups say they’re concerned that Canada and other western nations aren’t giving the same attention to Sudan as they have to other war-ridden nations.

According to experts, those reasons range from security to racism to political ties.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSudan, WTF?

Trump says Strait of Hormuz won’t reopen until Iran strikes a deal with US

Trump says Strait of Hormuz won’t reopen until Iran strikes a deal with US

President Donald Trump said in a new interview that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the United States and Iran reach a peace deal to end the ongoing war.

The two nations are set to begin a second round of peace deal talks this week in Islamabad, Pakistan, as a two-week ceasefire is expected to expire.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

A network of YouTube accounts is promoting U.S. annexation to Albertans, researchers say. It has 40M views

A network of YouTube accounts is promoting U.S. annexation to Albertans, researchers say. It has 40M views

The mispronunciation of Regina — as in, the capital of Saskatchewan — was a clue. Then there was the reference to B.C. MLA Dallas Brodie, a woman, as a “he.”

These slip-ups helped lead researchers at the Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO) in Montreal to what they say is a network of affiliated YouTube accounts that appear to belong to concerned Canadians, sympathize with some Albertans’ grievances and push the idea of American annexation.

“The video narrators performed ‘Albertan,’ but there were these moments where you’re like, ‘OK, so this person is not from here,’ ” said Chris Ross, the senior analyst at the Observatory, who led his team’s recent probe into thousands of suspicious YouTube videos.

Who is behind this? Who stands to gain?  Russia? China? Liberal Party members?  Likely the latter.

AI makes it easy to create a click-bait video the creator(s) may have simply found a rich vein to mine for cash.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

The Perils of a Grand Bargain with Iran

The Perils of a Grand Bargain with Iran

Both the president and vice president have thrown out the term “grand bargain” in recent days to describe their aspirations for a deal with the Iranian rump regime.

It’s a term fraught with past failures that screams Iranian deception, not the interests of America First.

Bill Clinton was the first to use the phrase toward the end of his second term to describe his aspiration to end a low-intensity conflict that had been simmering for 20 years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

‘An overstay has repercussions’: Officials promise action after damning report on international student program

‘An overstay has repercussions’: Officials promise action after damning report on international student program

OTTAWA — Immigration officials submitted a plan of action to House of Commons committee on Monday, following an auditor general’s report that highlighted serious integrity controls in the international student visa program last month.

Part of that is ensuring voluntary compliance by student visa holders.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration Weaponized As Electoral Strategy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

German woman arrested over ‘suicide bomb attack’ in Russia

German woman arrested over ‘suicide bomb attack’ in Russia

Russia said on Monday that it had arrested a German woman found with a homemade bomb in her backpack in an alleged Ukrainian plot to blow up a security services facility in southern Russia.

In a statement published by state media, the FSB security agency said that the woman, born in 1969, was to be used as an unwilling suicide bomber in the plot and had been dragged into it by a citizen from a Central Asian country, who was alleged to be working on orders from Ukraine.

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

Mark Carney gets mixed reviews for response to ‘Donald Trump’s war on Canada’

Mark Carney gets mixed reviews for response to ‘Donald Trump’s war on Canada’

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s view that Canada’s “weakness” stems from its longtime close trade ties with the U.S. was mocked by the Conservatives Monday, and met skepticism by an Eastern premier who warned it will likely further anger the U.S.

In a video message posted Sunday on YouTube, Carney said the U.S. “has fundamentally changed its approach to trade, raising its tariffs to levels last seen during the Great Depression. Many of our former strengths, based on our close ties to America, have become our weaknesses, weaknesses that we must correct.”

Carney’s choice of words was no error.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government