Author: Blazingcatfur

Mark Carney’s majority is still full of risk

Mark Carney’s majority is still full of risk

On the surface, the results of last night’s Canadian by-elections would be significant enough. The Liberals, under Prime Minister Mark Carney, achieved majority status by winning two safe downtown Toronto seats, also eking out a win against the Bloc Québécois in suburban Montreal. But the truth is that Carney won his majority even before Monday, after an extraordinary string of floor-crossings in which five opposition MPs defected to the Liberals, with more rumored on the way. It has decisively put an end to the precarious minority status which emerged from last year’s general election.

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

France: Afghan Facing Trial for Raping Goats and Sheep

France: Afghan Facing Trial for Raping Goats and Sheep

A 19-year-old Afghan is set to stand trial in France after being accused of repeatedly abusing goats and sheep near Marseille.

The suspect was arrested on the night of April 10th by the anti-crime brigade (BAC) in the municipality of Les Pennes-Mirabeau, following a series of incidents reported by livestock owners. Since early 2026, farmers had reported finding various injured animals, all showing signs of sexual abuse. Some animals were found with their legs bound.

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

LILLEY: Poilievre’s pain not over as Carney Liberals pursue more Conservative MPs

LILLEY: Poilievre’s pain not over as Carney Liberals pursue more Conservative MPs

As Mark Carney and his Liberal government celebrate officially achieving majority status in the House of Commons, the Conservatives are nursing the political equivalent of a hangover.

Carney’s Liberals have their majority of 174 seats in large part because four Conservative MPs defected from Pierre Poilievre’s party to Carney’s.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics"

WHISSELL: Forget the EU — Carney’s real threat to Canada is coming from within

WHISSELL: Forget the EU — Carney’s real threat to Canada is coming from within

In trying to address his inability to strike a trade deal with the US, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s alternative to gain access to the European Union (EU) market is something I wanted to argue poses a threat to Canada’s sovereignty. That’s how I feel, particularly about Canada joining the EU as a member state.

But, while I found that Carney’s solution to perceived overreliance on the US does indeed contain a serious threat to Canada, it’s not from the EU.

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

Globe wants masked Death Cultists to teach your children

Globe wants masked Death Cultists to teach your children

The two teachers

Nadia Naqvi, the oldest and fiercest in a family of five children, was born in 1981 in Montreal. Her father, who emigrated from Pakistan in the 1970s, instilled in his children that he was the immigrant in the family.

You are just Canadian, he would tell them, and if anybody asks, you’re Canadian-Pakistani. Always put the Canadian in front, he’d say. But growing up in Montreal’s suburban West Island, Ms. Naqvi never felt fully Canadian. She was bullied more times than she could count, called a “Paki” and “smelly.”

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

Sayyid Qutb: the godfather of Islamism

Sayyid Qutb: the godfather of Islamism

As historian Faisal Devji has recently shown, the meaning of the term Islam began to change during the 19th century. In the colonial context of South Asia and the Middle East, the likes of ‘pan-Islamic’, anti-colonial activist Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (1838-1897) began to turn it into something rather more modern, in opposition to European imperialism and the West more broadly.

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

Poilievre May Be Struggling Right Now, but the Kids Still Like Him

Poilievre May Be Struggling Right Now, but the Kids Still Like Him

It’s already political legend. In 2025, Justin Trudeau stepped down as prime minister just as Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives were cruising toward a massive majority government. Within weeks of Mark Carney taking the helm of the Liberals, the political landscape was transformed. By April, the Liberals had secured another mandate—a turnaround with virtually no precedent in Canada in terms of scale and timing, and one that few observers would have predicted at the start of the year. Yours truly included.

Don’t often link to the Walrus but here it is.

h/t Ogie

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", Conservative Party

Justin Trudeau at Coachella is a Rorschach test

Justin Trudeau at Coachella is a Rorschach test

Buckle up, buttercups, here is what I have learned about Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau’s presence at Coachella this weekend:

1) Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau went to Coachella this weekend.
2) This was the cutest development in their already-confirmed Instagram relationship, a life-giving affirmation of true love, let us rejoice and be glad in it, and
3) Alternatively, these people should go to hell.

Welcome in.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The Next Great Stupid Conspiracy: Is Donald Trump the Antichrist?

The Next Great Stupid Conspiracy: Is Donald Trump the Antichrist?

In hindsight, it was inevitable: To maintain shock-value, these accusations always escalate. So, after a full decade of being “literally Hitler,” there was nowhere to go but… down.

WAY down.

You can’t go from “literally Hitler” to “literally Ivan the Terrible.” Too anticlimactic. And if you wanna out-evil Hitler, you need the guy with the pitchfork.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Doug Ford says Mark Carney’s majority means ‘a stronger hand’ against Trump

Doug Ford says Mark Carney’s majority means ‘a stronger hand’ against Trump

Premier Doug Ford says a majority federal government means Prime Minister Mark Carney “has a stronger hand to deal with President (Donald) Trump and the tariffs that we’re facing.”

Speaking to reporters at Queen’s Park, the Progressive Conservative premier said the three Liberal byelection victories on Monday would help Carney in the upcoming review of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) and in the ongoing trade war with the U.S.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?