Blazingcatfur – Page 600

‘We have to get ready for large-scale conflicts,’ says Canada’s military chief

As well as being the first woman to lead Canada’s armed forces, General Jennie Carignan is also in command as her country pushes to rearm on a scale not seen since the Cold War.

This includes expanding the full-time military, bolstering the number of reservists and attempting to get up to 300,000 civilians to join a “strategic reserve” – a pool of people with some form of training that could be called upon in the event of a major crisis.

“The world has changed,” General Carignan told Sky News. “We have to get ready for large-scale conflicts, more conventional, so we need a different military to do that and different capability.”

PM Carney says the days of sending 70 cents of every dollar in military spending to the United States are over and gets a standing ovation pic.twitter.com/mW6MgLjYwQ

— Scott Robertson (@sarobertsonca) April 11, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•April 13, 2026April 12, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

UK will not join Trump’s blockade of Iran’s ports in the Strait of Hormuz

The UK will not be involved in enforcing the US military blockade of Iran, the BBC understands.

British naval ships and soldiers will not be used to block Iranian ports, while UK minesweepers and anti-drone capabilities will continue operating in the region.

A spokesperson for the UK government said: “We continue to support freedom of navigation and the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, which is urgently needed to support the global economy and the cost of living back home.”

by Blazingcatfur•April 13, 2026April 12, 2026•0•"US Israel Iran War", UK, USA

LILLEY: Tories can thank Donald Trump with Mark Carney on verge of majority

By the time Mark Carney turns off the light and heads to bed Monday night, he will know for certain that he is presiding over a majority government.

Carney and his Liberals currently have 171 seats in the House of Commons; the three byelections taking place Monday should give them 174 seats. That is still a tight majority, but it’s a majority nonetheless.

by Blazingcatfur•April 13, 2026April 12, 2026•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

WTF?

Toronto’s Dundas square is too ghetto 🤦‍♂️😂 pic.twitter.com/iSP2olW2aH

— RTN (@RTNToronto) April 12, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•April 13, 2026April 12, 2026•0•WTF?

WTF?

AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! 😆 @fancypants_s https://t.co/xZtkL4rrlg

— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) April 12, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•April 13, 2026April 12, 2026•0•WTF?

In a new CUSMA, should Canada offer the U.S. stronger energy rights?

With the future of free trade between Canada and the United States unclear at best, a look to the past could provide hints at where critical exports of energy fit into a deal in the future.

Previous versions of the free trade agreements between the two countries used to include a section called “energy proportionality,” which restricted Canada from reducing the percentage of its total oil, gas or similar exports to the United States — even in the event of an emergency.

by Blazingcatfur•April 13, 2026April 12, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

White Supremacists and the Trans Genocide

The Trans Superiority Narrative—TSN–is collapsing. We can shortly expect another Democrat favored victim group to surpass trans on the oppression hierarchy.

by Blazingcatfur•April 13, 2026April 12, 2026•0•WTF?

Bad blood

At 1 a.m. on March 25, a gunman approached the gate surrounding the Woodbridge, Ont., mansion of Paul Borrelli – an executive at Green Infrastructure Partners Inc. (GIP), the sister construction company to Canadian waste giant GFL Environmental Inc. – and sprayed the front of the property with bullets.

A few days earlier, a similar scene played out in midtown Toronto, when around 2 a.m. a gunman opened fire on the home of Mr. Borrelli’s GIP colleague Sean Goldberg, the son of investment banker Barry Goldberg, who helped finance GFL in its early days.

by Blazingcatfur•April 13, 2026April 12, 2026•0•Canada, Crime

Mutually Automated Destruction: The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race

At a military parade in Beijing in September, President Xi Jinping and his special guests, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, watched as Chinese forces showed off several models of drones that could autonomously fly alongside fighter jets into battle.

The demonstration of technological might immediately set off alarm bells in the United States. Pentagon officials concluded that America’s program for unmanned combat drones was lagging China’s, according to three U.S. defense and intelligence officials. Russia, too, was thought to be ahead in building facilities that could produce advanced drones, said the officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly on military capabilities.

by Blazingcatfur•April 13, 2026April 12, 2026•0•"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

GUNTER: Poilievre calls for federal action on cloudy Indigenous land title developments

On Thursday, federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre called on the Liberal government to take action to protect private property rights in B.C. and across Canada. He was absolutely right to do so.

Poilievre explained that Canadians need the federal government, to “make it clear that the federal government’s position is that fee-simple property takes priority over all of the other claims.”

by Blazingcatfur•April 13, 2026April 12, 2026•0•"Aboriginal Fatigue", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ireland’s fuel protests point to a deeper malaise

On Saturday morning I visited Dublin, as fuel protests across Ireland entered their fifth day. In response to alarming price rises caused by the conflict in the Middle East, farmers and haulers have blockaded the oil refinery at Whitegate in east Cork, as well as fuel depots in Limerick and Galway. Traffic is near standstill on many of the country’s motorways, and 600 petrol stations are dry. Taoiseach Micheál Martin has told RTÉ that “because of these blockades, we are now on the precipice of turning oil away from the country.”

It's not just about fuel prices in Ireland.

You wouldn't see it get this bad if people there were not tired of the free subsidies given to immigrants while everyone else has to pay for it and watch their kids be stabbed.

It's all coming to a head.pic.twitter.com/pkGsuzeAF0

— Grummz (@Grummz) April 11, 2026

🚨BREAKING🚨 – Galway

“You’re meant to protect the people, not beat them”

Riot gardai (police) are now beating peaceful fuel protesters off the protest at Galway Harbour. This is treason!

Follow us and share, more videos to come. pic.twitter.com/U1X9XExDXp

— TheLiberal.ie (@TheLiberal_ie) April 12, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•April 13, 2026April 12, 2026•0•Ireland

Jerry Amernic: As the greatest generation fades away, so does Canada’s historical literacy

Canada recently said goodbye to Burdett Sisler, a man from Fort Erie, Ont., who was said to be Canada’s oldest living person. Two weeks shy of his 111th birthday when he died on April 2, he was also our oldest surviving veteran of the Second World War.

Sisler never went abroad to fight, but served in Canada as an army telecommunications mechanic, deploying radar technology to shoot down German bombers. Radar, a new technology back then, was crucial to the war effort and top secret at the time.

by Blazingcatfur•April 13, 2026April 12, 2026•0•Canada

Practical? I think it was just messed up either way …

Museum accused of ‘rewriting history’ after telling visitors Victorian boys in dresses were ‘gender fluid’

A museum has been accused of ‘rewriting history’ after it told visitors that boys in the Victorian era who wore dresses could be gender fluid.

The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, County Durham, claimed ‘gender fluidity is not a recent development’ because some boys aged between four and seven wore dresses in the 19th century.

Despite admitting the outfits were worn for ‘practical reasons’, the museum compared the fashion trend, known as breeching, to a modern version of gender nonconformity.

by Blazingcatfur•April 12, 2026April 12, 2026•0•WTF?

A Killing Exposes Deep Rifts in Canada’s Iranian Diaspora

Masood Masjoody’s warnings over the years seemed unsettling, even sometimes outlandish: He was not safe in Vancouver. His university was protecting agents of Iran’s regime. His fellow Iranian activists wanted him dead.

After he was fired from a job teaching math at a university in British Columbia, Mr. Masjoody, 45, became preoccupied with Iranian pro-monarchy activists. He alleged they were plotting his demise because he had begun to oppose the group’s advocacy around restoring a shah, or “king” in Farsi, in their homeland.

by Blazingcatfur•April 12, 2026April 12, 2026•0•Canada, Iran

How One Former Migrant Exposed Germany’s Contempt for Free Speech

A former migrant from Burkina Faso, now a German citizen, has inadvertently laid bare the mechanisms of power and contempt for free speech operating in Germany today.

Until last week, only very few in Germany—outside of Munich—would have heard of Hamado Dipama. This changed after it emerged that he had filed a complaint against the popular online news portal Apollo News for defamation and libel. Apollo has since reported that one of its journalists is facing criminal investigation as a result.

by Blazingcatfur•April 12, 2026April 11, 2026•0•"Immigration from incompatible cultures"