Author: Blazingcatfur

REDACTED: City of Brampton’s $4-billion electric bus deal leaves taxpayers completely in the dark

$245 for 1,799 pages: 1,622 completely redacted—words covered by large blocks of black to hide them from the public.

The Pointer is trying to uncover the details behind a $4-billion deal, the largest of its kind in the municipality’s history, between the City of Brampton and a foreign company that not many in Ontario have ever heard of.

On June 15, Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown stood alongside U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Ottawa, announcing a monumental partnership with U.K.-based electric-fleet management and battery storage company, Zenobe, to support 1,000 new vehicles on a newly designed electrified platform, for more than 40 million annual passenger trips.

Can’t wait for these babies to start spontaneously combusting.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

China Elbows into Greenland Debate, Backing Denmark Against Trump‘s Acquisition Plans

China Deploys Five Icebreakers Near Alaska in Unprecedented Arctic Move

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday elbowed its way into the debate over President Donald Trump’s effort to acquire Greenland, slamming the U.S. for “using other countries as an excuse for pursuing its own selfish interests.”

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning was responding to a reporter who quoted Trump saying that if America does not acquire Greenland, “Russia or China will.”

China is not an Arctic nation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Greenland, USA

LILLEY: Canada risks trading U.S. democracy for China’s dictatorship

WASHINGTON — Walking through Lafayette Park and across the north side of the White House on Monday afternoon, there was the usual gaggle of people taking selfies. There were also the usual protesters, people with signs reading “not my president” and of course given the recent news, protesting ICE in Minnesota.

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

France announces ban on 10 British anti-migrant activists

France’s interior ministry has announced ban on 10 British anti-migrant activists who travelled to the country.

Officials said they took action after reports that members of the Raise the Colours movement had conducted anti-migrant activities in France.

On Tuesday, “territorial bans were issued against 10 British nationals, identified as activists within the movement and having carried out actions on French soil”, the interior ministry said.

In a post on X it said: “Our rule of law is non-negotiable. Violent and hate inciting tactics have no place in our territory.”

Gee France isn’t sending your unwanted 3rd World benefit seekers into a neighboring country without permission kind of hateful?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, France, UK

Tasha Kheiriddin: The Liberals are well aware gun-grab is all for show — that’s the point

Twenty-five guns. That’s all the federal government collected in a recent pilot project in Nova Scotia for its new “buyback” (a.k.a. expropriation) program for prohibited firearms. “A total of 25 prohibited firearms, turned in by 16 participants, were destroyed,” spokesperson Noémie Allard said Friday. “The total compensation paid to pilot participants is $26,535.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Device that may be tied to “Havana Syndrome” obtained by U.S. government

The U.S. government quietly acquired a device in late 2024 that officials believe may be connected to the debilitating condition known as “Havana Syndrome,” which more than 1,500 American officials have reported experiencing since 2016, according to multiple sources briefed on the matter who spoke with CBS News.

The device was purchased clandestinely in the final weeks of the Biden administration by the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations division, using Pentagon funding that exceeded eight figures, according to two people familiar with the matter. The device is portable, backpack-sized, and contains components of Russian origin, the two people said.

If Biden bought it then I call fake.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

Homelessness in rural, Northern Ontario surging, outpacing rest of province, report says

Homelessness in rural and northern parts of Ontario is surging and growing faster than any other part of the province, with fewer resources to address the crisis, according to a new report.

The report released Tuesday by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, which represents 444 communities, found that homelessness continues to increase across the province but is particularly acute in northern and rural regions and among Indigenous people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Trump says anything less than having Greenland in US hands is ‘unacceptable’

Better hope those t-shirts sell out.

NUUK, Greenland (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that NATO should help the U.S. acquire Greenland and anything less than having the island in U.S. hands is unacceptable, hours before Vice President JD Vance was to host Danish and Greenlandic officials for talks.

In a post on his social media site, Trump reiterated his argument that the U.S. “needs Greenland for the purpose of National Security.” He added that “NATO should be leading the way for us to get it” and that otherwise Russia or China would — “AND THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!”

“NATO becomes far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the UNITED STATES,” Trump wrote. “Anything less than that is unacceptable.”

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA

Trump claims CUSMA is ‘irrelevant’, but says Canada ‘wants it’

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the ​Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement — the trade pact also known as CUSMA — is not relevant for the U.S., but Canada wants it, as he pushed for companies to bring manufacturing back to American soil.

“There’s no real advantage to it — it’s irrelevant,” Trump said. “Canada would love it. Canada wants it. They need it.”

The Detroit Three automakers are ​heavily reliant on supply chains that include significant parts production in Mexico and Canada, and all three produce hundreds of thousands of vehicles annually ⁠in both countries.

Not to worry, with luck we’ll be swimming in ChiCom EV’s thanks to Carney!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Is Ilhan Omar really an American? Disturbing questions about her citizenship swirl

No politician is more of an enigma than Somali-born Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

For years she has been rumored to have married her brother – allegations she has called ‘absurd and offensive’. Her family fortunes, steered by her white, American husband, have curiously skyrocketed to $30million.

And more recently, her Minneapolis community has been mired in shocking fraud allegations.

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

Trump’s Greenland threats will only make Canada’s sovereignty claims in the Arctic more vulnerable, defence analysts say

OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to occupy Greenland will only make Canada’s sovereignty claims in the Arctic more vulnerable, defence analysts says.

Former chief of the defence staff retired Gen. Tom Lawson said the U.S. setting a precedent of taking Greenland for strategic hemispheric purposes should put the Canadian government on high alert.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Pope Leo: Free speech is under attack in the West

Freedom of speech is under attack in the West, the Pope has warned.

Pope Leo XIV claimed an “Orwellian-style language” had taken root in the West and that democracies were becoming increasingly authoritarian by clamping down on “freedom of conscience”.

It marks one of the pontiff’s first interventions on the issue, which had also been taken up by his predecessor, Pope Francis.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church

Mark Carney wants to boost trade with China without angering Donald Trump

VANCOUVER—At a critical time of upheaval in global politics, Prime Minister Mark Carney is trying to court the attention of one great power and avoid the ire of another, all while holding his political ground at home.

Carney was to leave Canada Tuesday afternoon. En route to Beijing, the prime minister detoured to do the thing he’s accused of not doing enough: listen to the political leaders who could make or break a key part of his ambitious trade agenda.

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