Author: Blazingcatfur

Toronto transit ridership sputters, failing to hit projections or 2024 totals

More than half a decade after the COVID-19 pandemic emptied Toronto’s buses, subways and streetcars, the city’s transit agency is still struggling to recover and hit its ridership targets.

The Toronto Transit Commission has frozen fares for three years, slowly ramped up service and opened a new rapid transit line, but ridership is still lower than in 2019 and falling below expectations.

According to the agency’s 2026 budget document, hopes that more mandatory return-to-work orders would result in more passengers were misguided.

I suggest they have the insane and drug addicted make room for the homeless asylum seekers to boost ridership.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Pentagon report: Chinese military buildup and shift in nuclear force doctrine threatens US homeland

China’s military buildup is making “the U.S. homeland increasingly vulnerable,” according to the Pentagon’s annual China military power report.

This is the result of a combination of their decades-long arms buildup and a shift in nuclear force doctrine. “China maintains a large and growing arsenal of nuclear, maritime, conventional long-range strike, cyber and space capabilities able to directly threaten Americans’ security,” according to the report.

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

Group of ̷u̷n̷d̷o̷c̷u̷m̷e̷n̷t̷e̷d̷ ̷m̷i̷g̷r̷a̷n̷t̷s̷ illegal alien benefit shopping invaders arrested in Quebec’s Montérégie

A group of 19 undocumented migrants of Haitian origin was arrested Thursday night near Havelock in Quebec’s Montérégie region.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) confirmed that the group, with ages ranging from one to 60, was apprehended after they allegedly illegally crossed from the United States into Canada.

The breach was reported to the RCMP by the United States Border Patrol (USBP) shortly before 6 p.m.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Canada

Muslims in Indonesia Show Christians What They Think of Them

Carney loves Muslim values

Indonesia has a reputation for being a “moderate” Muslim nation, but the wind in the Islamic world as a whole is blowing in the opposite direction, as a group of Christians has just discovered.

Morning Star News, which tracks the persecution of Christians worldwide, reported Tuesday that “as police looked on, Muslims in West Java Province, Indonesia on Dec. 14 formed a human wall to block Christians from attending a Christmas service, according to local media.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Indonesia, Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Persecution Of Christians, Islamization of the West

JAY GOLDBERG: Carney’s ‘failure’ to strike trade deal with Trump was story of the year

U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs might have been named The Canadian Press News Story of the Year, but Prime Minister Mark Carney’s failure to adequately deal with them ought to have been.

When Carney announced his candidacy for the leadership of the Liberal party, after former prime minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation early last year, Carney sold himself to Canadians as the man who could meet the moment and deal with the Trump juggernaut.

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

AI Effect on Voting Intentions Three Times Greater in Canada Than in US: Study

Conversations between humans and AI chatbots can significantly influence voters’ decisions, with the impact in Canada potentially three times greater than in the United States, according to a study published in the journal Nature on Dec. 4.

The study, conducted by researchers from MIT and other universities in Canada, Poland, and the United States, analyzed how conversations with AI chatbots could persuade people to change their voting intentions more effectively than traditional political advertisements.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

Trust issues: ‘Islamic State’ supporters in the Syrian army?

The attack on US troops by a Syrian security forces member who was a supporter of the extremist “Islamic State” group in mid-December has consequences well beyond the four deaths that resulted.

One question continues to arise after the recent killing of two US soldiers and a civilian translator in central Syria by a follower of the extremist “Islamic State” group.

The killer had infiltrated the Syrian security forces. How many others in the Syrian security forces might hold similarly extreme opinions?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Syria, USA

Brown shooting suspect: gruelling academic climate may have taken mental toll, say ex-classmates

As investigators in Massachusetts work to piece together a motive for the murders of two Brown University students and an MIT physics professor, former classmates of the suspected gunman and one of the victims have been asking if the roots of the tragedy lie in their shared experience at a top university in Portugal.

The suspected gunman, Cláudio Valente, and one of those killed, Nuno FG Loureiro, studied at the prestigious and notoriously challenging University of Lisbon engineering and technology school, known locally as Técnico, both graduating in 2000.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

One year into Trump 2.0: Here’s how much America has radically changed on his watch

U.S. President Donald Trump has been a disruptive force since he burst onto the political scene a decade ago — but the pace of change in the first year of his second presidency is unlike just about anything seen before in the nearly 250-year history of the American republic.

Since his inauguration in January, Trump has upended the global trade order with a sweeping new tariffs scheme, radically curtailed immigration while deploying enforcement agents to round up migrants en masse and issued pink slips to federal public servants at a scale unmatched in the modern era.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Zelensky appears to wish for Putin’s death in Christmas Eve speech

President Putin wished President Trump a merry Christmas on Thursday, the Kremlin has said, hours after President Zelensky appeared to wish death upon the Russian leader in his Christmas Eve address.

Putin sent Trump a congratulatory message, according to the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, but the leaders are not expected to speak on Christmas Day.

On Christmas Eve, Zelensky said: “Today we all share one dream. And we make one wish — for all of us: ‘May he perish.’” It is widely understood to be a reference to Putin. Beforehand, Zelensky hinted at a plan for demilitarised zones in eastern Ukraine.

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

Jimmy Kimmel says ‘tyranny is booming’ as he renews attacks on Trump in UK Christmas address

Jimmy Kimmel unleashed fresh attacks on President Trump and declared “tyranny is booming” in the United States during a Christmas Day address in Britain — escalating his feud with the White House months after ABC briefly pulled his show over his comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

The late-night host used Channel 4’s Alternative Christmas Message to say that “from a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year,” delivering one of his most pointed political monologues yet — on a UK network, not American television.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCelebrity Idiots, Trump Derangement Syndrome