Author: Blazingcatfur

Chow vows to speed up new $3.5B Finch West LRT after rider complaints

Just days after Toronto’s newest transit line opened, the mayor and the TTC are both stepping in to try to speed up the $3.5-billion light-rail line.

Chow told reporters Tuesday morning that she plans to introduce a motion at council next week to implement signal priority on the Finch West LRT line in a bid to hurry trains along the new transit corridor after riders’ complaints.

“The train is not as fast as it can be, absolutely,” Chow said. “So, I’m hearing the feedback … I am bringing an item to council asking for transit signal priority, removing speed caps where possible and increasing service frequency.”

I’m calling another Chow fail. h/t Patti Jo

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

Met Police’s ‘two-tier’ policing laid bare: How UKIP protesters had ‘stringent’ conditions imposed to protect Muslim community… but pro-Palestine protesters marched day after Manchester synagogue attack

The banning of a UKIP protest in a Muslim community while pro-Palestine marches were allowed to take place in the wake of the Manchester synagogue attack has laid bare allegations of two-tiered policing by the Met.

A damning report by the think tank Policy Exchange today claimed that the widely held perception the force treats protest groups differently was in fact a ‘reality’.

In one example cited, the force applied for ‘very stringent conditions’ on a UKIP march in Tower Hamlets on the grounds it had caused ‘significant concern’ among the Muslim community.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Two Tiered Justice", "Two Tiered Policing"

New Ryan Wedding photos from FBI hint end is near?

Is reputed Canadian dope kingpin Ryan Wedding’s time on the lam grinding to a violent finale?

Wedding, 44, has been the target of one of the largest law enforcement efforts in decades. The alleged cocaine kingpin of Canada is believed to have altered his appearance and is hiding out in Mexico under the protection of the hyper-violent Sinaloa cartel.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, USA

Afghan national charged with raping two girls in flat

An Afghan national has been charged with raping two 14-year-old girls in a flat in Bolton at the weekend, Greater Manchester Police said.

Officers arrested Sultani Bakatash, 28, in connection with the alleged incident at a flat in the Middle Hulton area early on Sunday.

The Afghan national has now been charged with two counts of rape of a girl aged under 16, one count of sexual assault and one count of assault by penetration.

Just another day in Jolly Old England.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Camp Of The Saints, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

OLDCORN: Accountability, not politics — $34 million ‘questionable’ spending at Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations

Canadians were told to tighten our belts during COVID-19. Cancel trips. Skip funerals. Close small businesses. Trust the public health orders and trust the people moving “emergency” money.

Now we learn that a large share of pandemic funding routed through the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is tagged as “questionable,” not because of politics, but because basic documents were missing.

That is not a culture war. It is a receipts war.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue"

Inside the Fortified Sinaloa-Linked Compound Canada Still Can’t Seize After 12 Years of Legal War

VANCOUVER — A British Columbia government lawsuit seeks to merge almost a decade of litigation into a single, high-stakes test of whether the province can finally seize a fortified mansion near the U.S. border that was first swept up in a 2014 fentanyl investigation, raided in 2016, and is now at the center of a new synthetic-opioid case alleging its occupants contracted with the leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel to flood narcotics into Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime, Mexican drug cartels, WTF?

Hegseth: AI Autonomous Warfighting Systems Are The Future, And They’ll Be Made In America

OINT MUGU, CALIF. — Artificial intelligence-powered, autonomous, and unmanned warfighting systems are a major focus of the Trump administration’s new military build-up, likened the “arsenal of freedom” by War Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The Federalist traveled with Hegseth to California over the weekend where he delivered the keynote address outlining the forthcoming National Defense Strategy (NDS) at the Reagan National Defense Forum. But before he gave that speech, the secretary was briefed on the latest in military technological innovation and toured some industrial facilities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

This is not immigration

Once upon a time, there were two ways of coming to the U.S. One way was to apply for entry, wait your turn, fill out documents, not be a public charge, undergo a criminal background check and so on. It’s the way most people came in. The other way was to gain entry because you were a political refugee or were escaping communism. This is how I came in with my parents in the 1960s.

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

Should You Be Able to Ask a Doctor to Help You Die?

Over the past five years, the practice of allowing a physician to help severely ill patients end their lives with medication has been legalized in nine countries on three continents. Courts or legislatures, or both, are considering legalization in a half-dozen more, including South Korea and South Africa, as well as eight of the 31 American states where it remains prohibited.

It is a last frontier in the expansion of individual autonomy. More people are seeking to define the terms of their deaths in the same way they have other aspects of their lives, such as marriage and childbearing. This is true even in Latin America, where conservative institutions such as the Roman Catholic church are still powerful.

How wonderful that Kill Krazy Kanada merits a mention in every story about MAID.

We are a world famous abattoir. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Why are Christmas markets suddenly so dangerous?

AT THE end of last month a pro-Palestinian mob stormed the Brussels Christmas market on opening night, throwing smoke bombs and spewing hate-filled slogans. As families fled in panic, it was discovered the interlopers had decapitated a baby Jesus doll in the market’s nativity scene. The reactions of so-called ‘far right’ politicians such as Geert Wilders were widely covered by the mainstream press, but only through a GBNews clip shared on X and posts on private social media pages could a factual (unbiased) depiction of the incident be viewed.

The limited availability of truthful reporting about this story by corporate media outlets is almost as concerning as the incident itself.

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

When Diamonds Are Not Forever

After decades of growth driven by diamond mining, Canada’s Northwest Territories are facing the closure of three major mines and wondering: What’s next?

Canada’s Northwest Territories got lucky twice.

At the turn of the 20th century, an epic gold rush established the capital, Yellowknife, and brought development to the vast, sparsely populated region dominated by boreal forests and Arctic tundra.

Then a hundred years later, just as underground gold reserves in the ground were depleting, prospectors found diamonds.

The Territories, with a surface area more than three times that of California, became the world’s third-largest exporter of diamonds.

Now that era is coming to a messy end.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada