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Tens of thousands of Ontario public servants return to office full-time next week. Here’s what that could mean for Toronto

Nearly half of all of Ontario’s 60,000 public service workers are set to return to the office full time next week after years of hybrid work arrangements.

They’ll join tens of thousands of other employees from banks, tech companies, and the telecom sector who have also been called back to the office in recent months, as part of a trend that is shifting away from remote work.

Statistics Canada data shows that for the fourth year in a row, the proportion of employed people mostly working from home is falling and as of May of last year, 76 per cent of all workers in Toronto were commuting.

How much worse can Toronto traffic get?

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2025December 30, 2025•0•Ontario

Teacher shocked by students’ lack of basic classroom skills: ‘It’s scaring me’

Are kids these days doomed?

A concerned middle school teacher recently took to social media to explain the lack of reading and problem-solving skills in her teen students.

“I don’t understand how these kids ended up at this point,” a Dallas, Texas, teacher named Ms. L said about her 8th-grade students in a now-viral TikTok video.

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2025December 30, 2025•0•Education K-12

Green Party settles with commission over exclusion from federal leaders’ debate

The federal Leaders’ Debates Commission says it has settled with the Green Party after the party vowed to challenge its removal from the spring election debates.

In April, the commission, which is tasked with organizing the French and English debates, rescinded an invitation for Jonathan Pedneault, then co-leader of the Greens, to appear at a pair of leaders’ debates in Montreal.

What a waste of time.

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2025December 30, 2025•0•"Canadian Politics", Canada, WTF?

ABC, NBC Barely Touch Minnesota Fraud, While CBS Delivers the Goods

While all three big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have covered the widespread cases of social services fraud among Minnesota’s Somali community, the frequency and thoroughness of the coverage has varied widely depending on the network. Before December 29, CBS was the only network to have aired even a single full-length report about the scandal, and as of this study’s publishing, ABC hasn’t touched the story outside of a single offhand mention on December 3.

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2025December 30, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", USA, WTF?

Toronto sees 35 per cent spike in holiday overdose calls over previous years

Toronto Public Health is warning that this holiday season saw a sharp uptick in opioid overdose calls compared to previous years.

The organization said Monday that there have been 122 reports of suspected opioid overdoses between Dec. 20 and Dec. 28, a 35 per cent increase over similar periods in the last two years. However, this surge in calls has not resulted in a corresponding rise in fatalities; officials reported fewer than five opioid-related deaths, a figure consistent with last year.

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2025December 30, 2025•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Clooney Says ‘Au Revoir’ to Hollywood, Goes French With Wife and Twins

Actor and hardcore liberal George Clooney has packed up his wife and their 8-year-old twins and headed off to France, where they have become French citizens. Why? To escape Hollywood culture. The irony is that the very same liberal ideology and policies Clooney has long championed helped create the culture he is now fleeing. And yet he appears to have learned absolutely nothing from the experience, clinging to those same beliefs.

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2025December 30, 2025•0•Hollywood, WTF?

Elbows up in 2025: How a year of Canadian boycotts on U.S. products played out

It became a rallying cry, a cultural touchstone, a marketing strategy and — our favourite — often described in international media as “a hockey term” or “a Canadian phrase.”

We are, of course, referring to “Elbows Up,” Gordie Howe’s signature move to ward off opponents.

The 2025 #ElbowsUp movement may have started as a response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Canada, but it also came to symbolize the boycott of U.S. products as Trump’s tariffs launched a cross-border trade war.

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2025December 30, 2025•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Today in Celebrity Idiots

Pop Star Chappell Roan Walks Back Praise of Icon Brigitte Bardot over ‘Insane‘ Beliefs

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2025December 30, 2025•0•Celebrity Idiots

2025 was the year of the tariff. The U.S. Supreme Court will decide if 2026 is the year some tariffs die

WASHINGTON, D.C. — ‘Tis the season for renaming – everything from a cultural hub dedicated to a beloved slain president to new destroyers to 2025 itself. No, President Donald Trump hasn’t labeled the year with his name, but his U.S. Trade Representative, in a new op-ed, just dubbed it the “year of the tariff.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2025December 29, 2025•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Bondi gunmen ‘acted alone, without training in Philippines’

The suspected gunmen who killed 15 people on Sydney’s Bondi Beach spent almost a month in the Philippines, but were likely to have acted alone in an Islamic State-inspired massacre.

There is no evidence that the father and son, Sajid Akram, 50, and Naveed Akram, 24, trained with terrorist cells known to be active in the southern Philippines, Krissy Barrett, the Australian federal police commissioner, said on Tuesday.

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2025December 30, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

U.S.-based program offers exit strategy for Jews fleeing Canada’s hate

OTTAWA — With Canada’s explosion of antisemitic hatred prompting many Canadian Jews to consider an exit strategy, one expat is trying to smoothen the transition for those looking to escape south of the border.

Michael Sachs, who moved his family from Canada to the United States earlier this year, helped launch a program designed to assist eligible Canadian Jews consider moving to his new home of Tulsa, Okla.

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2025December 29, 2025•0•"Oct 7 2023"

Spanish woman who found fame for botching fresco restoration dies

The Spanish parishioner who made headlines around the world for her botched restoration of a prized Jesus Christ fresco has died aged 94.

Cecilia Giménez, an elderly woman from Borja, northeast Spain, became famous 13 years ago after she attempted to restore the century-old painting titled Ecce Homo that was held in her local church.

Giménez’s restoration went viral and earned the nickname “Monkey Christ”, because of Christ’s head resembling a hairy monkey.

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2025December 30, 2025•0•WTF?

‘If they didn’t need us in the first place, they should not have invited us,’ says applicant

Newcomers seeking permanent residency face uncertainty, frustration over Ontario immigration changes

Following changes to immigration in Ontario, some with hopes of becoming Canadian permanent residents are navigating a system that’s in flux — and they’re concerned they’ll be left behind.

Seeing it first hand, Muhammad Haseeb Ahmad is anxiously awaiting word on whether he can obtain permanent residency.

“It’s like just waiting and waiting — frustration at its pinnacle,” he said.

Great work Ford. Just what we need more Muslims.

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2025December 29, 2025•0•"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Islamophobia", Canada, WTF?

DHS launches ‘DOOR TO DOOR’ search for illegal immigrants at accused fraud sites in Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS — ICE agents swooped down on Minnesota day cares and other sites suspected in the state’s sprawling, multibillion-dollar fraud scheme as the feds ramped up pressure on Gov. Tim Walz and the local Somali community.

Authorities are investigating whether as much as $9 billion may have been stolen in a mind-boggling social-services scam they say was predominantly orchestrated by Somali immigrants.

BREAKING: DHS and ICE agents are on the ground in Minneapolis conducting investigations into Somali daycare and healthcare fraud

Let’s goooo

SWARM MINNEAPOLIS WITH AGENTS

We need to see mass arrests, indictments, denaturalizations, and deportations! pic.twitter.com/RWTrTmi7Ad

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 29, 2025

Minneapolis City Councilman Kali Mohamed just went full warlord on DHS agents: Harassing them in the street, then unleashing a blood-curdling Somali battle scream at the end thinking he won. This is an elected official. Minneapolis isn’t America; it’s Mogadishu with snowplows. pic.twitter.com/EWDeZ8b6C2

— Kim "Katie" USA (@KimKatieUSA) December 11, 2025

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2025December 30, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Jamie Sarkonak: Liberals admit their own plastics ban is a disastrous sham

We’re never going to get an apology from the Liberals for their failed single-use plastics ban — but on Dec. 20, we got the next best thing: an admission that it was all a costly mistake.

It’s buried in the government’s proposal to cancel the export ban on plastic straws, cutlery, grocery bags, ring carriers, stir sticks and other food packaging, which took effect earlier this month. A draft amendment to the federal plastics regulations to that effect is open for public comment until Feb. 28, and will likely become law soon afterward.

by Blazingcatfur•December 30, 2025December 30, 2025•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government