Canada

Is Canada’s F-35 review irritating the United States? McGuinty suggests it’s a ‘misnomer’

Defence Minister David McGuinty says the question of irritants in Canada-U.S. defence talks is “maybe a bit of a misnomer” and the two countries are working together on shared initiatives like integrated air missile defence systems.

“We have an integrated defence system,” McGuinty said in an interview on Rosemary Barton Live airing Sunday morning. “We are active members of NORAD. It’s the only binational command in the world.”

McGuinty was asked by host Rosemary Barton about Canada’s ongoing review of its F-35 contract with U.S.-based Lockheed Martin — something the U.S. ambassador Pete Hoekstra has called an irritant — and whether it’s been raised by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, USA

Ports of entry are the ‘Achilles heel’ of border security: analyst

The federal government plans to hire 1,000 new Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers across the country, according to a statement released Friday by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office.

“These new officers will help crack down on the movement of stolen goods, illegal guns and drugs, enforce import measures, and investigate unfair trade practices,” the statement read.

The Liberal government is also raising the CBSA’s recruitment stipend for the first time since 2005, from $125 to $525 per week, the statement said.

Carney has to check with Xi to see where the new hires will be placed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

KLEIN: Canadian politicians silent about Canada’s cartel crisis

Canada has a drug problem that our leaders refuse to face. This isn’t just about overdoses or addiction — though that alone is tragedy enough. It’s about cartels and organized crime groups using Canada as their safe base, running drugs into the United States and around the world while our government turns a blind eye. Everyone in Ottawa knows what’s going on. They read the same intelligence reports, they see the same RCMP briefings, and they know thousands of Canadians are dying every year. But what do we get in response? Committees, titles, press conferences — and no real action.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Law and Order", Canada

P.E.I. Land Regulator’s Past Ties to Law Firm Representing Buddhist Groups Raise Questions

OTTAWA — As Prince Edward Island calls for an RCMP investigation into allegedly suspicious foreign land acquisitions, The Bureau has learned that the prominent lawyer now chairing the province’s land regulator — the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission (IRAC) — previously spent more than 20 years with the same P.E.I. law firm that represented Buddhist organizations IRAC was mandated to investigate.

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

The lure of China – What Carney hopes to gain from a Canadian reset with Beijing

Beijing’s biggest fish bazaar is a briny-smelling maze of stalls stocked with massive crabs from Russia, purple lobster from Australia and yellow croaker fish from China’s southeastern coast.

What’s increasingly hard to find at Jingshen Seafood Market, however, are products from Canada: the casualties of a punishing trade war between Ottawa and Beijing.

This lost business is becoming harder for Canada to write off as the United States under Donald Trump grows increasingly protectionist and unpredictable.

China – Too Big to Bail

h/t Mauser

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

Canadians warming slightly toward China amid economic concerns

After years of strained relations, Canadians are showing a modest shift in their views of China, according to new research from the Angus Reid Institute and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

While favourability remains low, more Canadians are signalling interest in focusing on economic engagement with the Asian powerhouse.

It’s not exactly a Love-In.

(Incognito)

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

3 Nabbed on Conspiracy Charges After Illegally Entering US from New Brunswick

Three individuals were apprehended for conspiracy-related offences last week, stemming from an incident last spring where a Chinese national illegally crossed the Canadian border into the United States, the New Brunswick RCMP says.

The U.S. Border Patrol informed the RCMP about the illegal border crossing that occurred near Grand Falls, N.B., on April 15, the Mounties said in an Oct. 16 press release.

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

Elghawaby pressed Ottawa to install Muslim prayer rooms despite 2% representation

The Justin Trudeau-appointed anti-Islamophobia advisor pushed federal managers to create dedicated Muslim prayer rooms in government offices, even though only 2% of federal employees identify as Muslim, newly obtained records show.

Blacklock’s Reporter says Amira Elghawaby, appointed by cabinet as the government’s Special Representative on Combating Islamophobia, argued that failing to provide prayer spaces during work hours amounted to “Islamophobia in the workplace,” according to notes released through Access To Information.

She should be fired and the post abolished but Carney cares only for votes.

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

From BC Bud to Ecstasy, Meth, and Fentanyl: How Canada’s Vast Landscape and Permissive Laws Were Progressively Exploited by Chinese and Mexican Cartels

Over the past month, The Bureau has traced a pattern of numerous cases linking Canada—especially Vancouver’s port and airport—to methamphetamine pipelines feeding overseas markets including New Zealand and Australia. Reporting uncovered prosecutions showing methods engineered to exploit not only Canada’s transportation infrastructure but also its international image and brand. In January 2023, three men were convicted in the largest meth seizure ever at New Zealand’s border: 713.8 kilograms disguised as maple syrup bottles shipped from Vancouver.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Drug Legalization, Drugs

Canada’s gun laws in the spotlight at trial of accused in two random Toronto killings

The accused listened to proceedings with his eyes closed and his mouth open.

It appeared that 43-year-old Richard Edwin, whose trial began this week, was heavily medicated with antipsychotic drugs.

Certainly projecting as narcotized — someone in need of mental stabilizing — would be fitting when the core substance of the defence is that Edwin should be found not criminally responsible (NCR) in the shooting deaths of two men he didn’t even know within a span of two days in downtown Toronto in 2022.

The chances of being shot by some drugged up rando remains pretty remote in Canada.

But it is impossible for the police to bend space and time to protect you when you’re being victimized.

At best you’ll likely contribute a positive stat to the TPS’ excellent homicide closure rate.

In this instance the shooter was in possession of legally obtained weapons despite a history of mental illness.

Who do gun laws protect? Not you and not me.

They make life easier for criminals who appreciate the unlikely possibility of return fire.

In the effort to maintain the state’s monopoly on violence you’re just unarmed collateral damage.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime, Gun Control, Gun Rights

“Brampton Men”

Brampton men charged after OPP seize 72 handguns, cocaine in transport

… Balraj Singh, 31, has been charged with 72 counts of weapons trafficking and possession for the purpose of trafficking – cocaine.

Kawalbir Singh, 21, has been charged with 72 counts of weapons trafficking and also was remanded into custody. He is to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Toronto on Oct. 22.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity Crime", Canada, WTF?

90,000 have been killed through Canada’s euthanasia regime: report

Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Executive Director Alex Schadenberg has revealed that Canada has euthanized 90,000 people since 2016.

Based on government data and calculated 2025 estimates, Schadenberg has predicted that around 90,000 Canadians have been euthanized since the Liberal government legalized the deadly practice in 2016.

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

I bet Netanyahu is shakin in his boots …

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

Public grocery stores unlikely to bring down food prices, say economists and analysts

OTTAWA — NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis is promising to lower grocery bills across the country by bringing in a national “public option” to compete with corporate supermarket chains, but economists say this could be a hard row to hoe for a meagre yield.

“I think it would be profoundly expensive, and very difficult to make succeed, for a relatively marginal benefit for Canadians,” said Mike von Massow, a professor of food, agriculture and resource economics at the University of Guelph.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, NDP