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As the House of Commons returns, Carney and Poilievre are both chasing a lost political moment

One of the weirder aspects of the Justin Trudeau-Pierre Poilievre dynamic that dominated the previous Parliament is that a pair of adversaries who looked like opposites in every way were in fact mirror images.

Political lifers of a sort; charismatic; leaders of a movement version of their parties in a moment that sang out for it; susceptible to hubris and insularity that could feed bad political judgment; prone to dividing the world into people who agree with them and people who are wrong and bad.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Tories primed to attack ‘contradictions’ in Liberal policies when Parliament resumes

OTTAWA — Mark Carney is not Justin Trudeau.

He’s also not Pierre Poilievre.

But it’s the prime minister’s migration of Trudeau’s centre-left Liberal party to the political centre — and beyond — that delivers the Conservative leader his primary challenge as he enters a new parliamentary session, armed with a domestic agenda his party insists it was right to focus on all along.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Union demands Canada Post return to bargaining or it will ‘consider stronger actions’

The union representing Canada’s 55,000 postal workers says it wants Canada Post to return to the bargaining table and commit to a “fair, ratifiable” contract with its employees or the union will “consider stronger actions” to move labour negotiations along.

“We ask when will it end? When will Canada Post stop stalling, ignoring results of the votes and start bargaining?” Jan Simpson, Canada Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) national president, asked on Friday.

The Union is suicidal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Carney says there’s been a ‘rupture.’ What’s he going to do about it this fall?

Even while Mark Carney has been accused of lowering his elbows in regards to American tariffs, he continues to frame the larger challenge facing this country in stark terms.

“What’s going on is not a transition,” Carney said last week in Mississauga, Ont., while announcing an array of measures for industries impacted by the American administration’s actions. “It’s a rupture. And its effect will be profound.”

He saw the arrival of a “new age of economic nationalism and mercantilism” and described the current moment as an “age of adversity.” He invoked major nation-building infrastructure projects of the past and the national mobilization that took place in Canada during and after the Second World War.

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

Foreign workers drove forklifts, did trade tasks at Windsor EV battery plant, say union, construction leaders

Canadian construction and union leaders say they’re frustrated over the continued use of foreign workers for non-specialized tasks at the massive NextStar electric vehicle battery plant project in Windsor, Ont., that’s receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer support.

They also say they’ve been disappointed in the response they’ve received from all levels of government when they’ve raised concerns.

“I personally have sat with many ministers federally, provincially, right to the top. And it’s not a secret,” says Jason Roe, the business manager for Local 700 of the Ironworkers union. “People know that it’s been going on.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Alberta man was ISIS propagandist, police say

Writing under the alias “Sulaiman Dawood al-Kanadie,” he penned fiery propaganda for the Islamic State about attacks that would dwarf Sept. 11, 2001.

In the ISIS magazine Voice of Khurasan, he praised the terror group’s late leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, demonized Jews and lectured about fighting jihad.

But the internet wasn’t as anonymous as he thought, according to recently-unsealed court documents that detail the RCMP’s investigation on the case.

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

Canadians made three million fewer trips to the U.S. during summer travel boycott

Canadian travellers held strong to their boycott of travel to the United States right to the end of the summer, blowing a sizable hole in the U.S. tourism sector, the latest numbers from Statistics Canada show.

In August, the number of Canadian residents returning by vehicle from the U.S. plunged 33.9 per cent year-over-year to 1.9 million, while the number of residents returning by air fell 25.4 per cent to 423,000, the agency said.

My suspicion is that while the boycott certainly accounts for the majority of the decrease in trips the fact that Canadians are realizing they’re much more poor than they knew also plays a big role.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Federal government is ‘urgently’ trying to dissolve B.C.-based terror group Samidoun, Joly says

OTTAWA — The Canadian government is “urgently” looking for a way to dissolve the not-for-profit status of Samidoun, a Vancouver-based anti-Israel organization that has been designed as a terror group, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly announced on social media on Thursday.

“It is completely unacceptable that any organization listed as a terrorist entity by the Government of Canada continues to exist as a federally registered not-for-profit organization,” wrote Joly. “I have therefore directed government officials to urgently look at any and all options to formally dissolve Samidoun as well as any and all listed terrorist entities in Canada.”

BS. The Liberals are simply avoiding having to offend their Muslim vote bloc.

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

Carney government introducing bill to protect people entering ̷r̷e̷l̷i̷g̷i̷o̷u̷s̷,̷ ̷c̷u̷l̷t̷u̷r̷a̷l̷ ̷b̷u̷i̷l̷d̷i̷n̷g̷s̷ Mosques

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is expected to introduce legislation as early as Tuesday to crack down on people willfully intimidating and obstructing individuals entering places of worship, cultural community centres and schools, CBC News has learned.

A source with knowledge of the government’s plans says Ottawa will propose three new offences under Canada’s Criminal Code, including creating a new hate crime offence.

Carney promised during his election campaign to respond to what he’s called a “horrifying rise in hate” including antisemitism and Islamophobia. He signalled to his caucus this week changes were coming.

Over 100 churches burned or vandalized and barely a finger lifted by the LPC. This is just vote whoring to the Mohammedans.

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

WARMINGTON: Canadians celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination may be banned from U.S

It’s not as if the Anti-American Elbows Up crowd would care or anyone who voted LPC or NDP for that matter

The reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk has been almost as brutal and disturbing as the slaying itself.

One Canadian journalist took to social media to say it was “delicious” to see Charlie Kirk shot and killed with a gun.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Canada, USA

Scrapping 100% tariff on Chinese EVs would be death knell for Canada’s auto industry, experts warn

As the federal government reviews Canada’s 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles, industry insiders warn that ditching it entirely would be “an existential threat” to the Canadian automotive industry.

The tariff, which came into place almost a year ago, faces an automatic review, with results due by Oct. 1. Getting rid of it would prompt harsh retaliation from the U.S., and be the death knell for automotive production here, said the head of the association representing Detroit’s Big Three automakers in Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Are these Roma or Gypsies?

Ya wanna get the proper PC nomenclature straight …

Three women arrested in Toronto distraction theft ring targeting elderly victims

Florentina Alexandru, Florentina Alexandru, Mirabela Lacatusu

More diversity crime …

Still more …

h/t Patti Jo

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

WARMINGTON: U of T prof saying ‘shooting’ is ‘too good’ for fascists is ‘disgusting,’ says Ford

WARMINGTON: U of T prof saying ‘shooting’ is ‘too good’ for fascists is ‘disgusting,’ says Ford

Premier Doug Ford says comments from a University of Toronto professor that “shooting” is “too good” for those she disagrees with are “disgusting.”

Ontario’s premier was responding to Dr. Ruth Marshall’s X post following the political assassination of Charlie Kirk on Thursday.

Update: Political professor Dr. Ruth Marshall has been placed on leave by university after creepy comments on the assassination murder of Charlie Kirk

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Canada, USA, WTF?

‘Who wouldn’t want pure cocaine?’: Vancouver’s Drug User Liberation Front believes we shouldn’t blame users for the ills of capitalism

On 12 August 2017, I ran from the car that James Alex Fields, a white supremacist, plowed into a crowd of anti-racist organizers in Charlottesville, Virginia. Other people’s blood splattered on me. I lost my friends in the crowd and panicked. I thought I might die.

A month later, I woke up on a work trip in a hotel room alone in Oakland, California, with my hands trembling, and an unshakeable feeling that I was being chased by a pack of wild animals. I was having a mental breakdown.

This feeling did not cease for months. Repairing myself from that breakdown took years. In many ways, it is ongoing.

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