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The right’s new cause, crime without punishment, and its new martyrs, the Ottawa hostage-takers

If there is one thing Canada’s Conservatives believe in, it is getting tough on crime.

Wherever there is a debate on what penalties should be imposed for criminal offences, Conservatives stand squarely and proudly for more. Whether as a matter of deterrence, or simple retribution, Conservatives almost always favour longer sentences rather than shorter.

Except, it seems, when the criminals involved are their friends. Take, for example, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, organizers of the notorious “Freedom Convoy” that took much of downtown Ottawa hostage for three weeks in 2022, and folk heroes to the populist right.

Andrew Coyne watch In effect

by Blazingcatfur•July 30, 2025July 30, 2025•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada

Trump Trade Deals Threaten Canada’s Vital Auto Industry

For decades, Canadians have been, by a wide margin, the world’s largest buyers of cars and trucks made in the United States. In most years, four out of every 10 vehicles that roll out of Canadian dealerships were shipped from American factories.

But being the most important overseas market for America’s vehicle industry has not insulated Canada’s own auto industry from President Trump’s move to unravel the global trading system. On Friday, Mr. Trump threatened to impose a new 35 percent tariff on Canada unless the two countries struck a deal.

But even before then, Mr. Trump’s recent trade deals with Japan, Britain and the European Union meant that their auto exports would now be entering the United States at tariff rates lower than that on Canadian cars and trucks.

by Blazingcatfur•July 30, 2025July 30, 2025•0•Canada, USA

No letup in Canada government’s outrages against its truckers

Canada is going to hell in a handbasket.

by Blazingcatfur•July 30, 2025July 29, 2025•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada

No we don’t …

We need an official policy prohibiting removal of at-risk trans and non-binary people to the U.S.

The Canadian refugee process is often praised for its fairness, efficiency and commitment to human rights. It is the main avenue for trans and non-binary people around the world to seek safety after fleeing persecution in their countries of nationality. But for trans and non-binary Americans who fear for their lives in the United States, the ability to access Canada’s refugee system is far less clear. So far, it seems, the Canadian government is less willing to acknowledge the threats facing trans and non-binary people throughout the U.S.

by Blazingcatfur•July 30, 2025July 29, 2025•0•Canada, USA, WTF?

Report suggests arms still flow from Canada to Israel despite denials

The government of Canada is adamant — with certain, shifting caveats — that it has not allowed arms shipments to Israel since January 2024, and yet Israeli import data and publicly available shipping records appear to contradict that claim.

The data was uncovered by a group of researchers from four NGOs: World Beyond War, the Palestinian Youth Movement, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East and Independent Jewish Voices.

They found entries in the database of the Israel Tax Authority that show Canadian goods continuing to enter Israel, described by the Israeli government as military weapon parts and ammunition.

by Blazingcatfur•July 29, 2025July 29, 2025•0•Canada, Israel

Trump’s trade deal with Europe is a bad precedent for Canada

Do not break out the champagne. The trade “deal” agreed this weekend by the United States and the European Union bears the familiar elements of President Donald Trump’s evolving vision of trade under Trumponomics.

What’s been announced is better than the worst-case scenario of a trade war, but worse than the status quo.

by Blazingcatfur•July 29, 2025July 29, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Trump’s Golden Dome missile-defence push on Canada leaves Ottawa with few good options

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. President Donald Trump wants a Golden Dome of missile defence over the United States, and if you’re thinking this sounds familiar, you’d be right. Back in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, aka Star Wars, also aimed to develop a space-based and layered defence system to knock out any incoming strikes.

It didn’t work out.

by Blazingcatfur•July 29, 2025July 29, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Stephen Harper says he advised Mark Carney’s government to move away from the U.S.

Speaking before a room full of policymakers from midwestern Canada and the United States, former prime minister Stephen Harper said the ongoing trade war with the U.S. is a “wake-up call” for Canada to diversify its trade and export markets.

“I was — I think it’s fair to say — probably the most pro-American prime minister in Canadian history,” Harper said of his tenure from 2006 to 2015.

If the current government asked him a year ago for advice on U.S. President Donald Trump being re-elected and wanting to renegotiate trade, he says he would have thought it was a real opportunity for Canada to deepen its economic and security partnership with the United States.

by Blazingcatfur•July 29, 2025July 29, 2025•0•Canada, USA, WTF?

Carney says talks with U.S. in ‘intense phase’ of Canada being ignored by Trump ahead of Aug. 1 deadline

Prime Minister Mark Carney said negotiations between Canada and the U.S. on a new trade and security deal have reached an “intense phase,” as an Aug. 1 deadline looms.

Carney made the comments in Prince Edward Island on Monday during a separate announcement about the Confederation Bridge.

“The negotiations are at an intense phase,” Carney said. “It’s a complex negotiation you see with the various trade deals that have been agreed by other jurisdictions … there are many aspects to these negotiations.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 29, 2025July 28, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Ontario man who threatened to ‘kill as many Jews as possible’ sentenced to 60 days house arrest

An Ontario man who threatened to “kill as many Jews as possible” by bombing every synagogue in Toronto has been sentenced to sixty days house arrest.

Waisuddin Akbari was found guilty of uttering threatening remarks in November.

h/t Patti Jo

by Blazingcatfur•July 29, 2025July 29, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

HILL: Our Canada, consumed by hate, paralyzed by fear

Are you like me? Do you resist reading the morning news because there only seems to be “bad news”?

I remember a time not so long ago when Leah and I felt it our civic duty to be informed. While enjoying our morning coffee, we would spread our newspapers out on our kitchen counter and pore over the headlines, picking out what we believed to be the must-read stories of the day. We would proceed to discuss the good, the bad and the ugly.

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 28, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Barry Appleton: Canada submits to China’s algorithmic colonialism

On Nov. 6, 2024, Canada ordered TikTok’s local offices expelled but left its influence engine untouched. The result? Fewer Canadian jobs, no new oversight, and continued foreign control over our digital public square. It makes about as much sense as banning foreign diplomats while allowing their propaganda broadcasts to continue uninterrupted.

Canada’s shutdown order, issued after a national security review, eliminates TikTok’s 350 Canadian employees and halts cultural sponsorships worth millions. Yet the algorithm that shapes what Canadians see, share, and believe remains entirely in Chinese hands. We have managed to achieve the worst of both worlds: less accountability with zero additional protection.

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 28, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, WTF?

Unprosecuted: Canada Drops Narcotics Precursor Import Case Against Chinese Scientist Tied to United Front Political Networks

Fentanyl Precursor Chemical 4-Piperidone

OTTAWA / LOS ANGELES — In this discussion with Chris Meyer of Widefountain, we dig deeper into my findings on an explosive narcotics precursor case quietly dropped by Canadian prosecutors—and what it reveals about Canada’s growing vulnerabilities to foreign infiltration.

We unpack the story of a Chinese chemist, known here as Dr. X, who was charged with importing more than 100 kilograms of PMK ethyl glycidate—a key chemical used in the production of MDMA (ecstasy). Court records show Dr. X had direct ties to a bio-pharmaceutical firm affiliated with the University of British Columbia, and was reportedly recruited under Beijing’s “Thousand Talents Plan”—a program U.S. intelligence agencies warn is used to facilitate espionage and the transfer of dual-use technologies.

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 28, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA

China takes out newspaper ads issuing warnings to Canada on Taiwan

OTTAWA — Taiwan’s ambassador to Canada has dismissed a series of full-page newspaper ads taken out by the Chinese Embassy as little more than sabre-rattling over the communist regime’s claims over the east-Asian nation.

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 28, 2025•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Taiwan

Andrew Richter: Keeping supply management is economic suicide

We are approaching the end game of the current round of negotiations between Canada and the U.S. on a new comprehensive trade deal.

The outcome of the talks is still very much uncertain. While it appeared early on as if progress was being made, President Donald Trump has made no secret of the fact that several major obstacles remain. Favourite targets of his have been our banking rules and regulations and our protectionist digital and cultural sectors (in addition to non-trade irritants like our border policies).

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2025July 27, 2025•0•Canada, USA