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The U.K. is lowering its voting age to 16. Should Canada follow suit?

The U.K. government announced Thursday that it will be lowering the voting age from 18 to 16, in time for its next general election. The move is encouraging for advocates who want to see the same change made in Canada.

“It’s a step that should have been done a long time ago,” Jaden Braves, CEO of Young Politicians of Canada, a Toronto-based non-profit, told CBC News.

“I think it’s very unfortunate that Canada could not be a leader within this discussion.”

What kind of rent seeking asshole becomes the CEO of Young Politicians Of Canada?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Border crossings drop despite fears of post-Trump immigration surge

Fears of a surge in refugee claimants and illegal border crossings following the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump have not materialized, according to new federal data showing a sharp decline in attempted entries into Canada.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the Canada Border Services Agency reported 12,185 refugee claimants between January and April, down 50% from 24,445 in the same period last year.

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

‘Canada is the most infiltrated country’: Iranian Canadians fear the regime’s borderless terror

Toronto resident Daniel was not in Iran’s good books even before Israel and the United States showered the country with missiles and bombs last month.

While working as a telecommunications supplier in Iran, he says he deliberately sabotaged schemes to evade sanctions and import equipment for military use, earning the regime’s ire. A member of Iran’s tiny Jewish community, he eventually fled the Islamic Republic and ended up in Canada a decade ago.

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

B.C. Health Ministry restores drug funding for girl with rare disease

VICTORIA – The mother of a nine-year-old Vancouver Island girl who has an extremely rare neurodegenerative disease says she’s grateful her daughter will get her medication back.

The British Columbia government has restored funding for Charleigh Pollock for the drug Brineura, which costs about $1 million a year.

Health Minister Josie Osborne said on Thursday she believes health professionals should make decisions about care, and a letter she received from Batten disease experts in the United States detailed a “significant disagreement” over the drug.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Indian refugee claimant’s story ‘strikingly similar’ to nearly 200 others who used same consultant

A young Indian man, denied refugee status in Canada because his story of being framed for his friend’s murder was “strikingly similar” to five people who travelled here with him and nearly 200 others who employed the same immigration consultant, has won another chance at staying in Canada.

The Liberal government is our Joe Biden. h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

New report says Ottawa to blame for higher consumer prices after spending splurge

The Trudeau government’s spending splurges — less than Bank of Canada interest rate policies — were largely responsible for soaring inflation during the pandemic, a new report has concluded.

The report, conducted by two economists at the C.D. Howe Institute, points the finger at Ottawa’s unfunded spending spree that acted as “helicopter drops” of money for the private sector.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Haitians largely behind unusual spike in asylum claims at this Quebec border crossing

In less than two weeks this month, a Quebec border crossing saw more than 1,500 asylum applicants coming from the United States, an unusual surge considering overall asylum claims are down by 50 per cent across Canada.

St-Bernard-de-Lacolle, a crossing located on Quebec’s Highway 15, south of Montreal, saw 1,505 asylum applicants between Canada Day and July 13. In June, 1,593 applied for asylum in Canada over the course of the whole month.

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

Liberal Party Sends Out Call For More Non-contributing Elderly Foreign Invaders To Strain Our Already Overstretched Resources To The Breaking Point!

Thousands of Canadians to start receiving invitations to apply to sponsor parents and grandparents

Thousands of Canadians will soon receive invitations to apply to sponsor their parents and grandparents as permanent residents.

The 2025 intake will open for a few weeks starting July 28 for 17,860 potential sponsors who submitted an interest-to-sponsor form in 2020, according to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) in a notice published online Wednesday.

IRCC said its goal is to accept up to 10,000 complete applications under the federal Parents and Grandparents Program.

H/T Auntie Polly

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Canada’s envoy for combatting antisemitism Deborah Lyons leaving post early … explains why she was a dud

It’s evident why Trudeau chose this hack

OTTAWA – Canada’s special official for fighting antisemitism announced on Thursday that she is retiring her post, three months before the end of her term.

… She said her office fought antisemitism “with a vigour and passion not seen in many other countries,” and yet she leaves with concern over Canadians who feel they must pick a side when it comes to defending humanity.

“Support to one community should never mean, or be interpreted as, minimizing another community. Our value of inclusivity has at its core our ability to hold the concerns of multiple communities, in our hearts and minds,” Lyons wrote.

“It was troubling in the last few years to see our lack of patience, lack of tolerance, and inability to reach out across the gulf to one another.”

There you have it. Unable to grasp the fact Islam is a murder cult Lyons wants people to tolerate the intolerant. To their deaths if need be!

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

Carney promises First Nations leaders prosperity for ‘generations to come’ with your money at summit on major projects

Prime Minister Mark Carney promised First Nations rights-holders wealth and prosperity for “generations to come” at a summit Thursday designed to allay leaders’ concerns about the government’s major projects law, which has ignited criticism because it allows for fast-tracked approvals.

Carney said the law, known as Bill C-5 before its passage through Parliament in June, is designed to “connect and transform our national economy” at a time when the country is facing threats from U.S. President Donald Trump.

He said the potential benefits that come from building new railways, ports and energy “corridors” will flow to First Nations because “Indigenous economic growth is at the centre” of this new framework.

Oh c’mon it’s always the tax payer who picks up the tab.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, Canada

Carney Bets Bigly On Trump’s Administration: Blind Trust comprised of 91.6 per cent of U.S.-based companies.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s investment portfolio includes three Canadian firms out of 567 entities, according to an analysis conducted by the Investigative Journalism Foundation.

Carney’s assets were released July 11th to comply with the Conflict of Interest Act, which requires public disclosure within 120 days of his appointment as prime minister in March.

Among the 567 funds held in an investment account managed by a third party, over which Carney had no control or influence, about 91.6 per cent are U.S.-based companies.

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

Did federal workers cost Poilievre his job? Top union boss says it’s more about Trump

A major union leader says Pierre Poilievre’s claim that he lost his seat because of his pledge to cut the public service is “simplistic” and should also be attributed to voters linking the Conservative leader to U.S. President Donald Trump.

“I think what people saw was too many similarities. People see the platform that was presented. They see past decision-making and they link it to what’s happening down south in an extreme manner,” said Sharon DeSousa, national president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), the largest federal public sector union.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Mohammedan Climate Nutter Latest Flavor of “Canadian Terrorism”

Ex-pilot called himself messiah on climate-change mission, day before alleged hijack

The day before the suspected hijacking of a light aircraft triggered a security scare at Vancouver’s airport this week, former commercial pilot Shaheer Cassim posted on social media that he was a “messenger of Allah” sent to save humanity from climate change.

A 39-year-old man with the same name has now been charged with hijacking, constituting terrorism, over the incident on Tuesday that saw Norad scramble F-15 fighter jets before the light plane safely landed.

h/t Auntie Polly

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", "Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Terrorism - Domestic, WTF?

Anthony De Luca-Baratta: Canada cannot afford to pivot away from the U.S.

Many commentators hailed the Canada-European Union defence pact, which was signed by Prime Minister Mark Carney in late June, as Canada’s pivot away from the United States. That same month, however, Carney pledged to increase defence spending to five per cent of GDP by 2035, acceding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand, and he continues to pursue a comprehensive trade and security agreement with Washington. Despite what his critics may say, the prime minister is living in reality.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA