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Golden Dome? ReArm Europe? Canada negotiating military relationships amid trade war, sovereignty concerns

“You can only control what you can control.”

Those were the words from newly minted Defence Minister David McGuinty Wednesday morning on his way into a cabinet meeting after a reporter asked him to respond to U.S. President Donald Trump’s US$61 billion price tag to join the Golden Dome.

“What we can control here now is decisions around strengthening our sovereignty and our security,” he said.

The Golden Dome, a name that plays off Israel’s Iron Dome, is a project Trump told the Pentagon to pursue. It would employ ground- and space-based weapons to destroy missiles mid-flight.

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

King Charles’s visit to Canada was a show of weakness, not strength

Ever since Donald Trump began issuing threats about absorbing Canada, Canadians have been unusually rattled and resolute. In our hour of peril, we thought leaders from around the world would stand up for our country – and especially, King Charles III.

Why Charles? It’s not only because he is Canada’s sovereign, which has certain obligations. It’s that Mr. Trump admires him. Had Charles uttered something definitive in response to Mr. Trump’s rhetoric, that might have deterred the President. The King did not.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals", Canada, USA

O Canada! King Charles visits a realm that ain’t as glorious and free as it used to be.

King Charles’s big day on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, May 27, began with a welcome by four First Nations men in native costume. They sat in a semicircle around a huge drum and banged on it with sticks while wailing loudly. A war chant? Who knows? It did seem to be right out of an old Western — the Indians getting themselves all revved up just before leaping on their horses, tomahawks in hand, to take on the palefaces. Through it all, Charles and Camilla stood there like a couple of chumps, he with a dozen or so shiny medals pinned to his chest, her in a wide-brimmed hat not unlike the one Melania wore to the inauguration.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals", Canada, USA

HANNAFORD: Carney thinks Canada is a country, now he must convince the West

In this much, Mark Carney is different from his predecessor. He thinks Canada is a country with a defining identity.

Regardless of what so many Albertans may feel about independence for Alberta or Saskatchewan today, Justin Trudeau’s cringeworthy New York Times interview ten years ago left us, well… cringing. Canada, he said, was the world’s “first post-national state,” and seemed pleased with the thought. He added for good measure, “There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", Canada, USA

Eric Lombardi: Canada can no longer afford to be governed by luxury beliefs

Canada is no longer the world-leading developed country it once was.

We still talk like one, and identify as one. But when you look at how long it takes to build a subway, what it costs to add a housing unit, or how little economic progress we’ve made per person over the last decade, the truth is obvious: we are in decline. The systems that once delivered rising prosperity no longer function in practice—they now produce delay, contradiction, and paralysis.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Luxury Values", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

King Charles Undercuts Canada’s Sovereignty While Trying to Affirm It

By all accounts, King Charles III’s major address on Tuesday in Ottawa was meant to be a rebuke to Donald Trump and all his taunts about Canada becoming a 51st state if it had to depend on money from the U.S. in order to survive. Yet when Charles finally delivered his highly anticipated address, he ended up undercutting Canadian sovereignty more than supporting it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals", Canada, USA

Police arrest 11 Hamas supporters at CANSEC military trade show

Ottawa Police said they arrested 11 protesters outside of the CANSEC military trade show Wednesday morning.

The Ottawa Police Service’s public order unit cleared demonstrators around 10:30 a.m. after the police liaison team “made numerous attempts to have the protestors cooperate,” OPS wrote on the social media site X.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

Former Canadian prime minister criticised over choice of turquoise and orange footwear for King’s historic address to parliament

Pictured: Justin Trudeau wears trainers to King’s speech

Justin Trudeau wore a pair of green trainers for the King’s speech at the state opening of Canada’s parliament in Ottawa.

The former Canadian prime minister chaperoned his mother, Margaret, into the Senate chamber for the historic speech, while dressed in a navy suit and a pair of the turquoise and orange Adidas Gazelles.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Justin Trudeau - Pissant, Justin Trudeau Air Head, Justin Trudeau Mocked On World Stage

Boards around John A. Macdonald statue at Queen’s Park to be removed

The boards around the Sir John A. Macdonald statue at the foot of the Queen’s Park estate in downtown Toronto are set to come down, roughly half a decade after he was first covered up.

During a summer of protests in 2020, a box was placed around the iconic statue of Canada’s first prime minister — a move Ontario’s then-speaker said was to protect it from vandals.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Dr. Oz Offers To Import 400 Canadian Bird Flu Farm Ostriches

Dr. Mehmet Oz has offered sanctuary to 400 ostriches facing death in Canada due to bird flu.

Dr. Oz, the Trump appointed director of the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), along with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, have intervened to rescue the flightless birds after authorities in British Columbia pledged to cull them amid an outbreak of avian flu.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

Canadians missing more payments, as one default rate reaches crisis-era level

A number of red lights are flashing across the dashboard of Canada’s consumer credit market, according to an analysis released Tuesday by Equifax.

On everything from credit cards to mortgages, a growing share of borrowers is increasingly struggling to make their monthly debt payments, the numbers suggest. The report, which records data from the first three months of 2025, offers a gauge of the financial health of Canadian borrowers amid sputtering economic growth, rising unemployment and stubborn inflation.

Signs of strain are particularly acute among young people and those living in Ontario, with missed payments rising even as many consumers are cutting back on spending, the data suggest.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

The typical Canadian pays 70 percent more income tax than the typical American

In the recent federal election, the Liberals and Conservatives both campaigned on lowering income taxes to ease the burden on working- and middle-class Canadians. Sure enough, an income tax cut is planned for July 1st.

This focus on tax cuts raises the question: how much of a burden are income taxes on the typical Canadian?

The “typical Canadian”—defined as the median income earner—is currently taxed at an average of just over 17 percent (federal plus provincial). The upcoming tax cut will decrease that by about half a percentage point, bringing it to just under 17 percent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

Canada faces ‘massive challenge’ as NATO eyes new 5% spending target: expert

OTTAWA – When representatives of NATO nations meet in The Hague late next month, they’re expected to dramatically hike the alliance’s defence spending target for members — the one Canada is failing to hit already.

At the last NATO summit in Washington last year, allies lined up to call out Canada for failing to meet the alliance defence spending target of two per cent of national GDP.

When Prime Minister Mark Carney attends the NATO summit next month, he’ll likely be under pressure to commit to a new defence spending target of five per cent of national GDP.

I see a real possibility of the US asserting control over “our Arctic” for national security reasons as I suspect Canada to remain lackadaisical about defense matters.

Who knows, maybe even NATO will tire of us.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, NATO

Hudson’s Bay will terminate more than 8,000 employees, close stores by Sunday

More than 8,000 Hudson’s Bay employees will be out of work by June 1 as Canada’s oldest company closes its doors following the completion of its liquidation sale.

Hudson’s Bay filed a motion on Monday stating that it will have terminated 8,347 employees, or 89 percent of its workforce, by June 1, most of whom work in retail stores that are set to shutter on that day.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada