Canada

Alberta Called. I Shouldn’t Have Answered.

The “Alberta Is Calling” ads first caught my eye in the fall of 2022. They were splashed across Toronto’s transit system, and I was jammed into a crowded subway car on my way home from work. The Alberta government rolled out its $2.6-million campaign to lure big-city folk, fed up with high costs and congestion, to come out west for the promise of a better life.

The promise was alluring: move to a place where you can buy a house, take home a bigger paycheque and spend less time commuting. As a single person renting an overpriced shoebox condo in downtown Toronto, it was a compelling argument.

I don’t see how anyone in their right mind could “miss” Toronto.

h/t AL

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Canada election sees record high early voting, figures show

A record 7.3 million people have cast their ballots over four days of advanced voting in Canada’s election, official figures showed on Tuesday, in a possible sign of elevated interest in the 28 April poll.

Elections Canada said its estimated tally for voting from Friday through Monday marked a 25% increase over the 5.8m advanced ballots cast in the 2021 vote.

Canada, a country with a population of 41 million, has 28.9 million eligible voters, Elections Canada said in November.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025

On thin ice: the brutal cold of Canada’s Arctic was once a defence, but a warming climate has changed that

In early February, during the depths of winter, Twin Otter aircraft belonging to the Canadian military flew over the vast expanse of the western Arctic looking for sea ice. Below, sheets of white extended beyond the horizon.

But the pilots, who were searching for a suitable site to land a 34-tonne (76,000lb) Hercules transport plane a month later, needed ice that was 1.5-metres (5ft) thick.

They could not find any. The teams scoured 10 other possible spots, stretching as far west in the Arctic as Herschel Island, five miles off the coast of Canada’s Yukon territory.

In the end, no site proved suitable for a sea-ice landing area. The north, it seemed, was too warm.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

OK, Boomers: Canada’s Surprising Electoral Generation Gap

Canadians go to the polls to elect a new prime minister next week. The center-right Conservative Party’s Pierre Poilievre is facing off against the Liberal incumbent, Mark Carney. For those who haven’t been following the situation in Canada, Carney is the Kamala Harris of the Great White North; he’s only in office because former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025

Government report predicts 2040 dystopia: Collapsed economy, hunting for food

OTTAWA — It’s a dystopian future where wealth and property ownership is entirely generational, post-secondary education is no longer a key to success and hungry Canadians resort to poaching wildlife to feed their families.

While this is quickly becoming a reality for more and more Canadians, an internal government report from Policy Horizons Canada warns these horrors could become everyday life in Canada as early as 2040, returning society to one based on inter-generational wealth — with land barons and an aristocracy usually found only in history books.
Entitled “Future Lives: Social mobility in question,” the report paints a picture of what life in Canada could soon be like if current economic policy stays the course.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Dystopia At Last", Canada

Bloc calls for crackdown on religious hate speech after Montreal imam prays to ‘slay’ Jews … Liberal vote hardest hit

Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-François Blanchet is calling on Parliament to close what he describes as a dangerous loophole in the Criminal Code that allows hate speech to hide behind religious teachings, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

Speaking with reporters, Blanchet said it’s time for Canada to remove any legal protections for hate-filled speech, even when it’s presented in a religious context. “If a believer of any religion whatsoever uses religion to support hate, to support radicalization of our youth, I believe this is a crime,” he said. “It has to be punished as a crime in whatever language or whatever religion.”

Canada does not monitor what goes on inside the Muslim cult’s dens.

But every once in a while the cultists make their murderous intent public.

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

MOBLAND: How global organized crime came to call Canada home

“It was a glorious time.” — Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), Goodfellas

“Glorious” has been a byword for mobsters in Canada over the past two decades.

Lax sentencing, little oversight, and a government that has either been a) hopelessly naive; b) stupid; c) cynically playing for ethnic votes; or d) all of the above.

“Canada has become a hub for organized crime,” Queen’s University professor and globally recognized organized crime expert Antonio Nicaso told the Toronto Sun.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime

Maher: Environmental Laws Have Helped China Dominate Rare Earth Market

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that one reason why China has control over the global rare earth minerals market is because zoning and environmental laws have made it too difficult for America to mine for rare earth minerals itself.

Watch Carney on this file, my bet is that if elected he will help ensure China maintains its dominance by feeding the “environmentalist” efforts to halt rare earths mining in Canada.

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

Conrad Black: Liberals, not Trump, are the true threat to Canadian sovereignty

With only a little over a week to go before the federal election, and with the debates out of the way, the wheels of the Liberal campaign for a fourth-straight term are finally starting to wobble on their axles. The providential political fantasy land in which the Liberals launched the campaign — the complete fraud that Canada’s continued existence was being threatened by the United States — has receded. U.S. President Donald Trump and his senior colleagues are now processing a queue of 130 countries filing into Washington offering concessions to contribute towards the elimination of the completely unnecessary United States trade deficit of around $1 trillion. Another resounding Trump victory is in the making and Canada is not an inordinately large part of it, although there will be challenging negotiations.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Canada PM Mark Carney ramps up anti-US rhetoric: ‘We must react with crushing force’

Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney has amped up the anti-US rhetoric since swooping in to replace Justin Trudeau at the helm of the Liberal Party, saying this week the Great White North doesn’t need the US.

Carney said he’s looking to diversify trade partnerships with like-minded countries and that Canada stands to gain “far more than Donald Trump can ever take away” — a change in tone from Trudeau, who tried to get Trump to back off on tariffs by calling it “a very dumb thing to do.”

“We must react with a crushing force,” Carney said during a leaders debate in Montreal Wednesday, repeatedly calling the trade war “the most important crisis of our lives.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Survey finds parties reject call for Canadian nuclear weapons

No major federal party supports developing Canadian nuclear weapons, according to a Ukrainian Canadian Congress survey.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the group had proposed building an independent nuclear deterrent as a safeguard against threats from Russia and future instability in the United States.

“Russia presents a serious and growing threat to Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic and to our NATO allies in Europe,” the UCC Survey Of Party Leaders stated.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

RCMP members who called for resignation of nine cabinet ministers explain motivations

Two RCMP members who openly called for the resignation of nine cabinet ministers in a letter say they are motivated by patriotism, not politics.

Sgt. Peter Merrifield and retired Detective Paul McNamara blew the whistle on what they describe as a catastrophic breakdown in Canada’s national security infrastructure and shared their reflections on the YouTube podcast Northern Perspective.

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

Trump is demanding universities change policies or face defunding. Would Poilievre do the same?

U.S. President Donald Trump has been threatening to cancel funding for some universities unless they accede to his demands to change ideological policy, similar to a pledge Pierre Poilievre has made for Canadian post-secondary schools.

But so far, the Conservative leader has been sparse on details of exactly what kind of action he might take.

Trump’s demands, which have sparked condemnation about interference in academic freedom, made headlines this week after the White House said it’s freezing more than $2.2 billion US in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University.

Trump is simply refusing to fund whacko academics propagating whacko ideas.

That’s not a threat to academic integrity it’s common sense.

The whackos remain free to be whackos just not on the public dime but of course Carney’s CBC paints this as a conservative attack on academic freedom.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Conservative Party, Election 2025, USA