Canada

How Canada’s elites are exploiting Trump’s trade war

The ruling Liberal Party has cynically reinvented itself as a patriotic protector of the people.

Once again, Canada is in an emergency. The situation is dire. This will be a difficult time. Canadians are going to suffer enormously. This is because we are at war. We will need to band together and fight back against this unforeseen threat.

This, at least, is what our elected officials have been telling us after Canada began retaliating in the trade war with the US. The same message has been repeated in various ways by leaders across the political spectrum, from Canada’s newly anointed prime minister, the Liberal Party’s Mark Carney, to his main rival, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre.

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

Insiders say Pierre Poilievre called Doug Ford for help — and the premier said he was too busy

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called Doug Ford to ask for his help in the upcoming federal election campaign, but the premier told him he would be too busy governing Ontario, the Star has learned.

Federal and provincial Tory sources said Poilievre phoned the premier on Monday to belatedly offer his congratulations for the Progressive Conservatives’ Feb. 27 re-election.

The conversation — 18 days after Ford’s victory, which then-prime minister Justin Trudeau had saluted moments after it was official — lasted almost half an hour.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Conservative Party

Canadian Journalists Try to Shut Down Reporting on New Prime Minister’s ‘Trans’ Daughter

This week, a Canadian conservative news outlet, True North, reported on an essay written by the daughter of Canada’s new prime minister for Yale University’s feminist magazine. The woman, Sophia Carney, who is now going by Sasha, is 24 years old, graduated from Yale two years ago, and stylizes herself as an activist and writer.

Yet Canada’s journalists are up in arms over True North’s revelations. They are refusing to report True North’s findings and are slamming those who even speak of them.

Why might that be? Why, of course, it’s because True North’s reporting, which discusses Sasha Carney’s (public) transgender identity, touches upon the topic of child “gender transitions.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Journalists", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media, USA

Both the U.S. and Canada should try a little self-awareness

Sun Tzu and Machiavelli – two of history’s greatest experts on power – were of the view that countries or leaders could only achieve success if they had self-awareness of one’s strengths and weaknesses. “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. … If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle,” Sun Tzu wrote.

It is as valid a proposition today as it was in their times, and self-awareness is likely attained as rarely as it was in ancient China or Renaissance Italy. Indeed, neither Canada nor the United States get great marks for self-awareness today.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Toronto: Prosecutors want Muslim charged with advocating genocide to be handled as case of terrorism

Crown attorneys pursuing charges against a Toronto man accused of promoting genocide against Jews and vandalizing multiple synagogues want the case prosecuted as terrorism.

Amir Arvahi Azar, 32, faces nearly 30 criminal charges. Prosecutors allege that he set fire to signs outside of Jewish temples, incited hatred on social media and had an arsenal of illegal weapons, including handguns and brass knuckles.

He’s going to be released under house arrest on account he’s not a white person.

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

Chinese Tariffs on $3.7 Billion Worth of Canadian Goods Take Effect

Chinese tariffs on $3.7 billion of Canadian agricultural goods and food products took effect on March 20, several months after Canada imposed tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) and metals.

The Chinese tariffs were implemented shortly after midnight, imposing a 100 percent levy on Canadian imports of canola oil, oil cakes, and peas, along with a 25 percent tax on pork and seafood products.

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

As many as 80 Tesla vehicles damaged at dealership in Hamilton: police

Hamilton police say they are investigating a “series of mischiefs” after dozens of Tesla vehicles were damaged at a local dealership this week.

According to police, officers were called to a Tesla dealership, located at 999 Upper Wentworth Street, on Wednesday for a report of damage to some of the store’s inventory.

This isn’t patriotism it’s terrorism.

Vancouver International Auto Show removes Tesla over safety concerns

The Vancouver International Auto Show has removed U.S. electric carmaker Tesla from its event this week, saying its primary concern was the safety of attendees and exhibitors.

Tesla has faced numerous protests in Canada recently due to owner Elon Musk’s proximity to U.S. President Donald Trump, at a time when Trump has imposed 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian imports and publicly made threats of annexation towards the country.

Smells like terrorism to me.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Terrorism - Domestic, USA

Mark Carney looking to Europe to boost Canada’s security in shift away from reliance on U.S., sources say

OTTAWA — In an effort to pivot away from Canada’s overreliance on the U.S., Prime Minister Mark Carney is looking to Europe to build new security alliances and a new defence industrial strategy that could see European-designed fighter jets built in this country.

But two Canadian sources told the Star that prospect is only a possible implication of what Carney has set in motion after he ordered a review of the F-35 purchase plan, and travelled to Paris and London after discussing with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen his goal to see Canada be a player in the new drive to “rearm Europe.”

EU shuts Britain out of €150bn rearmament fund

A defense commitment to Brussels seems to be the price of admission. 

This sounds like the first move in preparation of the end of NATO and US participation in Europe’s defense?

The thing is Canada doesn’t have much by way of armed forces. No European country does, collectively they could be a reasonably formidable force assuming the will to fight exists.

But it makes no sense for a lightweight like Canada to be signing up to defend Brussels absent the protection of the US umbrella.

I bet Brookfield is scoping opportunities however.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Europe, European Union

Canadian researchers incensed that Trump will no longer fund the racist, anti-human and anti-American crap they push

Trump administration threatening Canadian researchers

Researchers working on projects funded wholly or in part by American federal agencies have been sent a lengthy questionnaire to determine how their work aligns with the Trump administration’s political agenda.

So the US should keep giving them funds to push anti-human, racist and anti-USA crap. Got it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Carney will ask Governor General to dissolve Parliament Sunday and call election, sources say

Prime Minister Mark Carney will ask the Governor General to dissolve Parliament and call a federal election this Sunday, Radio-Canada has learned.

The election campaign will kick off barely a week after Carney was sworn in as prime minister and appointed his cabinet.

Carney’s trip to Rideau Hall to speak to Gov. Gen. Mary Simon will come a day before MPs were scheduled to return after Parliament was prorogued on Jan. 6.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025

Toronto’s Chairman Chow supports removing U.S. flags ‘wherever possible’

The mayor of Canada’s largest city and economic capital says she supports removing American flags “wherever possible.”

The office of Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow told Global News in a statement Wednesday that Chow is OK with the measure, which some municipalities in Ontario are starting to adopt.

“We are proudly Canadian and will never be the 51st state,” her office said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

KLEIN: Canada sends $8.5B overseas while Canadians line up at foodbanks

On March 9, Canada’s Minister of International Development, Ahmed Hussen, stood at a podium and announced $272.1 million in new funding for 14 development projects in Bangladesh and across the Indo-Pacific region.

These projects aim to promote gender equality, advance sexual and reproductive health, and expand education and skills training.

The news came and went, barely causing a ripple in most media circles. No outrage. No tough questions. No debate. It was just another line item in the growing list of handouts from Canadian taxpayers to foreign governments and agencies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Ontario’s provincial police force could be using Israeli spyware, report finds

Researchers have uncovered “possible links” between Ontario’s provincial police force and an Israel-based military-grade spyware maker called Paragon Solutions, raising questions about the extent and scope of Canadian authorities’ use of cyber weapons.

The new findings were published by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, which tracks and identifies digital threats against civil society, and come three years after a parliamentary committee in Canada called for Ottawa to update the country’s privacy laws in the wake of press reports that the national police force was using spyware to hack mobile phone devices. No laws were ever passed to address the controversy.

The Citizen Lab, in a report published on Wednesday, found a possible technical link between Paragon, which sells a spyware known as Graphite to government clients, and entities based in Ontario, Canada, including one that used the address of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP).

This stuff always ends up used well beyond the original intent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Canada