Canada

Alberta municipal leaders quash advocacy for permanent resident voting rights

A Calgary city councillor’s plea to have permanent residents be given the right to vote in municipal elections, an idea long dismissed by Premier Danielle Smith as unconstitutional, has been defeated.

Coun. Courtney Walcott made his case to fellow municipal officials from across the province this week during the Alberta Municipalities annual conference.

In an emotional and lengthy debate, mayors and councillors from municipalities big and small implored one other to reconsider who exactly they represent in office.

The Lib/Left will pursue any means to degrade Canadian citizenship.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Hope, history and hubris: Why it’s hard to walk away in politics – even from a dumpster fire

During Pride in Toronto early this summer, Kathleen Wynne, the former premier of Ontario, was wandering the crowds with her family when she spotted the tall, familiar figure of Justin Trudeau nearby.

One of the Prime Minister’s entourage noticed Ms. Wynne – there is much shared political DNA between her era at Queen’s Park and Mr. Trudeau’s generation of federal Liberals – and walked over to give her a hug. After he saw her, they strolled a bit together.

“He said to me ‘I’ve been thinking about you a lot recently,’ ” she recalls. “And I said ‘so have I been thinking about you.’ ”

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

THOMAS: Fraser’s Follies will not ‘actually solve’ Canada’s housing crisis

Sean Fraser – almost certainly lying.

Back in May, the Liberal/NDP’s Housing Minster Sean Fraser was traipsing across the country saying he would “actually solve” the housing crisis in Canada by building 3.9 million homes by 2031.

That works out to about 488,000 new homes that Fraser expects to have built every year from 2024 to 2031 to “actually solve” the problem.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Inside Canada’s largest mansion — abandoned for more than 15 years and left to rot

Peter Grant Mansion – Community College Inspired Design?

Once envisioned as a luxurious lakeside palace, Canada’s largest home now sits abandoned, with broken windows and unfinished floors serving as eerie reminders of what could have been.

The Peter Grant mansion, sprawling across 65,000 square feet on the shores of Lake Temiskaming in Ontario, has been left to rot for more than 15 years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Alberta jails working ‘quickly’ to bring in halal food options after calls from Muslim group

Provincial inmates will soon be able to eat food that complies with Islamic dietary restrictions after a push from an Edmonton social services agency.

The Alberta Ministry of Public Safety and Emergency Services on Friday said it is working “quickly” to implement halal food options for prisoners in provincial remands and jails.

They should serve pork 3 meals a day.

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

CSIS agents frustrated by delay for electronic warrant against long-time Liberal politician

It took at least six weeks for Bill Blair, then-public safety minister, to sign an electronic and entry warrant to monitor former Ontario cabinet minister Michael Chan in the lead-up to the 2021 federal election, according to documents tabled at the foreign-interference inquiry.

Sworn testimony made public Friday suggests that the delay was eight weeks or more.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canada begins commercially assisted departures from Lebanon

Also Lebanon

The Canadian government on Friday began coordinating commercially assisted departures for Canadians looking to get out of Lebanon amid mounting violence, Global News has learned.

Global Affairs Canada is reserving blocks of seats on commercial flights for Canadian citizens as it becomes increasingly difficult to book seats independently, sources in two government departments said.

They knew the risks. Not a finger should be lifted those who chose to move back.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Transgender Syrian On US “No Fly” List Bitching About Being Denied Entry To Canada

A transgender Syrian refugee claims she has been stranded in a Turkish airport for seven months after a Canadian diplomat alleged that she underwent gender reassignment surgery in a bid to gain access to the country.

Arwa Almsrawi had initially been granted refugee status by Canada after the nation received a referral from the U.N. Refugee Agency.

But while on her journey to her new homeland, she got into trouble at Istanbul Airport, learning she was on the U.S’ ‘No Fly List’ and eventually had her refugee status revoked.

I’m surprised Trudeau hasn’t personally intervened.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Canada, WTF?

Chinese Consul-General in Vancouver Issued Veiled ‘Warning’ to Canadian Politicians, Former MP Says

Former Conservative MP Kenny Chiu says he has raised concerns with authorities investigating foreign interference about a veiled “warning” issued by a former Chinese consul-general in Vancouver.

Chiu told The Epoch Times that he was concerned about remarks made by Tong Xiaoling during a July 2020 interview with the Vancouver-based Chinese language radio station AM1320.

“She was practically giving out a warning to Chinese Canadian politicians,” he said.

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

Trudeau gov’t dragging its feet on NORAD modernization

Documents reveal why Trudeau government needs to speed up NORAD modernization, expert says

OTTAWA—The federal government is off to a slow start on its 20-year plan to improve Canada’s contribution to the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) that it shares with the United States, new documents show.

Tabled in Parliament last week in response to a written question from Conservative MP Bob Zimmer, the documents detail how much money was spent over the first two years of the government’s $38.6-billion “NORAD modernization” plan. As of June this year, the government had spent $69.7 million on the initiative, more than half of which was used for expanding internal government services to start shepherding through the promised projects, which include new radar and communications systems, the documents show.

Trudeau would weaken the ability of NORAD to track Santa.

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

Canadians are not buying the ‘climate change’ narrative: government poll

Government polling reveals that most Canadians are not alarmed over “climate change” and will continue to eat meat.

According to in-house Privy Council research obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, over one third of Canadians think “climate change” could benefit Canada while almost half believe that “adapting to the impacts of climate change is cheaper than preventing it.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Snap Election Showdown: Crucial Next Few Weeks

While the Conservatives have been clear that they want an election today, a second federal party—the Bloc Québécois—this week left no ambiguity as to its position on forcing an early election, saying it wants passage of two key bills before November in order to retain its support of the Liberals.

The NDP’s position, meanwhile, still remains ambiguous, with the party saying it will be looking at confidence votes on a case-by-case basis.

I do not expect Trudeau to reject Blanchet’s Oct 29 deadline, both the rise in seniors pensions and the free trade exemption for the agricultural cartels are likely considered vote getters by a desperate LPC.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Asylum claims at Canadian airports are skyrocketing: Here’s why it’s happening

Asylum seekers became the focus of a jurisdictional tug-of-war this month when federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller accused conservative premiers of trying to “weaponize” asylum arrivals for political gain.

The federal Liberal government is hoping to alleviate pressure on Quebec and Ontario, where the bulk of asylum seekers are entering through airports in Toronto and Montreal, by resettling asylum seekers more evenly in other provinces across the country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

What if our housing crisis can’t be fixed?

It’s a puzzle. Whatever its answer, its consequences are likely to foment an upheaval in Canada that the coming defeat of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and the election of a Conservative government should not be expected to forestall.

The puzzle, by the reckoning of urban planner, landscape architect, author and University of British Columbia professor Patrick Condon, can be put this way.

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

The scandal that shocked Parliament in the spring is slowly fading from memory

For a few weeks in June, concerns ran high on Parliament Hill about unnamed MPs or senators possibly being compromised, perhaps even consciously, by foreign states — fears raised by a startling but opaque report by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians.

“We cannot and must not remain indifferent in light of such a revelation,” Bloc Quebecois MP Rene Villemure said.

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