Canada

The war bonds that endure

The Second World War brought Canada and the United States together to defend something that mattered. That started with divisive decisions not unlike those that the West faces today

“Good neighbour on one side; partners within the Empire on the other,” declared Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in July, 1938, positioning Canada between the United States and Britain. “Obligations to both in return for their assistance. Readiness to meet all joint emergencies.”

King’s desire to insert Canada between Britain and the U.S. was during a fraught period of global crisis, with militaristic Japan at war with China, with fascist Italy having crushed Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and, worst of all, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler aggressively building up his military, threatening neighbours and brazenly seeking war. What would Canada do in the coming months, as war loomed on the horizon? The awful decisions facing Canada more than 85 years ago are not dissimilar to those facing the Western democracies today.

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Poilievre keeps pressure on other parties to bring down Liberals as Tories plan fall agenda

Pierre Poilievre is keeping the pressure on other opposition parties to bring down the Liberal government as Conservatives met Sunday to map out the party’s strategy ahead of the fall sitting of the House of Commons.

MPs are returning to Ottawa on Monday, and the Conservative leader has said he would trigger a non-confidence vote at the earliest opportunity.

“Canadians cannot wait. They need to vote now for common sense Conservatives,” Poilievre said in an address to his caucus on Sunday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Immigration Control Is Smart, Not Un-Christian

Demanding that corrupt bureaucrats not dump 20,000 immigrants from the third world into your backyard is not un-Christian.

The current goings-on in Springfield, Ohio, and the surrounding area have captured national media attention. Stories of tens of thousands of immigrants, unceremoniously dumped by the Biden-Harris administration into a sleepy heartland town of barely 60,000, causing traffic accidents, clogging up welfare and social services, devouring the housing market, and leaving native-born American citizens homeless and financially overburdened — to say nothing of the rumors of household pets being feasted upon — have reignited the inexplicably-contentious debate over immigration and border control.  

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration is Class War", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Camp Of The Saints, Canada, USA

The return of ISIS: How a Toronto case fits into the global resurgence of a terror group we thought had been defeated

In the isolation of an encrypted chat group, the alleged plan of a Toronto man might have passed for the dark fantasy of a deranged mind.

It called for military tactical gear, a few hundred rounds of ammunition, black Islamic headbands bought from an online store and “some good hunting (knives) so we can slit their throats,” according to an indictment filed in a U.S. court against 20-year-old Muhammad Shahzeb Khan.

And there was a sickening boast to boot.

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

What would have to happen in Parliament to trigger an early election?

MPs return Monday to a House of Commons that promises to be even more volatile than it was when they left it in June.

The end of the Liberal-NDP governance agreement makes an early election more likely but not inevitable.

A party can only continue governing as long as it has the “confidence” of the House — the support of a majority of MPs.

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

Robert Libman: Montreal byelection could spell end for Trudeau and Singh

Despite all the media speculation, the leadership discussion within the federal Liberal caucus has so far remained pretty much bottled up inside the party, with public comments about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau relatively mitigated. But the bottle could pop after Monday night, depending on results of the byelection in the Liberal stronghold of LaSalle—Émard—Verdun, left vacant with the resignation of former justice minister David Lametti.

h/t Mauser

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

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Major Russian disinfo site featuring anti-Trudeau articles prompts calls for new focus at public inquiry

A website at the heart of an international Russian disinformation operation has produced more than a dozen articles about Canadian politics in an apparent attempt to undermine support for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and boost his chief rival, Pierre Poilievre.

The website Reliable Recent News has been identified by officials in Europe and the U.S. as a repository for pro-Kremlin articles that are distributed through a network of affiliated sites disguised to appear as legitimate news outlets.

Also Russia Russia Russia!

LILLEY: Canadian taxpayers funded Russia propaganda

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation", "Russia! Russia! Russia!", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Soccer surpasses hockey as Canada’s top sport amid growing concerns over brain injuries

For the first time, soccer has overtaken hockey as the most-played sport in Canada, according to a Department of Canadian Heritage study.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the shift comes amid increasing scrutiny of hockey-related concussions, particularly in junior and recreational leagues, which have been linked to long-term brain injuries.

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Release secret list of alleged Nazi war criminals in Canada, say Polish and Ukrainian groups

Canadian Polish and Ukrainian groups have joined calls for the federal government to release the full list of 900 alleged Nazi war criminals who came to this country after the war.

The list is among documents created by a 1986 federal government war-crimes commission led by Justice Jules Deschenes. For almost 40 years the federal government has refused to release the material to the public.

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Little-known program dominates Canada’s massive guest-worker scheme

Douglas Todd: A labour leader is frustrated Canadians know almost nothing about the vast International Mobility Program (IMP). He’s afraid bosses want it that way.

Union leader Mark Olsen is frustrated Canadians know almost nothing about Ottawa’s international mobility program. And he’s afraid company bosses want it that way.

The program is the vast federal guest worker program that now brings by far the most newcomers into Canada — with more than one million in the country now.

It’s also the program that Olsen believes makes it most easy for employers to exploit guest workers, which in turn harms Canadian workers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration is Class War", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Blame Trump For Everything Bad In The Whole World Says Blackie’s Star

Donald Trump’s fear-mongering about migrant crime is fuelling hate in Canada and the world

When I was 9 years old and my immigrant family moved to Holland Landing, Ont., to operate the hamlet’s sole Chinese food restaurant, I was told often by well-meaning locals that we were “good immigrants,” and the “right type” to let in. As early as the age of 9, it was pressed upon me that bad immigrants exist and they take away jobs, they commit crimes and they cannot be trusted.

I was a child, so I was seen as harmless and my family hardworking. As a grown woman, a professor no less, I am told I am stealing jobs from more deserving white Canadian men. I am frequently dismissed as a “diversity hire” or was told by seemingly well-meaning white colleagues that I’m “so lucky to be a woman of colour right now” — a notion that dismisses my qualifications and hard work.

She mentions Canadian issues such as Trudeau’s foreign student scam without laying blame where it rightly belongs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, USA

Congress Fed Up with Canada’s Discriminatory Digital Tax

Trudeau’s government has a remarkably poor record managing the digital world.

America is running out of patience with Canada.

This time, the issue is not the northern neighbor’s refusal to meet defense-spending commitments. Nor is it a revival of the softwood-lumber problem, now entering its fifth decade. This time, it is Canada’s break from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) efforts to determine an international agreement on how to tax global tech giants.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA