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Joe Oliver: Four critical endgames are looming that could change the world

Around the world, endgames are looming in four high-stakes political, environmental and military disputes. The results will resonate well beyond the immediate protagonists.

Here at home, a Liberal government in its death throes is engaged in cringeworthy acts of desperation. The prime minister used his officials to publicly chastise his deputy PM for failing to prettify his economic and fiscal debacles. Then, predictably, he failed to persuade Mark Carney to board a foundering vessel with no lifeboats. Unless Trudeau jumps ship early to avoid electoral obliteration, long-suffering Canadians will have to wait 15 months for liberation from: high prices, unaffordable housing, profligate spending, rising taxes, massive deficits, intrusive regulations, divisive identity politics, alienating woke ideology, regional tensions, international humiliation and the absence of moral leadership. Whenever exactly he takes over, Pierre Poilievre will face a monumental task to undo the damage.

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

Canadian Armed Forces Taxi Service ‘pre-positioning’ ahead of possible evacuation of Canadians of convenience from Lebanon

Canadian Armed Forces ‘pre-positioning’ ahead of possible evacuation from Lebanon as tensions mount

The Canadian Armed Forces is “pre-positioning” assets in case its fleet is needed to evacuate Canadians from Lebanon amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, according to government officials.

Over the weekend, a Canadian Globemaster aircraft, used in humanitarian and peacekeeping missions, was spotted on a flight tracking website landing in Beirut.

In a statement late Tuesday night, the Department of National Defence said the military is “currently pre-positioning assets in the Eastern Mediterranean region” in case evacuation planning and logistical support is needed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Haras Rafiq: British, Canadian ‘soft’ counter-terrorism tactics have failed

Canada’s systemic reluctance to tackle extremist ideology is coming home to roost. Two weeks ago, Edmonton gas station employee Khaled Hussein was convicted on multiple charges under Britain’s Terrorism Act alongside radical British preacher Anjem Choudary. Last week, the RCMP announced the arrest of a father and son, Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi and Mostafa Eldidi in Richmond Hill, Ont. on charges that include conspiracy to commit murder for the benefit or at the direction of ISIS.

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

Some easy steps on terror front

… Seventy-eight per cent of 30,746 immigration investigations in 2022-23 ended with CBSA’s determination that the individual in question was “inadmissible” to Canada. There are many reasons why you might be found “inadmissible,” including security concerns, human rights violations, criminal record, misrepresentation, health issues, a loss of refugee status, etc.  That’s not a one-off: CBSA inadmissibility findings were even higher in 2021 and 2022.

If the vast majority of CBSA investigations turn up troubling information, it’s frightening to think our immigration screeners missed a publicly available ISIS execution video where Ahmed Eldidi allegedly dismembered “a spy” in Western Iraq prior to being granted Canadian citizenship. Was this a case of bad luck, underfunding, or inadequate training at our embassy in Egypt?

No. 1 – STOP IMPORTIMNG MUSLIMS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, terrorism, Terrorism - Domestic, USA

WARMINGTON: Time to send a message and arrest those who terrorize motorists during protests

Arrest them!

Going up into traffic on the Gardiner Expressway or on the lanes that lead to and from the highway is not protest.

It’s terror.

He’s right, but unfortunately for Canadians identity politics and so called “anti-Zionism” trump the rule of law.

Viva Islamophobia!

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

Michael Higgins: Shoplifting rates show how tough life has become in Trudeau’s Canada

Canada is turning into a nation of shoplifters, which is less an indictment of the criminal and more a sad reflection on our government.

Shoplifting increased 18 per cent in 2023, with 155,280 reported incidents, according to Statistics Canada. And that increase built on 2022, which saw a 31 per cent rise from the previous year.

Every crime tells a story, but some generalizations can be made about certain categories of offences.

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

FINLAYSON: Corporate head offices are fleeing Canada

Canada is losing corporate head offices.

Between 2012 and 2022, one-in-20 head offices closed or merged with other companies, according to Statistics Canada data, which tracks the number of large and mid-sized Canadian-based companies over time. Head office employment has also dwindled, dropping by around 6% since 2012.

The LPC’s lunatics are often in cahoots with our corporate welfare loons.

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

Tasha Kheiriddin: Liberal immigration policy risks turning Canada into terrorist haven

The federal Liberal government has a lot of policy failures to answer for: a sluggish economy, ballooning debt and numerous foreign policy fiascoes. But its biggest failure is on the most crucial of files: immigration.

Immigration is crucial because Canada depends on newcomers to fuel both population and economic growth: with a fertility rate of 1.33 children per woman, we are simply not replacing ourselves. Yet improperly managed immigration contributes to a host of social problems, including our current housing shortage and, even more disturbingly, the security of the country itself.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Tories reject allegation they are behind bot posts after Poilievre rally

OTTAWA – The Conservatives say they have no connection to a rash of conspicuously similar social-media posts that flooded the X platform following a Pierre Poilievre event in northern Ontario last week.

The Conservative leader held a rally at a conference centre in Kirkland Lake on July 31, to what appears in a video to be a packed room of several hundred people.

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

Man arrested after multiple Hamas supporters attacked his vehicle on Gardiner Expressway

A man has been arrested after multiple protesters were struck on the Gardiner Expressway Tuesday morning, Toronto police said.

The protest started on the expressway at Jarvis Street and involved about 40 people, prompting road closures in the area, Toronto police said.

Police would not confirm what the protest was about.

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

Peter Menzies: Canada’s Gamble With the Digital Services Tax May End Badly

Canada seems to be having difficulty understanding and regulating the internet.

That’s an easy conclusion to reach given the track record and negative responses so far to the Online News Act, the Online Streaming Act, and the Digital Services Tax.

When did the Trudeau gov’t do anything right?

Google Violated Antitrust Laws in Online Search, Judge Rules

Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search, a federal judge ruled on Monday, a landmark decision that strikes at the power of tech giants in the modern internet era and that may fundamentally alter the way they do business.

Judge Amit P. Mehta of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said in a 277-page ruling that Google had abused a monopoly over the search business. The Justice Department and states had sued Google, accusing it of illegally cementing its dominance, in part, by paying other companies, like Apple and Samsung, billions of dollars a year to have Google automatically handle search queries on their smartphones and web browsers.

“Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” Judge Mehta said in his ruling.

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

Can 24-hour drinking zones transform a city?

When Frank Sinatra sang about “a city that never sleeps”, he probably wasn’t thinking about the economic boost that busy nightlife can provide to a metropolis.

Yet a growing number of cities around the world are increasingly homing in on ways to strengthen their night-time economy.

Around 100 cities now have some form of “night mayor” or “night tsar” in place, to spur this work.

But most of those cities, including London, Sydney, and Sinatra’s beloved New York, are not up all night. In other words, they don’t allow bars and nightclubs to remain open, and serve alcohol, 24 hours a day.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Terry Glavin: B.C. doesn’t need to atone for its origins

The striking story of the ‘African Rifles,’ active during the 1860s, presents a different view of Canadian history than that preferred by Ottawa these days

Among the innumerable true stories that defy the dreary and depressing version of Canada’s history that Ottawa prefers nowadays — the version that requires interminable apologies, “decolonization” and acts of contrition, restitution and reparations — just one striking story involves the Victoria Pioneer Rifle Corps, otherwise known as the African Rifles.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada