Canada

“What’s driving New Democrats in the West away from Jagmeet Singh’s NDP” … An outbreak of common sense?

Earlier this week, Edmonton MLA Rakhi Pancholi said that buying a membership in the party she hopes to lead — the Alberta NDP — should not automatically bring a membership in the party Jagmeet Singh leads — the federal NDP — as it does now.

And even before that, the Alberta NDP and Saskatchewan NDP took it upon themselves to issue a joint statement denouncing a proposal made by federal NDP MP Charlie Angus that New Democrats in those two provinces saw as an unhelpful and inappropriate anti-oil-and-gas idea.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, NDP

Balkan Devlen: Liberals have irresponsibly turned foreign policy into a wedge issue

As the Cold War was heating up in the late 1940s, U.S. Sen. Arthur Vandenberg said, “Politics stops at the water’s edge.” This sentiment is not shared by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, it seems.

In their quest to find, or, sometimes, create out of thin air, wedges to stem their nosedive in the polls, the Liberals increasingly turn to foreign policy issues for electoral salvation. However, such instrumentalization of foreign policy undermines relationships with allies and, by extension, the Canadian national interest.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Justin Trudeau - Pissant, Trump Derangement Syndrome, USA

Canadian professor charged with abducting and raping 80-year-old grandmother with Alzheimer’s at Bahamas resort

New details are emerging about the Canadian tourist charged with abducting and raping an 80-year-old grandmother with Alzheimer’s at a luxurious Bahamas resort.

Gordon Wilkie, 61, of New Waterford, Nova Scotia, was arrested and charged with rape in the shocking incident on January 28 at the Warwick Hotel Paradise Island Bahamas.

DailyMail.com can confirm that Wilkie is a faculty member at Novia Scotia Community College, where he specializes in renewable energy and has been placed on leave following his arrest.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Read ‘secret’ Canadian air force documents on Chinese balloon

Recently declassified documents from the Royal Canadian Air Force show how two Air Canada flights spotted a suspected Chinese spy balloon days before it became headline news.

Once classified secret, the heavily redacted “vital intelligence sighting” report and air force “daily log” file from Jan. 31, 2023, offer a glimpse into how authorities initially responded to the high-altitude balloon, which was shot down days later.

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

RCMP lay more charges in alleged Ottawa teen terror plot, charging ‘co-conspirator’

The RCMP announced Friday they are laying two additional charges against a young person the force arrested in late December on terror-related charges for allegedly plotting an attack on the Jewish community.

They have also charged a second young person as an alleged co-conspirator, the force said in a statement.

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

School closures may not have been necessary to prevent spread of COVID-19, researchers at McMaster find

An “extensive,” two-year review of COVID-19 in schools and daycares has revealed that these settings were not a significant source of transmission of the virus when infection prevention and control measures were used, researchers at McMaster University have found.

The review was published Thursday in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health and examined more than 34,000 references, including databases, websites, and studies, related to transmission in child-care settings and schools across the globe.

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

Pierre Poilievre: Justin Trudeau rewards NIMBY gatekeepers

Canadians are living through a housing hell. Since Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister, rent and mortgage costs have doubled. Rents have reached a record-high average of $2,196 a month. It now takes 25 years for the average Toronto family to save up for a down payment. Before Trudeau, you could pay off an entire mortgage in that time. Over the past year, the cost to rent an apartment with a roommate jumped by 18.5 per cent, making it more expensive than living alone when Trudeau was first elected.

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

London, Ont., police training with Putin allied Chechen paramilitary group damages Canada’s image, researcher warns

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is Putin’s ally

London, Ont., police officers participating in a competition in Dubai alongside a Chechen group accused of committing atrocities in the conflict with Ukraine “damages the image of Canada,” says a University of Toronto professor with expertise in international relations and political science.

“When you are doing anything internationally, you have to also be aware of the image of the country, it’s not just a local matter. And so there’s an extra duty,” said Aurel Braun, who’s also an associate with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.

Ramzan Kadyrov: The Chechen Warlord Who Does Putin’s Dirty Work in Ukraine

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada, Chechens, Chechnya, WTF?

GOLDSTEIN: The clock is ticking down on Trudeau

Time is rapidly running out for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to decide whether he’s going to lead the Liberals into the next federal election.

Assuming the Liberal/NDP accord holds, it has to be held on or before Oct. 20, 2025 — 20 months away.

Junior is petty, vindictive and vain.

He will run out the clock even if he admits to himself that he has no chance of winning the next election. He simply enjoys making life as shitty as possible for Canadians.

His globalist sister is cut from the same cloth. People can’t afford homes but that troll gives a huge tax holiday to the LPC’s pals in the corporate welfare class.

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

Canadian academics involved in joint research with Iranian counterparts on drone research

Canadian academics have been collaborating with Iranian universities on drone technology and other research that could benefit Tehran’s armed forces and that country’s allies.

Moscow’s war on Ukraine has led to unprecedented levels of Russian-Iranian co-operation in the military, economic and political spheres, according to the European Council on Foreign Relation think tank.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada, Iran, WTF?

COVID protective equipment makers sue Ottawa for $5B in damages

Canadian manufacturers of masks and other equipment for protecting against COVID-19 are seeking more than $5 billion in damages from the federal government, saying Ottawa misled them about buying and helping sell their products.

In a statement of claim filed in Federal Court, the companies and their industry association allege the government made “negligent misrepresentations” that prompted them to invest in personal protection equipment innovations, manufacturing and production.

Some Liberals get greedy on the kickbacks?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Hamas supporters shut down parliament … Freeland demands someone’s bank accounts be frozen

Pro-Palestinian protestors removed from Parliament after interrupting proceedings

h/t Sweetpea

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, WTF?

Leaks, ineffective anchors, mechanical breakdowns among ongoing problems facing new Arctic patrol ships

The Royal Canadian Navy is trying to fix a series of problems on its new Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships including anchors that aren’t effective, a refueling system that’s too heavy to use, and areas on the vessels that are leaking.

In addition, the Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS) can’t perform emergency towing as was required in the original contract and some cranes on the vessels are inoperable, National Defence confirmed to this newspaper.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?