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Canadian Energy Official To Biden: Why Look To Venezuela, Saudi Arabia For Oil? ‘We’re Right Next Door!’

“The Biden administration has flirted with lifting oil sanctions on once-shunned Venezuela to temper surging oil prices, yet it appears unwilling to encourage investment in domestic energy production,” Fox News reported.

Meanwhile, Biden’s advisers “are discussing a possible visit to Saudi Arabia this spring to help repair relations and convince the Kingdom to pump more oil,” Axios reported.

But one Canadian energy official last week expressed frustration with the Biden administration for not just turning to its neighbor to the north, which is among the world’s top oil producers.

by Blazingcatfur•March 21, 2022March 21, 2022•0•"Energy Matters", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

The war in Ukraine could force Canada to shed its self-image as a peacekeeper

Over the past three decades or more, Canada has suffered from a deep identity crisis whenever it has been confronted with the messy, brutal foreign wars raging in far-flung parts of this troubled globe.

The overwhelming brutality of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced the Liberal government in recent weeks to confront some thorny questions. What does a peacekeeping nation do when there’s no peace to keep?

And what do you do when faced with a nuclear-armed adversary whose default reflex is to wage war?

Once the CAF is fully transgendered Canada will be battle ready.

by Blazingcatfur•March 21, 2022March 21, 2022•0•Canada

Canadian Inflation Continues to Surprise Bank of Canada Forecasts, Merits Faster Tightening

Canadian inflation continues to surpass the Bank of Canada’s expectations and that likely amplifies the risk of a 50bps or larger hike at the April meeting. Momentum and breadth are both very high with further pressure ahead as Canadian monetary policy is far behind the curve.

by Sarcasticat•March 21, 2022March 20, 2022•0•Canada, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, Economy, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

NATO head urges Canada, other allies to do more on defence commitments

Canada has not spent more than 2% of its GDP on defence in decades

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says he appreciates Canada’s commitments so far, but expects all allies “to do more” and follow up on pledges to spend at least two per cent of gross domestic product on defence.

Stoltenberg stopped short of explicitly asking for Canada to hit that mark in its upcoming federal budget, referring instead to previous NATO agreements dating back to 2014 that commit allies to increase spending and focus on a GDP target of two per cent.

by Blazingcatfur•March 20, 2022March 20, 2022•0•Canada, NATO

‘Freedom Rally’ Heats Up in Calgary as Supporters, Counter-Protesters Confront Each Other

CALGARY—A protest close to downtown Calgary grew heated when demonstrators against government COVID-19 mandates came face-to-face with counter-protesters at a park where weekly “freedom rallies” have been held on Saturdays for months.

A heavy Calgary police presence, including mounted and bicycle officers, was on hand to keep the event at Central Memorial Park in the Beltline neighbourhood under control on March 19.

Despite a largely peaceful gathering, several heated confrontations and an arrest were observed.

About a thousand people turned up to this Saturday's freedom rally in downtown Calgary despite an emergency injunction. Calgary police say they have made six arrests. @JazzVickaryous reports. #yyc pic.twitter.com/qfvhJ6B2jm

— CityNews Calgary (@citynewscalgary) March 20, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•March 20, 2022March 20, 2022•0•Canada

Trudeau is still blaming law-abiding gun owners for crimes they had nothing to do with

The amnesty period for guns the Liberal government prohibited in May of 2020 was supposed to expire in less than six weeks, but this week the government extended it to October 2023. While this means gun owners are allowed to hold onto their legally-owned property for another 18 months, it also proves the Liberals are doing up their firearms policy on the back of a napkin. Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights executive director Rod Giltaca joined The Andrew Lawton Show to discuss.

by Sarcasticat•March 20, 2022March 19, 2022•0•Canada, Gun Control, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

CBC Retractions Demonstrate The Manipulative Circular Logic Behind Trudeau’s Imposition Of Emergencies Act

The government cited government-controlled CBC reports as part of their justification for imposing the act.

by Sarcasticat•March 20, 2022March 19, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Comply!", "Criminalizing Dissent", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, CBC, Justin Trudeau - Pissant, Totalitarianism, Tyranny!

Is this Canadian sniper alive? The truth is caught up in Ukraine’s ‘fog of war’ — and the Russian propaganda machine

La Torche et l’Épée is the place Olivier Lavigne-Ortiz went to write about crossing the border into Ukraine as a foreign volunteer fighter, and to share pictures of the weapons he got on the other side.

It means “The torch and the sword,” and for years the online blog and Facebook community has been the container for the former Canadian Forces sniper’s thoughts and observations about his time in conflict zones, where, as he told the Star in a 2016 interview, he views himself in a dual role as both soldier and storyteller.

That is, until the account went dark this week, a change from his approximately once daily posting since late February. At the same time, Russian social media accounts started spreading a now-viral rumour that Lavigne-Ortiz has died.

HMA

by Blazingcatfur•March 19, 2022March 19, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia", Canada

GOLDSTEIN: Canada — The Great Convenor of the Great Reset

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly gave us a glimpse into the mindset of the Trudeau government last week when she described Canada’s role in international affairs as a convenor of meetings.

by Blazingcatfur•March 19, 2022March 19, 2022•0•Canada

After Ukraine, how will the world replace Russia’s oil products?

As Boris Johnson flew to the Gulf this week to ask for more oil to replace supplies from Russia, he was accused by the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, of “going cap in hand from dictator to dictator”.

At the same time, a report produced by the International Energy Agency (IEA) underlined just how limited the options are for any economy seeking to replace Russian crude and other oil products.

How is it possible that Canada is not mentioned among other nations as a viable source of oil?

by Blazingcatfur•March 19, 2022March 19, 2022•0•Canada, WTF?

Was it really about vaccine mandates — or something darker? The inside story of the convoy protests

For three weeks this winter, a so-called “Freedom Convoy” delivered thousands of demonstrators into downtown Ottawa, turning them into an occupying force that snarled daily life in the nation’s capital and dominated the national conversation.

But who were the demonstrators, really — and what were they after?

Many of them positioned the protest as a fight against vaccination mandates for cross-border truckers. Others saw it as a campaign against pandemic restrictions more broadly. No doubt the occupation was many things to many people. But for several of its organizers, the protest was the culmination of years of work, their best chance yet to coalesce a movement around their preferred conspiracy theories and a violent anti-government ideology.

This Star piece was written by an Hysteric.

HMA it.

by Blazingcatfur•March 19, 2022March 19, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada, WTF?

How vaccination status might predict views on the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Unvaccinated Canadians are about 12 times more likely than those who received three doses to believe Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was justified, according to a new survey by national polling firm EKOS.

The poll found 26 per cent of those who identified as unvaccinated agreed the Russian invasion is justified, with another 35 per cent not offering an opinion. This compared to only two per cent of surveyed Canadians who said they had three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and who supported the attack, and four per cent who offered no view.

… The study concludes the results point “to the highly corrosive influences of disinformation.”

… Unvaccinated Canadians are also more likely to have a profound distrust of government, science and professional health experts, Graves said, and are more likely to support the protest convoy that occupied Ottawa for nearly a month.

“So the pattern was really clear that disinformation was not just a curious feature. It was, I think, a causal ingredient of vaccine resistance.”

HMA is your friend.

I conducted my own poll of me and my cat and found journalists were inclined to lie about the Convoy.

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•March 19, 2022March 19, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent", Canada, WTF?

Ontario reports maybe 2,078 new Covid cases … and Tam says the federal government is ‘examining’ all vaccine mandates

Ontario confirms 16 more COVID-19 deaths; ICU occupancy continues to drop

Ontario confirmed 16 more COVID-19 deaths and 185 patients in intensive care on Saturday, as the province prepares to lift mask mandates in most indoor settings on Monday.

The Ministry of Health says 13 of the deaths occurred in the past month and three of the deaths happened more than one month ago.

Tam says the federal government is ‘examining’ all vaccine mandates

Canada’s chief public health officer said Friday the federal government is actively reviewing all of its vaccine mandates with an eye to ending rules that force some people to get their COVID-19 shots.

Speaking at a press conference with reporters, Dr. Theresa Tam said the country’s public health officials are at a “very important juncture” and COVID-19 policies may soon shift from “an emphasis on requirements to recommendations.”

by Sarcasticat•March 19, 2022March 19, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Comply!", "Experts", "Science", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, vaccine controversy

Backpacks, beans and 60s-era rocket launchers: The military gear Canada pledged for Ukraine

Since Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24, Canada has joined more than a dozen countries in scrambling to send weapons to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. While we haven’t been able to pack cargo planes with prestige weaponry like Stinger missiles or Switchblade drones, there are nevertheless a fair amount of Canadian guns, rockets and pre-packaged meals soon finding their way into Ukrainian hands.

by Sarcasticat•March 19, 2022March 19, 2022•0•Canada, Ukraine, War

Rex Murphy: Putin is surely trembling over Canada’s ‘convening’ power

Canada “is a middle-sized power and what we’re good at is convening.”

When the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in lieu of any increased Canadian presence in the alarming crisis in Ukraine, makes a boast of Canada’s “convening power,” it is to wonder, perhaps even mandatory to ask, is Mélanie Joly serious? As bombs rain down, cities are pulverized, all canons of international behaviour outraged, we brag of a power to “convene?”

by Blazingcatfur•March 18, 2022March 18, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia", Canada, WTF?