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What makes supply management so uniquely vile? Let me count the ways

Supply management presents a mystery in multiple dimensions. How is it possible, on the one hand, that every political party could be so fanatically devoted to this policy, for the benefit of such a narrow slice of the economy – roughly 9,000 dairy farms, plus a couple of thousand chicken and egg producers – and at such exorbitant cost to the rest, even going so far as to pass legislation forbidding Canadian trade negotiators to make any concessions on it, no matter what they get in return?

Coyne is right for a change.

by Blazingcatfur•July 23, 2025July 23, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Trump administration releases files on Martin Luther King Jr

US President Donald Trump’s administration has released a trove of records on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, including FBI surveillance files on the civil rights leader.

A court-imposed order had kept the documents, totalling 230,000 pages, blocked from public view since 1977.

Prominent members of King’s family had opposed the release. A statement from his two living children condemned “any attempts to misuse these documents in ways intended to undermine our father’s legacy”.

by Blazingcatfur•July 23, 2025July 22, 2025•0•MLK, USA

Britain waves the white flag to Islamization and illegal immigration

With almost every day that passes, Britain is progressively embracing its own destruction by groveling to its mortal foes and dumping big-time on its most loyal friends.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government is increasingly surrendering to Islamization while presiding over a poisonous culture of antisemitism that’s roaring out of control.

For the past decade, more than 170,000 illegal immigrants have crossed the English Channel from France in small inflatable boats.

by Blazingcatfur•July 22, 2025July 22, 2025•0•Camp Of The Saints, UK, USA

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill means Canada falls further behind in the race to attract top talent

This month, the United States Congress passed President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, which, among other things, extended and made permanent the income tax rate reductions and revised tax brackets first brought in through the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, namely a 2.6 percentage point cut to the top bracket. This should raise alarm bells for policymakers north of the border, as Canada will continue to have uncompetitive personal income tax rates compared to our American counterparts and fall even farther behind in the race to attract entrepreneurs, professionals, investors, and top talent.

by Blazingcatfur•July 22, 2025July 22, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Carney says he’ll only take ‘best deal for Canada’ in U.S. trade talks

Prime Minister Mark Carney says negotiations with the United States on trade and security will aim to get the “best deal for Canada.”

Carney spoke ahead of meeting with Canada’s premiers in Huntsville, Ont., where he is joining the talks on how to build a stronger Canadian economy and tear down internal trade barriers in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war and tariffs.

by Blazingcatfur•July 22, 2025July 22, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Under Trump, Border Patrol arrests immigrants far from U.S.-Mexico border

The Trump administration is increasingly relying on Border Patrol agents to help carry out the president’s mass deportation plan and arrest immigrants in cities far from the nation’s southern border — a departure from the agency’s traditional role that some lawyers and advocates consider alarming.

In the past month, Border Patrol agents have swarmed a Los Angeles park on foot and horseback; taken immigrants into custody at a New York City courthouse; raided a cannabis farm in California’s Ventura County; and detained day laborers at Home Depot parking lots as far north as Sacramento.

by Blazingcatfur•July 22, 2025July 22, 2025•0•Camp Of The Saints, USA

Trump to pull US out of UNESCO over DEI policies, pro-Palestinian, pro-China tilt

WASHINGTON — President Trump is pulling the US out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), citing its anti-America and anti-Israel leanings as well as its woke agenda, The Post has learned.

Trump ordered a 90-day review of America’s presence in UNESCO back in February, with special emphasis on probing any “anti-Semitism or anti-Israel sentiment within the organization.”

Upon conducting the review, administration officials took issue with UNESCO’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies as well as its pro-Palestinian and pro-China bias, a White House official told The Post.

h/t PA Cat

by Blazingcatfur•July 22, 2025July 22, 2025•0•UNESCO, USA

Trump thinks Canadians ‘nasty’ for avoiding U.S. travel, banning booze: ambassador

Canadians avoiding travel to the United States and banning American alcohol are among the reasons U.S. President Donald Trump thinks the country is “nasty” to deal with, the U.S. ambassador to Canada said Monday.

Pete Hoekstra told a conference audience on Monday that such steps “don’t send positive signals” about Canada treating the United States well.

Hoekstra was speaking at the annual Pacific NorthWest Economic Region Foundation summit in Bellevue, Washington.

Leave it to Ford…

#WATCH: Doug Ford urges buying Canadian-made products to impact the US economy, claiming Canada is an economic powerhouse…

Despite no economic growth in over a decade and an economy smaller than several US states.

Doug Ford is a retard. pic.twitter.com/aHI61AdA1k

— govt.exe is corrupt (@govt_corrupt) July 21, 2025

by Blazingcatfur•July 22, 2025July 22, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Pete Buttigieg’s DOT spent $80 billion on DEI grants, delayed air traffic control upgrades: records, industry insiders

WASHINGTON — Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg failed to replace outdated air traffic control systems while in office — with his agency instead shelling out tens of billions of dollars on a DEI agenda, according to federal spending records and airline industry insiders.

In one meeting, Buttigieg — who is said to be eyeing a 2028 presidential run — told industry executives that air traffic control upgrades would just allow them to fly more planes, “and so why would that be in his interest?” sources said.

by Blazingcatfur•July 22, 2025July 21, 2025•0•"DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", USA, WTF?

Lutnick Says Trump Will Renegotiate Trade Pact With Canada, Mexico Next Year

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said on Sunday that President Donald Trump will renegotiate the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) when the trade pact is due for review next year.

The USMCA, enacted during President Donald Trump’s first term in July 2020, replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The agreement requires that 75 percent of automobile components be made in the United States, Mexico, or Canada for a vehicle to qualify for tariff-free treatment. The trade agreement also mandates that up to 45 percent of parts and components be made by workers earning at least $16 per hour, according to the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.

by Blazingcatfur•July 22, 2025July 21, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Stellantis warns of $3.7B Cdn loss for first half of 2025 due to tariffs and some big charges

Stellantis, the maker of Jeep and Ram vehicles, says its preliminary estimates show a 2.3-billion euro (nearly $3.7-billion Cdn) net loss in the first half of the year due to U.S. tariffs and some hefty charges.

The head of Canada’s Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association (APMA) says plants like those in Windsor and Brampton, both in Ontario, can’t survive that kind of storm.

The automaker anticipates an impact of about 300 million euros (about $480 million) for net tariffs incurred, and also expects planned production losses related to implementing its response plan.

I doubt that EV Battery plant will ever be finished.

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2025July 21, 2025•0•Canada, USA

CHARLEBOIS: Why food prices haven’t spiked due to tariffs — yet

For months now, consumers across North America have been wondering: Where’s the inflation? With tariffs making headlines constantly — particularly under the Trump administration — many expected food prices to spike. Yet, grocery bills haven’t exploded. Not yet.

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2025July 21, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Canada Is the Best Friend America’s Got

We should be working together to counter China, not trapped in a harmful trade war.

When President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership in 2017, I was profoundly disappointed. In 2015, as Canada’s minister of international trade, I helped negotiate the ambitious agreement that set high standards for the global economy and countered China’s influence in the Asia-Pacific region. It was more than a trade deal—it was a strategic blueprint for shared prosperity and security among like-minded nations.

That withdrawal signaled a larger shift. The Trump administration over its two terms has steadily retreated from the multilateral, rules-based order the U.S. had built since World War II. It has refused to appoint judges to the World Trade Organization’s appellate body, effectively paralyzing the system that enforces global trade rules. It has turned to tariffs as a blunt instrument of coercion, wielding them against strategic competitors like China and longtime partners such as Canada.

Canada is riddled with ChiCom interference, not sure the USA would risk its security any further than it has with Canada’s Liberal government.

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2025July 21, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA

New York Magazine’s cover about Canadian fury got people talking. This is why it matters

A buck toothed national mascot throttling a squawking bald eagle under the headline “You Have No Idea How Furious the Canadians Are” had to get people talking. I suspect many who opined about it have not even read the extensive cover story in a recent issue of New York Magazine by Simon Van Zuylen Wood that attempted to let Americans know just how angry Canadians are about President Trump’s trade war.

I promptly posted about it on LinkedIn with the caption: “Captain Kirk is quoted in New York magazine”.

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2025July 20, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Two Days Inside the Movement to ‘Reindustrialize,’ and Rearm, America

Handy vehicle to have come the civil war.

Investors from Silicon Valley and senior officials in the Trump administration descended on a convention hall in downtown Detroit last week for a conference committed to spurring a “techno-industrial renaissance” in the United States.

In some ways, it looked like a normal convention. The makers of everything from carbon brushes to boat propellers milled around a large hall, looking at a flying boat, a customizable electric truck, an air taxi and a humanoid robot. But at times, it turned into an urgent and literal call to arms as discussions moved from manufacturing to national security.

“You will help us forge a future where we can build and sustain an industrial base that can deliver the critical weapons we need, fast and at scale,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the participants in a video message. “Time is short.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 20, 2025July 20, 2025•0•USA