Lorne Gunter: Feds’ treatment of Alberta versus Quebec clearly uneven

Presently, Quebec’s legislature, the National Assembly, is debating a new provincial constitution that would declare Quebec a “free national State,” known as the State of Quebec, “fully sovereign” from the rest of Canada. The new constitution would assert that the province may appoint its own superior court judges (a power now reserved to Ottawa), conduct foreign policy separate from (or even at odds with) Canada’s foreign policy, ignore federal laws and participate in national institutions only when Quebec wishes to.

It’s effectively a declaration of independence without having to give up billions annually in transfer and equalization payments.

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

What Happened When Extinction Rebellion Had a Taste of its Own Medicine

Last week, I attended an event on climate change at the Hampton Inspired Hub. It was advertised as an update on the science of global warming. The first words out of the host’s mouth, however, were: “Thank you for joining us here with Hampton Extinction Rebellion.”

I nearly got up to leave, but it was raining outside and I already had a drink, so I decided to stay.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

Minnesota welfare fraud exposes the failure of assimilation

There is no whitewashing this scandal: segments of the Somali community in Minneapolis have been engaged in systematic welfare fraud, and used some of the proceeds to fund the Al-Shabaab terror group in their homeland.

The enraging City Journal exposé presents a case study in why the United States must drastically slash the number of immigrants it admits, and become significantly more rigorous in choosing whom to admit and how to assimilate them.

“There is an issue here that is real,” a law-enforcement source said, “and if there is ever an event that is traceable back to these funds, or to people from this area, then this situation will take on a whole new set of optics.”

Awesome news!

h/t Auntie Polly

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

The enablers: A network of professionals, family and friends allegedly kept Ryan Wedding’s vast cocaine empire afloat

A network of seemingly legitimate professionals in Canada and abroad are accused of keeping a billion-dollar drug cartel afloat under the violent leadership of former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding.

While Wedding is named as the improbable mastermind behind a vast cocaine empire — compared by the FBI to history’s most notorious drug lords Pablo Escobar and El Chapo Guzman — nine other people were also alleged by the U.S. government to form a “network of enablers” who stop him choking on a mountain of hard-to-use dirty money.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Security ramps up in town awaiting arrival of 600 lone male asylum seekers

Security is ramping up around an army base that is set to house 600 male asylum seekers – as locals were told they would get ’48 hours’ notice’ before they move in.

Residents are in revolt over the plans for Crowborough Army Training Camp in East Sussex, with thousands of people turning out every week for noisy protests.

Today, guards with dogs were seen patrolling the site, where a secondary security fence has been erected alongside a series of residential huts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, UK

New US rules say countries with diversity policies are infringing human rights

Countries enforcing race or gender diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies will now be at risk of the Trump administration deeming them as infringing on human rights.

The State Department is issuing the new rules to all US embassies and consulates involved in compiling its annual report on global human rights abuses.

The new instructions also deem countries that subsidise abortion or facilitate mass migration as infringing on human rights.

The changes, which the State Department says are intended to stop “destructive ideologies”, have been condemned by rights campaigners who argue the Trump administration is re-defining long-established human rights principles to pursue ideological goals.

In other words the jigs up.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity - Code for anti-White racism", "Diversity Fatigue", "Diversity", USA

Cape Breton gun grab falls short as Liberal MP confronted over ignored complaints

Questions are being asked of Liberal MP Jaime Battiste (Cape Breton — Canso — Antigonish) after he told the Toronto Star he hadn’t “heard anything negative” about Ottawa’s gun grab pilot program in Cape Breton.

Emails shared by the Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights on Wednesday detailed one of Battiste’s constituents venting their frustrations about the program on Sept. 22.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

Say hello to your AI granny

Doing the rounds on social media is the most disturbing advert I’ve ever seen. And I’m telling you about it because you need to be forewarned, just in case this Christmas a child or a grandchild happens to mention that it might be an idea to record a video for posterity, and opens the 2wai app.

2wai is the company responsible for the ad, and the service it offers is the creation of AI versions of family members so that relatives can talk to them after they’re dead. Catch ’em while they’re still alive, says 2wai; film a three-minute interview and Bob’s your AI uncle. ‘Loved ones we’ve lost can be part of our future.’ That’s its catchphrase.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence", WTF?

Canada has lost control of its immigration system — and Canadians know it

Recent polling shows that more than half of Canadians now believe immigration levels are too high — double the number from just three years ago. One-third think immigration increases crime, and six in 10 say too many newcomers fail to adopt Canadian values. These are not the views of a suddenly intolerant country. They reflect a public losing confidence in a system that no longer seems to protect their safety or the integrity of Canadian citizenship.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

JD Vance blames immigration for Canada’s ‘stagnating’ living standards

U.S. Vice-President JD Vance made a series of posts criticizing Canada’s political leadership, public broadcaster and immigration system, saying our living standards are “stagnating” because of all the “foreign-born” people living here.

In posts to his X account Friday, Vance says Canada’s elected leaders have created “immigration insanity” by leaning into diversity.

“While I’m sure the causes are complicated, no nation has leaned more into ‘diversity is our strength, we don’t need a melting pot, we have a salad bowl’ immigration insanity than Canada,” he said.

He’s absolutely right. Blame Trump if you must but Canada’s scumbag elites deserve the lion’s share of the blame for Canada’s sorry state.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUncategorized

Halfhearted Allies Keep Ukraine in a Futile War

Soon it will be four years. An unspeakable slaughter with horrifying numbers—300,000 Russian soldiers killed and perhaps 100,000 Ukrainians. Cities pulverized. The time of the bloodlands returned, with Vladimir Putin taking up the double legacy of Stalin and Hitler.

And all this for what? A village taken here, one retaken there. A motorized unit arriving to plant a flag on a church steeple and take a photo—then bolting immediately. Months of monstrous fighting in Bakhmut and Chasiv Yar (two battles I covered) and in Andriivka to capture tiny towns of which nothing remains but piles of rubble.

From the comments …

Doesn’t BHL understand that allowing Ukraine to hold on but not to win is precisely the West’s objective in the war?

And it is no scandal at all, but rather simple self-defense — letting the Ukrainians do our fighting for us. Eventually, Russia was going to attack the West, anyway. Now it will hesitate to do so, given its depleted military, political, economic and diplomatic standing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

The Future of Journalism

Reconciling abundance with authority

Three decades ago, the visionary social thinker Peter Huber published Orwell’s Revenge, a book that turned one of the twentieth century’s most haunting political parables on its head. Where George Orwell imagined a future of total information control, Huber saw the opposite: a world where digital technology shattered centralized authority. In 1984, the Ministry of Truth could rewrite history because it monopolized the tools of communication. But in the digital age, Huber argued, the networked computer would scatter those tools across society, producing an unruly democracy of voices. The Internet, he predicted, would not empower “Big Brother” but millions of “little brothers”—individuals able to report and argue and publish. What once seemed a one-way flow of information from elite institutions to a passive public was becoming a many-to-many conversation. The gatekeepers were being evicted by the code.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Journalists"

Shoppers point to chicken as bone of contention amid food inflation

For those searching for savings at the grocery store, many are finding out that there’s no safe place to take cover from sky-high food costs.

“The problem in recent years is all categories (of groceries) are going up in price, all at once,” said Sylvain Charlebois, Agri-Food lab director at Dalhousie University.

One shopper outside a Toronto-area Loblaw Grocery store shared with CTV News that in years past, her weekly grocery bill was around $80, but it now falls between $150 and $200.

Soon the government will feed their cheap foreign workers with Soylent Green!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Food Insecurity"

Russia’s Shadow War: A Warning for the West

Deliberate drone incursions into sovereign NATO airspace. Suspicious damage to undersea cables. Calculated attacks that test the West’s cybersecurity. All these actions by Russia have just been a prelude to the latest effort to intimidate the West from aiding the embattled Ukrainian nation.

Of late there has also been a deliberate effort to sabotage the Polish railway system. No surprise: the gateway had become a crucial gateway for sending military aid to Ukraine. That attack signals Russia’s willingness to escalate warfare beyond Ukraine’s borders and into NATO territory. This “anonymous” incident, however, reveals an extremely calculated strategy to intimidate European nations while Russia maintains plausible deniability.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRussia