Mayors to Cities: Drop Dead

Far-left policies on policing, education, and taxation are pushing Los Angeles, Chicago, and others to the brink.

Rick Cole has spent several decades running cities, both as an elected official and as a planner. He has worked in suburban Azusa, California, and progressive-dominated Santa Monica and currently sits on the Pasadena City Council. Yet as he looks out at the urban future, he feels despair—most particularly, about the city of Los Angeles, where he recently departed as deputy mayor and chief deputy controller.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Progressive Hypocrites

Fearing fraud, Canada rejects most Indian study permit applicants

TORONTO — Canada’s clampdown on international students has hit applicants from India particularly hard, government data shows, as what was once a preferred destination loses its allure for Indian students.

Canada lowered the number of international student permits it issues for the second year in a row in early 2025 as part of a broader effort to reduce the number of temporary migrants and address fraud related to student visas.

About 74 per cent of Indian applications for permits to study at Canadian post-secondary institutions in August — the most recent month available –- were rejected, compared to about 32 per cent in August 2023, according to immigration department data provided to Reuters.

They should be rejecting every last one.

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

893 Companies Have Withdrawn From the Global Climate Initiative

Nearly 900 companies – including several large international corporations – have withdrawn from the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi). This initiative requires members to set scientifically validated climate targets in order to align their emissions goals with international standards. However, more and more companies are questioning the feasibility of these requirements. The withdrawal affects approximately seven percent of all participating companies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

B.C. court decision opens floodgates for future Aboriginal land title claims

The August ruling in the British Columbia case of Cowichan Tribes v. Canada marks a sea change in real property law and Indigenous rights law in Canada. In a 288,000-word decision, Justice Barbara Young ruled that the Cowichan Tribes hold Aboriginal title to as many as 1,846 acres of prime land in downtown Richmond, B.C., owned by the federal government, the City of Richmond, the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority and numerous private landowners.

At the heart of the decision is the historical fact that more than 150 years ago the British government sold the land to white settlers without properly dealing with Indigenous rights.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue"

Olivia Chow’s ‘genocide’ remarks spark calls for apology, resignation

Chairman Chow and her right hand Islamist Ausma Malik

Calls are growing for Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow to apologize — and even resign — after she publicly accused Israel of committing “genocide.”

Chow made the comments over the weekend at an event organized by the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM,) where she compared Israel’s operations to eliminate Palestinian terror to Japan’s ruthless and brutal occupation of China during the Second World War.

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

I’m Sorry, But HOW MANY Illegals Get Food Stamps?

It’s astounding, the things we learn when the money runs out and governments actually have to start prioritizing for a change. As the Schumer Shutdown drags through Week Five with no end in sight, the country’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — aka “food stamps” — ran out of money on Saturday. And given who was taking, it’s a miracle that there was any money left at all.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

France threatens to block Shein over ‘childlike’ sex dolls

French authorities have threatened to block Chinese online store Shein if it does not remove sex dolls with “childlike” features from its website.

The Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) said descriptions for the products on the Shein website “make it difficult to doubt the child pornographic nature of the content.”

The French daily newspaper Le Parisien said the product in question — an 80 centimeter (30 inch) tall doll holding a teddy bear — was accompanied by an explicitly sexual description on the Shein website.

No wonder the LPC is hot for China.

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

Ontario school board quietly publishes internal “Islamophobia” guide to staff

Ontario’s third-largest school board released a report via email guiding staff on how to support Muslim students and challenge Islamophobia. The 39-page guide, produced in collaboration with the National Council of Canadian Muslims, has raised concerns from parents and policy experts about the growing influence of ideology and politics in schools.

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

How migrants stall deportation by claiming they were slaves abroad

Within weeks of Shabana Mahmood becoming home secretary, her team realised that there was a serious loophole in the immigration system. A 25-year-old Eritrean man who entered the UK in a small boat and was due to be the first migrant sent back to France under the government’s flagship “one in, one out” scheme, had managed to halt his deportation flight by invoking an unexpected piece of legislation.

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

Poilievre says he’s confident he’ll survive January leadership review

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre says he is “very” confident he will be the one to lead his party through the next election.

“I think both January and the next election will go in the right direction,” Poilievre said in an exclusive interview on Rosemary Barton Live airing Sunday morning.

In January, Poilievre will face a mandatory leadership review, where his caucus will determine whether or not he will stay on as leader.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Obama privately backs radical socialist Zohran Mamdani for New York mayor

Two Muslim 5th Columnists

Barack Obama praised Zohran Mamdani in a private telephone call on Saturday, with just days to go before the New York City mayoral election.

The former US president described Mr Mamdani’s campaign as “impressive to watch” in the call and offered his services as a “sounding board”, according to The New York Times.

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