With four vacant ridings, why did Carney call just three byelections?

With four vacant ridings, why did Carney call just three byelections?

Voters in three federal ridings are being courted this summer by candidates hoping to fill vacant seats in the House of Commons.

There are actually four ridings without an MP right now, but only three byelections. Why didn’t Prime Minister Mark Carney call four?

The answer is a bit complicated, but the bottom line is that Liberal strategists would clearly have advised the prime minister that, given the unique political circumstances of the ridings that are currently vacant, the Liberals could give themselves a boatload more money to spend fighting off the Bloc Québecois in one vacant Québec seat by calling three byelections while depriving the BQ of cash it could use by holding off on that fourth by-election to fill a second vacant Québec seat.

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

Denmark’s military conscription ‘expanded and strengthened’ as tensions mount with DC and Moscow

Denmark’s military conscription ‘expanded and strengthened’ as tensions mount with DC and Moscow

An expanded class of Danish conscripts reported for training on Monday as the country anticipates dueling threats from Russia and the United States.

“Denmark is facing a new reality where the threats to our security are more changing and complex than ever before,” the country’s Ministry of Defense said. “That is why conscription is being expanded and strengthened in recent years.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDenmark, WTF?

Alleged NATO spy: Were red flags missed?

Alleged NATO spy: Were red flags missed?

In Belgium, Claire Biwei Zhang, the Canadian woman allegedly spying on NATO has launched an appeal to be released from pre-trial detention, while the Canadian government is scrambling to investigate its screening protocols to find out how it may have been infiltrated by a foreign power.

Global Affairs has acknowledged that Zhang’s security clearance for her NATO internship was approved by the Government of Canada after she was vetted by CSIS. According to its 2025 annual report, CSIS completed 129,740 screenings for the federal government last year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada - Security Risk Under Liberal Party Regime", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ariana Grande to take a break from public life amid ‘endless’ scrutiny

Ariana Grande to take a break from public life amid ‘endless’ scrutiny

Ariana Grande is to take a “much-deserved break” from public appearances and will no longer star in an upcoming musical production in London when she ends her Eternal Sunshine tour next month.

A representative for the US singer, 33, told People magazine that she “will be taking a step back from visibility” when the tour ends, after her appearances led to “endless, ongoing public scrutiny”.

Step back from the Ozempic.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Carney Liberals maintain 9-point lead over Conservatives heading into late summer

Carney Liberals maintain 9-point lead over Conservatives heading into late summer

OTTAWA — With only weeks left in the summer, the Mark Carney Liberals are holding onto their nine-point lead against the Pierre Poilievre Conservatives.

That’s according to Liaison Strategies’ latest federal tracker poll, released Monday, which shows Canada’s political landscape barrelling through the dog days of summer, with the opinions of decided voters largely unchanged from previous weeks.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics"

Spanish socialist politician called to replace ‘racists’ with migrants and vowed to ensure they were allowed to vote months before 60,000 Moroccans invaded Ceuta

Spanish socialist politician called to replace ‘racists’ with migrants and vowed to ensure they were allowed to vote months before 60,000 Moroccans invaded Ceuta

A video has emerged of a Spanish socialist politician calling to replace Spanish ‘racists’ and ‘fascists’ with migrants, vowing to ensure they would be allowed to vote only months before 60,000 migrants invaded Ceuta.

Irene Montero, the former Spanish Minister of Equality and member of the hard-left Podemos party appeared in a video from earlier this year pleading for support from ‘migrants’ and ‘people of colour.’

‘Please don’t leave us alone with all these fascists. We absolutely want you to vote. We’ve managed to get you papers, and now we want regularisation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

He was an aspiring rapper just getting his life together …

He was an aspiring rapper just getting his life together …

Two men cross paths inside a Toronto restaurant. Both are armed. Both are with friends.

Within minutes, the encounter escalates. Bullets fly inside the eatery on St. Clair Avenue West. A 23-year-old named Nakhari Henry-Robinson is killed.

Months later, Regent Park rapper Ridge “Biiig Rax” Kazumba is found guilty of second-degree murder in the August 2023 shooting. The now 29-year-old had just left a session at a nearby recording studio when he encountered Henry-Robinson at the restaurant.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Civilian who shot back at In-N-Out gunman reveals how he began self-defense training after another tragic shooting

Civilian who shot back at In-N-Out gunman reveals how he began self-defense training after another tragic shooting

The armed civilian who’s been praised for his ‘heroic act’ of returning fire on the In-N-Out gunman in Idaho said he began self-defense training five years ago after another deadly shooting.

Jordan Salinas, 35, was headed out for a horseback riding date with his girlfriend on Saturday afternoon when he was suddenly faced with putting the techniques he had learned to use.

He pulled into the restaurant’s parking lot around 2.30pm, around the same time that Chad Williams, 24, opened fire on innocent people with an AR-style rifle, cops said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

Are there climate benefits to Canada’s new relationship with China asks Beijing’s Ottawa News Bureau?

Are there climate benefits to Canada’s new relationship with China asks Beijing’s Ottawa News Bureau?

When Canada announced earlier this year that it would allow a token number of Chinese-made electric vehicles into the country, the gesture didn’t seem so much about climate action as a sop to ease Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola.

Now, it very much appears like the opening gambit in a deeper engagement with China on clean energy. Following up on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s momentous meeting with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping in January, Industry Minister Melanie Joly was in Beijing last month to discuss the feasibility of Canadian-Chinese EV ventures.

Meanwhile, the Canada China Business Council is organizing a cleantech mission to China in Beijing in November.

The CBC is owned by China now.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - China's 24th Province", "China - Communist Slave State", "Foreign Interference", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Ceuta leader accuses Morocco over ‘atrocity’ of mass border crossing

Ceuta leader accuses Morocco over ‘atrocity’ of mass border crossing

A growing chorus of voices have accused Morocco of helping to fuel the crisis in Ceuta, with the leader of the Spanish enclave describing last week’s border crossings as an attack on Spain’s territorial integrity that was seen as being “if not orchestrated, at least encouraged or permitted by Morocco”.

Spain’s interior ministry said late last week that 48,300 of the roughly 50,000 people who had turned up in Ceuta, a tiny Spanish territory in north Africa, had been sent back to Morocco. The extraordinary influx had overwhelmed the city of 84,000 and set off a political crisis across the EU as some member states laid blame on Spain.

More … Huge mob of Moroccans chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ clash with Spanish police after marching through Ceuta as enclave remains gripped by fear

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

‘Generation of moderation’ no more: Gen Zers drink as much as the rest of society, report shows

‘Generation of moderation’ no more: Gen Zers drink as much as the rest of society, report shows

Gen Z isn’t the teetotalling generation after all, according to new data. They just took some time to catch up to the rest of the drinking population, and their influence is reshaping the alcohol industry.

As a larger proportion of gen Zers reaches legal drinking age, the gap between them and drinkers at large “appears to have almost completely disappeared.” The report from IWSR, a leading alcohol data provider, dispels the myth that younger people imbibe less.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

WTF?

WTF?

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Young guns for hire – the teenage hitmen recruited to kill across Europe

Young guns for hire – the teenage hitmen recruited to kill across Europe

In a Stockholm suburb a man dressed in black appeared out of the winter night. Carrying a handgun, he approached 20-year-old Murad Abdelkader, a student on his way back from a shift at McDonald’s.

The gunman opened fire, shooting again and again as he approached his target. He fired the last shot into his victim’s head as he lay helpless on the ground.

The killer was 18-year-old Atilla Azimov. On that February night last year, he had killed the wrong man.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Transnational Crime"