Doug Ford says he threatened Home Depot shoplifter with ‘a beating’

Premier Doug Ford said he personally stopped a shoplifter at a Home Depot in July and warned him he would “kick your ass all over the parking lot” if he tried to flee.

Speaking to more than 1,000 people at an Empire Club of Canada luncheon Tuesday, Ford startled his audience by recounting the incident when he went to buy plants to prepare his Muskoka cottage for a visit from Prime Minister Mark Carney.

“I escape from my (OPP security) detail at 8 a.m. … before they come — it ticks them off. I hop in my pickup and I want to go to Home Depot, it was on a Saturday and I wanted to get some plants … it was the weekend before the prime minister came,” the premier told broadcaster Ben Mulroney.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

How often Canadian criminals get special treatment because of race or identity

Last week, a convicted killer in Manitoba was given a jail sentence of just seven years on the grounds that, as an Indigenous man, he wasn’t as guilty as a non-Indigenous offender might have been.

“The offender’s history of victimization, trauma, and cultural disenfranchisement is intricately linked to our country’s shameful legacy of colonialism and attempts at cultural genocide,” wrote provincial court Judge Geoffrey H. Bayly.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Two Tiered Justice"

The Business of Borders: The Economy of Virtue

How Western governments turned migration management into a taxpayer-funded industry.

The lights outside a motorway hotel in Kent still flash Vacancy, though every room is taken. Inside, corridors built for weddings and weekenders now house asylum seekers. The Home Office pays about £145 per person per night (roughly $180), six times the cost of standard housing, costing taxpayers nearly £8 million ($10 million) each day. At its peak, more than 50,000 people were housed across 400 hotels nationwide. The National Audit Office calls the scheme “unsustainable”: contracts signed in 2019 for £4.5 billion (about $5.6 billion) will balloon to £15.3 billion ($19 billion). The three main contractors, Serco, Mears, and Clearsprings, booked roughly £383 million ($480 million) in profit between 2019 and 2024, while the Home Office recovered less than one per cent in penalties. Britain spent an estimated £3 billion ($3.8 billion) on asylum accommodation last year alone, triple its 2019 figure. What looks like charity has become one of the government’s costliest business models

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints

The Young American Woman Who Fights For Our Enemies

“Glory to all the martyrs. Glory to the Axis of Resistance. May we witness victory in our lifetimes,” a young American woman told her Iranian hosts in a clip circulated in July. “Marg bar Âmrikâ. Marg bar Israel”—in English: “Death to America, Death to Israel.”

The woman’s name is Calla Walsh, and her journey to that stage in Tehran is a strange one. The child of professors, Walsh, now 21, took an interest in politics in high school. Her campaigns for prominent figures like Boston city councilor Julia Mejia and Senator Ed Markey once earned her praise in Boston magazine as part of the “Gen Z” takeover of Boston politics. Four years later, Walsh’s latest campaign is in Lebanon, where she effectively serves as a mouthpiece for the Axis of Resistance. She now considers the label “terrorist” a “badge of honor.” Walsh did not respond to requests for comment for this article.

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

Our peri-postliberal moment: What happens when liberalism is no longer enough?

“Conservatives used to respect precedent.”

That was the mocking response from Canada’s leading journalist of judicial supremacy, Andrew Coyne, to legal scholars who raised the alarm recently over the Liberal government’s proposal to limit what remains of parliament’s power by inviting the courts to invent new limits of legislatures’ use of the notwithstanding clause. Apparently, the traditional scope of parliamentary sovereignty is one precedent that Coyne is willing to abjure.

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

GM Faces $1.6 Billion Charge on EV Pullback

General Motors said it is reducing its electric-vehicle manufacturing capacity and booking a $1.6 billion charge on its EV business as demand sinks.

The company said that EV sales, already weaker than expected when GM set out years ago on an ambitious plan to eventually end sales of gas-powered cars, are expected to fall with the end of government-funded subsidies and regulatory mandates that fueled EV growth.

Communism = EV Mandates.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

We need Rooftop Koreans

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

Without acknowledging hard truths, Toronto’s traffic czar isn’t likely to get very far

Toronto city hall is looking to hire a “traffic czar.” But like Toronto traffic itself, the hiring process has been agonizingly, painfully slow.

The Star’s Ben Spurr reported last week that after Mayor Olivia Chow and Toronto council voted in April to create the car czar position — formally known as the Chief Congestion Officer — the job posting finally went up last month.

The delay in getting someone into this role is frustrating. The concept actually came from Coun. Brad Bradford, as a platform plank in his 2023 run for mayor, so it’s been more than two years since the idea was first floated. But the foot-dragging is not really surprising. Because deep down, I think even those doing the hiring know that this is a sucker gig.

The solution? Ban cars without saying you want to ban cars! Toronto sucks now it will suck worse forever.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Canadian Tire says customer info caught in data breach on e-commerce platform

Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. says it has identified a data breach involving personal information belonging to customers, which was stored in an e-commerce database.

The retailer says the breached information belongs to shoppers who had an e-commerce account with Canadian Tire or its other banners, SportChek, Mark’s/L’Equipeur and Party City.

The breached data included names, addresses, emails and birth years, as well as encrypted passwords and in some cases incomplete credit card numbers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCybercrime

Hamas Hokey Pokey on Dead Hostages?

It didn’t take long for the Hamas Hokey Pokey to return. This time, the terrorists are dancing with the dead — but Israel refuses to dance along with them.

h/t XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

No planes available: PM Carney charters private jet to Egypt for historic Mideast peace summit

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney was forced to take a charter flight to Egypt for the historic signing of an agreement to end the Israel-Hamas war because there were no air crews available to fly a Canadian Armed Forces jet.

The trip to Sharm-el-Sheikh was planned on short notice and the CAF members who usually crew flights on the Airbus passenger jets or smaller Challenger jets were deployed elsewhere, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.

It was cheaper than flying a Forces Airbus so there’s that, but Carney had no business there anyway other than as a prop for Trump.

h/t Mauser and Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Trump to Award Posthumous Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk

President Trump will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor, to the assassinated right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday.

Mr. Kirk, who was a crucial organizer of the MAGA movement, was fatally shot on Sept. 10 while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University. Mr. Trump announced his death on his social media site, Truth Social, and the following day, the president said he would award a posthumous medal to Mr. Kirk.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA