Parliamentary budget watchdog forecasts sharp rise in deficit to $68.5B this year

OTTAWA – The parliamentary budget officer said Thursday he expects the coming fall budget will reveal a sharp increase in Ottawa’s deficit that puts the government’s previous fiscal anchors in jeopardy.

Ottawa’s fiscal watchdog Jason Jacques now projects the federal government will post an annual deficit of $68.5 billion this year, up from $51.7 billion last year.

He said in a new report that he expects federal debt-to-GDP is no longer on a declining path over the medium term — a ratio that previously was a key fiscal anchor for the federal government.

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

The Corporate Media’s Inexcusably Cozy Relationship with Antifa

President Trump’s designation of antifa as a domestic terrorist entity has the corporate media seething. In a vacuum, journalists expressing outrage at a president quelling domestic terrorism would probably sound insane. But for anyone familiar with the leftist press’s longstanding affection for antifa, the media’s response has been all too predictable.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAntifa

CHARLEBOIS: The TikTok effect on food

Whether we like it or not, TikTok has become one of the most powerful engines of consumer influence, especially in the food sector.

What used to be shaped by advertising budgets and lifestyle magazines is now often determined by a few seconds of user-generated video. Even mainstream news outlets increasingly rely on TikTok clips for entertainment value, giving them additional visibility and reach.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Jihad in Texas? Bullets Rain Down on Kids’ Baseball Tournament

A kids’ baseball coach was leading his team in a pre-game prayer when bullets flew across the Ameripark sports complex, locally known as The Rac, in Katy, Texas.

Players ran as the shots rang out. The team’s coach took a bullet to the shoulder. He was evacuated to a hospital by helicopter.

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

Idiot convert to Islam charged with terrorism elects trial by jury

A B.C. woman who used to belong to ISIS and is charged in Canada with terrorism offences has elected to have her trial next year heard by a judge and jury.

Kimberly Polman appeared in B.C. Supreme Court on Thursday by video for a half-day hearing to have federal prosecutors and her defence lawyers confirm dates for her trial and for pretrial matters before Justice Catherine Murray.

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

Netanyahu attacks Palestinian recognition as dozens walk out of UN speech

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attacked the recognition of a Palestinian state by multiple Western countries during a combative speech at the UN General Assembly.

Netanyahu labelled the recognition moves a “mark of shame” that sent the message “murdering Jews pays off”.

Dozens of officials and diplomats staged a walk-out as he took to the podium, leaving large parts of the conference hall empty. Outside, protesters against Israel’s war in Gaza gathered in Times Square.

The Star is real proud – Canada not part of mass walkout when Israel PM Netanyahu spoke at UN General Assembly

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Weasel Boy Carney quietly dropped more U.S. counter-tariffs than advertised

The federal government quietly removed more counter-tariffs on American goods than initially advertised, according to an order-in-council published online.

The notice published last month indicates that, with the exception of sectoral tariffs for the steel, aluminum and auto industries, all Canadian retaliatory tariffs have been removed — in apparent contradiction to what the prime minister had said about the decision.

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

Trump suggests Somali president ‘take back’ Rep. Ilhan Omar after she trashed Charlie Kirk’s legacy

President Trump snarked Thursday that he told Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to “take back” Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar after she made a series of vile remarks about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

“I met the head of Somalia, did you know that?” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, referring to the home country of the Minnesota “Squad” lawmaker.

“And I suggested that maybe he’d like to take her back. And he said, ‘I don’t want her.’”

Best President Ever.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Canada is failing to count how many overstay their visas

Douglas Todd: How can decision-makers plan for housing, jobs, schools, water supply, physicians, rental units and social services when a significant number of people who were supposed to leave the country aren’t being tracked?

It’s hard to run a city, or country, when you don’t know how many people actually live in them.

How can public officials and businesses plan for housing, workers, schools, water supply, physicians, rental units or social services when they don’t know how many individuals need them?

Yet, according to experts, that is the problem in Canada, especially in the Toronto and Vancouver regions. The federal government isn’t being transparent about how many people in Canada remain in the country after their visas expire.

My God but we need a Trump. (Incognito)

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

Dallas shooter intended target to be ICE not detainees – officials

Notes written by the person who opened fire on an immigration facility in Texas indicate he was targeting ICE agents and did not intend to harm detainees, officials said.

One detainee was killed and two others critically injured after a suspected sniper opened fire at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) centre in Dallas on Wednesday.

The suspected gunman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, law enforcement officials said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

Toronto group calls for $15 congestion fee for vehicles entering downtown core

A civic group is advocating for Toronto to adopt congestion pricing, following the route taken by cities such as New York, London, Stockholm and Singapore.

It’s a tactic aimed at reducing traffic in downtowns, with the collected congestion fees meant to go toward improving public transit and urban infrastructure.

Toronto sucks, this will make it suck more.

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

Tylenol is not recommended for those suffering TDS

Canada maintains Tylenol is safe for pregnant women despite US warning

Canadian health officials, for now at least, will not follow the lead of the United States in recommending pregnant women avoid using acetaminophen, more commonly known as Tylenol, after a study indicated it is a contributing factor in the autism epidemic.

According to officials from Health Canada in a September 23 statement, acetaminophen is safe for use for pain and fever during a woman’s pregnancy when used as indicated on the box/bottle.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media Lies, Trump Derangement Syndrome, WTF?

Doug Ford blasts Carney government for proposal to limit use of the notwithstanding clause

Ottawa’s bid to curb the province’s use of the notwithstanding clause is “way overreach,” warns Premier Doug Ford.

Ford, the first Ontario premier to ever employ the Constitution’s nuclear option to override the courts, railed against federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser’s request to the Supreme Court of Canada to limit its use to protect Charter rights.

“It’s way overreach with the courts. Again, Parliament — federal Parliament, provincial Parliament — they’re supreme because the people are supreme, not judges ruling on stuff that shouldn’t even be in front of the courts,” he said Thursday in Vaughan.

I think they have Dougie on a “Say something vaguely conservative” once a month regime.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Keith Olbermann needs ‘serious help’ as ex-colleagues warn threat-issuing broadcaster is ‘losing it’

Broadcaster Keith Olbermann has become ever more embittered and isolated as his work and influence have dried up, with former colleagues worried he needs “serious help,” The Post has learned.

Olbermann, 66, railed against members of the Trump administration on social media this week as well as threatening conservative CNN commentator Scott Jennings with “you’re next motherf—er,” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

Police did right thing releasing man seen trying to assemble rifle outside Toronto store, expert says

Videos of a man who appeared to be assembling a rifle outside a Toronto store that were shared online garnered thousands of views and the attention of police, who briefly took the man into custody before letting him go.

But while the incident raised alarm bells for a shop owner whose security cameras captured the incident, one legal expert says simply holding pieces of what appears to be a firearm doesn’t mean police can press charges.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?