CHARLEBOIS: Canada shouldn’t copy Trump’s beef blunder

CHARLEBOIS: Canada shouldn’t copy Trump’s beef blunder

President Donald Trump knows how to provoke and move markets. But when it comes to beef prices, he may have missed a few briefings on cattle economics.

Last week, Trump authorized an additional 300,000 metric tonnes of lean beef trimmings to enter the United States at the lower, within-quota tariff rate. Beginning September 1, the measure will permit up to 100,000 tonnes a month for 90 days. The imported trimmings will be blended with American beef to produce ground beef. The White House is encouraging suppliers to offer it at a 25% discount.

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

Democrats Openly Admit They Don’t See Unlimited Illegal Immigration As A Problem

Democrats Openly Admit They Don’t See Unlimited Illegal Immigration As A Problem

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., thinks the problem Democrats had with immigration was not that they allowed millions of illegals to invade the country, but rather that Democrats’ simply failed to explain to Americans that they should be grateful for living with illegal aliens who apparently make communities safer.

During an interview with the CT Mirror, Murphy claimed that President Donald Trump was trying to solve a “fake problem” of mass migration being a threat to the American people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Democratic Party, USA

Students aren’t being told the truth about the British Empire

Students aren’t being told the truth about the British Empire

The debate over how we teach the British Empire has become one of the most polarising arguments in modern British education. Some insist the empire was a force for progress – ushering in parliamentary institutions, the rule of law, global trade and modernity. Others emphasise its violence, exploitation and the long shadow it casts over current-day inequalities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Erasure"

COOPER: The Freedom Convoy exposed Ottawa’s dangerous war on dissent

COOPER: The Freedom Convoy exposed Ottawa’s dangerous war on dissent

In early April 2026, Tamara Lich, who helped organize the 2022 truckers’ Freedom Convoy to Ottawa, gave a talk at the University of Calgary. One of the largest lecture theatres, holding over 400 people, was nearly filled. She spoke for an hour and a half without notes and then took another half hour of questions. In return for some minimal assistance in booking the room, I was rewarded with a collection of chocolates (since consumed) and a copy of her book, Hold the Line: My Story from the Heart of the Freedom Convoy. Her talk and her book embodied in my mind the last gasp of Canadian self-respect and pride. More surprisingly, it also expressed the much rarer view that the struggle against bureaucratic tyranny directed by the Government of Canada was more spiritual than political.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

‘It will end when I die’: Mustafa was 14 when he was first raped by a group of men. Now, 80 assaults later, he reveals how dancing boys are being dressed as girls and brutalised by sick Taliban officials – and why it’s getting worse

‘It will end when I die’: Mustafa was 14 when he was first raped by a group of men. Now, 80 assaults later, he reveals how dancing boys are being dressed as girls and brutalised by sick Taliban officials – and why it’s getting worse

He cannot escape the memory of the knife. He holds his hand up and shows me the scar on the underside of his arm, just below the wrist. ‘I resisted,’ he explains, ‘so they forced me.’

Mustafa looks bereft as he recounts the first time he was abused. He was 14 years old.

‘My friends told me to come to a garden where we would eat fruit and drink nice juices,’ he tells me. ‘When I arrived seven men were waiting. I tried to resist. I shouted and screamed but they tied my hands and legs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence

Toronto-Quebec high-speed rail slush fund project should balloon to $150-billion over 40 years, document shows

Toronto-Quebec high-speed rail slush fund project should balloon to $150-billion over 40 years, document shows

An internal document obtained by The Globe and Mail shows the full cost of a high-speed rail line from Toronto to Quebec City is estimated at about $150-billion once four decades of operating and maintenance expenses are included – a figure that is well above the range regularly cited by federal officials.

Alto – the Crown corporation responsible for the massive infrastructure project – says the high-speed rail line will cost between $60-billion and $90-billion. The organization has said a more precise cost estimate will be released as the project is advanced.

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

When Iceland Said No to Brussels

When Iceland Said No to Brussels

“It is generally held that few nations have endured oppression and tyranny with greater politeness than the Icelanders. For centuries … they lived in understanding accommodation with oppression, without ever making an attempt at rebellion. To no nation was the very concept of revolution more alien. Icelanders were always ready to kiss the rod that struck them hardest, and to believe that the most cold-blooded executioner was their truest source of help and their safest refuge.”

So wrote Halldór Laxness in 1933, more than two decades before becoming Iceland’s only Nobel laureate in literature. Ninety-three years later, Icelanders appear to have misplaced some of their famous politeness.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEU, European Union, Iceland

Trump to refill US oil reserve with Venezuelan crude as Canada faces new competition

Trump to refill US oil reserve with Venezuelan crude as Canada faces new competition

CALGARY — US President Donald Trump said Sunday the United States will be using its newfound control over Venezuela’s crude oil to refill America’s depleted Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

In a Truth Social post, Trump said he would “fill up” the reserve because it had been “virtually emptied” during “Sleepy Joe Biden’s” tenure as president.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

This is worth watching just for Freeland’s twitch

This is worth watching just for Freeland’s twitch

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

3 Byelections

3 Byelections

CBC is offering live coverage.

A test of Carney popularity or voter TDS?

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

Scott Bessent Roasts Canada’s Supposed ‘Tit-for-Tat’ Tariff War: ‘What Are They Gonna Do?

Scott Bessent Roasts Canada’s Supposed ‘Tit-for-Tat’ Tariff War: ‘What Are They Gonna Do?

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has developed a reputation for delivering the Trump administration’s message with an unusually eloquent, and frequently sarcastic, edge, and Canada was the latest target.

In a CNBC interview Monday, Bessent laughed off the idea that Ottawa could meaningfully pressure the United States as the two countries escalate their trade war. The exchange came just a week after Washington and Ottawa imposed 50 percent tariffs on one another following failed negotiations to come to a trade agreement the Trump administration found satisfactory.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"