‘Steep decline’ continues: Canada-U.S. travel data down again in August

New preliminary data shows that trips between Canada and the United States are down once again in August, in what Statistics Canada notes is the seventh straight month of declining international travel.

Last month, 1.8 million U.S. residents entered Canada by automobile and just shy of 590,000 did so by air, down 4.5 and 3.6 per cent, respectively, from August 2024.

Canadian travellers, meanwhile, showed a “steep decline” in trips to the United States, with U.S. automobile travel down roughly 34 per cent and air travel down more than 25 per cent from 12 months prior.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Illegal Immigrants Finally Convicted Four Years After Raping 18-Year-Old Girl

The Bouches-du-Rhône juvenile court sentenced two men to long prison terms for the rape of an 18-year-old woman near the SNCF train station in Aix-en-Provence in December 2021.

“It’s a brutal rape par excellence,” said the victim’s lawyer, Maud Bertrand, to Le Figaro.

The court handed Mohamed Annabi, a 29-year-old Algerian, a 17-year sentence that includes a two-thirds security period, a permanent ban from French territory, and registration in the FIJAIS (automated judicial file for perpetrators of sexual or violent offenses). His accomplice, Amen-Allah Handiri, a 20-year-old Tunisian who was 17 at the time of the crime, received 15 years.

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

Charlie Kirk assassin picked spot that could allow him to get ‘miles and miles away’ in just minutes: retired FBI agent

Charlie Kirk’s assassin appears to have picked a rooftop from where he could make a quick escape and be “miles and miles away” within minutes, a retired FBI expert said early Thursday.

The sniper — who remains at large early Thursday — fired the single, fatal shot from the top of the Losee Center Building at Utah Valley University, some 200 yards away from where Kirk was seated in a pop-up tent speaking in front of 3,000 people, authorities have said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Elon Musk Commits $1 Million To Murals Of Iryna Zarutska Nationwide, Turning Public Spaces Into Culture War Battlegrounds

Americans are learning this week about the urgent need to rebuild insane asylums and expand prison capacity, given the Democratic Party’s nation-killing progressive mass-release policies that have flooded city streets and communities with violent criminals, such as the one who brutally murdered a young Ukrainian refugee woman in broad daylight on public transit in North Carolina.

H/T DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Carney considering scrapping tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles

If Canadians were in the driver’s seat, tariffs imposed by Ottawa on Chinese electric vehicles (EV) would have an easier road to the Canadian market.

At least that’s according to a Nanos Research survey with CTV News, which found 62 per cent of respondents either support or somewhat support removing a 100 per cent tax on all Chinese-made EVs, in the hopes that China may remove tariffs against Canadian crops like Canola.

Just what we need.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

No oil pipeline on the list of projects of national interest

As Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government prepares to announce the first projects of national interest it has selected, Radio-Canada has learned that no oil pipeline is on the list, according to three sources that have spoken to Radio-Canada.

“There is no [oil] pipeline project on the table,” one of them said, despite the federal government’s promise to make Canada an “energy superpower.”

Carney has never ruled out the idea of ​​supporting the construction of a new pipeline.

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

Trump Could Save 150 Lives in Chicago

Don’t black lives matter to Democrats anymore?

The number of dead in their city quietly passed 300 even while Illinois Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson protested President Trump’s plan to send the National Guard to Chicago.

In Chicago, a person is currently shot every 4 hours and murdered less than every 20 hours. As I write this, the death clock has already passed 300 and stands at 303. The number of people who have been shot is at 1,399 and by the time you read this, will be well past 1,400.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

From Trudeau to Carney, Canada’s Big Projects Plan Risks Same Cycle of Self-Dealing, Squandering, and Foreign Influence

VANCOUVER — Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced the launch of a Major Projects Office dedicated to accelerating nation-building initiatives. Most would agree Canada can and must unlock its vast potential to secure prosperity and safety. But if the serious vulnerabilities outlined here remain unaddressed as Ottawa prepares to push forward with this transformative plan, hidden outcomes that undercut transparency and security could undermine the very purpose of Carney’s effort—to rebuild a stronger nation.

The key unresolved matters involve vulnerabilities to foreign interference and the impacts of global money, along with a lack of protections for whistleblowers, while gaps in ethics and transparency persist.

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

Jamie Sarkonak: Charlie Kirk was reviled by the left because he was effective

If you haven’t followed Charlie Kirk’s time as a Republican influencer in the new right, you will at least recognize his face. He spent his media career — a high-profile one, though not a terribly long one at only 31 years old — making conservative arguments in an overall unreceptive media ecosystem.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world

Amber Vigh had taken the usual precautions when bringing her nine-year-old son, Carter, to summer camp in July 2023. There were no fires near their home in British Columbia, Canada. Her air quality app showed low levels of pollution. She could not smell any smoke.

Carter, a music-loving Lego enthusiast who had asthma, brought along his smiling shark tooth-patterned emergency kit that held an inhaler, allergy pill and EpiPen. When smoke did roll in from the north, Vigh took him indoors.

Wow our forests are a mass murderer!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You", WTF?

Is progressivism to blame for the West’s falling birth rates?

An NBC poll found this week that male Donald Trump voters under the age of 30 rank “having children” first among 13 options when asked what is most important to their “personal definition of success”. Female Kamala Harris voters, by contrast, put “having children” in 12th place. Zoomer women were less likely than their male counterparts to rank children as important, but the bigger difference was between Trump and Harris voters.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography

The Revolt of the Rich Kids

Armed with Ivy League diplomas and cultural capital but locked out of wealth and status, this disaffected class is fueling America’s new radicalism.

In America, we love a rags-to-riches tale. Think of Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish immigrant who rose from bobbin boy to steel magnate; Oprah Winfrey, who grew up poor in rural Mississippi; even

Elon Musk, the awkward South African transplant who transformed himself into the richest man alive.
These stories are endlessly recycled because they affirm a central American creed: that each generation can surpass the one before.

Today, however, that creed is starting to creak. In 2025, the most combustible force in American society isn’t upward mobility, but its opposite.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"extremists"

The Unravelling Accelerates

Minutes before we went on air, Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, was shot on stage in Utah. A quarter-hour after the show ended, President Trump announced on Truth Social that Charlie was dead. As I write, the assassin has just been taken into custody.

Notwithstanding his meteoric rise, Charlie Kirk was still at the dawn of his brilliant career. As I said right at the end of the show, he was only seven at the time of 9/11. That was a rough guess on my part, but proved to be accurate: he died a month shy of his thirty-second birthday, leaving a three-year-old daughter and a one-year-old son who will grow up with no memories of their fearless father.

h/t PA Cat

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Lunatic repping himself in attempted Trump assassination trial files bonkers witness list

The whackjob on trial for allegedly plotting to kill President Trump rolled out a list of witnesses he wanted to call to the stand, including the commander-in-chief himself, activist Mahmoud Khalil and a Secret Service agent he claims asked him to “spank/slap ass.”

Ryan Routh, the wannabe assassin charged with trying to gun down Trump on his Florida golf course last year, filed the unhinged list of 24 witnesses on Sept. 2, calling Trump an “insecure ego idiot-mad fool.”

Routh is representing himself at his federal trial, which got under way with jury selection this week in Fort Pierce, Florida, despite having no formal legal training.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The Dark Philosophy of Deliveroo

Food delivery apps are a harbinger of decline.

The Victorians were obsessed with the idea of the future.

Unlike the dystopias of the 20th century, crafted through the horrors of war and tyranny, the Victorian futurists imagined bright, mechanised utopias where technology delivered fairness, abundance, and joy.

Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888) pictured Boston in the year 2000 as a land of equal wealth, credit cards, and benevolent corporations. William Morris, in News from Nowhere (1890), conjured a pastoral Thameside vista where the smog and industry of London was replaced with an artisanal commune in which government and money were no longer necessary.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDecline & Fall