‘Sexile’ in the United States: Hundreds of transgender Americans seek refuge from Trump in Canada

Canadians For Sex Organ Mutilation Festishists

“In the first 24 hours after Trump’s re-election, we received 1,177 requests for assistance from the United States. Fifty-one percent of these requests were from trans people: 35% from trans women, 16% from trans men,” says Timothy Chan, spokesperson for Rainbow Railroad, an NGO with offices in Canada and the U.S. that helps LGBTQ+ people experiencing persecution and violence start a life in another country. Panicked by a government that threatens their civil rights, many LGBTQ+ Americans, especially trans people, are seeking to immigrate to Canada. Some are even requesting humanitarian asylum. Hannah Kreager, a 22-year-old American, is one of them.

Lucky Us.

H/T I forgot! Sorry!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The Depopulation Bomb

If humanity’s existence were threatened by plague, nuclear war or environmental catastrophe, people would surely demand action.

But what if the threat came from our own, passive acceptance of decline? This is not some theoretical curiosity: It is a reasonable extrapolation of globally declining fertility rates.

People aren’t demanding action. In fact, some think a smaller population is actually a good thing.

Dean Spears and Michael Geruso, economists at the University of Texas at Austin specializing in demographics, want to change that. Their book “After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People” is a deep dive into the facts and consequences of depopulation, and an impassioned argument against letting it happen.

They rest their argument not on the familiar need for workers to propel economic growth or shore up Social Security but on a more fundamental proposition: More people is a good thing in and of itself.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography

Why Canada’s civil service needs more ‘plumbers’ and fewer ‘poets’

Donald J. Savoie has spent decades studying the inner workings of Canada’s federal bureaucracy. He’s watched Ottawa grow more centralized and more crowded with what he calls “poets,” policy thinkers and advisers, while the “plumbers,” the front-line workers delivering services to Canadians, have not been prioritized. In an interview with National Post about the concept, as discussed in his recent book Speaking Truth to Canadians About Their Public Service, Savoie explains why that imbalance matters. Savoie is Canada Research Chair in Public Administration and Governance at Université de Moncton.

The civil service convinced themselves they were the ruling class.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Islamic State-backed Muslims attack a Catholic church in eastern Congo, killing at least 34

Muslims Massacre Christians in Congo

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Islamic State-backed rebels attacked a Catholic church in eastern Congo on Sunday, killing at least 34 people, according to a local civil society leader.

Dieudonne Duranthabo, a civil society coordinator in Komanda, in the Ituri province, told The Associated Press that the attackers stormed the church in Komanda town at around 1 a.m. Several houses and shops were also burnt.

“The bodies of the victims are still at the scene of the tragedy, and volunteers are preparing how to bury them in a mass grave that we are preparing in a compound of the Catholic church,” Duranthabo said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Persecution Of Christians

California’s $20 minimum wage hike cost state 18,000 jobs, study shows

A new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) this month found that California’s 2023 minimum wage hike cost the state thousands of jobs.

Researchers found that the state’s $20 minimum wage fast food hike has cost the fast-food sector 18,000 jobs since it went into effect in April 2024, representing a 3.2% decline in that sector compared to fast-food sectors in other parts of the country.

Robot win.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Canada condemns Hong Kong for issuing warrants to arrest some Canadians

The Canadian government released a statement Saturday condemning Hong Kong authorities who issued worldwide arrest warrants for pro-democracy activists — including some Canadians.

Hong Kong police announced rewards on Friday for information leading to the arrest of 19 overseas-based activists for their roles in what they called a subversive organization abroad, accusing them of violating a national security law imposed by Beijing.

We should send an angry note!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Hong Kong

Snobby PBS-NPR Station Manager: Uninformed Conservatives ‘Don’t Listen or Watch’

The playbook for the PBS/NPR lobby in the defunding fight has been to send liberal journalists to talk with station managers in small communities in red states, as if that somehow represents the Eastern leftist elites that make the programming on “public” broadcasting. Politico’s “West Wing Playbook” column talked to Don Dunlap, a station manager in Corpus Christi, Texas. Both Texas Senators and the local congressman voting for defunding these “public” propaganda pushers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State"

U.S. politics threaten to complicate Canada’s co-hosting of 2026 World Cup

OTTAWA – With less than a year to go until the 2026 World Cup, political tensions and U.S. policy threaten to pose problems as Canada, the United States and Mexico prepare to co-host the tournament.

Next year’s FIFA World Cup will be the biggest ever, with the three countries hosting a record 48 teams. Between June 11 and July 19, they will play 104 matches, most of them in the U.S.

The World Cup will do what it does best, leave tax payers holding the bag.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Bread and Circuses"

Trump, EU Reach Tariff Deal To Avoid Trade War

President Trump said he reached a trade deal with the European Union late on Sunday, avoiding a trade war with the US’s largest trading partner and marking his biggest deal so far in his attempt to remake the global trading system through higher tariffs for U.S. trading partners.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union, USA

Survey: Britons Believe Islam Incompatible, Muslim Migration a Negative

Less than a quarter of Britons think Muslim migration is a net positive to the United Kingdom and a clear majority say Islam is not compatible with British values, a study finds.

Britons are sceptical on the contribution of Muslim-faith migrants to the United Kingdom compared to arrivals from other faith groups, a survey conducted by major pollster YouGov finds. Among the key findings are that 41 per cent of respondents say Muslim immigrants have a negative impact on the United Kingdom while only 24 per cent say they have an overall positive effect.

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

Trump’s tariffs are promoting free trade — in Canada

TORONTO — In 2024, the grand prize at the Canadian Whisky Awards went to Paradigm Spirits. Its entrant, made with Canadian corn, aged for 19 years in American oak barrels and blended with a splash of Spanish sherry, beat some 200 competitors to be crowned Whisky of the Year. A judge called it “remarkable.”

It was a break for Paradigm, which had opened in an old Kellogg’s factory in London, Ontario, just a few years earlier. The women-owned-and-operated distillery was soon inundated with messages from Canadians across the country eager to buy the award-winning spirit, co-founder Irma Joeveer said.

But there was a problem: Canada’s internal trade barriers. With few exceptions, alcohol producers in one Canadian province are prohibited from selling directly to consumers in another. Vintners in British Columbia, for instance, can often more easily sell their merlots to oenophiles in other countries than within their own.

One thing about Trump – you can never call him all bad.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA