Why Mark Carney’s biggest brand asset is the Justin Trudeau contrast

In marketing, a brand’s positioning is defined by the choices consumers have. Politics operates the same way: a leader’s identity is shaped by how they differ from their rivals and the options they represent.

Right now, Prime Minister Mark Carney finds himself in a unique position. With Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre out of Parliament since losing his seat in the last federal election, Carney’s main rival has been largely absent from the spotlight, regrouping and preparing for a return in a safe Conservative riding. This has left Carney without a direct, visible opponent in the House of Commons or in the media, giving him a clear runway and allowing his brand to flourish unopposed.

I don’t see much difference.

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

FBI Concludes Jeffrey Epstein Had No Clients, Didn’t Blackmail Anyone, And Definitely Killed Himself

Deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein and his colleague, Ghislaine Maxwell, were both charged by the Justice Department with sex trafficking—and Maxwell was convicted. But according to the DOJ, the two apparently didn’t have any clients.

In a bombshell FBI memo leaked to Axios and published Sunday night, officials said they’ve reviewed more than 300 gigabytes of Epstein evidence—and haven’t found any vast human trafficking or sexual blackmail operation.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", WTF?

Shooter killed in attempt to ambush Border Patrol agents in Texas

An active shooter armed with tactical gear and a rifle opened fire upon Border Patrol agents as they arrived at a Border Patrol annex facility in McAllen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley on Monday.

Agents and local police returned fire and killed the gunman. No federal agents were hit, but one McAllen police officer was struck. Law enforcement sources say the officer is in stable condition.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA, WTF?

Driver charged over electric Jaguar that ‘went rogue’ on motorway

The driver of an £80,000 electric car that had to be rammed off the road by police after it “went rogue” at 100mph has been charged with a motoring offence and fraud.

Nathan Owen, 32, said the brake failed and he lost control of his Jaguar I-PACE as it tore down the motorway between Liverpool and Manchester because of an “electrical fault”.

He said he was on his way home from work on the first day of his job as a children’s support worker and feared he would die or kill someone else during the journey.

My guess is it tried to commit suicide after seeing those ads.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Camp Mystic death total rises to 27 after devastating Texas floods: ‘Our hearts are broken’

Camp Mystic announced a heartbreaking update Monday, confirming that 27 campers and counselors have now been confirmed dead in the devastating flash floods in Texas.

“Our hearts are broken alongside our families that are enduring this unimaginable tragedy. We are praying for them constantly,” the camp posted on its website.

Camp officials said they’ve been in contact with local and state authorities “who are tirelessly deploying extensive resources to search for our missing girls.”

CNN reporter Pamela Brown, who attended Camp Mystic as a kid, ‘overwhelmed with emotion’ as she returns to cover deadly Texas floods

The Texas Flash Floods

As I write this, the death toll in the Texas flash floods now exceeds 70, with 12 people still missing, including 11 girls and one camp counselor. It is a heartbreaking and horrific tragedy.

Many have been quick to politicize the tragedy in an effort to support whatever agenda that they were promoting before the disaster — climate change, DOGE budget cuts, operations of the National Weather Service, the Biden Administration. The one political implication of the disaster that I’m ready to call for is to reassert the importance of establishing a U.S. Disaster Review Board, a case made here at THB by Mike Smith last March.

Today, I share some data and context on the event for those wanting to go beyond seeking to use tragic deaths in hopes of scoring online partisan points. Shameful.

h/t PA Cat

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You"

A whole lot of pacifists of a sudden …

Canada should consider hiking GST, other taxes to pay for defence-spending boost: analysts

A steep new military spending commitment for Canada – the biggest increase in more than 70 years – has handed Mark Carney’s government a fresh challenge: how to pay for it.

At the June, 2025, NATO leaders’ summit, the Prime Minister pledged that Canada will spend as much as $150-billion annually on defence within a decade: equivalent to 5 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

What do police on the front line make of plans to stop the boats?

Migrant Doctors Head For England

France has sent officers into the water to slash and deflate boats as it weighs up new approaches to stem the tide of migrant crossings

Nicolas Laroye, a veteran of France’s border police, spent more than a decade patrolling the coast around Dunkirk in search of migrants. Now he shares the frustration of colleagues who have taken over what has become a near impossible task.

“Of course we want to stop the migrants,” he said, as we sat in a cafe. “But we know that they will keep trying and trying and that in the end they will all get through.”

I doubt they care much that the migrants are leaving France.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints

Germany Finally Wakes Up: Criminal Syrians No Longer Safe From Deportation

After the Austrian center-left coalition government became the first European country to deport a Syrian criminal earlier this week as part of a tighter asylum policy, Germany has now worked up the courage to do the same.

The German Interior Ministry announced on Saturday that it had instructed the federal migration office (BAMF) to take action against “dangerous Syrian individuals and delinquents,” a spokesman told AFP. 

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

Ottawa pressured to release secret list of Nazi collaborators allowed into Canada

The Ukrainian Canadian Congress sent repeated letters to federal officials urging them to withhold the names of suspected Nazi collaborators who entered Canada after 1945, according to newly released Access To Information records.

Blacklock’s Reporter says despite growing public pressure, the government continues to keep the names secret.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"NAZIS! NAZIS EVERYWHERE!"

Kelly McParland: EV mandate another fanciful Trudeau plan Carney forced to reckon with

It’s not always the unexpected that gets governments in trouble — often enough it’s their own bad judgement, poor timing or general clumsiness that gets in the way. But the unanticipated does happen a lot.

Parties and politicians put time and effort into concocting a set of policies aimed at winning votes by proposing remedies to problems identified as occupying top rungs of current voter concern. If they’re lucky they get elected, presumably intending to put those policies into effect at the earliest opportunity. Then the world shifts and pulls the rug from under them.

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

Russia’s ‘anti-woke’ visa lures those fearing a moral decline in the West

A network of Kremlin-backed influencers seek to portray Russia as a bastion of traditional values in an attempt to attract those who deplore Western “liberalism.”

In a brightly lit conference room of a Moscow police department, a smiling officer flanked by Russian flags and gilded double-headed eagles handed over small blue booklets to an American family of five — asylum certificates granting them the right to live and work in Russia after fleeing Texas because they felt their way of life was under threat.

“I feel like I’ve been put on an ark of safety for my family,” 61-year-old Leo Hare said at the time. “I want to thank President [Vladimir] Putin for allowing Russia to become a good place for families in this world climate.”

The object of this piece is to take a small scale phenomenon and tar MAGA, conservatives and the religious as Putinesque.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Journalists"

‘Only Islam Is the True Religion’: The Persecution of Christians, May 2025

Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Nigeria

“This is not a farmer-herder clash. It is a genocidal campaign. Our communities are being wiped out methodically. The international community must not remain silent.” — Dr. Joshua Riti, a local administrator, persecution.org, May 25, 2025 – Nigeria

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

Christopher Snook: Is Canada sleepwalking into dystopia?

It was easy to miss a minor blip in the cacophonous “great give-away” during this year’s federal election: the Liberal Party’s promise to expand financial support for in vitro fertilization (IVF) under the umbrella of its “Pathways to Parenthood” plan, which earmarked $400 million to ease access to the service. The monies will be disbursed through a series of payments (up to $20,000 per person) for a single round of treatment. The goal is, in part, to make IVF equally accessible across the nation.

But the government is also responding to the increasingly well-documented disparity between people’s desire for children and their ability to fulfill these aspirations. In an economic context often cited as hostile to childbearing, relieving any financial barriers to family life is as good a place to start as any when it comes to framing family-forward policy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography