How Trump could make Canada better

As obnoxious as he is, Donald Trump may actually be doing Canada some good. His demands are forcing this country to rethink bad ideas, question sacred cows and brace itself for the challenges of the future.

Just this week, the U.S. President gave Prime Minister Mark Carney an excuse to jettison a wrong-headed tax on foreign tech giants. Because just about all of those giants are American, Washington has opposed it from the start, under Joe Biden’s administration as well as Mr. Trump’s. The heaps of money that were to flow to Ottawa from the tax would have come from the pockets of the millions of Canadians who use Amazon, Apple, Google or other digital providers. Higher taxes inevitably mean higher rates for consumers.

Funny how that works but the author still can’t shake the TDS.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

What if killing Canada’s digital services tax is just the beginning for Donald Trump?

OTTAWA—Call it a prudent climbdown, a show of weakness, or an unavoidable concession. There are several ways to look at Prime Minister Mark Carney’s 11th-hour decision to cancel the federal government’s Digital Services Tax last weekend.

But what if it’s also a tangible example of exactly what Carney warned would happen?

The Dairy Cartel speaks.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Australian PM vows ‘full force of law’ after arson attack at synagogue

Australia’s prime minister has promised to take strong action following an apparent arson attack on a synagogue in Melbourne.

Police are looking for a man who poured liquid on the synagogue’s front door before setting it on fire on Friday night. Some 20 people having dinner inside at the time were evacuated without any injuries.

Police are also trying to determine if the incident is linked to an attack against a Jewish-owned restaurant in the city on the same night.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

White male is suspect in Oshawa de-Hijabing say police along with 4 victims of a Canada so bigoted they have no doubt internalized the white man’s racism

Cops release suspect descriptions in ‘violent’ Oshawa swarming probed as potential hate crime

De-Hijabing Suspect

Investigators have released descriptions of five suspects wanted in connection with a swarming attack on a business owner in Oshawa that is being probed as a possible hate crime.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia"

Death by defenestration: only in Russia?

Thanks for the question. Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.The term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618 which became the spark that started the Thirty Years’ War.

The word comes from the Neo-Latin de- (down from) and fenestra (window or opening).[ According to Tim Zadorozhnyy, writing in the Kyiv Independent, defenestration is Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s favourite method of getting rid of his opponents.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Automakers want Canada to scrap its EV sales mandate. What would that do to emissions?

When Prime Minister Mark Carney met with automotive sector CEOs Wednesday about U.S. trade negotiations, one of the key issues the industry said they wished to discuss was the government’s zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate.

The mandate requires a certain percentage of light duty vehicles — passenger cars, SUVs and trucks — that are sold to be either fully electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids, starting with 20 per cent in 2026 and rising to 100 per cent by 2035.

Brian Kingston, president and CEO of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association, told CBC News on the way to the meeting that “the targets that have been established cannot be met” given current market forces.

CBC pushing the LPC green-scam.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Texas floods kill 24 people and leave many missing from girls’ summer camp

A major search and rescue operation is continuing through the night in Texas after flash floods killed at least 24 people and left many girls missing from a Christian summer camp.

There was little warning as the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet (7.9m) in less than an hour and flooding that followed swept away mobile homes, vehicles and holiday cabins where people were spending the 4 July weekend.

Rescue crews are still searching for up to 25 children who were among the 750 girls attending the Camp Mystic just outside the town of Kerrville 104km (64.0 miles) north-west of San Antonio.

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

Federal deficit projected to soar to $92B this year: ‘Unfair to pass these burdens on,’ C.D. Howe Institute says

OTTAWA — The Carney government is poised to post a massive deficit of more than $92 billion during this fiscal year, a new report from a well-respected financial think tank projects, almost double what was forecast just a few months ago by a non-partisan arm of the government.

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

‘I think I hit one. Hell yeah boy!’ US aid workers filmed shooting at Gazans

Armed US contractors at one of Gaza’s new aid distribution hubs appeared to fire at Palestinians before celebrating, leaked footage has suggested.

Video seems to have shown machine gun fire in the vicinity of civilians seeking aid, with an American voice shouting: “I think you got one.”

Another voice adds: “Hell, yeah, boy!”

Not sure this proves anything. We’ll see.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Canada’s immigration system must put national security ahead of applicants: Expert

OTTAWA — Canada’s immigration framework needs to put national security ahead of the interests of applicants.

That’s among many issues experts say need to change as Canada wrestles with what they say is decades of ineffective and damaging immigration policy, as the country deals with increased global security threats from bad actors.

h/t Auntie Polly

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Copper thieves target electric car chargers

Criminal gangs are targeting electric car chargers, stripping copper from the cables and leaving drivers unable to refuel.

InstaVolt, one of Britain’s biggest charging networks, said over 700 stations had been targeted in a wave that it has linked to organised crime. Incidents have risen from 140 a year ago.

The company has been forced to develop an anti-theft electric charger in an attempt to combat the crime wave. Bosses have said the spate of outages has dented consumer confidence in charging stations, affecting electric car uptake.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"