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Toronto police release extended video of suspect setting vehicles on fire outside MP’s Scarborough home

Toronto police have released extended security video showing a suspect dousing five vehicles with what appears to be an accelerant before setting two on fire outside a Scarborough MP’s home Thursday morning.

The incident happened shortly before 1:30 a.m. near Bellamy Road North and Lawrence Avenue East, at the Scarborough residence of Liberal MP Salma Zahid.

#WATCH: Toronto Police Release Video In Search For Arson Suspect After Cars Were Set On Fire At Liberal MP Salma Zahid’s📍Scarborough Home. https://t.co/HWC3sZfEQN pic.twitter.com/x29hJ8iNMx

— 401_da_sarpanch (@401_da_sarpanch) August 28, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2026August 28, 2026•0•Crime

Russia ‘losing 6,000 more troops in Ukraine each month than it can recruit’

Russia is losing about 6,000 more troops in Ukraine each month than it can recruit, western officials have said.

While Russia is still acquiring new battlefield recruits at speed, with an estimated rate of 1,000 a day, in the last two months even this has not been sufficient to replace those killed or injured.

“We estimate that the gap between the number of people Russia is losing to casualties and the number they’re being able to recruit is around 6,000 a month at the moment,” one western official said.

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2026August 28, 2026•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Don’t bring back COVID-era shaming in this Buy Canadian moment

A humble plea: Can we not lose our minds?

As in, might we try to resist the urge to turn our collective animus toward the Donald Trump administration into something weird and McCarthyist at home? It’s easy to get swept up in the insanity of a dispute that is, at its core, entirely nonsensical. But there is virtue in not letting ourselves go mad, too.

I'll believe this crap when I see a single Costco store close down. Exactly. It's total BS. pic.twitter.com/zmyQvsxKdn

— Determined Canuck (@frenchlefty26) August 27, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2026August 28, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Student Op-Ed Calls for End of Second Amendment While Accidentally Making Case for It

Student op-eds are…interesting.

These are younger people who haven’t really lived much of their lives yet, but who have strong opinions on a great many things. That’s fine, obviously, because they have that right. Yet, because many of them lack real-world living experience, their arguments on things like guns can be baffling. Especially when they end up defeating their own argument.

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2026August 28, 2026•0•Gun Control, Gun Rights

Ontario leaves welfare cash unrestricted while Florida bans tattoos, vapes

TORONTO — Florida this week became the first U.S. state to stop Temporary Cash Assistance from being spent on tattoos, theme-park tickets, video games and vapes.

Ontario on the other hand has no equivalent limits.

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2026August 28, 2026•0•WTF?

MapQuest Defies Trump‘s Renaming of Lake Ontario to Lake America

MapQuest has made it clear the website will not budge when it comes to changing the name of Lake Ontario, which President Donald Trump renamed Lake America on Thursday.

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2026August 28, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Jamie Sarkonak: Britain warns migrants against rape, but Canada avoids offence

Last week, the United Kingdom released an orientation manual for migrants. Among the sage pieces of advice it offered to readers were “never use threat, force or pressure to make someone have sex” and “women can … choose who they marry.”

“If you have sex with someone without their consent, this is called rape,” counselled the manual. “Rape is a serious crime in the UK. You could go to prison, lose your support and accommodation, and it will affect your asylum claim.” Other topics covered included domestic violence and respect for others in public. It’s a quick nine pages. Indeed, Canada could probably make use of such a leaflet.

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2026August 28, 2026•0•"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Liberal Party Criminal Abuse Of Immigration Policy For Private & Political Gain"

Iran Mined the Strait of Hormuz With… Trash Bags?

“If Iran mined the Strait of Hormuz, how come we haven’t seen any ships sunk or damaged by mines?”

Good question. The answer seems to be less that ships veered away from mines and more that Tehran was largely bluffing with the mine threat, but the details — once again — veer straight into absurdity.

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2026August 28, 2026•0•"US Israel Iran War"

Canada will win this trade war

On Thursday, the White House put out an image of a bald eagle pinning a Canada goose under its talons and added a statement that managed at once to be obsequious, vulgar, and untrue.

“President Trump said it best: ‘Canada is easily the most difficult and unreasonable. They feel entitled, but they are not a State, and will be entitled no longer!” Canadian leadership chose retaliation over partnership — and America is no longer willing to carry them.”

Optimistic for a US publication.

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2026August 28, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Furious Wisconsin parent cited for tripping football player, 9, who was running for touchdown

An enraged Wisconsin parent was cited for tripping a 9-year-old football player during a youth league game when he became “upset over a play,” as the child’s coach declared it the “most cowardly act I’ve ever seen.

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2026August 28, 2026•0•WTF?

Detroit despairs as ‘insanity’ of Trump’s Canada trade war punishes city

Every day $1bn worth of goods crosses the river dividing Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, two largely blue-collar US and Canadian cities that have come to act as one in the creation of North America’s auto industry.

News this week of Donald Trump’s escalating trade spat with Canada has everyone worried. Political and economic leaders and observers labeled the move an act of “hubris” , blamed Trump’s “ego”, and called the escalation “insanity”.

“We don’t need Canada, they need us,” Trump declared.

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2026August 28, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Americans have turned against police cameras that track license plates, new survey shows

When Justin Cowgur, a city council member in Centerton, Arkansas, was asked two years ago to vote on a contract to install Flock license-plate readers, he found it easy to say yes. The Republican wine seller believed the artificial intelligence-powered cameras — which record passing cars’ plates into a database that officers can search to investigate crime — could help ease the strain on their understaffed police force and keep his bedroom community safe.

But lately, he’s come to regret the deal, saying he no longer trusts the company with the huge amount of data its roadside cameras collect. Earlier this month, after a parade of residents voiced concerns about their privacy and the system’s risk of abuse, he and other members voted unanimously to cancel the contract.

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2026August 28, 2026•0•"Surveillance Society"

Canadians are about to find out what Carney meant by ‘sacrifices’ — and it’s not pretty

In the days leading up to Mark Carney’s first budget last fall, the prime minister delivered an address that included an ominous but vague warning about needing to make sacrifices in the face of American antagonism.

The budget came and went, and it was never made clear what Carney had had in mind. Now, Canadians are about to learn what his statement really meant — and it’s not pretty.

Most economic modelling of the fallout from the current trade war has shown acute pain in specific areas, as well as some mild, temporary hurt in the broader economy, followed by a recovery.

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2026August 28, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

‘Our parents were crossing the border an hour before the flood hit’

Hundreds of foreign nationals are desperately waiting to hear from loved ones thought to be caught in the deadly flash flood and mudslide along the Nepal-Tibet border.

Sisters Shreya and Ashna Ahuja are among those anxiously waiting for some news of their parents, Deepak and Madhu Ahuja, who had travelled from Texas to Mount Kailash on a group pilgrimage.

“It’s only been one day, but it has felt like much longer,” the sisters tell the BBC. “We just love them a lot and want them to come home.” One of the siblings spoke to their parents just before the floods struck.

That house held and all survived.

Terrifying footage shows a flash flood sweeping through the Nepal–Tibet border, trapping people on rooftops and balconies. At least 469 have been killed, with hundreds still missing. pic.twitter.com/xRgRWmwut7

— Weather Monitor (@WeatherMonitors) August 28, 2026

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by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2026August 28, 2026•0•"Mother Nature Hates You"

COHEN: Jewish groups are wrong to support Canada’s ‘hate speech’ bans

The history of Judaism can be said to be the history of the power of free speech.

Going back thousands of years, ancient Jewish scholars debated everything under the sun — from criminal and civil law and theology to astronomy, mathematics, geography, ethics, and science. No topic, regardless of how controversial or obscure, was off-limits to these great thinkers as they probed the depths of human, physical, and metaphysical nature. Their debates and arguments were codified in the Talmud, which Orthodox Jews still study intensely to this day.

(Incognito)

by Blazingcatfur•August 28, 2026August 27, 2026•0•hate crimes