Why Some in Canada Want Out of the F-35 Deal With the U.S.

Why Some in Canada Want Out of the F-35 Deal With the U.S.

The premier of British Columbia has an additional suggestion for Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, in dealing with U.S. tariffs: stop plans to buy as many as 88 American-made F-35 fighter jets.
Not long after Canada said that it would retaliate against President Trump’s sweeping 50 percent tariff on hundreds of Canadian exports with tariffs of its own, Premier David Eby questioned why Canada would pursue supplying its military with the warplanes.

“When your friend kicks you in the back, one of the first rules is you don’t then go and buy $12 billion of fighter jets from that person,” Mr. Eby said on Tuesday, citing roughly the cost of the first 16 airplanes. “It makes absolutely no sense,” he added.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America

Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, a change he said would take effect immediately.

A White House aide said the order directs the Department of the Interior and Secretary Doug Burgum to make the change.

One of the five Great Lakes of North America, Lake Ontario borders both the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of New York.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

As Europe eyes Russia in sabotage attacks, some in Germany urge tougher stance

As Europe eyes Russia in sabotage attacks, some in Germany urge tougher stance

After a drone packed with explosives was found near a Ukrainian cargo plane parked at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany this month, security camera footage appeared to show the drone had struck the plane’s wing. That the drone failed to detonate seemed only to be luck.

Since then, details have emerged that German lawmakers say indicate a serious attack was planned at the airport, a major cargo hub that is also used by European and NATO military aircraft.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, Russia

East Gwillimbury’s UNDRIP Betrayal

East Gwillimbury’s UNDRIP Betrayal

East Gwillimbury’s UNDRIP Betrayal

East Gwillimbury Canada adopted UNDRIP through a secretive process that consulted Indian bands and deliberately excluded ordinary Canadians: residents, homeowners, businesses and taxpayers. (Full story)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue"

A Vision Of Alto: Years Late, Billions Over Budget: California’s High-Speed Rail Hasn’t Laid a Track

A Vision Of Alto: Years Late, Billions Over Budget: California’s High-Speed Rail Hasn’t Laid a Track

SHAFTER, Calif.—Some 18 years after California voted to launch a bullet train that would travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles in under three hours, the project now costs billions more than planned, is years behind schedule and has yet to lay its first track.

The 2008 ballot measure passed narrowly, 52.7% to 47.3%, kick-starting America’s largest active infrastructure project. A legislative bill said it should be completed by 2020, and the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s initial business plan estimated a cost of $33 billion. After years of legal battles, cost overruns, leadership changes and political fights, the price tag is up to $126 billion, with a high estimate of $231 billion, and it isn’t expected to be fully operational until 2040.

Canada’s next budget bomb is the Alto high-speed rail project

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The New Opium War: Fentanyl, China and the Case for Criminal Accountability

The New Opium War: Fentanyl, China and the Case for Criminal Accountability

OTTAWA — More than a century and a half ago, China learned a brutal lesson about the strategic power of narcotics.

During the nineteenth-century Opium Wars, British commercial interests, backed ultimately by military power, exploited China’s enormous market for opium. Addiction weakened communities, drained wealth and contributed to political instability. The wars and the unequal treaties that followed became embedded in Chinese historical memory as part of what Beijing still calls its “century of humiliation.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Transnational Crime"

Caen France: Deadly Car Ramming Not A Terrorist Attack Just An Act Of Diversity

Caen France: Deadly Car Ramming Not A Terrorist Attack Just An Act Of Diversity

Google translate from Fdesouche : Caen: Ibrahim I., a Chechen man, drove his car into a bus shelter, killing two people and injuring several others before fleeing the scene. A fight between two groups is believed to be the cause. The victims are reportedly from Egypt, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh.

From DW – France: Car rams crowd at bus stop in Caen

At least two people died and nine others were injured, six of them in life-threatening condition, after a car drove into a crowd in the northwestern French city of Caen on Wednesday.

“At this point we are not assuming a terrorist motive, but the investigation has only just begun,” deputy prosecutor Philippe Leonardo told journalists in the early hours of Thursday.

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

Former Iranian official living in Toronto was ‘critical’ to terror finance, CBSA alleges

Former Iranian official living in Toronto was ‘critical’ to terror finance, CBSA alleges

A former Iranian official now living in Toronto had a “critical” role in helping the Islamic Republic generate revenue needed to fund Middle East terror groups, according to government documents obtained by Global News.

A Canada Border Services Agency report released on Tuesday alleges that as a deputy director in Iran’s Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade, Abbas Omidi, assisted with the regime’s state sponsorship of terrorism.

If America is attacked and WW III breaks out I bet the US nukes Ottawa in the first retaliatory strike.

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

Dozens of US and Canadian citizens missing after flash flooding in Nepal

Dozens of US and Canadian citizens missing after flash flooding in Nepal

Dozens of Americans and Canadians are among hundreds of people who are missing following a deadly flash flood and mudslide near the Nepal-Tibet border, Nepali authorities say.

More than 350 people are so far known to have died, according to the authorities.

The US State Department said it was aware that Americans were impacted by Wednesday’s floods but did not provide numbers.

Translates as “Another Angle”

(more…)

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

Canada’s tough response to Trump’s trade war is winning fans in China

Canada’s tough response to Trump’s trade war is winning fans in China

In the wake of Ottawa’s forceful response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war, the White House on Wednesday said Canada “is joined only by the People’s Republic of China in choosing retaliation over negotiation.”

It’s a strange parallel for Mr. Trump’s team to draw – given Beijing fought the United States to a draw last year, winning concessions and breathing room to further shore up its economy against future U.S. pressure – but one that has also been made in China itself.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "China - Communist Slave State"

Has Mojtaba Khamenei DIED?

Has Mojtaba Khamenei DIED?

Iran’s Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has all but vanished from public view, fuelling fevered speculation in Tehran that the Islamic Republic is concealing the truth about who is really running the country.

Mojtaba was named Iran’s new supreme leader on March 8, a week after joint US-Israeli airstrikes killed his father Ali Khamenei on February 28.

He was inside the compound in Tehran when it was struck. Sources close to Mojtaba’s inner circle later told Reuters that the blast left his face disfigured and caused a serious injury to one or both of his legs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Ford backs Carney’s counter-tariffs and says ‘everything’s on the table’ in tough stance against U.S.

Ford backs Carney’s counter-tariffs and says ‘everything’s on the table’ in tough stance against U.S.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has thrown his support behind Prime Minister Mark Carney’s retaliatory tariffs against the U.S., as tensions between Canada and the Trump administration continue to escalate.

Speaking at a media conference in Vaughan, Ont., on Wednesday, Ford said Carney had done the “right thing” by walking away from a deal with the U.S., and that the PM has his “full support in standing up for our country” by introducing retaliatory tariffs. He added that Canada is “going to fight like we’ve never fought before against President Trump.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

The CIA might just have given an alarming signal that Putin is about to attack Nato

The CIA might just have given an alarming signal that Putin is about to attack Nato

There aren’t many reasons for Americans to visit Moscow today. Red Square lacks the glamour that the first Pizza Hut and McDonald’s gave it in those days of optimism and openness that followed the Soviet collapse. Visitors today only go to carry a warning.

In 2021, Bill Burns, then head of the CIA, cautioned the Kremlin that the full-scale invasion of Ukraine would be a disaster. It would fail and would leave President Putin’s regime weaker. He was right.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

CBC tells staff not to call 9/11 a ‘terrorist attack’

CBC tells staff not to call 9/11 a ‘terrorist attack’

With the 25th anniversary of 9/11 on the horizon, the CBC has circulated a memo to reporters and editors across all its news platforms reminding them not to refer to the attacks that claimed 3,000 lives and changed the modern world as “terrorist attacks.”

The missive from the broadcaster’s journalistic standards and practices office, a copy of which was obtained by National Post, includes a section of the “longstanding language guidance” on the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks carried out by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda.

Don’t put Muslims in charge of anything. They can’t control themselves. Their lives are an acting out of a cultish nightmare.

h/t patthedog

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, CBC, CBC Scandals, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?