UK to create alliance of ‘northern navies’ to counter Russian threat

UK to create alliance of ‘northern navies’ to counter Russian threat

Britain and its allies will forge a new partnership of “northern navies” comprising ships and drones ready to take on Russia, the first sea lord has announced.

In a speech at the Royal United Services Institute, General Sir Gwyn Jenkins said the UK was “at an inflection point” and “there is no time to lose” as he set out plans to bolster defences in northwest Europe and the High North.

Jenkins, the first Royal Marine to be appointed head of the navy, said: “The need to rearm and improve this country’s readiness for war has become an absolute necessity. Just maintaining the ‘capable status quo’ is simply not good enough. We are at an inflection point.”

No mention of Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Arctic Sovereignty"

Canadian Health Minister Eyes Possible Smoking Ban in Wake of Proposed UK Law

Canadian Health Minister Eyes Possible Smoking Ban in Wake of Proposed UK Law

Canada’s health minister says she is considering legislation aimed at permanently prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to people born after 2008.

Minister Marjorie Michel was asked by reporters during a press scrum on Parliament Hill whether Canada was contemplating legislation similar to a recently proposed bill in the United Kingdom that seeks to curb cigarette and vape use among youth.

Endorsed by Al Capone and Native Indians.

They never learn.

h/t Mauser

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

Trump warns Iran: ‘No more Mr Nice Guy’

Trump warns Iran: ‘No more Mr Nice Guy’

Donald Trump warned there would be “no more nice guy” in negotiations with Iran as he prepared to extend a naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.

The US president posted an AI-generated image of himself holding a rifle in front of several explosions and ordered Tehran to “get smart”.

He wrote: “Iran can’t get their act together. They don’t know how to sign a non-nuclear deal. They better get smart soon!”

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

Doug Ford’s PCs now in statistical tie with Liberals amid jet fallout: poll

Doug Ford’s PCs now in statistical tie with Liberals amid jet fallout: poll

The Ontario government’s decision to purchase and later return a $28.9-million private jet appears to have created turbulence for Premier Doug Ford and his Progressive Conservatives.

According to a new poll by Liaison Strategies, for the first time in its monthly provincial tracking, the PCs trail the Ontario Liberal Party by two percentage points among decided and leaning voters.

The Liberals, which do not have a permanent leader at this time, have the support of 38 per cent of decided and leaning voters while the Tories are in second place at 36 per cent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOntario, Ontario - Your Future Is Elsewhere

Chinese National Engineers Charged With Exporting Industrial Methamphetamine Factory to Europe, in Case That Exposes Beijing’s Role as Upstream Supplier of Synthetic Narco Trade

Chinese National Engineers Charged With Exporting Industrial Methamphetamine Factory to Europe, in Case That Exposes Beijing’s Role as Upstream Supplier of Synthetic Narco Trade

NEW YORK — A federal indictment unsealed this week has exposed what prosecutors describe as an industrial-scale methamphetamine manufacturing operation engineered by two Chinese national engineers, shipped from Shanghai across two continents, and designed to flood global markets with synthetic drugs at a volume that would dwarf most known production facilities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State"

Bank of Canada holds key interest rate at 2.25%, warning future decisions are clouded by uncertainty

Bank of Canada holds key interest rate at 2.25%, warning future decisions are clouded by uncertainty

The Bank of Canada kept its key interest rate at 2.25 per cent as expected on Wednesday and said any changes in the rate could be small if its projections for the economy held true.

Governor Tiff Macklem said the key rate is probably at about the right level if the economy follows the central bank’s projections, though he didn’t rule out future adjustments depending on how the risks play out.

“If the economy evolves broadly in line with the base case, changes in the policy rate can be expected to be small,” he said.

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Judge demands Indigenous sentencing report after offender claims he’s ‘Caucasian’: ‘He is plainly not’

Judge demands Indigenous sentencing report after offender claims he’s ‘Caucasian’: ‘He is plainly not’

A Yellowknife judge has insisted a man who claimed to be Caucasian get a report meant for Indigenous offenders before he sentences him for breaking into a hotel.

Jeremy Kuneyuna — who already has 90 convictions — appeared in the Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories recently to be sentenced for breaking into a hotel.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Justice, WTF?

Hundreds of police raid Islamic sect based at former orphanage over allegations of rape, modern slavery and forced marriage

Hundreds of police raid Islamic sect based at former orphanage over allegations of rape, modern slavery and forced marriage

Hundreds of police officers have today raided an Islamic sect operating out of a heavily guarded former orphanage in Cheshire following allegations of rape, modern slavery and forced marriage.

The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (AROPL) was previously based in Sweden before relocating to Crewe in 2021, moving into a former orphanage.

But it has faced allegations that followers are asked to offer up their salaries or sell their possessions to contribute to the religious sect.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia"

BARCLAY: The Liberals’ attack on human rights in Canada

BARCLAY: The Liberals’ attack on human rights in Canada

On April 17, Prime Minister Mark Carney celebrated the anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and declared that “it is up to us all to protect the values of freedom and equality enshrined in the Charter.”

Unfortunately, despite the fact that he has attempted to associate his Liberal government with the edifice of human rights in Canada, it is evident that Mark Carney has merely paid a glib lip service to Canada’s Charter and the fundamental human rights of all Canadians.

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

Nord Stream: A New Narrative Four Years On

Nord Stream: A New Narrative Four Years On

On September 26, 2022, several underwater explosions disabled three of the four Nord Stream pipeline lines in the Baltic Sea. The facts are well known: it was a deliberate act of sabotage against one of the key energy infrastructures linking Russia and Germany.

What remains unresolved, nearly four years later, is responsibility. Or at least officially unresolved.

That vacuum is now being filled by new narratives. The latest comes from journalist Bojan Pancevski, who in his book The Nord Stream Explosion introduces a particularly striking element: the involvement of a Ukrainian woman, a former adult model identified under the pseudonym “Freya,” in the sabotage operation.

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

Can Carney reduce Canada’s U.S. trade dependence? 50 years of history says ‘no’

Can Carney reduce Canada’s U.S. trade dependence? 50 years of history says ‘no’

Federal governments have for decades failed to reduce Canada’s dependence on U.S. trade, according to a new report, suggesting that Prime Minister Mark Carney faces an overwhelmingly steep climb in his effort to pivot the country away from its southern neighbour.

In a new report, the Fraser Institute studied the last 50 years of Canada’s trade diversification efforts, which included the signing of 16 free trade agreements with non-U.S. countries between 1988 and 2020. For all that work, however, Canada hardly increased its exports to non-U.S. trade partners, particularly in the last 25 years. Meanwhile, China — seemingly the sole benefactor from Canada’s diversification push — has gobbled up virtually all of what was diverted away from the U.S. in recent decades, the report found.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

From One Assassination Attempt to the Next: Mainstreaming Violence Against a President

From One Assassination Attempt to the Next: Mainstreaming Violence Against a President

Same Old, Same Old: Target Trump

At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Donald Trump was the target of yet a third assassination attempt—this time in full view of the Washington press corps.

The event was presented as a spirited night with Trump. After 11 years of avoiding the predominantly left-wing media event, he decided to revisit the dinner. He anticipated that he would be the object of ridicule inside the hall—and that he might see possible violence outside it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

My Little Coronary

My Little Coronary

Climbing the stairs from the subway left me winded. “You’re really out of shape you fat fuck,” I muttered to myself as I stopped to catch my breath, but the pain only started when I’d walked a block and turned the corner onto Simcoe Street, south toward the convention centre.

It was a new kind of pain. Since turning 50 there seemed to be some fresh variety of pain revealed annually, and I tried to play it down by telling myself I’d add it to the list. This was different, though – a steely sharpness that started in my chest and blossomed up through my shoulders to my neck and jaw.

I was on my way to a trade show for photographers and video makers in the big room on the north side of the convention centre where they hold the auto show every year. The same place where I’d lined up in the shadow of the CN Tower for the first dose of the COVID vaccine, joining the rest of the city eager to get back to normal life and a day like today – minus the chest pains.

NB: The author knew Kathy before I did.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World