Anthony Furey: Toronto copies Mamdani’s worst idea — socialized grocery stores

It’s hard to say what’s the worst part about Toronto City Council voting in favour of government run grocery stores. Perhaps it’s just that, shockingly, it’s a real thing that actually happened, taking valuable time and resources away from serious governance that could improve the livability of Toronto.

Last week, Councillor Anthony Perruzza put forward a motion that “City Council establish a pilot project to open four municipally operated grocery stores within the City of Toronto.” The locations would be chosen with “priority given to neighbourhoods with limited access to full-service grocery stores and where residents have lower average household incomes.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

How could US forcibly reopen strait of Hormuz and what are the risks?

Kharg Island – sounds like a Klingon retirement resort

The arrival of American ground invasion forces in the Middle East over the weekend provides Donald Trump with the muscle for a perilous attempt to forcibly open the strait of Hormuz, Iran’s biggest pressure point in the war.

Iran’s chokehold on the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s oil trade normally passes, gives Tehran leverage that Trump understands, sending oil prices rocketing to more than $100 a barrel. The American president says he’s prepared to give diplomacy a chance, though bombing of Iran continues.

But even for talks, the dealmaker will seek a better hand. Trump said on Sunday that he wants to “take the oil in Iran”.

From the Commander and Chief …

h/t Mauser

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

Raymond J. de Souza: Canada’s long, sad history of non-policing police

The Toronto police have announced that henceforth, and forthwith, to better serve and protect, they will commence … policing!

Pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protesters will no longer be permitted to parade through Jewish neighbourhoods hurling antisemitic invective at the residents. As this deliberately aggressive harassment has been going on for more than two years, the minimal comfort offered by the Toronto police comes rather late in the day, but it is something. Protesters will retain the right to air their grievances — against Israel, against Jews — on the main streets and intersections. No longer can they disturb the peace on residential streets.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Oh No!

Crimson-clad clown flings shredded Quran at NYC mosque, smears feces on building: cops

A fit-challenged vandal dressed in red from head-to-toe flung ripped-up pages from the Quran at a Brooklyn mosque — then disgustingly smeared feces on the building, cops said.

The monochrome maniac unleashed the sickening attack on the Islamic Mission of America in Brooklyn Heights around 4:30 a.m. March 9 as the piggish perp threw the shredded pages on the mosque’s front steps, according to investigators.

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Jewish advocacy presses Ottawa to boost community security spending

A major Canadian Jewish advocacy organization is pressing Ottawa to substantially increase spending on security for synagogues, schools and community centres in the upcoming spring economic statement.

In a letter to Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, or CIJA, said additional money is urgently needed after national security agency warnings of a possible extremist attack against Canadian Jews.

Programs of this sort have been around for years. What happens is that Muslims always demand funding as well.

But don’t worry those church arson’s have really slowed down.

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

Why is a member of Canada’s Parliament denying slave labor in China?

Any notion that the Canadian government has become too cozy with the People’s Republic of China was certainly bolstered in recent days.

Michael Ma was born in Hong Kong but has lived in Canada since he was 12. He entered Parliament as a Conservative but, in 2025, he crossed the aisle, becoming a member of the Liberal Party. Since then, he’s run into trouble.

Carney is even more corrupt than Junior.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - China's 24th Province", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The NDP has a new leader. What does Avi Lewis’s arrival mean for the party?

Newly named NDP leader Avi Lewis promised to bring back the party from the political wilderness after its dismal showing in last year’s federal election.

“The NDP will start winning again because we will become that beacon to the 99 per cent — illuminating the darkening sky of these terrifying times with the energizing light of collectivism,” he said at the convention in Winnipeg on Sunday, after it was announced he had won the months-long leadership contest.

Lewis came out on top of a field of five leadership candidates that included Alberta MP Heather McPherson, union leader Rob Ashton, farmer Tony McQuail and social worker and municipal councillor Tanille Johnston.

Good Lord

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", NDP

Far Left in French Town Halls: Is Civil War Looming?

In the areas where they have just been elected, the mayors from La France Insoumise (LFI) are already making a name for themselves for all the wrong reasons. Recourse to violence, communalism, and sectarianism—they paint a worrying picture of France in the hands of the far left.

Although Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party is far from having secured the resounding victory it claims in the press following its results in the March 2026 French municipal elections, it has won a few symbolic strongholds that allow it to assert that a “new France” is emerging.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFrance

‘It’s ridiculous’: U.S. closing historic Border Road to Canadian traffic

COUTTS — Amid the howling winds of the Sweet Grass Hills lies Border Road, a 14-kilometre ribbon of manicured gravel stretching between the United States and Canada.

The shared road is on the Montana side, but Alberta maintains it.

North of the road lives Ross Ford.

On the south, it’s Roger Horgus.

Both are in their 60s but remember childhood days bounding back and forth across the invisible demarcation line to play.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Canadian Army overhaul looms as DND finalizes mobilization plans

The military’s operations command is currently drawing up an “all arms defence of Canada” plan which will lead to a major reorganization of the army this fall, says the country’s top army commander.

Lt.-Gen. Mike Wright, speaking at a land forces conference at the University of Calgary on Thursday, said the army’s existing four-division structure, which is largely administrative, is being torn down and replaced.

“The army we have is not the army we need,” Wright said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The Brit who spoke out for Hitler, the Americans who cheer for Iran

DESPITE having loved classical music since boyhood, I have never been much drawn to the music of the late Sir Michael Tippett. I suspect the fault lies in me, not in the composer the BBC Music Magazine ranked at number seven in a list of the 25 greatest British composers of all time, ahead of Gustav Holst and Thomas Tallis and even the German-born but anglicised Handel. I much prefer the music of his contemporaries William Walton and Benjamin Britten, not to mention the prolific and accessible Malcolm Arnold and the incomparable Ralph Vaughan Williams, with Britten being, in my opinion, the greatest musical genius to emerge from the British Isles.

Until recently, I knew very little about Tippett, except that, like Britten, he was an avowed pacifist who served time in Wormwood Scrubs as a conscientious objector during World War II; and, also like Britten, was a homosexual, but much more openly so, unashamedly presenting as camp in later life, unlike the reticent and almost puritanical Britten.

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