Can the Oscars leave its woke era behind?

This year’s Oscars feel oddly bloodless. Not because there are no good films in the race, but because the ceremony increasingly resembles a formality. As far as the acting awards go, Michael B Jordan looks like a well-deserved shoo-in for best actor, and Jessie Buckley seems nailed on for best actress. Even more contested categories like Best Picture feel like a foregone conclusion. We all suspect that One Battle After Another is going to sweep up the awards. There is no sense that there is a genuine competition going on here.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

I’m a Muslim woman who escaped Islamic radicals in Iraq. Now I see an even more terrifying threat growing in America

When news broke Thursday of the synagogue attack in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, the pattern felt grimly familiar: Another Jewish house of worship, another act of violence.

As I watched the media reports and anxiously waited for casualty numbers, it was clear that despite the different time and different place, the fundamentalist ideology that I grew up with in the Middle East has now taken hold in Middle America.

Antisemitism is rising across the West, with hatred that once lingered along the margins now appearing openly. Jewish communities feel its impact daily, from increased security at synagogues to harassment on college campuses and families hesitating to display their Jewish identity in public.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

A tyrant is dead and a region is in flames. One Iranian Canadian says celebration is in order — another says not so fast

The missiles that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei set off celebrations in the streets of Tehran, Toronto and other Canadian cities. But not everyone was cheering. As U.S. and Israeli strikes dismantle Iran’s military infrastructure and end the reign of a cleric who ruled with an iron fist for more than three decades, the Iranian-Canadian community is split between relief and rage.

Most Iranian-Canadians agree the Islamic Republic was a repressive regime that terrorized its own people. But they sharply disagree on whether the strikes were justified, whether they will ultimately help ordinary Iranians and what Canada’s response should be.

Shermineh Esmati-Novak, CEO and founder of NOVASHER Ventures, helped organize a Toronto rally celebrating the strikes. She says the attack represents an overdue reckoning. Samira Mohyeddin, journalist and founder of On the Line Media, calls it an illegal war paid for with civilian lives.

Samira Mohyeddin? The Star will platform any rabid “progressive” lunatic.

This piece was originally titled Should Canada celebrate or condemn the strikes on Iran?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

40% of New UK Homes Could House Migrants by 2030

New analysis from the Conservative Party warns that nearly four in ten newly built homes in the UK by 2030 may be required to accommodate incoming migrants. Drawing on projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the report estimates that net migration between 2026 and 2030 will reach almost 1.2 million people, creating demand for roughly 500,000 additional homes.

The OBR projects that around 1.34 million new homes will be delivered over the same period, meaning that 37.1% of all housing could be allocated to new arrivals, with the proportion rising to nearly 40% by 2030.

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

Don Cherry should not receive Order of Canada, say some Quebec Conservatives

Opposition is mounting among Quebec’s federal Conservatives to their own party’s push to award the Order of Canada to controversial hockey commentator Don Cherry.

In a social media post late Thursday, the party’s Quebec lieutenant Pierre Paul-Hus said he believes appointing Cherry would be “a bad idea” given his “unacceptable remarks toward the Quebec nation and francophones.”

The Order of Canada is awarded in recognition of exceptional achievements, extraordinary contributions to the nation or remarkable dedication to a community.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Suicide drones hit Tehran as instability mounts inside Iran

Overnight on Wednesday, around 100 Basij soldiers were killed across Tehran by dozens to hundreds of suicide drones in a covert operation some are comparing to Israel’s previous pager operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The drones hit Basij bases, motorcycles, and vehicles, targeting IRGC, Basij, and special forces checkpoints.

Iraq also experienced a heavy night of strikes against pro-Iranian militias.

At the same time, the regime in Iran continues its efforts at self-preservation through sustained attrition from within Iran and on other fronts.

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

Toronto police make two arrests on Saturday after court denies injunction to stop Al-Quds rally in Toronto

Soon to be declared a Father of Confederation.

A heavy police presence was evident during the Al-Quds rally held in downtown Toronto on Saturday.

Two arrests were made in the early going. Toronto police said in X post that they were “on the ground today to uphold the right to demonstrate lawfully while holding those who engage in criminal activity accountable.”

Our elites have turned Canada into a shithole.

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

Aviva Klompas: Olivia Chow has herself to blame for antisemitic violence

Last week, gunfire struck three synagogues in the Greater Toronto Area. We have grown accustomed to the response: hollow expressions of sympathy, feeble condemnations and the familiar promise that the city stands with the Jewish community.

But what is unfolding in Toronto is not an abstract rise in hateful rhetoric. It is the steady normalization of violence against Jews, and the city’s leadership appears determined to ignore the reality that we are at risk of a mass-casualty attack targeting the Jewish community.

The rot runs deep. Chow is just one public symptom.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

‘A Lot of Life Years Lost’: How NAFTA Shortened American Life Spans

A study tracks how the North American Free Trade Agreement and trade competition with Mexico led to earlier deaths for American factory workers.

The North American Free Trade Agreement, the deal that began integrating the Mexican economy with the United States and Canada in the 1990s, has been a politically charged topic for decades.

Centrist Democrats and Republicans supported the agreement as a way to strengthen the North American economy. But its legacy has been mixed. In some parts of the United States, the agreement shuttered factories and put people out of work as companies moved production to Mexico, where labor was cheaper. President Trump won over unions and other workers as a candidate by labeling NAFTA the “worst agreement ever” and promising to improve or scrap it.

A new paper adds to the understanding of NAFTA’s costs. In it, economists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago found that American workers in communities that were more exposed to competition from Mexican imports saw a significant shortening of their life spans after the trade deal went into effect in 1994.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Mexico, USA

China Owns Canada’s Only Antimony Mine And Shuttered It In Critical Minerals Power Play

In the rugged interior of Newfoundland, an hour’s drive west from the Canadian Forces Base in Gander, sits a dormant mine with profound implications for the nation’s security and prosperity. Beaver Brook could be the largest North American producer of antimony — a critical mineral threaded through the entire spectrum of modern military hardware, from small arms and artillery shells to advanced missile seekers and night-vision goggles.

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

Cuban Protesters Torch Communist Party HQ

Friday night was, I believe, night eight of the protests that have broken out across Cuba, and it was the biggest, boldest night yet. Of course, people are still banging pots and pans and marching in the streets, shouting things such as “Freedom,” “Long live Trump,” and “Down with communism,” but night eight got a little more serious.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCuba

Poilievre says his plan is ‘the only hope’ for Canada’s auto industry

OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he’s planning to pitch a “realistic proposal” to end U.S. tariffs on the Canadian auto industry this weekend.

He says his proposed auto pact would align regulations between Canada and the U.S. and remove the GST from Canadian-made vehicles.

He told reporters his plan, which he intends to roll out on Sunday, is “literally the only hope of keeping our auto sector in Canada.”

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