Canada has officially joined the EU’s loans-for-weapons program

Defence Minister David McGuinty says Canada has now officially joined the European Union’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) program, which offers loans to member states to invest in defence capabilities.

“The agreement strengthens our collective security, supports the development of key defence capabilities, and gives Canadian industry access to European defence markets while contributing to European and Ukrainian security,” McGuinty said in a statement sent to CBC News.

Canada joined in late 2025 with an upfront participation contribution of about €7.5 million (in 2026) plus an administrative fee of €2.5 million, totaling around €10 million for preferential access.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Europeans push back at US over claim they face ‘civilizational erasure’

The Chapel of the Martyrs of the Cathedral of Otranto

Europeans push back at US over claim they face ‘civilizational erasure’

MUNICH (AP) — A top European Union official on Sunday rejected the notion that Europe faces “civilizational erasure,” pushing back at criticism of the continent by the Trump administration.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas addressed the Munich Security Conference a day after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered a somewhat reassuring message to European allies. He struck a less aggressive tone than Vice President JD Vance did in lecturing them at the same gathering last year but maintained a firm tone on Washington’s intent to reshape the trans-Atlantic alliance and push its policy priorities.

Rubio’s full remarks at Munich Security Conference

Pic – The Chapel of the Martyrs of the Cathedral of Otranto

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elite Decadence & Decay", "Islamophobia", Camp Of The Saints, Cultural Insanity, EU, Europe - demographic suicide, European Union, Islamization of the West

GOLDSTEIN: The massive carbon footprint of Trudeau’s post-political life

If you want to understand why Justin Trudeau’s climate change policies were more about virtue signalling than actual virtue, look at his life post politics.

Between purchasing a $4.26-million mansion in Montreal’s pricey Outremont borough – an affluent residential area known for its stately Victorian homes – and gallivanting around the world with Katy Perry, Trudeau has become a living postcard of a life of excess consumption that climate change fanatics routinely condemn.

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

Iran has chosen its protest scapegoats. Now they face execution

The phone calls, when they came, lasted three minutes.

In those minutes, a young woman told her mother she was alive. A son told his parents he was exhausted, and said that if the security forces wanted to execute him, they should, for at least then he’d be free.

It has been nearly a month since Venus Hossein-Nejad, 28, and Peyvand Naeimi, 30, were marched out of their workplaces by Iranian agents and held prisoner as part of the regime’s crackdown against the widespread protests threatening the Islamic Republic.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Imam is guilty of raping women and girls as young as 12 after convincing them he had magical powers when they met at mosque

An imam has been found guilty of raping women and girls as young as 12 after using his position as a faith leader at his east London mosque to convince them he had magical powers.

Abdul Halim Khan, 54, has been found guilty of twenty one counts of rape and sexual assault as well as child sexual offences against seven women and girls at Snaresbrook Crown Court.

The offences took place between 2004 and 2015, and three of his victims were young teenage girls at the time.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia"

Would Zelensky win an election? It depends if he’s won a peace deal

The president, whose ratings have plummeted, may soon announce elections. He could triumph, writes a Ukrainian pollster, but only if war with Russia grinds on

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, my country’s politics followed a simple formula. The public was gripped by a spirit of exalted optimism before each presidential election, only to be followed soon afterwards by the crash of deep disappointment. Nearly every holder of that office followed that path, beginning with a high credit of trust and ending with humiliatingly low figures.

Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to be walking the same road. He was elected in 2019 with net trust ratings of 71 per cent. Yet after almost three years in power those ratings have plummeted to minus 15 per cent.

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

Canadian Security Intelligence Service refuses to reveal areas targeted by foreign agents in last election

Canada’s top intelligence agency refused to disclose how many federal ridings in the 2025 election were direct targets of foreign agents, including those potentially from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the campaign.

Asked recently before the House of Commons affairs committee about the foreign agents, Vanessa Lloyd, a Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) election monitor, said, “I am not able to tell you the numbers.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference"

007 has to be a white man, says Bond girl

A former Bond girl has said that 007 has to be a white man.

Maryam d’Abo, 65, who played a cello smuggling Bond girl in the The Living Daylights in 1987, has given her verdict on who Daniel Craig’s successor should be.

Asked if she thought a black actor could be cast, she said: “Then don’t call it Bond. Call it something else. You can have a wonderful black hero, but then don’t call him James Bond.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cultural Appropriation"

Freeland Violated Election Act in Press Conference Comments: Elections Canada

Former Liberal MP and cabinet minister Chrystia Freeland violated Elections Act by commenting on a 2024 Toronto byelection in favour of her party during official government press conferences, Canada’s elections commissioner says.

Caroline Simard, commissioner of Elections Canada, said in a report released on Feb. 13 that Freeland’s comments amounted to “unlawful contributions” to a political entity.

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