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LeBlanc, U.S. counterpart meeting once again to negotiate deal as tariff deadline looms

Canadian trade officials are meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in Washington once again, as both sides hustle to lock down a crucial trade deal ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s pressing tariff deadline.

Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc’s office confirmed to CBC News on Thursday morning that he and chief trade negotiator Janice Charette will meet with Greer this afternoon.

It will be the second meeting this week between the Canadian and American trade officials, and the fourth in just three weeks.

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2026August 13, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Did you say snakes?

High School Football With The Maumelle Moccasins …

h/t handy n handsome

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2026August 13, 2026•0•"Mother Nature Hates You"

Canadians spent more on taxes than basic necessities in 2025: Study

The average Canadian family last year spent more on paying taxes than for the basic necessities of shelter, food and clothing combined, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

A family with an average income of $112,111, the report by the fiscally conservative think tank says, spent $50,721 or 41.9% of its income on taxes in 2025 compared to $43,657, or 36%, for shelter ($27,686), food ($13,249) and clothing ($2,722).

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2026August 13, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

DSA and Muslim Democrats agree on the enemy — not the endgame

Fifty members of the Democratic Socialists of America flew from New York to Michigan before the primaries. They came to support DSA candidates, but they also canvassed for a Senate candidate their own organization had never endorsed. Abdul el Sayed doesn’t call himself a socialist, and the DSA never put its name behind him. Its members showed up anyway.

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2026August 13, 2026•0•"Islamist Entryism", Communism, Communists, Democratic Party, Islamization of the West

Ontario ceases social assistance payments to illegal alien invaders

Ontario is enacting new rules for social assistance payments so people without legal immigration status in Canada cannot receive the benefits.

Premier Doug Ford first vowed to make the change following media reports about a tribunal ruling that awarded Ontario Works payments to a man who came to Canada decades ago on a temporary work permit that has since expired.

Ford wrote in a social media post last month his government would always support people who have fallen on hard times, but “that doesn’t include people living in Canada illegally.”

It’s a start. But Ford is well aware of the demographic that wins him election.

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2026August 13, 2026•0•Camp Of The Saints, Canada

A Wisconsin city spent millions on a grocery store. It didn’t go well.

After eight years of development and more than $8 million spent by the city of Madison, Wisconsin, Maurer’s Urban Market will open in the Bay Creek neighborhood later this month. Local officials have pitched the store as a measure to prevent a “food desert” in that part of town.

The truth: Maurer’s is right across the street from another grocery store. And within a mile of three others. How this glut came to be is a good illustration of why the government is not cut out for the grocery business.

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2026August 13, 2026•0•"Food Insecurity", Big Government

MANDEL: ‘Worst of the worst’ Brampton-based trucking firm has operating licence revoked

Finally, a crackdown on unsafe trucking firms that continue to allow dangerously fatigued drivers on the road.

LD Trans Line Ltd., a Brampton-based carrier described as the “worst of the worst,” has been stripped of its Ontario operating licence after countless safety violations, including falsifying the number of hours on the road — that continued even after one of its drivers caused a fatal January 2025 multi-vehicle pileup.

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2026August 13, 2026•0•WTF?

Danube river’s low water levels reveal remains of WWII soldiers and motorcycle

The bodies of two World War Two German soldiers have been found in Budapest’s Danube river, due to record-low water levels after an intense drought.

Found alongside their remains were the identification tags of the two soldiers, a largely intact German army Wehrmacht motorcycle, a wedding ring and a Kuban shield – a combat badge of the Wehrmacht, the German War Graves Commission said.

The remarkable finds have sparked hope that some families could finally discover the fates of their ancestors, more than 80 years on from the war.

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2026August 13, 2026•0•WW II, WW II History

Border Whistleblower’s Warnings Unexamined Because Canada Never Activated Watchdog Approved By Parliament

OTTAWA — A new report from a prominent Ottawa attorney has concluded that Luc Sabourin — the Canadian border intelligence whistleblower who says he was threatened at his Gatineau home by a Sinaloa cartel-linked gangster and later pressured out of his career after refusing an order to destroy roughly 1,000 foreign passports — faced “a pattern of workplace conflict and retaliation.” And his case remains unresolved, the report finds, for a reason that should alarm every Canadian: the independent oversight body Parliament created in 2024 to investigate exactly such allegations has still not been brought into force.

Related …

Canadian Border officers storm international student hunger strike, checking papers … wagging fingers, going home

‼️MAJOR BREAKING

Huge immigration crackdown in Calgary yesterday as CBSA RAIDS international student protest

Punjabi media is FREAKIN’ out!

This is why we LOVE Alberta! pic.twitter.com/0ssje0RW1C

— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) August 13, 2026

h/t handy n handsome

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2026August 13, 2026•0•"Canadian Sovereignty", "Liberal Party Criminal Abuse Of Immigration Policy For Private & Political Gain", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

What would a North Korean surge mean for Ukraine war?

North Korea is preparing a massive troop surge to help its ally Moscow in its war on Ukraine, with up to 50,000 North Koreans to be deployed in Russia, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

In late July, the Ukrainian leader said Russia wanted to bring in another 30,000 North Korean troops, before adding this weekend that Pyongyang decided to have between 30,000 and 50,000 North Koreans deployed on Russian territory. He did not specify if this number included the North Korean troops already taking part in the conflict.

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2026August 13, 2026•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

CHARLEBOIS: Chicken prices are soaring. Why isn’t Ottawa acting?

Canada’s chicken market is sending a signal that Ottawa can no longer afford to ignore: supply is not keeping pace with demand.

Chicken Farmers of Canada reported this week that production during the first four months of 2026 was 5.6 per cent higher than during the same period last year. That sounds reassuring. But the same organization also acknowledged that underproduction remained a challenge, while wholesale prices for whole birds and legs reached record levels.

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2026August 13, 2026•0•"Food Insecurity", "Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Dems and Republicans unite behind a common enemy: Flock cameras that are ‘documenting everybody all the time’

In our intensely divided moment, there’s one thing that the right and left seem to agree on: they hate Flock cameras.

The cameras are installed in most urban areas across the country and record the license plate number of every car that drives past them, storing information about people’s movement in a database, for use by local governments and police departments.

According to the company, Flock has 120,000 active cameras across the United States. Many police departments and investigators claim they make solving crimes and locating individuals easier than ever.

WOW 🚨 There is now a ‘Flock Safe City designations”

This happens when a city uses the integrated system of Flock license plate readers, drones, gunshot detectors and live cameras monitoring the city that track people that blanket the city and monitor at all times

“Harvey,… pic.twitter.com/XmUYMp7bKx

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) August 13, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2026August 13, 2026•0•"Surveillance Society"

Ottawa weighs proposal on auto tariffs as it presses U.S. for reprieve, sources say

Canadian officials are weighing a proposal that would see Ottawa accept U.S. auto tariffs in exchange for a reduction on levies for vehicles compliant with USMCA, according to three sources on both sides of the border.

The proposal would also maintain an exemption for the value of American content in cars exported from Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2026August 12, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Germany approves lifting curbs on spy agencies in security ‘revolution’

The German government has approved a draft law aimed at lifting many of the restraints on its spy agencies imposed during the postwar period as the country reels from two attacks in a month that have exposed serious security gaps.

The controversial changes, which must still pass parliament, largely comply with a wishlist pulled together by the foreign and domestic intelligence services, which have long complained Germany lags behind its allies and enemies.

“We are turning our intelligence services into genuine secret services,” the interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, told Bild newspaper, which called it a security “revolution” and “historic”.

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2026August 12, 2026•0•Germany

Damien Kurek: Canada mustn’t fall into the ‘better than Trudeau’ trap

On the prairies, progress is measured by simple, tangible work: whether the fence got mended, whether the crop came in and whether the next generation is better off than the last.

From that vantage point, watching Ottawa feels like looking into an ecosystem entirely obsessed with its own reflection. Pundits track every minor polling shift, dissecting Liberal policy moves, endlessly speculating about Conservative infighting and seem to care more about Washington than our own challenges. It makes for lively political theater in the capital, but it misses the fundamental question Canadians across the country are asking: Is Canada actually in better shape?

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2026August 12, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government