Christine Van Geyn: Changes to Bill C-9 aren’t combating hate — they’re criminalizing faith

To secure Bloc Québécois support for its censorious Bill C-9, the Liberals have reportedly agreed to a troubling trade: removing the long-standing religious defence from Canada’s hate-speech laws. This would be a mistake.

Bill C-9, the Carney government’s combating hate act, would expand criminal prohibitions on expression and increase penalties for speech offences, including online speech. Now, the bill may also gut the defence that protects good-faith religious opinion or speech rooted in religious texts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, freedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech

White House border czar Tom Homan erupts at heckler who calls him racist during TPUSA event speech

White House border czar Tom Homan lashed out Thursday night at a heckler who called him a “racist” and a “traitor” during an event hosted by Turning Point USA at the University of Texas at El Paso.

“Call me what you want, I don’t care,” Homan responded to the taunts, later adding: “Why don’t you grow a backbone, put a Kevlar vest and a gun on your hip and go secure this border?”

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

Rempel exposes Liberal immigration minister Lena Diab as a half-wit

‘You are a very bad minister,’ Conservative immigration critic says at tense committee meeting

Immigration Minister Lena Diab sparred with her Conservative critic at a tense House of Commons committee meeting Thursday as the two disagreed on everything from immigration levels and deporting non-citizen criminals to what kind of salad they prefer.

Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner put Diab in the hot seat throughout her two-hour committee appearance, grilling Diab about her file and accusing her of being “a very bad minister” when she struggled to give a clear answer on whether she will use powers under the government’s pending C-12 legislation to mass extend temporary visas.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Hollywood Stars Lead Campaign To Free Palestinian Terrorist Serving Five Life Sentences for Killing Israelis

The anti-Israel movement in Hollywood and academia has found a new cause: securing the release of a Palestinian terrorist serving five life sentences for orchestrating deadly terror attacks against Israeli civilians, Marwan Barghouti.

High-profile actors including Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Ruffalo, and Sir Ian McKellen joined some 200 other public figures in calling on the international community to pressure Israel to release the former Fatah leader from prison.

He’s more Winnie than Nelson.

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

Racialized immigrants report lower well-being in Canada, study shows and the only solution is to fleece Whitey

A new study suggests Canada’s high global ranking on life satisfaction masks important gaps, especially for racialized immigrants, who report significantly lower well-being than Canadian-born, non-racialized residents.

The research, conducted by the Population Health Research Institute, a joint institute of McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, draws on data from more than 8,000 adults and uses the Cantril Ladder, a global scale where people rate their life from 0 (worst possible) to 10 (best possible).

Racists everywhere!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism"

Pope denounces ‘fear’ of Islam, says ‘it is possible to live together, to be friends’

In saying this, and basing it upon the example of Lebanon, Pope Leo shows that he knows nothing about the recent history of Lebanon, or about the teachings of Islam regarding Christianity and other religions. And when one is ignorant, it is more prudent to keep silent than to spout views that are not only absurd, but dangerous when implemented.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church, WTF?

More than 27,000 public servants were paid $150,000 or more last year

OTTAWA — More than 27,000 federal public servants were paid at least $150,000 in the last fiscal year, a document tabled in Parliament shows.

It says more than 20,000 employees received compensation — salaries, bonuses, benefits and overtime pay — of between $150,000 and $199,999 in 2024-25.

The document, prepared by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, shows that nearly 5,000 employees earned between $200,000 and $249,999 and almost 1,400 employees made between $250,000 and $299,999.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Russian agents’ trail led from Hillary Clinton’s emails to fatal Salisbury attack

Russian spies who hacked Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign have been linked to the Salisbury poisonings for the first time.

Boris Antonov, Nikolai Kozachek and Pavel Yershov were previously indicted by the United States for releasing tens of thousands of emails from Mrs Clinton’s 2016 campaign.

They were among 11 Russian military intelligence officers sanctioned by Britain on Thursday in the wake of a public inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, who was exposed to the nerve agent Novichok in 2018.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRussia, USA

Canadian company’s armoured-vehicle production for ICE taking place in U.S.

The Canadian company building armoured vehicles for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is doing so in the United States – which likely places the products out of the reach of Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister.

Human-rights advocates are expressing concern over the prospect of the company equipping an American agency known for its aggressive enforcement tactics under the Trump administration’s mass-deportation campaign. NDP MP Jenny Kwan had said that Canada should block the sale of these vehicles.

Google AI – What relationship does “Roshel” have with Canada and Ukraine?

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

There’s no end in sight for Canada’s housing crisis

Even if we double home building, buying a house is expected to become less affordable for nearly half the country

The federal government wants to build 480,000 homes a year over the next decade to restore housing affordability to pre-pandemic levels. That’s double our normal rate and a pace not seen since the Second World War.

They’ve put some money and resources behind the effort: Along with the new federal agency Build Canada Homes, Budget 2025 included other measures to ramp up activity, such as a fund only accessible to provinces that lower construction-related taxes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Putin says Russia will take Donbas by force or Ukraine’s troops will withdraw

President Vladimir Putin has warned again that Ukrainian troops must withdraw from Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region or Russia will seize it, rejecting any compromise over how to end the war in Ukraine.

“Either we liberate these territories by force, or Ukrainian troops will leave these territories,” he told India Today. Moscow controls around 85% of Donbas.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has ruled out ceding territory.

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

A visit with Occam’s Razor

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World