Author: Blazingcatfur

Carney calls mid-August Alberta byelection, clearing Poilievre’s path to a new seat

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney has scheduled a byelection for Aug. 18 in the Alberta riding of Battle River—Crowfoot where Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will be looking to regain a seat.

“The prime minister will be honouring his commitment of calling it quickly with ‘no games’ so that the byelection is complete well ahead of the House of Commons coming back in mid-September, rather than drawing it out in any way until December or January,” said a source familiar with the prime minster’s thinking, speaking on background because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Entry-level jobs in free-fall after launch of ChatGPT

Entry-level jobs are in free-fall as the rise of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT causes low-paying and graduate roles to disappear.

Recently-released data shows that the number of entry-level roles being advertised has fallen by a third since the launch of OpenAI’s chatbot in November 2022.

According to figures from online jobs board Adzuna, there were 214,934 entry-level jobs on offer in May this year, down by 32pc from just three years ago.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Russia pays young Ukrainians to be unwitting suicide bombers in shadow war

Oleh found the job via a Telegram channel offering day work and side gigs. It sounded easy enough: he was to travel from his home in eastern Ukraine to the western city of Rivne, pick up a rucksack containing a paint canister and spray it outside the local police station.

It would require nimble feet to flee the scene without being caught, but the money on offer – $1,000 – was good, fantastic even, for what amounted to a morning’s work for the 19-year-old.

But when, on a snowy morning in early February, he opened the bag outside Rivne’s police station, he recoiled in horror. Instead of a paint canister, he saw something that looked like a homemade bomb, with protruding wires and a mobile phone attached to it, apparently a crude remote detonation mechanism.

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

New Alberta referendum rules looming as calls for separation met with opposition petition

As Canada prepares Tuesday to blow out 158 birthday candles, Alberta plans three days later to formalize rules making it easier to have an independence celebration of its own.

Beginning Friday, Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative government is officially lowering the required threshold for citizens to initiate a provincewide referendum, including on separation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence"

Four members of Syrian family ‘sexually abuse nine girls aged 11 to 17 at German swimming pool’

Four members of a Syrian family have been accused of sexually abusing girls aged 11 to 17 at a swimming pool in Germany.

The alleged incident took place at the Barbarossabad outdoor pool in Gelnhausen, Hesse, where five schoolgirls initially came forward and reported being assaulted in the water.

The children, who told lifeguards they had been sexually harassed, were reportedly sent back in the pool before police were called.

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

Mexico police discover 381 bodies ‘thrown indiscriminately’ on crematorium floor

Police have found 381 corpses piled up in a private crematorium in northern Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, the local prosecutor’s office has said , attributing the grisly find to negligence.

“Preliminarily, we have 381 bodies that were deposited irregularly in the crematorium, which were not cremated,” Eloy Garcia, spokesperson for the Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office, told AFP.

Garcia said the corpses were “stacked” in no apparent order in various rooms of the building where the crematorium operates.

They were “just thrown like that, indiscriminately, one on top of the other, on the floor,” he said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Terror propagandist ‘Dark Foreigner’ should get 14 years for ‘vile’ crimes, Crown argues

Everyone agrees, even the defence. For inciting hate, fear and division by calling for violence against Jews with his terrorist propaganda videos and images, Patrick Gordon MacDonald is going to prison for a substantial period of time.

At a sentencing hearing in Ottawa’s Superior Court last week, federal Crown prosecutors based out of Montreal implored the judge to hand down 14 years for MacDonald’s “vile” crimes under the alias Dark Foreigner, while his defence argued for six to eight years and about 10 months of credit for time already served in custody and on bail under strict conditions.

This one loser will get more press coverage than a year of Hamas rallies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"NAZIS! NAZIS EVERYWHERE!"

Bell: ‘It’s lunacy’ — Alberta pushes Carney to drop Liberal electric vehicle fantasy

“It’s lunacy. Straight-up lunacy.”

The words come from Devin Dreeshen, the Alberta government’s point man on transportation.

He has nothing against electric vehicles, EVs for short. You want one, buy one.

He just doesn’t think the government in Ottawa should be ramming the purchase of them down people’s throats.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Glastonbury stars Bob Vylan have US visas REVOKED after ‘death to IDF’ chants

A British rock band have had their American visas revoked, meaning they can no longer tour in the US, after they shouted ‘death to the IDF’ at a festival on Saturday.

Bob Vylan led the sick chant at Glastonbury, the UK’s biggest music festival, as crowds waved Palestine flags and joined the call for the deaths of Israeli soldiers.

There is or was a Canadian leg to this tour I wonder if they’ll bother.

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

Christopher Dummitt: Canada’s long-standing tradition of sweeping its British roots under the rug

I wasn’t expecting a school class trip to invoke despair about the state of Canadian history. But it happened anyway.

It shouldn’t have been a surprise. Canada has a long history of national forgetting and cultural erasure. We know about some parts of this — about the assimilation efforts of residential schools, most notably.

But less often noticed is the weird Canadian tradition of deliberately misrepresenting and then forgetting large chunks of our national story in the interest of reaching out to cultural minorities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

US must rule out more strikes before new talks, Iranian minister tells BBC

The US must rule out any further strikes on Iran if it wants to resume diplomatic talks, Tehran’s deputy foreign minister has told the BBC.

Majid Takht-Ravanchi said the Trump administration told Iran through mediators that it wanted to return to negotiations this week, but had not made its position clear on the “very important question” of further attacks while talks are taking place.

The US and Iran were involved in talks over Iran’s nuclear programme when Israel struck Iranian nuclear sites and military infrastructure earlier this month and Iran responded with missiles.

“Let us re-arm”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

CHARLEBOIS: The globalism hangover: What Trump’s trade war got right

For the past six months, President Donald Trump’s trade policies have been widely mocked, criticized, and condemned.

Some of it is certainly warranted. The Wall Street Journal, for instance, recently likened his tariff-heavy approach to global trade as a direct path toward another Great Depression. But data out of the United States tells a more nuanced story—one that challenges conventional wisdom.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA