Author: Blazingcatfur

How fentanyl transformed Victoria’s Pandora Avenue from downtown hub to open-air drug market

The sidewalk outside Victoria’s Central Baptist Church was littered with trash on a recent visit. A woman was slumped like a resting marionette, her arms hanging from her waist. The smell of urine rose from the concrete. It was mid-week in the heart of the city’s central business district but Pandora Avenue was strangely quiet. Nobody was talking. No one was asking for change.

Central Baptist Church stretches almost an entire block along Pandora’s south side. Judged from the nave, it looks in good shape, with a new pastor, a banging house band, a popular youth ministry. On Sundays, 700 people pack the pews to hear Shawn Barden preach.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Drug Legalization, Drugs

Hush over Hollywood: why has it become so hard to make films in Los Angeles?

When Adam Scott was working on the hit TV show Parks and Recreation in the early 2010s, the Los Angeles studio where the show was filmed was packed – “every stage was filled and working”.

These days, he told his former co-star Rob Lowe in a much-discussed recent podcast conversation, “it’s quiet over there” – in part because “it’s just too expensive to shoot here”.

“Nothing shoots in Los Angeles,” Scott said.

“Nothing!” Lowe replied.

Related: Trump-Supporting Zachary Levi Building Film Studio in Texas: A.I. Is About to Put the Nail in the Coffin’ of Hollywood

Hollywood star Zachary Levi is making some big plans. As Hollywood continues to flounder, Levi has his sights on a big deal in his new home in Texas.

The Shazam! star recently revealed that he is trying to bring the film industry to Austin as movie and TV production continue to flee California, according to Variety.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

HANNAFORD: They should have been met at the gate, and sent back to Holland

As I write, a 2,500-strong group of anti-Israel protesters is arriving from Amsterdam, apparently intending to join the planned disruption of a pro-Israel march in Toronto. Sadly, the pre-event advertising for this counter-march can only be interpreted as an invitation to violence. (See the story from Western Standard reporter, Jen Hodgson.)

Local anti-Israel organizers post on social media, ‘Our friends from Amsterdam are coming to the Walk Against Israel and looking for anyone who celebrates the intentional murder of babies.’

“Looking for?”

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

Angel Reese, Jasmine Crockett and the privilege of anti-white bigotry

Now showing more anti white bullshit

One reason why the public turned on diversity, equity and inclusion was its insistence that roughly 70% of the country was stereotyped as victimizers by virtue of their skin color.

In contrast, the other “diverse” 30% were de facto considered the victimized.

In such absurd binaries, the left returned to the old “one-drop” rule of the antebellum South, suggesting that anyone with any non-white ancestry was a minority victim.

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

What the data show about the state of immigration in Canada since cuts were announced … The Liberal Government Is Not Serious About Reducing Mass Immigration

A new analysis of immigration data released by the federal government reveals that while the number of new permanent residents dropped after the federal government announced that it would cut immigration levels, the number of temporary foreign workers actually increased, while other temporary permits declined.

Last October, the federal government under then prime minister Justin Trudeau announced it would reduce its permanent immigration targets from 500,000 down to 395,000 in 2025. The government also set a cap for the first time on the intake of temporary residents in both student and worker streams, at 673,650 temporary resident visas for 2025.

It’s all bullshit. You’re children will never own a home and your city will be a 3rd World dumpster like the GTA.

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

Inside the NDP’s last-ditch efforts to save Jagmeet Singh and his riding

In the dying days of the federal election campaign, senior New Democrats made a desperate, last-ditch attempt to save Jagmeet Singh’s Burnaby, B.C., seat. Some say it was unwinnable.

At least 20 staff from the party’s Ottawa headquarters packed the leader’s campaign plane just days before the April 28 election, hitching a ride to the West Coast with a mission to door-knock on his behalf. This was after a small team were sent to Burnaby Central earlier in that month.

The cross-country venture was a waste of resources when the party was fighting for its life in other, closer races, according to three, frustrated sources within the party, who spoke to CBC News on condition they not be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Scummy to the very end.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNDP

Tensions rise as superpowers scrap for a piece of the Arctic

As soon as Magnus Mæland became mayor of a small town on Norway’s northern tip in late 2023, three delegations from China came knocking on his door.

“It’s because they want to be a polar superpower,” he tells me.

China might not instinctively spring to mind when you think about the Arctic – but it’s determined to be a big Arctic player. It’s been vying to buy real estate, get involved in infrastructure projects and hopes to establish a permanent regional presence.

China already describes itself as a “near-Arctic state”, even though its northernmost regional capital Harbin is on roughly the same latitude as Venice, Italy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inArctic, Canada, USA

AfD: ‘We speak the uncomfortable truth, but German thought police are silencing us’

It was supposed to be the killer blow to a party which has stalked the nightmares of Germany’s political elite: a bombshell intelligence report with proof that Alternative for Germany [AfD] was a Nazi-style extremist group.

Running to more than a thousand pages, the report by Germany’s BfV domestic intelligence agency announced that the AfD was a “confirmed Right-wing extremist organisation”, opening the door to a total ban on the party.

But instead of turning the AfD into a pariah, the report has triggered a furious row over the rise of censorship in Germany, and damaged relations between its new government and the Trump administration.

It means success.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Germany - AfD party, Germany: Not Bombed Enough?

American Conservative Commentator Victor Davis Hanson on Why Trump Prefers Carney to Poilievre

U.S. President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney ahead of the April 28 election may reflect a dynamic where ideological rivals are able to engage more openly, one of America’s best-known historians and conservative commentators says.

Trump’s preference for another Liberal prime minister in Canada, along with his public praise for Carney on multiple occasions, could stem from a common dynamic among ideological opponents where interactions can be more blunt and direct, said Victor Davis Hanson in a recent interview with Jan Jekielek, host of The Epoch Times’ program “American Thought Leaders.”

Very interesting interview.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Inside the ‘strangest terrorist movement the US has ever seen’

Guy Bartkus tried to destroy an IVF clinic to save the embryos the pain of existence. Alarmingly for national security, his ‘promortalist’ philosophy does not die with him

“Is life an illness?” asks a member of a fringe chat group on the internet.

“I’m not depressed,” writes another. “I just don’t want to exist.”

Both identify as “morose and misanthropic” men in the Promortalism group on the chat forum Discord. They are two of several thousand members who sign in regularly to debate the merits of being alive.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Terrorism - Domestic

Mark Carney’s daughter could be among international students caught in Harvard-Trump fight

A U.S. judge has provided Harvard University a temporary reprieve from the Trump administration’s move to block enrolment of foreign students, including Canadians.

In a lawsuit filed early Friday in federal court in Boston, Harvard said the government’s action violates the First Amendment, the Associated Press reports, and will have an “immediate and devastating effect” on its more than 7,000 international visa holders.

Why do I doubt she’ll be shown the door.

 

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