Author: Blazingcatfur

GOLDSTEIN: ‘Elbows up’ was Liberal rhetoric while policy was ‘quietly fold’ on tariffs

As it turns out, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s election strategy of publicly talking tough about taking on U.S. President Donald Trump in his tariff/trade war, while practising a far more conciliatory approach behind the scenes, was hiding in plain sight all the time.

Ian Bremmer, president of New York-based Eurasia Group, a political risk analysis firm with close ties to Carney, accurately predicted this strategy in a March 26 column titled, “The end of the transatlantic relationship as we know it.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Leo and the Modern Attila

He had hardly finished addressing the crowd in front of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City that Robert Provost, as the newly minted Pope Leo XIV, was transformed into a blank face on which interest groups and lobbies of all kind could draw the image they would like him to become.

Since we are now used to a new kind of journalism, let’s call that the journalism of what might be, as opposed to what has actually happened. In it, projection, not to say fantasy, often replaces the reporting of facts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church

Cory Morgan: Another Strike Will Be the Beginning of the End of Canada Post

Small businesses relying on shipping and receiving products have had a terrible year. In November 2024, a strike by Canada Post workers caused an estimated $1.6 billion in business disruptions. Then in January 2025, the on-again, off-again tariff war with the United States created costly havoc and instability within the private market, which continues today. Now, Canadian businesses are bracing for another blow as Canada Post workers threaten to leave the job again as soon as May 22.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

“For Posterity’s Sake”: Why the Biden-Hur Tapes is a Virtual Racketeering Indictment

“For posterity’s sake.” Those words from President Joe Biden sum up the crushing impact of the leaked audiotapes from the interview between then-President Joe Biden and Special Counsel Robert Hur. Not only did they remove any serious doubt over Biden committing the federal crimes charged against President Donald Trump, but they also constituted what is akin to a political racketeering indictment against much of the Washington establishment.

The interview from Oct. 8-9, 2023, has long been sought by Congress, but was kept under wraps by the government even as Biden campaigned for a second term.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Biden Family Sleaze"

GUNTER: Carney government continues Liberals’ contempt for democratic unaccountability

During the recent federal election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney and his ministers authorized nearly $70 billion in federal spending without Parliamentary authorization. Given that the campaign was 37 days long, a man who had no seat in the Commons at the time and who had never received a vote from a single Canadian voter, authorized an average of $1.9 billion a day.

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

Clock is ticking in the hunt for Assad’s stash of chemical weapons

Abdul Hamid walks slowly in a black Adidas tracksuit, head bowed, through a dusty graveyard. The cemetery, ringed by the remains of bombed-out buildings, bears silent witness to what unfolded in Syria.

The 36-year-old tradesman stops, murmurs a prayer and begins pulling weeds from the earth around the sun-bleached gravestones. He points to them one by one: “My cousin, my wife Sana, both of my children — the twins — another cousin and his daughter, two more cousins and one of his sons, both of my brothers Yasser and Abdul Karim and their children.”

The list continues, an unrelenting rhythm of grief. Not a mass grave, but a mass death, all felled by a single, silent killer. On April 4, 2017, a sarin-laced rocket dropped from a Syrian air force jet into Khan Shaykhun, a sleepy town 34 miles south of Idlib.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSyria

Explaining the success of the federal Liberals

After the April 28 general election, the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) is back in power for a fourth term after coming just short of a majority, winning 170 of the 343 seats in the House of Commons. Considering that the LPC trailed the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) by over 20 points in the polls over the previous two years, its victory represented a remarkable political comeback.

This commentary is not a promotional blurb for the LPC, rather it seeks to identify the factors which enabled it to become one of the most successful parties in the democratic world. It is hard to identify another centrist party which has achieved such dominance and long-term success.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

NY Times, Back on Censorship Kick, Frets Over Trump’s ‘Misinformation Research’ Cuts

New York Times reporter Steven Lee Myers, who covers “misinformation and disinformation” and is a social media censorship supporter and First Amendment non-fan, is back with a story posted on Thursday, relaying the sad news that the Trump administration is against self-styled invariably leftist misinformation “experts” – i.e. social media censors: “Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation.”

But who determines what counts as “misinformation”?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation"

Group of teenage ferals set off fireworks on TTC bus: police

Toronto police say they’re investigating after a group of teenage boys set off fireworks onboard a TTC bus on Thursday.

The incident took place on a Kingston 12 bus around 2:54 p.m., the TTC says, when the bus was full of passengers.

Related …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", WTF?

Is Canada’s legal weed tied to a smuggling epidemic abroad?

PARIS—There is a brisk and growing trade between Canada and Europe, and it has nothing to do with American tariffs or Donald Trump.

Canadian cannabis is increasingly washing up on the shores of this continent, landing in its airports and being sold on its streets. It is part of an illegal-smuggling trend that authorities believe is tied to Canada’s 2018 decision to legalize the sale and consumption of marijuana.

That law made Canada a leader — the first among industrialized nations to permit recreational cannabis use. Now, Canada has developed an international black eye as a top source nation for the drug, which remains illegal in much of the world.

Trudeau pushed legalization. I’m betting because China wanted it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Drug Legalization, Drugs, Marijuana

Bono Gets Hysterical over USAID Cuts: ‘A Million Children Dying Because Their Life Support Systems Were Pulled out of the Wall, with Glee‘

CANNES, France (AP) — Cannes is a short trip from Bono’s seaside villa in Eze-sur-Mer. He bought it with The Edge in 1993, and considers himself grateful to a coastline that, he says, gave him a “delayed adolescence.”

“I can tell you I’ve slept on beaches close to here,” Bono says with a grin. “I’ve woken up in the sun.”

There is no bottom to Bono.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCelebrity Idiots

A tiny electric car tried to push us off the sidewalk. Should it be there?

My five-year-old son and I were walking the dog when we heard honking behind us on the sidewalk. It was a small car, about the width of the sidewalk, coming surprisingly fast. We were between a fence and the busy street so we couldn’t get off the sidewalk and out of its way. The driver kept honking and finally drove onto the street without looking, making a car slam on its brakes. After he passed us, he rolled down his window and said he had the right of way because he’s a senior in a mobility scooter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

Sean Combs allies hoping for Trump pardon

Something in common …

Earlier this week, The Onion ran a piece headlined “Sean Combs Asks for Quick Trial So He Can Get to Part Where Trump Pardons Him.”

It may be on to something.

Combs, who was charged last September, is currently on trial in the Southern District of New York on sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges. But starting after Donald Trump won the presidential election in November, close associates of the mogul got to work on cozying up to Trumpland.

h/t Mauser.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood, WTF?