Author: Blazingcatfur

The slow crumbling of Canadian democracy

Our parliamentary system is in a state of disrepair so advanced that it has lost much of its relevance

Whatever their opinion of the result, Canadians might take some satisfaction from the recent election, if only for what did not happen. The paper balloting process once again worked without a hitch. No one challenged the legitimacy of the result. The victors did not vow revenge upon their enemies. Democracy may be in decline or in retreat elsewhere, notably in the United States, but in Canada it remains, as we perceive it, in relatively good health, a model for others to follow.

We are accustomed to thinking of ourselves as one of the world‘s great democracies. Didn’t the Economist Intelligence Unit, in its latest annual Democracy Index, rank us 14th among the world‘s democracies, one of only 25 “full democracies” around the world? Didn’t Freedom House rank us fifth in its annual Freedom in the World report, with a score of 39 out of 40 for “political rights”?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

The Long History of U.S.-Canada War Plans

For the past century, the United States and Canada have been the best of friends, and war between them was unimaginable. Before that, however, it was a possibility that was always at the back of mind for military strategists on both sides of the borders—in no small part because the two had gone to war before.

Today, however, anxieties have flared. President Donald Trump has spoken openly about extending the borders of the United States all the way to the high Arctic, insisting that Greenland would be safer as a U.S. territory, while Canada could join the union as the 51st state. This will happen, Trump insists, through peaceful means.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Net zero drive casts shadow over barbaric Congo conflict

Staying late in the shop that night cost Jean-Claude Amani his leg – but it may have saved his life. Then again, had he closed up a little sooner, maybe none of it would have happened at all.

It was about an hour after dusk, the end of the first working week of last month. The rain that had fallen earlier was clearing, although lightning still occasionally illuminated the outline of Mount Nyiragongo, the smouldering volcano that has long imperilled the millions living near its foothills in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

The Shifting Conversation Around Canada’s Opioid Crisis

The conversation we’re having about opioids in Canada is starkly different from one year ago.

Where Canadians were once squarely focused on health policies to reduce the high number of opioid deaths — especially last spring, amid British Columbia’s drug decriminalization rollback — our attention has lately shifted, from the people who use drugs to those who sell them.

That’s in large part because of President Trump.

Mr. Trump has said that Canadian criminals send “massive” amounts of illegal fentanyl into the United States, one of the pretexts for his earlier punitive tariff measures.

I am not inclined to believe the habitual liars of the Liberal party on any matter and will trust Sam Cooper’s investigations into Canada’s role in the fentanyl trade.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA

Will Mark Carney really reverse course on a decade of Liberal mismanagement?

From the beginning of his rapid and virtually unimpeded entry into Canada’s seat of power, Mark Carney’s reception has focused heavily upon the idea of Mark Carney. Indeed, there is something almost postmodern about the nature of his appeal: the average Canadian voter knows very little about his tenure with the central banks of Canada and the U.K. (or, for that matter, just what a central bank does). What mattered was his ability to reflect an image of sobriety and prudence—and his demeanour made for a particularly stark contrast with the pageantry of his immediate predecessor.

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

I’m being pursued because I’m white, claims British teacher wanted in Turkey for ‘child abuse’

A British teacher accused of sexually assaulting a child while teaching in Turkey claims she is being pursued because she is a “single white cat lady”.

Turkey has requested the extradition of Rebecca Richardson from Herefordshire after she was accused of hitting a child, aged four, with a spoon and sexually assaulting her in the lavatories at a school in Istanbul.

Ms Richardson has always denied the allegations. She and her lawyers insist no reliable evidence, including DNA, has ever been offered to back up the claims against her.

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

Conestoga College moves to four-day weeks as international recruitment drops 95 per cent

Conestoga College is moving to a four-day week at most of its facilities for the summer semester, with new initiatives to limit spending across its campuses.

A series of internal staff emails documenting the operational changes come as federal data shows the college was approved for just 410 new study permits for foreign students in the first three months of 2025.

That’s down 95 per cent compared to 2023, when 8,550 new study permits were approved over the same period.

h/t Wes

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Malpractice: ‘Parents’ Mag Boosts Dangerous Misnomer ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

Here’s the latest in an occasional series on how Parents magazine, a popular and ostensibly harmless outlet providing child-caring tips, smuggles in ultra-left-wing views inside the diaper bags, views that are harmful to the very children Parents is supposed to be helping. The latest offensive entry, “Medical Experts Continue to Support Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth — It can change and save lives,” was written by​ Wendy Wisner and posted Wednesday. Read it before it gets flushed down the memory hole as well!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny