Author: Blazingcatfur

Conservative insiders say they need to sell Pierre Poilievre’s ‘softer side’ to voters next time

OTTAWA — Nearly two weeks after a bitter election defeat, the Conservative party has turned its sights to its next chapter: rolling out tone shifts, a renewed media strategy, and the reintroduction of its leader to start courting voters who turned elsewhere at the ballot box.

Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives — for supporters have, at least publicly, united around him — are keen to point to the party’s expanded vote share, seat count and base as reasons not to depose their seatless leader and those central to his campaign.

But that refrain can’t last forever.

Toronto Star advice is the best advice.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

NBC’s Pathetic Hit Piece on Kash Patel Will Make You Laugh Out Loud

FBI Director Kash Patel testified before the House and Senate this week, so it hardly seems shocking that the legacy media decided it was a good time to publish a hit piece on him. But, the piece is so pathetic and predictable. After nearly 80 days of desperately searching for dirt, the best they could come up with is that he runs meetings differently than the bureau chiefs before him.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Chinese ambassador insists China, Canada can move past ‘normal’ differences …

Following years of diplomatic and trade tensions, China’s ambassador to Canada, Wang Di, insists the two countries can move past what he characterizes as “normal” differences.

“For China and Canada to bring our relationship back onto the right track, we need to seek common ground while reserving differences in a constructive way,” Wang said through a translator in an exclusive broadcast interview with CTV’s Question Period, airing Sunday.

“China and Canada have a lot of differences, and this is very, very normal,” he also said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "Foreign Interference", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

ELDER: Canada as the 51st state would decimate the MAGA agenda

Mark Carney, the new prime minister of Canada, called the idea of Canada becoming America’s 51st state “crazy.” This assumes President Donald Trump was serious, as opposed to Trump taking a whack at former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In his acceptance speech, Carney said, “The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country … if they succeed, they will destroy our way of life.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Retired police officer arrested over ‘thought crime’ tweet

Tweet Police

A retired special constable was arrested and detained over a social media post warning about the threat of anti-Semitism in Britain, The Telegraph can reveal.

Julian Foulkes, from Gillingham in Kent, was handcuffed at his home by six officers from Kent Police – the force he had served for a decade – after challenging a supporter of pro-Palestinian marches on X.

Police body-worn camera footage captured officers scrutinising the 71-year-old’s collection of books by authors such as Douglas Murray, a Telegraph contributor, and issues of The Spectator, pointing to what they described as “very Brexity things”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

Barbara Kay: The credulously pro-terror members of Mark Carney’s caucus

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s election victory speech included a note of humility: “Over my long career, I have made many mistakes, and I will make more, but I commit to admitting them openly, to correcting them quickly, and always learning from them.” Yet it is too late to correct one of his big mistakes. Will he at least admit to and learn from it?

During the election campaign, 28 Liberal candidates (19 of them elected) signed onto a five-point anti-Israel Vote Palestine platform. Vote Palestine began as a BDS project, and quickly gathered steam after a trial run in the 2021 election. The platform contains demands — such as a two-way arms embargo against Israel, a full boycott of Israel-controlled territories and recognition of Palestine as a state — that do not reflect current Liberal policy. In total, 362 candidates signed on.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

These Canadian millionaires are asking for tax increases — but just for themselves

A group of wealthy Canadians calling themselves “Patriotic Millionaires” is banding together to lobby governments to increase the amount of taxes they must pay, with a campaign patterned after similar movements in the United States and United Kingdom.

But there is already pushback on the concept — even before the group officially launches in Canada — with the opposing view being that higher taxes would drive entrepreneurship away from this country.

All three of them!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Mexico sues Google over Gulf of America name change

Mexico has sued Google for changing the Gulf of Mexico’s name to Gulf of America for Google Maps users in the United States.

Announcing the legal challenge, Claudia Sheinbaum, the Mexican president, said: “The lawsuit has already been filed,” without saying where and when it was submitted.

The move comes after Donald Trump instructed the US Board on Geographic Names to change the gulf’s name within hours of taking office, after arguing that the ocean basin was “ours” and the US did “most of the work there”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexico

KLEIN: Major corporations walk away from net-zero, so should government

Let’s get something straight off the top: I’m not suggesting we abandon our climate goals — we need to adjust them. Adjust. That’s the key word, because right now, across all levels of government in Canada, we are charging ahead with unrealistic climate policies that don’t line up with economic reality or practical science. And if we don’t course-correct soon, we’ll keep driving investment and opportunity out of this country.

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

Border agents are going to photograph everyone leaving the US by car

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans on photographing every single person who leaves the US by car, an agency spokesperson told Wired. The agency says it will start using facial recognition technology at official border crossings to match all outbound travelers’ faces to their passports, visas, or other travel documents, though there’s no public timeline for when this will happen.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

Conrad Black: And just like that, the Trump ‘threat’ disappears

Mark Carney has returned from Washington and is taking a bow from the highly supportive Canadian political media for a very cordial meeting with U.S. President Trump. He set out to replicate his mighty but unsuccessful effort as governor of the Bank of England to terrorize the British public over the prospect of the United Kingdom departing the European Union, which Britain had never voted to enter, and squeaked into the minority reelection of an otherwise failed Liberal government of Canada as the man who could stand up to Donald Trump. President Trump heaped compliments on his visitor and with some justification took credit for Carney’s election victory, said that he (Trump) was the best thing that ever happened to him (Carney) and slapped him jovially on the knee. Readers will recall that I said at every stage that the hysteria about Trump was a nothingburger and that no more would be heard about Carney’s theory that “Trump is trying to break us” and that “This country’s intimacy with the United States is over, a tragedy but the reality.” When asked about this last week President Trump said “He was running for public office,” a gracious explanation of the ludicrous canard that Trump is any kind of a threat to Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

European leaders pressure Russia over 30-day Ukraine ceasefire

European leaders have urged Russia to agree to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine starting on Monday.

The call was issued at a meeting of the “coalition of the willing” in Kyiv. The leaders of France, Germany, the UK and Poland were hosted by Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, while others joined remotely.

They made the announcement after discussing the plan by phone with US President Donald Trump – who initially mooted an unconditional ceasefire. The leaders threatened Russia with “massive” sanctions if it does not comply.

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

Why Is There No Contender Vying for Poilievre’s Job?

The dust has begun to settle after the Conservatives lost a fourth consecutive election and there’s been no notable effort to stir things up again, with no widespread or open criticism of leader Pierre Poilievre emerging so far.

This has not been a typical scenario for the Conservative Party in recent years, with previous leaders being ousted by a vote or intense campaign of criticism following an election loss.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party