Author: Blazingcatfur

Ontario’s four new small nuclear reactors at Darlington station to cost nearly $21 billion

The price tag is in: $20.9 billion.

That’s the estimated cost of the design and building four small, modular reactors (SMRs) at the Darlington nuclear generating station on Lake Ontario east of Oshawa providing a total of 1,200 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 1.2 million homes as demand for power is expected to surge 75 per cent by 2050.

Energy Minister Stephen Lecce revealed the long-awaited dollar figure Thursday as construction on the first reactor began following years of preparations, approvals and site preparation.

In 2030 the first of 4 comes onstream. This is Canada remember have a salt shaker handy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters"

Germany’s spy agency walks back extremist label for AfD

BERLIN — Germany’s domestic intelligence service has withdrawn its newly announced classification of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a confirmed extremist organization — at least temporarily.

Just six days after the agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, also known as the BfV, said it had gathered “definitive evidence” that the AfD seeks to undermine Germany’s democratic order, the BfV told an administrative court in Cologne that it will suspend the classification while legal proceedings are ongoing.

The BfV will now monitor the party only as a “suspected case,” a lower-tier designation that still allows surveillance, but under stricter judicial oversight.

I hope Trump sic’s JD on them.

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

Canada Contends With Simmering Western Frustration Post-Election

The stakes for Western alienation were raised this week when Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said she would allow a question on separation to go to a referendum if it meets the requirements. While Smith made it clear she doesn’t support separation herself, she said Albertans holding such views should not be called “traitors.”

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe also hasn’t ruled out allowing a vote on separation if residents triggered legislation for a plebiscite, though he said he still hopes Saskatchewan can continue to be part of Canada.

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

Assaults, bomb threats, Nazi salutes: Canada’s courts are starting to convict those targeting Jews

Hamza Herzalla -Muslim Arrested Eaton Centre

The surge of crimes against Canada’s Jewish community that began after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack and Israeli military response in Gaza has resulted in the first handful of criminal convictions.

In February, Omar Elkhodary was convicted of assaulting a woman as he tore down the posters she was putting up on a Toronto street showing children held hostage by Hamas.

I don’t buy this. It seems like LPC propaganda to be honest.

The incidents mentioned are a very small fraction of the number claimed.

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

China agrees to US trade talks

China has agreed to the first major talks with the US since Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs and launched a global trade war.

Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, and Jamieson Greer, the US trade representative, will meet with their counterparts in Geneva this weekend.

It is a move Mr Bessent has described as a “de-escalation” amid growing market worry over the impact of the tariffs on the world economy, and working Americans.

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

FOURNIER: The truth about selenium is that activists won’t tell you the truth

How anti-mining activists manipulate information to serve their purposes.

Today’s highly organized environmentalists believe that the ends justify the means. However to influence public sentiment, few of them have more succinctly stated their willingness to misapply scientific expertise and data than Greenpeace.

As a case in point, Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace is infamous for saying: “It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.”

Link fixed

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

Would the Left Finally Explain the Inexplicable?

The left broke norms, erased borders, and weaponized justice—not to govern, but to crush Trump and cling to power by any means necessary.

Somewhere between 10 and 12 million illegal aliens were invited into the United States by the Biden administration.

As far as logistics go, Biden could not flee Afghanistan without getting 13 Marines killed and abandoning to the terrorist Taliban $50 billion in munitions, a billion-dollar embassy, and a $300 million retrofitted huge airbase.

But Biden and his handlers proved far more logistically capable when their target was fellow Americans.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

The Fate of America’s Plutocrats

In what can only be described as the most astonishing turn of events in American political history, the Democrat party over the past twenty years has evolved into a previously unimagined alliance of super-rich plutocrats and their two-century-old mortal enemy, the far-left or Marxists.

Many years ago, while participating in a voter registration drive, I came upon a grizzled and disheveled old man sitting in the overgrown and weed-infested yard of his paint-starved house calmly smoking his pipe. Despite his gruff demeanor, Ully (Ulysses) was very pleasant and loquacious as we talked for over an hour on topics ranging from the weather to the innate foibles of mankind.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Report warns that making nice with Trump is auto sector’s only hope

Despite campaign promises by Prime Minister Mark Carney that Canada can dodge U.S. tariffs with an “all in Canada” auto sector, a new C.D. Howe Institute report claims that the only realistic future for Canadian auto manufacturing is to make nice with the Americans.

“To maintain our manufacturing base, Canada must either exponentially expand its share of the domestic market or achieve healthy sales across the larger North American market,” reads the new report written by Stephen Beatty, the recently retired corporate secretary of Toyota Canada.

I am not hopeful.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Greta Thunberg’s moral siege of Israel

Why isn’t Greta Thunberg sailing an aid ship to Sudan? Things are dire there. Two years of war have given rise to ‘catastrophic hunger levels’. The horrors dwarf ‘those in Ukraine, Gaza and Somalia combined’, reports Deutsche Welle. And yet the benighted Sudanese have failed to win the favour of the world’s best known eco-brat. Her boat is destined not for Africa but for the only strip of land that matters to the virtuous of the West: Gaza.

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

The Statue Of The Random Black Woman In Times Square Is Leftist Cultural Warfare

The cultural parasites of the left have struck again. This time, they have erected a bronze statue of a 12-foot-tall anonymous overweight black woman in New York City’s Times Square, where it will stand for the next month.

Matt Walsh asked on X whether it was a particular person “or just a statue of a random black woman for no apparent reason?”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Leo XIV: surprise for traditional Catholics… and not a pleasant one

On May 6th, LifeSite News published an op-ed piece headlined “Could Cardinal Prevost be the first American pope?” The subhead is: “Seemingly out of nowhere, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is being discussed as a serious candidate in the upcoming conclave.”

The author concludes a long list of problems evident from the prelate’s past actions and pronouncements as follows: The question is whether he professes the faith whole and entire, in public and without compromise. If the answer is not a clear “Yes,” then the conclusion is clear: he cannot be validly elected or accepted as pope.

Thanks to Walt for bringing this to our attention.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church

Federal Indigenous spending almost tripled to projected $32 billion under wastrel Liberal Party

A modest improvement in Indigenous living standards due to unrelated federal child benefit

Since 2015, the federal government has significantly increased spending on Indigenous Peoples.

The annual Indigenous budget has almost tripled from 2015 to 2025, growing (in nominal dollars) from roughly $11 billion to more than $32 billion.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Woman claims Meghan Markle’s bath salts gave her ‘catastrophic burns’ threatens to sue the douchess for $10m

A woman is threatening to sue Meghan Markle for $10million (£8million) after claiming she suffered ‘catastrophic burns’ after trying out the homemade bath salts recipe from her Netflix show, it was revealed today.

Robin Patrick has shared horrific pictures of her legs as proof that the Duchess of Sussex’s recipe on With Love, Meghan is ‘flawed and dangerous’ and should have come with a warning.

Ms Patrick, a diabetic from Maryland, claims that she suffered 18 burns, still has ulcers and claims her body still feels like it is ‘burning from within’– after following Meghan’s recipe in March.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"