Author: Blazingcatfur

Label Obsession Grips Canada as Shoppers Shun American Products

TORONTO – Armed with four different apps, Lucy Fromowitz roams the aisles of her local supermarket looking for clues.

She scans the barcodes on food packages and studies the origin stories that pop up on her phone. When something seems potentially misleading or incomplete, she moves to phase 2, poring over the fine print.

“Sometimes it will say, ‘Prepared in Canada,’” the retired college administrator said during a recent weekend shopping trip with her husband. “But if you read the package, it’s shipped through Florida or California,” and doesn’t specify what kind of preparation took place north of the border.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Unisex lavatories risk ‘discrimination against biological women’

The EHRC has warned shops, pubs, restaurants and cafés that after the Supreme Court ruling, failure to provide single-sex facilities may leave them open to legal challenge

Shops, pubs, restaurants and cafés which fail to provide single-sex lavatories may be committing “indirect discrimination” against women, the equality watchdog has warned.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said that transwomen — biological males — should no longer be allowed to use women’s facilities, including lavatories and changing rooms, after a Supreme Court ruling.

The ruling could lead businesses to convert single-sex lavatories into unisex facilities to ensure provision for transgender people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Niagara Falls ‘at breaking point’ after surge in migrants

City’s hotels are filled with asylum seekers as fears grow that Trump’s immigration crackdown will send more fleeing across the border

The lobby of the Wyndham Garden Tower Hotel in Niagara Falls at 8am is busy with chatter in all manner of languages.

The chatter is not from tourists heading out to admire the mist-covered waterfalls, however, but from children who are living at the hotel after arriving from Africa with parents seeking asylum.

Minutes later they are gone, climbing into two yellow buses to take them to school.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Canada, USA

White House lawn lined with posters displaying illegal immigrants’ mugshots and crimes they committed

The White House lawn has been lined with mugshot-style posters bearing the faces of 100 “arrested” illegal migrants — and lists of the despicable crimes some have committed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA

Canada’s Trump Referendum: If the Liberals win, it’ll be because voters fear Tariff Man more than bad government.

Donald Trump isn’t on the ballot in Canada’s election Monday. But a lot of Canadians are expected to cast their vote with him in mind. The single biggest issue in the race is the White House’s verbal jabs at Canadian sovereignty and threats to annul the free-trade agreement between the two countries. The voter solution to the matter is shaping up to be more visceral than rational, which is unfortunate for Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Russia declares a ceasefire in Ukraine on May 8-10 for WWII Victory Day

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared a three-day ceasefire in Ukraine on May 8-10 to mark the World War II Victory Day, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration decides whether a deal to end the more than three-year war is within reach.

The Kremlin said that the truce will start at 0000 on May 8 (2100 GMT May 7) and last through the end of May 10, adding that Putin ordered the full cessation of hostilities on “humanitarian grounds” to mark the May 9 holiday celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany.

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

On election day, Trump says Canada should join the U.S.

U.S. President Donald Trump weighed in on Canada’s election Monday, though he stopped short of supporting a candidate. Instead, he endorsed Canada becoming the 51st state.

“Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America,” he wrote on Truth Social.

Sigh …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025, USA

On “Assassination Culture”: It’s Not You, It’s the Left

A new report warns that rising left-wing support for political violence, fueled by online “assassination culture,” threatens the foundations of civil discourse and democracy.

Writing in City Journal, Zack Dulberg and Max Horder, senior fellows at the Network Contagion Research Institute, examined the results of a recent survey to determine why America has experienced a disturbing increase in political violence. The answer should surprise no objective observer: “Progressives increasingly support violence.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

Fed-up Canadians ditch Big Tech giants for obscure alternatives in latest trade war boycott

The next battleground in Canada’s boycott of the US is Big Tech.

Fed-up Canucks are now ditching tech giants like Apple, Google and Meta to make way for obscure alternatives, like an email server called “NorthMail” or a search engine named “Switch.”

Like the travel, booze and grocey boycotts, the tech offensive is being launched by Canadians steamed over tariffs and President Trump’s suggestion to make the Great White North the 51st state in the union.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Protesters disrupt London Marathon by throwing red paint on Tower Bridge

Youth Demand demonstrators have thrown red powder paint on Tower Bridge during the London Marathon.

The group, which is calling for a trade embargo on Israel, said two of its supporters jumped over the barriers and threw the substance in front of the men’s elite race at around 10.35am.

>An image shared by Youth Demand shows two people standing in the middle of the road wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the message: “Youth Demand: Stop Arming Israel”.

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

Polls narrow in race to oust Carney in Canada election

Mark Carney’s poll lead in Canada’s election race has narrowed to just two points, hours before voters cast their ballots on Monday.

In a campaign dominated by Donald Trump’s threats to annex the country, the Liberal prime minister began the month six points ahead of Conservative populist Pierre Poilievre, who is seen as sympathetic to the US president.

However, a poll by Abacus Data published on Sunday, found that the Liberals were on 41 per cent of the vote compared with 39 per cent for Conservatives.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025

Terror police investigate gun and crossbow attack on women in Leeds

A man has been arrested and counterterrorism police are investigating after three people were injured in an attack involving a crossbow and a firearm in Leeds.

Officers were called to the northwest outskirts of the city at 2.47pm on Saturday to reports of an “ongoing serious incident involving a man seen with weapons”, West Yorkshire police said.

Two women were taken to hospital for treatment. A 38-year-old man who suffered a “self-inflicted injury” was arrested and also taken to hospital. The injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

What the world makes of Canada’s election

Canadians are heading to the polls to decide on their next government at a pivotal moment in their relations with the US.

The country faces a huge economic challenge in the shape of Trump tariffs on Canadian exports to the US.

And the US president’s pursuit of Canada as part of an expanded US has increased anxieties about national security.

But this election is not just about a relationship between these neighbours and former allies, it is being closely watched in several other parts of the world too.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025

McTEAGUE: My fellow boomers, Carney’s ‘Green’ obsessions are bad for all of us!

One common narrative of this election has been “The Boomers vs. Everyone Else.” Poll after poll after poll has shown Mark Carney and his band of Trudeau Liberals with big leads among Boomers — Canadians over the age of 60, or so — with younger age groups favouring Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives, sometimes by quite a lot.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Ireland’s anti-immigration movement is coming for Dublin

It is a tradition within Irish Republicanism for Easter Week to be marked by parades and marches to commemorate the 1916 Rising against British rule. Yesterday, Ireland’s growing if electorally marginal anti-immigration movement adopted the tradition. Outside Dublin’s Gardens of Remembrance, a woman was doing brisk business selling the Irish Republic flag of the Rising, as well as tricolours adorned with “You’ll Never Beat The Irish”, as tens of thousands of anti-immigration marchers gathered for their largest protest yet.

“They need to be dragged out by their balls,” said one older woman, carrying a commemorative wreath, of the Irish government. She transpired to be the wife of the movement’s emerging leader, the veteran Republican activist and newly-elected inner city Dublin councillor Malachy Steenson. The day was to be a reassertion of nationalist credibility after the politically damaging presence of Southern anti-immigration protestors alongside Ulster Loyalists during last summer’s Belfast riots.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Ireland