Author: Blazingcatfur

Advance polls open for last day as election campaign heads into final week

OTTAWA — Canadians hoping to vote early in the upcoming federal election have until the end of the day to visit an advance polling station as the campaign enters its final week.

Today is the fourth and final day that advance polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. before the general election date of April 28.

And until 6 p.m. local time on Tuesday, Canadians can also either cast their ballot at an Elections Canada office in their riding or apply to vote by mail.

Conservatives do better in advance polls.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

John Ivison: Conservative hopes are resurrected by Carney’s eye-watering spending plan

NEPEAN, ONT. – Diana Fox Carney introduced her husband beneath blue skies at a large outdoor rally in his chosen Ottawa-area riding of Nepean on Sunday.

“Mark is unflappable because he puts in the prep work that is necessary,” she said.

Liberals had best hope so because, as the election campaign enters its final week, the assault from the Conservatives on the tens of billions of dollars of new spending in the party’s platform has already started.

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

Poilievre’s plan to deport haters for hate crimes is hateful says Star

Poilievre’s plan to deport residents under the pretense of hate crimes is not leadership. It’s dangerous politics

Over the years, as an immigration lawyer I’ve had the privilege of representing countless newcomers to Canada — refugee claimants, permanent residents and future citizens. And if there’s one thing these clients share, it’s a deep commitment to following the law.

They know — often better than most — that their path to citizenship depends on it.

That’s why Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s recent threat to deport non-citizens involved in “antisemitic crimes” isn’t just alarming — it’s dishonest.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inhate crimes

How nationwide red paint attacks signal a Chinese gang feud in Britain

When Dominic Payne de Cramilly opened a guest house in Colchester 17 years ago he never expected that it would be at the centre of a nationwide crime mystery.

In January, the 2-star hotel was defaced in what initially seemed to be an isolated act of vandalism. But it’s now being linked to an ominous cluster of similar incidents whose origins may lie in the Far East.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Carney Jumps Shark pledges to ramp up military spending to protect against the US

Mark Carney pledged to ramp up military spending by £17 billion to protect against “America’s threats to our very sovereignty” if he wins Canada’s general election.

Mr Carney, Canada’s prime minister, said Ottowa must “prepare” in light of Donald Trump’s repeated threats to annex the country and absorb it as the US’ 51st state.

“In this crisis we have to prepare for America’s threats to our very sovereignty. They want our land, our resources, they want our water, they want our country,” Mr Carney said as he released the Liberal Party manifesto.

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

China warns countries against striking trade deals with US

China on Monday threatened countermeasures against countries that “appease” the United States by striking trade deals with Washington at Beijing’s expense.

The warning follows a Bloomberg report that the US plans to pressure nations to curb trade with China if they want to avoid huge new US tariffs on their exports announced by President Donald Trump earlier this month.

The Trump administration says that dozens of nations want to renegotiate trade to prevent the new US penalties from taking effect, which would hurt their exports to the world’s largest economy.

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

Poilievre dodges questions about repealing national handgun ban

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre dodged questions Sunday about whether he would repeal the federal government’s handgun ban, a measure brought in to tamp down on the diversion of legal firearms into the hands of bad actors.

Poilievre hasn’t said much during this campaign about what he would do with the Liberal firearms legislation he voted against while in Parliament, but he has blasted the last government’s “assault-style” firearm buyback program as a “gun grab” that he would scrap.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party, Election 2025, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Ukraine reports many Russian drone attacks after truce ends

Ukraine’s military has reported Russian drone attacks on several regions overnight, just hours after the end of a 30-hour “Easter truce” declared by Moscow.

Air raid alerts were issued by Ukraine’s air force for the Kyiv region, as well as Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia.

In the southern city of Mykolaiv, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said “explosions were heard”. It was not immediately clear whether there were any casualties.

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

Licia Corbella: When it comes to who’s more like Trump, Carney trumps Poilievre

Of Canada’s top two federal party leaders, which one is more like U.S. President Donald Trump?

Partisans of each party will understandably try to point at the other guy.

This question, however, when answered with facts, should give pause to all Canadians who will head to the polls on April 28 to pick a new government to contend with Trump while simultaneously making Canada an attractive place for enterprise and citizens to thrive.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Another Alleged Tesla Bomber Is Charged—Aaaaand He Looks Like a Girl

Can you imagine what would have happened if President Donald Trump 45 had the kind of people in his cabinet in the 2020 Summer of Love that he has now? I often think about this. When I hear of another of another Tesla bomber being busted by the feds, however, it gives us a pretty good idea of what those days might have been like.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Trump Derangement Syndrome