Author: Blazingcatfur

Disruptophobia: How 2025 Flipped the Risk Equation in the Canadian election

With just one week to go, the 2025 federal election has become something no one fully expected even a few months ago: a referendum on how much risk Canadians are willing to take in a world turned upside down.

Back in January, the public mood was sour. Canadians were angry, anxious, and deeply fatigued by high prices, housing stress, and years of a Liberal government they felt could not turn things around. For almost two years, nothing the federal government and Prime Minister Trudeau did could get the public out of its funk. Pierre Poilievre effectively ligitated the case against Trudeau and by the end of 2024, they led by more than 25-points and only 12% of Canadians believed the Liberals deserved to be re-elected. The message was clear: the country wanted change.

But then everything shifted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Gunmen shoot 12 dead at Ecuador cockfight

Police in Ecuador say they have arrested four people in connection with an attack by gunmen at a cockfighting ring in which 12 people died.

Weapons and replica police and army uniforms were seized during police raids in the north-western Manabí province on Friday – a day after the attack in the rural community of La Valencia.

Footage of the attack shared on social media showed gunmen entering the ring and opening fire, as terrified spectators dived for cover.

Tweet translation – “Cockfight massacre in #Ecuador : Armed men disguised as soldiers opened fire at a venue in Manabí, leaving at least 12 dead.

It happened Thursday night. The Ministry of the Interior reported that four alleged perpetrators were arrested, believed to be members of a gang known as “R7.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting", WTF?

Trump Administration Draft Order Calls for Drastic Overhaul of State Department

The draft executive order that could be signed by President Trump would eliminate Africa operations and shut down bureaus working on democracy, human rights and refugee issues.

A draft of a Trump administration executive order proposes a drastic restructuring of the State Department, including eliminating almost all of its Africa operations and shutting down embassies and consulates across the continent.

The draft also calls for cutting offices at State Department headquarters that address climate change and refugee issues, as well as democracy and human rights concerns.

The purpose of the executive order, which could be signed soon by President Trump, is to impose “a disciplined reorganization” of the State Department and “streamline mission delivery” while cutting “waste, fraud and abuse,” according to a copy of the 16-page draft order obtained by The New York Times. The department is supposed to make the changes by Oct. 1.

A Twofer. The Deep State takes a hit and China gets a chance to sink in the African quagmire.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", USA

Earth Day reality check shows Canada’s air quality is excellent

On Dec. 1, 1962, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers met the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the 50th Grey Cup at Toronto’s Exhibition Stadium. During the game, a mass of thick fog rolled ashore from Lake Ontario, severely limiting on-field visibility and forcing the CFL to suspend play with less than 10 minutes remaining in the fourth quarter (the game resumed the next day, with a Bombers victory). The moisture from the fog interacted with tailpipe emissions and industrial pollution, producing one of the worst smog episodes in Toronto’s history. For three days, heavy smog blanketed the city, exposing Torontonians to unhealthy air and symbolizing a dark period in Canada’s air quality history.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Election 2025

Voters stayed home in these ridings that saw photo finishes in 2021. Will it be close again this time?

One of the reasons often cited for voter apathy is a sense that one’s vote doesn’t make a difference. But insights gleaned from Canada’s last election tell a different story and indicate that in some cases, every vote really does count.

Voter turnout stood at 62.6 per cent in Canada’s last federal election in September 2021. That represented about 17.2 million of Canada’s 27.5 million eligible voters at the time.

To better understand how and where low voter turnout made a difference, Environics Analytics looked at eight ridings across the country where there was both low voter turnout and a very close race.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Border Crossings Grind to Halt as Trump’s Tough Policies Take Hold

CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico— In this border city, large groups of migrants marching toward the U.S. have all but halted. Migrant encampments are disappearing, and few people are trying to sneak across remote desert areas to start new lives in the U.S.

“The door is closed,” said Yorman Briceño, a Venezuelan migrant staying at a church-run shelter in Ciudad Juárez, just across from the border from El Paso, Texas.

He had been waiting about six months for his Jan. 23 appointment to request asylum in the U.S. under a Biden-era program, until it was scrapped by President Trump on Jan. 20. Now, after watching how others have been rounded up in immigration sweeps and extradited by the U.S. to a notorious prison in El Salvador, he said he wasn’t even sure he wanted to go anymore.

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

The vegan trans ‘death cult’ turning geniuses into accused killers

Curt Lind didn’t know it, but he was already dead.

The 82-year-old was ambushed by a hooded figure lying in wait outside his trailer park who repeatedly slashed his throat, CCTV footage seen by The Telegraph reveals.

Amazingly, Lind remained on his feet as his assailant fled. The collar of his jacket, which had been torn off during the frenzied knife attack and trailed limply from his hand, was visibly soaked through with blood.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

WAPO invites you to meet the Conservative populist looking to unseat Canada’s Liberals

TORONTO — On a bright early spring evening, a queue of Canadian rallygoers snaked through a hotel lobby and around the block. Some had waited in the cold for an hour. Cars jammed roads and parking lots. So many people had shown up that the venue could not accommodate them all.

Inside the hotel ballroom, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre served up a polished 35-minute set of the classics, kicking off his bid for prime minister. He assailed a “radical, borderless, globalist ideology” and “net-zero environmental extremism.” He promised a “big, patriotic, bold and beautiful” tax cut and to stop “crime, chaos and disorder.”

Mainstreet has the Cons ahead again …

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party, Election 2025

Banks and business are talking sense on climate at last. But it must not be just talk

Coal in Carney’s China

The Davos elites must not be permitted to shift from green-washing to ‘green-hushing’

After years of bragging about their climate policies, multinational businesses and international organisations are now going silent about their sustainability goals. They are no longer green-washing but “green-hushing”. Yet, green targets are bad for business and a terrible way to help the world. These actors shouldn’t just be quieter about them. They should stop this waste.

Perhaps the most blatantly self-defeating attempt to go green was by the fossil fuel industry. Back in 2020, BP made the extraordinary promise to slash oil and gas production by 40 per cent by 2030, boost renewable energy generation twentyfold, and even become a net-zero energy company. Since then, it has performed the worst among big oil, and two CEOs later, BP has now abandoned its green promises and recommitted to fossil fuel. Other big western oil companies are also returning to their roots – while state-owned oil giants like Saudi Aramco, Sinopec, Petrobras and Rosneft never made dramatic green promises in the first place.

More … 4 of Canada’s biggest banks leave Mark Carney-led climate initiative

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Election 2025

Why are Europeans so untroubled by their ignorance of America?

Americans are infamous on the eastern side of the Atlantic for knowing little or nothing about European culture, history and politics – and for being proud of the fact, as Richard Hofstadter, the late Columbia historian, described in them in Anti-intellectualism in American Life, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1964.

Much less widely recognized is how little Europeans know about America, Americans and their own civilization – an ignorance that troubles them not at all, perhaps because they seem to be unaware of the fact.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, USA

KLEIN: Beware: The next Liberal tax may be on the roof over your head

There’s a hard truth that Canadians need to wake up to, especially homeowners: The government is broke.

The numbers don’t lie. Federal debt has more than doubled since 2015, climbing past $1.2 trillion. Interest payments on that debt are now larger than what Ottawa spends on health care transfers to the provinces. They’ve run out of room to borrow without consequences. They’ve run out of excuses, and now, they’re running out of people to tax — except you.

If you own a home, particularly if it’s paid off, congratulations. You’re about to become the government’s next target.

Interesting that the people most likely to vote for Carney are home owners hoping to protect their equity by continuing the housing shortage caused by Liberal party mass immigration policy.

And now they find that their hard won gains may be stolen by their savior Carney.

As they say: Be careful what you wish for.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

We’re in a golden age of space discovery — are we about to find ET?

It was an excited crowd that filled a lecture hall at Cambridge University’s Institute of Astronomy on Thursday afternoon. There were seasoned professors, gaggles of graduate students and studious researchers. Even the astronomer royal, Lord Rees of Ludlow, had come along to the hastily arranged seminar.

They were there to see Dr Nikku Madhusudhan, professor of astrophysics and exoplanetary science, discuss an astounding finding.

Madhusudhan and his team believed they had established the strongest evidence yet that life exists on another planet. Newspapers around the world that morning carried his claim that a watery planet called K2-18b — roughly 124 light years from Earth — may be “teeming” with algae-like organisms. The 100-strong audience was “even more excited than I am”, says Madhusudhan.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"