Author: Blazingcatfur

The vast majority of Canadians are proud to be Canadian: poll

Eighty-five per cent of Canadians say they’re proud to be Canadian — up five percentage points from nearly one year ago, according to a new poll.

The Leger poll conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies found that Atlantic Canadians and those in Manitoba and Saskatchewan are the most proud (91 per cent). They’re followed by those in Alberta (86 per cent), Ontarians (85 per cent) and people in British Columbia (84 per cent). Quebecers feel the least national pride, with 79 per cent saying they’re proud to be Canadian.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Support for Canada’s oil-and-gas sector gets a Trump bump

Almost 20 years ago, Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper asserted Canada was an energy superpower. Under Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government, the narrative was not about flexing our energy muscles, but on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and shifting to green energy.

And then along came Donald Trump. The U.S. President has driven home to Canadians the importance of Canada’s oil-and-gas sector. His administration has implemented tariffs on aluminum, steel and the automotive sector, but oil and gas was left alone. This drove home to Canadians the importance of the oil and gas sector – not just to the Canadian economy, but to the American economy, as well.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025

Soiled Himself Singh makes plea for Canadians to ensure NDP has influence in next Parliament

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is making a plea to Canadians today to give his party an influential role in Parliament and not reward either the Conservatives or Liberals with a majority government where they hold all the power.

“Ottawa works best when there’s someone there to hold the powerful to account,” Singh said Friday at the Broadbent Institute’s annual conference.

The institute is a social democratic think tank formed by former federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent and its annual Progress Summit is falling this year in the third week of the federal election campaign.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025, NDP

Sam Bankman-Fried’s New Home: A Run-Down Prison That Once Housed Al Capone

Sam Bankman-Fried had hoped to win freedom by making a long-shot bid for a presidential pardon. Instead, he began the next stage of his career as a federal inmate.

Earlier this week, the founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange was brought to the low-security prison at Terminal Island in Los Angeles. The 33-year-old former billionaire could spend years at the portside facility, which largely holds nonviolent offenders or those without a recent history of violence. He is set for release in December 2044, the Federal Bureau of Prisons website shows.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency", Crime

Michael Higgins: Carney’s new Project Fear is to scare Canadians into voting for him

All the scrutiny and questions may be getting a bit too much for Mark Carney as he suspends his campaign for a third time.

Carney has clearly been irritated and put his “elbows up” after being questioned about a number of controversies swirling around him. Among the recent issues that have put Carney under a glaring spotlight have been: why Brookfield Asset Management used a Bermud a bike shop as a tax haven while he was an executive at the firm; whether his previous jobs create a conflict-of-interest for him and whether he met a pro-Beijing lobbying group in Toronto, as reported in the Globe and Mail on Thursday.

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

Have Germany’s insult laws gone too far?

The list of penalties for insulting people in Germany reads like a classic Mastercard advert. Displaying your middle finger to a fellow motorist: €600 to €4,000. Using the informal version of the word “you” to a police officer: €600. Calling someone a “wanker”: €1,000.

To all this, a growing number of Germans are inclined to add that upholding freedom of expression is priceless.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Saskatchewan beats Alberta and Quebec in wanting to leave Canada if Carney wins: poll

Saskatchewan is the province that wants to leave Canada the most if Liberals win the upcoming election in Canada, a new poll finds.

Around 33 per cent of residents from the central prairie province “say they would vote to leave federation, whether to form their own country or to join the United States,” if Liberals form the next government, according to the survey by nonprofit Angus Reid Institute.

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

If ‘white privilege’ is real, answer me this

Something very, very odd seems to have come over our police. On Thursday we learnt that West Yorkshire Police had temporarily blocked job applications from white British candidates “in an attempt to boost diversity”. And then yesterday, we learnt that officers at Thames Valley Police are being given “equity training” – during which they’re taught that they have “white privilege”.

Extraordinary. Imagine if Dixon of Dock Green were to be made nowadays.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", "White Guilt", White Privilege

Toronto’s tent encampments are up 20% — expanding into areas they’ve never been found in before

You never used to find tents in Scarborough’s Collingwood Park.

The tiny oasis of greenspace tucked near Sheppard Avenue East and Kennedy Road is usually home to little more than grassy expanses, winding paths, a narrow creek and play equipment. But this spring, as outdoor homelessness has continued to surge across Toronto, 11 campsites were set up throughout the park.

Last spring, there was only one; in the three springs before, none at all.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

RFK Jr. says FDA has become a ‘sock puppet’ in meeting with staff

The Food and Drug Administration has become a “sock puppet” of the industries it regulates, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Friday, telling workers at the beleaguered agency that those industries have exerted too much influence on regulatory decisions for too long.

In a roughly 27-minute speech, Kennedy — the nation’s top health official — also said the “deep state is real,” according to transcripts of his speech and a recording obtained by The Washington Post. He urged employees to blow the whistle on their bosses if they believe superiors are approving “something that shouldn’t be approved.” And he urged employees to “break away from the bureaucracy.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Mark Carney, the Liberal Party, and Canada’s Residential Schools Controversy

On July 19, 2022, the Canadian government set up the National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools, Missing Children and Unmarked Burials to investigate the alleged abuse and murder of Indian children by Christian missionaries and school teachers between 1880 and 1996. National fury erupted in 2015 with the claim that 215 burial sites had been discovered at the Kamloops Indian Residential School by ground-penetrating radar (GPR) scans. The monostory of indigenous suffering and “settler” guilt had to be fixed in technical readouts and funerary stone. Predictably, the allegation proved to be false.

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

Columbia Hamas supporter Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation OK’d

A US judge has ruled the Trump administration can deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate detained last month over his role in pro-Palestinian protests.

Mr Khalil, a permanent legal US resident, has not been charged with a crime. In a letter written from the facility, he has said his “arrest was a direct consequence” of speaking out for Palestinian rights.

The government has cited a Cold War-era immigration law, declaring that his presence in the US was adverse to American foreign policy interests.

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

Brookfield registered entities to Grand Cayman address Obama called ‘largest tax scam in the world’

Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s former firm Brookfield has registered more than a dozen business entities to an infamous address in the Cayman Islands that former U.S. president Barack Obama once described as either “the largest building in the world or the largest tax scam in the world.”

CTV News reviewed U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings between 2015 and 2024 that show the global investment firm registered limited companies and limited partnerships to a five-storey building in the capital of the self-governing British Overseas Territory.

That building is known as Ugland House, and is home to at least 18,000 corporate entities. The Cayman Islands charges no income or corporate taxes.

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