Author: Blazingcatfur

Poilievre takes shot at Carney’s record, saying he failed at Bank of England

Canadian Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Mark Carney should have been fired when he was governor of the Bank of England, arguing that the new Canadian prime minister’s economic record isn’t as strong as he presents it.

Poilievre, speaking to reporters hours after Carney was sworn in as Canada’s new leader, said Carney had acted as an “unreliable boyfriend” while leading the central bank from 2013 to 2020. That’s a reference to a quote from British lawmaker Pat McFadden, who criticized Carney over a decade ago for not following through after signalling plans to hike interest rates.

Nasty.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trump’s College Crackdown: It’s Their Own Fault

The federal government has some “legitimate concerns,” said Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong last week, after the Trump administration announced the withdrawal of $400 million in federal grants because, it claimed, Columbia had not addressed rampant anti-Semitism on its campus. Armstrong’s words suggest that Columbia received the message. But have other institutions of higher education?

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

Audi to cut 7,500 jobs amid ‘challenging’ switch to EVs

Audi plans to cut 7,500 jobs as the German car maker scrambles to find money to fund the “challenging transition to electric mobility”.

The manufacturer, which is owned by Volkswagen, on Monday announced plans to axe around 8pc of its workforce by 2029. The job cuts are part of a series of measures aimed at saving €1bn (£840m) a year.

Audi said: “The economic conditions are becoming increasingly tougher, competitive pressure and political uncertainties are presenting the company with immense challenges.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

Christopher Dummitt: Canadians need a proud, not guilt-ridden Canada

The smart bet is that the ballot box question in the next federal election will be about national survival. Most of the debate will focus on economic choices, productivity, tariffs, trade and foreign policy. But what about culture?

To be a nation, we have to feel that we belong together, that we are more than a string of city lights in the night sky lined up along American border. It’s suddenly popular to be proudly Canadian — to vehemently publicly diss the Americans, and want to buy Canadian. But aside from being justifiably angry at Trump, what is this based on?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Trapped Antarctic scientists plead for rescue after ‘assault’

It typically takes about two weeks to reach the Antarctic research station on a freezing clifftop some 2,500 miles from the southernmost tip of Africa. When the weather allows.

One group of scientists dispatched to the frozen continent to study its climate are now utterly alone for at least ten more months, as ice floes and extreme weather make getting in or out impossible.

Given their isolation, the email that arrived from the Sanae IV base last week caused immediate alarm.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Quebec Is Replacing Multiculturalism With ‘Integration’—English Canada Should Do the Same

How can a multi-ethnic democracy like Canada forge a common identity out of a population with many disparate countries of origin? The Quebec government says that multiculturalism is the wrong model for this tough task, and is blazing a new trail that it calls “integration.” This approach offers a firm but compassionate model for integrating newcomers. English Canada should pay close attention.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada

Trump deports Brown doctor Rasha Alawieh over links to Hezbollah and slain leader

Donald Trump has deported a Brown University doctor over her alleged links to Hezbollah and the terror group’s longtime leader who was killed last year.

Dr Rasha Alawieh, 47, from Lebanon, was deported from Boston Logan International Airport to Paris on Friday despite having a US visa and a job teaching at the Ivy League college in Rhode Island.

Federal authorities told Politico that border officials moved to expel Alawieh from the country after they found ‘sympathetic photos and videos’ of prominent Hezbollah figures in a deleted items folder on her cell phone.

h/t PA Cat

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Transit systems shouldn’t operate as shelters for the unhoused and mentally ill

The Société de transport de Montréal, the city’s transit agency, says it will no longer tolerate loitering in Métro stations, subways and buses.

The STM is implementing an “obligation to circulate” rule to deal with the growing number of unhoused people who are essentially living in transit facilities. The measure is, in theory, temporary (to April 30) but it’s hard to imagine what will change in that short period.

There is no question that the situation in some of Montreal’s 68 metro stations has become untenable.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Canada’s ‘Lost Liberal decade’ — Will Carney fix the mess he helped create?

Canada’s GDP per capita growth from 2014 to 2024 was just 0.5%—the U.S. figure was 20.7%, according to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook report from October 2024.

The figure indicates an average annual growth rate of approximately 0.05% over the decade, reflecting a period of economic stagnation under the Trudeau Liberals on a per-person basis.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trump-Putin Talks to Follow Weeks of Diplomatic Turbulence Over War

President Trump is set to press his high-speed effort to bring the war in Ukraine to an end when he speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.

Trump said “a lot of work” had been done over the weekend and that the U.S. had talked to both sides about dividing up “assets,” such as land and power plants.

The White House’s rapid-fire diplomacy is up against warnings from Moscow last week that much remains to be resolved before agreeing to halt fighting.

Trump brushed aside those concerns when speaking about his plans to talk to Putin. “We want to see if we can bring that war to an end,” he told reporters on Air Force One late Sunday. “Maybe we can, maybe we can’t, but I think we have a very good chance.”

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

Meet the Marxist Hate Group Sabotaging ICE Raids

“They patrol L.A.’s streets in search of ICE, Trump immigration raids,” is how the Los Angeles Times described the pro-illegal alien activists sabotaging the arrests of illegal alien criminals. The newspaper breathlessly described how ‘community patrols follow ICE vehicles and alert illegal aliens that federal law enforcement is on the way.”

The pro-illegal alien activists use megaphones to make noise, hoping to scare away the criminals that ICE has come to protect the community from, to the applause of the media.

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

Boot the Ungrateful Foreigners the Hell Out of America

I am loving this uproar over that communist terrorist fluffer from Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil, who the feds detained with an eye towards booting his sorry rear out of our glorious country. First, I love how the commies are crying about it, how suddenly they care about free speech even though they carried absolutely nothing about free speech when normal patriotic Americans were being rounded up for daring to oppose abortion and bogus elections. I love how they’re calling his totally legitimate arrest a “kidnapping” when this guy’s unseemly and eager onanism over his dirtbag Palestinian buddies’ kidnapping of innocent Israelis is what got him busted in the first place. But mostly, I love this imbroglio because it shows that we Americans are not going to take any more guff from uppity foreigners.

h/t DS

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