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BOBBY ORR: The Great One is a great Canadian who deserves our respect not criticism

The recent Four Nations Face-Off in hockey was, by any standard, an unbelievable success for the game of hockey.

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The exposure it produced for our great game is a credit to all those individuals involved in its creation and implementation. Hats off to all the players who were so committed to their respective homelands and the game of hockey in general.

These were not mere exhibition games – these were games with great meaning. Congratulations one and all.

The people making a show of their patriotism for the most part are the same ones who shit all over Canada for the last ten years by supporting Trudeau and his useful idiot Singh.

No loyalty oaths here, no pseudo-patriots welcome.

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2025February 23, 2025•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

List weekly accomplishments or resign, Musk tells US federal workers

US government workers received an email on Saturday afternoon asking them to list their accomplishments from the past week or resign – the latest development in the Trump administration’s efforts to scale back the federal workforce.

The email came after Trump’s billionaire confidante Elon Musk posted on X that employees would “shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week”.

“Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation,” he wrote.

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2025February 23, 2025•0•USA

Colby Cosh: A CBC head tax — the next big Liberal idea that no one asked for

On Thursday morning, the federal heritage minister, Pascale St-Onge, gave forth the outlines of her plan to reform the CBC and adapt it to the future. You might think such an exercise would involve asking questions about the CBC’s prior performance, or whether a state broadcaster is really necessary in the 21st century, or exactly what parts of it are essential.

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2025February 23, 2025•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media

Australian Defence Force officer stripped of security clearance over loyalty to Israel

An officer in the Australian Army has been stripped of his security clearance because Asio believes he is more loyal to Israel than Australia, and at risk of being exploited by the Mossad.

The man told Asio interviewers he did not view Israel as a foreign government and that he would share classified information with the Israel Defense Forces if they asked for it.

Asio said the officer, who is Jewish and served 19 years in the Australian military, withheld information from Australian officials about training courses he had undertaken in Israel – where he is not a citizen – which included self-defence, security and firearms training.

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2025February 23, 2025•0•WTF?

Petition asking PM to revoke Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship garners support

OTTAWA — Thousands of people have electronically signed a parliamentary petition calling for revocation of Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship over his role in the Trump administration, which is pointedly threatening Canada’s sovereignty.

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2025February 23, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Zelensky offers to step down as president in exchange for peace

Volodymyr Zelensky is willing to “immediately” step down as president of Ukraine in exchange for peace or the country being granted Nato membership.

On Sunday, the Ukrainian president told a press conference in Kyiv: “If there is peace for Ukraine, if you really need me to leave my post, I am ready…I can exchange it for Nato.”

Mr Zelensky added that he was focused on Ukraine’s security now, not in 20 years’ time, saying that it is not his “dream” to remain president for a decade.

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2025February 23, 2025•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Veterans demand apology for memorial blunder

…Unveiled in 2022, the memorial listed 67 individuals as having “paid the ultimate sacrifice.” However, it was only on December 4 that Veterans Affairs acknowledged some of those named were still alive, had died of natural causes, or never saw combat.

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2025February 22, 2025•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, WTF?

Prince Andrew’s finances: my four-year quest to uncover the truth

Having spent the last four years researching a biography of the Duke of York, I have always maintained that the real issue surrounding him is financial and not sexual. Extensive column inches have been devoted to his association with Jeffrey Epstein and the claims of Virginia Giuffre. But far less attention is paid to how the duke has been able to finance his extravagant lifestyle.

This has become an even more pressing question with the debate on whether he can afford to stay in Royal Lodge and recent revelations about his business activities. Yet getting anywhere close to the bottom of Prince Andrew’s finances, as I have been trying to do for some time, is a fraught and fiendishly complex business.

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2025February 22, 2025•0•"Woke Royals"

GOLDSTEIN: Hiking carbon taxes during tariff war is economic madness

Increasing Canada’s national carbon tax (aka the consumer fuel charge) as scheduled on April 1 by almost 19% to $95 per tonne of industrial greenhouse gas emissions from the current $80 per tonne, when we may be in a full-scale tariff war with the U.S. by then, is economic insanity.

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2025February 22, 2025•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

That worked out great in LA!

Firemen are too male and too white, say chiefs

Britain’s fire service is too male and too white, a report has claimed.

The report, which was commissioned by the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC), found that the fire service was “institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic”.

It said firemen in Britain were not “diverse” enough because the service’s proportion of women and ethnic minorities is less than in wider society.

“My response to people who say you couldn’t carry my husband out of a fire is he got himself in the wrong place if he needs me to carry him out of a fire”

This woman is the Assistant Fire Chief for the city of Los Angeles. Unbelievable.

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— Mel (@Villgecrazylady) January 9, 2025

JUST IN: LA Mayor Karen Bass says the "buck stops" with her moments after she completely threw Fire Chief Kristin Crowley under the bus.

LA deserves better than this clown.

On Friday, Bass put the blame on Crowley and fired her from her position.

The comment from Bass came… pic.twitter.com/Y9r0hdJANX

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 21, 2025

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2025February 22, 2025•0•WTF?

Liberal leadership candidates divided on question of cuts to key public service vote bloc

OTTAWA – Liberal leadership candidates have contrasting plans for Canada’s federal public service — with presumed front-runner Mark Carney taking the most aggressive stance so far.
Carney recently vowed to cap the size of the public service and rein in government spending.

While he hasn’t said where this cap would be set or how much he would reduce spending, Carney told a press conference on Wednesday he would review program budgets and use new technology like artificial intelligence to improve efficiency.

The public service runs in the millions.

They are well financed and organized. No Liberal is going to risk their vote.

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2025February 22, 2025•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Germany at a Crossroads: Why Voters Are Looking for an Alternative

Germany is preparing for the general elections this Sunday, February 23, with the possible consolidation of Alternative for Germany (AfD) as the country’s second-largest force in a surge that challenges the traditional political balance. It deeply worries the socialist-conservative establishment within Germany—and at the European level.

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2025February 22, 2025•0•Germany, Germany - AfD party

Geoff Russ: Poilievre’s plan for Canadian prosperity is refreshing

Last Saturday in Ottawa, Pierre Poilievre delivered what many described as the most important speech of his life. For weeks, the Liberals have rapidly regained ground in the polls following Justin Trudeau’s announcement that he was leaving politics.

Amidst a Liberal leadership race that former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney seems to already have in the bag, the NDP vote is collapsing, with the governing Liberals being the main beneficiaries.

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2025February 22, 2025•0•Conservative Party

Trump wants B.C.’s water: Plausible or one big pipe dream?

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he wants to make Canada the 51st state, threatening to use “economic force” to make that dream a reality.

He’s also signed an executive order to place blanket tariffs of 25 per cent on all Canadian imports that could start March 4.

One of the reasons experts believe Trump could be targeting Canada is its resources, including its critical minerals — and its water.

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2025February 22, 2025•0•Canada, USA

The Horror of Philadelphia’s Tranq Crisis

On the ground in Kensington, where addicts are being ravaged by an animal-grade sedative

Philadelphia — “Angie” didn’t think she’d ever get into drugs. Then tragedy struck and she lost control. Over the span of seven minutes inside a homeless shelter in late January, this twentysomething woman tells me the story of how her life turned upside down here in this godforsaken neighborhood of Kensington, the heart of Philadelphia’s open-air drug market.

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2025February 22, 2025•0•Drugs