Author: Blazingcatfur

Trump ally on Canada’s fentanyl talk: Not good enough

The Canadian government is talking about adding helicopters and drones at the border to stop fentanyl shipments so Donald Trump drops his threat of devastating economic tariffs.

But David Asher, a Trump ally, says it should be doing more. Much more. And as someone who’s worked on fentanyl policy for Trump, he says Canada should be making substantive, systemic changes.

He calls it frustrating to hear Canadians downplay their country’s role in the fentanyl epidemic, just because a minuscule percentage of seized contraband comes from Canada. There’s more to it than that, he says.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Canadians with cancer spend an average $33K out of pocket for medical care: report

During her cancer treatment, Vanessa Percoco felt forced to choose between paying to feel better or making rent.

Percoco, 33, of Laval, Que., worked in special education and had just started on a short contract working with some Grade 3 students with special needs. A diagnosis of advanced colorectal cancer in 2022 put those plans on hold.

During more than two years of treatment, which included surgery to remove part of the colon as well as 12 rounds of chemotherapy, Percoco paid more than $4,000 out of pocket for prescription drugs, including medications to cope with the side-effects and complications. On top of that, there were costs for colostomy bags, which she had to restock every four days, bandages, physiotherapy sessions and osteopathic consultations, as well as travel and parking.

Parking alone is onerous as anyone who has ever had to make multiple visits will attest. Having to travel long distance for care must be torture.

Hospitals do offer discounted parking passes, some deals are better than others.

Having a chemo-patient take the TTC is not a humane or even a sensible option given compromised immune systems.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Amy Hamm: Canadians are killing Christmas. Let’s restore it

Each December as a child growing up in Edmonton, my grandparents would mail a new dress for the annual school Christmas concert. They were frilly, layered with tulle and lace, often covered in bows, and adorned with red and gold flourishes. I was a tomboy who despised dresses — but would always make an exception for my Christmas dress. The Christmas concert was sacred.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristmas, WTF?

Zelensky says 400,000 Ukrainian troops killed or injured in war

Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed that more than 400,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or injured during the war with Russia.

He admitted the previously top-secret casualty numbers a few hours after Donald Trump released the data as evidence that the war between Ukraine and Russia needed to stop.

Mr Zelensky has previously insisted that Ukrainian casualty figures are strictly confidential and could not be released because they may undermine public morale.

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

Canadian Karens about to recommend Americans be limited to TWO beers a week.

How Americans could be advised to drink maximum of two beers per WEEK under new guidelines

Americans could soon be urged to drink no more than two bottles of beer per week under new guidelines being drawn up by the federal government.

Two researchers who contributed to Canada’s controversial two-drink recommendation in 2023 have been quietly advising the US on its new alcohol policies set to be unveiled next year.

Dr Tim Naimi and Dr Kevin Shields are both listed as advisers on a scientific review panel that will inform the new 2026 US Dietary guidelines.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

After Assad

In Qardaha, in the Alawite lands of Latakia on the Mediterranean, stands the sumptuous and pristine marble mausoleum worthy of an Arab monarch. It is here the founder of the brutal Assad dynasty, Hafez al-Assad, is buried in magnificence.

Assad was not the original family name. Hafez’s grandfather was a powerful character known as Sulayman al-Wahhish—the al-Wahhish meaning the wild beast—for his strength; one of his sons was Ali, another formidable figure, a farmer and leader known for his toughness, he had eleven children; Hafez was his ninth son. His nickname was al-Assad—the Lion—and he adopted that as his family’s name.

Off to the usual start …

I hope all of Trudeau’s Syrians will return home so they can get their fill of torturing Christians and Kurds.

(more…)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Syria

The humiliated Assads take their $2bn fortune to Moscow where family own ‘$40m portfolio of flats’

President Assad, his British wife and their three adult children have left behind their Syrian palaces and will begin a new life in Russia after being granted asylum by Vladimir Putin.

Asma Al-Assad, a London-born doctor’s daughter who married into the brutal autocratic dynasty, has become accustomed to a life of luxury, with reports that she spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on home furnishings and clothes during her husband’s reign of terror.

The US state department estimates that the family are worth $2billion, with their wealth concealed in numerous accounts, shell companies, offshore tax havens and real estate portfolios.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

From The Star – A Paid Liberal Party Influencer Operation: Far-right influencers are weaponizing Canada as a warning to Americans!!!

Lauren Southern, aged 29, is nostalgic for the good old days.

In a 17-minute video posted by Tenet Media five months ago titled “My Home Town’s Been Destroyed,” the Canadian-born darling of certain far-right corners of the internet takes viewers to Surrey, B.C., illustrated by soaring drone shots of single family homes backdropped by the Fraser River. Mentally, Southern invites them back to the idyllic mid-1990s when, as she recalls, the famously diverse Vancouver suburb still had immigration, “but you know, we all spoke the language — generally integrated,” she says.

“There were still pockets you could live in, where it was a real community,” she says.

And she’s right. The Star, a paid Liberal Party influencer operation would rather drink poison than admit that of course. Really they’d rather you drink poison than admit they are the “Help” paid to peddle the vicious cons of the LPC.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"extremists", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media

Jay-Z Shoots Back at Lawyer After Accusation of Raping 13-Year-Old With Diddy.

A civil lawsuit filed on Sunday accuses rapper and Democrat supporter Jay-Z, real name is Shawn Carter, of raping a 13-year-old girl alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs. The lawsuit, initially filed in October in the Southern District of New York, was refiled to include Carter as a defendant. The accuser, identified in the lawsuit as “Jane Doe,” alleges the assault took place at a house party following the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood, WTF?

First Muslim Illegal Alien Boston City Councilwoman Busted for Kickbacks

Councilwoman Tania Fernandes Anderson, who broke the glass ceiling by becoming the first former African illegal alien and Muslim woman to serve on the Boston City Council, now became the first African Muslim illegal alien councilwoman to be arrested for kickbacks.

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

WHAT A DUMP: Canadian home prices soar — quality crashes compared to poorest U.S. states

After nearly a decade of Justin Trudeau holding power supported by the NDP, it is revealed that home ownership in Toronto and Vancouver is now more unaffordable than New York, Miami or L.A.

“Canada’s housing prices have risen faster than any other country in the G7 since Justin Trudeau took office,” said federal Conservatives in a recent statement.

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

Trump calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Ukraine after meeting Zelenskyy

Donald Trump has called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, a day after meeting the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in Paris, claiming Kyiv “would like to make a deal” to end its war with Russia.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said both sides had suffered enormous losses in the war – which he claimed on the US election campaign trail he would be able to end “in 24 hours” if elected. Trump has already appointed the retired army general Keith Kellogg as his Russia and Ukraine envoy, tasked with ending the war.

“There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin. Too many lives are being needlessly wasted, too many families destroyed,” Trump said on Sunday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", President Trump

Cory Morgan: Canada Must Act at Once to Fix Immigration, Border Security and Avoid US Tariffs

President-elect Donald Trump brought Canada’s porous border with the United States into focus when he threatened to impose 25 percent tariffs on Canadian goods if the border isn’t brought under control. While immigrants and drugs aren’t passing into the USA from Canada in volumes like those crossing at the Mexican border, the United States has valid concerns with its northern neighbour. Terror suspects are the most troublesome export crossing into the United States from Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Fall of Assad leaves Putin isolated and powerless

Bashar al-Assad has been overthrown, fleeing Damascus after a rapid rebel advance. But the Syrian dictator is far from the only president likely to be despairing today, for Vladimir Putin is another big loser here.

For Putin, the collapse of the Syrian regime and removal of Assad from power poses two critical problems. Firstly, it represents a critical strategic loss. Secondly, it represents a stark decline in Russia’s global prestige.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRussia