Author: Blazingcatfur
‘Canada spent more money on consultants and professional services than it did on the Army, Navy and Air Force combined’: Retired lieutenant-general Andrew Leslie on Canada’s ailing military
My intent is to offer some criticism of the status quo so that we can learn and then perhaps some sort of question period to get into some solutions. Essentially, in my opinion, ‘“Strong, Secure, Engaged”,’ the precursor to the current defence policy, delivered nothing substantive in terms of modern military equipment, which saw Canada, in fact, become weaker, more insecure, and essentially absent from the deployable stables of troops required for either United Nation missions, or, of course, NATO.
Why Elon Musk hates Starmer’s Britain
In 2012, the Tesla tycoon Elon Musk took a Boris bike on a tour around London bathing in the Olympics love-in, declaring to his Twitter followers that “I really like Britain!”.
Musk had good reason to be pleased that year, having made his first appearance on the prestigious Forbes Billionaire List – with a modest £1.58 billion fortune.
Twelve years later, Musk’s fortune is valued at $251 billion (£191 billion), thanks to Tesla becoming the world’s largest car company. But, jarringly, his valuation of the UK appears to have gone into reverse gear.
Trump’s Pick to Lead Tariff Agenda and What it Could Mean for Canada
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has announced his cabinet pick to fulfill his campaign promise to impose broad tariffs. Though the ramifications for Canada remain to be seen, here is what the appointment could indicate.
Trump announced on Nov. 19 that Howard Lutnick will become secretary of commerce in his administration acceding to the White House in early 2025.
Trump said Lutnick, CEO of financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald, will be leading the “Tariff and Trade agenda” and that he will also have direct responsibility over the Office of the United States Trade Representative. Lutnick is also serving as co-chair of Trump’s transition team.
The Cartels should be concerned.
‘TEMPORARY TAX TRICK’: Poilievre not buying Trudeau’s ‘GST Holiday’
Tory leader Pierre Poilievre debunked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s grand gesture of a two-month GST break on restaurant bills, processed food and children’s toys.
The Liberals announced Thursday morning the federal government would suspend GST on selected items from mid-December to mid-February, plus send all Canadians who filed a tax return, worked in 2023 and made less than $150,000 a $250 rebate in the spring.
The Police Report About Pete Hegseth’s Alleged Sexual Assault Vindicates Him Of Criminality
What you’re going to hear now and in the coming days from the national media is that there are “graphic” details in a police report related to an alleged sexual assault involving Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming nominee for Defense secretary. It’s certainly graphic, but the media will bet you won’t bother reading the report, which in reality looks really bad for the alleged victim and effectively clears Hegseth of criminality.
Why bother about burglaries when you can persecute ‘hate criminals’?
THESE days it feels to me as though the very things that define our once-great country are constantly under attack.
Our proud history. Our national identity. Our unique culture. Our shared values. Our distinctive way of life.
And now, as shocking events this week reveal, our belief in free speech, free expression and individual freedom.
Wind Speeds Dropping, Rainfall Similar to a Century Ago – the Climate News You Won’t Hear in the Mainstream
Back to Biblical times and beyond, great floods and storms were the promised punishments for those who sinned against the fashionable orthodoxies and beliefs. It is of course a natural go-to for modern day prophets of climate doom. Needless to say, inconvenient scientific facts are unwelcome in the Latter Day Church of Net Zero, so alarmists are cautioned to stop reading here. The rest of us can digest recent research by Paul Homewood on the British climate in 2023 and published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. This notes that sea level rises are showing no acceleration over multi-decadal scales and rainfall is not becoming more extreme, while storms have become less powerful over recent years.
How Froot Loops Landed at the Center of U.S. Food Politics
They are a half-inch big, rainbow-colored and crunchy—and at the center of a political food fight.
Froot Loops maker WK Kellogg has been under fire for months over its use of artificial food dyes. Now one of the company’s highest-profile critics, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been tapped to become the country’s top health official, and has vowed to target artificial dyes in cereal that he says contribute to widespread health problems, particularly in children.
“They get brighter colors in Froot Loops, but it’s literally poisoning our kids,” Kennedy said in a Fox News interview in September. Kellogg said the colors it uses in its cereals have been deemed safe by scientific bodies around the world.
The working classes have their revenge
The left is more closely aligned with socialism and communism than it is with capitalism, and leftists are inherently self-contradictory in their ideological philosophy. They demand equality for all yet set themselves up as elitists who stand above the “masses,” arrogantly telling people how they should feel and live.
There’s a certain irony in this contradiction, especially when viewed through the lens of the volatile 1960s, when protests, riots, and assassinations dominated the decade. It was during this time when cultural and social criticism against the alleged conformist middle classes began in full.
The collapse of the corporate media
When it comes to cable TV news ratings, it’s usually easy come, easy go. Some days you are up, and some days you are down. That’s the nature of the business. But what has happened to liberal-leftish MSNBC since Donald Trump’s election victory a few weeks ago is looking less like a rollercoaster ride, and more like a fall from an aeroplane without a parachute.
School ‘told students that protesting against trans athletes was akin to wearing Nazi swastikas’
A California school told students who wore t-shirts protesting trans athletes that they were akin to wearing Nazi swastika, a lawsuit claims.
Riverside Unified School District is being sued by two female Martin Luther King High cross-country runners and their parents over allegations their freedom of expression was infringed.
The girls, identified as ninth grader Kaitlyn and 11th grader Taylor, say they were rebuked over their shirts which bore the slogans, ‘protect girls’ sports’ and ‘It’s Common Sense XX ≠ XY’.
Bud Light’s Shane Gillis ad shows the progressive revolution is over
There’s something perfectly fitting about Shane Gillis appearing in Bud Light’s latest commercial. Here’s a football player-turned-comedian, cancelled by Saturday Night Live in 2019, now helping America’s most cancelled beer find its way back to cultural relevance. The ad isn’t just damage control for a brand still reeling from its disastrous, boycott-inducing partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney — it’s corporate America’s way of declaring that the progressive revolution is officially over.
MORGAN: Trump Derangement Syndrome is harming Canada
Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a real thing and it doesn’t just cause harm to the mental health of people. It’s harming the country.
Some have become so obsessed with their hatred of president-elect Donald Trump, they have lost all sense of reason. A perfect example in Canada is veteran journalist Andrew Coyne.
Jesse Kline: Canada Post went on strike and no one cared
Is it possible that Canada Post went on strike and almost no one noticed, let alone cared?
I certainly don’t. In fact, my life has significantly improved since postal workers went on strike late last week. On a normal afternoon, my front hall would be littered with junk mail that a letter carrier stuffed into the mail slot, but last Friday, the hallway was empty.
If your union is demanding free sex change operations then maybe it’s best your organization withers and dies.