Author: Blazingcatfur

Cabinet minister’s Cree great-grandmother claims were untrue, records show

OTTAWA — For years, Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault spoke in Parliament and at public events of his great-grandmother as “a full-blooded Cree woman,” sometimes called “Lucy Brown Eyes.”

Now, facing scrutiny over shifting statements he made about his connections to Indigenous ancestry and, presented with records suggesting otherwise, Boissonnault’s office acknowledges that this was not true and his adoptive great-grandmother’s family in fact had Metis lineage, and she was not “full-blooded Cree.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cultural Appropriation", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Gen X Elected Donald Trump

Having been born in 1964, I have never felt part of any particular “generation.” Technically I am lumped in with the Baby Boomers, but I feel as much attachment to that generation as I do to Gen Z. Boomers, in my mind, were the generation that either fought or protested the Vietnam War, which ended when I was 11 years old.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Is Biden Trying to Start World War III Before Trump Takes Office?

Biden’s decision to escalate the Ukraine war is a last-ditch effort by the military-industrial complex to undermine Trump’s ability to end this tragic conflict.

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to replace several top-tier Pentagon officials and officers who have overseen our military support of Ukraine, the Biden administration has announced that it has given permission to Kyiv to use long-range American missiles (Army Tactical Missiles Systems, or ATACMS) to strike deep inside Russia, a policy change that risks escalation of the Russia–Ukraine war, even as Trump and his transition team plan to seek a negotiated ceasefire to the conflict. The resistance to Trump’s policy preferences has begun in the most dangerous place — the Pentagon. The military-industrial complex will not readily surrender its policy of victory in Ukraine, even if that means bringing us closer to a full-scale Russia–NATO war.

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

The Precarious Future of Justin Trudeau

Justin Trudeau became a national figure on Oct. 3, 2000. While delivering the eulogy at the state funeral for his father, Pierre Trudeau, the 29-year-old became the heir apparent for the future of the Liberal Party.

“Friends, Romans, countrymen,” he began, “Pierre Elliott Trudeau. The very words convey so many things to so many people. Statesman, intellectual, professor, adversary, outdoorsman, lawyer, journalist, author, prime minister. But more than anything, to me, he was dad.” His father was perhaps the most controversial, and consequential, prime minister in Canadian history. He ended the eulogy by saying: “But this is not the end. He left politics in ’84 …. But he won’t be coming back anymore. It’s all up to us, all of us, now.”

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

Ottawa ‘unlikely’ to see profit from Trans Mountain sale, budget watchdog tells committee

OTTAWA — Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux said on Monday Ottawa is likely to lose money on its eventual sale of the Trans Mountain pipeline, after shelling out more than $34 billion to complete the project.

Giroux told members of a House of Commons committee studying the matter that federal officials will be hard-pressed to find a private buyer willing to pay a premium for the pipeline, which has been operational since May, even under an optimistic scenario where foreign demand for Canadian oil stays high.

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

US justice department plans to push Google to sell off Chrome browser

US justice department officials plan to ask a judge to force Google to sell off its Chrome browser to dismantle the monopoly it has over the internet search market, in a major intervention against one of the world’s biggest tech companies.

The Department of Justice (DoJ) last month filed court papers saying it was considering enforcing “structural remedies” to prevent Google from using some its products.

The DoJ will reportedly push for Google, which is owned by Alphabet, to sell the browser and also ask a judge to require new measures related to artificial intelligence as well as its Android smartphone operating system, according to Bloomberg.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGoogle, Google is Evil

Here’s how much workers need to be paid to make a livable wage in Toronto

You’ll need much more than the minimum wage to make ends meet across the province — but it’s especially bad in the GTA, a new report has found.

Workers in Toronto need to make $26 an hour — nearly $9 more than current the minimum wage — to make a living, the Ontario Living Wage Network (OLWN) reported.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau gov’t tripled spending on Indigenous issues to $32B annually in decade, report says

While the Trudeau government has tripled the amount of money it spends on Indigenous issues from $11 billion annually in 2015 to more than $32 billion earmarked for 2025, it doesn’t appear to be improving the lives of on-reserve Indigenous people, according to a new study by the fiscally conservative Fraser Institute.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canadians are ready to strengthen national defence. Will Ottawa answer the call?

Donald Trump’s imminent return to the White House comes with a sobering reminder of his February statement encouraging Russia to target NATO allies whose national defence spending does not meet NATO’s 2-per-cent guideline. Mr. Trump’s statement underscores the urgent need for Ottawa to take a stronger, more independent role in global defence. This direction should reflect Canadian values, bolster the economy, reassure our allies, and build essential capabilities to address both conventional and unconventional threats.

Which Canadians? Not the NDP, not the LPC.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

We assume damage to Baltic Sea cables was sabotage, German minister says

Germany has said it has to assume that damage to two undersea fibre-optic communication cables in the Baltic Sea since Sunday was an act of sabotage.

Two cables in the Baltic – one between Finland and Germany, the other between Sweden and Lithuania – were severed on Sunday and Monday, raising suspicions of a malicious attack, though authorities initially declined to speculate.

“No one believes that the cables were accidentally damaged. I also don’t want to believe that the ships’ anchors caused the damage by accident,” the German defence minister, Boris Pistorius, said in Brussels on Tuesday.

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

Kelly McParland: Of the long list of Liberal blunders, immigration takes the cake

In a contest for which liberal-minded policy project has gone most disastrously wrong, there would have to be big money on immigration.

There are rivals, of course. The massive debts racked up to finance heavy spending on well-meaning initiatives is one, but voters don’t care much about debt until it sparks a crisis. The climate war is another, except most people view it as a worthy goal, they just don’t want to pay for it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government