Author: Blazingcatfur

B.C. NDP hangs on to power, will form next government, CBC News projects

David Eby’s British Columbia NDP appears to have fended off the John Rustad Conservative surge by a razor-thin margin to form the next provincial government, CBC News projects.

Whether the party forms a minority or majority government is still uncertain.

Currently, the NDP has been elected in 46 ridings and is leading in one, with the Conservatives elected in 43 and leading in one. The B.C. Greens have been elected in two ridings.

And …

Did the Democrats run these elections?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Out of Many, One

A diversifying country is also a less trusting one, as Robert Putnam discovered—so the stressing of a common American identity is more essential than ever.

Last May, when Donald Trump held a campaign rally at Crotona Park in the South Bronx, he became the first Republican to visit the New York neighborhood for a national campaign event in 40 years. The neighborhood’s congressional district, NY-15, has long been a Democratic stronghold, with a Partisan Voting Index score of D+35 from the Cook Political Report. It is America’s poorest congressional district, with a median household income of just $32,381 in 2021 and more than one-third of households falling below the federal poverty line. Sixty-four percent of South Bronx residents identify as Hispanic, while 31 percent are black; foreign-born residents make up 32 percent of the district’s population.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, USA

PQ wants robots rather than immigration to address manpower shortage

QUEBEC CITY — The Parti Québécois (PQ) is betting on robots to address a manpower shortage and replace temporary immigrants in the province’s fields and factories.

Presse Canadienne obtained the robotization and automation part of the PQ’s plan to reduce immigration on the eve of its presentation on Monday.

The plan has been expected for several months and is a response the lobby group the Century Initiative, which has been advocating for the increase of Canada’s population to 100 million through immigration.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Leading Islamic hate scholar Anjem Choudary lodges appeal against life sentence

Islamist hate preacher Anjem Choudary has lodged an appeal against his life sentence.

Choudary, 57, who police said had a “radicalising impact” on religious fundamentalists, was convicted in July after being found guilty of running a terrorist organisation.

He will spend more than 26 years in jail in total owing to the time he has already spent in custody, meaning he will not be released before the age of 85.

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

PBS Flouts Goldwater Rule, Invites Shrink to Diagnose Trump: ‘Ample Evidence’ of Dementia

PBS = TDS

PBS News anchor Amna Nawaz hosted clinical psychologist Ben Michaelis on Thursday’s PBS News Hour for a segment that felt very much like a violation of the psychiatric profession’s so-called Goldwater Rule.

Nawaz pounced on Trump’s long pause for music appreciation during a campaign appearance, after two medical emergencies in the crowd had halted proceedings, and another rambling anecdote involving a battery, a sinking boat, and a shark.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, Trump Derangement Syndrome, WTF?

Michael Taube: The left is losing the battle for the bike — as it should

When Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government announced several changes designed to reduce gridlock on provincial roads and highways, I described it in a Post column as a strategy to “tackle the long-running war on the car.” It also led to a competing and far noisier narrative: the battle for the bike, courtesy of the political left.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Don’t expect Trudeau to follow in his father’s footsteps and take a walk in the snow this week

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dodged a bullet from his own party last week.

A document signed by 24 caucus members set out the reasons why they think he should resign. One surprise element in the document was the deadline for his decision.

He has been told in no uncertain terms that he must make his future known one way or the other by Monday, Oct. 28.

Tequila Sheila wrote this.

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

Deadliest Al Qaeda Attack You’ve Never Heard of: 600 Civilians Dead in Burkina Faso Fails To Make Global Headlines

In an attack that may rank as one of the deadliest in Africa in recent years, up to 600 civilians were slaughtered in August in broad daylight by Al Qaeda-linked militants in Burkina Faso, according to a French government security report and confirmed to The New York Sun by a representative of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

This assessment triples the original death toll estimate put out by the United Nations from the August massacre in the remote town of Barsalogho. Armed fighters from Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, an Al Qaeda affiliate based in Mali, opened fire as they stormed the town on motorcycles. Chilling videos shared on the terrorist group’s social media captured the moments of terror — civilians, including women and children, shot by automatic gunfire at close range as they lay helpless in the dirt, trying to play dead. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Al Qaeda, Burkina Faso, Islam, Islam and violence

Poilievre promises to abolish federal sales tax on new homes under $1 million

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says if his party forms government, it will scrap the federal sales tax on new homes sold for less than $1 million and push provinces do to the same.

Poilievre makes the case for the cut in a six-minute video published online today, arguing governments are partly to blame for high home prices because they’re charging too much in sales taxes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

India’s plans to punish spitting in food spark controversy

This month, two states ruled by India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced plans to impose hefty fines and imprisonment for contaminating food with spit, urine and dirt.

The northern state of Uttarakhand will fine offenders up to 100,000 rupees ($1,190; £920), while neighbouring Uttar Pradesh is set to introduce stringent laws to address the issue.

The government directives followed the circulation of unverified videos on social media showing vendors spitting on food at local stalls and restaurants – and one video depicting a house-help mixing urine into food she was preparing.

This is why I do not trust any 3rd world staffed fast food joints, restaurants or delivery services in Canada any longer.

Trudeau and his corporate welfare pals like Tim Horton’s in their greed are unwittingly ruining the food services sector of the economy.

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