Author: Blazingcatfur

‘They’re coming out’: Ford says he will remove bike lanes from 3 Toronto streets

Just one day after the Ford government tabled legislation to review all existing bike lanes in Ontario, the premier is strongly suggesting the decision on at least three routes has already been made.

On Monday, Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria introduced legislation that would require provincial approval to install new bike lanes in any Ontario municipality and would prohibit new separated lanes if infrastructure interferes with existing vehicle traffic.

It is popular.

The bike lanes in my area running along Dundas (at Bloor) are rarely used.

They aren’t the traffic impediment of others in the city but I bet the money spent to maintain them could be better used elsewhere.

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

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of drugging personal trainer, passing his ‘body around like a party favor’

A personal trainer has accused Sean “Diddy” Combs in a new lawsuit of spiking his drink and then passing his “drugged body around like a party favor” at a celeb-filled awards show afterparty at his Los Angeles mansion.

The alleged victim, identified only as “John Doe,” claims he was repeatedly sexually assaulted by men and women at the disgraced music mogul’s party in June 2022 — including an unnamed celebrity who he was forced to perform oral sex on, the court papers state.

The famous person — only identified as “Celebrity A” — then spit in the trainer’s mouth, the filing alleges.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

Trudeau says Liberals ‘strong and united’ despite caucus dissent

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Liberal party is “strong and united,” despite efforts from within his caucus to oust him as leader.

While he wouldn’t stop to take questions from reporters, Trudeau made the comment as caucus members made their way out of an exceptionally long and high-stakes meeting Wednesday, during which many of them were set to confront the prime minister and ask him to step down.

I doubt things are as rosy as described.

Some Liberal MPs issue an ultimatum to Trudeau: make up your mind to stay or go by Oct. 28

Some Liberal MPs issued an ultimatum to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Wednesday: decide in the next few days if you want to stay on as leader or face some unspecified consequences.

For weeks, anti-Trudeau MPs have been meeting in secret to convince caucus members to band together and push Trudeau out of the top job to save the party from electoral ruin.

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

Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon, Rosario Dawson Join 11,500 Hollywood Artists Sounding the Alarm over Artificial Intelligence

A-List actors including Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon, Rosario Dawson, and more have joined 11,500 Hollywood artists, producers, writers, actors, and other industry insiders to warn about the danger that artificial intelligence represents to creativity and human ingenuity.

“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works and must not be permitted,” the creatives said in a letter published Tuesday.

The genie is out of the bottle. One day we’ll see franchises based solely on AI created characters.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

CBC practically chokes discussing Montreal Muslim teacher controversy

A Montreal elementary school is at the centre of a secularism debate. Here’s how we got here

In the last few weeks, an elementary school in Montreal’s west-central Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood has been mired in controversy.

This past weekend, 11 teachers were suspended for allegedly creating a toxic environment for students and staff that goes back to 2016. On Tuesday, their teaching licences were also suspended.

The allegations are the subject of a 90-page government report.

They’re going to tolerate us all to death.

Please! Don’t draw any cultural conclusions!

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

IDF exposes: Six Al Jazeera journalists were Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists

The IDF has disclosed intelligence information and numerous documents found in the Gaza Strip confirming the military affiliation of six Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza with Hamas and the Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations.

They are: Anas Jamal Mahmoud Al-Sharif, Alaa Abdul Aziz Muhammad Salama, Hossam Basel Abdul Karim Shabat, Ashraf Sami Ashour Saraj, Ismail Farid Muhammad Abu Omar, and Talal Mahmoud Abdul Rahman Aruki.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Bank of Canada risks a home price runup with key rate cut, experts say

The Bank of Canada is walking a tight rope as they rapidly cut the key interest rate to salvage the country’s sluggish economy while risking a drastic run-up in real estate demand and pricing.

The central bank announced Wednesday it’s cutting its key overnight interest rate by 50 basis points — a half percentage point. That brings the overnight rate to 3.75 per cent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Terror attack blamed as four killed and 14 wounded at Turkish aerospace firm

Turkey’s interior minister has blamed a “terrorist attack” for an explosion and assault at the headquarters of the national aerospace company, Tusaş, outside Ankara that has killed four people and wounded 14 others.

The large blast happened outside the building at 4pm on Wednesday, and there were reports that gunfire was also heard in the vicinity.

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said: “We have four martyrs. We have 14 wounded. I condemn this heinous terrorist attack and wish mercy on our martyrs.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inKurds and Kurdistan, Turkey

Jesse Kline: Even Catherine Tait doesn’t know why we need the CBC

Catherine The Imperious

The CBC has always seemed like a novel scam, whereby Ottawa takes our hard-earned money and uses it to sell us on the benefits of more socialism.

But when news broke over the summer that the public broadcaster doled out $18.4 million in bonuses last year, the same year in which it eliminated 141 jobs and went cap-in-hand to the Liberals asking for money to cover its $125-million shortfall, it became apparent that the CBC’s top brass could at best be described as champagne socialists — at worst, grifters who have grown fat gorging at the public trough.

Claiming a Paris vacay as a business expense justified by the ludicrous assertion that she had to be at the Olympics opening ceremonies is a new low in Liberal entitlement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCBC, CBC Scandals

US says there is evidence of North Korean troops in Russia

The US has said for the first time that it has seen evidence of North Korean troops in Russia, and South Korean lawmakers have said about 3,000 soldiers have been sent to support the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine, with more to follow.

The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, speaking in Rome, said it would be “very, very serious” if the North Koreans were preparing to fight alongside Russia in Ukraine, as Kyiv has alleged, though he said it remained to be seen what they would be doing there.

“There is evidence that there are DPRK troops in Russia,” Austin told reporters, using North Korea’s formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

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

‘Code Red’ petition from Liberals urges secret ballot on Justin Trudeau’s leadership

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was all smiles as he walked into a Liberal caucus meeting Wednesday morning, where dissidents in his own ranks were prepared to challenge his leadership while his supporters harshly condemned the damaging show of disunity.

At the same time, a grassroots petition describing an “existential crisis” in the Liberal party was demanding an urgent secret ballot vote — both inside the caucus room and at the party’s national executive — on whether Trudeau really should stay on in the face of months of bad polls that place his party well behind Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives.

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

Will the King address slavery reparations at Commonwealth meeting in Samoa?

The upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa has sparked discussions about a sensitive topic: reparations for historical wrongs committed during the colonial era.

As King Charles III prepares to address Commonwealth countries, many are wondering if he will broach this important issue that has long been a source of tension between former colonial powers and their former colonies.

Ooops … Samoan chief who enslaved villagers sentenced to 11 years in New Zealand

Blackbirding –  Australia’s history of luring, tricking and kidnapping Pacific Islanders

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSlavery and Reparations

Someone will be shown the door when Justin Trudeau meets his caucus

Ten years ago this week, Justin Trudeau was assembling all the pieces that would make him prime minister within a year.

He had turned his landslide 2013 Liberal leadership victory into what his team liked to call a “movement,” fuelled by Trudeau’s popularity and crowd-drawing appeal.

To feed Canadians’ curiosity about a man who many already thought they knew, Trudeau released his autobiography, “Common Ground.” The official Ottawa launch was set for mid-October.

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

Elite Democrats tried to force electric cars on American drivers. Now the rebellion is growing

A strong case can be made that the worst thing that ever happened to the electric vehicle industry was Joe Biden. His strongarm tactics to force Americans to buy battery-operated cars have only stiffened consumer resolve not to purchase them. EV sales had been robust before Biden entered the White House, but the boomlet stalled as conservative voters rebelled and even ridiculed EVs as “Biden cars”.

While EVs have become popular in blue states like New York and California – where more than one-third of the sales have occurred – Red Staters have turned a thumbs down to these cars of the future.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Election 2024