Author: Blazingcatfur

Police: If IDF had shared intel soon enough, Nova partiers might have been saved

Some police officials have accused the IDF and the Shin Bet of withholding security threat information overnight between October 6 and 7, which, if it had been shared with the police, could have saved the lives of 364 civilians who were killed at the Nova party and 44 hostages who were taken.

First reported by Channel 12 at the end of the weekend, acting police commander for the Negev area Eyal Azulai is quoted as saying that the police had always been unsure about the safety of the Nova party attendees and that if they had known about the enhanced security threat, they might have ended the party before the invasion took place.

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

One of the military’s simplest procurement projects is being tied down by red tape

The light utility vehicle program, first pitched in 2017, could end up taking 13 years to complete

Despite facing heavy pressure to ramp up military spending, the Department of National Defence (DND) has slow-rolled one of the least complex of its vehicle replacement programs.

The light utility vehicle program has been on the books for several years. Its purpose is to update the military’s fleet of two-decade-old Afghan war-era Mercedes G-Wagons and civilian-grade utility vehicles, such as pickups and SUVs.

Under the original plan, the terms for the purchase of more than 1,600 vehicles were supposed to be set by this year, putting the program on the road toward a signed contract.

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

Jagmeet Singh, you need an issue voters can rally behind and I have just the thing

One has to give full marks to NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh for recognizing that Einstein was right when he defined “insanity” as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Having clawed his way up a few percentage points from the high teens his party polled in the 2021 election, Singh is clearly annoyed at his inability to breakout of the 20 per cent support range, as per the latest Nanos poll.

This would have been a bread and butter issue for the old left.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNDP

A short but happy journey …

Hi Everyone!

I am off to PQ to attend my niece’s daughter’s wedding. I am looking forward to the scheduled 11 pm Poutine snack at the reception.

I should be back Sunday evening, after a small post wedding family get together. Xavier will be all alone and will probably change the locks.

Please be aware that the Blog may be down for 4 to 6 hours if our host decides to make the move to the new server.

Sarcasticat will be looking after things while I am gone, please thank him for his fine efforts.

Thank you all!

BCF

And we’re back …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

CARPAY: Covid Apocalypse and the triumph of fear over facts

Shortly before lockdowns were imposed in March 2020, Dr. Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London predicted 510,000 Covid deaths in Great Britain and 2.2 million deaths in the United States by mid-April, and 40 million COVID-19 deaths globally over the next 12 months.

He compared COVID-19 to the Spanish Flu of 1918, which killed between 20 and 100 million people world-wide from 1918 to 1920. Unlike COVID-19, the Spanish Flu killed tens of millions of healthy young adults and significantly impacted global mortality during a time when the world’s population was a quarter of today’s.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

Metro Vancouver is the fourth-most dense region in North America

In light of the prevailing mythology that Canada is “empty,” it’s counter-intuitive to realize Canada’s cities are unusually crowded. And still unaffordable.

Wyndham Lewis once described Canada as a “monstrous, empty habitat”.

And the British writer is by no means the only one to say this country is vast, imposing and under-populated.

Given that Canada is geographically the second-largest country in the world, it’s understandable that many feel it is largely empty.

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

Trevor Tombe: The Great Divergence: Canada’s economic gap with the U.S. reaches a new record

Canada’s economy has fallen behind its population growth for the fifth straight quarter, with real GDP per capita declining by 0.1 percent in Q2 2024, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada released last week.

Compared to the same period last year, per capita GDP is now down 2.2 percent. Compared to 2022, it’s down 3.6 percent. As RBC analysts correctly noted, this is a “recession-like” performance.

This downturn becomes even more striking when viewed in comparison to the United States, which continues to see gains.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Expanding WHO’s Role: Canadian Stakeholders Eye “Misinformation” Control

Canada wants to expand the scope of the World Health Organization, WHO’s global pandemic agreement (treaty) by adding more censorship measures.

The initiative is to add social media “misinformation” (and censorship thereof) to the discussion of the draft treaty. In anticipation of the “next pandemic,” Canada also wants more attention to be paid to what it considers diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The treaty’s purpose is to give WHO an active role in directing how the United Nation’s 193 member countries deal with pandemics or other health crises. However, the negotiators failed to agree on the text of the document by the May deadline this year.

h/t patthedog

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", "Disinformation", WHO

Liberal MP who called for Trudeau to resign says his mind hasn’t changed ‘one iota’

OTTAWA — With Liberals set to gather next week for a caucus retreat, one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s MPs is once again calling for a change in party leadership.

New Brunswick Liberal MP Wayne Long first called for a change of leadership after the Liberals’ loss in the Toronto—St. Paul’s byelection in June. The downtown Toronto seat had been considered a safe seat for the party and the loss to the Conservatives led to many whispered calls for change.

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

Jagmeet Singh opens the Jack Layton playbook for a longshot election gamble

Jagmeet Singh’s advisers must have scripted a line for him to repeat every time a reporter asked his reason for pulling out of the NDP’s deal to support the Liberal government, and he repeated it doggedly. But it wasn’t really an explanation. It didn’t explain much of anything, and it wasn’t supposed to.

Mr. Singh didn’t point to any bargain that was broken or new development. He said the NDP got a lot done under the supply-and-confidence agreement, “but it became very clear to me that Justin Trudeau was too beholden to corporate interests to go further.” After two and a half years of an alliance, Mr. Singh had apparently discovered the Prime Minister’s true nature.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNDP

Justin Trudeau draws in Mark Carney as Liberal MPs gather to consider the coming election

Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is scheduled to attend the Liberals’ summer caucus meetings in Nanaimo, B.C. where, starting Monday, Grit MPs will plot the return of Parliament and the next election.

Carney won’t be joining the Liberal team as a cabinet minister — despite earlier talks with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Instead, the likely future Liberal leadership candidate has been tapped to advise the party on an economic productivity plan, one that could inspire the Grits’ platform or government policy.

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