Author: Blazingcatfur

Columbia President Resigns After Months of Turmoil on Campus

Columbia University’s president, Nemat Shafik, resigned on Wednesday after months of far-reaching fury over her handling of pro-Palestinian demonstrations and questions over her management of a bitterly divided campus.

She was the third leader of an Ivy League university to resign in about eight months following maligned appearances before Congress about antisemitism on their campuses.

Dr. Shafik, an economist who spent much of her career in London, said in a letter to the Columbia community that while she felt the campus had made progress in some important areas, it had also been a period of turmoil “where it has been difficult to overcome divergent views across our community.”

This changes nothing.

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

WARMINGTON: Hamilton’s beloved CHML 900 radio goes silent without notice

The sudden silence heard all across Hamilton on Wednesday morning was deafening.

It’s not every day a historic radio station goes off the air before it tells its listeners. They, and staff, found out when beloved AM station CMHL 900 just suddenly went dark. Just like that, an almost 100-year marriage ended without any notice or chance to say so long or thanks for the memories.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media

Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of every American. Here’s how to protect yourself

About four months after a notorious hacking group claimed to have stolen an extraordinary amount of sensitive personal information from a major data broker, a member of the group has reportedly released most of it for free on an online marketplace for stolen personal data.

The breach, which includes Social Security numbers and other sensitive data, could power a raft of identity theft, fraud and other crimes, said Teresa Murray, consumer watchdog director for the U.S. Public Information Research Group.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

Justin Trudeau’s government radically transformed Canada’s temporary foreign worker program. Young people and low wage workers are paying the price

If you know a young person who struggled to find a summer job they are not alone. This has been the worst summer on record for youth employment outside of the pandemic. Many factors — from a weak economy to a population boom of young people — are at play with one of the largest being the federal government’s 2022 decision to deregulate the low-wage stream of the temporary foreign worker program.

On April 4, 2022, a mere 13 days after the Liberals and NDP signed their Supply and Confidence Agreement, the federal government announced arguably the largest deregulation of the Temporary Foreign Worker program in Canadian history. The program’s low-wage stream, which allows employers not in the agricultural industry (they have a separate stream) to bring in workers and pay them wages under the provincial median (currently $28.39 in Ontario), was radically transformed. The government removed the rule that employers could only bring in workers in some low-wage occupations if the local unemployment rate was less than six per cent allowing firms in areas of high unemployment to access the program. Companies had been limited to having only 10 per cent of their workforce be low-wage temporary foreign workers; this was raised to 20 per cent. In seven sectors, including accommodation and food services, this was raised to 30 per cent.

This is The Star.

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

Harbinger of Chicago?

h/t Mauser

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

Trudeau gov’t unveils yet another mass immigration scam – this one for Francophony students

Canada to grant a select group of international students permanent residence upon graduation with pilot program

Ottawa is launching a new pilot program to attract and retain Francophone international students, providing them with a direct pathway for permanent residency in Canada after graduation.

The initiative is touted as a flagship measure of the new Francophone immigration strategy meant to boost the French-speaking population outside of Quebec, which has declined since 1971 from 6.1 per cent of the Canadian population outside the province to just 3.5 per cent today, threatening the country’s bilingual national identity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUncategorized

WTF?

Interesting Thread

Of course CBC aka HAMAS News North is running with the BS.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", WTF?

CBC staff earning six-figure salaries surge by 231% under Trudeau government

The number of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) employees earning six-figure salaries has skyrocketed by 231% since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took office, according to recent data obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).

In 2023, 1,450 CBC staff members earned more than $100,000 annually, a dramatic increase from 2015 when only 438 employees took home six-figure salaries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCBC, CBC Scandals

Blame Game After Alleged Nord Stream Saboteur Flees to Ukraine

After identifying the primary suspect allegedly responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipeline two years ago, Germany issued an international arrest warrant for the diver living in Poland back in June, German media revealed this week.

However, the suspect evaded the authorities by disappearing behind the Ukrainian-Polish border—something that, according to Warsaw, was made possible by Germany’s failure to put him in the wanted persons database for border guards to see.

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

GUNTER: ‘Green’ energy transition proving to be costly disaster

The past 14 days have been a tough fortnight for those who, like our federal Liberal government, have a cultish obsession with saving the planet through a transition to “green” energy.

The news since the beginning of the month is that electric vehicle sales continue to soften, the cost of the global transition to alternate energy will be many trillions (yes, trillions) more than anyone has admitted and the measures implemented thus far, at great expense already, have had little impact on emissions or fossil fuel use, both of which are up in the past decade.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government