Author: Blazingcatfur

Britain Adopts a ‘Back-Door’ Blasphemy Law

There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned blasphemy debate to get the blood pumping and temperature rising.

After all, you got the incendiary mix of religion, politics, and free speech all rolled into one messy debate. In Great Britain, the debate revolves around whether the nation can be made safe for “Mohammedans,” as Winston Churchill charmingly referred to Muslims. (Referring to Muslims as “Mohammedans” is not a slur. It’s an adjective. And if I can’t use an adjective as a “charming” descriptor for Muslims, I will turn myself in for violating America’s blasphemy laws. Just as soon as Congress passes one.)

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

CHARLEBOIS: Taxing food Is immoral — Manitoba just proved it doesn’t have to be

Taxing food disproportionately punishes those with the least flexibility. It’s not just inefficient—it’s fundamentally wrong

Manitoba’s decision to remove the provincial sales tax (PST) from all groceries is a sound policy move — though perhaps not for the reasons many assume. What makes this announcement even more remarkable is who is making it: an NDP government choosing to reduce taxes at the grocery store. In today’s policy environment, that is both unexpected and noteworthy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Disarming Hamas Must Remain Trump’s Top Priority in Gaza

US President Donald Trump’s ambitious plan to bring lasting peace to Gaza risks being completely ruined after suggestions that members of his Board of Peace are not fully committed to disarming Hamas terrorists, a key requirement of the Trump administration’s peace plan.

Prior to the war in Iran, Trump made disarming Hamas his top priority as he sought to implement his ambitious 20-point peace plan for Gaza’s reconstruction. As the president wrote on his Truth Social platform in January in response to Hamas’s continuing prevarication over the disarmament demands, “they can do this the easy way, or the hard way.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHamas

More Toronto officers with semi-automatic rifles to be deployed at places of worship, tourist hubs

TPS Hamas Coffee Service

Toronto residents will soon see more police officers in tactical gear with patrol rifles and other long guns around places of worship, tourist hubs and community centres.

On Tuesday, the Toronto Police Service (TPS) announced the launch of “Task Force Guardian,” which it said was aimed at deterring potential acts of violence.

“We know that visible police presence matters when it comes to deterring violence and reassuring our communities,” TPS Chief Myron Demkiw said at a news conference, where he announced the task force as well as his service’s standalone counterterrorism security unit.

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

Skeleton of Three Musketeers hero d’Artagnan may have been found

More than three-and-a-half centuries after a musket ball to the throat put an end to decades of exemplary swashbuckling, the French soldier who inspired Alexandre Dumas and went on to be immortalised on the stage and screen – not to mention as a plucky cartoon dog – may rise again.

Workers repairing a church in the Dutch city of Maastricht have discovered a skeleton that could belong to the 17th-century Gascon nobleman Charles de Batz-Castelmore – better known as d’Artagnan – whose exploits led Dumas to make him the hero of the Three Musketeers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Mastermind of Canada’s largest gold heist admits to $20M theft at Pearson airport, paying off ‘debt list’

“Mastermind”

After pulling off the largest gold heist in Canadian history — a $24-million haul stolen from Pearson airport — Arsalan Chaudhary took a portion of the spoils for himself and then distributed the profits to names on his handwritten “debt list,” a Brampton court heard on Monday.

Reading from an agreed statement of facts, Crown attorney Jelena Vlacic detailed the money list police found in Chaudhary’s apartment — a $10.3-million ledger he’d penned to track the distribution of profits from the melted gold.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity Crime", "Immigration from incompatible cultures"

US army raises upper age for recruits to 42 and scraps marijuana restrictions

The US army has raised the maximum enlistment age to 42 years old and scrapped a barrier for potential recruits who have a legal conviction for marijuana or drug paraphernalia possession.

People aged up to 42 can now enlist in the army, the army national guard and the army reserves, according to the new US army regulation, lifting the previous ceiling of 35 years old.

The army has also removed restrictions upon recruits who have a single conviction for possession of marijuana or associated items such as bongs, pipes and spoons. Previously, such a conviction would require a special wavier from officials in the Pentagon, with the recruit having to wait 24 months to enlist and passing a drug test.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Ontario planning to remove HST on new homes for 1 year

The province is planning to temporarily remove Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) for buyers of new homes.

Premier Doug Ford announced the plan Wednesday at a news conference in Mississauga, saying the full 13 per cent tax will be removed for new homes valued up to $1 million from April 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027.

For homes valued up to $1.5 million the temporary measure would see them qualify for the maximum $130,000, decreasing proportionally to homes valued at $1.85 million, which would qualify for a $24,000 rebate, said the release.

Sounds like it will be a windfall for the rich.

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

LILLEY: Numbers show Canada’s immigration system failing on all fronts

Canada’s immigration system is a mess in more ways than one. Over the last decade, the Liberals have taken a system that was admired around the world, supported here at home and they trashed it.

Support for immigration is falling across the country, and other countries now look at us as a cautionary tale rather than an example to follow.

WTF?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration Weaponized As Electoral Strategy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Army paratroopers ordered to Middle East as U.S. weighs next move in Iran conflict

The Pentagon on Tuesday ordered a couple thousand paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division to deploy to the Middle East, U.S. officials said, as President Donald Trump weighs a significant escalation in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and declines to rule out putting U.S. troops on Iranian soil.

U.S. officials approved written orders for soldiers from the division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team and the 82nd’s headquarters at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, said two U.S. officials and a third person familiar with the move, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. Verbal orders previously had been approved, two people said. It is not yet clear whether they will deploy to Iran itself, officials said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Mark Carney invokes Christian values as top court told religious beliefs don’t belong in government

OTTAWA — Right before Quebec vigorously defended its law promoting state neutrality and secularism in public services, Prime Minister Mark Carney stood at a national prayer breakfast and declared religious values can and should frame how politicians act.

Carney’s display of his Catholic faith Tuesday stood in stark contrast with a heated debate about the value of state secularism that played out an hour later at the Supreme Court of Canada.

Where Carney quoted from the Gospel of Matthew and from Christ’s Sermon on the Mount to talk about the grace and generosity that politicians should channel, Quebec’s lawyers argued religious beliefs should not be on display by public officials, saying the state should be neutral, and public services delivered without signs of any religious belief.

Carney a Christian? Please.

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

A ‘Wannabe Strongman’ Rises in Iran as Trump Seeks a Dealmaker

Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf

Iran’s combative Parliament speaker, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, is emerging as an unlikely figure in Washington’s search for a deal to halt a widening Middle East war.

Ghalibaf, a former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps air-force commander and Tehran mayor, has denied any talks with the U.S. are under way. He has taunted President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and called the U.S.-Israeli air war with Iran a quagmire. He served in the Revolutionary Guard during Iran’s brutal war with Iraq in the 1980s and is known as a hard-liner’s hard-liner.

What is reportedly in Trump’s 15-point peace plan?

And ... Iran completely rejects Trump’s 15-point cease-fire plan — and makes wild demands instead

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Restoring sanity to MAID laws in Canada will protect them

The scale of growth of Canada’s assisted-dying industry has become an easy talking point for skeptics both in Canada and abroad. The New York Post, in typical tabloid fashion, announced that Canada will “soon cross the sickly six-figure threshold” of 100,000 deaths by medical assistance in dying (MAID), noting the figure will surpass the number of Canadian deaths during the Second World War. Conservative MPs cited that figure in social-media posts, adding that what was once pegged as a “last resort” has metamorphosed into an entirely different operation. During a press conference announcing new restrictions on MAID in Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith noted the pace of growth in MAID deaths in cautionary terms (up 64 per cent nationally between 2021 and 2024), saying these trends “should give anyone pause.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide