Author: Blazingcatfur

Trudeau’s Mass Immigration Follies: ‘Anxious about the future’ job seekers in the GTA struggle to find work amid high unemployment rate

When Joy Ojehanon left Nigeria seven years ago, she said she had “high hopes” for a new life in Canada, filled with opportunity and professional success.

But what’s followed her arrival in Toronto has been what she describes as a “heartbreaking” job search, despite her experience and education in the field of child and youth care.

“After some months in Canada, I started looking for a job, but my job applications were consistently rejected by employers, citing my lack of Canadian qualifications/work experience,” she told CTV News Toronto.

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

Fights erupt at New Jersey HS graduation in caught-on-camera chaos: ‘Egregious behavior’

Several fights broke out at a New Jersey high school graduation, sending one person to the hospital and injuring several others, according to police.

As the graduation ceremony for Westwood High School in Bergen County ended Thursday night, multiple scuffles erupted on the school’s football field, according to the Washington Township Police Department.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

There’s an old problem Canada’s new foreign-interference law won’t fix

When it comes to using intelligence to prosecute crimes, U.S. and Canada are a world apart

To understand Canada’s failure to criminally prosecute foreign collusion, an old news report from Washington offers a useful starting point.

In 1981, a Canadian correspondent made an observation: when it came to using security intelligence in policing, Canada and the U.S. were diverging onto opposite paths.

The Americans were ramping up, while Canadians were dialling down. The legacy of that era lingers to this day in an ongoing Ottawa scandal. And it’s unclear how much will change under a soon-to-be-enacted law.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Espionage, USA

As Hezbollah steps up attacks, world waits to see if war is truly on the table

Hezbollah claimed to have carried out six attacks on Israel on Friday. Saturday was relatively quiet in the morning, but Friday saw 21 incidents where sirens sounded in northern Israel. It was not clear if the number of claimed attacks matched what happened in the north.

Hezbollah has launched more than 5,000 attacks on Israel since October 7. Hezbollah has often suggested that if there was a ceasefire in Gaza, then it would stop its attacks on the north.

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

Liberal MP Housefather’s appointment to role fighting antisemitism delayed by concerns about caucus divisions

A proposal to appoint Liberal MP Anthony Housefather to a new role fighting antisemitism — which has been in the works for weeks — has been held up by concerns about divisions in the government caucus over the Israel-Hamas war, CBC News has learned.

And sources who spoke to CBC News — including one caucus member — are asking how Housefather’s role would differ from the work of Deborah Lyons, the special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combating antisemitism.

The government has been accused by Jewish groups of not being supportive enough of Israel, though it has seen its support erode among both Jews and Muslims.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Nearly Half of US EV Drivers Consider Switching Back to Gas Vehicles: McKinsey Study

More electric vehicle drivers are thinking about switching back to internal combustion engine automobiles, according to new findings from the 2024 McKinsey & Co. Mobility Consumer Global Survey.

Forty-six percent of EV owners surveyed in the United States say they will likely return to driving gas-powered vehicles.

Globally, the survey of 30,000 respondents in 15 countries found that more than one-quarter (29 percent) of EV owners are likely to go back to driving gas-powered cars.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

Ontario judge finds no documentation to support Global News reporting on Han Dong allegations

An Ontario Superior Court judge has found no documented evidence to support allegations made against former Liberal MP Han Dong in a series of Global News stories last year.

The judge made the comments as he rejected an application from Corus Entertainment to throw out Dong’s lawsuit against the news agency, saying it is in the public interest to hear the case.

“The matter of Mr. Dong’s communications with the Chinese are worthy of the freedom of expression of an open court system,” Justice Paul Perell said in his judgment Wednesday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "Foreign Interference", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Top school under fire after boy captain replaces head girl after ‘gender-neutral’ inclusivity drive

A leading Scottish school is facing a backlash after its head girl was replaced with a boy in what it claimed was an inclusivity drive.

Williamwood High School in East Renfrewshire has scrapped its positions of head boy and head girl and replaced them with two gender neutral “captains” who are elected by other pupils.

Under the system, two of the three male candidates secured the posts, at what is one of Scotland’s best performing schools, while none of the four girls who put themselves forward were chosen.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

Ontario Science Centre abruptly closing due to structural issues

The Ford government says it will be permanently closing the Ontario Science Centre to the public “effective immediately” due to “serious structural issues” that were identified with the building in a recent engineering report.

The abrupt closure of the North York tourist attraction means that Torontonians will no longer be able to visit the museum after today, although private events scheduled to occur over the weekend will be permitted to proceed.

“The actions taken today will protect the health and safety of visitors and staff at the Ontario Science Centre while supporting its eventual reopening in a new, state-of-the-art facility,” Kinga Surma, the province’s minister of infrastructure, said in a news release.

Way back in the 1960’s an elementary school day trip was a certainty. I recall going at least twice.

It’s old and in a bad neighborhood, a new beginning may be just the ticket.

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

Mike Fegelman: The evidence is clear — there is no famine in Gaza

For months, the Hamas terrorist group and pro-Palestinian activists around the world have been claiming that the Gaza Strip is facing an imminent famine and accusing Israel of deliberately starving Palestinians. Yet this scenario never materialized.

Those claims were rarely questioned, and instead were uncritically repeated by far too many pliable news media outlets in Canada and beyond, which jettisoned their journalistic integrity in favour of an easy narrative.

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

The Rise and Fall of Canada’s Temperance Movement

This was a US Poster with the shield altered to erase the US Flag.

Temperance activists from Victorian times to the interwar years strove to reduce or ban drinking in Canada, with mixed success.

Any reader who follows the news will see reports from time to time of some new study about drinking less alcohol to reduce the risk to health and long life. The official guidance in Canada is to limit daily intake to one pint of beer, one glass of wine, or a gin and tonic—provided you sometimes skip a day. Of course, this is simply “advice” Canadians are free to ignore—and many do.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Why Trump’s Sentencing Matters

There is no way to evaluate the total damage inflicted on Trump’s candidacy by Bragg’s prosecution until we learn what Judge Merchan will do.

I’ve been surprised at the punditry about the fallout of Trump’s convictions in the Manhattan criminal trial. It made sense to say that we’d needed to wait for a couple of weeks to get a reliable read on how the public was processing the jury’s guilty verdicts. That is, rose-tinted pronouncements by Trump enthusiasts that the convictions had no meaningful effect on the race — or even that the former president’s 2024 bid was somehow helped by his status as a convicted felon because it showed that Democrats had overplayed their lawfare hand — were daft.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

The epidemic plaguing Aboriginals

Why do so many indigenous Australians turn to substance abuse?

A little over 10 years ago, as a young anthropology student, I arrived in the dusty, shrub-infested outback town of Alice Springs in a champagne-coloured Toyota Camry. It’s an extraordinary place: vast and dry and scorched. I planned to spend my summer break managing three local liquor stores there — given the town’s reputation for Aboriginal alcohol abuse, I thought it would make an interesting case study — and ended up living in Alice Springs for much of my early adulthood.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, Australia

Only 50 hostages remain alive in Gaza, US intelligence officials believe

The number of Israeli hostages alive in captivity in Gaza may be as low as 50, according to leaks from mediators involved in the negotiations for a ceasefire deal.

It is the lowest assessment to date of the 120 people still imprisoned by the Hamas terrorist group, and comes as talks to end the war in Gaza have largely stalled amid growing anger at the Israeli government.

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