Author: Blazingcatfur

The ghosts of Canada’s 1993 Conservative wipeout hang over Britain’s election campaign

Rural Alberta may be a continent away from the faded British seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea, but Nigel Farage believes both places will be remembered for starting political revolutions.

Already a familiar face to Britons, Farage has injected some drama into an otherwise staid British general election that the Labour Party under leader Keir Starmer appears well on its way to winning.

Farage, instead, has set his sights on the Conservatives, transforming his political party, Reform UK, into a rising political force that appears to be siphoning off their votes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, UK

California Legalized Drugs. Cartels Took It Over.

Six years after California legalized marijuana, the bodies keep piling up. Earlier this year, six men were murdered in the Mojave Desert. Four of the men had been burned after being shot with rifles. In 2020, seven people were killed at an illegal pot operation in Riverside County.

Violence like this was supposed to disappear after legalization. Legalization advocates argued that making the drug trade legal would end the grip of the cartels. Instead, the legal market has failed, and the cartels are taking over sizable parts of California and the rest of the country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCalifornia, Drug Legalization, Drugs

Arkansas: 10 injured 3 killed in shooting at Fordyce Mad Butcher

Three people were killed and 10 others injured in a shooting on Friday morning at a grocery store in Fordyce, Ark., the police said.

A shooter opened fire at the Mad Butcher grocery store in Fordyce in Central Arkansas about 11:30 a.m., the Arkansas State Police said in a statement.

The shooter, whose name was not released, was shot by the police and injured before being taken into custody, the police said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting", USA

Official bilingualism in Canada a ‘myth,’ says new poll

MONTREAL – A new poll reveals a stark divide between Quebec and the rest of Canada about whether the country should be bilingual.

In a Leger poll conducted for The Canadian Press, only 43 per cent of respondents across Canada said they held a positive view of federal bilingualism — which was enshrined into law in 1969, making English and French Canada’s official languages. Eighteen per cent of respondents held a negative view.

However, in Quebec, 70 per cent of respondents said they view bilingualism positively; 11 per cent held the opposite opinion. Outside Quebec, the percentage of respondents who view official bilingualism positively was 35 per cent — and 23 per cent in Alberta, with Manitoba and Saskatchewan close behind.

Official bilingualism is just discrimination against the English majority.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

A new law aims to crack down on environmental racism in Canada

Dofasco-Hamilton

For years, researchers, activists, community leaders have shown how Indigenous, Black and other racialized groups have been disproportionately affected by polluting industries.

Now, a new law will require the federal government to better track this injustice, and aim to correct it.

Bill C-226, sponsored by Green leader Elizabeth May, became law Thursday evening, nearly four years after similar legislation was first proposed in Parliament. The law will require the federal government to develop a national strategy on environmental racism within two years.

White people are never affected by pollution.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", "Identity Politics", "Peak Woke"

‘Raise My Dreads’: Whoopi Tees up Fauci to Call Opponents ‘Bastards’

After teasing it was a while ago, ABC’s The View finally had Dr. Anthony Fauci on the show to help him hawk his new book. The much-reviled public health official received copious amounts of praise from the liberal ladies and no questions about how the policies he pushed harmed a generation of children and infringed on individual liberties. Instead, he got a platform to lash out at those who opposed him, calling them “bastards.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Skyrocketing rent: Some Canadians saying goodbye to half their paycheque

A significant number of Canadian renters are spending more than half their paycheque putting a roof over their head, according to a new Royal LePage report.

In Vancouver, 27 per cent of renters are spending more than half their net income on paying the rent. In Toronto, 19 per cent are forking over more than half of their paycheque and one in 10 Montrealers are in the same position. The national average is 16 per cent.

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

Is Oakland the Worst City in the USA? Mayor’s House Raided by FBI

At least four houses in Oakland were raided by the FBI on Thursday morning with one of the residences belonging to Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao.

One other house was identified as belonging to Andy Duong, a member of a family that owns Cal Waste Solutions. Cal Waste Solutions has been investigated over campaign contributions to Thao and other elected city officials. That was back in 2020.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise"

Peter MacKinnon: Up to courts to push back on discriminatory DEI policies

The phrase “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) is commonly trumpeted as an irrefutable good that justifies all that is done in its name. It has appeal when advanced to include people who were previously marginalized from public and professional life, but that appeal fades when it’s used to justify widespread discrimination — a point we have long since passed here in Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion"

Trudeau’s security adviser plays down concealing documents from foreign interference inquiry

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security adviser is playing down concerns over the government concealing cabinet documents from the commissioner looking into foreign interference, saying the government has chosen to provide the cabinet confidences it considers “most relevant” to the inquiry.

“So, we shared with the commission, in a very transparent way, things that were relevant, to the point, with them,” she said.

Conservative MP Eric Duncan compared the situation to “a courtroom trial where the accused that’s on the stand gets to choose what evidence the judge gets to see.”

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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

Why Democrats are ‘not enthusiastic’ about Biden’s re-election: strategist

Democrats are “not enthusiastic” about the possibility of President Biden’s White House reelection as it becomes clearer that the gaffe-prone commander-in-chief is his own biggest problem, a party political strategist has suggested.

The 81-year-old president’s own vulnerabilities — including his age — are likely to blame for recent polling that shows Biden trailing his GOP rival, former President Donald Trump, or holding on by a razor-thin margin, Politico reported, citing interviews with a slew of Democrats.

“Democrats are enthusiastic about trying to win the Senate and trying to win the House,” party faithful strategist, Neil Oxman, said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

B.C.’s embrace of United Nations declaration is ‘holding back’ First Nations

More politicians are coming forward to urge governments to end their commitment to the broad ideals of the UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

They maintain that the B.C. government’s attempt to appear pro-Indigenous is actually holding back First Nations development through forestry, mining, natural gas and other industrial agreements.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues

‘Muslim Pride will be full of people just like me’

“It’s like no Pride I’m ever going to have known before.”

Ferhan Khan, a practising Muslim and non-binary queer man, is looking forward to an “unforgettable experience” at the UK’s first Muslim Pride event on Saturday.

“It’s going to be filled with people that are just like me and understand me and I don’t need to explain myself to them,” says the 39-year-old who uses they/them pronouns.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIslam, Islam and homosexuality, Islam and violence, WTF?