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Olivia Chow’s greatest vulnerability? Her friends

Imagine the confusion.

Toronto’s most labour friendly mayor in recent memory and still — a major strike that would have paralyzed this city. Or, as Mayor Chow put it, wrought “huge, huge economic damage.”

Sometimes in politics, success rides not on the platforms you pronounce or the policies you deliver, but on the bullets you dodge. And a TTC strike would be about as destructive a bullet for Mayor Chow to duck as can be conceived. Because while the political confusion and upheaval that would have followed is challenging to predict, the wrath of Torontonians would not be.

Chow had better be a one term mayor or Toronto is toast.

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2024June 16, 2024•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Marine Le Pen calls opponents ‘Islamo-Leftists’ and an ‘abomination’ for France

Marine Le Pen has accused France’s new Left-wing bloc of being “Islamo-Leftists” who want to strip the French of their freedoms.

Ms Le Pen, who leads the hard-Right National Rally, said that the New Popular Front, an alliance of Left-leaning parties formed in recent days, would be an “abomination for the country” as she went on the offensive in the election campaign.

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2024June 16, 2024•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Feds admit cost of living flattened poverty progress

A report from the Department of Social Development shows the cost of living has overtaken years of progress in lowering poverty rates, per Blacklock’s Reporter.

The department counted a half million Canadians who fell into poverty due to inflation in a December 11 briefing report.

“Future increases in the rate of poverty could stall progress towards reaching the 2030 poverty reduction target of a 50% reduction in poverty versus 2015 levels,” said the federal report.

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2024June 16, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

German Climate Activists: “If You Blow Up Pipelines, Don’t Get Caught”

The German climate protest group ”Hungern, bis ihr ehrlich seid” (Starve until you’re honest), whose members have taken turns hunger striking in a Berlin park since March, has ended that form of activism and is now telling members to take more aggressive action.

Adam Lack, one of the activists, called on people to join an environmental group and commit acts of sabotage, Tagesspiegel reports, such as turning off pipelines or blowing them up, slashing the tires of SUVs, and blocking roads.

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2024June 16, 2024•0•"Environmentalists"

Jewish students are no longer feeling safe at Toronto Metropolitan University

University is supposed to be a time when we think critically about the world around us, learn how to conduct proper research, and formulate personal opinions. The disinformation being spread throughout campuses proves the exact opposite.

As a Jewish student at the Toronto Metropolitan University, I’ve noticed campus-wide propaganda and hateful rhetoric against Israel – including being compared to Nazi Germany – that has dehumanized the Jewish population. It has made me feel less safe when walking through the halls or attending classes, including the conflicting decision of whether to wear my Star of David or Hamsa in public.

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2024June 16, 2024•0•"Oct 7 2023"

Jamie Sarkonak: Guilbeault gives endangered owls the ‘more consultations’ treatment

For all of British Columbia’s environmentalist tendencies, it has struggled to preserve one of its most endangered species: the northern spotted owl. The stable part of that population, a total of 30 members, lives in a captive breeding program in Langley. Only three are now known to be living in the wild.

The owls are low on the priority list of our otherwise aggressive Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, who was recently found by a federal court judge to have broken the law by failing to protect them with haste.

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2024June 16, 2024•0•"Environmentalists", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Degrowth Is a Dead End

America should destroy its economy and pay climate reparations to other countries in the name of “degrowth,” because that will somehow help the environment. Or at least that is the conclusion of a suspiciously friendly interview between the New York Times and an actual professed eco-Marxist.

The article, by New York Times book critic Jennifer Szalai, ran with the tagline: “economic growth has been ecologically costly — and so a movement in favor of ‘degrowth’ is growing.”

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2024June 16, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny"

WaPo Propagandists Warn Of ‘Potential Future Oldest President’ Trump Even Though Biden Will Be Older

However much you hate the media, it’s not enough. The latest reminder comes courtesy of The Washington Post.

On Friday, Donald Trump’s birthday, the Post ran a predictable — but nonetheless despicable — piece of 2024 election propaganda titled, “Donald Trump, potential future oldest president, turns 78.”

“Age is just a number, the adage goes. For Donald Trump, that number just got bigger,” writes national political “reporter” Marianne LeVine, who adds that Trump’s age “has also drawn notice from some voters and experts on aging.”

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2024June 16, 2024•0•Trump Derangement Syndrome

Europe Between Hope and Fear

The results of this month’s European Parliament elections have prompted two reactions from political analysts in the old continent.

One reaction could be described as the ostrich option, burying one’s head in the sand and praying that the storm will blow over. The other could be labeled apocalyptic, pointing at the four terrible horsemen riding across the horizon.

The ostrich party points out that despite the successes scored by radical right parties, the next European Parliament will still be dominated by right-of-center and social-democratic outfits stuck in the past and determined to maintain the status quo.

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2024June 16, 2024•0•European Union

Illegal Migrant Allowed in by Biden Assaulted, Murdered Women

While Biden is plotting a new amnesty, his open borders continue to leave a gruesome trail of death across America. This is just another one of the horrors that the open borders invasion has brought to America.

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2024June 16, 2024•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", USA

How Gen Z is driving the populist pushback

Populism was supposed to be the preserve of the old, uneducated and unenlightened. Apparently, it was for ‘gammons’, your xenophobic uncle and the ‘left behind’ of deindustrialised towns, bitter that the world has changed beyond their recognition. The results of last week’s European elections have shattered that myth.

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2024June 16, 2024•0•Populism

America Is Bringing Back the Draft

Soon, every man aged 18-26 in America could be forced to serve in the military. On June 14th, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 8070, which amends the National Defense Authorization Act with a mandate that

every male citizen of the United States, and every other male person residing in the United States, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six, shall be automatically registered under this Act by the Director of the Selective Service System.

The law that Congress is in the process of amending is called “The Military Selective Service Act.” In practice, this amendment will make it mandatory for all young men in America to serve in the military, much like it was mandatory from 1940 to 1973.

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2024June 16, 2024•0•USA

Wondering About an October Surprise

An October surprise is coming, and earlier than October. Joe Biden — presuming he’s still the Democrats’ nominee — needs a big game changer. His approval rating is sliding south. Early voting — that’s legal early voting, for you blue state denizens — makes an August or September surprise worth watching for. Every four years, there’s lively speculation about what a president and his party will hatch to swing votes their way.

by Blazingcatfur•June 16, 2024June 16, 2024•0•USA

Douglas Todd: Canadian politics turning more tribal

‘People are voting based on their social identity. It’s become them versus us,’ says Greg Lyle, a pollster and former Conservative party activist in the 1990s.

The quickest way to get a start in politics in Canada is to appeal to members of an affiliated ethnic or religious group to take over a nomination battle or leadership convention, specialists say.

It’s not a new political strategy, but more and more it’s becoming the technique for scrambling to the top in Canadian politics.

by Blazingcatfur•June 16, 2024June 16, 2024•0•"Identity Politics", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Poll says Muslims & Jews least likely to vote Conservative

… Sikhs are most likely to support opposition leader Pierre Poilievre, at 54% followed by Christians and Hindus at 53% each.

Muslims were least likely, at 15% followed by Jewish people at 42%.

Ironically, the number of Jews and Muslims who would vote Liberal was almost similar, at 33% and 31%, respectively. But Muslims were more than twice as likely of all religious groups to support the NDP, at 41% compared to 20% for Sikhs and Jews.

Muslims and Jews for Junior?

by Blazingcatfur•June 16, 2024June 16, 2024•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West