Author: Blazingcatfur

Harrowing video captures deadly LaGuardia Airport crash as plane collides with fire truck

Chilling footage captures the moment an Air Canada Express jet barrels into a fire truck on a runway at LaGuardia Airport in Queens on Sunday night, killing the two pilots aboard.

The fire truck was crossing over to another part of the airport to help with a call involving a separate plane when it was struck, according to video captured from inside the airport.

h/t Patti Jo PA Cat and everyone else!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Casualty Event", WTF?

Why three byelections on April 13 could change the makeup of the House of Commons

OTTAWA – Three byelections are being held on April 13 and the results could have an impact on both the makeup of Parliament and how long it lasts.

Here’s a primer on how things could change.

Where are the byelections?

The votes are in two Liberal stronghold seats in the Toronto area and one contested riding in Quebec, north of Montreal.

I may never understand Toronto voters.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

U.S. military aircraft using Canadian airspace to refuel en route to Middle East

American military aircraft have been using Canadian airspace to refuel on their way to the Middle East, backed by a long-standing NORAD agreement that does not require the U.S. to ask permission from Canada to do so.

On March 12, between 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. ET, two KC-135T Stratotankers – large American refuelling aircraft – were observed overhead by residents of Moose Factory, Ont., along with several other aircraft, the make and model of which could not be identified from images captured by a resident of the town.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War", Canada, USA

‘In 20 years most of the world could be racist dictatorships’ says racist fraud

 

Ibram Kendi – Race Baiting Grifter

‘I think I’ve had at least seven books that have been banned in the United States,” says Ibram X Kendi, in a tone that carries no bitterness but stops just short of pride. It’s proof, he says, that his works on racism, which extend from deep, scholarly histories to a biography of Malcolm X for children, are getting through to the right people – and annoying the right people. According to the writers’ advocacy group PEN America, his books have been banned at least 50 times by multiple US school districts during the tumultuous “anti-woke” backlash of the past five years. He’s not happy about that, but nor was he discouraged. “I understood that the major reason why people were singling me out and demonising me was because they did not want people reading my books,” he says. “And when the character assassinations did not work to the scale that they wanted them to, then they started banning my books, and the books of many others.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Black Fatigue"

How a ban on religious symbols has triggered a Canadian constitutional debate

A controversial secularism law in Quebec is heading to Canada’s Supreme Court – but the outcome will impact much more than religious expression in Canada, legal experts say.

The case has the potential to test national unity and the balance between courts and elected officials.

“This case is probably going to be the most important constitutional case in a generation,” said Christine Van Geyn, executive director at the Canadian Constitution Foundation.

The CBC has live coverage

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Appointment of trans person as endometriosis representative ridiculed

A female novelist has criticised the appointment of a trans woman to represent an endometriosis charity, comparing it to a white person claiming to speak for black people.

Amanda Craig, who has published nine novels and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2021, spoke out after Steph Richards was named as the parliamentary engagement officer for Endometriosis South Coast.

Endometriosis is a chronic and painful gynaecological condition in which cells similar to those in the lining of the uterus grow in other parts of the body. It affects one in ten women in the UK.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny, WTF?

Will Canada unshackle itself in time? The global energy and minerals window of opportunity

“We are touchingly prone to mistaking our models of reality for reality itself, mistaking the strength of our certainty for the strength of the evidence, thus moving through a dream of our own making that we call life…we are simply not capable of processing the full scope of reality. Our minds cope by choosing fragments of it to the exclusion, and often to the erasure, of the rest.” – Maria Popova/The Marginalian

Great words, hey? All part of the human condition. All of us suck, in this regard, at some time or other. Best practice, as a human, is to just become cognizant of this trap we all fall into.

It is even easier to fall into the trap when surrounded by like-minded or sycophantic people, one’s that don’t challenge much. In other words, politics.

h/t handy n handsome

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

Labour council promotes exhibition showing ‘Jews’ eating babies

An “anti-Semitic” art exhibition with drawings allegedly showing Jewish people eating babies was seemingly promoted by a Labour council.

The Drawings Against Genocide exhibition at an independent gallery in Margate, Kent, features hundreds of crudely-drawn pictures that critics claim contain anti-Semitic tropes.

It is the work of Matthew Collings, 70, formerly one of the country’s leading art critics, who said the art was “about raising consciousness about hell” and that “Israel is the pure encapsulation of it” through its actions in Gaza.

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

Bruce Pardy: Racial discounts for violent criminals was inevitable in equity-obsessed Canada

In December 2021, Everton Downey stabbed his girlfriend Melissa Blimkie 15 times in a stairwell at a shopping mall in Burnaby. She died. Downey was convicted of second-degree murder. In February, the British Columbia Supreme Court sentenced him to life in prison, the minimum sentence set out in the Criminal Code. The Crown sought no chance for parole for at least 15 years. But Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes decided on 12 years instead, in part because of “mitigating circumstances of his background,” as described in his Impact of Race and Culture Assessment (IRCA). The time to parole was reduced because of Downey’s experience of being Black.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Equity", "Identity Politics", "Justice", "Two Tiered Justice", "Two Tiered Policing"

UK Counter-terrorism police investigating antisemitic attack on Jewish ambulances

A fire bomb attack on ambulances belonging to a Jewish volunteer service is being investigated by counter-terror police.

Four ambulances belonging to a Jewish volunteer service have been set on fire in an antisemitic attack outside a London synagogue.

Four emergency vehicles in the Hatzola Northwest’s fleet were firebombed at around 1.40am on Monday morning on Highfield Road in Golders Green.

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

MORGAN: Say it out loud — the problem is Islam

Let me begin by quoting the brilliant Mr. Bean, AKA Rowan Atkinson:

“To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.”

Let’s get on with critiquing the world’s most troublesome religion. As is our right and obligation.

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

Trump delays strikes on Iran power, energy plants for five days, citing ‘very good and productive conversations’

President Trump announced Monday that the US will not attack any part of Iran’s power and energy infrastructure for five days after Washington and Tehran engaged in “very good and productive talks” over the weekend about ending the three-week-old war.

“I am please [sic] to report that the United States of America, and the country of Iran, have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East,” Trump wrote, without elaborating.

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

Canadian companies could face big losses as change looms in Cuba

In Havana on Friday, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, Carlos Fernández de Cossío Domínguez, argued that Canada should maintain the commercial relationship with Cuba that has made it the country’s largest foreign investor after Spain.

“Since 1972, it has maintained the largest flow of visitors to Cuba. It is an important relationship,” said de Cossío, who once served as Cuba’s ambassador in Ottawa.

“There are important trade relations. There is foreign investment…. Despite the fact that we do not have a coincidence in all the political and international positions, we have always known how to solve our problems, our differences, and work with them based on dialogue and based on mutual respect.”

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