Author: Blazingcatfur

Former Air Canada manager wanted in gold heist to turn himself in, lawyer says

The former Air Canada manager wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for his alleged role in the largest gold heist in Canadian history is preparing to turn himself in, according to his lawyer.

Simran Preet Panesar is wanted on charges including theft over $5,000 in connection with the April 2023 theft of more than $20 million in gold from Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.

Panesar is “very confident in the Canadian justice system,” his lawyer, Greg Lafontaine said in a statement to CBC News. “When this prosecution is over, he will have been absolved of any wrongdoing.”

Even if convicted he’ll only do about 20 minutes in jail.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

ANALYSIS: The Flaws Flagged by Canada’s Cannabis Legalization Review

In October 2018, Canada became the first G7 nation to legalize recreational cannabis, and a federal review of how it’s gone so far shows what other countries may encounter if they do the same.

The push for legalization of other substances, such as psychedelics, has also begun in Canada—the pros and cons of which are likely to be viewed in light of our experience with cannabis, says addictions expert Michael DeVillaer.

“We failed to heed the lessons from alcohol [and] tobacco. … There is a very real danger that we will also fail to learn the lessons from cannabis,” Mr. DeVillaer, a health sciences professor at McMaster University, told The Epoch Times.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMarijuana

Germany Rocked by Spate of Brutal Stabbings

Three acts of seemingly random—and certainly horrific—violence on Monday, June 10th, collectively raise the question: what is going on in Germany?

The country, which is about to begin hosting the European football championship, has seen around 60 knife attacks per day in recent years.

One of those which took place earlier this week was fatal. A 23-year-old woman was “suddenly” stabbed by a “previously unknown person” during an evening jog in Schermbeck on the Lower Rhine, according to national media. Officials are still appealing for information about the unidentified attacker.

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

FIRST READING: Millions of Canadians would rather be somewhere else

Barely a decade after British Columbia was emblazoning its licence plates with the slogan “best place on Earth,” a new poll finds that one third of the province doesn’t want to live there anymore.

And British Columbians are not alone. Among the many bad economic indicators plaguing Canada right now, one of the more prescient is that millions of Canadians would rather be somewhere else.

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

Biden Fears Israel ‘Rushing to War’ in Lebanon — Even Though Hezbollah Has Been Attacking for Eight Months

As Israelis in northern areas of the country beseech their government to end Hezbollah’s eight months of military aggression, President Biden is reportedly concerned that Jerusalem is “rushing to war” in Lebanon, from which the terrorist organization operates.

Hezbollah spokesmen say the organization has launched its “most extensive” attack on northern Israel Thursday, boasting that the group has hit 15 military bases in the Galilee region and the Golan. According to Israeli officials, two civilians were injured but not seriously, and while there was extensive property damage, no bases were hit.

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

Financial crime still a ‘free-for-all’ in B.C. and Canada, expert says

Money Laundering

B.C. has taken important steps recently in the fight against money laundering, an international conference in Vancouver heard Wednesday, but successful prosecution of financial crime remains problematically rare.

A group of international experts and professionals gathered in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday for a day-long conference focused on financial crime, money laundering, corruption, misinformation and journalism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime

HANNAFORD: The rape of Canada’s middle class

The Liberals’ proposed capital gains tax, introduced Monday, is class warfare pure and simple, the politics of envy with all the deception that goes with it. Here’s the deal: give us your money or look out for people jumping the wall of your gated community.

Thus, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Monday. She was warning those who live “in gated communities behind ever-higher fences, using private healthcare and airplanes because the public sphere is so degraded and the wrath of the vast majority of their less privileged compatriots burns so hot…”

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

Joe Biden Is a Weird Liar

There’s only one thing I hate more than lying: skim milk, which is water lying about being milk.” —Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation

On Tuesday, shortly after his son Hunter was found guilty of breaking federal gun laws, Joe Biden stood in front of a pro-gun-control group, buttressing his anti-gun position with phony credentials.

“When I was no longer the vice president, I became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania,” Biden said, adding that he had previously “taught the Second Amendment” in a constitutional-law class.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden"

Weakened Leaders of the West Gather in Italy to Discuss an Unruly World

Blackies last Dance

When Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy convenes the leaders of the Group of 7 countries on Thursday at a luxury resort hotel overlooking the Adriatic Sea, she might be forgiven for thinking her guests are seeking a refuge.

Except for Ms. Meloni herself, every one of the leaders is arriving at the meeting beleaguered, embattled or endangered — an ill-starred convergence that speaks to the political tremors rattling across the West. It also doesn’t bode well for the results of a gathering that already faced vexing challenges, ranging from Russia’s war in Ukraine to China’s global economic competition.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elites vs. Populists"

Poll: In Agreement With Trump, 6 In 10 Voters Back Mass Deportations Of Illegal Aliens

A majority of voters support efforts to mass deport illegal aliens residing in the United States, a newly released survey found.

Conducted by CBS News/YouGov, the poll showed that 62 percent of registered voters favor, “in principle, a new government program to deport all [foreign nationals] living in the U.S. illegally.” This includes backing from 88 percent of Republicans, 60 percent of independents, and 38 percent of Democrats.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", USA

TDS destroys DeNiro and other once-favored celebs

It is a real mystery why Trump Derangement Syndrome has managed to destroy the legacies of so many formerly admired Hollywood celebrities. Robert DeNiro, whom I had always thought was a terrific actor, has become such a vicious and profane TDS victim that I have lost the urge to watch again any of his great performances.

After the braindead NY jury found Trump guilty of 34 fake felonies, Hollywood TDS-infected stars celebrated this egregious miscarriage of justice. While most of these so-called celebs are really has-beens seeking relevance, I wonder if they have any idea the huge number of fans who’ve sworn to never spend another cent on anything they star in.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

Poll: Most Voters Think Old Joe’s Mental Decline is Real

Three-plus years into Old Joe Biden’s disastrous performance as the ostensible president of the United States, he is giving us more evidence of his mental decline practically every time he makes a public appearance. To list all of his mental lapses, incomprehensible statements, and displays of cognitive vacancy would take more space than this column and indeed the whole of PJ Media has available.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden"

The rise of California’s vanlords: A new class of landlord is exploiting the homeless

For outsiders experiencing it on YouTube, homelessness in San Francisco has a sort of up-close profile — overdoses and open drug deals, vacant and filthy faces, bodies sprawled on dirty concrete or, sometimes, just standing, bent incredibly in half, forehead between knees, in the telltale posture of someone who shot up fentanyl and forgot to sit.

Where I live, across San Francisco Bay in Oakland, the homelessness has also become a favourite subject for YouTube video sleuths. But instead of capturing it at ground level, from the juddering view of a camera held by a pedestrian, or through the window of a car moving along a curb in voyeuristic slowness, these videographers often do their thing while moving at the speed of traffic, panning hungrily along a blighted street, or they send up a drone to gather a vast scene in an aerial sweep. San Francisco homelessness is defined by depressing human detail. Oakland homelessness is captured in aggregate terms, by visual reference to its physical scale.

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