Author: Blazingcatfur

Kelly McParland: Chrystia Freeland talks nonsense

Ontario had a cabinet shuffle last week during which an intriguing but little-remarked change took place.

Someone named Stan Cho will replace someone named Neil Lumsden for seating rights at Premier Doug Ford’s cabinet table. The intriguing bit is that while Neil was minister of tourism, culture and sport, Stan will be minister of tourism, culture and gaming.

Gambling has replaced sport because it’s all about money, and money is more important than sports. Sports knows this, which is why sporting broadcasts are now just pretexts to ceaselessly batter viewers with gambling ads. Wayne Gretzky, formerly a hockey hero, is now best known as a shill for BetMGM.

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

Poll: U.S. Jews Back Biden Over Trump

One of the great things about having spent much of my life in the media is that when pollsters call, I have the perfect way to opt out of the call. It is, or used to be, standard for pollsters to eschew querying the media because their responses could be construed as those of their organization. But, it has been a while since a pollster bothered to ring me up.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Hunter Biden guilty of felony gun charges, faces 25 years in prison

WILMINGTON, Del. — Guilty, guilty, guilty.

Hunter Biden became the first child of a sitting president to be convicted of a crime Tuesday after a federal jury found him guilty of lying about his drug use in order to buy a gun.

The panel of six men and six women deliberated for three hours across two days before convicting the 54-year-old of making a false statement in the purchase of a firearm, making a false statement related to information required to be kept by a federally licensed firearms dealer, and possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of or addict to a controlled substance.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Biden Family Sleaze"

Hamas says it accepts UN-backed Gaza truce plan, US cites ‘hopeful sign’

TEL AVIV/CAIRO, June 11 (Reuters) – Hamas accepts a U.N. resolution backing a plan to end the war with Israel in Gaza and is ready to negotiate details, a senior official of the Palestinian militant group said on Tuesday in what the U.S. Secretary of State called “a hopeful sign”.

Conversations on plans for Gaza after the Israel-Hamas war ends will continue on Tuesday afternoon and in the next couple of days, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Tel Aviv after talks with Israeli leaders. “It’s imperative that we have these plans.”

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

Toronto school board seeks to enshrine anti-Palestinian racism concept as antisemitism soars

Amid record-breaking levels of antisemitism across the Toronto District School Board, activists are demanding the definition of “anti-Palestinian racism” be included in the district’s anti-racism strategy because they fear it might hamper students’ ability to speak about Israel and Palestine.

At a board meeting on June 5 , the TDSB released the strategy Combating Hate and Racism: Student Learning Strategy Update 2024 , prominently featuring the term “anti-Palestinian racism.”

A vote to adopt it was scheduled for June 11, but concerned parent Aaron Kucharczuk said the TDSB has postponed the motion because it coincides with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. Dozens of delegates critical of the new policy have requested to speak before the board to share their concerns about it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, TDSB Scandals, TDSB Toronto District School Board

San Francisco’s Bay Area is transformed into Mad Max dystopia

Acrid smoke is greeting San Franciscans on their way into work this morning after another terrifying night of sideshows took Oakland and the waterfront.

Police refused to intervene and not a single arrest was made among the thousands who risked their lives as cars tore round their city centers in what has become a routine occurrence.

Onlookers were sent flying as cars plowed into them at one event in Oakland, and a torched Chevy provided a grisly centerpiece to the Embarcadero spectacle as tire smoke reduced visibility to near zero.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCalifornia, WTF?

StatsCan: One-third of Canadians will be foreign-born by 2041

A briefing note from Statistics Canada says based on current immigration trends, “one in three” Canadian residents will foreign-born come 2041, per Blacklock’s Reporter.

Canadian-born residents would become a minority in Toronto, the February 7 brief said.

Currently foreign-born residents account for 23% of Canada’s population, which the brief notes is “by far the highest of the G7 countries.” By comparison, only 14% of US residents are foreign-born.

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

How Europe’s young voters flocked to the hard-Right

Unbuttoning his carefully ironed white shirt, Jordan Bardella took a sip of water at a sweltering political rally during his European election campaign and apologised for the pause by saying: “I’m already getting hot.”

“You’re the one making us hot,” screamed a girl from the young crowd.

The French call it “Bardella-mania”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elites vs. Populists", "extremists", "far right"