Author: Blazingcatfur

Bullet holes, drug dealer takeovers, mould and struggling tenants. What it’s like living in one deeply troubled Toronto public housing complex

When strangers pound at the door of her downtown Toronto apartment, Janice Bellmore has learned to keep calm, make sure her lock is secured, and turn up the TV to drown out the noise. Calling security, in the complex she’s lived in for two decades, often feels futile.

It’s not unusual for unfamiliar faces to roam her building — a weathered concrete and brick apartment, with rusting metal railings looking over a wide courtyard connecting it to hundreds of other homes. In many cases, the people who enter this sprawling complex are desperate to find potent street drugs, tenants say. And it’s a reliable place to look, as vulnerable tenants having their units taken over by dealers is a chronic problem.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

The Surprisingly Shallow, Stupid World of Salman Rushdie

On the run from Islamic extremists for decades, Rushdie sees only danger from the Right.

Ever since the February day in 1989 when Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini declared Salman Rushdie’s novel, The Satanic Verses, “blasphemous against Islam,” I have pulled for Salman Rushdie. I confess to having read none of his books and knew little of his politics, but this Indian-American author struck me as the ultimate embodiment of man’s fight for freedom.

And then — sigh! — I read his new memoir, Knife. The “knife” in the title refers to the weapon used by a young New Jersey Muslim named Hadi Matar. Matar stabbed Rushdie very nearly to death on the amphitheater stage of the Chautauqua Institution in August 2022. The stabbing was inconvenient. Had Rushdie been shot, ideally by a guy in a MAGA hat, the shooting would have justified his anxiety about America’s “insane gun violence and equally insane Trump and Trumpublicans.”

He’s a Muslim first despite the fatwa.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, WTF?

Treason of the Intellectuals and Danger From Within

The U.S. establishment’s capitulation to the global left led to a complete occupation of U.S. institutions and the ultimate corruption of the free world.

“The enemies from within are more dangerous to me than the enemies from the outside,” said Republican Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump, at a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on May 11, 2024.

At a Springfield, Illinois, event, some 20 years before the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln delivered a prophetic message to his fellow citizens: “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

If Donald Trump is elected president again, will the biggest loser be Justin Trudeau or Pierre Poilievre?

Susan Delacourt: Canadian elections are rarely fought on foreign policy. Even the big free-trade election of 1988 boiled down to very domestic considerations, such as how expanding trade with the U.S. would affect businesses and employment here at home.

But I can picture the next election in Canada having some major foreign-policy debates. Since the last one in 2021, we now have war in Europe and the Middle East. We also have a monumental American election looming. That has me wondering who this will help or hurt in the battle between Conservatives and Liberals. Assuming we do have a foreign-policy election — and admittedly, that’s a big assumption — what are your thoughts, Matt?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

What’s behind a historic, unusual U.S. military cash transfer to Canadian mines

The United States was growing desperate, months before its entry into the Second World War. It was gravely short of aluminum, and scrambling for suppliers.

Its solution: turn north to Canada.

American public money flooded into Quebec, building the aluminum industry that supplied raw materials for Allied planes and tanks.

The Knee-Jerk Anti-Americanism of “Environmentalists” will soon have the usual suspects in full froth.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

GUNTER: Go to the office and stop complaining

It’s clear federal civil servants have learned nothing – nothing – from the public backlash against their strike last year.

Public-sector union members were stunned by strong public opposition to their outrageous wages demands. I remember getting a chuckle at the expense of a PSAC (Public Service Alliance of Canada) member interviewed by the Ottawa Citizen in the strike’s early days.

The problem for the proles in Canada is that public service unions at all levels of government (including teachers and healthcare) constitute a very large, well organized and effective vote bloc that politicians fear.

All politicians kowtow to union demands. Tax payers foot the unsustainable bill.

If you haven’t read it, this is an excellent essay on the current state of affairs in Ottawa due largely to public servants refusing to return to the office. 

Toronto has suffered a similar post covid desolation of its downtown.

Both cities vote reliably Liberal so frankly they are just getting the shitholes they voted for. I say that as a Toronto resident.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Public Service Union Predator Class

Conservatives, Bloc Québécois force meeting to investigate Liberals’ refusal to share foreign interference documents with public inquiry

The Conservatives and Bloc Québécois have forced a meeting of a House of Commons committee to investigate the Liberal government’s refusal to turn over cabinet documents on foreign interference to a public inquiry into foreign meddling in Canadian democracy.

The Globe and Mail reported Thursday that the federal government is facing pushback from Justice Marie-Josée Hogue for citing cabinet confidentiality in redacting records provided to the public inquiry investigating interference by China and other hostile states in the 2019 and 2021 elections.

My Theory: People have tuned out the Foreign Interference inquiry knowing that those who perpetrated these traitorous acts will suffer exactly ZERO consequences.

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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

Police hunt for Man Utd fan with ‘Hamas 7’ printed on his shirt

Police have launched a hunt for a Manchester United fan photographed wearing a team shirt with “Hamas 7” printed on the back.

The unidentified man was pictured walking near Oxford Circus tube station in central London on Friday afternoon.

Inviting support for a proscribed organisation – such as Hamas – or recklessly expressing support for one, is a criminal offence under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", WTF?

Surprise, alarm from U of T faculty as school warns of termination for those who don’t leave pro-Palestinian encampment before deadline

The University of Toronto Faculty Association reacted with surprise and alarm to a school warning that professors and staff who refuse to leave a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus before a Monday morning deadline could face disciplinary measures, including termination.

The warning was contained in a trespass notice the university sent Friday to the protesters at the encampment on King’s College Circle, one of dozens of pro-Palestinian protests on campuses across North America that have been calling for universities to divest from companies connected to the Israeli military.

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