Author: Blazingcatfur

EVs aren’t burdening Canada’s electricity grids – yet

In certain urban neighbourhoods, it can seem like Tesla Model 3s, Volkswagen ID.4s and Chevy Bolts occupy every third driveway.

Zero-emissions vehicles accounted for nearly 11 per cent of all new motor vehicles registered last year, according to Statistics Canada – the first time they’ve topped one in 10. That’s more than double the 5-per-cent sales threshold after which some experts believe consumer preferences shift and mass-adoption ensues

Charging a single EV draws as much energy as two average households combined, according to Toronto Hydro. Many observers have warned that rapid EV adoption will cause demand for electricity to surge.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Police evict Pro-Palestine protesters from Nancy Pelosi speech at Oxford Union

Police were forced to remove two pro-Palestine protesters from the Oxford Union on Thursday after they hijacked a speech by Nancy Pelosi, the former US speaker of the House.

The pair of students waved Palestinian flags as they disrupted her address at the debating society shortly after 6pm.

The protesters were swiftly removed by Thames Valley Police and escorted out as the crowd inside the chamber applauded.

Unbelievable …

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

Opposition Parties Demand Assurances Locals Will Have Jobs Protected at New EV Plants

The Conservatives and the New Democrats have both called on the Liberal government to assure local Canadian workers that their jobs will be protected at new electric vehicle plants, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a $15 billion deal with Honda on April 25.

Tory MP and industry critic Rick Perkins commented earlier this week on foreign workers being employed in EV plants that have been heavily subsidized by Canadian taxpayers, citing a report from Canada’s Building Trades Union (CBTU) that claimed foreign replacement workers were being employed at electric battery plants in southern Ontario.

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

Jewish student sues TMU over ‘poisoned’ antisemitic environment

A Jewish student has sued Toronto Metropolitan University, arguing that the university has become a “poisoned antisemitic learning and working environment” in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

Nicole Szweras, a student in the media production program and formerly an employee in the university’s “equipment distribution centre,” is seeking $1.3 million in damages.

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

A Majority Are for Mass Deportations

Axios is out with eye-popping results from a poll it ran, which show the overall popularity of the hard-line immigration proposals Donald Trump has floated in his campaign, including mass deportations of illegal aliens and the end of birthright citizenship.

What it found was that 51 percent of Americans (including 42 percent of Democrats) say they would support mass deportations of illegal aliens. Thirty percent of Democrats and 46 percent of Republicans would end birthright citizenship. The poll shows that Americans are concerned about illegal immigration primarily because of increased crime and drug trafficking, but not far behind are concerns about costs to taxpayers, and potential threats to national security.

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

Israel could be Biden’s Vietnam

Pundits and protestors are drawing parallels between Joe Biden and Lyndon B Johnson – another liberal presidency doomed by an ugly war. In so many ways, Gaza is not Vietnam. America has no boots on the ground; no draft if it did. Yet the analogy builds in three troubling steps.

One: Biden owns the Middle East conflict even as he denounces the casualties. Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times notes that in January, the Israelis dropped a US-made bomb from a US-made plane on a US-relief group in a war supported by the US. “How can that not come back to Biden?” Kristof concludes that the President, for all his anti-war instincts, remains a die-hard Zionist, reluctant even to cut ties with an alleged crook like Netanyahu (there is reportedly a photo of the President on the prime minister’s desk inscribed: “Bibi, I love you but I don’t agree with a damn thing you have to say.”)

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

America Isn’t The First Empire Doomed By Open Borders

No subject is as central to America’s future and no subject gets to the heart of the failure of our current regime more than immigration policy. As a result, few subjects are as riddled with taboos in their public discussion. What will happen when the ethnic composition of large parts of America is transformed in ways America’s European founders never could have foreseen? And in the interim, what will happen to whites as they continue to lose political power amid their shrinking proportion of the population, as anti-white rhetoric and actions accelerate?

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

Why the West will refuse to fight

Citizens won’t sacrifice themselves

Western politics is defined by a conflict that is always awkward and sometimes cringe. On the one hand, our leaders are full of loud-mouthed passion, warning that the days of peace are over and that we now need to prepare for total, generational war. On the other, it’s beyond obvious that nobody cares. Across Europe and America, politicians now openly exhort their populations to feel righteous patriotism and to answer the call of duty, but all seem to accomplish exactly nothing: our militaries are shrinking due to a lack of recruits, polling shows a massive disinterest in fighting for King and Country, the young in particular remain completely unmoved. Even in embattled Ukraine, young men are choosing to dodge the draft and go clubbing instead.

Welcome fellow members of the internal proletariat! Anyone got a match?

Related … h/t Hermes

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

Original ‘Naked Gun’ Director David Zucker: ‘To make fun of the left, you really can’t do that in Hollywood’

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s another reboot from someone other than the original creators—though not for a lack of trying.

Even before the 30th anniversary of “Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult” last month, die-hards of the spoof genre’s trilogy have acknowledged its non-coincidental uptick in availability on cable and streaming of late.

Due for release on July 28, 2025, the fourth “Naked Gun” will see Liam Neeson play the lead character Frank Drebin Jr.; Seth MacFarlane of “Family Guy” fame as producer; and Akiva Schaffer from comedy trio The Lonely Island as director.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

The BBC has gone to war on our civilisation

There are many things that are remarkable about our civilisation. One of the more curious is that we have become the first civilisation in history that is taught to despise everything that is ours and venerate anything that is not. But there was a time, not very long ago, when a different approach was possible. Kenneth Clark’s magnificent 1969 series Civilisation is one example.

The subtitle of the series – note – was “a personal view”. And Clark, despite his extraordinary learning and erudition, was careful throughout to emphasise this point. It was not just a Western view or a European view, but his view. If that was meant to forestall the malevolent critics who have come along since, it has failed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBBC

Lower Income Canadians Face Highest Marginal Effective Tax Rates: Report

Canadian families with modest incomes face the highest marginal effective tax rates, with those earning between $30,000 and $60,000 hit hardest, according to a newly released report.

Marginal effective tax rate (METR) measures the personal income taxes paid both federally and provincially as well as the reductions in government benefits linked to income.

Households earning $30,000 to $60,000 face marginal effective tax rates near or above 50 per cent, said the report published by the Fraser Institute.

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

John Ivison: How Canada’s military-industrial complex made sure Ottawa bought its preferred fighter jet

In his 1961 farewell address, U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower warned about the potentially detrimental impact of the “military-industrial complex” on public policy.

“We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,” he said.

The spectre of shadowy defence contractors plotting with unhinged generals has been the stuff of conspiracies ever since.

The reality is less dramatic but still alarming in its disregard for due process and democratic guardrails.

Take the nearly two-decades-long process to purchase the F-35 fighter jet.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"RCAF", Canada

“… the sounds of bleating goats first alerted him to unusual activity in the garage.”

Makeshift slaughterhouse in a residential garage points to growing concerns about illicit meat sales

Inside a garage in an established Edmonton neighbourhood, animals were being slaughtered and the meat was advertised for sale to consumers, a CBC News investigation has learned.

Police entered the rented garage in the quiet residential Woodcroft community in February 2023. Images shared with CBC News show piles of goat carcasses, tubs of blood and the remains of a skinned baby goat on a makeshift slaughter table.

Neighbour John Bos told CBC News that the sounds of bleating goats first alerted him to unusual activity in the garage.

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