Blazingcatfur – Page 24

Google and Apple rail against Carney government’s police powers bill

OTTAWA — Google and Apple are warning that the Carney government’s effort to make it easier for police and spies to intercept private communications risks opening up “backdoors” in their products that would hinder Canadians’ privacy and make their data vulnerable to malicious hackers.

Officials from the multibillionaire tech giants railed against the legislation that Ottawa has argued would modernize police and spy powers as they testified in front of a parliamentary committee Tuesday, claiming the proposed reforms are overly broad and pose a risk to encryption in a way that could undermine user trust and goes further than other Western countries.

Carney wants to shut down the internet like Iran.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2026May 26, 2026•0•"Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

India’s communists once ruled millions. What happened to them?

For the first time since 1957, India no longer has a single communist-led state government.

The defeat of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala this month, after a decade in power, marked the end – at least for now – of one of the world’s most enduring experiments in democratic communism.

At their peak, India’s communist parties ruled states stretching from West Bengal to Kerala and Tripura. They impacted the lives of more than 100 million people through trade unions, peasant organisations, student wings and disciplined cadre networks.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2026May 27, 2026•0•Communism, Communists, India

More Canadians will inherit their family home, entrenching inequality across generations

Shrinking families and tepid homebuilding is paving the way to a future where homes will increasingly be inherited assets in Canada, passed down from one generation to the next.

It would mark a major shift from family homes being bought and sold, entrenching inequality across generations, with a lucky few inheriting secure housing and appreciating land wealth while others are permanently locked out. Yet this issue remains absent from Canada’s housing policy discussions, even though it is one all of us should be concerned about.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2026May 26, 2026•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ebola moving faster than responders can contain it, warns WHO

Ebola is racing through the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo faster than health workers can respond, the World Health Organisation has warned, as suspected deaths passed 220.

“At the moment, the epidemic is outpacing us,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the UN agency, said before he arrived in the Congo to oversee the response.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2026May 27, 2026•0•"Mother Nature Hates You"

Food insecurity in Canada has hit ‘crisis’ level, millions of Canadians going hungry

Canadians continue to face an uncertain future as income fails to keep pace with food price increases.

New data released from Statistics Canada showed that 24% of Canadians were living in a food-insecure household last year.

In real numbers, the percentage works out to approximately 9.8 million people, including 2.4 million children, living in households that struggled to afford the food needed.

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by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2026May 27, 2026•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Iran will sign peace deal only if US releases $24bn of frozen assets

Iran will sign a peace agreement with the United States only if $24bn (£17.8bn) worth of frozen assets are released.

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Tehran’s chief negotiator, and Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister, delivered the ultimatum during meetings with Qatari officials in Doha.

They insisted that the Islamic Republic would not proceed with any agreement until half the frozen assets – worth $12bn – are transferred when the memorandum of understanding is announced, with the remainder released over the following 60 days.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2026May 26, 2026•0•"US Israel Iran War"

John Ivison: Carney knows from experience separatism can get very real if Alberta is mishandled

Mark Carney was asked Monday about his role in the forthcoming Alberta referendum campaign and the response was reassuring.

The prime minister wasn’t exactly Henry V at Agincourt on St. Crispin’s Day, rallying his outnumbered troops in a call to arms.

But he is a veteran of these campaigns from his time in the United Kingdom during the Brexit and Scottish independence referendums. He knows that when emotions run high, a positive appeal is needed to offset gloomy portents about the certain costs, and uncertain gains, of independence.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2026May 26, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canada negotiating to buy Saab’s GlobalEye airborne early warning aircraft

Canada has entered into negotiations with Saab to buy its GlobalEye airborne early warning aircraft, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Wednesday.

He revealed the plan at the opening of the annual arms trade show CANSEC in Ottawa.

“With a suite of advanced sensors and mission systems, Saab’s GlobalEye will be a key resource for the Canadian Armed Forces to detect and deter threats across the Arctic,” Carney told the audience of defence contractors and military officials.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2026May 27, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Foreign Gun Squads Rock Toronto Suburbs

BRAMPTON — Peel Regional Police have arrested 17 men tied to an international criminal network known as For Brothers, targeting what investigators describe as a coordinated campaign of intimidation, threats, and escalating violence aimed at South Asian business owners across Canada and the United States — in what police called one of the largest extortion cases the region has ever seen, and the latest enforcement strike against a crisis that The Bureau‘s investigations have traced to the wholesale exploitation of Canada’s immigration and international-education systems.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2026May 26, 2026•0•"Diversity Crime", "Diversity Fatigue", "Immigration from incompatible cultures"

Iran’s hardliners are sabotaging their own government’s peace talks

In Iran, trust is an invaluable currency. But it is in short supply.

For more than 100 days, the Islamic Republic – one of the world’s most militarised theocracies, a state built on the idea of unimpeachable authority – has been governed by a supreme leader no one has seen.

And now it is expected to do a deal with the United States.

But the system of government is fractured. Not everyone can be controlled, and hardliners within the parliament and military are doing their best to scupper any agreement.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2026May 26, 2026•0•"US Israel Iran War"

LILLEY: Refugee health program abuse is costing you, but Liberals ignore it

There are tens of thousands of people in Canada who are getting taxpayer-funded health benefits from a program for refugees despite having their refugee claim denied. That’s one of the big headlines from a new report by the Parliamentary Budget Officer.

Earlier this year, the PBO revealed that the cost of the Interim Federal Health Program, which covers refugee and asylum claimants, had risen from $60 million a year to close to $1 billion annually.

This is evil at work.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2026May 26, 2026•0•"Liberal Party Criminal Abuse Of Immigration Policy For Private & Political Gain", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Italian Police Arrest Man Planning to Carry Out Attack ‘For ISIS’

The arrest of a 22-year-old man in Italy suggests Europe’s terror threat extends well beyond that posed by Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Police in Reggio Emilia and Bologna on Monday arrested an Italian man of Moroccan origins, who judicial sources told reporters is accused of recruiting for the purpose of terrorism, including international terrorism.

Investigators discovered that the man had alleged motives to attack people with a knife. He had been in contact with a man believed to be a supporter of the ISIS Islamic terror group, who had offered training and funding.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2026May 26, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Ford urged to block federal gun grab plan in Ontario

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on Ontario Premier Doug Ford to go beyond joining a court challenge against Ottawa’s firearm ban and pass legislation blocking federal gun grab efforts in the province.

The taxpayer advocacy group praised Ford’s decision to intervene in a Supreme Court challenge against the Liberal government’s gun prohibition scheme but said Ontario should follow Alberta and Saskatchewan by formally preventing provincial participation in the program.

It will alienate his liberal base.