Author: Blazingcatfur

What has climate change got to do with the ECHR?

In Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v Switzerland – a case brought against the Swiss state by a group of elderly Swiss women – the ECHR has ruled that the Swiss government failed to implement ‘sufficient measures’ to combat climate change. According to the court’s judgement, there have been ‘critical gaps in the process of putting in place the relevant domestic regulatory framework, including a failure by the Swiss authorities to quantify, through a carbon budget or otherwise, national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limitations’. The ECHR has decided that Switzerland’s supposedly inadequate attempts to tackle climate change violate Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the ‘right to respect for private and family life’.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

Michel Maisonneuve: Rick Hillier is right to decry the death of the Canadian dream

While reading the news on Tuesday, Vimy Ridge Day, I saw a National Post opinion piece by my old friend Rick Hillier, our former chief of defence staff (CDS). He was decrying the death of the dream that was Canada, and it was hard not to agree with his sentiments.

Affordability (or the lack thereof), ideology politics, climate alarmism, higher taxes, mounting government debt, rising antisemitism, extreme immigration, leaders dividing us — the list of what ails our once-great nation goes on. I feel the same as Hillier, and got into real trouble for saying it during a November 2022 speech at the Canadian Museum of History.

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

York University’s ‘Toolkit on Teaching Palestine’ endangers campus’s Jewish community – opinion

Since October 7, there has been a proliferation of students vocalizing their views on the Hamas-Israel war. Most universities are no strangers to differing views; however, the already prominent friction between students has increased since the Palestinian Solidarity Working Group released its Toolkit on Teaching Palestine at York University. As a Canadian student based in Ontario, I am deeply concerned about the damage this “toolkit” could cause to the Jewish community both on and off campus.

h/t MP

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

Why are Indigenous people so overrepresented in Canadian prisons?

When the government repealed some mandatory minimum prison sentences, it was responding to the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in prisons. Why hasn’t it worked?

When the Liberal government repealed some mandatory minimum prison sentences in 2022, it billed those changes, in part, as a response to the overrepresentation of marginalized communities — including Indigenous people — in Canadian prisons.

However, experts say that hasn’t done anything to reduce the number of incarcerated Indigenous people, which grew under the previous Conservative government and has continued to rise during Justin Trudeau’s tenure as prime minister.

Instead, advocates say what’s needed is a focus on healing in Indigenous communities — both in and outside of the criminal justice system — that recognizes intergenerational impacts of trauma that Indigenous people continue to live with.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues

Terry Glavin: Trudeau just doesn’t think Chinese interference is anything to be angry about

There are two peculiar and paradoxical things about the disturbing revelations that have emerged over the past few days from Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s public inquiry into foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.

The first is that the most disturbing evidence entered into the record isn’t even really news. Pretty well all the bombshell revelations coming out of Justice Hogue’s commission hearings have been the subject of headline stories, one after the other, over the past five years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Don’t let climate activists stop you from traveling

A decade ago, when I first started contributing to the New York Times’s annual “52 Places to Go” list, the top user comments were about the destinations: Why was Calcutta chosen but not Chattanooga? This year, in a sign of the times, the most popular comments suggest that we should all just stay home to save the planet. The climate-obsessed among us are falling out of love with travel, particularly with the idea of exploring far-off places where your carbon footprint is greater. If their movement gains steam they won’t save the world, but they might well wreck the global economy and deprive themselves and others of much-needed perspectives and experiences that make the world a better place.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

UK Statistics Authority urged to review fabricated Gaza casualty figures

The UK Statistics Authority has been urged to review the Palestinian Casualty figures in the Gaza War after several analyses indicated that the figures have been fabricated.
UKLFI Charitable Trust (“UKLFI CT”) has written to Sir Robert Chote, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, inviting it to assess the quality of the Palestinian casualty statistics. These statistics are produced by the Hamas controlled Ministry of Health, and then circulated by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) as well as other UN bodies.

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

FBI chief Chris Wray to warn of ‘coordinated attack’ on US just weeks after Moscow concert hall horror

FBI Director Christopher Wray will warn lawmakers later Thursday that there is a growing fear among law enforcement officials of a “coordinated attack” inside the US — weeks after an ISIS assault on a concert hall in Moscow killed 145 people and wounded hundreds more.

“Our most immediate concern has been that individuals or small groups will draw twisted inspiration from the events in the Middle East to carry out attacks here at home,” Wray will tell a House Appropriations subcommittee.

I might trust the Jihadis more than Wray.

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

Defining Jihadism

Recently, the Daily Wire revealed that an internal newsletter from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence featured an article arguing for “changing terminology related to counterterrorism,” because “certain phrases to identify international terrorism… are hurtful to Muslim-Americans.” One of the supposedly “problematic phrases” is the term “jihadist.” An alternative suggestion given in the newsletter to denote jihadists is the word khawarij.

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

Budget 2024: A majority of Canadians think the Trudeau government is spending ‘too much,’ poll finds

The nation is days away from unveiling its federal budget for 2024, and a majority of Canadians are already upset.

As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his deputy and finance minister Chrystia Freeland wrap up their cross-country tour promoting facets of the budget ahead of the event, a new Angus Reid Institute poll finds the attitudes of Canadians have soured — including previous Liberal voters.

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