Author: Blazingcatfur

Bonnie Crombie promises no provincial carbon tax if her Liberals defeat Doug Ford’s Tories

Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie says there will be no provincial carbon tax if she topples Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives in the 2026 election.

“We will ensure major polluters pay, but we will not have an Ontario carbon tax on consumers,” Crombie said Monday as she announced a new panel to develop the party’s climate-change policies.

“Our climate action plan will … save families money. Let me be very clear, a carbon tax will not be part of my plan,” she said in a two-minute video filmed at Queen’s Park behind the legislature.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOntario - Your Future Is Elsewhere

‘Bewildering’ to omit meat-eating reduction from UN climate plan

 

The omission of meat-eating reduction from proposals in a UN roadmap to tackle the climate crisis and end hunger is “bewildering”, according to academic experts.

The group also criticised the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s report for “dismissing” the potential of alternative proteins, such as plant-based meat, to reduce the impact of livestock on the environment.

In a commentary published in the journal Nature Food, experts said the FAO’s failure to include a methodology on how the 120 actions it did support were chosen, or a list of authors, was “concerning and surprising”.

No it’s not bewildering at all. Fake meat sucks.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Vegans

‘Woke’ people more likely to be unhappy, anxious and depressed, new study suggests

Is ignorance bliss?

Psychological researchers in Finland have created an assessment to help measure an individual’s commitment to principles of social justice and made some surprising findings across the Finnish population — including a negative correlation between progressive ideals and levels of happiness.

Their findings, published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, suggest other Western nations may see similar patterns among their socially conscious citizens.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

Carjackings have more than doubled in Toronto so far this year: Police chief

Carjackings have more than doubled so far in 2024 while break and enters for the purpose of car theft have already exceeded the total number for all of last year, Toronto’s police chief says.

The numbers represent “an escalation of violence, threats and intimidation where weapons are being used to steal vehicles,” Chief Myron Demkiw said, addressing a meeting of the Toronto police board on Monday.

So far this year, the city’s seen 68 carjackings which is a 106 per cent increase compared to the same period last year, Demkiw said, while there have already been 34 break and entry offences for auto theft, up from 22 in all of 2023.

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

Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr resigns after EV push goes bust

Hertz, one of the four largest car rental companies in the world, is replacing its CEO after the company reversed its bet on electric vehicle (EV) rentals over increasing costs.

Stephen Scherr will step down as Hertz Global Holdings Inc.’s chief executive officer and member of the company’s Board of Directors effective March 31, the company announced Friday. Scherr led Hertz for just over two years after spending nearly three decades at Goldman Sachs.

Scherr’s resignation comes as the car rental company struggles with the higher repair costs and low demand for EV rentals.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

Is Danielle Smith winning?

Danielle Smith has been lambasted by critics for her policies on renewable energy and transgender youth, for promoting a dubious plan for a stand-alone Alberta pension, and for a broken income-tax cut promise. And yet, the Alberta Premier’s approval numbers haven’t budged in the 10 months since the last provincial election.

Given all the controversy surrounding her, is this a state of winning for Ms. Smith?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta

How Russia is using ‘ghost ships’ to get around sanctions

A few weeks ago, maritime analysts sitting at a desk in London spotted an anomaly with the tracking data used to identify vessels on the high seas.

Petersburg, an American government-owned tanker built in Bethlehem Steel in 1963, had shown up at Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, a major hub for exports which had come under attack from the Ukrainians. What the experts were seeing was impossible.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Police arrest two more teens after attack on autistic boy outside Windsor mall

Windsor police have arrested two more youths in connection to the assault on an autistic teen boy outside Devonshire Mall.

Officers with the problem-oriented policing unit arrested a 14-year-old Friday night, followed by the arrest of another 14-year-old Saturday morning.

A 16-year-old autistic teenage boy was attacked by a large group of youths at a bus stop outside Devonshire Mall March 9.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

IDF launches pre-planned op. in Gaza’s Shifa hospital, heavy clashes reported

The IDF’s reinvasion of Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza started around 2:30 a.m. early Monday morning and included a mix of IDF Division 162 regular infantry, armor, special forces, the Shin Bet, and IDF intelligence collection Unit 504.

Although the IDF said it achieved surprise on a group of terrorists who had returned to Shifa, it said it had both given a general warning to the medical staff there and had been following the return of terrorists for a long time.

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

An NDP motion puts a big question to the test: Will Canada recognize Palestinian statehood?

Will we get Happy or Sad Fafo?

An opposition day motion brought forward by the NDP’s foreign affairs critic Monday could set the cat among the pigeons in the federal Liberal caucus.

The non-binding motion calls on the government to take a number of actions in response to the war in the Middle East, including that it should “officially recognize the State of Palestine.”

The motion was sponsored by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh with the party’s foreign affairs critic, Heather McPherson, acting as the point person.

“We wrote this in a way that it’s not supposed to be a ‘gotcha’ motion,” she said.

It is Non-Binding giving Trudeau an out.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

UK: The Islamist threat is all too real

Responding to the Government’s new definition of extremism, the Muslim Association of Britain called the move “cynical… Orwellian” and an “erosion of civil liberties”.

The response was a case study in how Islamists use the language of liberalism to pursue illiberal objectives. For the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) is one of several organisations declared extremist by Michael Gove in Parliament last week. Previously, an expert government report called it “the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West