Author: Blazingcatfur

‘We’re So Sick of It.’ Northern Border Crisis Gets Worse.

Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal immigrants at the northern U.S. border have jumped from 916 in fiscal year 2021 to 10,021 in fiscal 2023.

HIGHGATE, Vt.—At dawn or dusk, Kristy Brow used to enjoy alone time walking in the woods on her 21-acre property in Highgate, Vermont, a small rural town near the U.S.–Canada border.

Lately, however, she’s cautious—she’s worried about potential encounters with illegal immigrants along the remote logging trail.

“I don’t go out by myself anymore—especially at night,” said Mrs. Brow, who runs a dog obedience business from her home.

“It’s unsettling. You can’t feel relaxed anymore,” she said. “You want to be safe in your own house and on your property.

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

Poilievre claps back ahead of carbon price hike: ‘Eby’s constituents can’t even afford baloney”

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has shot back at B.C. Premier David Eby’s comment that his plea to halt a federal carbon price increase is a “baloney factory” campaign tactic.

Poilievre told The Roy Green Show on Saturday that Eby’s “constituents can’t even afford to buy baloney after eight years of him, and the NDP and Liberal coalition.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Pierre Poilievre will undo some of Justin Trudeau’s legacy if he becomes prime minister. Here’s what he’d target

OTTAWA — Prime ministers always say they leave their political legacies to historians. But it’s their successors who largely write that history by deciding what parts of any governing agenda survive.

So what should we glean from the reflections about Brian Mulroney’s legacy? His successors left most of the former Progressive Conservative leader’s important accomplishments intact, even those they once adamantly opposed.

And what might it tell us about which parts of Justin Trudeau’s agenda will survive, or what lessons Pierre Poilievre has taken?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Conservative Party

NDP motion to recognize a Palestinian state tests Liberal caucus divisions over Israel-Hamas

OTTAWA — MPs are set to vote Monday on an NDP motion calling on the government to officially recognize a Palestinian state, testing deep splits in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal caucus over the Israel-Hamas war.

The motion also calls on the government to advocate for an end to what it calls the “decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories.” It calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all hostages, an arms embargo against Israel, unimpeded humanitarian access to Gaza and a lifting of the “arbitrary cap” on the government’s temporary resident visa applications from Gazans.

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

Bari Weiss: ‘History has come for Israel, it’s come for Ukraine and it will come for the West next’

It wasn’t easy pinning Bari Weiss down for a chat. Despite our fond regard for each other – we are both Jewesses of the same age, both keen on defending Israel in the media – the American journalist and editor was always frenetically busy, as her profile has gone stratospheric since we last met.

When we met in 2021, in a sweltering New York summer, she had half a million Twitter followers and a Substack newsletter (Common Sense) that was rapidly gathering readers and revenue. The previous year, she had resigned from her job as an op-ed editor and writer at the New York Times with a 1,500-word resignation letter that went viral. “Twitter is not on the masthead of the New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor,” she wrote, accusing the paper of a culture of bullying writers with slightly right-of-woke views.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

Who Says Our Economy Needs Two Million Migrants a Year?

Immigration without limits enriches some but also strains important parts of the economy.

Thurston Howell III went off on Gilligan now and then. In one episode the fictional tycoon got so mad he referred to the sailor as “probably not even a Republican.” That was when many pre-literate boomers got their first inkling of well-heeled northeasterners as stereotypical stalwarts of the GOP. Howell belonged to all the right clubs, knew the right people and graduated Harvard. A remake of Gilligan’s Island that fit in with modern times would switch Howell to the blue party and amp his rage up to eleven.

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

AI could have catastrophic consequences — is Canada ready?

Nations — Canada included — are running out of time to design and implement comprehensive safeguards on the development and deployment of advanced artificial intelligence systems, a leading AI safety company warned this week.

In a worst-case scenario, power-seeking superhuman AI systems could escape their creators’ control and pose an “extinction-level” threat to humanity, AI researchers wrote in a report commissioned by the U.S. Department of State entitled Defence in Depth: An Action Plan to Increase the Safety and Security of Advanced AI.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Making Lawyers Toxic in Their Communities

Making lawyers “toxic in their communities” is a tactic of The 65 Project. The group files ethics complaints against lawyers who represented clients raising challenges to the 2020 election, despite a substantial body of evidence that presidential election results have been frequently challenged throughout our nation’s history, including most recently by Democrats in 2000 and 2016. Indeed, the election of 1876 famously yielded multiple slates of electors from several southern states, and the dispute took months to resolve by a special commission created by Congress for the task.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

International student charged after alleged voyeurism involving cellphone at U of T residence

Toronto police say they have charged an international student after they received reports of voyeurism involving female students being filmed while they were in the shower at a University of Toronto residence.

In a news release on Saturday, police said the latest incident happened at the Wilson Hall Residence at New College on Willcocks Street near Spadina Avenue on Tuesday. Students alleged a cellphone was held over a shower curtain.

Police said while a female student was showering in an all-female washroom at the residence, she noticed a shadow over the shower curtain.

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

FIFA’s request for labour law exemptions for Toronto’s World Cup bid sparked concern

FIFA requested that employees working on the 2026 World Cup be exempt from certain labour laws as part of Toronto’s bid to co-host the tournament, a concession that raised the concerns of then-mayor John Tory, internal documents show.

Emails to and from city staff that the Star obtained through a freedom of information request confirm that FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, requested governments provide specific guarantees as part of Toronto’s application to hold the tournament.

What a rip off.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Former Mountie William Majcher, accused of being an agent for China, says he’s a ‘patriot not a traitor’

Former Mountie William Majcher has made a career out of deception and dancing on the edge of danger. As a young officer, he nearly died after being jumped from behind and smashed repeatedly in the head with a steel bar. After transitioning into undercover work, Majcher was planted in the same cell as an Air India terror suspect. He infiltrated the Medellin drug cartel and was warned he was on a hit list after a $100,000 bounty was put on his head.

His subterfuge maximized his easy-going demeanour and commerce degree from St. Mary’s University, allowing him to pose as a clean cut expert in money laundering. This work in the shadows came in handy when he was tasked to run the B.C. office of the RCMP’s financial crime unit before retiring in 2007.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Espionage, RCMP