Author: Blazingcatfur

People losing it over videos showing how unlivable Toronto’s condos have become

A two-year-old condo building in Toronto is being slammed for its tiny, overpriced units with awkward floorplans that many are seeing as an indication of how dire the city’s housing market has become.

But wait there’s more!

Freeland touts ‘affordable’ development renting 330-square-foot units for $1,600

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", WTF?

Geoff Russ: Kim Campbell becomes darling of the Liberals after attacking Poilievre

Former prime minister Kim Campbell waded back into federal politics last week, slamming Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre as a “liar and a hate-monger,” without providing evidence to back up her assertion.

With their party badly trailing Poilievre’s Conservatives in the polls, Liberal MPs, staffers and partisans praised Campbell’s name-calling. This was not surprising as Campbell is part of a special group within Canadian politics.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Chuck Schumer’s Problem Is with Israel, Not Netanyahu

In a display of all the modesty of which he is capable during a Thursday speech, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer anointed himself the voice of “so many mainstream Jewish Americans” — a “silent majority” whose sentiments he alone could divine. After all, there are few better stewards of Jewish interests than Schumer, according to Schumer. “My last name is Schumer, which derives from the Hebrew word ‘shomer,’ or ‘guardian,’” he began. As he has in the past, Schumer assumed for himself the “responsibility as a ‘Shomer Yisrael’ — a guardian of the people of Israel.”

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

The Temporary Pier and the Question of Why

Since Oct. 7, 2023, external humanitarian aid has primarily had to enter the Gaza Strip via the land crossing at Rafah, which is run by Egypt.

Gen. Abdel Fatteh El-Sisi, the ruler of Egypt for the past decade, is as committed as Israel to the goal of keeping arms out of the hands of terrorists, so Israel trusts his government in Egypt to vet these shipments and ensure that armaments aren’t smuggled in among the convoys of food and beverages that cross every day.

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

The battle for the Hampstead ladies’ pond Another single-sex sanctuary has been opened up to men.

An unusual scene erupted in a school hall in Hampstead, north London earlier this month. Around 200 female volunteers from the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association (KLPA) met to discuss the fate of the women-only natural bathing pond on Hampstead Heath. The meeting was genteel at the start, as one might expect of a group of middle-class women discussing the affairs of a swimming pond. But it soon descended into a ferocious shouting match. The main question on the agenda was whether transwomen – aka men – should be let in.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

Transgender Activists Say Your Kids Have A ‘Right’ To Carve Up Their Bodies

If you pay attention to the transgender debate, it’s been obvious for a while now that the trans movement is interested in children. The specter of state lawmakers or even parents hindering or discouraging children from “transitioning” seems to haunt trans activists, who view recent political efforts to ban so-called “gender-affirming care” in some states as the worst sort of tyranny. Children, in their view, have a right to transition, and any obstacle placed in their way, even by parents, is a gross injustice crying out for redress.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"They really do want your children"

Elite Heaven or Real Hell on Earth?

What happens when ideology and dogma trump merit, logic, and safety.

The horrific murder of Laken Riley by a repeated felony offender and illegal alien Jose Ibarra, 26, a Venezuelan citizen, was preventable—had federal immigration laws simply been enforced by the Biden administration.

When called out in his recent State of the Union address, President Biden referenced the deceased Ms. Riley. But Biden misidentified her as “Lincoln Riley”—the USC football coach!

Biden only accurately noted that she “was killed by an “illegal.””

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak F*cked Up"

“Ceasefire Now”: The Left’s Outrage over Gaza Is an Old Trick

“What all Europe refers to as liberty is, perhaps, something rather pedantic, rather bourgeois in comparison to our need for order—that’s the point,” wrote Thomas Mann sometime between 1913 and 1924, when he was working on his great novel The Magic Mountain. Yet these words, written a century ago, seem to speak directly and meaningfully to everyone living in Europe today. There’s something particularly foul about the leftist voices that are speaking up in our times, especially since October 7th, 2023. The call for ‘Ceasefire Now!’ presents itself as eminently human, practical to the exclusion of all sophistry. ‘Just stop the killing,’ the slogan insists, ‘Don’t get complicated with subtle explanations’—even the not-so-complicated explanation that Israel is responding to the unprovoked massacre of its people. So deeply does the raw concern for human life run, apparently, that we need thousands of people taking over city spaces in order to illustrate its urgency. People’s daily routines need to be disrupted. ‘Wake up to reality!’ and ‘Remember the children!’ are the sorts of messages the world needs to hear, and ever more vividly and loudly as the weeks go by.

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

Riley Gaines and other female athletes sue NCAA over transgender policy

Athlete and women’s rights advocate Riley Gaines, alongside the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, filed a lawsuit against the NCAA, the University System of Georgia, and other entities on Thursday.

“It’s official!” Gaines announced on social media. “I’m suing the NCAA along with 15 other collegiate athletes who have lost out on titles, records, & roster spots to men posing as women.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

Trudeau government courts Hamas vote by slow-walking Israel’s request for permission to import armoured vehicles: sources

The federal government is deliberately slow-walking a request from Israel for permission to import Canadian-made armoured patrol vehicles, two sources tell Radio-Canada.

Shortly after the deadly Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas on Israeli citizens — which left about 1,200 people dead and some 250 others taken hostage — the Israeli government sent a request to the office of Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly for clearance to import about thirty armoured patrol vehicles from Ontario manufacturer Roshel.

Trudeau’s influence makes Joly even dumber.

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

British academic ‘deplatformed’ by Canadian government over gender stance

Professor Alice Sullivan and Gender Lunatic Justin Trudeau

A British academic has claimed she was deplatformed by the Canadian government over her views on transgender issues.

Alice Sullivan, a professor of sociology at University College London, was set to give an online talk to staff at the Canadian Department of Justice last week about the problems with prioritising self-described gender data over biological sex, which the Canadian government now does “by default”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", "They really do want your children", Big Deviant, Big Government, Big Tranny, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Still smug “Juno winner” makes stupid EV purchase

When a Leaf turns into a ‘brick’: Juno winner describes EV catastrophe

The owner of a Nissan Leaf electric car says his experience has been a cautionary tale for others who might make the leap to electric vehicles.

And though Brian Sanderson has paid 417 Nissan, the dealership that’s been servicing the car, almost $10,000, he said the bills aren’t even the most heartbreaking part of his experience.

“It’s cruel because I don’t want to be part of the ‘let’s slam electric vehicles’ crowd,” said Sanderson, a professional musician who, along with his instrumental chamber rock ensemble Esmerine, has won four Juno Awards.

I have no idea why the CBC thinks being a Juno winner has a bearing on this story.

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