Author: Blazingcatfur

Toronto Star Columnist Shree Paradkar Presents Hamas Propaganda As Fact

In her eighth column castigating Israel since October 7, Shree Paradkar is back. The Toronto Star columnist, who only recently interrupted her streak of non-stop anti-Israel articles with a single hiatus on another topic, has returned with a new commentary entitled: “Where are Canada’s leading health voices when it comes to Gaza?”

Published February 6, Paradkar’s column assailed the “silence” of Canadian medical organizations over the war in the Gaza Strip, calling on them to “push governments to demand justice,” namely by “pushing the government to at least demand a ceasefire.”

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

Most border agency criminal investigators lack basic training, audit says

Most criminal investigators tasked with hunting down crimes at Canada’s ports and borders in recent years have lacked basic training, says a newly released audit report from the Canada Border Services Agency.

The report, posted on the CBSA website late last week, lands just as border officials, politicians, police and industry representatives meet today in Ottawa to discuss plans to tackle the rising number of car thefts over the past two years. The border agency’s ability to catch stolen cars before they’re shipped overseas is expected to be one of the main topics of discussion.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

As auto theft summit begins, tougher penalties are on the table: Trudeau

With the number of stolen cars in Canada skyrocketing, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is considering stiffer penalties for auto theft.

It’s an idea Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre also proposed this week to crack down on what’s become a national epidemic.

Trudeau raised the possibility of harsher punishments during his opening remarks at the national summit on combatting on auto theft, which began Thursday in Ottawa.

I bet the LPC consider the export of stolen vehicles to be good for the environment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Liberal, Bloc, NDP MPs suspend ArriveCan hearings after reading ‘scary’ secret report

Liberal, Bloc Québécois and NDP MPs suddenly suspended parliamentary hearings related to ArriveCan and contracting misconduct allegations Wednesday after reading what one Liberal described as a “scary” secret preliminary report by a federal investigator.

They say any further hearings could put at risk investigations by the Canada Border Services Agency, which produced the report, and the RCMP.

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

Drag queen workshop for 11-year-olds ‘should be cancelled’, parents demand

A drag queen workshop for children as young as 11 in France has sparked a petition for its cancellation signed by more than 1,000 parents.

The class, designed to teach children how to dress, walk and perform like a drag artist, is being hosted by a children’s centre near Bordeaux.

The course is available for sign-ups from children between the ages of 11 and 17 in the city of Mérignac.

Drag Queens have no business in schools or around children in any setting for that matter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Big Groomer", "They really do want your children", WTF?

Supreme Court slammed by “anti-zionist” Black activists working with Michaëlle Jean Foundation after being ‘disinvited’ from presentation over posts on Israeli-Hamas conflict

OTTAWA—A group of Black anti-racism activists were dropped from a meeting at the Supreme Court of Canada because of concerns over their online posts about the Israel-Palestine conflict.

The researchers and advocates who were working with the Michaëlle Jean Foundation say they were “disinvited” from a Jan. 15 presentation about an anti-Black racism project after Chantal Carbonneau, the top court’s registrar, told the former governor general the court was concerned about pro-Palestinian “tweets, likes and comments” on their social media that had made law clerks feel “unsafe” and harmed their mental health.

My Fave Line – El Jones, a poet, activist and political science professor at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, and DeRico Symonds, director of justice strategy with the African Nova Scotian Justice Institute, also objected to what Jones described as “a granular level of surveillance”  by the court of their social media accounts.

The idiots were posting on twitter but it’s racist oppression to read their tweets?

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

Liberals at risk of big losses in Vancouver, Toronto, Nanos projections shows

The federal Conservatives continue to hold a commanding lead over the Liberals, who are at risk of losing large swaths of Metro Vancouver and the Greater Toronto Area they won in the last federal election, according to latest ballot numbers and seat projection data from Nanos Research(opens in a new tab).

If the election was held today, the Conservatives would get 40 per cent of the ballot support marking a 15-point lead over the Liberals, who are at 24.7 per cent ballot support.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Houthis sentence 13 to public execution on homosexuality charges

A court of the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen has sentenced 13 people to public execution on homosexuality charges, the French wire service AFP reported on Tuesday. Another 35 people have been detained for similar charges.

The ruling was made in Ibb, a Houthi-controlled province from which the jihadist group has been launching attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, opening a war that reached its four-month mark this week.

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Bell to cut 4.8K jobs, sell 45 radio stations in major shake-up

BCE Inc. is selling off 45 of its 103 regional radio stations as it cuts nine per cent of its workforce, including journalists and other workers at its Bell Media subsidiary.

The affected stations are in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada.

The company announced Thursday in an open letter signed by chief executive Mirko Bibic that 4,800 jobs “at all levels of the company” would be cut.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Swedes Protest State Broadcaster’s Liberal Propaganda

Demos in Sweden mirror Europe-wide sentiment: citizens are fed up with funding politically biased public broadcasters.

Outraged citizens in Sweden have vented their anger at the state broadcaster for being politically biased and misleading its viewers. In a protest held on Saturday, around a thousand people marched to the headquarters of the public broadcaster to express their dissatisfaction with the reporting of Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Radio (SR).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSweden