Author: Blazingcatfur

Ottawa Police Prosecutor Vanessa Stewart Likens Detective Helen Grus to Serial Rapist-Murderer Russell Williams

Every time we think that the internal hearing against Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus can’t get any wilder – Prosecutor Vanessa Stewart yells “HOLD MY BEER!” and once again proves us wrong.

Accompanying her outrageous courtroom behaviour with fashion statements and hi-heeled boots that rival anything seen on Ottawa’s Gladstone Strip, Prosecutor Stewart seems to have little sense of decorum and propriety. Every day she makes the hearing into a theatre of the absurd where the audience can’t even guess at her next act.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent", Canada

‘Freedom Convoy’ supporters and haters now have fresh ammunition

It is a perfect court decision for a polarizing issue — the 2022 convey protests — and for polarizing times.

If you believed that the convoy protest and occupation of Ottawa two years ago was a national emergency, you have had almost 12 months to feel vindicated by Justice Paul Rouleau’s commission finding that Justin Trudeau’s government was right to use extraordinary powers to shut down the demonstrations.

But if you believed the convoy protests were all about freedom of speech and massive overreach by Trudeau’s government, there is now a judge’s ruling for that, too: the Federal Court of Canada’s finding this week that the prime minister was wrong to invoke a national emergency.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

Unprecedented level of secrecy surrounds costs and work on $80B warship project

National Defence has brought in a new and unprecedented shroud of secrecy around a controversial warship project now estimated to cost taxpayers more than $80 billion.

After withholding documents for almost three years, the Department of National Defence has released nearly 1,700 pages of records that were supposed to outline specific costs and work done so far on the Canadian Surface Combatant program.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

John Ivison: Emergencies Act karma comes back to bite the Liberals

It is not surprising that judges often disagree after witnessing the same evidence. They are, after all, simply lawyers in robes.

Federal Court Justice Richard Moseley ruled on Tuesday that the Liberal government did not have reasonable grounds to use the Emergencies Act to clear Freedom Convoy protestors in 2022, and doing so was an unreasonable overreach that infringed Canadians’ Charter rights

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Calling for the genocide of Jews violates our codes of conduct, Canadian universities say to MPs

OTTAWA—More than two dozen of Canada’s top universities have made it clear to MPs: a call for the genocide of Jews violates their codes of conduct — no matter what.

Their assertions come in letters replying to a demand from five MPs in December that Canadian schools clarify their policies in the wake of a major controversy on the issue in the U.S.

There, the heads of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were lambasted in the U.S. Congress, and faced widespread public condemnation, for saying that whether a call for the genocide of Jews would violate campus policies depended on context.

From the river etc etc will still be chanted by the campus Hamas contingent.

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

The ICJ could go either way on genocide

International Court Of Justice – ICJ

Don’t dismiss a corrupt, down and out country. South Africa as an Iranian proxy can make bad mischief for Israel.

What kind of people are we that we have to justify ourselves before them? And who are they to demand it of us? What is the point of this whole comedy of putting an entire people on trial when the verdict is known in advance? How does it benefit us to participate voluntarily in this comedy, to brighten up these villainous and humiliating proceedings with our speeches for the defence? Our defence is useless and hopeless, our enemies will not believe it.”

No, this is not a voice mad at Israel for defending the claim of ‘Genocide’ at the ICJ on January 11, 2024. It is the voice of the early Zionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky appealing to hapless Russian Jewry in 1911.

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

Melanie, the singer-songwriter who shot to fame after Woodstock and sang the chart-topping hit Brand New Key, is dead at 76

The singer Melanie, who was best known for her massively popular singles Lay Down (Candles In The Rain), Brand New Key and the Rolling Stones cover Ruby Tuesday, has died.

The songwriter’s children Leilah, Jeordie and Beau-Jarred announced that she died on January 23 at the age of 76.

‘Dear ones,’ they began, using a greeting that their mother often favored when writing to fans, ‘This is the hardest post for us to write, and there are so many things we want to say, first, and there’s no easy way except to say it… Mom passed, peacefully, out of this world and into the next on January 23rd, 2024.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPassings

Douglas Todd: The ‘most diverse’ military regiment in Canada is in Vancouver

… Rohani is frustrated with the way the 97,000 members of Canada’s armed forces are often treated as a cultural punching bag, targets of endless criticism. And he is especially taken aback by a recent edition of The Canadian Military Journal, in which 13 essayists argue the country’s armed forces are thoroughly racist, colonialistic and sexist, and need to be remade from scratch.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion"

Germany cracks down on ‘pro-life’ protests

Family Minister Lisa Paus (Green Party) announced on January 24 a draft law to prevent demonstrators from approaching or harassing visitors within a 100-meter (320 ft) radius of abortion clinics and family planning centers. Posters or flyers aimed at intimidating women will also be banned. Anyone violating the ban could be punished with a fine of up to €5,000 ($5,445).

Paus said that it was important that women were able to receive good advice in such difficult situations without being confronted with “hatred and agitation.” “That’s why we are striking a balance between freedom of expression and the right of assembly,” Paus told German public broadcaster ZDF.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAbortion debate

A Hundred Days after Gaza’s October 7

Almost four months to the day, and not in a good way, the world has turned upside down.

In a risibly threadbare case, the victim of a depraved genocidal attack was accused at the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague of committing genocide. Lacking evidence of mens rea (criminal intention) that is prerequisite, or indeed any vestige of substantive evidence, South Africa sought to invert the object and purpose of the Genocide Convention of December 1948, which is specific to the “crime of crimes”. The accused is not just any victim, but the Jewish state, whose re-establishment in the May of the same year that the Convention was brought into effect was no coincidence.

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

CNN Prime-Time Ratings Lag Behind Hallmark, Channel Running Westerns

The Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post had some fun with the weekly ratings report, underlining just how badly CNN did in the last week. Despite the attention around the Iowa caucus, CNN came in 10th most-watched channel on cable, getting beat by Hallmark, The History Channel and INSP, a South Carolina-based channel founded in the late 1970s by the Christian televangelist Jim Bakker that now runs mostly Westerns.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

70 per cent of Canadians worried they won’t get quality medical attention: poll

OTTAWA – Most Canadians don’t think the quality of health care in their province is likely to improve, a new survey suggests, despite new federal health accords with several provinces designed to quell the health-care crisis unfolding across Canada.

The poll by Leger comes nearly a year after the federal government offered a $196-billion health accord to the provinces to increase health funding and address a growing shortage of health-care workers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

“… it’s too early to speculate on the shooter’s motive”

Man, 28, charged after shots fired, Molotov cocktail thrown in Edmonton City Hall

The man who allegedly fired a long gun and threw a Molotov cocktail inside Edmonton City Hall on Tuesday has been identified as Bezhani Sarvar, 28.

I’m getting hits on Hungary, Albania and India on his name.

h/t Mauser & SDMATT

Listen to his “manifesto” he sounds like a right wing Muslim in a war against woke.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Michael Higgins: How can Canadians trust Trudeau and Joly when they don’t trust you?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly claim to know Canadians, but what they don’t do is trust the very people they serve.

In the last two days, neither Trudeau nor Joly when asked about a specific issue or a matter of vitally important policy would give an honest answer.

They both think that expressing faux sympathy with Canadians is a better alternative.

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