Author: Blazingcatfur

Canada sending more equipment to Ukraine as full-scale war with Russia nears 2-year mark

Canada is contributing another $35 million worth of military equipment to Ukraine as the embattled Eastern European country’s allies meet to discuss its future needs, and as Russia’s full invasion edges toward the two-year mark.

Defence Minister Bill Blair, who participated in the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG) meeting via video link, said Canada is providing 10 Multirole Boats from Zodiac Hurricane Technologies, valued at approximately $20 million.

The rigid hull inflatable boats (RHIBs) are a favourite of Canadian Special Forces for commando operations. The Department of National Defence (DND) says they also can be used for search and rescue, troop and cargo transport, surveillance and reconnaissance.

Ukrainian first lady considers Hunka matter ‘resolved’

Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska believes Ukraine and Canada have put the Yaroslav Hunka affair behind them, she said in her first public comments on the matter since her visit to Canada last fall.

In a Canadian exclusive interview, Zelenska said it was unfortunate the vetting process allowed for a standing ovation in the House of Commons for Hunka — a Ukrainian Canadian who fought with a Nazi unit during the Second World War — during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit in September.

Russia says 74 dead, no survivors, in crash of plane carrying Ukrainian PoWs

A military transport plane that Russia said was carrying 74 people, including 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war to be swapped, crashed Wednesday in a border area near Ukraine.

All aboard were killed, according to Belgorod Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov.

It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the crash, which occurred around 11 a.m in Belgorod region. A special military commission was on the way to the crash site, the Russian Defence Ministry said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada

Illinois man is charged with murder of his three daughters and wife

This is the 63-year-old Illinois father who shot dead his wife and three daughters during ‘an argument’ at their home in Tinley Park on Sunday.

Maher Kassem has been charged with three counts of murder for killing wife Majeda and daughters Zahia and Halema, 25, and Hanan, 24.

Friends say the family were devout Muslims and Palestinian activists. Zahia, who also went by Zee, had recently visited Mecca.

Their mother Majeda devoted her life to ‘family and religion’, according to a fundraising site dedicated to completing a mosque in Mali in the family’s memory.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Honor Killings, Honor Violence, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Poilievre Says Full Investigation Needed Into Potential Remains at Residential Schools

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the federal government to provide the resources necessary for a “full investigation” into alleged graves at the sites of former residential schools.

Mr. Poilievre said a proper investigation is warranted after the site of a potential burial ground found nearly three years ago in British Columbia has yet to be excavated to confirm.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

Dog rehomed at last after nine years in shelter

Most rescue dogs spend only a few weeks in a rescue centre before they are adopted. But Humbug spent nearly a decade at Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary before finding his “for ever home”, becoming its longest-staying resident — and perhaps the longest of any sanctuary in the country.

The Akita cross was born at Bleakholt in Edenfield, Lancashire, in 2014 and was soon rehomed alongside his siblings. But Humbug was scared of strangers and returned at eight months old.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inA Little Good News

University and college leaders say limiting international student scam will create financial risks

A federal cap on study permits for international students will create financial risks for postsecondary schools in some parts of the country, which could lead to layoffs and program closings, and affect Canada’s reputation, according to university and college leaders.

Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced Monday that he’s imposing a two-year cap on international study permits that will cut the number of new permits issued by about 35 per cent this year. The number of international students in Canada grew rapidly in recent years to more than 800,00 in 2023, which Mr. Miller said put pressure on housing and health care.

More than a few universities should go under.

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

US, Australia and UK sanction Hamas-funders linked to Iran and China

Canada is also a “host” to Iranian threat networks former RCMP expert says

The U.S. Treasury, along with United Kingdom and Australian agencies, has slapped sanctions on Hamas-affiliated currency traders in Gaza with links to Chinese bank accounts and funds from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

In a press statement Monday, the U.S. government explained its financial strike on the terror-financing networks funding Hamas against Israel, and warned that banks in other nations found to be facilitating these networks could be subject to “enforcement action.”

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

Elon Musk Says Biden Administration ‘Actively Aiding Illegal Immigration’

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sharply criticized the Biden administration’s legal actions to force Arizona to dismantle a makeshift border wall and later to allow federal agents to remove Texas’s razor wire barrier, accusing the executive branch under President Joe Biden of “actively aiding illegal immigration.”

Mr. Musk made the remark in a message on X, commenting on a post by the End Wokeness account that pointed out that the Biden administration sued both Arizona and Texas over the states’ respective efforts to bolster the security of their border communities amid record waves of people crossing into the United States unlawfully.

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

A Chance for Legal Sanity on Homelessness

The Supreme Court may soon overturn Ninth Circuit rulings that have aggravated the crisis on the West Coast.

The Supreme Court recently agreed to hear the case of City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, dealing with whether the homeless have a constitutional right to camp on public property. As a result, the Court may soon overturn rulings by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that have greatly contributed to the West Coast’s homelessness crisis.

Six years ago, the Ninth Circuit first decided Martin v. City of Boise, ruling that, unless sufficient shelter beds were available, imposing criminal penalties on people for sleeping and camping in public violated the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. In 2022, the Ninth Circuit strengthened this precedent in the Grants Pass case, stating that even civil citations and citations for putting down bedding were forbidden.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Britain isn’t a free country

I’m old enough to remember when ‘it’s a free country’ was a phrase people used in conversation. It feels like it was the kind of thing they said regularly, either when someone asked permission to do something or when commenting on some particular eccentricity. Can I sit there? It’s a free country. You want to walk around dressed up as a pirate? Well, it’s a free country.

Perhaps it reflected a self-conscious British sense of themselves as freedom-loving people – which isn’t really true, or at least hasn’t been since 1914 – or maybe it was a Cold War thing. But I don’t think I’ve heard the phrase in at least 20 years, and perhaps that’s because it’s just not true anymore. If that sounds like the sort of hysteria you’d expect from a conservative commentator who’s been on the sherry, just consider a few recent cases.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFreedom, UK

‘MrBeast’ Normalizes Transgenderism

When Bruce Jenner announced to ABC’s Diane Sawyer that he identified as a woman in April 2015, it was a global tipping point for the transgender movement. Nearly 17 million people watched, and headlines, newscasts, and the internet exploded in its wake. Jenner, after all, is a member of the Kardashian clan, one of the wealthiest and most famous reality show families in the world. As one commentator observed, after Jenner’s interview, everyone knew a transgender person. The follow-up reality show I Am Cait, an LGBT activist noted, “put trans on the lips of everyone in the world.”

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

Islamists are wreaking havoc in British schools

Secular education is under concerted attack from hardline Muslim activists.

Maintaining authority in the classroom is difficult at the best of times. But it’s even harder when schools are being turned into sites of political conflict. In recent years, many of these conflicts have involved Islamist activists and Muslim parents who wish to impose their cultural and political ethos on the classroom. Their aim is to refashion schools in their own image. Those who stand in the way often court the risk of being accused of Islamophobia.

 Prior to Oct 7 much was made of the alliance between Muslims and Christians fighting to keep at bay the perverts embedded in our education system.

I hate to say I told you so, but I warned at the time to be careful what you wish for.

Maybe good will yet come of the alliance. Who knows.

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

Woman, 32, who fatally stabbed her date 100 times in weed-induced ‘psychotic break’ is sentenced to just 100 HOURS community service – as judge says she ‘had no control over her actions’

A California woman who stabbed a man she was dating 100 times and killed him, before turning the knife on herself and her dog, has been handed 100 hours of community service.

Bryn Spejcher, 32, was given the astonishingly low sentence following psychiatrists’ ruling that the tragedy was ‘100 percent’ caused by cannabis-induced psychosis, which she suffered after taking two hits of the victim’s bong.

The judge ruled that Spejcher ‘experienced a psychotic break from reality’ and ‘had no control over her actions’ when she killed Chad O’Melia, then 26, on Memorial Day weekend 2018.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMarijuana, WTF?

Deputy Prime Minister Freeland Says Ottawa Will Appeal Federal Judge’s Decision on Emergencies Act

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the Liberal government will be appealing the decision of a federal judge who found that the invocation of the Emergencies Act in response to the Freedom Convoy was “unreasonable.”

“We have discussed it with the prime minister, with cabinet colleagues, with senior federal government officials and experts,” she told reporters in Montreal on Jan. 23. “We respect very much Canada’s independent judiciary. However, we do not agree with this decision. And respectfully, we will be appealing it.”

WE respect our independent judiciary except for this one time. And that other time. Plus the other times.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Political Class