Author: Blazingcatfur
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Conrad Black: Liberals taxing Canadians into oblivion
The Fraser Institute of Vancouver, one of the outstanding public policy think-tanks of North America, last week issued a summary entitled “24 facts for 2024 — Canadians should understand the impact of government policies,” and the message is sobering. I am much indebted to Fraser’s Niels Veldhuis and Peter Brown for most of the statistics in this column. Fraser starts with the distressing statement that while per capita income in Canada has effectively stagnated from 2016 to 2022, moving only three per cent from $54,154 to $55,863, the United States per capita income in the same time has risen more than four times as much, from $65,792 to $73,565. “The average Canadian now earns $17,700 less than the average American.” According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Canada will be the worst-performing advanced economy in the world from 2020 all the way to 2060.
Banning Hamas supporters from intimidating Jews on Avenue Rd. a bad thing says Star opinion piece
Toronto police banning protests on Avenue Road overpass will create a dangerous chill
Last Thursday, Police Chief Myron Demkiw announced a protest ban at the Avenue Road and Hwy. 401 overpass.
Only two days later, Demkiw made good on his promise as police arrested three people, including a community member from the neighbourhood. The local group organizing the walk notes that they were not carrying banners or signs, yet several police officers arrived to remove them from the overpass forcefully. On top of the arrests, an elderly Imam, along with three other people, had to seek hospital treatment, and one person reported a concussion, according to a statement released by Eglinton-Lawrence + Don Valley 4 Palestine.
Many Jews living in places like Toronto will never look at their city in the same way again
GOLDSTEIN: The Israel-Hamas war will end – the anti-Semitism won’t
Now that the evil of the world’s oldest form of hatred – anti-Semitism – has been on full display across Canada for months, what will happen when the latest war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza is over?
The answer is that regardless of when the conflicts ends – and as hard as it may be to imagine it will end – the heightened level of Jew hatred it generated in Canada isn’t going to go away.
Toronto is a step away from shithole status.
WTF?
According to this TikToker, the idea of someone having self control is a form of oppression pic.twitter.com/4rVa1ARPJz
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 18, 2024
Canada’s Churches Are Burning
Five days before Christmas, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the small Albertan village of Beiseker burned to the ground. With a population of less than 1,000, Beiseker seemed an unlikely place for an arsonist to strike—but it was the fourth prairie church to burn in December 2023 alone. On the night of December 7, St. Mary Abbots Anglican church and St. Aidan’s Church went up in flames in Barrhead, with the arsonist apparently waiting for fire crews to arrive at St. Aidan’s before torching the second church; St. Gabriel Catholic Mission burned down on December 15 in the hamlet of Janvier (population, 140). The RCMP claims that, thus far, there is no evidence of a “concerted effort” against churches.
Why isn’t Lenin as condemned as Hitler?
Around the corner from me is a barber’s shop decorated with black-and-white photographs of icons of the 20th century. James Dean is there with the usual cigarette hanging out of his mouth; Marilyn Monroe is perching on the edge of a pool table. A poster for the film Taxi Driver is alongside a photo of Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack — and also a photo of Lenin.
I guess the aim is to appear edgy, alternative and rebellious. But obviously there is no image of Hitler. That would be unacceptable: Hitler was a fascist who invaded countries and killed millions of people. It would be tasteless to display an image of him. But Lenin is apparently OK.
Secret Service Foreknowledge or Criminal Negligence? Damning New Evidence Surfaces In FBI’s January 6 “Pipe Bomb” Story
Over three years have passed since January 6, 2021, and the truth of what really happened that day has never been more relevant. For the regime, the stakes involved in selling the official narrative of January 6 as a uniquely horrific domestic terror event are higher than ever. Such are the stakes that Biden’s crypt-keepers presumably injected him with the strongest stuff they had to keep the President conscious and standing upright for the duration of his hour and a half-long speech marking the anniversary of the day “we almost lost America.” And it makes sense. The ludicrous notion of January 6 as an “insurrection” has long served as the key pretext for the accelerated political weaponization of the national security state against Trump and his supporters. More recently, the still more ludicrous theory of Trump’s culpability for this “insurrection” has become the sham legal basis behind the attempt to throw him in prison and remove him from the ballots—all in the name of democracy, of course.
Trudeau attacks Poilievre on national unity, media joins in
The Trudeau Liberals are now playing with Quebec nationalist sentiment to try and gain votes. There is literally no low that the Trudeau Liberals won’t sink to in order to try and win votes, including on issues of national unity.
Shocking survey reveals the reason elites are out of touch – and it isn’t why you think
” … A stunning 77% of elites and 89% of super elites support the “strict rationing of meat, gas, and electricity.”
Seventy-two percent and 81% would ban the use of gas-powered cars.
Fifty-five percent and 70% would prevent Americans from engaging in “non-essential” air travel.”
On Confronting the Iranian Regime
The Biden administration’s reluctance to robustly respond to the rogue Islamist regime of Iran apparently only reinforces the inclination of Iran’s political and military leadership to inflict more harm.
When US responses lack decisiveness, the Islamic Republic interprets this “restraint” as a failure of nerve on the part of the US and the international community. Such leniency, it seems, simply invigorates the regime to persist in disrupting regional and global stability, and escalate its assertive military maneuvers and support for terrorist activities.
US Travelers Fed Up With Preferential Treatment for Migrants
The busy holiday travel season brought with it significant unrest among US citizens forced to go through major airports. By this point, most of us have grown used to the long TSA lines and the rigid protocols that must be followed if we are to be allowed to board a plane.
A Look at the Chinese Research Groups Ottawa Calls a Threat
Canada unveiled a list of foreign universities and research institutions linked to military, national defence, and state security entities. Predominantly composed of entities based in China, these organizations are identified as presenting the highest risk to Canadian national security.
The F-16 at 50: Why it’s still in demand
The F-16 jet fighter took its first ever flight in 1974, but it is still as important an aircraft now as it was then.
Were it not for one test pilot’s quick thinking 50 years ago, the entire F-16 programme might never have made it past its first fateful flight.
When pilot Phil Oestricher climbed into the cockpit of the General Dynamics YF-16 prototype at Edwards Air Force Base in California on 20 January 1974, his mission was a relatively straightforward one – a high-speed taxi test where the aircraft would travel on the ground under the power of its own engine.