Author: Blazingcatfur

Towing industry at the root of many police corruption cases

When organized crime investigators announced the takedown of an auto-theft ring stealing luxury vehicles from Toronto Pearson Airport 25 years ago, one name stuck out on the list of accused.

For years, Toronto Police Constable Andrew Kostorowski had allegedly been doing illegal computer checks for a tow-truck driver and a body shop owner involved with a criminal syndicate. The group, police said, were selling stolen cars and deliberately damaging others to defraud insurance companies. Constable Kostorowski pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit breach of trust in October, 2002.

In the years since, police officers have faced remarkably similar allegations in cities across Canada and the United States: Baltimore. Boston. Buffalo. Chicago. Detroit. New York. Miami. Ottawa. Toronto again – and then, Toronto again.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

MAiD deaths predicted to surge to 100,000 by spring 2026 — How did we get here?

Canada will kill its 100,000th patient through its Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program, come spring 2026.

This estimated figure was popularized by Kelsi Sheren, a Canadian anti-MAiD podcaster, who shared the news in an article and on British rapper Zuby’s podcast.

The figures estimate a 4% increase in MAiD deaths in 2025 (statistics not yet released), with a similar projected estimate for 2026.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

As war rages in Iran, woke MoD asks troops: ‘Guys, do you want to wear make-up and nail polish?’

Little Green Army Men. Some In Bright Summer Dresses.

Army chiefs have been criticised for launching a review – just as the Iran war intensifies – into whether male soldiers can wear make-up.

While British personnel in Cyprus called for more protection and HMS Dragon was stuck in port, all serving soldiers were asked on Thursday whether they thought men could apply cosmetics and wear their hair like women.

They were surveyed on woke ‘gender-free’ changes which could see men wearing make-up with long hair or hair extensions, painted nails and earrings.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Toronto Synagogue Shootings Follow Suspected Iranian Regime Repression Killing in Canada

VANCOUVER/TORONTO — A wave of shootings targeting synagogues in Toronto has prompted heightened security measures across Canada, as investigators warn that the disappearance and suspected killing of an Iranian dissident in British Columbia may represent a case of transnational repression on Canadian soil.

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

Trump and the truth about Europe’s ‘betrayal’, Part 2

RATHER like a concerned friend staging an intervention with an alcoholic, the Trump administration has again and again tried to save Europe from itself, to tell a friend drunk on delusions that it is time to sober up. The short-term high of progressive virtue comes with a long-term hangover of economic ruin, international irrelevance, and total societal collapse. Nowhere is this more abundantly evident than in the welcoming of, and indulgent patronage fading into submissive terror towards, third world Muslim populations who refuse to integrate with Western culture and values.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union, USA

Britain needs a tsar focused on Islamism, not Islamophobia

According to a leaked draft copy of the Government’s new social cohesion strategy titled “Protecting What Matters”, the UK is to have a new “special representative” on matters of “anti-Muslim hostility” – essentially, an Islamophobia tsar. But will it ultimately do more harm than good?

The document states that the new anti-Muslim hate tsar will have the central responsibility of “tackling hostility and hatred directed at Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim”. The so-called special representative in this area will be expected to “engage with communities and stakeholders”, supporting cross-sector action to “strengthen understanding, reporting and response”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia"

Debate over a foreign spy service for Canada influenced by allies, money: study

The decades-long debate over whether Canada should create a CIA-style foreign spy agency has been coloured by pressure from allies, budgetary restraint and internal federal rivalries, a new study reveals

OTTAWA – The decades-long debate over whether Canada should create a CIA-style foreign spy agency has been coloured by pressure from allies, budgetary restraint and internal federal rivalries, a new study reveals

Much of the discussion about Canada’s foreign intelligence aspirations has taken place — fittingly perhaps, given the subject matter — in classified memos and behind closed doors in the halls of government.

“To spy, or not to spy,” a new paper by researcher and former Canadian intelligence analyst Alan Barnes, draws on recently released archival records to trace the history of official thinking on the question from 1945 to 2007.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Espionage

Women’s rights activists swear and jeer at protesters demonstrating against Iranian regime… which has brutally oppressed women for decades

This is the ironic moment women’s rights activists swore and jeered at demonstrators protesting the Iranian regime – a government notorious for decades of oppressing women.

Shocking footage from today’s central London protest shows a woman in Trafalgar Square shouting ‘f*** you’ at anti-Iranian regime protesters and flashing her middle finger while holding a sign that read ‘Women Against the Far-Right.’

Further clips show other activists raising placards and jeering at the demonstrators, with one woman giving a thumbs down while holding a sign that ironically read, ‘Tear Down the Sexist System.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War", Batshit Crazy Feminists, WTF?

Jonathan Milevsky: My synagogue was hit with a spray of bullets

It happened. Shots were fired Friday night at my synagogue, Shaarei Shomayim. To be honest, I have been expecting this. It is not as if this area, like every other Jewish neighbourhood, has not had an increased police presence for over two years. Indeed, I wonder if the increased presence of security personnel may have made this neighbourhood seem like more of a target.

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

A Pair of Terrorists Targeted an Anti-Islam Protest. You Won’t Believe How the Media Spun it.

A pair of apparent Islamic terrorists shouted “Allahu Akbar” after they lit and threw devices clad in black tape toward a group of Christians staging an anti-Islam protest outside of Muslim race-communist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mansion.

More … Devices hurled at Gracie Mansion protest determined to be highly dangerous IED capable of ‘serious injury or death’: NYPD

h/t Patti Jo

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

From Bush Sr to Trump: the risks, lessons and legacy of US interference in the Middle East

US marines help Iraqi civilians pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein

This is the third Gulf war and umpteenth outbreak of conflict since the United States took over as the dominant power and influence in the Middle East at the end of the cold war. And it is arguably the most dangerous, consequential and confused of them all.

The destruction and chaos spreading across the region confirms the Middle East’s status as the world’s pre-eminent crisis factory, but it also raises questions as to how US presidents so often declare they are ending US interference in the region, only to be lured back in.

Since the second world war the US has set out to oust a government in the Middle East on average once a decade, and on almost every occasion it has left the country, and the US, worse off as unexpected consequences eventually emerge. As Donald Trump embarks on yet another regime change – this time in Iran, a country of 90 million people – the sense of foreboding is profound. Already the timelines are extending, and the sense is growing by the day that Trump is gambling with the fate of a country about which he knows next to nothing.

It’s the Guardian but worth a look assuming you’ve had your rabies shot.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"