Author: Blazingcatfur

Poilievre works to ratchet up pressure on Liberals to pass farming carbon tax carve-out

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for a “massive pressure campaign” to push the governing Liberals to help pass a piece of legislation that would remove the carbon tax from fuels used in some agricultural activities.

“My message to Canadians is: Call your Liberal MP, tell them to get Justin Trudeau out of the way,” Poilievre said about the prime minister, during a news conference in Vancouver on Monday.

Poilievre was speaking in favour of a private member’s bill put forward by Conservative MP Ben Lobb. Bill C-234 passed the House of Commons in March, mostly supported by opposition parties. It’s now in the Senate, but procedural wrangling has delayed a vote on it until later this month.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada

How George Floyd Actually Died

An adrenaline-caused catecholamine crisis leading to bi-lateral heart failure seems the most likely cause.

As it happens, my office overlooks the main drag of Kansas City’s counterculture/ homeless hub. On one lonely day during the weird COVID spring of 2020, I heard screaming out on the street, not unusual here, but when it persisted, I went down to check it out.

What I saw wasn’t pretty. A white male Kansas City police officer was kneeling on the neck of a woman. My first thought? “Thank God she’s white.” The woman was large and rambunctious. Using just a well-applied knee, the officer managed to hold her in place for at least ten minutes until back-up arrived. The arriving cops slipped a Hannibal-the-Cannibal mask over her face. That wasn’t pretty either. Take-downs never are. I had considered recording the incident on my cellphone, but I chose not to. In retrospect, I should have.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in#BlackLivesMatter

Toddler among US hostages in Gaza – White House

The White House says that a three-year-old American whose parents were killed by Hamas is among the hostages in Gaza.

President Joe Biden raised the issue of hostages, including the toddler, with a call with Amir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani of Qatar on Sunday.

It comes as the White House says “urgent” efforts to free hostages taken after the 7 October attack by Hamas are continuing.

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

Inside the secret French camp where Ukrainians prepare for war

Chain-smoking Ukrainians tote French-made assault rifles as they hunker down in a newly conquered village to prepare for a counterattack.

But this isn’t a firefight in eastern Ukraine. Rather, it’s a mock village in rural France where the Ukrainian troops are being trained by the French military, who are acting the role of the enemy.

On a cold and sunny November day, the Ukrainians — both volunteers and draftees — are in the fourth and final week of training in a French military camp, part of a 48-hour exercise to put into practice what they’ve learned over the past month.

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

Hamas’s Useful Idiots in the U.S., Europe

The “pro-Palestinian” demonstrations that have taken place in the US and some European countries over the past few days are all about hating Israel and Jews, not about helping the Palestinians – especially those who have been living under the rule of the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip since 2007.

People who are really pro-Palestinian would be demonstrating for them to have leaders that do not siphon off billions in international aid, or who shoot at them when they try to flee to safety, or who do not store weapons and ammunition in and near their homes and schools.

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

Average Canadian rent price hits new high for sixth consecutive month: report

A new report says the average asking price for a rental unit in Canada reached $2,178 last month, a 9.9 per cent year-over-year increase and continuing a trend that has seen asking rents hit new highs for six months in a row.

The data released by Rentals.ca and Urbanation, which analyzes monthly listings from the former’s network, shows that while October’s annual rate of rent growth in Canada was down from the 11.1 per cent jump in September, it still marked the second fastest annual increase of the past seven months.

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

Canadian Forces dealing with perception lower ranks punished more for inappropriate social media activity: documents

The Canadian Forces is facing the perception it punishes the lower ranks for inappropriate activities on social media while allowing senior members in the same situation to escape any sanctions, according to military documents obtained by this newspaper.

The comments made by generals at a June 28, 2022 high-level meeting came following an article in this newspaper which reported on the social media comments about military sexual assault and, in particular, about the woman who had accused Lt. Gen. Trevor Cadieu of rape.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

Anti-Free Speech Google Spent Billions Hiding Feature from Users

Tech giant Google not only invests heavily in the suppression of free speech, it reportedly spends billions on preventing users from using other search engines.

As Google faces an ongoing antitrust lawsuit, The Washington Post reported on Nov. 8 that the tech giant spent a whopping $26.3 billion just in 2021 to induce phone/device companies, including Samsung and Apple, to bury a feature allowing users to change their default search engine.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGoogle, Google is Evil