Author: Blazingcatfur
Justin Trudeau isn’t the only target Pierre Poilievre has in his sights
OTTAWA—There’s a long-accepted wisdom in federal political circles: the best chance for the Conservatives to form government happens when the vote is split on the left.
It was New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton’s surge in 2011, after all, that handed the federal Conservatives their majority that year.
But Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre isn’t one for sticking with the orthodoxy.
WTF?
Whistleblower says kids on puberty blockers have worse mental health, become infertile, and boys end up with a micropenis and sexual dysfunction while girls vaginal canal atrophies. pic.twitter.com/zoRU0C5orc
— TroonyToons 💜🤍💛 (@troonytoons) August 27, 2023
The high odds of a Chinese black swan
No one believes Beijing’s autocrats can intervene, manipulate or lie on the scale required to shore up the entire tottering $20 trillion economic colossus
I have a memory picture of an urban highway in Shenzen, southern China. Recently built, with abundant flowering shrubs planted along its central reservation, it was lined as far as the eye could see by uncountable apartment towers, many of them unfinished. This was 2009 and it was my first glimpse of the debt-fueled property bonanza that had begun to grip the Chinese economy — alongside the export-led manufacturing boom that was also plainly visible, thanks to satellite maps of the vast agglomeration of factories surrounding the new-rich residential areas.
Evidence found of German mass execution by French Resistance after D-Day
Archaeologists have found evidence of a mass execution of German prisoners who were forced to dig their own graves and then shot by the French Resistance a few days after D-Day, during World War Two.
French and German teams discovered bullets and cartridges, as well as coins, at a remote site in central France identified by the last surviving witness.
After France surrendered to Hitler’s Germany in 1940, the underground Resistance movement gathered force over years of occupation and by June 1944 was poised to help the Allied invasion in Normandy.
Isabel Crook, 107, Dies; Her Life in China Spanned a Century of Change
A noted educator and anthropologist, she spent almost her entire life in China, where she was a committed friend of the Communist government.
Isabel Crook, a China-born daughter of Canadian missionaries who became one of her adopted country’s most celebrated foreign residents, beloved as an educator, anthropologist and articulate advocate for the Communist state, died on Sunday in Beijing. She was 107.
Her son Carl Crook said the cause of death, in a hospital, was pneumonia.
Biden’s Disastrous Withdrawal from Afghanistan Still Haunts the West
It is not just the beleaguered people of Afghanistan who are suffering as a result of US President Joe Biden’s catastrophic decision to arbitrarily end America’s military involvement in the country two years ago.
It is now abundantly clear that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch his brutal invasion of Ukraine was taken as a direct consequence of the weak leadership Biden displayed over his handling of the Afghan issue.
Haiti violence: gang guns down churchgoers protesting against criminals
At least seven people were killed in Haiti, a rights group said, after a powerful gang that controls a northern suburb of the capital, Port-au-Prince, opened fire with machine guns on a protest organised by a Christian church leader.
Hatian rights group CARDH director Gedeon Jean said the final number killed would probably be higher, adding that several people were wounded and some churchgoers had been kidnapped, after they marched through the community on Saturday trying to rid the area of gang members. Local media reported at least 10 participants were killed.
‘They’re just going to keep coming back’: What’s behind Toronto’s auto theft crisis
It was early spring when thieves targeted an upscale neighbourhood on Toronto’s east side, sliding a Lexus out of a family’s driveway. The vehicle was quickly recovered by police but with the electronics torn out, it was already a write-off.
The family had been through this before. In 2016, their Lexus RX and Porsche Panamera were stolen on the same night. Their then-teenage son had been babysitting next door at the time. “It took him years to recover,” says his father Thomas, who asked that his last name not be published for his family’s safety. “His sense of security was severely compromised.”
The Claimed Muslim ‘Right to Rape’
The 1-year anniversary of the September 16, 2022 arrest and murder of Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini by Iran’s so-called ‘morality police’ is coming up. Her killing, supposedly for allowing her hijab to slip from completely covering her hair (while inside her family’s personal vehicle), set off months of street protests against the Iranian regime. These protests focus especially on the complete lack of women’s rights under the Islamic Republic of Iran’s draconian sharia regime. Despite a brutal crackdown by the regime against the protesters, those demonstrations continue today, often under the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom”.
h/t Kiki9
JOLY OUTBREAK
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Canada’s foreign affairs minister Melanie Joly says she’s keeping an eye on US in case it becomes ‘authoritarian regime’ after 2024 election
… Just last year, newspaper Politico labelled Joly a ‘Trudeau protégé’ who might ‘one day have his job’.
It’s not he first time her statements have challenged political opposition within Canada and abroad.
In February 2022, she appeared to blame American conservatives for supporting truckers protesting against vaccine mandates during the Freedom Convoy.
H/T HO
Video from ‘Disturbed Visitors’ Shows Men Dressed in Drag Greeting Children at Disney ‘Princess Makeover‘ Boutique
It appears Disney is still assigning grown men dressed in skirts and dresses as greeters for children at its Disneyland Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique attraction, where little girls are treated to a “princess makeover.”
Disney has men dressed as women, wearing dresses greeting children at some of their attractions.
Received both of these this week from disturbed visitors. pic.twitter.com/c0NGDhRKh3
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 25, 2023
We are witness to the intentional sliming of a once beloved slice of Americana.
Who wants to destroy Disney like this?
Asylum claimants flooding shelters, social services in Ottawa … Doesn’t Justin have a couple spare rooms now?
OTTAWA – Femi Biobaku came to Canada more than a year ago fleeing persecution from the Nigerian authorities, forcing him to leave his wife, two children, community and job as an accountant back home.
He landed in Ottawa in July 2022 and stayed with a host family for nearly a month before moving into a dorm at the Ottawa Mission homeless shelter, where things took a turn for the worse.