Author: Blazingcatfur

850 people are still missing after Maui wildfires: Hawaii county mayor

Maui Mayor Richard Bissen said Monday 850 people are still missing as search and rescue efforts continue after devastating wildfires tore through the island earlier this month.

Bissen said there are currently 850 names on the list of missing persons, a decrease from over the more than 2,000 names that were initially reported missing. In a video update Monday morning, Bissen said over 1,285 people have been safely located.

“It is my sad duty to report that 114 individuals have been confirmed deceased,” Bissen said in a video update Monday morning. “Twenty-seven individuals have been identified and 11 families have been notified.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

Anthony Furey: Canadians Are Increasingly Having Trouble Paying the Bills

Recently, Canadians have taken to their social media feeds to post videos lamenting their inability to get ahead and even pay the bills. It’s heartbreaking stuff to watch. But we need to be aware of it because it reminds us of what really matters right now in our country.

“I don’t understand how I make $34 an hour and I can’t function,” says one woman, between tears. “I can’t pay my bills.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Ottawa Detective was singled out by police leadership for her opposition to Covid mandates

Ottawa Police Service (OPS) leadership singled out a detective because she opposed Covid mandates and was critical of the vaccine, and even forbid her from discussing Covid at work, according to evidence and testimony provided during Detective Helen Grus’ discreditable conduct tribunal, which recessed Friday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent", Canada

The Killer Worms Are Here!

This kid is toast.

Worms that secrete a dangerous paralyzing toxin spreading in Montreal

MONTREAL — An invasive worm species from Asia that secretes a dangerous, paralyzing toxin has been spotted in the Montreal area.

Lisa Osterland, a retired teacher, found some twenty hammerhead flatworms earlier this week while removing slugs that were eating flowers in her garden in Westmount, Que., a municipality on Montreal Island.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

King Charles does not want Prince Andrew to ‘come out of the freezer’, sources reveal amid fears from royal aides there are still ‘unexploded bombs’ over duke’s links to Epstein

King Charles does not want Prince Andrew to ‘come out of the freezer’, sources have said – amid fears from royal aides that there are still ‘unexploded bombs’ over his links to the Epstein scandal.

Royal sources are concerned the Duke of York is ‘more of a long-term problem’ than Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

It comes as plans to move Andrew out of the £30million Royal Lodge at the Windsor estate into Frogmore Cottage appear to have been shelved, sources claimed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

As Meta news block takes its toll, local media not unified on a path forward

Though Meta’s block of news availability on the social media giant’s platforms is already taking its toll on web traffic to news sites, local media outlets aren’t united on a path forward.

Just over two weeks ago, Meta — which owns Facebook and Instagram — began ending the availability of news on those sites in Canada in response to the passage of Bill C-18, the Online News Act, which takes effect by the end of this year.

Paul MacNeill of Island Press Limited, which publishes several weekly community papers in Prince Edward Island, and Jeff Elgie, whose company Village Media publishes around 21 community news websites in Ontario, both spoke on CBC’s The House, which aired Saturday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Nude ‘Tour de France’ banned for public indecency on several of its stages

Seven stages of the so-called “nude Tour de France” were banned for public indecency in restrictions which climate activists said was “state intimidation”.

The cyclists are taking part in the World Naked Bike Ride, an annual event launched in 2004 in London and which last year crossed the capital without raising eyebrows. However, since the tour kicked off in Nantes, western France, on Aug 8, local authorities have prohibited seven stages by decree.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Dogs flown in to search for unmarked graves in Cree territory

After George E. Pachano left residential school, he swore he would never return.

But decades later, the 62-year-old, who was forced to spend four years of his childhood at St. Philip’s Indian Residential School (Anglican) of Fort George Island, is now helping co-ordinate the search for unmarked graves in the Cree Nation of Chisasibi.

In July, Pachano was on site as two dogs — trained to sniff out historic human remains — and their handlers from the Ottawa Valley Search and Rescue Dog Association searched the grounds.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Liberal Party Anti-Christian Pogrom"

Ford CEO Admits ‘Reality Check’ When He Took Electric F-150 Truck on Road Trip

Ford CEO Jim Farley admitted he underwent a “reality check” when he tried to make a cross-country road trip in the Ford electric F-150.

“Charging has been pretty challenging,” Mr. Farley said in a video on X, formerly known as Twitter. “It was a really good reality check of the challenges of what our customers go through and the importance of fast charging and what we’re going to have to do to improve the charging experience.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

Cows for the Climate? Canada Breeds ‘Emission-Friendly’ Bovines

Canada’s dairy farms are set to go whole hog on specially-bred cows whose burps would emit less methane—a world first.

By using a rigorous process of genetic selection, Semex, the company providing semen from ‘low-methane-emitting’ bulls, claims emissions by Canada’s dairy industry could drop 20-30% by 2050.

Researchers from the University of Guelph and the University of Alberta examined methane-emission data from the Holstein Friesian breed of cattle on 6,000 farms— about 60% of all Canada’s dairy farms.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Trudeau vs. Poilievre: redefining the Family Man

 

Mrs. Doubtfire, a character immortalized by the late Robin Williams, once said, “There are all sorts of different families … But if there’s love, dear … those are the ties that bind, and you’ll have a family in your heart, forever.”

This sentiment, emanating from the 1993 film where a father dresses as a woman to remain connected to his children, deeply resonated. Since then, our societal perception of family has evolved.

Not sure but I think this article is testing the waters for Junior’s coming out.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?