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Canada is on the verge of destroying far more journalism jobs than it ever could have hoped to save.

Here’s a word of caution for policy-makers looking to help publishers retrieve some of their advertising revenue lost to web giants such as Google and Meta: Whatever you do, don’t look to Canada for inspiration.

Canada’s efforts to “defend democracy,” as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau put it, have turned out to be a counterproductive fiasco. The government hoped the Online News Act would salvage a struggling legacy news industry and become a model to be copied globally. But it is the most spectacular legislative failure in Canada’s living political memory.

Gee, soon the only media in Canada will be the CBC. How terrible for Justin!

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 9, 2023•0•"Big Tech Oligopoly", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, The Media

If Minnie Mouse Was A Cross-Dressing Groomer …

Disney goes full pervert.

I associate Disney with two things now, Corporate perversion and fight videos at their seedy theme parks.

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 10, 2023•0•Big Deviant, Hollywood

GREEN: No evidence to support wild claims of ‘global boiling’

Once again, we’re being told climate and weather patterns we normally associate with summer are the signs and portents of climate doom.

According to the Hill Times , the “planet is in a climate emergency.” Salon said we’re facing the “Hellhounds of summer” as the “hottest heatwave in human history just keeps getting worse.” July, said CTV , was probably the “hottest month in 120,000 years.” And of course, the CBC is at the vanguard, with daily warnings of heat-driven “climate-related disasters ” as we enter the “era of global boiling.”

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 9, 2023•0•Green-Scam

Seattle cop’s scathing ‘exit’ letter where she blames chief’s ‘failed leadership’ and ‘spineless’ mayor for turning city into ‘playground for anarchists and criminals’

A female Seattle cop has written a brutal exit letter upon retiring, where she blamed the police chief’s ‘failed leadership’ for letting criminals take over the city.

Lieutenant Jessica Taylor, who served in the Seattle Police Department for 23 years, handed in her notice – but instead of filling out a mandatory exit survey, she decided to write a long-winded letter addressed to the police chief.

In her own savage words, she told Chief Adrian Diaz why she made decision to retire in an ‘unfiltered, raw, and unapologetic’ 15-page rant.

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 9, 2023•0•"Progressive Paradise"

Ottawa police identify 15 suspects in storming of Senegalese Embassy

Ottawa police are asking for help identifying 15 people accused of storming the Embassy of Senegal.

In a statement, they say a protest was happening just before noon on Aug. 1 and that a group forced its way inside the embassy.

The Senegalese Embassy said in a statement that people violently took over the premises, causing serious damage to the consular section and hurting staff and visitors.

Wow! Soon we’ll be just like those sophisticated Euros!

Supporters of the Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko rioted outside the walls of the Senegalese embassy in Paris. Earlier, at the suggestion of France, the pro-Russian opposition leader was arrested. In Dakar, the capital of Senegal, his supporters began to take to… pic.twitter.com/qQY4CzeZiV

— pocalypsis pocalypseos (@apocalypseos) July 31, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 10, 2023•0•Canada, WTF?

Germany: Momentum Builds for Left-Wing Anti-Immigration Party

Five to ten MPs from the German Die Linke party have quietly pledged support for a left-wing, anti-mass immigration party rumoured to be formed by disgruntled former party leader Sahra Wagenknecht in a move that could split the German left down the middle.

A current MP for North Rhine-Westphalia, Wagenknecht has earned a reputation in German left-wing politics as a radical outsider with vocal opposition to Berlin’s generous asylum policies and its commitment to NATO in Ukraine. Wagenknecht left Die Linke acrimoniously in March, amid speculation that she was exploring the potential for a new left-wing migration-critical party.

Ms. Wagenknecht may be the establishment’s wish dream – The far-left challenge to Germany’s far-right AfD

Related – They Just Keep Coming: German Asylum Applications Up 80%

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 9, 2023•0•Camp Of The Saints, Germany

Killing Babies Part Of Quebec’s Core Values Says Habitant Lunatic

Religious group sues Quebec government for blocking event over abortion concerns

A Christian group announced Wednesday it is suing the Quebec government after the tourism minister cancelled a religious gathering last June at a publicly owned convention centre because she assumed the event would promote anti-abortion views.

British Columbia-based Harvest Ministries International filed a motion in Quebec Superior Court against Minister Caroline Proulx, the convention centre and Quebec’s attorney general.

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 9, 2023•0•WTF?

Most Canadians Still Couldn’t Buy A Home In Their City—It’s Not Even Close

Canadian housing is getting more affordable, but it’s still way out of reach for most. National Bank of Canada (NBF) released its Q2 2023 Housing Affordability Monitor (HAM) showing improvements in most markets. Despite rising financing costs, home prices fell enough to improve affordability. It was the third quarter to show affordability improvements, but it’s a long way from correcting 8 years of sharp erosion. Most of Canada’s households aren’t even close to being able to purchase a home at today’s prices.

More … Canada Lost 45K Construction Jobs In July — And Yes, That Spells Grim Things For Housing

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 9, 2023•0•Canada, WTF?

The feds bought a pipeline for $5B. How did the cost balloon to over $30B?

Construction on the Trans Mountain pipeline in 2022 cost almost $9 billion, almost double the estimate of $5.3 billion, a Global News analysis has discovered.

The expenditure for the Crown corporation expansion, found through a detailed reading of filings that included corporate plan summaries and projections, is one of several line items that reveal how a project purchased by Ottawa exceeded its original cost estimate by a factor of six, from $5.4 billion to $30.9 billion.

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 9, 2023•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

At least 36 killed on Maui as fires burn through Hawaii and thousands race to escape

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Thousands of Hawaii residents raced to escape homes on Maui as blazes swept across the island, destroying parts of a centuries-old town and killing at least 36 people in one of the deadliest U.S. wildfires in recent years.

The fire took the island by surprise, leaving behind burned-out cars on once busy streets and smoking piles of rubble where historic buildings had stood in Lahaina Town, which dates to the 1700s and has long been a favorite destination for tourists. Crews battled blazes in several places on the island Wednesday, and the flames forced some adults and children to flee into the ocean.

State of Emergency declared in #Hawaii, #wildfires trigger #mass #evacuations across the islands. #MAUI #HAWAI #WILDFIRE #LAHANIA #lahainafire #MauiFires #MauiWildfires #mauifire pic.twitter.com/71NYEY8ZiY

— Ekta Chaubey (@EktaChaubey10) August 10, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 10, 2023•0•"Mother Nature Hates You"

After Separating From His Wife, Trudeau Searches for a New Image

In 2005, Justin Trudeau, the son of a legendary Canadian prime minister, and Sophie Grégoire, a well-known television journalist, married inside a stone church in Montreal’s wealthy, French-speaking enclave of Outremont.

“I’m the luckiest woman in the world,’’ the bride said to a crowd of onlookers as she entered the church. Under a sunny sky, the couple drove away in a Mercedes roadster that belonged to Mr. Trudeau’s father, Pierre Trudeau, producing an iconic wedding photo.

Katie paid extra for this.

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 9, 2023•0•WTF?

Average price of a new car tops $66,000 as drivers wrestle with ‘a very surprising reality’

Brace yourself. The average price of a new vehicle hit a record high in Canada in June – $66,288 – up 21 per cent in one year and 47 per cent over four years, according to AutoTrader.ca’s price index report.

That, combined with higher lease and finance rates, has accelerated auto loan delinquencies, prompting one industry expert to predict that drivers will be forced to downgrade their cars and extend the terms of their loans or leases to keep their payments manageable.

That is insane.

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 9, 2023•0•Canada, WTF?

Biden Family Received Millions from Foreign Oligarchs Who Had Dinners with Then-VP Joe Biden

The Biden family and its business associates received millions of dollars from oligarchs in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine while Joe Biden was vice president, according to bank records obtained by the House Oversight Committee.

With the new payments included, the committee says it has now identified more than $20 million in payments from foreign sources to the Biden family and their business associates. Those foreign sources include not only the three aforementioned countries, but also China and Romania as well.

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 9, 2023•0•"Biden Family Sleaze"

Thomas Sowell: The real history of slavery in 14 videos

THOMAS Sowell was born in 1930 into extreme poverty in the Jim Crow South during the Great Depression. Growing up in Harlem as a black orphan, he dropped out of high school, didn’t earn a college degree until he was 28 and didn’t write his first book until he was 40. He served in the Marine Corps in the Korean War, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in economics, earned a Masters from Columbia and went on to become an internationally known economist, social theorist, philosopher, author and latterly Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 2002 he won the National Humanities Medal and the Francis Boyer award in 2017. In 2020, at the age of 90, Sowell published his 36th book, Charter Schools and Their Enemies.

Today, however, there are many colleges and universities who are openly opposed to letting Dr Sowell address their students.

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 9, 2023•0•Slavery and Reparations, Thomas Sowell

Family units are being targeted for destruction

I am a retired senior. My parents and I have lived through 47% of the time since 1776 when the country was founded, 54% including grandparents. At that time, the family was defined as a husband, wife, biological children, and extended family. Today many seniors had parents who experienced World Wars I and II, the Roaring ’20s, the Great Depression, and Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal.” Personally, I have memories of World War II and the Korean, Vietnam, and Iraq wars; civil and gay rights; and technology advancements. Together we have experienced 21 different presidents. Our family history is a cornerstone example of American citizenry, including Irish and German immigration. Families gained great wisdom and knowledge from life. They made a huge investment in their country, facing hardships and wars, and they kept the faith. Families have a history of uniting, and together they now realize our country is in serious trouble. A radical and corrupt government agenda has focused on changing the American family that we know and love.

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 9, 2023•0•Uncategorized