Author: Blazingcatfur

Feds won’t stand in the way of Alberta’s fall referendum, stress common immigration goals

OTTAWA — Federal officials say they won’t stand in the way of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s plan to put a number of constitutional and immigration-related questions to a referendum in the fall, and say they’re already taking meaningful steps to bring migration down to a sustainable level.

Gabriel Brunet, a spokesman for Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, said his office was aware of the nine referendum questions Smith put forward to Albertans in a televised address on Thursday evening and didn’t quarrel with her plan to seek input on these matters.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta

Driver armed with a flamethrower rams LADWP substation in possible ‘terrorism-related event’

No Name Terrorist

A driver armed with a flamethrower has rammed a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power substation in a possible “terrorism-related event.”

The rented silver Nissan Sentra crashed through a secured gate at the site in Boulder City, Nevada, before a gun went off on Thursday.

More … Las Vegas police investigate possible terror attack in Boulder City

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago

ChatGPT maker opted against informing authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June

Months before Jesse Van Rootselaar became the suspect in the mass shooting that devastated a rural town in British Columbia, Canada, OpenAI considered alerting law enforcement about her interactions with its ChatGPT chatbot, the company said.

While using ChatGPT last June, Van Rootselaar described scenarios involving gun violence over the course of several days, according to people familiar with the matter.

Her posts, flagged by an automated review system, alarmed employees at OpenAI. Internally, about a dozen staffers debated whether to take action on Van Rootselaar’s posts. Some employees interpreted Van Rootselaar’s writings as an indication of potential real-world violence, and urged leaders to alert Canadian law enforcement about her behavior, the people familiar with the matter said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting", Big Tranny

Biased Spies: CIA rescinds or revises 19 intelligence reports over political bias, bad tradecraft

In a dramatic repudiation, CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Friday rescinded or revised 19 intelligence reports the agency produced dating back to the Obama era because they were politically biased or used poor spy tradecraft, including one analysis suggesting that women who pursue traditional motherhood were at danger of becoming violent extremists.

A senior CIA official told Just The News the reports were initially flagged during a review by the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, then reviewed by career agency officials before being retracted, recalled or revised.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", CIA, WTF?

DND confirms budget for new Arctic vehicles could be as high as $1 billion

The upper range of the budget estimate for a new fleet of Arctic vehicles has jumped from $249 million to $1 billion in less than a year, the defence department has confirmed.

Defence industry representatives were told in April 2025 that the budget for the project to buy the 170 vehicles would be between $100 million and $249 million.

Who does their budgeting? This sounds like graft is built into the system.

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

Frankfurt Must Allow Protests Linked To Banned Mosque


Frankfurt must continue permitting twice-weekly protest prayers outside the closed Imam Ali Mosque after the Hessian Higher Administrative Court ruled that the gatherings are protected under Germany’s constitutional freedom of assembly.

The court held that the prayers—held every Thursday and Friday at noon in the Rödelheim district—amount to a “performative expression” of the message: “We want to use this mosque, but we are not allowed to.” Because the events serve a purpose of public communication, they qualify as assemblies under the Basic Law, even though they take the form of religious acts. The ruling means the city must tolerate related road closures and bus diversions through 2026.

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

Wild pigs, giant goldfish and bugs that won’t die: Invaders ‘absolutely everywhere’ in Canada

In the beginning, there were pigs. Domestic breeds, such as Duroc, Landrace and Yorkshire have been staples of the Prairie Provinces for more than a century, and while plenty escaped their resident farms over the years, few survived their first Saskatchewan winter.

Then came European wild boar, a species imported gleefully throughout the 1980s to diversify Canada’s livestock sector. For meat, and for “shoot farms,” boars materialized in most Canadian provinces, but especially in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. When these escaped their resident farms, the result was a slow-moving catastrophe.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Afghan migrant accused of murdering dog walker in Uxbridge triple stabbing ‘may never be fit to stand trial’

Safi Dawood Stabby Afghan

An Afghan man who allegedly stabbed three people including his landlord while facing eviction may never be fit enough to stand trial for murder, a court heard

Safi Dawood, 22, is accused of murdering council worker Wayne Broadhurst, who was out walking his dog at the time of the assault.

Dawood’s landlord, Shahzad Farrukh and a teenage boy were also hurt in the disturbance.

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

J.D. Tuccille: Trump’s trade war merely weakened

U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war against American consumers (and Canada and the rest of the world) isn’t over, but it just suffered a major setback. In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the law on which the president relied to unilaterally impose high tariffs without seeking congressional approval awards him no such authority. With two of the three justices Trump appointed to the high court joining the decision, it’s a decisive blow against the Trump administration’s neo-mercantilist trade policies and also against the growth of executive power, which has been stretched beyond constitutional bounds by presidents from both major political parties.

What does the U.S. court ruling on Trump’s tariffs mean for Canada?

U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to use alternative ways to carry out his economic agenda on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down his use of global tariffs, and experts say Canada will likely continue to experience trade uncertainty with its southern neighbour.

Trump used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to justify imposing sweeping tariffs on several countries, including Canada and Mexico. On Friday, the top U.S. court ruled 6-3 that this emergency powers act does not give the president the power to impose what Trump called “reciprocal” tariffs.

and this…

LILLEY: Trump’s court loss on tariffs doesn’t mean much for Canada

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Government considers removing Andrew from royal line of succession

The government is considering introducing legislation to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the line of royal succession, the BBC understands.

The move, which would prevent Mountbatten-Windsor from ever becoming King, would come after the police investigation has concluded.

The King’s brother remains eighth in line to the throne despite being stripped of his titles, including “prince”, last October amid pressure over his ties to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

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

8 Provinces Have No Requirement to Inform Patients of Expected and Recommended Surgery Wait Times: Report

Eight out of 10 provinces do not require health-care providers to inform patients about expected or maximum recommended wait times for surgery, a new report says, noting Canadians continue to face long wait times.

“Every year, thousands of patients die while waiting for treatment in Canada,” said the report, titled “All Provinces Need Greater Transparency Around Life-Saving Surgery,” published on Feb. 19 by think tank SecondStreet.org.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Healthcare Crisis", "Healthcare"

WTF?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?