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Canada pushing ahead with tax on Big Tech opposed by U.S., Freeland says

Canada still plans to introduce a digital services tax in 2024 despite U.S. opposition, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said.

Freeland, speaking by phone from the Group of 20 finance ministers’ meeting in India, said Canada had already made a “significant concession” in 2020 by agreeing to delay its plan for the new tax.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2023July 19, 2023•0•"Big Tech Oligopoly", Canada, USA

Nolte: Desperate Disney Prepares to Sell Off Third of Company

Disgraced Disney CEO Bob Iger “put roughly a third of the company up for sale this week,” Bloomberg Business reports.

According to the report, the sale announcement was a subtle but unmistakable one. Iger made the announcement during his disastrous CNBC interview last week, where he was caught lying with the false claim that Disney is not sexualizing children.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2023July 18, 2023•0•Hollywood

Toronto’s rent crisis: Minimum wage would have to hit $40 an hour for workers to be able to afford to live here, report finds

Ontario’s minimum wage would have to rise to $40 an hour for Toronto workers to comfortably afford a two-bedroom apartment and still have money for food and utilities, according to a report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Nearly all Canadians putting in a 40-hour week at minimum wage are allocating more than 30 per cent of their monthly pre-tax income toward rent or mortgage costs — the marker of unaffordable housing — Tuesday’s report found.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2023July 18, 2023•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Just Stop Oil protester attacked by angry motorist in Earl’s Court

A motorist has been filmed appearing to assault a Just Stop Oil protester after they blocked a road in Earl’s Court on Wednesday morning.

A man was filmed pushing the protester, Daniel Knorr, 21, to the ground before seemingly kicking him on Earl’s Court Road.

Furious motorist punches and kicks eco activist blocking a road in Central London.

The incident comes amid daily road blocks from the Just Stop Oil group which has caused fury amongst motorists. pic.twitter.com/fHYR7G8CyI

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) July 19, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2023July 19, 2023•0•"Environmentalists"

How bout we just exile the Liberal Party instead?

‘I’m done with Canada’: High cost of living leads some to leave the country

With the Bank of Canada’s recent decision to raise its key interest rate, and the average price of a home rising year-over-year, many Canadians say they are struggling to afford housing. As a result, some have decided to relocate to countries where they will pay less for accommodation and other essential items.

One of those people is Roland Cameron from Hamilton, Ont. Cameron and his wife arrived in Barbados on July 10 and plan to live there permanently. The couple had considered living in other countries before settling on Barbados, where Cameron’s father’s side of the family lives. In search of a lower cost of living, the couple hopes to make the value of their dollar go further, Cameron said.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2023July 18, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada

Terror threat to rise as jailed Islamists are freed

Authorities shocked terrorist was named Mohammud

The terror threat from jailed Islamists being freed into the community is set to rise this year, a new Home Office strategy has warned.

Dozens of convicted terrorists are due to be released in 2023, posing a threat that could “last for decades,” according to the updated Contest counter-terrorism strategy published on Tuesday.

It warned that four of the nine declared terrorist attacks in the UK since 2018 were perpetrated by serving or recently released prisoners. As of March 2023, there were 232 people in jail for terrorism-connected offences but officials are braced for a surge in releases this year after a series of successful prosecutions a decade ago.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2023July 18, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK, WTF?

Carson Jerema: Trudeau only the latest PM who couldn’t care less about national defence

Canada isn’t back, but don’t worry, it was never here to begin with. A Wall Street Journal editorial that mocked Ottawa for being a NATO free rider by contributing only 1.38 per cent of GDP to defence spending was entertaining, suggesting as it did that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s view is that the “military is more of a social project than fighting force.” Some modest social media excitement notwithstanding, the editorial didn’t tell us much new, though it did highlight that the lofty way in which Canada views itself does not match how it is seen outside the country.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2023July 18, 2023•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada

Canada’s looming power problem is massive but not insurmountable: report

Canada must build more electricity generation in the next 25 years than it has over the last century in order to support a net-zero emissions economy by 2050, says a new report from the Public Policy Forum.

Reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and shifting to emissions-free electricity to propel our cars, heat our homes and run our factories will require doubling — possibly tripling — the amount of power we make now, the federal government estimates.

“Imagine every dam, turbine, nuclear plant and solar panel across Canada and then picture a couple more next to them,” said the report, which will be published Wednesday.

Pie in the sky thinking on display.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2023July 18, 2023•0•"Energy Matters"

Edward Luttwak: Biden and Putin are ready to do a deal

The strategist told UnHerd that the Ukraine war could end sooner than expected

US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are ready to do a deal, according to the historian, military strategist and advisor to the US government Edward Luttwak. The comments were made in a discussion this week with UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers, during which Luttwak argued that “a shift in the overall situation” has resulted in both leaders being more willing to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war.

Joe’s re-election campaign looms…

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2023July 18, 2023•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

The Left Again Beclowns Itself Over White Supremacy

White supremacy, according to Britannica, is a belief in the “natural superiority of lighter skinned or white human races over other racial groups.”

Going further, white supremacist groups “espouse ultranationalist, racist or fascist doctrines.”

By that logic, Al Sharpton, must be a black supremacist for his racist comments including, “White folks was in the caves while we (blacks) was building empires.” Or this antisemitic gem, “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2023July 18, 2023•0•Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists

Britain must do much more to tackle ‘anti-blasphemy’ Islamist zealots

Is blasphemy a national security threat to the UK?

The Henry Jackson Society (HJS) think so. Their soon to be published report, trailed by the Telegraph yesterday, found that Muslim anti-blasphemy preachers imported from Pakistan and Bangladesh had accelerated and toxified the response to perceived insults against Islam. Pakistan’s existing blasphemy laws, made even harsher this year, make insulting the Prophet Muhammed or any of his family in effect a capital crime, often without the necessity of a trial because those accused are abducted and murdered by lynch mobs before the justice system gets anywhere near them.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2023July 18, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Woke at the Pentagon

If denials were spuds, the brass on the E Ring could be making potato chips instead of politically correct airmen, sailors, and soldiers.

The Department of Defense and the military branches are now taking fire from all quarters for straying into the political and cultural mine fields now so much a part of the national conversation. Neither Congress, nor the Press, nor the public are taking DOD denials seriously. Abject skepticism is justified if you look at the history of Defense sponsored research on controversial social memes; fads that pander to, if not proselytize for, the progressive political left.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2023July 18, 2023•0•"Peak Woke"

A Current War Collides With the Past: How World War II Endures in Ukraine

World War II has been an ideological battlefield in today’s war in Ukraine, and it is cropping up on the actual battlefield as well.

Clambering over boulders, past old tires and shellfish-encrusted scrap metal, Oleksandr Shkalikov ventured onto the dry bed of a vast reservoir.

Out in this wasteland rested a haunting reminder of long-ago battles on this same swath of southern Ukraine: a swastika, chipped into a rock, had emerged from the receding water. The year “1942’’ was written next to it.

“History is repeating itself,” Mr. Shkalikov, a tank driver on leave from the Ukrainian army, said of the World War II-era carving. He noted the timing: The Swastika had become visible because of more recent act of war, the explosion at the Kakhovka dam in June that drained a reservoir the size of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

#Ukraine: A Russian 2S4 Tyulpan 240mm self-propelled mortar was destroyed by Ukrainian forces in Verkhnokamyanka, #Luhansk Oblast- including with multiple FPV loitering munitions. pic.twitter.com/svPwMihGfF

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) July 17, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2023July 18, 2023•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Portland Has an Apparent Serial Killer. His Accomplice May Be the Governor

Portland, Oregon, appears to have a serial killer on its hands, and the murderer’s biggest accomplice may be the governor who let him out of prison early.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2023July 18, 2023•0•Crime, WTF?