Author: Blazingcatfur

Boring machine rescue nearly triples in price, according to new city report

The cost to rescue a multimillion-dollar boring machine trapped beneath a west end street has nearly tripled in just months, with city staff saying the work to unearth the device is more complicated than first anticipated.

The updated cost estimates and timeline come to Toronto’s General Government committee next week. Documents show work to free a micro-tunnelling boring machine trapped under Old Mill Drive since last spring has jumped to $25 million — up from the approximately $9 million price tag in March.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

I never thought I’d leave San Francisco, but the city feels broken. I’m glad I moved out and have no regrets.

I moved to San Francisco in 1984. My husband and I loved our city for many years, but we sold our home and moved 70 miles away to Healdsburg, California, in November 2021. We had been spending time there during the pandemic, going back and forth to the city, and it sealed the deal for us: We wanted to move permanently.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise"

‘We had no choice’: The inside story of how Doug Ford gave away billions of dollars to a Corporate welfare case in dodgy EV battery plant deal

‘We had no choice’: The inside story of how Doug Ford finally blinked and spent billions of dollars to save an EV battery plant in Ontario

Carlos Tavares, the canny top executive of auto giant Stellantis, says weeks of crisis talks to salvage a Windsor EV battery plant taught him one thing: Canada’s negotiators move way too slowly in a global green industrial race that’s accelerating at warp speed.

“It was difficult to get this agreement inked at the end of the day,” Tavares said in an exclusive interview with the Star from Portugal, “but it was rewarding.”

Rewarding, no question.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Green-Scam

Secret Meetings, Friction Over Ukraine’s Place in NATO Hint at New Phase of War

Joe’s “Depends” are leaking again.

Is the end in sight? With the shock of Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine long since replaced by Europe’s exhaustion with war, reports of secret talks between former American national security officials and Kremlin insiders hint at an impending hairpin turn in the conflict.

Separately, less than a week before a much-anticipated NATO summit at Vilnius, there is growing tension on the Continent over the prospect of Ukraine joining the military bloc. That too is an indication that a different dynamic is afoot, and one that spells the expiration if not of the war itself, then of certain expectations as to what the end of the ordeal might look like.

This is convenient, the Democrats don’t really want the Ukraine-Russia war hanging round old Joe’s neck during the next election.

And what’s Joe doing hyping EU Queen Ursula von der Leyen for NATO’s top Spot angering Great Britain?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", USA

Randall Denley: Ontario can’t handle Trudeau’s immigration influx

The news that Ontario’s population grew by just over 500,000 in the last 12 months is a bit alarming, given that the number is equal to Canada’s entire annual immigration target. Ontario’s total is about double its typical population growth.

Does a province desperately short of housing and health-care services really need another 500,000 people? It’s time politicians took a serious look at that question.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Uniparty of Canada"

Large objects seen on roof of Ukraine nuclear reactor increase fears of Russia attack

Five large objects have been photographed on the roof of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, increasing fears that Russia may be preparing to blow it up.

Satellite images of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, taken by San Francisco-based Planet Labs on 5th July, showed that packages had been placed on the roof of Reactor No. 4.

None of the objects can be identified but this week, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia was planning on blowing up the plant and then blaming it on Ukraine.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Jamie Sarkonak: Principal berated for ‘white supremacy’ sues TDSB over equity training

The problem with workplace diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) training is that it can involve the berating of staff so bad that it leads to worker’s compensation claims — and even lawsuits.

It’s a lesson that’s currently being learned by Toronto District School Board (TDSB). In April, principal Richard Bilkszto sued TDSB for its failure to defend him in an allegedly hostile DEI training session that took place in 2021, where it was insinuated that he was a white supremacist for defending Canada as a less-racist place than the United States. TDSB has since sued the company that gave the DEI training, the KOJO Institute, for negligence and for breaching contract — asking for damages in the amount it will need to pay Bilkszto if he wins.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Progressive Racists, TDSB Scandals, TDSB Toronto District School Board

Biden Weighs Giving Ukraine Weapons Banned by Many U.S. Allies

Biden is in charge of tapioca

For more than six months, President Biden and his aides have been wrestling with one of the most vexing questions in the war in Ukraine: whether to risk letting Ukrainian forces run out of the artillery rounds they desperately need to fight Russia, or agree to ship them cluster munitions — widely banned weapons known to cause grievous injury to civilians, especially children.

On Thursday, Mr. Biden appeared on the verge of providing the cluster munitions to Ukraine, a step that would sharply separate him from many of his closest allies, who have signed an international treaty banning the use, stockpiling or transfer of such weapons.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

‘Massively expensive’: Canadian Taxpayers Federation takes aim at $15B deal for Windsor battery plant

The $15-billion agreement to keep an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Windsor, Ont., is “massively expensive for taxpayers,” says the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

“These big corporations are getting buckets of cash courtesy of cost to taxpayers while the rest of us get tax hikes,” said Franco Terrazzano, federal director for the Ottawa-based federation.

“We have governments that are choosing to help multinational corporations over taxpayers.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Mohamad Hama who raped, tortured and murdered young woman on the orders of her father in ‘honour’ killing that shocked Britain is still too dangerous to be released and deported

A gang member behind the savage ‘honour’ killing of a young woman who rejected an arranged marriage, dramatised in a TV show starring Keeley Hawes, is still too dangerous to be released and deported, it’s been ruled.

Mohamad Hama, then 30, is serving life after being found guilty of murder as part of a gang of thugs who tortured, raped and strangled 20-year-old Banaz Mahmod, in January 2006.

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

Canadian Military Recruitment Fell by 35% in 2022: Document

Canada’s armed forces are ready for emergency pronoun deployment under battlefield conditions.

Military recruitment in the Canadian Armed Forces dropped by 35 percent in 2022, with only 5,242 volunteers signing up compared to 8,069 in 2021, according to a federal briefing note by the Department of National Defence.

“The Canadian Armed Forces serves Canada by defending our values, interests and sovereignty at home and abroad. However, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is experiencing a shortfall in personnel that has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic and Canada-wide labour shortages,” said the briefing note titled “Recruitment And Retention.”

Somebody needs to inform the brass that there’s only so many transvestites to go round.

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

TTC – The Better Way

Hop aboard the Chowtown Express.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", WTF?

Online influencer faked crimes to gain popularity, Gatineau police allege

Gatineau Police have arrested and charged a 27-year-old social media influencer from Quebec after he allegedly posted videos of fake crimes online in an effort to boost his following.

Police say Anthony Gagné was charged with attempted public mischief and appeared in court Wednesday.

According to police, an investigation began in May after they received a complaint that someone was driving around in a truck with “Free Candy” on it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Two Pakistani men are jailed for life in Greece for gang-raping a British 18-year-old on her sunbed after she went for a morning swim on holiday

Two Pakistani men have today been jailed for life in Greece for gang-raping a British 18-year-old woman on her sunbed after she went for a morning swim on holiday.

The two men, aged 27 and 24, raped the Briton, who has not been named, on a beach in Rethymno, a city on the north coast of Crete, in July 2022.

h/t kiki9

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