Author: Blazingcatfur

Quebec gets special deal on carbon tax

OTTAWA, ON: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is highlighting a fundamental unfairness in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax policy: Quebec is paying a lower carbon tax than the rest of Canada.

“The math is simple: Trudeau is forcing drivers in every other province and territory to pay 14 cents per litre of gas in carbon taxes, while Quebecers pay 10 cents per litre,” Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director, said. “The solution is also simple: Trudeau should scrap his carbon taxes and make life more affordable for all Canadians.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam, Quebec

‘This will get worse before it gets better.’ Office vacancy rate in Toronto hits highest level in nearly three decades

The perfect storm continues.

A new study by commercial real estate firm CBRE found that the vacancy rate for downtown Toronto office space hit 15.8 per cent in the second quarter of 2023, the highest it’s been since 1996. That’s up from just two per cent in March 2020, when the pandemic was declared.

The work-from-home trend that gathered momentum during the pandemic, fears of an economic slowdown and layoffs in the tech sector have been a triple whammy for office space, said Michael Case, managing director of CBRE’s downtown Toronto office.

Looks like Chowtown has an answer to the homeless crisis.

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

Xi to Putin: If You Use a Nuke, We Won’t Have Your Back

For a long while now, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made oddly optimistic comments about China playing some sort of useful role in bringing the Russian invasion of Ukraine to an end. For much of the war, the Chinese government has combined bland calls for peace with criticism of NATO supplying Ukraine with weapons, declaring, “the continued supply of heavy weapons to one side of the war is not conducive to the end of the war as soon as possible, it is adding fuel to the fire.” (Indeed, a rapid Russian conquest of Ukraine would end the war quickly, but it’s hard to blame the Ukrainians or the West for attempting to avert that outcome.)

Trust in Xi?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "Ukraine - Russia"

How elite schools like Stanford became fixated on the AI apocalypse

A billionaire-backed movement is recruiting college students to fight killer AI, which some see as the next Manhattan Project.

Paul Edwards, a Stanford University fellow who spent decades studying nuclear war and climate change, considers himself “an apocalypse guy.” So Edwards jumped at the chance in 2018 to help develop a freshman class on preventing human extinction.

Working with epidemiologist Steve Luby, a professor of medicine and infectious disease, the pair focused on three familiar threats to the species — global pandemics, extreme climate change and nuclear winter — along with a fourth, newer menace: advanced artificial intelligence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence", "Armageddon"

White Men Face Systemic Racism in the Workplace

‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ and ‘Environmental, Social, and Corporate governance’ are the real systemic racism backed by the system.

A recent survey revealed that 1 in 6 hiring managers had been told to avoid hiring members of a particular gender and race. Normally editorials and cable news hits would have been scheduled, politicians would have held hearings and the civil rights apparatus of every federal and state agency, including the Department of Labor, would have launched massive investigations.

But since the group being discriminated against were white men, civil rights professionals and the media gave each other a thumbs up and congratulated themselves on a job well done.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion"

No, asexuals are not oppressed

In today’s climate, many people like to claim that they are part of a marginalised group. This can offer a shortcut to deferential treatment, endless attention and even media opportunities. But how can you portray yourself as oppressed when you don’t really have much to gripe about? Adopting a trans identity could work. But transitioning seems like an awful lot of effort and commitment. And declaring yourself ‘nonbinary’ is a bit 2019.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak F*cked Up"

Queen’s would-be crossbow assassin ‘egged on by chatbot’

A former supermarket worker who broke into Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow and threatened to kill Queen Elizabeth was encouraged by an artificial intelligence bot to carry out the plot, a court heard.

Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, climbed over the castle walls with a rope ladder on Christmas Day 2021 and roamed the grounds for two hours before being apprehended at 8.30am close to the Queen’s apartment, where she and other members of the royal family were staying.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Six Nights of Riots: The Human and Material Costs

In six nights, the rioters have already caused over €1 billion worth of damage.

After a week of race riots the likes of which haven’t been seen in France for decades, the urban violence that engulfed more than 220 towns and cities across the country has exacted a colossal human and material cost, leaving thousands of cars, buses, and trams torched, hundreds of buildings destroyed, and hundreds of law enforcement officers injured.

In a report published on Monday, June 3rd, by the Ministry of the Interior that quantified the extent of the material damage and the number of arrests that occurred in the previous six nights, it was revealed that more than 5,600 vehicles were set ablaze, some 1,300 buildings were damaged or destroyed, and more than 3,300 arrests were made across the country. 

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

IRS Whistleblower Knocks Out Hunter Biden’s Lawyers And The Washington Post With One Blow

Hunter Biden’s high-priced attorneys again tried to turn the president’s son into a victim by portraying IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley as a partisan leaker and a criminal — but on Monday, Shapley responded. Shapley’s counter was a devasting blow to Hunter Biden’s legal strategy and also represented a shot across the bow of the Biden-friendly Washington Post.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Biden Family Sleaze"

Canadian special forces pilots warn they are being held back by inferior equipment and the obsolete Griffon helicopter

Pilots flying for Canada’s special forces say they are being held back by inferior equipment and operating a helicopter that is obsolete for today’s threats.

The grim assessment is contained in a series of reports produced last year for the senior leadership of the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM) and obtained by this newspaper through the Access to Information law.

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

Shocka! Canada’s ‘grocery rebate’ won’t ease rising use of food banks

Canadians who are eligible for the GST credit are expected to receive a one-time payment to help with the rising cost of groceries, but the head of a major food bank says it won’t address the deeper issues.

“We’re seeing unprecedented numbers,” Rachael Wilson, CEO of the Ottawa Food Bank, told CTV News Channel on Wednesday. “We’re seeing those numbers right across the country.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

House investigator warns UFOs are beyond control ‘in our military airspace’

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) believes unidentified flying objects need to be taken more seriously and that both Congress and the public have a right to know about them.

In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Burchett expressed concern that “we have something that we do not control in our military airspace.”

Sean M. Kirkpatrick, the director of the Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, testified before Congress in April. He told the Senate Armed Services Committee at the time that the DOD was tracking over 650 potential cases of unidentified aerial phenomena.

Beyond the Stigma; a UAP (UFO) Call to Action – with Top Gun Grad David Fravor

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"