Author: Blazingcatfur
As Ukrainians Grow More Weary, Giving up Land Becomes Less Unthinkable
European officials were dismissive when reports said in November that peace efforts led by the U.S. could see Ukraine giving up some of its territory to Russia. But now, polling suggests that a growing number of Ukrainians would themselves be willing to trade some land for peace.
The latest survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, conducted in late January, saw 40% of its 1,003 respondents say they were ready to “transfer the entire Donbas under Russian control in exchange for security guarantees.” (Although the report notes that “most” of these “admit that this is a difficult condition.”)
Authorities still dicking around about deporting Sikh trucker who killed 16 in Humboldt crash
…. A lawyer for the truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash says his client is one step closer to being deported to India.
Lawyer Michael Greene says Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has rejected a request for Jaskirat Singh Sidhu to stay in the country as a refugee.
No matter his lawyer is asking for a deferral while yet another refugee appeal slowly works its way through the courts.
h/t Auntie Polly
Carson Jerema: The EV mandate isn’t being scrapped, it’s being renamed
The electric vehicle mandate that would have forced 100 per cent of all new cars sold in Canada to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035 was a typical Trudeau-era policy. It had more to do with preening self-righteousness than anything else. It sacrificed economic growth for green fantasies and was extremely paternalistic. As with most climate-change policies, the objective seemed to be more about control than actually accomplishing anything.
WARMINGTON: Toronto Police want public’s trust while they once again investigate themselves
When it comes to public trust in Toronto Police going forward, the public is in a position where you are just going to have to trust them.
In theory, the buck stop may stop at the Chief’s office when seven of his officers, and one retired cop, are charged in a conspiracy to commit murder and corruption case that saw a house of a corrections officer shot up, allegedly thanks to information leaked to hitmen.
Why Are So Many Nurses Wishing Harm To Their Political Opponents?
Social media has been abuzz for more than a week over the cruelty on display by some disturbing nurses. Marvel at how brazen these “selfless care workers” are in suggesting that colleagues let agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement just die. You may especially enjoy nurse “Chadrick13again” who sounds exactly like the stereotyped gay guy from the cartoon Family Guy but more murderous…
Why won’t we believe Islamists when they tell us they are at war with the West?
TCW has pertinently commented on how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has restricted government funding for students studying in the UK citing ‘concerns over radicalisation and tensions linked to the Muslim Brotherhood’. You can read the articles here and here.
We note that several Muslim countries – particularly Egypt and Saudi Arabia as well as the UAE – have proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood, which they identify as a terrorist organisation. Meanwhile the Brotherhood is free to go about its business in the UK for, despite many demands from across the political spectrum that it should be banned, Sir Keir Starmer has refused and instead offered only the pseudo-reassurance that the Labour government is keeping the Brotherhood ‘under very close review’.
A New Era in Canada–China Relations, or an Arctic Bargain?
OTTAWA — Canada has only one thing that Chinese President Xi desperately needs that he hasn’t been able to get elsewhere: a path to Arctic nation status. China has only one thing Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney desperately needs that he can’t get elsewhere: a trade pact large enough to make credible his vow to pivot away from Canada’s dependence on the United States.
‘Antifa Kyle’ Arrested in Minneapolis on Federal Threat and Cyberstalking Charges
Justice Department and Homeland Security officers have arrested “Antifa Kyle,” the cross-dressing anti-ICE domestic terrorist who threatened to assault, kill and doxx officers in Minneapolis.
Kyle Wagner, 37, was arrested Thursday on federal threat and cyberstalking charges following the alleged murder and assault threats against ICE. Wagner is expected to make an initial appearance in federal court today.
The Betrayal of Britain’s Daughters
How fear of being called racist allowed the largest child-protection scandal in modern British history to flourish for decades
There are crimes so extreme that the mind instinctively rejects them, not because they are implausible, but because accepting them would require acknowledging a collapse of morality too large to comprehend. Child sexual abuse is one such crime.
Child sexual abuse does not arrive in a single form. It ranges from isolated abductions, to organised pornography networks, to violence carried out by parents or those entrusted with care. Every one of these crimes is horrific, and none should ever be minimised or ignored.
Richard Shimooka: A mixed F-35/Gripen fleet will fail us in every way
There are few policy areas in Canadian politics as tortured as the CF-18 replacement program, now entering its 16th year and undergoing its fifth evaluation — which is likely to once again recommend continuing with the purchase of F-35s.
Despite this, it was reported last week that “all the signs point to” the government pursuing a mixed fighter jet fleet, with half F-35s and half Saab Gripens. Yet the mixed fleet option comes with serious consequences that should give decision makers reason to pause.
The criminals behind a shocking rise in cat theft
Since 2023, the number of ‘catnappings’ in the UK has shot up. Now reports have emerged of mass-breeding programmes using abducted moggies
In October 2023, Agata Losa, a psychologist from south-east London, found that her Bengal cat, Betty, had been stolen. She had recently moved to the area when Betty went out into the back garden one day and disappeared.
“In the morning, she still wasn’t there and I started panicking,” says Losa, who, appropriately enough, lives in Catford. “For the three weeks she was missing, I went out looking for her, I put up hundreds of posters, I posted up to 10 times a day on local Facebook groups and the Nextdoor app. Despite doing everything I could, there was nothing.”
A neighbour advised her to keep an eye on Gumtree and other sites where pets are sold, and lo and behold, there was a “badly photoshopped” advert for Betty, with a list price of £900.
Israeli forces bulldoze Commonwealth cemetery in Gaza containing 23 Canadian war dead
An article from The Guardian has exposed satellite images and firsthand accounts of the destruction of a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemetery containing 23 Canadian soldiers.
The cemetery, located in the al-Tuffah district of Gaza City, contained graves of Canadian, British, Australian, and Indian servicemen who died in the First and Second World Wars, as well as those who died in UN peacekeeping service.
Satellite images show that the southernmost part of the cemetery, the section containing the Canadian graves, has been completely destroyed.
(Incognito)
Is The Singularity Here?
In 2005, Ray Kurzweil wrote The Singularity is Near, which I reviewed in the Wall Street Journal here. In 2024, Kurzweil followed up with The Singularity is Nearer. (The two books are available as a set.)
In 2005 I wrote:
The Singularity is a term coined by futurists to describe that point in time when technological progress has so transformed society that predictions made in the present day, already a hit-and-miss affair, are likely to be very, very wide of the mark. Much of Mr. Kurzweil’s book consists of a closely argued analysis suggesting that the Singularity is, well, near: poised to appear in a mere three or four decades.