Author: Blazingcatfur

Michael Higgins: Carney wants ‘justice’ for the world, but what about for Canadians?

It is always a little worrying when politicians wrap themselves in the flag. Patriotism is such an easy emotion to arouse that the public, with banners flying, almost always rally to the “cause” — whatever the cause is.

So it was Thursday, when Prime Minister Mark Carney, fresh from his triumph at Davos, made a speech in Quebec that declared Canada the greatest country on earth.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

FAFO: Anti-ICE Crazies Show Up at Biker Bars, Reportedly Get the Worst of It

Blue Lives Matter says that it has been decoying anti-ICE domestic terrorists with false tips and fake operations. But last night, when groups of crazed leftists stormed multiple biker bars, they reportedly found out not all bar patrons find disruptive woke activism amusing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Canadian gov’t ordered to release files on residential school mass graves

Canada’s Ministry of Indigenous Relations was reprimanded for breaching an Act of Parliament for sealing records on the yet unproven residential school grave claims and has now been ordered to release records.

Recently, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty was mandated to release files it has pertaining to the 2021 claims by the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation, who said it found graves of 215 children at a former residential school. It has thus far tried to seal “confidential information” records it has on the matter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue"

Muslim nonprofit fundraiser that raked in $265K from taxpayers features trinkets promoting Hamas, other terror groups

This is some radical swag.

A Muslim nonprofit that’s raked in over $260,000 in taxpayer dough and has ties to Mayor Zohran Mamdani hosted a pop-up fundraiser featuring a twisted array of trinkets promoting Hamas and other US-designated terror groups.

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

Stuck between the US and Russia, Canada must prove it can defend its Arctic territory

Canada’s Arctic is a massive, treacherous, and largely inhospitable place, stretched out over nearly 4 million square kilometres of territory – but with a small population roughly equal to Blackburn in England or Syracuse, New York.

“You can take a map of continental Europe, put it on the Canadian Arctic, and there’s room to spare,” Pierre Leblanc, the former commander of the Canadian Forces Northern Area told the BBC. “And that environment is extremely dangerous.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Greenland, USA

Shots fired after federal police in Minneapolis struggle to subdue man brandishing gun amid protests, video shows


Shots rang out in Minneapolis early Saturday after federal police tried to subdue a man who was waving around a gun, according to law enforcement sources and video posted to social media.

A 39-second clip showed about half a dozen cops struggling with someone on the sidewalk in front of a donut shop at 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue, when the gunfire erupted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Camp Of The Saints, USA

U.S. Automakers’ Foreign Troubles Now Extend to Canada

U.S. trade policy has devastated the Canadian auto industry and pushed the country to reach an agreement that will make it easier for Chinese companies to sell cars there.

Canada’s decision this month to give Chinese carmakers a toehold in the country’s car market may be an ominous development for U.S. automakers that are already struggling to stay relevant outside North America.

General Motors and Ford Motor — the two largest U.S.-based car manufacturers — have been steadily losing customers in Asia, Europe and Latin America, as Chinese carmakers have gained ground. Now Canada plans to lower tariffs on a limited number of Chinese-made vehicles, potentially giving companies like BYD, SAIC or Geely a small but significant presence on the United States’ northern border after already building a thriving business in Mexico and much of Latin America.

If they lose significant ground to Chinese companies in Canada, Mexico and other countries where they once dominated, Ford and G.M. could gradually become niche manufacturers, said Erik Gordon, a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. They will end up primarily making and selling large pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles favored by many Americans but that tend to sell less well in much of the rest of the world.

Hey Grok! What is the average tariff faced by US automakers in Asian nation markets?

From available data on applied import duties for passenger automobiles (primarily from sources like World Population Review’s 2026 country rankings, WTO profiles context, and industry reports):

  • Japan: 0%
  • South Korea: ~10%
  • China: ~25%
  • India: ~125% (high-end or standard; recent reductions to ~70% for some categories)
  • Indonesia: ~40%
  • Malaysia: ~30%
  • Philippines: ~30%
  • Thailand: ~80%
  • Vietnam: ~70%

UPDATE:

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

America should withdraw from NATO immediately

Trump’s “Board of Peace” might sound ridiculous, and perhaps it is. But it’s no more ridiculous than claiming NATO is a board of peace.

That phrase now circulates in respectable company, with a straight face, as though repetition alone could make it true. It cannot. NATO was not born as a peace club, but as a military alliance with a narrow defensive purpose — specifically, to prevent the Soviet Union from rolling tanks across Western Europe.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNATO, USA

8,500 notices issued to federal workers this week, including Global Affairs

Approximately 8,500 federal public servants received notices this week their jobs may be risk as part of the federal government’s move to cut 28,000 jobs from the federal public service over the next four years.

At least 12 federal departments notified employees about plans for the comprehensive expenditure review, including to approximately 2,000 employees at Health Canada and 2,300 at Global Affairs Canada receiving notices.

The Canada Strong Budget 2025 outlined a plan to cut another 28,000 positions from the federal public service over the next four years and find $60 billion in savings.

How many will be hired back after a short layoff either as regular employees or consultants?

Hey Grok! How many federal government public servants were hired during Justin Trudeau’s tenure as Prime Minister of Canada?

Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister of Canada in November 2015, following the federal election in October 2015. The standard measure for the size of the federal public service (often referred to as federal public servants or the core federal public administration plus separate agencies) comes from official Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat data, which reports annual snapshots as of March 31 each year.This data shows the population of the federal public service (employees governed under the Financial Administration Act Schedules I, IV, and V):March 31, 2015 (pre-Trudeau, end of Harper era): 257,034

March 31, 2024 (peak during Trudeau’s tenure): 367,772

This represents a net increase of 110,738 employees (367,772 – 257,034) over the period from just before his tenure began through to the 2024 peak.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

China no longer Pentagon’s top security priority

China is no longer the top security priority for the US, according to the Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy.

The document, published once every four years, instead says that the security of the US homeland and Western Hemisphere is the department’s chief concern, adding that Washington has long neglected the “concrete interests” of Americans.

The Pentagon also says it will offer “more limited” support to US allies.

It follows the publication last year of the US National Security Strategy, which said that Europe faced “civilizational collapse” and did not cast Russia as a threat to the US. At the time, Moscow said the document was “largely consistent” with its vision.

Not great news for Europe. For that matter it looks like the free ride is over for everyone.

Given Canada is a virtual ChiCom colony maybe we can expect an invasion.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Thousand-strong mob of thirsty camels storms outback town

In a tiny dot on the map of Australia’s vast northern deserts a mob is rampaging. Fences have been flattened, pipes unearthed, taps torn from walls and toilet cisterns demolished. It is so hot even the camels have the hump.

The mob mostly strikes Mount Liebig, about 200 miles west of Alice Springs, at night. Northern Territory officials say they have travelled hundreds of miles to lay siege to the isolated town. The group of 1,000 camels, parched even by a camel’s standards, has wandered in search of water. Even air conditioners are a target as searing temperatures show little sign of letting up across the country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Maduro 2.0: What happens if the US removes Iran’s Ayatollah?

Donald Trump is sending an “armada” to the Middle East. The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and its strike group are due to arrive in the Arabian Sea in the coming days. American fighter jets usually based in Britain have landed in Jordan. And anti-missile defence systems are already in the Gulf.

None of this proves Donald Trump is preparing for war with the Islamic Republic, but it is exactly what he would do if he were. And while we are not privy to his specific battle plans, the similarities with last year’s build-up off Venezuela are impossible to ignore.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran