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Rex Murphy: The appealing ordinariness of Pierre Poilievre

The Conservative leadership race is diminished by one.

Mathematically.

A couple of weeks ago, Patrick Brown was running to be prime minister of Canada. Now he has signed papers to run for re-election as mayor of Brampton, Ont. This is either a considerable downscaling of his ambitions or a return to a more moderate assessment of his capacity.

There is really nothing to fear in Poilievre, I find myself in agreement with Christy Clark – he will move or be managed to the mushy middle. Frankly he isn’t offering much different to begin with so I don’t know what all the fuss is about. A little red meat from time to time but nothing substantive like a reversal of our disastrous immigration policy.

Conservatives need to veer to moderate middle: Former B.C. premier

Pierre Poilievre is likely to pivot to the political centre if he wins the Conservative leadership this fall, says former British Columbia premier Christy Clark.

“I think that most politicians, when they finish their leadership race, change a little bit,” said Ms. Clark, who led the BC Liberal Party – a coalition of federal Conservatives and federal Liberals. “He’s a smart guy. I don’t think there’s any exception to that.”

“If Mr. Poilievre wins, he’s going to have a choice to make about how he wants to speak to Canadians about the things we share in common,” she said in a Wednesday interview with The Globe and Mail.

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2022July 21, 2022•0•Conservative Party

Cats beat back commie council house arrest threat

Toronto city council votes to let cats roam the streets — at least for now

City council rejected a proposal Wednesday to cur-tail the freedom of domestic cats.

Instead of enacting an anti-roaming bylaw backed by a city committee earlier this month to keep pets indoors, council voted to amend the motion and grant an exception to domestic cats and pigeons.

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2022July 21, 2022•0•Cats, Cats Rule, Cats. What Else?

Leaked investigation findings reveal new details of Jerry Dias scandal

Former Unifor president Jerry Dias tried to impede a probe into his conduct and pressured a whistleblower to drop their complaint about an alleged kickback scandal — flouting the union’s code of ethics in the process, according to the findings of a third-party workplace investigation obtained by the Star.

After Dias unexpectedly announced his retirement earlier this year, Unifor revealed it had initiated a workplace investigation into claims that the long-time labour leader received $50,000 from a rapid test supplier he promoted to employers.

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2022July 21, 2022•0•Crime

Catalano Travelers: The Canadian Ruling Elite

When I survey the current roster of those who have been empowered to govern Canada, it is hard to avoid the onset of severe depression. None are serious people, none even remotely competent, all are driven by the ideological drivel of the day, and they are to a man and woman decoupled from the ordinary folk who make — or made — this country run.

Moreover, beginning with the prime minister and descending to the least member of cabinet, these are people who seem to have no idea what real work and economic survival consist of. Passing legislation on climate change, health policies, agriculture, energy, and supply-and-manufacturing sectors that almost inevitably tend to harm the prospects of the actual people affected while the legislators themselves are protected from the ravages of their virtue comprises the trademark of the parasitic class, which disqualifies the present bunch from serving in their official capacity. (It is only fair to mention parenthetically an astronaut and a hockey goaltender, but neither now serves in cabinet, and neither was especially distinguished.)

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2022July 21, 2022•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Canadian military looking at blocking real-time tracking of flights, including PM’s plane

The military says it’s exploring ways to add a layer of secrecy to the movement of some Canadian Armed Forces flights, including the planes that carry the Prime Minister and the Governor-General.

The Royal Canadian Air Force says no decision has been made on how to proceed, but it’s investigating how it might prevent the real-time tracking of military aircraft. One option would be taking steps to ensure that flight-tracking websites, which sell their services for a fee, are unable to display the movement of some Canadian military planes.

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2022July 21, 2022•0•Justin Trudeau - Pissant

Civil suit accuses Edmonton Oilers owner of paying teenage ballerina for sex

A newly-filed U.S. civil suit claims Daryl Katz, the billionaire owner of the Edmonton Oilers, paid a teenage ballet dancer $75,000 in exchange for “her sexual favours.”

The unproven allegations come in response to a sexual abuse lawsuit launched by seven aspiring ballerinas in 2021 against Mitchell Taylor Button, a dance teacher, and his wife Dusty Button, once a principal member of The Boston Ballet.

Mid morning sleaze.

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2022July 21, 2022•0•WTF?

John Ivison: Report of a drone sent to Russia points to holes in Ottawa’s export ban

The Canadian government may have dropped the ball when it comes to its export ban on military equipment to Russia.

Italian newspaper la Repubblica reported last week that Italian authorities had seized a U.S.-made, Russia-bound drone shipment. Containers with drones, or drone components, were intercepted at the southern port of Gioia Tauro. They were officially bound for Qatar but investigators suspect their final destination would have been Russia, which is desperate to get its hands on superior American drone guidance and control systems for its war in Ukraine.

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2022July 21, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Yet Another Leftist Is Caught Preying on Children

You know, you think after a certain amount of time, the Left would have the wherewithal to look closely at its ranks and purge them of the human sewage that swims through their population like the proverbial corn-eyed sewer trout (stercore pisces). But as has been proven time and again, the Left will overlook quite a bit as long as someone is mouthing the right slogans. The sheriff’s deputies in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan? Well, not so much.

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2022July 20, 2022•0•WTF?

‘They hunt us like stray cats’: pro-Russia separatists step up forced conscription as losses mount

Pro-Russia separatist forces have stepped up the forced conscription of men – including Ukrainian passport holders – in occupied areas of the Donbas region, amid mounting evidence of the scale of losses on the Russian side.

According to credible evidence from the region, forced conscription – already a feature of the Russian-backed separatists’ rule before the Kremlin’s invasion on 24 February – appeared to have picked up again in June, with checkpoints and patrols, some reportedly involving Chechen fighters allied to the Kremlin, on the lookout for men to recruit.

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2022July 20, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Less Than Half of San Francisco Students Are High-School Ready. More Than a Fourth Are Chronically Absent.

San Francisco Public Schools released data last month painting a bleak picture of academic achievement in the famously liberal city.

For the 2021-2022 school year, just 47 percent of eighth graders were deemed ready for high school. Twenty-eight percent of students in the San Francisco Unified School District are “chronically absent”—a proportion that has doubled since the 2019-2020 school year. Two-thirds of African-American students fall into that category.

It’s cause their school is named after a racist.

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2022July 20, 2022•0•Education

Biden’s Trip to That Hospital in East Jerusalem

The disturbing truths willfully ignored by the media.

A disturbing part of Joe Biden’s visit to Israel was the trip he took to east Jerusalem to visit the Augusta Victoria Hospital. The hospital caters to Palestinian patients, and the media coverage – especially that from NPR’s Daniel Estrin — made it seem that Palestinian and Arab Israeli patients have no other options save these “underfunded” facilities. A few sob stories, about how difficult Israel makes it for Palestinians to come to Jerusalem for treatment of cancer and for dialysis, which are the focus of care at the Augusta Victoria Hospital, were broadcast on NPR; It is not true, of course, that Israelis deliberately delay Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank from being admitted to hospitals in east Jerusalem. All of those with life-threatening illnesses that can best be treated in Israel are quickly admitted, and so are many other Palestinians and Israeli Arabs with ordinary illnesses who simply prefer Jewish doctors. Both Israeli Arabs and Palestinians are treated in all the Israeli hospitals, and often received as charity patients, who pay nothing. None of that was mentioned in the coverage of Biden’s visit to the hospital. It wouldn’t fit the NPR narrative.

by Blazingcatfur•July 21, 2022July 20, 2022•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Israeli - Islam Conflict

AR-15 and AK-47 rifle sales surge to 24 million, more than Ford F-150s

The most popular firearm in America continues to roll out of gun stores in record numbers.

According to new data released on the day a House committee is considering a ban on the gun, the number of AR-15 and AK-47-style “modern sporting rifles” has surged to 24.4 million.

The industry trade group National Shooting Sports Foundation said that is more than all the Ford F-150s on the road. The pickup is America’s most popular.

by Blazingcatfur•July 20, 2022July 20, 2022•0•Gun Control, Gun Rights

Stop calling them ‘Asian’ grooming gangs

This is just another way of obscuring the truth about the ethnicity of most of the perpetrators.

Last week’s landmark report into grooming gangs in Telford made for truly horrifying reading. It revealed that 1,000 mainly white girls had been subjected to horrific sexual abuse by groups of men of mainly Pakistani heritage since at least the 1980s.

Tom Crowther QC, who chaired the Telford inquiry, said that ‘the overwhelming theme of the evidence has been the appalling suffering of generations of children caused by the utter cruelty of those who committed child sexual exploitation’. He then went on to say that the failure of the authorities to intervene was in part driven by ‘a nervousness that investigating concerns against Asian men, in particular, would inflame racial tensions’.

by Blazingcatfur•July 20, 2022July 20, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

How Ukrainian men try to get around the ban to leave the country

Anton (name has been changed) was a businessman in Ukraine. On February 24, he drove to the border with his wife and their two children to escape the Russian invasion. The trip, which usually takes only a few hours, took them almost the entire day.

But while they were still en route, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy banned men between the ages of 18 and 60 from leaving the country.

Bad press coming out of Germany’s DW? I’m shocked.

by Blazingcatfur•July 20, 2022July 20, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Russia shoots down its OWN $40million fighter jet over eastern Ukraine

Russia appears to have shot down one of its own $40million fighter jets in the skies over eastern Ukraine, in just the latest humiliation for Putin’s military.

Footage of a flaming wreck falling from the skies over Alchevsk, in Luhansk, first emerged overnight Sunday when pro-Moscow Telegram accounts posted it – saying ‘allied forces’ had shot the aircraft down.

by Blazingcatfur•July 20, 2022July 20, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"