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‘Incompetence is incalculable’: Airport frustrations sour Canadians’ summer travel plans

After years apart, Elizabeth Taliana says she booked a flight for her daughter to fly out from Toronto to Vancouver.

Her daughter only gets one week of vacation from work during the summer.

Even though she made the reservation more than two months ago, Taliana says she only learned recently that her daughter’s flight had been cancelled, a trend Canadians are becoming all too familiar with.

“I have not seen my daughter in almost six years, so this is very distressing,” Taliana told CTVNews.ca in an email.

by Blazingcatfur•July 3, 2022July 3, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Hispanics Will Not Join a Black/Brown Coalition

The adage “be careful of what you wish for, you may just get it” most certainly applies to recent efforts by black political leaders to expand ballot access. Their reasoning seems alluring: voting has been their ticket to progress, and the more blacks who vote, the greater the progress. A corollary is that such expansion would also help their political allies, notably Hispanics and other minorities of color, and thus build a mighty coalition. Moreover, open borders bring more Hispanics, and this will, eventually, swell yet further this alliance which, it is assumed, will be led by blacks.

by Blazingcatfur•July 3, 2022July 2, 2022•0•Democratic Party, Demography

The urban elite thinks they’re a victim class

They live to move in the worlds of affluence and activism

I’m Facebook friends with a woman who has been in Democratic Party politics since we attended high school together. Since then, she’s worked for power politicians, (unsuccessfully) run for office, and played a central role in the public takedown of an elected official. She has a degree from an Ivy League institution, as does her husband, who works in finance. Hers is the quintessential lifestyle of the urban elites.

by Blazingcatfur•July 3, 2022July 2, 2022•0•"Elites vs. Populists", "The Ruling Class"

Unique terror trial that changed France

It was a trial to match the scale of the crime.

More than 400 survivors and relatives of the dead came forward to bear witness to France’s worst peace-time attack.

Fourteen defendants were questioned in a courtroom specially built for their trial, about the terrorist plot that claimed 130 lives on one night in November 2015.

Nine months of hearings were interspersed with breaks, each week, to allow emotions to settle.

“There has never been a trial like this in our history,” France’s counter-terrorism prosecutor, Jean-François Ricard, said the morning after the verdict.

by Blazingcatfur•July 3, 2022July 2, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

The Abortion Midterms May Abort the Democrats: Taking money from rich white people to kill poor black babies isn’t a winning issue.

After the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, Democrats lost no time in insisting, all evidence to the contrary, that abortion would swing the midterm elections for them.

Georgia shows why abortion might abort their party instead.

Stacey Abrams, after months of dodging and refusing to be pinned down on her abortion views, finally came out and said that, “my intention is going to be to pass legislation that says a woman has the right to an abortion. And that right continues until a physician determines the fetus is viable outside of the body, except in the case of protecting the woman’s life or health.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 3, 2022July 2, 2022•0•Abortion debate

The Truth About Pervs

“… And yet, Thomas’ toxic masculinity is not unusual among the better-known transgenders. An extraordinary fraction of the most prominent and influential male-to-female transgenders are, when you stop and think about them, obvious examples of male ego, aggression, and self-assertion run amok.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 2, 2022July 2, 2022•0•Big Tranny

Ideology has poisoned the West

We are living through a dictatorship of ineptitude

A century has passed since William Butler Yeats sensed the stirrings of a “rough beast” with a gaze “blank and pitiless as the sun”. That beast’s apocalyptic hour has come around again, its rebirth announced by the galloping horsemen of war and pestilence, with what looks to be famine trailing in the dusty distance. It calls itself Legion, but is today better known as Ideology.

by Blazingcatfur•July 2, 2022July 2, 2022•0•Decline & Fall

Putin faces fresh humiliation as his navy sinks its OWN ship

The Russian navy appears to have accidentally blown up one of its own ships in the black sea in the latest blunder for Putin’s forces.

A landing craft is reported to have exploded when it hit a Russian sea mine near Mariupol.

The crew is said to have survived the friendly-fire incident, but the reputation of Russia’s naval commanders is not so unscathed.

h/t RM

by Blazingcatfur•July 2, 2022July 2, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Is the West really prepared to pay the price of defeating Putin?

For Ukraine to win, the West still has to answer painful questions of itself

One minute the pundits believe Ukraine will win, the next we are warned that Russia is winning. But what does “victory” mean — and is the West really prepared to pay its price?

There is a tragic irony here. In their own ways, Russia, Ukraine and the West are all committed to a struggle without knowing for sure how the endgame should or will look. For Moscow and Kyiv, this is essentially because they are still waiting on the verdict of the battlefield — but for the West, it is because we are not yet willing to discuss the most difficult questions.

A lot of this sort of reflection going around these days.

I’m not sure if they are hoping to sleepwalk us into a wider conflict or test the waters for an abandonment of Ukraine.

Maybe both.

Here’s the Star’s take: Here’s why Canada could be paying for the economic war against Russia for a long time

This was the week our economic warfare against Russia was exposed for the problematic long game that it is.

As the G7 was readying new ways to cut off Russia’s gold, Vladimir Putin was busy bombing near a Kyiv kindergarten.

As the West contemplated how to cap Russian oil revenues, Putin’s forces struck a shopping mall with 1,000 people inside.

#Ukraine: A Russian T-72 series tank was hit by a Ukrainian ATGM in previously unseen footage. The cope cage flight adds extra flair.pic.twitter.com/LhEM3M3g5U

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) July 2, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•July 2, 2022July 2, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Shireen Abu Akleh: Palestinians give bullet that killed journalist to US experts

The bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh has been handed over to a US team of forensic experts, Palestinian officials said on Saturday.

The move is a step forward in potentially resolving heightened tensions between Palestinian and Israeli officials over the veteran correspondent’s death.

I can only imagine the integrity of the Palestinian chain of custody.

by Blazingcatfur•July 2, 2022July 2, 2022•0•Israeli - Islam Conflict

Ex-Mounties say Lucki scandal highlights politicized RCMP

Allegations of political interference in the investigation of the mass shooting in Nova Scotia highlight continuing problems with politicization of the RCMP, say former Mounties.

Rob Creasser was an RCMP officer in British Columbia from 1992 to 2010 and helped spearhead efforts to form the Mounted Police Professional Association of Canada (MPPAC). In an interview with Western Standard, Creasser said the revelations are only the latest indication of continuing problems.

“What I would gently call dysfunction within the organization — that hasn’t changed, despite me being out for now, over a decade,” Creasser said.

by Blazingcatfur•July 2, 2022July 2, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, RCMP

Northrup’s line-of-duty death ‘still affecting’ fellow Toronto cops a year later

Toronto Police Det.-Const. Jeffrey Northrup was remembered by 52 Division on Saturday — the first anniversary of his death.

Northrup, 55, and his partner were investigating a stabbing in City Hall’s underground parking lot when it’s alleged the 31-year veteran was intentionally struck by a vehicle driven by Thornhill accountant Umar Zameer.

Very odd goings on.

by Blazingcatfur•July 2, 2022July 2, 2022•0•Canada, Crime, WTF?

GOLDSTEIN: PM’s carbon taxes disconnected from reality

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s second carbon tax — known as the Clean Fuel Standard — is the latest example of how his energy policies are drifting further away from reality, while punishing Canadians financially in the process.

by Blazingcatfur•July 2, 2022July 2, 2022•0•Canada

Yes, you can blame Biden for crazy gas prices—here’s why

This July 4th, as you fill up your car or truck, you might be tempted to blame President Joe Biden for high gasoline prices.

You shouldn’t, say some experts. It’s Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fault, they say. The US had to cut off Russian oil imports to punish Putin for invading Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Biden himself has blamed the American energy industry.

by Blazingcatfur•July 2, 2022July 2, 2022•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden"

Police identify killed B.C. bank gunmen as 22-year-old twin brothers

Twin brothers from Vancouver Island have been named as the suspects who were killed in a police shootout during an attempted armed bank robbery in Saanich,B.C., this week.

On Saturday morning, RCMP released the names of the two suspects: 22-year-olds Mathew and Isaac Auchterlonie of Duncan.

Police said the suspects’ family is cooperating with the investigation.

Crazy.

by Blazingcatfur•July 2, 2022July 2, 2022•0•Crime