Author: Blazingcatfur

Conservative leadership candidates spar over trucker convoy, bitcoin in fiery French debate

The six candidates vying for the Conservative Party’s top job sparred in the last official debate of the leadership campaign on Wednesday — clashing over everything from the trucker convoy to bitcoin and tax cuts in a fiery matchup in a Laval, Que., banquet hall.

The two-hour debate featured pointed, personal exchanges throughout as Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre, the leading right-wing candidate in this race, traded jabs with his more centrist opponents, Brampton, Ont. Mayor Patrick Brown and former Quebec premier Jean Charest.

And a Star columnist hits the fainting couch … Pierre Poilievre is inching toward the dark places where Donald Trump found votes

The perceived front-runner in the Conservative leadership race is trying to lure support from people with a shaky knowledge of the system of government in Canada, Susan Delacourt writes.

No one is going to accuse Pierre Poilievre of practising restraint in his campaign to be the next leader of the federal Conservatives.

Show him an institution and Poilievre will knock it down — the Bank of Canada, the media, anyone deemed a “gatekeeper,” or the World Economic Forum. He doesn’t just disagree with his opponents, he calls them liars.

At the risk of giving the “freedom” candidate any more ideas, it should be noted that there is one institution Poilievre hasn’t directly challenged, at least not yet — democracy itself. But if Poilievre is going to go full Donald Trump in his bid to be the next prime minister, an assault on the legitimacy of the voting system is almost inevitable.

This is what happens when you wear Hitler Glasses.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Texas shooting: Police urged to enter school during attack, witnesses say

Police were urged to charge into a deadly school shooting in Texas by onlookers, witnesses say, with one suggesting he considered doing so himself as he became frustrated.

Texas officials say gunman Salvador Ramos was inside the school in Uvalde for up to an hour before he was killed.

Nineteen children and two adults died, while 17 others were injured.

Eyewitness Juan Carranza told the Associated Press that women shouted at officers to “go in there”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

Oh yea, there’s an election

Ford surges as Ontario Liberals continue to lose confidence in Del Duca: poll

… Wednesday’s latest Postmedia/Leger poll suggests the lead enjoyed by the Tories throughout the campaign remains strong, with 38 per cent of respondents intending to vote PC.

Steven Del Duca’s Liberals dropped from 28 to 26 per cent from last week, with the NDP increasing by one to 24 per cent.

Michael Taube: The incredible political metamorphosis of Doug Ford

… In a 12-year span, Ford has transformed himself from a behind-the-scenes businessman to reluctant politician to controversial municipal city councillor/mayoral candidate to unexpected Ontario premier to one of Canada’s most successful Conservative politicians.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOntario

Justin Trudeau cancels B.C. appearance after protesters gather carrying noose

Trucks with horns blaring and a noose dangling from a hand-held prop resembling a gallows were the backdrop of a protest outside a Liberal party fundraiser in Surrey, B.C. on Tuesday night that grew so ugly Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was forced to cancel his appearance.

OTTAWA — Trucks with horns blaring and a noose dangling from a hand-held prop resembling a gallows were the backdrop of a protest outside a Liberal party fundraiser in Surrey, B.C. on Tuesday night that grew so ugly Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was forced to cancel his appearance.

Tensions amid a group of protesters estimated at about four dozen escalated to the point where Royal Canadian Mounted Police decided it wasn’t safe for the prime minister to attend, the RCMP confirmed to the Star Wednesday.

Trudeau did not enter the building, but later addressed the crowd of 140 for about three minutes via video link.

This story has gone from Racists hurling expletive’s to dangerous lynch mobs and back again. Face it Ottawa he’s hated.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inJustin Trudeau - Pissant

Mila trial: Six people convicted of harassing French teenager over anti-Islam videos

Six people have been sentenced for harassing a French teenager online after she criticised Islam in social media videos.

The Paris court had found the suspects guilty of sending hate messages and death threats to a 16-year-old girl — identified as Mila.

They were given punishments ranging from a three-month suspended sentence to a four-month prison term under an electronic bracelet.

Judges heard how Mila was the target of a “tidal wave of hatred” after she posted a video online in January 2020.

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

‘Zero asylum seekers’: Denmark forces refugees to return to Syria

Violent Muslims in Denmark

Maryam Awad is 22 and cannot remember the last time she had a good night’s sleep. It was probably before her application to renew her residency permit as a refugee in Denmark was rejected two years ago, she says.

Before 2015, Awad’s family lived in a small town outside Damascus, but fled to Denmark after her older brother was detained by the regime. The family have been living in Aarhus, a port city in northern Denmark, for eight years.

Awad and her younger sister are the only family members facing deportation. Their situation is far from unique. In 2019, the Danish government notified about 1,200 refugees from the Damascus region that their residency permits would not be renewed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Denmark

Can the West fix itself?

The war in Ukraine may be just the first test of the western alliance

There are many ways to fracture a people. But one of the best is to destroy all the remaining ties that bind them. To persuade them that to the extent they have anything of their own, it is not very special, and in the final analysis, hardly worth preserving. This is a process that has gone on across the western world for over a generation: a remorseless, daily assault on everything that most of us were brought up to believe was good about ourselves.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Paying Iranian soccer team to play in Vancouver an assault on Canadian values

While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Vancouver this week pretending it wasn’t his job to call off the obscenity of the federally subsidized Soccer Canada organization shelling out $400,000 so the Khomeinist torture state in Iran could run a profitable public-relations exercise in the form of a “friendly game” in Vancouver next month, my thoughts turned straight away to Alireza Saghafi. I don’t even know if he is still alive.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Iran, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

Wars and Rumors of Wars

Uncle Sam sent me to South Korea in 1953 during its war of survival against communist North Korea.

Rumbles of yet another war while I was there – that would in time explode into war in Vietnam – made some of my comrades believe that at rotation time, they would be headed to that next fight against communism instead of returning to the states. One of my schoolteachers wrote in 1953: “What do you do there besides freezing in the winter…I hope they send you home before things get started in Indo-China. It looks very much as if that is the next step. I pray that it is not…” Many who dodged the bullet in Korea did in fact end up fighting in that next confrontation with communism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Progressives have made gun control harder

The Left’s disregard for law and order damaged the cause of reform

Every murder is a unique tragedy — and yet there’s something horribly familiar about the headlines this morning. “Texas shooting: 19 children among dead in primary school attack” is the BBC’s top story today; but it probably won’t be long before we’re reading about a similar event — with only the precise location and casualty count changing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting", Gun Control, Gun Rights

Ricky Gervais has broken the spell of wokeness

The trans ideology cannot survive mockery or scrutiny.

In his new Netflix stand-up special, Ricky Gervais tells jokes about trans people, AIDS and Hitler. You can probably guess which he is in trouble for.

In SuperNature, released last night, Gervais jokes that he is fed up with ‘old-fashioned women’ – that is, ‘the ones with wombs’. You know, those ‘fucking dinosaurs’ and ‘fucking TERF whores’ who worry about women’s spaces, their privacy and their safety. He says he now much prefers the ‘new women’, with their beards and penises, who he says are ‘as good as gold’.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

The 20 Dumbest Hollywood Hatemongers, Part II

Celebrities unhinged.

When Donald Trump stunned the Hollywood Left by denying Hillary Clinton a White House win in 2016, he triggered a tsunami of celebrity bile. For the next four years and after, Hollywood elitists vented their online rage at Trump, at the 63 million Americans who voted for him in 2016, and the 74 million who voted for him in 2020, smearing them as “white supremacists,” “deplorables,” and “domestic terrorists.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCelebrity Idiots, Hollywood

Rupa Subramanya: WHO and the Davos elite leave a lot to be desired

Canadians elect our leaders to work in our interests, not those of international bureaucrats or the rich and powerful

As the World Economic Forum (WEF) meets in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, and as the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 75th World Health Assembly convenes in the Swiss lakeside city of Geneva, questions are once again being asked about the outsized importance of international organizations such as these. Truth be told, the WEF is not an international organization, despite its claims, and despite the fact that many governments treat it as one. It’s really a glorified NGO with pretensions of grandeur that, in point of fact, is an event organizer for the rich, famous and powerful to gather far away from the riff-raff in a difficult-to-reach resort town. You might just say that what happens in Davos stays in Davos, as the many lavish private parties and networking events are the real deal, with the portentous and pedantic sessions being a useful cover.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elites vs. Populists"