Author: Blazingcatfur

Pope Leo condemns treatment of Gaza in first Christmas message

The Pope condemned conditions for Palestinians in Gaza and urged Russia and Ukraine to “engage in respectful dialogue” in an unusually direct appeal during the first Christmas message of his pontificate.

Delivering his traditional Urbi et Orbi (to the city and the world) message from the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica on a damp and overcast morning, the American pope said that the story of Jesus being born in a stable showed that God had “pitched his fragile tent” among the people of the world.

“How, then, can we not think of the tents in Gaza, exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold?” he said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church

Matthew Taub: Two years of inaction have normalized hate crimes in Toronto

This week, mezuzahs were ripped off the doors of multiple units in a Toronto condo tower. The victims included Jewish seniors, among them Holocaust survivors. Police attended, interviews were conducted, and the incidents were correctly treated as hate crimes.

Two weeks earlier, similar acts occurred elsewhere in the city.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Zelensky hails ‘new ideas’ on peace after talks with US envoys

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has given a positive assessment of a conversation he had with US envoys on how to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

Zelensky said Thursday’s call with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, which lasted nearly an hour, had yielded “new ideas in terms of formats, meetings, and… timing on how to bring a real peace closer”. He added later that he would hold another meeting with President Donald Trump “in the near future”.

Earlier this week Zelensky gave details of an updated 20-point peace plan, agreed by US and Ukrainian envoys in Florida.

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

U.S. alcohol group takes aim at NSLC’s markup on local spirits

The organization that represents some of America’s largest spirits producers is calling for the NSLC to remove a policy that gives preferential markup to Nova Scotian spirit products.

In a recent 77-page report sent to the Office of the United States Trade Representative, the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States outlined trade barriers they face in different countries.

The Canada section covers six pages, where the barriers include the boycott on selling American alcohol in most provinces and preferential markups on local spirits in Alberta, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, P.E.I., Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador.

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

WORST OF 2025: The Celebrity Freak-Out Award

It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors, led by MRC President David Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker, boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2025 and on December 17 announced The Media Research Center Award for Worst Quote of the Year.

Of course, every year, there is way too much bias for just one category. So we broke down the Worst of 2025 into five additional categories (The Craziest Analysis Award; The Trashing Trump Award; The Damn Those Conservatives Award; The ICE Breakers Award for Hating Trump’s Deportation Policy; and the Celebrity Freak-Outs Award).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Toronto transit ridership sputters, failing to hit projections or 2024 totals

More than half a decade after the COVID-19 pandemic emptied Toronto’s buses, subways and streetcars, the city’s transit agency is still struggling to recover and hit its ridership targets.

The Toronto Transit Commission has frozen fares for three years, slowly ramped up service and opened a new rapid transit line, but ridership is still lower than in 2019 and falling below expectations.

According to the agency’s 2026 budget document, hopes that more mandatory return-to-work orders would result in more passengers were misguided.

I suggest they have the insane and drug addicted make room for the homeless asylum seekers to boost ridership.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Pentagon report: Chinese military buildup and shift in nuclear force doctrine threatens US homeland

China’s military buildup is making “the U.S. homeland increasingly vulnerable,” according to the Pentagon’s annual China military power report.

This is the result of a combination of their decades-long arms buildup and a shift in nuclear force doctrine. “China maintains a large and growing arsenal of nuclear, maritime, conventional long-range strike, cyber and space capabilities able to directly threaten Americans’ security,” according to the report.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Group of ̷u̷n̷d̷o̷c̷u̷m̷e̷n̷t̷e̷d̷ ̷m̷i̷g̷r̷a̷n̷t̷s̷ illegal alien benefit shopping invaders arrested in Quebec’s Montérégie

A group of 19 undocumented migrants of Haitian origin was arrested Thursday night near Havelock in Quebec’s Montérégie region.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) confirmed that the group, with ages ranging from one to 60, was apprehended after they allegedly illegally crossed from the United States into Canada.

The breach was reported to the RCMP by the United States Border Patrol (USBP) shortly before 6 p.m.

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

Muslims in Indonesia Show Christians What They Think of Them

Carney loves Muslim values

Indonesia has a reputation for being a “moderate” Muslim nation, but the wind in the Islamic world as a whole is blowing in the opposite direction, as a group of Christians has just discovered.

Morning Star News, which tracks the persecution of Christians worldwide, reported Tuesday that “as police looked on, Muslims in West Java Province, Indonesia on Dec. 14 formed a human wall to block Christians from attending a Christmas service, according to local media.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Indonesia, Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Persecution Of Christians, Islamization of the West

JAY GOLDBERG: Carney’s ‘failure’ to strike trade deal with Trump was story of the year

U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs might have been named The Canadian Press News Story of the Year, but Prime Minister Mark Carney’s failure to adequately deal with them ought to have been.

When Carney announced his candidacy for the leadership of the Liberal party, after former prime minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation early last year, Carney sold himself to Canadians as the man who could meet the moment and deal with the Trump juggernaut.

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

AI Effect on Voting Intentions Three Times Greater in Canada Than in US: Study

Conversations between humans and AI chatbots can significantly influence voters’ decisions, with the impact in Canada potentially three times greater than in the United States, according to a study published in the journal Nature on Dec. 4.

The study, conducted by researchers from MIT and other universities in Canada, Poland, and the United States, analyzed how conversations with AI chatbots could persuade people to change their voting intentions more effectively than traditional political advertisements.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

Trust issues: ‘Islamic State’ supporters in the Syrian army?

The attack on US troops by a Syrian security forces member who was a supporter of the extremist “Islamic State” group in mid-December has consequences well beyond the four deaths that resulted.

One question continues to arise after the recent killing of two US soldiers and a civilian translator in central Syria by a follower of the extremist “Islamic State” group.

The killer had infiltrated the Syrian security forces. How many others in the Syrian security forces might hold similarly extreme opinions?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Syria, USA

Brown shooting suspect: gruelling academic climate may have taken mental toll, say ex-classmates

As investigators in Massachusetts work to piece together a motive for the murders of two Brown University students and an MIT physics professor, former classmates of the suspected gunman and one of the victims have been asking if the roots of the tragedy lie in their shared experience at a top university in Portugal.

The suspected gunman, Cláudio Valente, and one of those killed, Nuno FG Loureiro, studied at the prestigious and notoriously challenging University of Lisbon engineering and technology school, known locally as Técnico, both graduating in 2000.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?