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Today’s Billion Dollar Boondoggle

Liberals announce plans for new ‘high frequency’ rail lines from Toronto to Quebec City

The federal government is signalling plans to build all-new, high frequency rail lines connecting Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City.

“…Anything that makes the service more frequent and faster is going to attract passengers,” Prentice said. “We’ve got to get more cars off the road and we’ve got to stop using so many airplanes.”

Trois-Rivières is one of the proposed stations on the new line connecting Montreal to Quebec City.

The city is expected to be a battleground riding in the next federal election, since Bloc Québécois MP Louise Charbonneau announced she will not seek re-election. Trois-Rivières has not had a Liberal MP since 1984.

A Green-scam and election campaigning all rolled into one and at your expense.

by Blazingcatfur•July 6, 2021July 6, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canadian rights activist says he received death threat for support of Hong Kongers

A Hong Kong-born Canadian who has worked behind the scenes to help dissidents flee the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown in the former British colony says a threat has been made against his life.

Paul Cheng, who is in his 60s, is a retired computer programmer in Calgary and one of the founders of the New Hong Kong Cultural Club, a Canadian group dedicated to supporting pro-democracy efforts in the Asian territory.

Go incognito

by Blazingcatfur•July 6, 2021July 6, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Trudeau gun grab will be ineffective and very expensive

Here we go again. Ottawa’s budget watchdog is on the trail of another big taxpayer boondoggle in the making with the federal government’s latest gun policy.

by Blazingcatfur•July 6, 2021July 6, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Union fears big job losses from going green, after Ottawa pledges $420 million to Algoma’s electric retrofit

The announcement by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Monday seemed like undiluted good news.

Ottawa would provide $420 million in aid to Algoma Steel so it could convert its coal-fired furnaces to “electric-arc” technology. Technology that could cut the greenhouse gasses spewed from the Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., plant dramatically — by the equivalent of 900,000 gas-guzzling cars.

Can you make steel by burning politicians?

by Blazingcatfur•July 6, 2021July 6, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Corbella: Note to politicians — it’s time to let go of COVID and the powers you gave yourselves

I received my second COVID-19 vaccine on Monday and what a slick operation Alberta Health Services has set up!

I got 90 minutes of free parking at the Telus Convention Centre (that in itself is kind of like winning the lottery) and was directed by a small army of cheerful and eager staff (too many by dozens) indicating where I should go…

by Blazingcatfur•July 6, 2021July 6, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Ontario reports 164 new Covid cases … and that’s Lambda not Lambada

Ontario reports fewer than 200 new COVID-19 cases for second straight day, 9 more deaths

Ontario is reporting fewer than 200 new COVID-19 cases for a second day in a row and nine more deaths.

The province logged 164 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, down from 170 infections on Monday.

The Lambda COVID-19 variant: What do we know about it?

TORONTO — A recently designated COVID-19 variant of interest by the World Health Organization is coming under scrutiny as more cases are being detected in multiple countries, and amid concerns that it carries mutations that could potentially make it more resistant to neutralizing antibodies.

The newly labelled Lambda variant, or C.37, was first detected as early as last August 2020 in Peru and was being monitored as an alert for some time prior to its new designation. As of mid-June, the variant had been detected in 29 countries or territories with a particularly high prevalence in South America.

Nuke China, Fauci and Justin.

by Blazingcatfur•July 6, 2021July 6, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Trudeau names another ex-CBC staffer GG, ticks several diversity boxes

Mary Simon, Indigenous leader, will be Canada’s next governor general: Trudeau

Mary J. May Simon, OC OQ (Inuktitut: Ningiukadluk, born 1947 in Kangirsualujjuaq, Nunavik, Northern Québec)[1] is a former Canadian diplomat and current fellow with the Arctic Institute of North America. Early in her career, she was a producer and announcer for CBC North, and later entered public service as secretary of the board for the Northern Quebec Inuit Association. Simon was Canada’s first Ambassador for Circumpolar Affairs, and was a lead negotiator for the creation of the Arctic Council. She also later served as ambassador to Denmark.

by Blazingcatfur•July 6, 2021•0•Canada

Is It a Conspiracy Theory to Say All This Racial Discord Is Intentional?

A conspiracy theory is a statement of fact, or implication of personal knowledge, of a conspiracy that is simply not credible to rational people. QAnon’s assertion that Democrats are murdering children to harvest their adrenal glands to make adrenochrome, a chemical that can be purchased legally without resorting to murder, is an excellent example. The motive is simply not there, and neither is the opportunity, as even one mistake in such a scheme would result in a widespread criminal investigation. It is another matter to point out, without claiming any personal or inside information about the matter, that foreign enemies of the United States have both the means (money and intelligence networks) and motive to support Critical Race Theory, the 1619 Project, Black Lives Matter, and white supremacists, whether overtly or covertly. We already know that these enemies have engaged in cyber-warfare against the United States, so they are ethically capable of waging psychological warfare on us as well.

by Blazingcatfur•July 6, 2021July 5, 2021•0•Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists

A Glimpse into the Future of Muslim-Majority Britain

Mohammed cartoon protest London, England.

Batley and Spen is a small, seemingly insignificant old mill town in the British Midlands. Its drabness and decay are depressing in their ordinariness, but behind these old tenement houses — where outside toilets have been clumsily reattached — is a seething rage no one is prepared to talk about. It’s the reason I have spent time there in the past, to try and force this conversation into the open.

And right now, these awkward truths are glaring the country in the face.

by Blazingcatfur•July 6, 2021July 5, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

How the Democrats fell for Mussolini

America’s elite has adopted the fascist dream of a corporate oligarchy

There’s a tendency today to see Benito Mussolini as a pathetic sideshow, an incompetent blusterer who went from Adolf Hitler’s idol to his lapdog. Yet in many ways, Mussolini’s notion of fascism has become increasingly dominant in much of the world, albeit in an unexpected form: in the worldview of those progressives who typically see “proto-fascism” lurking on the Right.

by Blazingcatfur•July 6, 2021July 5, 2021•0•"Elites vs. Populists", USA

Afghanistan: America’s ‘longest war’ ends amid accusations of betrayal

The US war in Afghanistan was not supposed to be another Vietnam. “I don’t do quagmires,” said Donald Rumsfeld, the architect of the original US invasion, who died last week. In the end the former US defence secretary did two quagmires, airily assuming Afghanistan was “won” in the spring of 2003 when he sent American troops to fight in Iraq.

US combat troops were in Vietnam for eight years, but they have been in Afghanistan for 20. It has been America’s longest war by far.

Joe Biden has insisted the withdrawal is not quite complete, but the remaining few hundred US troops in Afghanistan are there on guard duty. The abandonment of Bagram airbase on Friday marked the true end to the US military presence in the country.

by Blazingcatfur•July 6, 2021July 5, 2021•0•Afghanistan

‘Tucker Carlson is the new Alex Jones,’ says CNN host and ‘Russiagate’ conspiracy theorist Brian Stelter

As CNN’s Brian Stelter flounders in the ratings next to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, he’s brought out the serious accusations against the Fox host: that Carlson is working “in cahoots” with notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

by Blazingcatfur•July 5, 2021July 5, 2021•0•WTF?

The racism of never criticising Muslims

The identitarian left treats Muslims as children. Progressives should be outraged.

There has been a surge in the racism of low expectations in recent days. It has centred on the Muslim community. It is wrong – ‘phobic’, no less – to criticise the regressive social views held by some Muslims, left-wing campaigners claim. Any pondering of the possibility that sections of the Muslim community hold less than enlightened views on homosexuality or the rights of Jews to live as free, equal citizens is itself racist, they cry. It’s horrible and unfair. They doll up this desire to protect Muslim attitudes from scrutiny in the language of anti-racism, but it is the opposite. It is time we talked about the racism of not criticising the Muslim community, of refusing to subject Muslims to the same kind of social discussion that every other community in an open, democratic society might expect.

by Blazingcatfur•July 5, 2021July 5, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Local Afghans hawk basketballs, stereo speakers, laptops, and bicycle helmets after looters ransacked Bagram air base evacuated by departing US troops in the dead of night

Afghan locals started hawking basketballs, stereo speakers, laptop computers, bicycles and helmets, desk fans, guitars, and whatever else they could get their hands on after looters ransacked a now-former American military base that was vacated by departing US soldiers in the dead of night on Friday morning.

The US left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left, Afghan military officials said.

Afghanistan’s army showed off the sprawling air base Monday, providing a rare first glimpse of what had been the epicenter of America’s war to unseat the Taliban and hunt down the al-Qaida perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks on America.

by Blazingcatfur•July 5, 2021July 5, 2021•0•WTF?

The Genesis of Our American Collective Meltdown

Our adversaries can’t quite believe their good fortune. Had they thought up ways to divide and impoverish America, they could not have improved on our own collective meltdown.

This Fourth of July holiday we might pause for a moment from our festivities to ask how we collectively lost our minds over the last 15 months—and are we yet regaining any semblance of our sanity?

by Blazingcatfur•July 5, 2021July 5, 2021•0•USA