Author: Blazingcatfur

Liberals got a popularity bump by reducing immigration targets. But those numbers aren’t the full picture

Douglas Todd: Confidential government polling showed support for lower migration targets. But actual numbers are slippery for both permanent and temporary residents.

The federal Liberals have been getting some good news from public opinion polls by emphasizing, for the first time in five decades, cutting migration targets.

The government’s public relations effort was revealed in confidential emails obtained through a freedom of information request from Ottawa’s Privy Council Office, the powerful arm that advises the prime minister.

The emails state the findings of a series of telephone surveys conducted by the Privy Council Office late last year are “not publicly available — do not share outside government.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

US carries out ‘massive’ strike against IS in Syria

The US says its military has carried out a “massive strike” against the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria, in response to a deadly attack on American forces in the country.

The US Central Command (Centcom) said fighter jets, attack helicopters and artillery “struck more than 70 targets at multiple locations across central Syria”. Aircraft from Jordan were also involved.

It said the operation “employed more than 100 precision munitions” targeting known IS infrastructure and weapons sites.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSyria, USA

81 percent of Canadians worried about food costs as 23 percent higher beef prices top grocery inflation

Four in five Canadians are concerned about the growing cost of groceries, at a time when food prices spiked as the annual inflation rate hit a two-year high in November.

Food price tags rose by an annualized rate of 4.7 percent in November, compared to the same time last year. In response, 81 percent of Canadians surveyed by Abacus Data are now concerned with ever-growing food prices, rising well above the average rate of inflation in the last couple of decades. The cost of meat, especially poultry and beef—main staples in the average Canadian’s protein diet— is leading the way.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Who is named in the Epstein files? List of famous people exposed in bombshell release

The Justice Department has finally begun releasing the long‑awaited trove of Jeffrey Epstein files — and the initial batch of never‑before‑seen photos and documents includes a jaw‑dropping lineup of high‑profile figures who had contacts with the notorious financier and child rapist.

While the images are explosive, the DOJ has said that being photographed with Epstein doesn’t equate to criminal guilt, and many of the appearances in past photos released — including those by President Trump — are social or casual in nature.

Naked images of Epstein women accidentally released

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, WTF?

Santas and elves rob Montreal grocery store to ‘give food to the needy’

Dressed in red suits and backed by masked elves, a group of Santas marched into a Montreal supermarket, loaded their bags with thousands of dollars worth of groceries and disappeared into the night.

The bandit Santas later released a statement saying the food would be distributed to the needy, and saying the Robin Hood-style stunt was intended to highlight the spiralling cost of living crisis that has pushed basic necessities increasingly out of reach for ordinary Canadians.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristmas, WTF?

The Left-wing terror group behind a plot to blow up California

At around 10am on Dec 12 a group of four Left-wing extremists parked up in California’s Mojave Desert and went to work.

As they unloaded their cars, stickers saying “free Palestine” lay scattered on two small trestle tables, along with bags of charcoal powder, sulphur and suspected potassium nitrate.

Members of the pro-Palestinian activist group Turtle Island Liberation Front had driven out into the Lucerne Valley to practise making pipe bombs as part of “Operation Midnight Sun”, a New Year’s Eve terror plot to target two US companies, according to a criminal complaint.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

Judge protects Alzheimer’s patient from husband ‘trying to kill her’

A 77-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer’s has been granted protection “against the likelihood of death at the hands of her husband” by the B.C. Supreme Court.

The case involves a woman, identified as E.W., and her husband, identified as T.W., in court documents. T.W. is a strong advocate for medical assistance in dying (MAID) and even spoke openly about a “Death Plan” for his wife, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2017, Justice B. Smith wrote in his reasons for judgment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Anti-Christian Hatred in Europe: Report Warns of Growing Phenomenon

“Christianophobia”—understood as hostility, discrimination, or violence directed against Christian people and symbols because they are Christian—is a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly visible and serious across Europe. A report published by the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) on December 1st highlights an often underestimated reality: the rise in anti-Christian hate crimes—physical, legal and social—profoundly affecting the religious freedom and daily lives of Christians on the continent.

The ECLJ and the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC) have compiled data showing that no fewer than 2,211 anti-Christian crimes were committed in 2024, including 274 physical assaults, across a panel of 35 European countries studied.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Christianity, Christianity and the left, Christianophobia

How Venezuelan crude could shake things up for Canadian producers

With the Trump administration seizing Venezuelan oil tankers, demanding the “return” of oil and other assets and threatening war against the Maduro regime, the fate of the world’s largest proven reserves is once again in doubt.

As a result of U.S. sanctions, Venezuela has been all but frozen out of the international oil market, despite having more known oil than either Canada or Saudi Arabia.

If the oil were to start to flow again — as it did before the arrival of president Hugo Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro — it could have profound effects on Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, Venezuela

Australia was seen as a world leader in gun control – Bondi has exposed a more complicated reality

Gun Grabber Wet Dream Australia

It was a Sunday afternoon in April 1996 when a lone gunman armed with semi-automatic rifles killed 35 people in the Australian tourist town of Port Arthur.

The massacre almost 30 years ago, which ushered in some of the strictest gun laws in the world, feels like a bygone age for many Australians.

But the Bondi Beach attack on Sunday, which left 15 dead, rekindled memories of the Tasmanian tragedy – none more so than for leading gun control advocate Roland Browne.

Making your citizens prey for Muslims is a swell idea.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAustralia, Gun Control, Gun Rights