Author: Blazingcatfur

I asked AI to scan thousands of Barry and Honey Sherman murder case documents. Here’s what it told me I missed

It was my first personal experience with an Artificial Intelligence “hallucination” — the tendency of AI to just make things up.
When a Toronto homicide detective probing the unsolved murders of Toronto billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman revealed he had turned to AI for help, I figured, heck, I should try too.

I uploaded almost 4,000 pages of partially unsealed police documents, containing witness statements and police theories. On some pages, you can read everything police wrote to obtain various search warrants in the now eight-year-old case. Some pages are partially or completely blacked out. The Toronto Star’s court challenges over the past eight years have unsealed roughly 60 per cent of these documents.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Does Poverty Cause Crime?

One might expect researchers to have settled the question long ago of whether poverty causes crime. On the surface, the answer seems obvious. A correlation certainly exists: anyone working in the criminal-justice system—or simply walking through a low-income neighborhood—could observe that the poor are more prone to crime. But is the relationship causal? As the old Gershwin tune reminds us, it ain’t necessarily so.

We were poor by the day’s standards lower working class, K was raised by her single Mum. None of us imprisoned. So far.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Donald Trump’s Civilizational Defense Strategy

If the just-published “National Security Strategy of the United States of America” was intended to infuriate the old line globalist elites in Europe and the United States, then it has succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of its authors. Take, for example, the essay this morning by Jacob Heilbrunn over at that “other” Spectator. Heilbrunn manages the not inconsiderable feat of dismissing the document as “incomprehensible” and “negligible,” while at the same time suggesting that it’s important enough to cause our key allies consternation and dismay.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEU, Europe, USA

How did Canada’s young people become its unhappiest generation?

Only four countries have seen a worse decline — Jordan, Venezuela, Lebanon and Afghanistan.

VANCOUVER — As a teen growing up in Toronto, Bhavik Sharma imagined what life would look like at 25.

He and his high school friends would be starting families. They’d be on six-figure salaries and living comfortably.

Now 27, he’s back living with his parents in Kitchener, Ont., driven out of Toronto by high rent and other costs.

“I think back then, in that generation, it was definitely a lot easier,” Sharma said of the path to adulthood for his parents, who moved to Canada from India about 30 years ago.

They’d probably be happier if you interviewed Canadians and not foreigners for this article.

Funny how mass immigration isn’t mentioned as if a generation’s problems appeared from nowhere.

I have faith young people are smart enough to recognize gaslighting. AKA Liberal Party Media/Academic propaganda.

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

Gaza: Can ‘Peacekeepers’ and ‘Monitors’ Succeed Except in Wishful Thinking?

Hamas beats Gazans

As part of US President Donald J. Trump’s plan for ending the Israel-Hamas war, international troops could be deployed in the Gaza Strip as early as next month, US officials told Reuters on December 12. According to the unnamed officials, the proposed International Stabilization Force (ISF) would not fight Hamas, the Palestinian terror group that sparked the war by invading Israel on October 7, 2023 and murdering more than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals and wounding thousands more.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGaza

Canada should craft its own national-security policy

Find PA Cat’s Dad

The new national-security strategy issued by the Trump administration has caused shock waves among the United States’ allies.

It contains a retreat by the United States from global leadership and an abandonment of any principled foreign policy. It fails to address threats posed by authoritarian regimes and castigates Europe as a continent in decline, which needs U.S.-style political change. It shows signs of weakening NATO commitments, lacks support for Ukraine and emphasizes U.S. dominance of the Western hemisphere. The Trump strategy presents an explosive mix of policies that give new substance to an unprecedented version of the doctrine of “America first.”

Apparently America is obligated to pick up the tab for everybody forever, 80 years wasn’t enough.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Polish Authorities Find Migrant-Smuggling Tunnel From Belarus

The Polish border guard has discovered a tunnel beneath the Poland-Belarus frontier, with officials confirming that more than 180 migrants entered Poland on Thursday, December 11th, through the underground passage. The tunnel, located near the village of Narewka in the northeastern region, is the fourth such structure detected along the border in 2025. Authorities report that over 130 people have been detained so far, while searches for the remaining migrants continue.

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

Toronto man outruns newly-opened Finch LRT by 18 minutes

Expect a boondoggle

A Toronto man challenged the newly-opened Finch Light-Rail Transit to a race — and he won.

The Toronto Transit Commission’s Line 6 was riddled with service disruptions and disappointment from commuters during its opening week, particularly as advocates and councillors called for signal priority and faster trips.

Mac Bauer, who regularly races TTC vehicles, decided to take it upon himself to see if the new line truly was as slow as people described it to him.

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

Sophomore Ella Cook ID’d as first victim in Brown University shooting

The first victim of the deadly school shooting at Brown University has been identified as a sophomore student and vice president of the school’s college Republican club, Ella Cook, according to her Alabama parish and a former classmate.

The news of Cook’s death was shared during a service at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in her hometown of Birmingham.

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

DND investigates leak used to discredit Saab’s Gripen fighter jet

The defence department has launched an investigation into the leak of a document now being used to undercut the government’s consideration of an alternative to the American-made F-35.

The leak of the four-year old document came in the midst of the ongoing process in which Prime Minister Mark Carney will have to decide whether to go with the F-35 or the Saab Gripen from Sweden.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Why Quebec’s Liberal scandal is a Canadian problem

In Quebec, certain words don’t land softly. Corruption is one of them. It’s a word that once even earned Quebec the cover of Maclean’s magazine as “the most corrupt province in Canada,” a headline that infuriated the political class precisely because it cut so close to a long, uncomfortable narrative.

So, when that word is once again associated with the Quebec Liberal Party, it’s not just another headline. It’s a crisis with national consequences.

Pablo Rodriguez, the former federal cabinet minister brought in earlier this year to revive the provincial Liberals, now finds himself at the centre of a criminal investigation by UPAC, the province’s anti-corruption police. The probe touches two sensitive nerves.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

J.K. Rowling Slams the Woke LGBTQ+ Mob After Rapists Target Dozens of Girls in Mixed Gender Changing Rooms

Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling is lamenting a recent study that finds a rising number of women and girls being raped and sexually assaulted in mixed gender changing rooms in the U.K.

According to the study reported in The Telegraph, “New police data show that at least 16 rapes, 80 sexual assaults and 65 acts of voyeurism were committed in sports centres in 2023, equating to three offences a week.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

Rick Ekstein: Mark Carney has inflamed antisemitism. Will Canada too pay a price?

Carney speaks at a Muslim Brotherhood function

I woke up Sunday morning to a photograph I never expected to see: my friend, human-rights lawyer and regular National Post contributor Arsen Ostrovsky, bloodied among the walking wounded at Bondi Beach.

Arsen is now in hospital — and extraordinarily lucky to be alive. A bullet grazed the top of his head. Doctors have told him that had it been a few millimetres lower, he would almost certainly have been killed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government