Author: Blazingcatfur

Alberta vows to defy federal gun laws as Smith unveils sweeping pushback

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will move next week to block enforcement of Ottawa’s new firearm legislation, marking one of the strongest sovereignty-based challenges her United Conservative Party has launched against federal authority to date.

Speaking to supporters more than an hour late at the UCP AGM in Edmonton, Smith said her government will table a motion under the Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act ordering all provincial agencies — including municipalities and police services — to refuse to enforce or prosecute the federal gun grab program.

h/t SM (Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Hard lessons

Violence in Canadian schools is rising as students’ complex needs are neglected and teachers are stretched thin. The only solution is more boots on the ground

On a June afternoon in 2022, in the hallway of an ivy-covered high school in Ottawa, 15 year-old Matthew Morris was dragged into a bathroom by a fellow student, knocked to the tiled floor and punched and kicked repeatedly in the head. Several students stood around watching, and one filmed the assault on his phone.

The video ends when a lanky kid in green shorts walks over to the assailant and pulls him off. “Chill,” he says.

Similar scenarios are playing out in school bathrooms, hallways, playgrounds and stairwells across Canada. Violence in schools is on the rise and the implications are concerning; either kids are becoming more violent or the education system that once contained their aggression no longer can. Or both.

Outlaw schools it’s the only way forward.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEducation

The downfall of Canada’s most influential ‘indigenous’ man

It’s an awkward time in the upper echelons of the Canadian cultural establishment. It’s come to light that influential indigenous author and former broadcaster Thomas King, isn’t actually indigenous at all.

It matters, because King has spent much of his 82 years claiming to speak on behalf of the indigenous peoples of North America, and his role in shaping Canadian perception of their First Nations has been enormous. His books have served as standard texts in Canadian schools and universities for over 20 years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue"

Pipeline deal is not a ‘baked cake,’ Canada’s energy minister says

OTTAWA — One day after a pipeline plan for Alberta sparked backlash and a Cabinet defection, Canada’s energy minister emphasized the project is far from a done deal.

“We’re baking the cake,” Tim Hodgson told POLITICO on Friday from British Columbia. “We’re just buying the ingredients right now. Let’s not opine on how the cake tastes till it’s a little bit further baked.”

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

White House Calls Trump’s Thanksgiving Message Deriding Tim Walz, Ilhan Omar, and Minnesota Somalis ‘One of the Most Important’ He’s Ever Written

In a Thanksgiving message late Thursday night, President Trump attacked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, criticizing his intellectual capacity, and also attacked Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar as part of a lengthy denunciation of Minnesota’s large Somali community, which has recently come under scrutiny.

Early Friday, the White House pushed out over X the Truth Social posting where Mr. Trump made his remarks, calling them “one of the most important messages ever released by President Trump. Read every word.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

SMOL: Prime Minister Mark Carney’s war on veterans goes beyond budget cuts

What might be your course of action if you wished to dilute and ultimately eliminate the government’s duty of care for disabled veterans without making it seem so obvious?

First, appoint a complete neophyte as minister of Veterans Affairs – one who has no Parliamentary or cabinet experience. A minister who would be expected to kowtow to the policy will of the Prime Minister’s Office and who can be expected to happily repeat, with sincerity, any canned talking points they receive from the man in charge.

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

‘Queering outdoor education’: BC teachers encouraged to view nature as LGBT propaganda

British Columbia’s public school teacher’s union has proposed a solution to those who object to radical sex education curriculum: just make everything queer – including the outdoors.

Tristin Hopper of the National Post broke the story this week in his Canadian politics newsletter, “First Reading.” A BC Teachers’ Federation publication, Teacher Magazine, featured an article by Jody Polukoshko titled, “Queering outdoors education.” Polukoshko is “a Vancouver teacher and past president of the Vancouver Elementary and Adult Educator’s Society.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Why the rich and powerful couldn’t say no to Epstein

It was one of the big set-pieces in Washington in 2019.

All eyes were on Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who was testifying to a US House of Representatives committee about his former boss.

A Democratic member of the committee, Stacey Plaskett, was preparing to question Cohen and was seen on camera texting someone on her phone.

This week, the public found out the identity of the other person in that exchange – the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elite Decadence & Decay"

Why Doug Ford wants Mark Carney to show the west ‘some love’

This is a love story.

In May, Ontario Premier Doug Ford implored his ally, Prime Minister Mark Carney, to show the west “some love.”

Ford reasoned that, after a decade of prime minister Justin Trudeau’s fractious relations with some western provinces over environmental and energy policies, it was time for a change in tone from Ottawa.

Wake me when the pipelines are built.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Copper Thieves Are Wreaking Havoc Across America

LOS ANGELES—Rahdeese Alcutt, an AT&T investigator, once managed line repairs for the telecommunications company in this sprawling city. Now, he is the copper police.

Thieves have wreaked havoc in the area, prying open manholes, chipping away at asphalt and climbing trees and poles to cut and steal—and then resell—copper wires that transmit electrical signals for phone and internet lines.

Alcutt patrols the streets and relies on sensors and geotrackers to get alerts when the lines are being tampered with or removed. Information about some thefts is reported to an AT&T security hotline. He has even received tips from local gang members who are tired of their internet going out.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Environment minister insists Ottawa not rolling back climate policy in wake of Alberta MOU

Following the historic signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Ottawa and Alberta to lay the groundwork for a new oil pipeline — and the resignation of longtime cabinet minister Steven Guilbeault over the issue — Environment and Climate and Change Minister Julie Dabrusin insists the federal government is not rolling back its climate policy.

On Thursday, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith committed to a series of measures aimed at strengthening cooperation on major projects and outlining the conditions that need to be met before a new oil pipeline to the Pacific to proceed.

Just hours later, Guilbeault — who served as environment minister for nearly four years under former prime minister Justin Trudeau, resigned from the prime minister’s cabinet declaring his strong opposition to the MOU.

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