Author: Blazingcatfur

Hong Kong fire death toll rises to 55 as towers burn for a second day

The death toll from a massive fire that broke out at a residential apartment complex in Hong Kong has risen to 55, as firefighters continued to battle the blaze, among the deadliest in the city’s modern history.

Hong Kong authorities said Thursday 51 people had been found dead on the scene, bringing the death toll to 55, including four others who had been brought to the hospital.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Casualty Event", WTF?

Boo Hoo! Here’s how much the cuts to Canada’s international students have hurt Ontario colleges and universities

Ontario colleges and universities have been hit with more than $4.6 billion in lost revenues amid the drastic cuts to international students, new post-secondary figures obtained by the Star show.
And with Ottawa just announcing even fewer foreign students for 2026, for universities alone the impact is expected to increase from the $2.1 billion blow they are already dealing with.
The new numbers have the province’s universities now warning they “cannot cut their way out of these growing fiscal challenges.”

Boo Hoo. The bill for greed and incompetence has come due.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Alberta and Ottawa strike sweeping deal to boost oil exports, scrap federal caps and push oil to Asia

Alberta and Ottawa have signed a sweeping new energy accord that Premier Danielle Smith says marks a “new starting point for nation building,” including a pledge from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government to shelve its oil and gas emissions cap, suspend clean power rules, and back a major indigenous-owned pipeline to get oil to Asian markets.

The agreement, signed Wednesday, clears the way for a privately financed, indigenous co-owned bitumen pipeline capable of moving more than one million barrels per day to a deep-water port on the Pacific coast.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", Canada

Meet Trump’s ‘nemesis’, the 60-year-old who has been to 1,000 protests

At a press conference on Capitol Hill last week, a pink inflatable frog held aloft a banner chastising President Trump for not releasing the Epstein files.

Unbeknown to the casual observer, the protester inside the costume has been photographed at most of the history-making moments of the past decade.

Driven by a personal animus for Trump and his policies, Nadine Otego Seiler has travelled the length and breadth of the United States, holding her homemade signs at what likely tops more than a thousand demonstrations since he first took office in 2017.

TDS – Now with added Dementia!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome, WTF?

Ontario’s percentage of manufacturing jobs plunging, watchdog says

Manufacturing has plunged to its lowest share of employment in Ontario — below 10 per cent — since that data was first collected in 1976, a report by the Financial Accountability Office has found.

The fiscal watchdog warned the province continues to face economic uncertainty as workers in the automotive, machinery and metal products sectors grapple with 20,600 fewer jobs compared to two years ago.

In 2005, jobs in manufacturing accounted for 17 per cent of employment in Ontario.

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

San Francisco immigration judge bursts into tears as she is fired mid-hearing

A California immigration judge wept after being abruptly fired mid-asylum hearing, making her the latest victim of the Trump administration’s deportation crackdown.

Shuting Chen, 41, of San Francisco, was halfway through a hearing on Friday for three Venezuelan siblings who had fled persecution and waited years for their day in court when an email labeled ‘Notice of Termination’ flashed onto her screen.

Good.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Lorne Gunter: Despite MOU, Carney sets up West Coast pipeline push to fail

Cowboy Carney

There is every indication that Carney is as anti-oil as his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, despite all his talk of building an energy superpower

The federal government will do nothing to get a pipeline built. That much is clear from the advanced reports about what is in the MOU (memorandum of understanding) that Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are expected to sign Thursday in Calgary.

Once Alberta has everything in place (constitutional, Indigenous, environmental, regulatory and financial), then the Carney government will consider giving the pipeline to their Major Projects Office (MPO).

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

A week of ‘peace plans’ and whirlwind diplomacy hits a Kremlin wall

President Trump’s attempt to create an unstoppable momentum towards peace in Ukraine appears to have run into a dead end after the Kremlin signalled that it was in no mood to make concessions.

Despite days of whirlwind diplomacy involving American, European, Russian and Ukrainian officials, Moscow has shown no sign that it is interested in any kind of deal that does not meet all of its demands.

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

Anthony Furey: Toronto’s radical plan to turn all homeless shelters into drug sites

The City of Toronto’s shelter system is still guided by radical policies that encourage the city to hire active drug addicts to staff their programs, push for drugs and drug kits to be provided in abstinence-based facilities and even require that all shelters with children residing in them provide drug services.

A reasonable person would think that these sorts of wrongheaded policies, to the degree that they existed at all, would have been phased out by now. After all, the provincial Ford government has wisely moved to close public sector drug injection sites close to schools and daycares and is pivoting towards programs that push for treatment over maintaining addictions.

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

Muslim groups, other leaders demand Abbott rescind CAIR’s ‘terrorist’ designation: ‘Defamatory’

A group of Muslim and interfaith leaders are urging Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, to reverse his proclamation designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a “foreign terrorist organization.”

Texas’ designation is state-level only. It does not carry the legal force of a federal Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) listing, which only the U.S. State Department can issue. Abbott’s proclamation, therefore, does not trigger federal terrorism penalties or authorities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Liberal government spent at least $530 million on NextStar battery plant: documents

The federal government has paid out at least $530 million in incentives to NextStar Energy, the company behind a major battery plant in Windsor, Ont., records show.

It’s a relatively small portion of the billion-dollar funding deals with NextStar, which is a joint venture between global automaker Stellantis and South Korean battery firm LG Energy Solution. The federal government is providing up to $10.5 billion, while the province has pledged up to $5.5 billion.

Still, the figure provides fresh insight into the financial and contractual relationships between the federal government and NextStar — relationships that have been the focus of intense scrutiny since Stellantis announced it’s moving production of a Jeep model from its Brampton facility to the U.S.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

CIA head reveals National Guard shooting suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal worked with spy agency in Afghanistan as Trump blasts Biden for flying him in during disastrous withdrawal from country

The director of the CIA has sensationally revealed the suspected shooter of two National Guard troops in Washington D.C. worked with the agency in Afghanistan prior to the military’s disastrous withdrawal in 2021.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, was identified as the alleged gunman taken into custody after the horror shoot-out took place on Wednesday just yards from the White House – leaving two soldiers in critical condition.

Late on Wednesday night, CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News Lakanwal had direct links to the CIA from his work alongside US Special Forces in Afghanistan.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Even before it’s made public, the Ottawa-Alberta deal is taking heat from all sides

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May is pretty sure that backbench Liberal MPs from British Columbia are really worried.

Why? “They’ll lose their seats,” she told reporters. “And they like their seats.”

The Ottawa-Alberta memorandum of understanding that has not yet been released − to be signed Thursday by Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith − is that bad for the political fortunes of Liberal MPs, Ms. May said on her way into the House of Commons on Tuesday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", Canada, WTF?

WIECHNIK: Alberta’s oil patch is one coup away from crisis

As the United States masses an aircraft carrier and nearly a dozen other naval warships off the coast of Venezuela, it looks increasingly possible there may be a regime change in Latin America sooner rather than later.

Reports say that as many as 15,000 US sailors and Marines — the largest American deployment in the region since the ousting of Panama’s president Manuel Noriega in 1989 — are involved in the move, which has been officially dubbed by Washington as a “counternarcotics mission.”

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