Author: Blazingcatfur

Venezuela on edge over Trump regime change whispers: ‘If it does happen we are ready’

The mayor of Caracas had come to one of her city’s busiest tube stations wearing a camouflage T-shirt declaring herself a card-carrying combatant – and with a message to match.

“They think they’re the owners of the world,” Carmen Meléndez complained of the Trump administration and its pressure campaign against Venezuela’s government. “But if they dare [to invade] we’ll be waiting for them here.”

Meléndez said she hoped a US invasion was not on the horizon, even though they had shown themselves to be “a bunch of crazies, who are capable of anything”. “But if it does happen we are ready,” she added, “and we will use all of the weapons we have to defend the homeland.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

‘I guess he’s going to ask about tariffs’: Trump set to host Carney for second Oval Office meeting

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet today with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, a meeting that political and industry observers are watching to see whether it brings any tariff reprieve.

A senior government official, speaking on a not-for-attribution basis ahead of the trip, tempered expectations about what could be delivered during their second sitdown in Washington since Carney took office back in April.

“Well, I guess he’s going to ask about tariffs ’cause a lot of companies from Canada are moving into the United States,” Trump said when asked about the upcoming meeting on Monday. He did not name which companies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Greta Thunberg cheered at Athens airport after deportation

Greta On Drugs

In one arm, Greta Thunberg clutched a yellow and red posy, while her other was bunched into a fist, raised above her head in defiance.

Unbowed, despite being deported by the Israeli authorities after her aid flotilla was met with force on its way to Gaza, the activist was welcomed by cheering crowds as she touched down at Eleftherios Venizelos airport in Athens.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Canadian Tire fined $111K for violating temporary foreign worker program rules

The owner of an Etobicoke-based Canadian Tire store has been fined $111,000 by the federal government for violating the guidelines of Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program.

Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), the federal ministry that runs the TFW program, found branch owner Ezhil Natarajan in violation of two guidelines: that wages, work conditions or the job did not match what was listed in offers of employment and that employees were assigned to work different roles than what they were hired for.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", "TFW - Temporary Foreign Workers Program", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

CBS News staffers react to Bari Weiss being named editor-in-chief: ‘It’s utterly depressing’

CBS News staffers are coming to terms with the news that controversial commentator Bari Weiss is their new editor-in-chief, as the storied network’s owner Paramount Skydance acquires her Substack-based publication the Free Press in a reported $150m deal.

In conversations with the Guardian, six current network employees expressed a mixture of apprehension, skepticism and frustration over the appointment, though several stressed they wanted to wait to see what it would really mean for their network – and themselves.

“A throwing up emoji is not enough of a reflection of the feelings in here,” one particularly incensed CBS News employee said in a text message.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media

Governments have thrown tens of millions at First Nations drug treatment. People are still dying

The treatment meant to save Niibin Pahpeguish’s life began to feel like a prison.

After almost a decade battling an addiction that began with prescribed painkillers and later escalated to street opioids, she entered a treatment program in 2009. There, at a facility in Brantford, Ont., she was put on methadone, a drug prescribed to ease withdrawal symptoms and reduce cravings.

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

Desperate North Koreans hunting animals to edge of extinction

Hungry and impoverished North Koreans are hunting, eating and selling animals from tigers to badgers, threatening the survival of endangered species, a new study has found.

A team of British and Norwegian scientists concluded that the North Korean government and black marketeers profit from the trade of wildlife products for food, skins and furs, and the sale of bones, paws and dried organs for use in traditional remedies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNorth Korea, WTF?

CHARLEBOIS: Tim’s coffee just got pricier — get used to it

It was only a matter of time before Canada’s coffee chains began adjusting prices. Tim Hortons was first out of the gate, announcing a price hike of roughly three cents per cup on average — a modest but symbolically significant increase. In an increasingly cashless economy, where digital payments obscure price sensitivity, such adjustments are less likely to trigger consumer backlash. Still, this marks a new chapter in the economics of coffee, where perception and psychology play as much a role as the price of beans.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada