Author: Blazingcatfur

As Canada faces crippling debt, it must do the unpopular thing and cut elderly benefits

As Canada faces crippling debt, it must do the unpopular thing and cut elderly benefits

The government can reduce its spending while better targeting those genuinely in need

The Carney government regularly describes its fiscal approach as “ambitious” and “transformational,” but in reality it’s simply perpetuating a fiscal decline that’s plunging Canada deeper into red ink. To truly transform federal finances, the Carney government must reduce spending, even in areas that are politically unpopular. And to truly be ambitious, it should start by reducing elderly benefits – Ottawa’s largest single spending item.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

US says it struck Iranian radar sites as Iran targets American forces in Kuwait

US says it struck Iranian radar sites as Iran targets American forces in Kuwait

The US has said it hit Iranian military sites over the weekend while Tehran said it responded by targeting a US base, marking the third escalation in a week around the Strait of Hormuz.

US Central Command (Centcom) said it launched “self-defence strikes” in response to “aggressive Iranian actions”, which included a US drone being shot down over international waters.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had targeted an air base used by US forces for an attack on Iran.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Jesse Kline: The CRA’s double standard on religious charities

Jesse Kline: The CRA’s double standard on religious charities

Is Canada’s systemic anti-Israel bias and preoccupation with political correctness and “anti-racism” preventing it from taking action against radicalization happening right under our noses?

The recent revelation that some attendees at a youth-focused talk at last week’s Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) convention in Toronto wrote “Jew free” in answer to a question about “what kind of community” they want to build, and that it was then prominently projected onto a screen with no objections from the audience or organizers, is not the first time the charity has been engulfed in controversy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Two Tiered Justice", WTF?

‘It’s like a decaying body’: Australian farmers battle mouse plague

‘It’s like a decaying body’: Australian farmers battle mouse plague

A mouse plague is terrorising farmers across large swathes of Australia, with the rodents running rampant around homes and ravaging fields of grain.

It comes as farmers are already under pressure from unpredictable fuel and fertiliser supplies due to the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran.

This new battle has seen farmers pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into either re-planting crops that have been devoured by the mice or spending precious farming hours laying down bait – sterile seeds laced with mouse poison.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Hegseth: ‘Freeloading’ allies must spend more to counter China

Hegseth: ‘Freeloading’ allies must spend more to counter China

Pete Hegseth has told America’s allies in Asia they cannot “freeload” on defence and must increase spending to counter China’s military build-up.

The US defence secretary said the United States would no longer subsidise their allies, echoing Donald Trump’s message to Nato leaders to shoulder more of the military burden and reduce reliance on Washington.

The Pentagon chief told a security conference in Singapore: “The ‌era of the United States subsidising the defence of wealthy nations is over.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Sylvain Charlebois: Food Tax Reform Keeps Colliding With Governments’ Need for Revenue

Sylvain Charlebois: Food Tax Reform Keeps Colliding With Governments’ Need for Revenue

Quebec is poised to become the second province in Canada in recent weeks to roll back provincial sales taxes on food-related items, reinforcing a broader truth governments increasingly struggle to defend: taxing food has always been a flawed way to shape consumer behaviour.

Unlike Manitoba, however, Quebec is taking a broader and arguably more pragmatic approach by extending relief to healthier ready-to-eat products and convenience foods.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Food Insecurity"

Here’s how much Canadians are earning on average — and the province where wages are highest

Here’s how much Canadians are earning on average — and the province where wages are highest

New data from Statistics Canada has revealed how much Canadians earn on average per week, along with average earnings across each province and territory.

The findings, which use data from the Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours (SEPH), show that the average weekly earnings in Canada reached $1,333 in March 2026, up by 3.5 per cent compared to March 2025. This follows 2.8 per cent year-over-year increase recorded in February.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Human rights panel accuses Canada of genocide against Indigenous population

MONTREAL — An international panel of human rights experts has accused Canada of committing genocide against its Indigenous population after a week of hearings in Montreal.

The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal was mandated to look at missing and disappeared children and unmarked graves at Canada’s residential school sites, as well as the forced sterilization of Indigenous women, through the lens of international law.

The panel of seven judges said Canada historically adopted a series of policies that they deemed were crimes against humanity with genocidal intent, including the residential schools, which were in operation for over 150 years. The last residential school closed in 1996.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue", WTF?

Blue flight numbers are stunning

Blue flight numbers are stunning

Stories about corporations, businesses, and just plain people fleeing the squalor, overregulation, crime, lawlessness, lawfare, taxation, and Democrat arrogant stupidity of blue states and cities are common these days. New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul, among those who have insulted and told businesses, and the wealthy in general, they don’t belong in her state unless they’re as leftist as she is, was recently whacked upside the head by economic reality. Having chased much of New York’s tax base out of the state, Hochul recently began to beg them to come back so they could be taxed into penury yet again. Amazingly, they’re not taking Hochul up on her generous offer.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Why it’s Christian to oppose mass immigration

Why it’s Christian to oppose mass immigration

I AM grateful to our Editor at TCW for highlighting the ongoing crisis of immigration into the UK, which remains at alarmingly high levels. We continue to be faced with the complete and irreversible transformation of our national character and identity.

As a Christian pastor, it has much disturbed me over the years how the churches have failed to provide vital Biblical insight into this matter. They have generally emulated the doctrines of atheistic cultural Marxism in arguing that large-scale influxes into Britain can only be positive and enhancing. How vital is the need, therefore, for some Bible-based input.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money"

The year of cosmic shock – We’re living through a new Copernican Revolution

The year of cosmic shock – We’re living through a new Copernican Revolution

President Trump jokingly posts a doctored photo of himself leading an alien in chains out of Area 51, while, on a more serious register, his administration releases a huge tranche of previously undisclosed photos and information about UFOs. Elon Musk muses about human beings becoming an interplanetary species. Bryan Johnson preaches immortality through medicine. Markets panic when Claude’s Mythos AI proves — or appears — to be capable of hacking into some of the globe’s most secure digital systems. And we aren’t even halfway through 2026.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World