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Canada Post is a case study in Canadian dysfunctionality

Canada Post, which predates Confederation, is a vital national institution, playing a particularly important role in serving rural, Northern and Indigenous communities across our vast country.

But today, Canada Post is effectively insolvent. Indeed, it would have run out of cash had the government not recently extended a billion-dollar lifeline.

This situation is no surprise, and it has been developing for a long time. Canada Post has been impeded from adapting to modern business realities because of long-standing labour inflexibility as well as oscillation by prior governments between political indifference and political interference.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Why more fentanyl production could be moving to Canada

Fentanyl Precursor Chemical 4-Piperidone

Although there’s no evidence of any significant flows of fentanyl into the United States from Canada, an American authority on “criminal supply chains” warned Friday that that could change abruptly if U.S. efforts to better seal its border with Mexico are successful.

Jonathan Caulkins, who researches supply chains that support illegal markets for the Manhattan Institute think tank and Carnegie Mellon University. said the drug cartels that control the North American fentanyl trade may well shift large chunks of their operations to Canada if the northern border becomes the path of least resistance.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, USA

Terry Glavin: Is Trump’s lionization of James Polk an ominous sign of things to come?

American Progress by George Crofutt

Shortly after his January inauguration, U.S. President Donald Trump made the peculiar decision to remove a portrait of the great Thomas Jefferson from the Oval Office and replace it with a portrait of James Polk.

Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and the third American president. Polk, the eleventh president, launched the Mexican-American War and expanded the reach of American sovereignty from what is now Texas to Washington State, and from Wyoming to California.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Open Disdain for Jews and Israel Is the Status Quo in Carney’s Liberal Party

Carney speaks at a Muslim Brotherhood function

On July 30th 2025, Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, declared that “the peaceful co-existence of Israeli and Palestinian states [is] the only roadmap for a secure and prosperous future” and confirmed that “Canada will recognize a Palestinian state” at the upcoming UN General Assembly in September.

Unfortunately, despite the fact that his decision is unequivocally appalling to any defenders of democracy, human rights, and The Good, Carney’s recent comments are not at all surprising or even unexpected.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Is the tradition of giving party leaders a free pass to the House dead?

Political parties won’t be giving Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre a free ride back into the House of Commons — seemingly ignoring a parliamentary tradition that dates back decades.

But the convention of political parties standing aside to allow seatless party leaders an easy path to the House — known as “leadership courtesy” — hasn’t been consistently applied.

Former Alberta MP Damien Kurek vacated his seat in Battle River-Crowfoot to give Poilievre a chance to rejoin the House of Commons after the Conservative leader lost his longtime Carleton riding in April’s general election.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Five things now pricier in Canada due to tariffs

The trade war between the US and Canada has escalated sharply with President Donald Trump increasing the tariff rate on Canadian imports from 25% to 35%.

Most goods will avoid the increased costs entering the US market because they are currently exempted under an existing North American trade treaty. But some key products are being hit hard.

Earlier this year Canada responded with counter-tariffs of its own on tens of billions of dollars worth of American products, ranging from tomato ketchup to washing machines

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trump didn’t chicken out. So what’s Canada’s next move?

Canada has now learned that the derisive acronym TACO — often slapped on U.S. President Donald Trump — is inaccurate and needs to be tweaked to something more like “Trump (Almost) Always Chickens Out.”

Despite putting decidedly lower tariffs than he’d threatened on dozens of countries around the globe and giving Mexico a 90-day reprieve from his threat to raise its tariff rate, Trump singled out Canada for an increase.

While there’s no way that Canada can characterize what happened as a win, there’s plenty of evidence that it’s not a reason for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government to panic and do something that jeopardizes what really matters for the Canadian economy: tariff-free access to the U.S. for the vast majority of exports.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Not For Andrew Coyne’s Eyes

It’s a good US rant against the Canadian Weasel Class though some claims are dubious such as that made against our exit from the Afghanistan debacle but overall it will resonate.

Read the whole thread.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand’s constituency office closed over safety concerns arising from “Pro-Palestinian” protests

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said she has temporarily closed her constituency office in Oakville, Ont., after a number of incidents left staff feeling unsafe.

Ms. Anand did not specify the nature of the incidents, but said that she is working with security services to resolve the issue.

… The Oakville Beaver reported that Ms. Anand’s constituency office manager, Elizabeth Chalmers, said the decision to close the office was primarily the result of pro-Palestinian protests outside the office.

Islam, it poisons everything!

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

Doug Ford says things that Mark Carney can’t as Donald Trump’s trade war escalates

Doug Ford says the quiet part out loud.

The loquacious Ontario premier has always been quotable, but rarely more so than when he’s railing against U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade attack on Canada.

Helpfully playing the bad cop to partner Mark Carney‘s good cop, Ford, as a subnational leader, can get away with saying things the prime minister cannot.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

CHARLEBOIS: Canada’s food chain just got tariff-slapped — again. Ottawa has only itself to blame.

As August 1 quietly slipped by, so did Canada’s last, best chance to avoid a sharp escalation in trade tensions with its most important economic partner. Unlike Mexico, which secured a temporary reprieve, Canada is now fully exposed to a 35% tariff imposed by the United States on a range of non-USMCA-covered goods. For the Canadian agri-food sector — and for consumers from coast to coast — this is less a policy adjustment and more a gut punch.

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

Days after its release, Ottawa calls report on lethal exports to Israel ‘flawed’

OTTAWA — Ottawa is insisting it hasn’t sent lethal weapons to Israel, days after the release of a report stating Israeli customs data indicates Canadian arms are still being exported there regularly.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says items that the Israel Tax Authority identified as “bullets” were actually “paintball-style projectiles” that cannot be used in combat, even though the bullets were identified by the authority as “munitions of war and parts thereof.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canada ‘disappointed’ by Trump boosting tariffs to 35%, says Carney

Prime Minister Mark Carney released a statement just past midnight on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to increase a tariff on Canadian goods to 35 per cent.

“While the Canadian government is disappointed by this action, we remain committed to [the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement], which is the world’s second-largest free trade agreement by trading volume,” the statement read.

“The U.S. application of CUSMA means that the U.S. average tariff rate on Canadian goods remains one of its lowest for all of its trading partners. Other sectors of our economy — including lumber, steel, aluminum and automobiles — are, however, heavily impacted by U.S. duties and tariffs.”

Unpleasant but CUSMA offers some relief.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA