Canada

China’s record purchases of Canadian crude could be a harbinger of more deals to come

China is now importing record amounts of Canadian oil after slashing U.S. oil purchases by roughly 90 per cent.

As a result, imports of Canadian crude have surged, reaching a record 7.3 million barrels in March. This massive boon comes as Canadian negotiators are racing against the clock to make a trade deal with the White House.

The expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline has enabled China and other East Asian importers to access Canada’s vast crude reserves, which are relatively cheap and suitable for China’s advanced refineries that process dense, high-sulfur crude.

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

What the U.S. dairy industry really wants from Canada

U.S. dairy producers insist they’re not looking for Canada to dismantle its supply management system, but they do want Canada to follow the letter and spirit of the existing deal that governs the dairy trade between the two countries.

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly blasted Canada as “unfair” and “ripping us off” with massive dairy tariffs, in a way that isn’t fully accurate.

However, senior figures in the U.S. dairy industry are concerned there’s also some misrepresentation happening north of the border, creating a false perception of what U.S. producers are actually seeking in terms of access to the Canadian market.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s huge federal government bureaucracy needs to be downsized

While the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives warned last week that over 57,000 federal public service jobs could be cut between now and 2028 due to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s restraint measures – assuming they occur – the reality is that a downsizing of the federal civil service is long overdue.

During Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government from 2015 to 2024, the federal bureaucracy grew in size by 43%, from 257,034 employees to 367,772, an increase of 110,738.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Michael Geist: When it comes to antisemitism, the sound of silence is loud in Canada

Deborah Lyons, Canada’s recently retired envoy for combating antisemitism, this week lamented that the effort to shine a light on increasing antisemitism in Canada had left her “despondent and despairing about the fact that it was hard to get people to speak up, to speak with clarity, to speak with conviction about what we were seeing happening here on Canadian soil.”

Jewish communities have long known silence. At its worst, it has manifested in some communities as synagogue floors covered in sand to mask the sound of feet shuffling during silent prayers or by those hidden during the Holocaust to escape capture by the Nazis. In today’s Canada, silence comes in different ways. Some Jews quietly conceal their identity by refraining from displaying a Star of David or kippah, families remove mezzuzahs from their front doors to avoid telegraphing that it is a Jewish home, and the community avoids widespread promotion of events hosted in community centres due to security concerns.

“In fact, even political views on the founding of the State of Israel or expressions of support for Zionism, which as former prime minister Justin Trudeau noted “is the belief, at its simplest, that Jewish people, like all peoples, have the right to determine their own future” runs the risk of being labelled as “racist” in today’s educational environment, thereby silencing the perspectives.”

What about Canada? I am called a racist colonizer with no right to exist here and am labeled the APEX predator within the DEI/CRT hierarchy of evil solely because I have white skin.

How is it a prof has never heard of Islam or thought about the impact of Muslim immigration on current events?

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada

The Crown Versus the Truckers: What is it about the Covid protesters that causes Canada to so overreact?

Remember the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” of truckers? Canada isn’t done overreacting. In early 2022 the disruptive protest of vaccine mandates sent the Trudeau government into a panic, unconstitutionally invoking emergency powers and freezing protesters’ bank accounts. Now Crown prosecutors want protest leaders in prison for the better part of a decade.

In April Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were convicted of mischief for their roles in the protests that police inexcusably allowed to block downtown Ottawa streets for three weeks. Prosecutors are seeking seven-year prison terms, plus an eighth year for Mr. Barber, who was also found guilty of counseling others to disobey a court order regarding the honking of horns. Both were found not guilty of intimidation and several other charges thrown at them over the peaceful but noisy protest.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada

A Grim Anniversary in Canada’s Fight Against Guns – Danforth Muslim Terror Attack

Faisal Hussain – targeted women and girls

Veteran police in Canada still remember the days when officers, stunned that a colleague had taken a gun off the street, would gather to have a look at the firearm.

“It would fly through the station,” said Paul Krawczyk, an inspector with the integrated guns and gangs task force of the Toronto Police Service, Canada’s largest metropolitan police force.

Seizing firearms is now a routine, and growing, part of the job for Canadian police, especially in Toronto. This week marked the grim anniversary of a mass shooting in 2018 in a bustling east Toronto neighborhood called Danforth. Two people — a teenager, Reese Fallon, 18, and a child, Julianna Kozis, 10 — were killed and 13 others were injured.

The Danforth Attack was not a run of the mill mass shooting, it was a Muslim Terror attack covered up by authorities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Gun Control, Gun Rights, Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Useful Idiot Apologists, Islamization of the West

Liberal MPs call for Canada to join France in recognizing Palestinian state

OTTAWA – Liberal members of Parliament are publicly calling on the Canadian government to follow France’s lead in recognizing Palestine as a state.

Toronto-area MP Salma Zahid said on a social media post that Canada must join France in announcing its recognition of a state for the Palestinian people

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

Did anyone ask Albertans about the impact of mass immigration from incompatible cultures on their economic and social well being?

Alberta immigrants say they’re seeing an uptick in anger, rise of racist narratives

Alberta resident Shamaila Akram says she can handle the increase in racial slurs and derogatory comments being thrown at her, but she worries about her newcomer and immigrant clients.

As debates unfold over Canada’s immigration system, those who provide help to newcomers in Alberta say there has been an uptick of hostility toward immigrants.

“I hear from people in my own communities — women specifically who wear hijabs — many bad things and we realize there is a need to educate people,” said Akram, with Calgary’s Centre for Newcomers.

Canada is following this exact path …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Islamophobia", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Federal government to stop funding hotel rooms for asylum seekers, IRCC says

Asylum seekers staying in federally-funded hotels will soon have to check out as Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) says that funding will end in September.

A spokesperson for IRCC told CBC News via email that as of Thursday, the federal government was housing 485 asylum seekers in five hotels in Ontario and Quebec, noting it has spent approximately $1.1 billion on temporary hotel housing for asylum seekers since 2020.

“This measure was never meant to be permanent, and IRCC is funded to continue hotel operations only until September 30, 2025,” the email said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Remigration", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada

In Doug Ford’s World This Is The Perfect Time To Grant Work Permits To 100K So-Called Asylum Seekers

Ontario mortgage delinquencies on the rise and could climb higher still, experts warn

Mortgage delinquencies appear to be on the rise in both Ontario and the Greater Toronto Area and the numbers could get worse as Canada navigates choppy economic waters, experts say.

According to data prepared for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) by Equifax Canada, mortgage delinquencies rose to 0.22 per cent in Ontario for the first quarter of this year. That’s up from 0.15 per cent in the first quarter of 2024 and 0.09 per cent in the first quarter of 2023.

In Toronto, the mortgage delinquency rate hit 0.23 per cent for the first quarter of 2025. That compares to 0.14 per cent for the first quarter of 2024 and 0.08 per cent for the first quarter of 2023.

The same cabal that jacked immigration rates to unprecedented levels will always find a way to destroy your economic and social well being.

They want you poor and fearful, one step away from being homeless and willing to work for the cheapest wage possible.

Ford, Carney and his pal Wiseman of Century Initiative infamy are working hard to ensure the Corporate class has ready access to slaves.

The right answer is mass deportation.

Update: Ford claims asylum seekers wait 2 years for work permits. Feds say it’s actually 45 days

The federal government is pushing back against Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s claim it takes two years for an asylum seeker to be given the right to work in Canada, saying the average processing time is actually less than two months.

Ford made the claim on Wednesday afternoon at the end of a three-day leaders’ summit in Huntsville, Ont., where the country’s premiers agreed to look at ways to use their constitutional powers to hand out work permits.

Who’s zoomin who?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

PINDER: Ottawa bows to Quebec — again

Choose your descriptor — stupidity, hypocrisy, manipulation, or something else — there’s no shortage of words to describe the latest House of Commons legislation that excludes the national dairy cartel from future free trade agreements. A total of 262 MPs voted in favour of the bill, including Pierre Poilievre and 56 members of his Conservative party.

Not quite the unanimous vote for the Canada Health Act back in the 1960s, but with far more urgent short-term consequences.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

60 Percent of Canadians Express Doubts Over Ever Being Able to Retire: Survey

Nearly 60 percent of working Canadians are convinced retirement will forever be beyond their reach and more than 40 percent harbour anxiety or fear about their financial circumstances, a new survey suggests.

The results from the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan and Abacus Data survey reflect a growing worry among Canadians about their ability to secure a comfortable retirement and save for the future.

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

Now do a mosque …

MAYOR STEVEN DEL DUCA’S CURIOUSLY ANTI-CHRISTIAN ‘COMMUNITY STANDARDS’…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Don Cherry, one of the greatest Canadians in the nation’s history — for a time

What people want to know these days about the hockey coach, bad-boy television persona and Kingston icon is whether they’ll hear from Grapes again

On a July morning, Dan and Theresa Mosier put on their sunglasses and park as usual in their chairs on the porch, waving at passersby driving into the village of Marysville, Ont., or neighbours on foot, waiting for grandkids to drop in. This is their retirement idyll.

Dan had been the proprietor of the Oco gas station next to their house for 35 years, but he boarded it up three years ago. In bygone days, it’d be open for business, cars pulling up to the pumps, tourists unfamiliar with Wolfe Island walking into the shop to ask for directions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada