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Business, pleasure or surgery? Medical travel booms as more Canadians look for cheaper procedures abroad

When you picture yourself on summer vacation, are you on a beach? Or an operating table? For some travellers, the answer is a bit of both.

Call it a medical vacation. About 432,000 Canadians, faced with rising treatment costs at home, are expected to seek medical care abroad this year, 44 per cent more than two years earlier, according to the Medical Tourism Association. They travel for dental work, cosmetic surgeries, and fertility treatments, as well as more serious procedures like knee and hip replacements.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2025July 16, 2025•0•"Healthcare Crisis", Canada

Canada: Stupid Judge Does Stupid Thing Because Trump

Judge halts deportation of non-binary American in landmark ruling after Trump’s gender edicts

A Federal Court justice has halted the deportation of a non-binary American in a ruling that criticized Ottawa’s Immigration Department for not properly considering the situation of LGBTQ Americans since U.S. President Donald Trump took office.

Angel Jenkel, a 24-year-old multimedia artist from Minnesota who is engaged to a Canadian, can now remain in Canada while their case is judicially reviewed, in a judgment that their lawyers hailed as precedent-setting.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2025July 16, 2025•0•Big Tranny, Canada, Trump Derangement Syndrome, USA, WTF?

Why RFK Jr. wants Canada to pardon 400 ostriches

OTTAWA — The fate of nearly 400 Canadian ostriches, which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to save, now rests with federal justices in Ottawa.

As the controversial case makes its way through court, members of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, right-wing influencers and a Republican megadonor are urging the Liberal government to spare the ostriches that were exposed to bird flu.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2025July 16, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Five Iranian Nationals Detained at U.S.-Canada Border Amid Rising Security Concerns, plus 2 Uzbeks!

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Tuesday the detention of five Iranian nationals attempting to cross illegally from Canada into New York.

The incident has intensified concerns about potential security risks linked to Iranian nationals entering the U.S.

Uzbeks!

h/t patthedog

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2025July 16, 2025•0•Camp Of The Saints, Canada, USA

Hard line? Soft line? There may be no way of dealing with Trump that works

Once upon a time there was a village menaced by a giant ogre. The villagers met to decide how to respond. “We must give him what he wants,” said one of the villagers. “Then he will go away.”

“No,” said another. “We must respond with purpose and force.”

Warning Coyne ahead.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2025July 15, 2025•0•Canada, USA

DEA Busts Canadian Narco Whose Chinese Supplier Promised to Ship 100 Kilos of Fentanyl Precursors per Month From Vancouver to Los Angeles

VANCOUVER — A senior Indo-Canadian gangster from an ultra-violent British Columbia–based fentanyl trafficking gang with ties to Latin cartels, Chinese Triads, and Hezbollah was taken down in a stunning U.S. government sting that saw a thick-accented Chinese narco casually promise an undercover agent at a Vancouver café that he could ship 100 kilograms of fentanyl precursors per month from Vancouver to Los Angeles, using his trucking company fronted by an Indo-Canadian associate.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2025July 15, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Crime, USA

The Threat From Far-Right Extremists Pales in Comparison to Jihadi Terrorism

Remember Chicken Little (a.k.a. Henny Penny)? She was the one running around warning that the sky was falling and spreading panic all around. In the end, the heavens were not, in fact, plummeting, and we now use the phrase “Chicken Little” to describe those who spread myths about danger that are ill-founded.

Last week, Canadians learned of an “imminent” plot by four men in Quebec, including two members of the Armed Forces, that probably came as a bombshell (no pun intended) to those tuning in. This “anti-authoritarian militia” had weapons, planned to seize land, had engaged in “training,” and appeared to be recruiting like-minded people online.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2025July 15, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, terrorism, Terrorism - Domestic

Jamie Sarkonak: Non-citizen johns shouldn’t get sentence discounts for their crimes

In December 2023, Akashkumar Khant, 30 (plus or minus some months), made the mistake of arranging to have sex with a 15-year-old at a Mississauga Holiday Inn for $140.

Only, when he got there, that 15-year-old turned out to be a cop. He was arrested at the hotel (with $140 in cash on hand) and subsequently ended up in court — but he won’t receive a criminal record for his actions, in part because of his immigration status.

h/t Patti Jo

by Blazingcatfur•July 15, 2025July 15, 2025•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

America’s Biggest Rare-Earth Producer Makes a Play to End China’s Dominance

FORT WORTH—At an industrial site in this Texas city, men dressed in head-to-toe protective gear dip giant ladles into a well of molten metal heated to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. They’re making something the U.S. has hardly, if ever, produced at commercial scale in recent decades: rare-earth metals.

The factory is the most visible mark of MP Materials’ high-stakes, billion-dollar bet that an American company can take on China’s dominance over the metals—and the magnets they power in everything from cars and smartphones to missile systems.

In recent months, China has used its chokehold over 90% of the world’s rare-earth magnets to cut off access to Western companies, rattling industrial giants such as Ford and Tesla and forcing the U.S. to the table for trade talks.

by Blazingcatfur•July 15, 2025July 15, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Canada deploys explosive drone boat in first proof of ‘new operational concept’ for navy

The Royal Canadian Navy is experimenting with explosive-packed drone boats, turning lessons learned from Ukraine’s war with Russia into a “new operational concept” for Canada’s maritime forces.

The first test of the concept came during a multinational naval exercise that concluded earlier this month off the west coast of Vancouver Island, where one explosive-laden vessel was driven into another uncrewed boat and detonated.

The drone boats, known officially as Hammerhead uncrewed surface vessels, are typically used by the navy as remote-controlled targets to mimic small speedboat attacks on larger ships.

by Blazingcatfur•July 15, 2025July 15, 2025•0•"RCN", Canada, WTF?

First Nations launch legal challenge against Ontario, federal bills 5 and C-5

Nine First Nations in Ontario are asking a court to declare a pair of federal and provincial laws meant to fast-track infrastructure projects unconstitutional and are seeking an injunction that would prevent the governments from using some of the most contentious aspects.

The Indigenous communities say in the legal challenge filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that the federal law known as Bill C-5 and the Ontario law known as Bill 5 both represent a “clear and present danger” to the First Nations’ self-determination rights to ways of life on their territories.

by Blazingcatfur•July 15, 2025July 15, 2025•0•Canada

Carney says a U.S. trade deal without some tariffs is unlikely

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday U.S. President Donald Trump seems wedded to tariffs and any trade deal with the Americans may include accepting some levies on exports.

Speaking to reporters ahead of a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill about the trade war, Carney said in French that all of Trump’s trade agreements to this point have included some tariffs.

He said “there’s not a lot of evidence right now” that the U.S. is willing to cut a deal without some tariffs included.

by Blazingcatfur•July 15, 2025July 15, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Teachers Linked to 17 Percent of Anti-Semitic Incidents in Ontario Schools: Federal Report

… The report found a sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Ontario schools between October 2023 and January 2025, and said around 17 percent of the incidents stem from “teacher or school-sanctioned activities expressing a point of view that made Jewish children feel unwelcome because they are Jewish.”

… Nearly three-quarters of reported anti-Semitic incidents took place in schools under the authority of the Toronto District School Board, the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, and the York Region District School Board.

(Link fixed)

I posted this link as it fleshes out the report’s findings a bit better than yesterday’s G&M effort.

However nowhere is the role of Islam and the Mohammedan diaspora mentioned.

You aren’t going to win a war when you are too afraid to name the enemy and you have to stop pretending that only a few bad apples are spoiling the bunch.

Islam is the Bad Apple. Keep living in denial and there’ll be a board game in your future.

As for our Education system:

Teachers in the 3rd Reich: Many teachers joined the Nazi Party or affiliated organizations, like the National Socialist Teachers League (NSLB), to secure their jobs or advance their careers. By 1937, around 97% of teachers were members of the NSLB, though not all were full party members.

None of our politicians will denounce Islam as they love the Islamist vote. Support runs deep within public institutions and bureaucracies. The teacher’s unions will continue to wield political influence while the likes of OISE will continue to indoctrinate.

by Blazingcatfur•July 15, 2025July 15, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Trump says 35% tariff letter sent to Carney is ‘the deal’

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that the letters he sent to Prime Minister Mark Carney and other leaders about new tariff rates are “the deals”, as Carney prepares to meet with his cabinet on tariffs and the trade negotiations.

Trump appeared to be losing patience with his administration’s efforts to make trade deals with nations around the world. The president has been sending letters to trading partners, including Canada, threatening to impose higher tariff rates on Aug. 1. The letter addressed to Carney last week said Canada would be hit with 35 per cent tariffs but the White House later said it would not include goods compliant with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade.

by Blazingcatfur•July 15, 2025July 15, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Devout Muslim with al Qaeda ties likely to plead guilty to attempting to follow his religious practices in Montreal: lawyer

Man with al Qaeda ties likely to plead guilty to terror offence in Montreal: lawyer

A man with ties to al-Qaida who allegedly threatened to bomb public transit will likely plead guilty, his lawyer said Monday at the Montreal courthouse.

Mohamed Abdullah Warsame, 51, appeared in court by video conference from Montreal’s Rivière-des-Prairies detention centre, where he waived his right to a bail hearing.

Warsame was arrested June 5 and later charged with uttering threats after allegedly telling an employee at a Montreal homeless shelter he wanted to build bombs and detonate them on public transit.

by Blazingcatfur•July 15, 2025July 14, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West