Canada

New laws against blocking access to places of worship, schools coming, Fraser says

OTTAWA — Justice Minister Sean Fraser says the Liberal government will press ahead with plans for new criminal provisions against blocking access to places or worship, schools and community centres.

The measures, promised during the recent federal election campaign, would also create a criminal offence of wilfully intimidating or threatening people attending events at these venues.

The minister’s statement comes as civil libertarians point to existing provisions intended to curb such behaviour and push back against the idea of new measures that could infringe on freedom of expression and assembly.

Make all the laws you want but we know they’ll be selectively enforced to ensure “community cohesion”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Canada’s youth job market slumps most among world’s major economies … thanks to Carney feeding Corporate Canada’s addiction to mass immigration & cheap foreign labour

Young Canadians are facing a labour market that has deteriorated faster than in any other major advanced economy.

Over the past two years, unemployment among 15 to 24 year-olds in Canada jumped 3.6 percentage points, the sharpest increase among the 25 largest economies in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development — including the U.S., U.K. and Australia.

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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

Carney’s Office Says Engagement With US to Continue After Trump Ends Trade Talks

After U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly announced an end to trade talks with Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government will continue to engage with the country on trade.
Trump announced on Truth Social on June 27 that he was ending all trade negotiations with Canada because of its plan to impose a Digital Services Tax (DST) that would impact U.S. tech companies.

Trump said that because of the “egregious” tax, he would terminate all discussions on trade and “let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business.”

The tax is a 3 percent levy on revenue earned from digital services provided to Canadian users and applies mainly to businesses such as Amazon, Netflix, and Google. It takes effect on June 30 and is retroactive to 2022 for U.S. companies.

What is Canada’s digital services tax and why is it infuriating Trump?

U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly cut off all trade negotiations with Canada on Friday, citing Ottawa’s Digital Services Tax (DST) for the decision. The tax, enacted last June, targets U.S. technology companies that operate in Canada but pay little tax here. Under the new tax regime, the first payments are set to be collected on Monday, June 30. The Financial Post breaks down what you need to know about the DST and why it is infuriating Trump and Americans.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Nearly 200 suddenly laid off at NextStar EV battery plant in Windsor: Contractor

Some workers at the NextStar Energy electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor, Ont., have been abruptly laid off, according to the contractor for which they worked.

Eric Farron, vice president of operations at Sylvan Canada, said Friday that nearly 200 of the company’s workers at the facility — 145 millwrights and ironworkers, 45 electricians, and three pipe fitters — were affected.

Farron said the firm was told to “immediately demobilize” on Thursday night, and that the workers still had a significant amount of work left to complete.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, USA

SLOBODIAN: You’d never know the shooting had stopped

‘Iran’s Supreme Leader may be hiding in shame, but his hateful ideology marches on, right here in Canada.’

With the announcement of a “complete and total” ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran, US President Donald J. Trump earlier this week declared an “official end,” to a 12-day war of relentless bombing.

Within a couple of hours an angry Trump dropped the F-bomb when he blasted both Israel and Iran for violating the terms he had just announced.

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

Ottawa considering military equipment production deal with Ukraine, Defence Minister says

Ottawa is considering whether to follow in the footsteps of several European nations by forging a new defence co-production deal with Ukraine for military equipment, Defence Minister David McGuinty said Thursday.

McGuinty said the idea is under “active consideration” by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces, and the government is looking at Denmark and France as potential models.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada

Iranian officials are banned from Canada — but this former regime member landed in April

Mahdi Nasiri let the world know he was on his way to Canada in April.

The former high-profile Iranian official posted a series of farewell photos — including a goodbye hug — on Instagram for his more than 250,000 followers and anyone else to see.

He has been in Canada ever since.

The fruits of multiculturalism: We have traitors in high places.

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

Trump says he’s ending ‘all discussions on trade with Canada’ effective immediately

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he’s terminating all trade discussions with Canada effective immediately.

“We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period,” Trump said in a social media post.

More … Loonie Tumbles As Trump Suddenly ‘Terminates’ All Trade Talks With Canada

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Sabrina Maddeaux: Canada’s immigration absolutists are refusing to correct course, no matter the cost

What’s the difference between an advocacy movement and a radical ideology? The Century Initiative makes an ideal case study. The group bills itself as a “national nonpartisan movement”—and perhaps it once was back in 2011, when its founders first set their minds to tripling Canada’s population to 100 million by 2100. After all, there were once physicians who thought smoking was healthy.

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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, The Great Replacement

Support for Western Separatism Nearing Levels of 1980s Quebec: New Study

The Western separatist movement is reaching levels of support seen during the initial surge of Quebec’s independence movement in the 1980s, says a new study from the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy.

The report, released on June 26, noted that while support for Western separatism is still not as high as Quebec at the peak of its sovereignty movement, support for western provinces leaving Canada continues to grow.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Canada

Canadian dies in ICE jail after being arrested for staying in country illegally

A Canadian immigrant has died in the custody of ICE while awaiting removal from the US.

Johnny Noviello, 49, died on Monday afternoon while in custody in Miami, Florida. His cause of death is under investigation.

Noviello was undergoing removal proceedings when he was found unresponsive. Medical staff attempted to resuscitate him but he was pronounced dead shortly after.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

This Ukrainian immigrant got loans from Canada and Ontario to start a meat plant here. Now, Ottawa says he’s inadmissible

In 2019, Oleksandr Zahrebelnyn came to Canada from Ukraine on a work permit and opened a meat processing plant in North Bay with the financial backing of the Canadian and Ontario governments.

The entrepreneur has spent more than six years in the country, receiving multiple renewals of his visas and work authorization. But now immigration officials have told him that he and his family should be barred from Canada because he had previously worked for the main Ukrainian security agency.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada, WTF?

Considering accessory to manslaughter? Don’t worry, you’ll get to keep your gym membership

Grok’s interpretations are often  mysterious

An Ontario court justice has sent a strong message to criminal thugs all across the province who might find themselves in a scenario where they could help a friend evade justice: Go ahead. You won’t necessarily go to jail. In fact, you might be able to keep your gym membership.

In July, 2023, in the Leslieville area of Toronto, Khalila Mohammed helped a man involved in a fatal shooting of a bystander escape the scene and hide out from authorities. Ms. Mohammed, who was 23 years old at the time, worked as a harm-reduction worker at the supervised-consumption site near where the daytime shooting took place. Karolina Huebner-Makurat, a mother of two who lived in the area, was hit and killed by a stray bullet.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics", "Justice", "Law and Order", Canada, WTF?

Dear New York Jews as a citizen of Toronto, all I can say is: Welcome to the club.

I assume many of you woke up this morning to news that Zohran Mamdani has won the Democratic primary, and will be running in the November New York City mayoral election.

You have my sympathies.

And though that election is still several months off, and Mamdani will be running against, among others, the incumbent Mayor Adams (running as an independent after leaving the Democratic party in April), the polls suggest that Mamdani has a solid chance of becoming New York’s 111th mayor.

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