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Canadians fleeing war in Iran face obstacles in absence of diplomatic ties

Canadian physician Panid Borhanjoo woke up on Friday morning in Iran’s cottage country to an onslaught of messages from family and friends asking if he was safe.

He turned on the news in his relatives’ home in Mazandaran, a lush, coastal province on the Caspian Sea. Israeli missiles had destroyed Iranian nuclear facilities and killed high-ranking military personnel in Tehran, about 200 kilometres away. War had erupted.

Update: Canada will help facilitate flights for citizens leaving Israel and Iran, Anand says

If you’re traveling to a regime like Iran that funds terrorism you shouldn’t be allowed back in Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•June 19, 2025June 19, 2025•0•Canada, Iran

Canadian intelligence accuses India over Sikh’s killing as Carney meets Modi

Canada’s spy agency has warned that the assassination in British Columbia of a prominent Sikh activist signaled a “significant escalation in India’s repression efforts” and reflects a broader, transnational campaign by the government in New Delhi to threaten dissidents.

The report was made public a day after Mark Carney shook hands with Narendra Modi at the G7 and pledged to restore diplomatic relations in a very public attempt to turn the page on the bitter diplomatic row unleashed by the murder of the Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

The meeting prompted immediate backlash from members of the Sikh community, who warned that the resumption of diplomatic ties “must not come at the expense of justice and transparency”.

by Blazingcatfur•June 19, 2025June 18, 2025•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, India, Khalistan

BARCLAY: No Mr. Carney, not all ‘Muslim values’ are ‘Canadian values’

On June 6, not six weeks after winning the 2025 Canadian general election, newly-elected Prime Minister Mark Carney joined the Muslim community to celebrate Eid al-Adha, where he proudly declared that “Muslim values are Canadian values.”

However, despite Mr. Carney’s attempt to encompass all of Canada under a loving embrace of Sharia law and Mohammedan tenets, Canada’s foundational values are utterly antithetical to the fundamental ideology of the Quran.

by Blazingcatfur•June 19, 2025June 18, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Canadian food budgets are tighter than in the U.S., survey finds

The average Canadian household spends one-third less on food per week than its U.S. counterpart, a new survey from Leger has found.

Conducted among roughly 1,600 Canadian and 1,000 U.S. respondents, the survey found that a typical weekly food budget in Canada totals C$179, while south of the border, that average looks more like US$203, or around C$277.

That represents a 35 per cent, or roughly one-third decrease for Canadian budgets, compared to the United States.

by Blazingcatfur•June 19, 2025June 18, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Slim majority of Canadians found reduced immigration levels still too high: government polling

OTTAWA — Shortly after cutting immigration levels, the federal immigration department heard through government-funded polling that a slight majority of Canadians still found this year’s number too high.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada commissioned the survey as part of its annual tracking of public sentiment towards immigration and reported it publicly as part of the government’s disclosures on its public opinion research.

A slim majority? It’s been found that the Liberal Party’s much touted intake reductions don’t amount to a hill of beans yet I feel certain these fudged numbers were presented as fact to poll respondents.

I don’t trust government anything but least of all opinion polling on Mass Immigration a policy for profit scam Carney and his Crony’s will exploit for personal gain.

Canada’s population growth at 0.0% so far this year: StatsCan

You can bet StatsCan did not include all those newly classified as illegal. The ones who are expected to leave voluntarily once their status as students etc… ends. Every year sees a new cohort.

by Blazingcatfur•June 19, 2025June 18, 2025•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Canada said it would stand up to Trump. Instead, it’s taking cues from him

Steve Bannon calls it “flooding the zone”. Donald Trump demonstrated it in his first weeks back in office, when he introduced over 100 executive orders. Regardless of their legal viability, the sheer volume of policy changes is the point. It is a political strategy to overwhelm institutions, courts and social groups, preventing effective opposition.

In Canada, we are witnessing our own version of “flooding the zone” from our new prime minister, Mark Carney, in coordination with provincial and territorial premiers. Carney is the former governor of the Bank of England. Before that, he was the governor of the Bank of Canada. He recently won the federal election by defeating a rightwing opponent Canadians feared would steer them too far towards Trump policies. Yet Carney’s “negotiations” with Trump have so far involved gentle reminders that Canada would never become the 51st state, as threatened by the US president, and capitulations to Trump’s demand to strengthen our border security and increase defense spending. In reality, Canada is moving much closer to the authoritarian rule of Trump.

Everyone is Hitler to the Guardian.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2025June 18, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Potential Canada-EU defence deal short on details as questions loom over feasibility of displacing U.S. links

‘Geography, cultural similarities, tight defence linkages—all of those things have gone hand in glove with the defence industrial links,’ says procurement expert David Perry.

With Canada heading towards joining Europe’s defence rearmament plan, much remains up in the air about how fully it would reorient Canada’s defence co-operation away from its current reliance on the United States.

The May 27 Throne Speech noted that Ottawa would “boost Canada’s defence industry by joining ReArm Europe, to invest in transatlantic security with Canada’s European partners.”

ReArm Europe is a European Commission project to have the bloc spend $1.25-trillion on defence over the next five years.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2025June 18, 2025•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada

‘It’s up to them’: Donald Trump says Canada will get a ‘much better deal’ if it becomes the 51st American state

KANANASKIS, ALTA. — The hustle is on.

U.S. President Donald Trump says Canada will soon pay a lot of money in tariffs if it cannot reach a speedy trade deal, and faces a $71 billion entry fee to join the “Golden Dome” missile defence project as he claimed Prime Minister Mark Carney wants — or it could choose the no-cost option of becoming his country’s 51st state.

Trump touted American statehood for Canada after he left the country, and the leaders had tasked their negotiating teams with a mandate to strike a deal quickly on punitive tariffs he’s slapped on Canadian products.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2025June 18, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney knows he has to choose Trump over China

Well, at least he didn’t walk out. While U.S. President Donald Trump left the G7 meeting in Kananaskis Monday night, it wasn’t in the huff the world witnessed at Charlevoix in 2018. This time, after a day of huddles and the signing of a U.K.–U.S. mini-deal that slashed auto tariffs, Trump hurried back to the White House because of “what’s going on in the Middle East.” His exit left Prime Minister Mark Carney and the remaining five leaders to hammer out the rest of the agenda, from trade to security to artificial intelligence, while keeping a nervous eye on the Iran-Israel war.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2025June 17, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Anthony Koch: At G7, Carney has his elbows way down for Trump

The pundits, voters and strategists who enabled the Liberals’ dishonest campaign must be held to account

The last federal election was not an honest conversation about Canada’s place in the world. It was a performance — slick, poll-tested, and ultimately hollow. Mark Carney presented himself as a principled adversary to Donald Trump, a steward of Canadian sovereignty who would stand up to a dangerous and unpredictable United States. And now, just months into his premiership, he insists “the G7 is nothing without U.S. leadership,” his government has resisted retaliating against American tariffs, and has even expressed desire to join Trump’s Golden Dome missile defence program.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2025June 17, 2025•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Carney promises Ukraine another $2B in military aid

BANFF — Prime Minister Mark Carney, in an attempt to “use maximum pressure against Russia,” has pledged $2 billion in spending, and an additional $2 billion in frozen Russian assets.

Carney also promised President Volodymyr Zelensky sanctions “against a number of individuals in Russia,” sanctions against over 40 entities “in Russia and beyond that are trying to contribute to the evasion of these sanctions,” and “the sanctioning of over 200 vessels in the shadow fleet that Russia is using to evade these sanctions.

He’s as bad as Junior.

h/t XC

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2025June 17, 2025•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Ukraine - Russia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Drop in Canadian tourists hurting U.S., northeast governors tell premiers

New England governors say tariffs and anti-Canadian rhetoric by the United States government is taking a bite out of tourism, with some states seeing a drop of up to 60 per cent in visitors from north of the border.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said Canadian tourism to her state and others such as Maine, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont is down between 20 and 60 per cent compared with last year.

I can understand the reluctance to travel based on current relations with the US but as big a cause is that Canadians have been impoverished by a horrid Liberal regime.

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2025June 17, 2025•0•Canada, USA

CHARLEBOIS: When supply management becomes a supply crisis

The system is failing to meet demand, depending on foreign product, and driving up costs at the grocery store

Canada’s supply management system — once heralded as a pillar of food security and agricultural self-sufficiency — is failing at its most basic function: Ensuring reliable domestic supply.

According to the latest figures from the Canadian Association of Regulated Importers (CARI), Canada imported more than 66.9 million kilograms of chicken as of June 14 — a 54.6% increase from the same period last year. To put that in perspective, this volume could feed 3.4 million Canadians for an entire year, based on per capita poultry consumption. That’s roughly 446 million individual meals — meals that, under a tightly managed quota system, were meant to be produced domestically.

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2025June 17, 2025•0•Canada

Carney’s Bill C-5 is a naked power grab that tramples our democracy

Perhaps Mark Carney has no desire to be re-elected as prime minister and doesn’t care if the federal Liberals fail to win another mandate.

Why else would he bring in legislation that runs roughshod over democratic norms in this country, sidelines experts testimony, opens the door to corruption and to lawsuits that could stymie projects, never mind hand the Grits’ political opponents an issue with which to hit them over the head, and upon which they can fundraise?

Why else would he send his cabinet ministers out to misrepresent controversial legislation to the public that could easily affect their rights to their land, to a clean and healthy environment?

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2025June 17, 2025•0•Aboriginal Issues, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Lucky Us: Interview With TDS Infected Prof Fearing Imminent, Absolutely, No Doubts About It, This Time Fer Sure US Fascism Who Fled to Canada

Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’

She finds the whole idea absurd. To Prof Marci Shore, the notion that the Guardian, or anyone else, should want to interview her about the future of the US is ridiculous. She’s an academic specialising in the history and culture of eastern Europe and describes herself as a “Slavicist”, yet here she is, suddenly besieged by international journalists keen to ask about the country in which she insists she has no expertise: her own. “It’s kind of baffling,” she says.

In fact, the explanation is simple enough. Last month, Shore, together with her husband and fellow scholar of European history, Timothy Snyder, and the academic Jason Stanley, made news around the world when they announced that they were moving from Yale University in the US to the University of Toronto in Canada. It was not the move itself so much as their motive that garnered attention. As the headline of a short video op-ed the trio made for the New York Times put it, “We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the US”.

As if U of T’s reputation hasn’t suffered enough being a prime training ground for latter day Storm Troopers.

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2025June 17, 2025•0•Canada, USA, WTF?