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UK, France and Canada threaten ‘concrete actions’ against Israel, including sanctions

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The U.K., France and Canada on Monday threatened “concrete actions” against Israel, including sanctions, for its activities in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, calling on Israel to stop “egregious” new military actions in Gaza and immediately allow in humanitarian aid.

The sharply worded statement came shortly after Israel and the United Nations said the first few trucks of aid had entered Gaza after nearly three months of an Israeli blockade, as Israel acknowledged pressure from allies.

The joint statement called Israel’s decision to allow a “minimal” amount of aid into Gaza “wholly inadequate.” There was no immediate Israeli comment.

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

Supermarket workers are wearing body cameras. Welcome to the new dystopia

At some Loblaws and Shoppers Drug Mart stores, you may soon see employees strolling about wearing a new accessory: body cameras. Walmart is also piloting this tech in Canada. They’re compact and sometimes colourful devices that hang from a lanyard like a name tag at a conference. Except instead of sweetly introducing you to a clerk, they introduce the tacit threat of being recorded.

This technology is typically associated with law enforcement, not retail clerks. Though the cameras aren’t always storing video or audio, they can be switched on during “escalations.” It’s a surreal update to the kind of “Karen”-esque supermarket-aisle showdowns you sometimes see on social media, but more importantly, it’s a dark sign of what’s being asked of wage workers in today’s surveillance economy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Canada

Alberta government launches research centre to study Canada-U.S. relations

The Alberta government is launching a new research centre to study the political and economic dynamics between Canada and the United States, as U.S. President Donald Trump‘s trade war and 51st-state rhetoric have upended the previously close relationship between the two countries.

The New North American Initiative, led by the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, will receive $6.5-million over three years from the province. Post-secondary institutions and universities on both sides of the border will share expertise on navigating the new Canada-U.S. landscape.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada, USA

FBI Warning—CCP, Iran, and Mex-Cartels Partnering in Canada to Move Fentanyl and Terrorists Into U.S.

WASHINGTON — In an explosive Sunday interview that will place tremendous pressure on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new Liberal government, FBI Director Kash Patel alleged that Mexican cartels, Chinese Communist Party operatives, and Iranian threat actors have forged a new axis of criminal cooperation, using Canada’s porous northern border and the Port of Vancouver—not the southern Mexican border—as their preferred entry point to flood fentanyl and terror suspects into the United States.

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

‘Feeling forgotten’ and ‘left behind’: why more young men are voting Conservative

In a historic flip in trends, gen-Z voters overtook baby boomers in Conservative support this election, according to multiple voter intention surveys and early exit polls. Boomers, who typically vote blue, flocked to the Liberals in response to the ballot-box question of tackling United States President Donald Trump, whereas voters under the age of 30—specifically males—shifted to the Conservatives, pointing to an emerging generational and gender divide among Canada’s youngest voting demographic.

This trend is not unique to Canada. Young men are increasingly backing right-wing parties in developed nations across the globe. One of the most notable—and close—examples of this is in the U.S: in the 2024 presidential election, 51 per cent of male voters under the age of 30 voted for Republican candidate Donald Trump. That number represents an increase of 15 per cent from the 2020 U.S. election, and is 15 points higher than among young women of the same age.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

TDS Alert: After the joy of seeing Carney beat his Trump-lite rival, reality has bitten. Canada is an anxious, divided nation

A few days after last month’s Canadian election had delivered a minority victory to Mark Carney and the Liberal party, I got an email from someone I worked with when I lived in Virginia. They asked how I was feeling about the result, a big and complicated question.

Many Canadians I know feel immense relief at what they see as Canada’s rejection of the Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre’s, Trump-style brand. But underneath it simmers dread about what might be coming down the pipeline.

After all, a good chunk of the country dislikes (and even despises) the Liberal party. There’s the comment I heard about leaving the country if the Liberals get re-elected. The disinformation-laced lament from a small business owner about refugees and “woke” ideology. The friend who insisted Carney, not Poilievre, is more Trump-like. The Conservative stronghold of Alberta is so upset with the result it might hold a referendum on leaving the country. Danielle Smith, Alberta’s far-right premier, said people in her province are “hurt and betrayed” that Canada re-elected the Liberals. Meanwhile, Poilievre has vowed to stay on as Conservative leader, with a pending byelection to secure him a seat in a reliably Tory riding.

This poor deluded woman is happy to have reelected the same evil clowns who have run Canada into the ditch this past decade.

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

Laura Dawson: Hard truths about trade and migration from a Texas diner

At George’s Diner in Waco, Texas, I learned that trade and migration look a whole lot different from the U.S. southern border with Mexico than from the northern border with Canada.

It’s not a red light versus green light situation where the state is either open or closed to travel and trade. Rather, it is highly specific depending on who (or what) is crossing the border. Those who follow the rules are welcome, but those who do not should be excluded.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

GOLDSTEIN: ‘Elbows up’ was Liberal rhetoric while policy was ‘quietly fold’ on tariffs

As it turns out, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s election strategy of publicly talking tough about taking on U.S. President Donald Trump in his tariff/trade war, while practising a far more conciliatory approach behind the scenes, was hiding in plain sight all the time.

Ian Bremmer, president of New York-based Eurasia Group, a political risk analysis firm with close ties to Carney, accurately predicted this strategy in a March 26 column titled, “The end of the transatlantic relationship as we know it.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Cory Morgan: Another Strike Will Be the Beginning of the End of Canada Post

Small businesses relying on shipping and receiving products have had a terrible year. In November 2024, a strike by Canada Post workers caused an estimated $1.6 billion in business disruptions. Then in January 2025, the on-again, off-again tariff war with the United States created costly havoc and instability within the private market, which continues today. Now, Canadian businesses are bracing for another blow as Canada Post workers threaten to leave the job again as soon as May 22.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

GUNTER: Carney government continues Liberals’ contempt for democratic unaccountability

During the recent federal election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney and his ministers authorized nearly $70 billion in federal spending without Parliamentary authorization. Given that the campaign was 37 days long, a man who had no seat in the Commons at the time and who had never received a vote from a single Canadian voter, authorized an average of $1.9 billion a day.

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

Is Canada’s legal weed tied to a smuggling epidemic abroad?

PARIS—There is a brisk and growing trade between Canada and Europe, and it has nothing to do with American tariffs or Donald Trump.

Canadian cannabis is increasingly washing up on the shores of this continent, landing in its airports and being sold on its streets. It is part of an illegal-smuggling trend that authorities believe is tied to Canada’s 2018 decision to legalize the sale and consumption of marijuana.

That law made Canada a leader — the first among industrialized nations to permit recreational cannabis use. Now, Canada has developed an international black eye as a top source nation for the drug, which remains illegal in much of the world.

Trudeau pushed legalization. I’m betting because China wanted it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Drug Legalization, Drugs, Marijuana

Carney reaffirms Canadian support for Ukraine in first meeting with Zelensky

ROME — Prime Minister Mark Carney reaffirmed Canada’s “steadfast and unwavering support” for Ukraine in his first meeting with the country’s president on Saturday in Rome.

His meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy was one of several sitdowns with world leaders taking place in the Italian capital, where Carney — a devout Catholic — has travelled to attend the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV. The Prime Minister is making a concerted effort to meet with other G7 leaders ahead of the global summit Canada is hosting in Kananaskis, Alta., next month.

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

Donald Trump’s envoy suggests talks ‘over the next couple of weeks’ will address the Canada-U.S. relationship

OTTAWA — Donald Trump’s new emissary to Ottawa struck a friendly tone toward his Canadian hosts in a speech at a business summit on Friday, where he dodged any direct reference to the trade war his president launched and alluded to discussions about how Canada and the U.S. can “move forward” with their relationship.

In a speech at the B7 Summit of business groups from G7 countries — a private sector preview of next month’s political summit of wealthy democracies in Kananaskis, Alta. — U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra spoke of his family connections to Canada and noted how his Dutch parents were “liberated by Canadians” in the Netherlands during the Second World War.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

KLEIN: Extremist politics have failed Canada — trading competence with conflict and theatre

Canada has always been a country of balance — steady, practical, reasonable. But in recent years, that balance has been lost. We’re not just off course — we’ve let our politics be overtaken by extremes, and it’s costing us.

I’m not here to rant. I’m not here to attack. I’m here to lay out the facts. Because when you strip away the noise, the evidence is clear: We are a divided country, and while politicians argue over slogans and ideology, the fundamentals that make a nation strong are slipping away.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Islamic Supremacist Students Plotting to Penetrate Canada’s Healthcare System Exposed on Discord

In May 2025, Dawson College launched an investigation into violent and aggressive social media posts that were created by Islamists and their enablers on the social media platform Discord.

The Discord channel, called “MedServeur,” had over 1,400 members and was originally established to assist prospective Quebec medical school students with the admissions process. However, the channel became a hub for violent imagery, Islamic supremacist commentary, and hateful content targeting various groups.

h/t patthedog

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