Canada

Not surprised …

The police repeat a pattern I and others noted many protests ago.

Being small of number and much less prone to violence it was just a whole lot easier for the police to “move us along for our own safety”.

Those previous efforts to maintain Community cohesion aka surrender to the Islamist mob have lead us to where we are today.

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

CHARLEBOIS: Counter-tariffs, not Trump, hurting Canada’s food economy

Canada’s food processing sector is becoming increasingly vulnerable – not merely due to global market volatility, but as a direct consequence of Ottawa’s policy decisions.

In choosing to retaliate against U.S. protectionism with formal counter-tariffs, Canada now finds itself aligned with China as one of only two countries to pursue such measures. While these actions may serve domestic political optics, they are inflicting measurable and lasting harm on Canada’s food manufacturing ecosystem.

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

Liberals’ lead could change if domestic concerns surpass U.S. tensions, says pundits, pollster

The Liberals have been boosted in the polls because of public concern about how Canada should deal with the United States, but a shift in focus to more domestic policy issues could make the outcome of the election much harder to predict, say lobbyists and pundits.

“The way I see it is, these last two weeks have been marred and had the cloud of [U.S. President Donald] Trump hanging over the election, and I would argue that the rubber hasn’t hit the road yet,” said Andrea Sarkic, a public affairs counsellor for Compass Rose Group and a former Conservative staffer.

WTF?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025

Trump’s Tariff Fire Works

Despite the great deal of sound and fury that it has generated, it is perhaps too early to assess the lasting impact of President Donald Trump’s latest fireworks on tariffs.

Some things, however, are certain.

Contrary to assertions by talking heads on the small screen, we are not heading for a global trade war.

True, the US is the world’s biggest economy and ranks second as a trading power. But its share of world trade hovers around 12 percent, or under 10 percent of its GDP. The remaining 88 percent of world trade by 192 nations won’t be immediately affected.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Liberation Day", Canada, USA

Illegal crossings at US-Canada border drop — but enforcement shrinks: ‘Opportunity for terrorists’

Liberal Party Voters Every Last One.

US officials are pleading for help at the Canadian border, claiming the “most dangerous people are coming through” the largely unchecked crossing.

The number of illegal entries from the often-overlooked northern border have plummeted since President Trump’s election in November, but the gains have mostly stalled in recent months as Customs and Border Patrol has turned its full attention to Mexico.

“They had to shift manpower to the southwest border which opened up an even greater opportunity for terrorists to come through our northern border,” said Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), who co-chairs the Northern Border Security Caucus.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Liberal operatives planted ‘stop the steal’ buttons at conservative conference

Two Liberal Party staffers attended last week’s Canada Strong and Free Networking (CSFN) Conference where they planted buttons that used Trump-style language and highlighted division within the Conservative Party.

The conference, often referred to by its former name, the Manning Conference, is an opportunity for conservative-leaning Canadians to talk about policy proposals and network. It was held at the Westin Hotel in downtown Ottawa.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Conservative Party, Election 2025

Federal election vote intention split among age, gender: Nanos

It’s a two-horse race that appears to be tightening, according to nightly tracking numbers from Nanos Research, which also show large gender and age divides forming among likely voters.

Forty-one per cent of respondents between 18 and 34 say they plan to vote Conservative, compared to 37 per cent who plan to vote Liberal. For those over the age of 55, 50 per cent plan to vote Liberal compared to 36 per cent for the Conservatives.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025

GOLDSTEIN: Reckless Liberal spending compromised our ability to fight tariff war

Liberal government misspending has left us ill-equipped to fight a tariff war with the U.S. – and one of the only alternatives the government has will be to increase taxes to do so.

But don’t take my word for it.

Those warnings came from Chrystia Freeland when she was finance minister and from parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux.

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

Canada ‘isolated’ as most nations rebuff retaliatory tariffs on America

Only Canada and China have chosen to impose counter levies in response to American tariffs.

Canada’s past chief negotiator for the new NAFTA says the country finds itself alone as one of the few globally to have used countermeasures against American tariffs.

Retaliatory tariffs on some American auto exports went into force on April 9. Canada has imposed a series of counter-tariffs to respond to U.S. levies on autos and steel and aluminum exports, as well as goods that aren’t compliant with the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), which U.S. President Donald Trump imposed under the guise of addressing fentanyl.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

The story of ‘Canadians for the 51st state and Elon Musk for Governor’: How a thriving buy-and-sell forum turned into Facebook’s largest voice for annexation

If you were in need of a slightly cracked purple iPhone, a Cuban sandwich grill or a green camo PS4 controller that “works great,” there was a time when Hamilton’s buy-and-sell Facebook group was the place to be — to be specific, any time before the evening of Jan. 10, 2023.

That’s the moment when the group made an abrupt — and decisive — break with used blenders and baby clothes. In the last gasp of normalcy, someone posted pictures of a life jacket for a small dog for sale that was swiftly overshadowed, two minutes later, by a post with a photo featuring Donald Trump in a garish yellow outfit.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

The vast majority of Canadians are proud to be Canadian: poll

Eighty-five per cent of Canadians say they’re proud to be Canadian — up five percentage points from nearly one year ago, according to a new poll.

The Leger poll conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies found that Atlantic Canadians and those in Manitoba and Saskatchewan are the most proud (91 per cent). They’re followed by those in Alberta (86 per cent), Ontarians (85 per cent) and people in British Columbia (84 per cent). Quebecers feel the least national pride, with 79 per cent saying they’re proud to be Canadian.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Support for Canada’s oil-and-gas sector gets a Trump bump

Almost 20 years ago, Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper asserted Canada was an energy superpower. Under Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government, the narrative was not about flexing our energy muscles, but on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and shifting to green energy.

And then along came Donald Trump. The U.S. President has driven home to Canadians the importance of Canada’s oil-and-gas sector. His administration has implemented tariffs on aluminum, steel and the automotive sector, but oil and gas was left alone. This drove home to Canadians the importance of the oil and gas sector – not just to the Canadian economy, but to the American economy, as well.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025

Saskatchewan beats Alberta and Quebec in wanting to leave Canada if Carney wins: poll

Saskatchewan is the province that wants to leave Canada the most if Liberals win the upcoming election in Canada, a new poll finds.

Around 33 per cent of residents from the central prairie province “say they would vote to leave federation, whether to form their own country or to join the United States,” if Liberals form the next government, according to the survey by nonprofit Angus Reid Institute.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025, Saskatchewan

The Slow Disintegration of Canada

W.B. Yeats once wrote that “the centre cannot hold.” In Canada’s case, this is increasingly true.

The country isn’t collapsing under the weight of competing separatist projects. Rather, it’s quietly dissolving under the acids of institutional unraveling, political incoherence, and a growing sense that regional interests and identities are more important than any sense of “Canadianness.” The problem, therefore, is not one of a dramatic crisis. It’s more one of incremental balkanization. Provinces aren’t formally breaking away from the Canadian confederation. Rather, they’re just increasingly doing their own thing – irrespective of Ottawa and the national vision that that city represents.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada