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Avi Benlolo: Terrorist-backed Al-Quds Day demonstrations have no place in Canada

In the heart of Toronto, a dangerous event is set to unfold once again: Al-Quds Day, an annual rally held on the last Friday of Ramadan rooted in the extremist ideology of Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, which calls for the destruction of Israel. What might appear to some as a political demonstration is, in reality, an event driven by a foreign terrorist entity — the Iranian regime, a state sponsor of terrorism that bankrolls groups like Hezbollah and Hamas. This rally does not promote peace or dialogue. It is a direct attack on Jewish people, their right to self-determination, and ultimately, on Canadian values.

Mama Hezbollah attended Al Quds Day at Queen’s Park over a decade ago.

Our elites hate us. The Islamists they imported are their Storm Troopers.

Nothing will ever be done about this criminal act.

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

We want to live in America’s 51st state: The Canadians pledging their loyalty to Trump

To many Canadians, talk of joining the United States is simple apostasy, but for some the idea is appealing

On the sunlit porch of a farmhouse in the Canadian province of Alberta, Don Casselman planted his feet, gripped a laminated document and began to read aloud.

“I hereby declare an oath that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all fidelity to any foreign prince,” said the former industrial electrician, facing towards a Star Spangled banner gaffer-taped to a pole.

Around his neck, Mr Casselman had thrown another American flag – and he tugged it carefully into place before pledging his loyalty to the government of the United States.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Two Edmonton Muslim women who joined ISIS ordered to attend deradicalization program

An Alberta judge has ordered two Edmonton women captured in Syria during the defeat of the Islamic State to take part in a deradicalization program.

At a court appearance on Friday, Helena Carson and Dina Kalouti were told they must undergo counselling with the Organization for the Prevention of Violence.

Justice Suzanne Polkosnik approved an RCMP request to impose a terrorism peace bond on the sisters-in-law, who acknowledged living in ISIS territory for four years.

That’ll cure em.

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

Some countries aren’t retaliating against Trump’s tariffs. Should Canada ‘turn the other cheek’?

Faced with tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, some countries have, so far, responded by turning the other cheek, and not retaliating with their own duties.

Canada, however, continues to hit back in the trade war with its neighbour to the south. But it also raises the question of whether Canada absorbing the blows from U.S. tariffs, while painful, might be preferable to the overall economic damage from a full-scale trade conflict.

It’s an issue, perhaps unsurprisingly, on which economists have varying views. Some say Canada has no choice but to retaliate, even if imposing tariffs on U.S. goods will increase prices for Canadians. But others suggest those moves may have little impact on the U.S.

The people who flooded Canada with cheap foreign labour to undercut worker wages are the same people who shipped your job overseas at the first opportunity under free trade agreements.

Now these same folks, who only ever have your best interests at heart, want you to believe that all tariffs anytime not just Trump’s are Satan’s handiwork.

This is why I regard our current annexation hysteria with its accompanying ready-to-assemble Ikea flat pack patriotism loyalty oath kits with a jaundiced eye.

We need a Trump.

Why Tariffs Are Good

The claim that tariffs are inherently misguided and inevitably harmful does not stand up to scrutiny, especially when it comes to U.S. trade with China

and …

Trump Is Right About Our Trading Partners Imposing Excessive Tariffs

h/t patthedog

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

LYTLE: The real reason Ford backed down, the US actually doesn’t need Ontario

In 2018, I sat on a regulatory panel to assess the plans of Manitoba Hydro to build an interconnecting high tension power line into Minnesota to replace electricity from coal powered plants in the US Midwest.

The evidence presented to the panel was valuable as a fascinating lesson in Canadian history but it also identified the significant, idled power generating capabilities of the United States. This was, in fact, the business case that George Soros used to justify the purchase of a majority position in Peabody Coal, one of the largest owners of idled, coal-fired, electricity generation. I assume that, seven years later, things have not changed very much.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

U.S. ‘outlined a path’ to ease tariffs during Ford’s meeting — but the president’s dislike of Trudeau hurt relations

Amid the pain of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, Premier Doug Ford sees an opening to ease the sting of a global trade war.

Ford’s meeting with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington on Thursday provided a road map on how to proceed, sources told the Star.

… Trudeau was mentioned by the Americans as an irritant and an impediment to resolving the trade standoff, insiders said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

CHARLEBOIS: Canada keeps losing at geopolitics, and farmers pay the price

Canada has walked itself into an unnecessary trade war with the United States’ biggest geopolitical rival, China.

The consequences are clear: new retaliatory tariffs from China are directly targeting our farmers, affecting over $3-billion worth of agrifood commodities and products.

These measures are a direct response to Canada’s decision to impose a 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in October, a move designed to align with U.S. trade policy and shield the North American auto sector from low-cost competition.

h/t patthedog

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA

Canada’s new PM on Trump’s 51st state talk: ‘It’s crazy’

New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney shut down President Trump’s talk of Canada potentially becoming the U.S.’s 51st state, characterizing it as “crazy” and vowing the North American neighbor will remain independent.

Carney, a former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor who was sworn in as Canada’s leader on Friday, succeeding his predecessor Justin Trudeau, said Canada and the U.S. are “fundamentally different” nations and that Ottawa “expects respect from America and Trump.”

“We will never in any way, shape or form be a part of the U.S. America is not Canada,” Carney said.

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

Brookfield’s Deep Ties to Chinese Land, Loans, and Green Deals—And a Real Estate Tycoon With CCP Links—Raise Questions as Carney Takes Over from Trudeau

OTTAWA, Canada — A review of corporate documents reveals that Brookfield—the influential $900 billion Canadian investment fund from which Liberal Prime Minister-to-be Mark Carney stepped away from in order to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s leader—maintains over $3 billion in politically sensitive investments with Chinese state-linked real estate and energy companies, along with a substantial offshore banking presence. One of its major real estate ventures, a $750 million entry into high-end Shanghai commercial property in 2013, involved a Hong Kong tycoon affiliated with the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)—which the CIA labels a central “united front” entity of Beijing.

Carney will ensure Canada remains a CCP branch plant.

h/t DM

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - Security Risk Under Liberal Party Regime", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA

John Ivison: An allegedly secret foreign deal limiting Canadian propane exports could leave us all poorer

As part of his economic plan for change, Mark Carney said his government will develop “ports, supply chains and new trade corridors” to help diversify Canada’s export markets.

The port of Prince Rupert on the northern coast of British Columbia claims to be doing just that, in the form of a $1.35-billion project called the Ridley Island Energy Export Facility (REEF) that is expected to be completed next year.

The Prince Rupert Port Authority (PRPA) boasts that it has provided “time-limited exclusive rights” for the export of LPG (liquid petroleum gases that include propane and butane) to REEF, a joint venture between Royal Vopak of the Netherlands and Calgary-based AltaGas .

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", Canada, WTF?

Joly’s annexation hyperbole deservedly treated as a joke by G7 counterparts

Some European counterparts thought U.S. annexation threats are a ‘joke’ during G7 meeting, Joly says

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says some of her G7 counterparts from Europe thought the United States is joking about annexing Canada.

Ms. Joly’s comments come after symbolic gestures and tepid comments on Canadian sovereignty at this week’s G7 meeting, which took place in the region of Charlevoix in Quebec.

“I think many of my colleagues coming here thought this issue was still a joke and that this had to be taken in a humorous way,” Ms. Joly said in a news conference concluding the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

US Conservatives Should Want No Part of Canadian Statehood

Most people assumed President Trump was joking when he first brought up the idea of Canada joining the United States as a 51st state. But now the idea is becoming a serious part of the trade war that has been launched against our northern neighbor, and administration officials are regularly touting the supposed benefits of the union.

Before we start taking this too seriously, can we just stop for a moment to acknowledge that apart from everything else, the idea of Canadian statehood would be an absolute disaster for American conservatism and confine the Republican Party to the ash heap of history.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trump’s Crackdown on Mexican Cartels Finds a Partner in President Sheinbaum

MEXICO CITY — President Sheinbaum led a mass gathering of jubilation on Sunday, days after the United States postponed for a second month 25 percent tariffs on Mexican imports, citing progress on drug smuggling and illegal immigration. Crowds waved Mexican flags as Ms. Sheinbaum praised the decision, saying, “Dialogue and respect have prevailed.”

How long Mexico can stave off President Trump’s wrath, though, is uncertain. United States 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports are at the moment set to take hold on Wednesday as planned, while the tariff pause on other Mexican goods is scheduled to expire on April 2.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, USA