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It’s no longer a question of whether someone blows up Justin Trudeau’s government, but when. Here’s where the parties stand

Susan Delacourt: A funny thing happened on the way to Parliament getting back in business last week. And no, I am not talking about the clutch of protesters threatening MPs, which isn’t really that funny at all. I’m referring to the fact that all our federal politicians just got back to the Commons and they’re all talking pretty tough — the gloves are now seriously off. So how do you think we got here, Matt, and where is this headed?

Headed to nowhere.

The Pact was ended in name only to allow Jagmeet and Junior to campaign without the need to explain their parasitic union.

by Blazingcatfur•September 23, 2024September 23, 2024•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The censors are in charge now

“One personal highlight from my week was being accused of enabling fascism by a member of the King’s Privy Council because I argued a film shouldn’t be cancelled under pressure from politicians and special-interest groups. “For Chris Selley, screening Russian intel operations at (the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)) is free speech: peak Canadian naïveté fuelling Kremlin war propaganda,” former Conservative immigration minister Chris Alexander ventured on X. “If Ukraine’s only friends were as fair-weather as Canada, the war against fascism would be lost.”

Canadians fighting over whether to ban a film funded by Canadians. Do we not have better things to do?

by Blazingcatfur•September 23, 2024September 23, 2024•0•"Ukraine - Russia", Canada

CHARLEBOIS: Feast or Famine — The new reality of eating in Canada

In recent years, the way Canadians consume food has dramatically transformed.

Data from Statistics Canada indicates that while food retail sales have been waning, food service sales have displayed remarkable resilience. Currently, the average Canadian spends approximately $246.19 per month on groceries, only slightly above the historical low of $241.19 recorded in May of this year.

by Blazingcatfur•September 23, 2024September 23, 2024•0•Canada

Violent Crime Surges in Canada’s Major Cities: Report

Violent crime is surging in some of Canada’s major cities, with sexual assault rates showing the largest increase over the short and long term, according to a new report.

Sexual assault cases climbed in eight of nine major cities over the past seven years, with Ottawa being the exception to the trend, according to a study by the Macdonald Laurier Institute (MLI). The incidence of sexual assault has risen since 2016 in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Peel, Ont., and York, Ont., with the last nearly doubling from 2016 to 2023.

by Blazingcatfur•September 23, 2024September 22, 2024•0•Canada, Crime

American conservative activist says defeating wokeism about following model

Rufo said what motivates politicians to act is a sense of urgency often emanating from media rooted in facts. To get politicians to act, he said he has generated media narratives.

By doing his investigations, he said he has been able to work news cycles. There is an adage in local television newsrooms that if it bleeds, it leads.

by Blazingcatfur•September 23, 2024September 22, 2024•0•"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", Canada

SLOBODIAN: A few Liberal MPs who we won’t miss when they’re gone

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expects Canadians to hand him a fourth term because the Liberal gang has more work to do.

These recent examples expose how some Liberal MPs, above being bothered with pesky things like accountability and ethics, have ‘served’ Canadians.

by Blazingcatfur•September 22, 2024September 22, 2024•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Dishonourable Liberals keep turning on Israel

The two principal foreign and strategic crises of this year, Ukraine and Israel, the federal government has a defensible record on the first but not on the second. In both cases it appears to be motivated entirely by domestic political equations without a glance at strategic requirements, let alone the course of national honour. For a country where Prime Ministers Chrétien, Harper, and Justin Trudeau have allowed our military capabilities to atrophy so badly that the chief assurance of our national security is to keep the telephone number of the Pentagon constantly at hand when we need the Americans to protect us, this government’s policy toward the Gaza war, in addition to being completely mistaken, is also extremely pompous. (Paul Martin wanted to explore the possibilities of Canada taking responsibility for its own defense, but his government was defeated before he could get to grips with this issue; the fact that he even thought of it should not be forgotten.)

by Blazingcatfur•September 22, 2024September 22, 2024•0•"Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

MP says he was ‘pushed’ by a Parliament Hill protester

A Liberal MP says he was pushed by one of the protesters who have been gathering on Parliament Hill for the first week of the fall sitting.

Several MPs say they have been harassed throughout the week by protesters who have been shouting and calling politicians and their staff “traitors.”

Liberal MP Taleeb Noormohamed told CBC Radio’s The House that one of the protesters shoved him as he was leaving Parliament Hill earlier this week.

by Blazingcatfur•September 22, 2024September 22, 2024•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Homelessness and open drug use in downtown Ottawa bring a national crisis to Parliament’s doorstep

From a downtown Ottawa sidewalk, Kevin Aubin has been watching what he describes as alarming changes in the city’s downtown, several blocks south of Parliament Hill.

The veteran panhandler says that he is seeing an influx of troubling newcomers on Bank Street in Ottawa’s core, a main street similar to downtown areas of Granville Street in Vancouver, Yonge Street in Toronto or Water Street in St. John’s.

by Blazingcatfur•September 22, 2024September 22, 2024•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

GUNTER: Calling the Bloc’s bluff

Don’t fear separation.

Since the Bloc replaced the NDP as the Trudeau Liberals’ crutch, there has been a mild revival of the old, “OMG, we’re on the verge of losing our country!” hysteria.

I don’t fear separation for two reasons. First, the Bloc aren’t truly separatists. To the extent they ever were, they are no longer.

by Blazingcatfur•September 22, 2024September 22, 2024•0•Canada

Andrew Kirsch: Revoke the citizenships of those who dupe the vetting process

Testifying in late August about a terror plot thwarted in July, Minister of Public Safety Dominic LeBlanc commended the intelligence and law enforcement services for their efforts. “This is the way that the investigative and national security system should work,” LeBlanc said. But in the hearings, he faced questions about the immigration vetting process and how two alleged terrorists, both born abroad, were able to get into Canada, and one receive full Canadian citizenship, given their alleged ISIS connections.

by Blazingcatfur•September 22, 2024September 22, 2024•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Twenty-two years later, federal government still working to deport Ottawa’s Mohamed Harkat

Twenty-two years after the federal government first launched its bid to deport Ottawa’s Mohamed Harkat to his native Algeria as a terrorist, a court will once again convene to consider the case.

A Federal Court hearing in December will review the “minister’s opinion,” written by an unnamed senior official at Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada, that concluded Harkat posed a serious threat to Canada as a member of the al-Qaida network and should be deported despite holding refugee status in this country.

by Blazingcatfur•September 22, 2024September 22, 2024•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Conservatives nixed motion to investigate recognition of Palestinian Statehood proposed by usual LPC/NDP suspects

Government MPs presented a motion to study Palestinian statehood at committee, sources say

Liberal MPs presented a motion to study a path toward recognizing Palestinian statehood on Thursday, CBC News has learned.

The text of the motion — presented in a closed-doors session of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee — calls for the government to find the quickest way toward recognizing a Palestinian state and asks the committee to dedicate four study sessions toward the matter, sources said.

CBC News has agreed not to identify the sources as they were not authorized to comment publicly on the matter.

by Blazingcatfur•September 22, 2024September 22, 2024•0•"Identity Politics", "Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canadians voice alarm over gang violence despite millions spent on prevention

Despite millions in federal spending aimed at curbing gun and gang violence, Canadians report a significant rise in gang-related crime, with many personally affected by it, according to new research by the Department of Public Safety.

“One in five Canadians report they or someone close to them has been affected by gang-related violence,” stated the report Guns And Gangs Awareness Campaign. Additionally, 70% of respondents agreed that Canada has a growing gang violence problem.

by Blazingcatfur•September 22, 2024September 21, 2024•0•Canada, Crime

What Lies Beneath Canada’s Former Indigenous School Sites Fuels a Debate

Despite possible evidence of hundreds of graves at former schools for Indigenous children, challenges in making a clear conclusion have given rise to skeptics.

The revelation convulsed all of Canada.

Ground-penetrating radar had found possible signs of 215 unmarked graves at a former residential school in British Columbia run by the Catholic Church that the government had once used to assimilate Indigenous children forcibly taken from their families.

It was the first of some 80 former schools where indications of possible unmarked graves were discovered, and it produced a wave of sorrow and shock in a country that has long struggled with the legacy of its treatment of Indigenous people. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered flags to fly at half-staff, as many Canadians wore orange T-shirts with the slogan “Every Child Matters.”

Three years later, though, no remains have been exhumed and identified.

What lies beneath is called Bullshit.

by Blazingcatfur•September 22, 2024September 21, 2024•0•"Residential School Mass Grave Mania", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government