Canada

The U.S. needs a few good allies. Does it still need Canada?

There’s a brief, delicious little vignette at the beginning of military historian Tim Cook’s latest book that neatly captures the essence of Canada’s decades-long national security and defence relationship with the United States.

Speaking in Kingston, Ont. with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King at his side, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that “the people of the United States would not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil is threatened by any other Empire.”

Seizing territory, having boots on the ground will never fall out of war’s fashion but how they are fought in the coming age of AI may determine the necessity of allies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Joly says about 45,000 Canadians in Lebanon; she’s concerned about Hezbollah pager explosions

Joly says about 45,000 Canadians in Lebanon; she’s concerned about pager explosions

OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says close to 45,000 Canadians are in Lebanon, months after warning there is no guarantee Ottawa can evacuate them if the situation deteriorates further.

She is also expressing concern that attacks like exploding pagers are only making the situation worse.

I wonder how many of those so called “Canadians” are Hezbollah members?

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

This New York farmer is overwhelmed by illegal crossings from Canada, caught on camera

The outline of a liquor bottle is carved into boards just beneath the tip of the roof on one side of Chris Oliver’s barn, which sits a few feet away from the Canadian border which runs along the northern edge of his farm near Fort Covington, N.Y.

The outline echoes another age along these borderlands when runners moved contraband liquor from Canada south across this stretch of land between Quebec and New York state during prohibition.

Now a different type of traffic is moving through Oliver’s farm: people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Conservatives call on Elon Musk to step in after Liberals provide loan to Ottawa-based satellite operator

A $2.14-billion federal loan for an Ottawa-based satellite operator has Canadian politicians arguing about whether American billionaire Elon Musk poses a national security risk.

The fight involves internet connectivity in remote regions as Canada tries to live up to its promise to connect every Canadian household to high-speed internet by 2030.

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

US Border Patrol Apprehends Record Number of Migrants Crossing From Canada

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reported an unprecedented number of migrant encounters at the border between Canada and the United States from last October through July of this year.

There were 19,498 migrant encounters recorded between border posts along the northern border for the 10-month period between October 2023 and July 2024, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

3 men injured after man with knife walks into Montreal-area mosque

A 24-year-old man has been arrested following an altercation at a Montreal-area mosque that left three people injured on Friday afternoon.

Police in Châteauguay, Que., say the man entered the Centre Culturel Musulman de Châteauguay, located on St-Jean Baptiste Boulevard, holding a knife when an altercation broke out with several individuals at around 1:40 p.m.

The police are keeping this tightly sealed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, WTF?

Facing Current Realities, Governments in Canada Abandon Experimental Policies

B.C.’s NDP Premier David Eby last week became the latest politician to distance himself from the carbon tax, while his federal counterpart Jagmeet Singh said he opposes the Liberals’ version of the scheme.

Before that, B.C. did a U-turn on its hard drugs decriminalization experiment, asking the feds to remove the Criminal Code exemption amid rising drug use. As well, in a province that once pioneered various harm reduction and safe injection site policies, amid backlash the government sought to bring in legislation to limit drug use in parks where children play, though it was challenged in the courts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Trudeau government to release report on how Muslim terrorists were allowed into Canada by the Trudeau gov’t

OTTAWA—A government review into how a father and son arrested in Toronto for allegedly planning a terror attack were allowed into Canada will be completed and made public in the next two weeks, federal immigration minister Marc Miller said Thursday.

Miller’s comments came as he appeared before the public safety committee, which is probing the Canadian government’s border screening processes in the backdrop of two recent alleged terror plots that were foiled in Canada but have raised concerns from opposition MPs about Canada’s security vetting.

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

Muslim “student” accused of terror plot in New York welcomed with open arms into Trudeau’s Canada, records show

A foreign student in Canada accused of plotting an Islamic State-inspired attack against Jews living in New York entered this country last year without raising any red flags that triggered additional screening by federal security agencies, according to records tabled Thursday at a parliamentary inquiry.

Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a 20-year-old Pakistani national residing in the Toronto area for the past year, was arrested in Quebec earlier this month. He now faces extradition to the United States on charges that he was lending material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

Jerry Grafstein: The war against Jews comes to Canada

The roots of antisemitism in Canada are deep, tangled and growing. Nowhere in Western democracies has the rise been so swift, obvious and evident as in Canada. B’nai Brith Canada’s annual report tracking antisemitic incidents across Canada with impeccable statistics proves the point. Metro Toronto Police statistics also confirm this fact. There are more hate incidents against Jews and Jewish institutions per capita in Canada than all other minority groups put together. Per capita, the number of antisemitic incidents in Canada is highest in the Western world, and Toronto leads the world in per capita antisemitic incidents.

Maybe be a little more discerning of who you allow to immigrate?

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Rebel News not eligible for journalism tax credits, Federal Court rules

A Federal Court judge has upheld the government’s decision that far-right media outlet Rebel News doesn’t qualify for journalism tax credits because it doesn’t produce enough original content.

Rebel News applied in May 2021 to be designated as a qualified Canadian journalism organization, but was rejected by the Canada Revenue Agency, which found that less than one per cent of its content was original news.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

CHARLEBOIS: Canada is sobering up — here’s why

Canada is experiencing a notable shift in its alcohol consumption patterns.

Quebec’s SAQ is the latest liquor authority to report a consecutive decline in alcohol sales by volume, a trend that mirrors what is happening across the nation. In the most recent fiscal year, alcohol sales by volume have dropped in all provinces, signaling a significant change in Canadian drinking habits. According to the data, Ontario’s sales fell by 2.0%, Quebec by 2.5%, and Alberta saw a steep 15% decline, based on estimates and liquor board reports. Provinces such as Nova Scotia (-4.2%), Manitoba (-6.7%), and British Columbia (-4.9%) have also reported substantial drops.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Smugglers are advertising illegal Canada-U.S. border crossings on TikTok

“We do it every day. It will take one hour to arrive at the destination. From there you need to walk 40 minutes through the jungle.”

“Is it safe?”

“Yes brother. It is not our first time.”

Radio-Canada had this conversation recently over WhatsApp with an individual associated with one of a dozen TikTok accounts we identified that were advertising an illegal service: helping Indian temporary residents in Canada cross into the U.S. outside of official border points.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Canada

Sexual assaults, robberies surging in Canada’s cities: report

OTTAWA — Sexual assaults and robberies are up in Canada’s major cities, according to a new report.

The Macdonald Laurier Institute’s Urban Violent Crime Report sheds new light on the state of Canada’s increasingly unsafe streets, including an alarming rise in the incidence of urban sex crimes.

Sounds like we have a huge mystery on our hands! Is there some link? Some commonality? Authorities are stumped! 

Note. This Bolo collection is for illustrative purposes only as it is not updated with recent captures or new additions from 2023.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime

Diversity Alert: Ontario police arrest 2 suspects, search for 3 others in door-to-door sales fraud

Two people have been arrested, and three others are still at large in connection with a door-to-door sales fraud that police said victimized more than 200 people across Ontario.

In a news release on Wednesday, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) provided an update on its investigation into the fraud, which began in the summer of 2021. Dubbed Project Nettle, investigators uncovered that salespeople attended homes of older adults and vulnerable people “to initiate frauds where victims unknowingly entered into home service and/or renovation agreements at exorbitant prices.

… The three outstanding suspects are 23-year-old Anas Ayyoub, 33-year-old Muhammad Waqar Afzal and 28-year-old Muhammad Wasiq Afzal. They are wanted on several charges, including fraud over $5,000 and possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada