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Toronto during FIFA World Cup at greater risk than Vancouver for terrorist attack: National security expert

On May 6, the Trump White House released its 2026 United States Counterterrorism Strategy that found “legacy Islamist terrorists,” narcoterrorists, and violent extremists as the primary threats to their homeland. Now with the FIFA World Cup kicking off June 11 across North America, the document lands as the U.S., Canada, and Mexico are in the final weeks of preparing to host the largest sporting event on earth.

The threat level has increased considerably in recent months. In March, LBC exclusively reported that ISIS had been actively encouraging followers to target the 2026 World Cup, calling for mass casualty attacks. This month, Al-Qaeda released a new issue of its English-language periodical Inspire in video format, titled “Why We Call for Jihad Operations in the West,” encouraging lone wolf attacks inside Western countries. A Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) analysis published last week concluded: “The risk has never been higher.”

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by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

CHARLEBOIS: Dispelling Canada’s grocery tax illusion

Quebec is poised to become the second province in Canada in recent weeks to eliminate provincial sales taxes on food-related items. Unlike Manitoba, however, Quebec is taking a broader and arguably more pragmatic approach by extending relief to healthier, ready-to-eat products and convenience foods. That distinction matters. Too often, public policy assumes that only “junk food” is taxed, when in reality many prepared and nutritious options remain subject to provincial sales taxes simply because they are convenient. Quebec’s new measure, expected to cost more than $100 million annually, acknowledges an important reality of modern food consumption: Convenience is no longer a luxury. For many Canadians, it is a necessity.

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•"Food Insecurity", Canada

Highest proportion of people since 2017 say Canada is on the right track: poll

OTTAWA — The number of Canadians who believe the country is heading in the right direction has hit its highest percentage since 2017, according to a new poll from Abacus Data.

The poll published Sunday said that 47 per cent of people believe Canada is heading in the right direction, while 39 per cent say the country is on the wrong track.

Meanwhile, the poll suggests 76 per cent of Canadians see the rest of the world as moving in the wrong direction. That figure increases to 80 per cent when the question was about the United States

I do not believe this poll. h/t XC

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 24, 2026•0•Canada, WTF?

Canadian unity suddenly needs a hero. Can Mark Carney be that guy?

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says hope is not a strategy when confronting global economic and security turmoil.

It also won’t work to confront the twin national unity challenges in Alberta and Quebec that are fomenting.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, cornered by separatists in her party’s ranks, will host a referendum on whether the province should remain in Canada or begin the process of splitting the country apart.

by Blazingcatfur•May 24, 2026May 24, 2026•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Conrad Black: Canada better hope Alberta doesn’t leave with its wealth

It is painful to reflect on this, but I think we are disserving ourselves if we do not recognize how absurd this country appears to many well-disposed and intelligent foreign onlookers. We are now seen as the most absurdly woke and politically correct (and therefore foolish) country in the world, and the country with the highest suicide rate in the world because our crumbling health-care system now champions the virtues of early death, as well as being one of the most unsafe advanced countries for Jews to live in, because of widespread antisemitic bigotry.

by Blazingcatfur•May 24, 2026May 24, 2026•0•"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ill-gotten gains

“Let’s go to where I stabbed this dude,” Robert Rundo tells the camera outside a convenience store in Queens, N.Y., wearing a backward hat and sunglasses as he aggressively chews gum.

In the short propaganda video for his California-based Rise Above Movement, which was posted in February, the native New Yorker is almost gleeful as he recalls the moment. In a detailed play-by-play of this “street warfare” incident, he describes how, in 2009, he battered and stabbed an alleged member of a Salvadoran-American street gang known as MS-13 over a territory dispute in his childhood neighbourhood. The camera shakes while the 36-year-old delivers his stand-up; the footage, which appears digitally altered to look gritty, is interspersed with images of him doing pull-ups with his shirt off and boxing in a gym. The video’s bland title, “Where I’m From: White Working Class Queens,” gives the game away in its opening text: “A fascist in the concrete jungle.” “Fascist” is clearly not meant derogatorily.

In Canada the CBC and its hate group allies have lead the moral panic over “Active Clubs” because it’s racist for White people to associate with one another.

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by Blazingcatfur•May 23, 2026May 23, 2026•0•"Peak Woke", Canada, USA

‘Canada is handing people over to ICE’: refugees rejected at border face US detention

As each day in US detention passes, Markens Appolon can feel the life he had dreamed of slipping away.

The 25-year-old fled Haiti to escape the rampant gang violence that upended his university studies in economics, and planned to join family in Montreal.

But for the last four and a half months, Appolon has been incarcerated in a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility. He wonders how he would even begin to rebuild, if he is released.

Imagine that, Canada did the right thing. Pic from here.

by Blazingcatfur•May 23, 2026May 23, 2026•0•Camp Of The Saints, Canada, USA

Ford slams encampment ruling affecting Kitchener transit expansion: ‘It’s a joke’

Premier Doug Ford isn’t too pleased with an Ontario judge’s ruling about a homeless encampment in Kitchener, which has stalled a planned transit expansion.

Ontario Court Justice Michael R. Gibson said Waterloo Region would not be allowed to remove residents living at the encampment as part of a court ruling that came down Thursday.

The Ontario Superior Court has ruled that homelessness is a protected category under the Charter right to equality. I brainstormed a few ideas as to what this may look like in practice. Here's an extended example.

The law of substantive equality works towards equal outcomes.… https://t.co/jSsT6gj2Ot

— Jamie Sarkonak (@sarkonakj) May 22, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•May 23, 2026May 23, 2026•0•Canada, WTF?

Can a province just decide to leave Canada? Here’s what the law says

With the possibility of two separation referendums on the horizon, Canadians could be forgiven for wondering what would happen if voters in one province or another decide they no longer want to be a part of Canada.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has pledged that her province would hold a referendum in the fall essentially asking if voters want a second binding referendum on separation at a later date.

by Blazingcatfur•May 23, 2026May 23, 2026•0•Canada

The Muslim Brotherhood’s covert presence in the West

The West offers the “ideal environment” for an organization like the Muslim Brotherhood to carry out its operations “because we are extremely tolerant,” says Lorenzo Vidino, an expert on the Islamist organization.

The Muslim Brotherhood has inspired or spawned some of the world’s most dangerous terrorist organizations. Yet its goals, strategy, structure, and financing remain poorly understood – even by many of the world’s leading national security and intelligence agencies.

by Blazingcatfur•May 23, 2026May 22, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Pentagon doubles down on Canada rebuke with demand for NATO spending road map, F-35 decision – proposed Carignan NATO makeover threatened

The Pentagon wants to see Canada articulate a clear plan on how the country intends to meet NATO’s new military spending benchmark before resuming binational defence planning co-operation.

The absence of a plan to spend 3.5 per cent of Canada’s gross domestic product on the military, plus an additional 1.5 per cent of GDP on defence infrastructure, appears to be at the heart of this week’s suspension of the U.S.–Canada Permanent Joint Board on Defence (PJBD).

Senior Pentagon officials, speaking on background Thursday to mostly Canadian journalists, also cited the absence of a decision on whether to proceed with the full purchase of American-made F-35 fighter jets as another major irritant.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2026May 22, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada, NATO, USA

Whistleblowers say organized crime has infiltrated Canada’s largest airport

Whistleblowers tell CTV News’ investigative unit W5 that organized crime has infiltrated Canada’s largest airport, as they call for sweeping reforms.

It took the horror of Sept. 11 to force airports around the world into a massive security overhaul to guard against terrorism.

Passengers became the focus of intense scrutiny: shoes off, liquids ditched, carry-on luggage scanned, bodies searched.

Pearson sounds worse.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2026May 22, 2026•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Crime

US baseball team’s charter bus torched near Winnipeg Goldeyes stadium

The visiting Kane County Cougars clobbered the Winnipeg Goldeyes earlier this week on the field, but they took a big loss Thursday morning just outside Blue Cross Park.

The team’s charter bus, parked in a lot across William Stephenson Way, was set ablaze at around 2 a.m., said police, who arrested two people.

h/t Al The Fish

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2026May 21, 2026•0•Canada, USA, WTF?

Canadian regulator triples US streamers’ financial contributions to Canadian content

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Large online streaming services must contribute 15% of their Canadian revenues to Canadian content, the country’s federal broadcast regulator said Thursday.

That figure is three times the 5% initial contribution requirement the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, CRTC, set out in 2024, which is being challenged in court by U.S.-based major streamers, including Apple, Amazon and Spotify.

The CRTC made the decision as part of its implementation of the Online Streaming Act, which the U.S. has identified as a trade irritant ahead of trade negotiations with Canada.

Thanks Carney, you sure a master negotiator.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2026May 21, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada, USA

Jamie Sarkonak: How being in a toxic relationship can now get you sued

You can sue someone for inflicting mental distress, for causing you physical harm, and for causing you to fear that you’ll experience physical harm, which should cover all the bases of domestic violence. But on Friday, a majority of the Supreme Court went a step further and recognized a new way to sue for suffering mere indignity in a relationship.

It’s called the “tort of intimate partner violence” — which isn’t exactly an accurate title, as it doesn’t actually require violence to have taken place. The essentials are just this: a relationship between the parties (past or present) must have existed, intentional abusive conduct by one against the other must have taken place, and that conduct must amount to “coercive control.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2026May 21, 2026•0•Canada, WTF?