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Conscription if necessary?

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a plan to bring back mandatory national service for 18-year-olds last week. The plan would require British teens to partake in a 12-month full-time military placement or spend one weekend a month carrying out community service. The program, which the Tories insisted shouldn’t be described as “conscription,” could be dismissed as an outlandish idea from a government likely on its way out – if, that is, you hadn’t been tuned in to the changing mood about mandatory military service in the West in recent months.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada

Canada now ‘a little bit of a laughingstock in NATO’

“Canada, you are freeloading!” That’s how businessman and former Canadian soldier Lawrence (Larry) Stevenson interprets last week’s letter from 23 U.S. Democratic and Republican senators to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The American lawmakers urged Canada to uphold its NATO commitments, and speed up efforts to increase defence spending to two per cent of GDP.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

What Canada can learn from Japan in solving its housing and productivity crises

Faced with crises in housing, health care and a stagnant economy, Canadians may feel like their challenges are insurmountable. But solutions may not be that hard. To see how we might do things differently, we could look to Japan’s cities for ideas.

Take the two capitals, for starters. Ottawa has about a million residents, Tokyo some 14 times that. Yet Tokyo occupies less space. You would think that with that kind of density Tokyo, which after all is one of the world’s great metropoles and a global corporate and financial hub, would be an expensive place to live. Yet average house prices are lower there than in Ottawa.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada, Japan

Antisemitism anxiety at synagogues after week of attacks on Jewish institutions

Members of Canada’s Jewish community expressed both anxiety and resolve on Saturday at Shabbat services held following a week of attacks targeting schools and religious institutions that have further stoked fears of rising antisemitism.

In Vancouver, the Schara Tzedeck synagogue held its first service since the building’s front door was charred Thursday night by what police say was an act of arson.

That anxiety will never leave entirely even after the current Gaza war is put to bed.

Muslims are taught to hate Jews. It’s their religion.

Their supremacist cult also teaches them to hate everyone else.

Unless our mainstream political parties wake up and ban Muslim immigration the level of violence will only increase.

I do not expect our political class to do the right thing.

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

Black like Blackie …

Black scholars criticize white writer’s ‘dehumanizing’ use of blackface to write book on U.S. race relations

A Canadian journalist is defending his decision to travel the U.S. in blackface and write a book about racism, after facing a storm of criticism online.

“Last summer, I disguised myself as a Black man and traveled throughout the United States to document how racism persists in American society,” Sam Forster, who is white, posted Tuesday on X, formerly Twitter. “Writing Seven Shoulders was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done as a journalist.”

The reaction was swift and brutal, with X users expressing anger, amusement and confusion, and telling Forster he should have simply spoken to Black people to understand their experiences.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", "Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Virtue Signalling", "Peak Woke", Canada, WTF?

Canada raised foreign interference concerns with China, defence minister says

SINGAPORE, June 1 (Reuters) – Canada warned China against meddling in its elections during a rare meeting of the countries’ defence chiefs, its defence minister said on Saturday.

“I raised the concern of foreign interference in all the manifestations that it might take, including interference in our institutions, including our elections, but also actions of collusion against the Chinese diaspora in Canada, our citizens,” Defence Minister Bill Blair told Reuters, referring to his conversation with Chinese counterpart Dong Jun.

I bet he did.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

GOLDSTEIN: A word in defence of the Parliamentary Budget Officer

Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux and his staff are among the few independent, non-partisan sources of information that critically examine the cost of federal government policies.

Without the PBO and the auditor general, Canadians would be at the perpetual mercy of the federal government’s massive public relations bureaucracy, which presents all government policies in the most positive light possible.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Warnings of Election Meddling by China Never Reached the Prime Minister

It can be a bit difficult to keep tabs on the various inquiries and examinations into foreign interference in Canadian elections, particularly by China.

Ottawa’s latest growth industry was largely created by a series of leaks of highly classified intelligence that first appeared in The Globe and Mail, and then Global News, that described attempts by the Chinese government to meddle in the last two elections with the goal of returning the Liberals to power, if again with a minority government.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Adam Pankratz: B.C.’s ‘racist hotline’ just more virtue signalling, while raging Jew hatred ignored

This past Friday, a Jewish synagogue in Vancouver was firebombed. Thankfully, there was minimal damage and no one was hurt, but it is the latest in a continued and ongoing escalation of targeted violence against Canada’s Jewish population. It is beyond appalling that such violence is occurring. But perhaps worse has been the feeble and flaccid response from our governments at all levels, when they can be bothered to respond at all.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada

I’m an army reservist and a nurse. I learned to keep the first job a secret

I’m an army reservist. That means I’m a part-time soldier for the Canadian Armed Forces, who train constantly and volunteer to serve when there is a need to fight wildfires or deploy to a war zone.

I’m proud to be in the army and believe it’s a force for good. But I’ve learned to keep this aspect of my identity under wraps because some people grow distant or sometimes become antagonistic and even rudely suggest I must have a taste for violence — just because I’m a soldier.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Conservatives defend their math on proposed fuel tax holiday

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s call for a summer gas tax holiday became a topic of heated debate in the House of Commons this week, with the Conservatives and Liberals arguing over how much the proposal would actually save Canadian families.

After the Liberals and some experts questioned how much the Conservative proposal would really save Canadians, the Tories shared their math with CBC News. But academics and at least one gas price analyst are still questioning how realistic those estimates are. (People friendly to Katie Telford)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada

Nearly a third of Canadians think world war is likely and many more believe Canada is not ready, survey finds

OTTAWA—A new poll suggests Canadians hold mixed views about whether a world war is on the horizon, but that many doubt the country is ready to fight in a conflict within the next decade.

The survey by Abacus Data found 37 per cent of respondents think a world war will “maybe” break out within the next five to 10 years. Another 21 per cent said such a war is “probably” going to occur, while nine per cent said it “definitely” would.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Is This Vancouver Samidoun Activist, Whose Father Was At The Centre Of A Massive Fraud In The UK, Calling For Violence In Canada?

He’s here, he’s there, he’s everywhere.

He’s shutting down city halls, he’s shutting down traffic, he’s shutting down campuses.

He’s in the streets preaching “armed resistance,” decrying “white supremacy,” denouncing “colonial oppression,” condemning “Zionists” and whipping up anti-Jewish hate.

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

Americans don’t want lab-grown meat shoved down their throats

Activist investor Ari Nessel recently wrote a piece in The Hill criticizing Florida for banning the sale and distribution of lab-grown meat. Nessel’s position is understandable, given that his company has invested in lab-grown seafood. But in banning or restricting lab-grown meat, states are simply responding to the lack of long-term safety studies and widespread consumer skepticism of this novel — and experimental — food product. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?