Canada

Tory insiders say fear of a Pierre Poilievre victory has Doug Ford considering an early election call

Premier Doug Ford is considering an early election call before the scheduled 2026 vote over concerns about cuts a future federal Conservative government might impose, the Star has learned.

Sources say Ford is worried that if, as polls suggest, Pierre Poilievre wins an election expected in October 2025, there would be reduced transfer payments to the provinces, a scrapping of

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s electric-vehicle strategy that is a cornerstone of Ontario economic policy and other slashed spending that would hurt the Progressive Conservatives.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Trudeau opens door for 5000 Hamas Atrocity Video Fans

Canada pledges visas for 5,000 Gaza residents related to Canadians

Canada said on Monday it would grant temporary visas to 5,000 Gaza residents under a special program for Canadians’ relatives living in the war-torn enclave, a preparatory move in case they are able to leave in the future.

That figure is an increase from the 1,000 temporary resident visas allotted under a special program for Gaza announced in December, the immigration ministry said in a statement, adding that many people had expressed interest.

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

‘It’s depressing being a 40-year-old stuck at home’: Why the dream of homeownership is fading for many Calgarians

By 2021, Ryan Fehr had grown tired of renting.

Fehr, 40 and a single dad, had just broken up with his girlfriend. He found there was no limit on how much landlords could raise the rent in Calgary, and he yearned to put down some roots in a house, especially for his then-two-year-old son, whom he had with his previous partner. It was also the middle of a pandemic. House prices were falling. Fehr felt he had a shot at earning his place in the vaunted club of homeownership.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Boo Hoo: Immigration protesters enter 4th day of hunger strike in Charlottetown

Dozens of foreign workers protesting changes in P.E.I.’s immigration strategy have entered the fourth day of a hunger strike in downtown Charlottetown.

The provincial government is cutting back on the number of workers it is nominating for immigration this year, from about 2,100 to about 1,600 — with a big drop in the number of hospitality workers in particular. More than 800 were nominated last year, and the plan is to nominate just 200 this year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

U of T Hamas Encampment

U of T protesters don’t plan to pack up, will hold rally at eviction deadline

Getting to the point where you can’t identify the players anymore.

No expulsion activity yet.

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

Dan Harrison was supposed to be a shining example of public housing done right. So why did it go so wrong?

It was a bulldozers-versus-crowd standoff in downtown Toronto, with heavy machinery ready to demolish a row of Victorian houses at Sherbourne and Dundas to make way for a highrise — but dozens of protesters stood in the way.

The tower plan in Moss Park had ignited frustration. Some were upset by its height, while others saw it as growth that threatened to displace low-income tenants renting apartments or rooms in the old houses. Leading the charge of about 80 protesters that day in 1973 was famed urbanist Jane Jacobs, who spurred the crowd to bring the safety fence down.

“They can’t do this if the hoardings are down,” Jacobs cried out before the crowd brought the barrier to the ground, according to archival materials. “Here, give me a hand.”

Part 1 is here.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Canada

The Time to Call Anti-Semitism Terrorism Is Well Past Due

Well, this should come as no surprise to anyone. Unidentified gunmen fired shots from a dark-coloured vehicle at the Bais Chaya Mushka, a school for Jewish girls in the Greater Toronto Area, in the early hours of May 25.  These “heroes” fled immediately afterward and thankfully no one was injured.

The ever-helpful CBC won’t mention the “T” word as a possible motive (Toronto police are not ruling out terrorism at this stage but stress the investigation is ongoing and involves both the guns and gangs task force as well as the hate crime unit). For its part, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs calls it a “clear, calculated and premeditated targeting of a Jewish school for girls,” adding, “the fact a school was targeted regardless of whether kids were present or not represents another worrying escalation in the violence Jewish Canadians have been experiencing.”

We live in a nation where over 100 Christian churches have been burned down or vandalized and virtually nothing has been done about it because hating Christians in Canada, especially if they’re white has been made acceptable by our government, media and academics. 

No to the politization of “Antisemitism” as terrorism.

We have laws on the books covering hate crimes. Make the powers that be enforce them.

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

MILKE: Cancel culture targets those who built Canada

It’s popular these days to cancel historical figures when their views do not exactly mimic our own.

For those who practice such deliberate historic amnesia, streets, bridges, and entire neighbourhoods are renamed, or statues removed, to satisfy an Orwellian need to block out what is assumed to be a blot on the human species — men and women who came before us and built Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, Canada

Canada now ‘the outlier’ in NATO on defence spending: U.S. ambassador

The United States’ ambassador to Canada, David Cohen, says Canada is becoming “the outlier” in NATO following a bipartisan letter from 23 American senators calling on Ottawa to meet the two per cent of GDP defence spending target.

“At the end of 2024, the way projections are looking, Canada will be the only country in NATO that is not spending at least two per cent of its GDP on defence and does not have a plan to get there,” Cohen said in an interview with The West Block host Mercedes Stephenson.

“Canada has moved within NATO from being a bit of an outlier to being the outlier in the entire alliance.”

But we have Trannies galore in the pipeline! Don’t we?

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

‘Going both ways’: Young women are increasingly identifying as bisexual, but what does that mean?

In March, a Gallup poll of 12,000 Americans made the rounds with a startling finding: “More than one in five Gen Z adults identify as LGBTQ+.” Per Gallup, “If current trends continue, it is likely that the proportion of LGBTQ+ identifiers will exceed 10 per cent of U.S. adults at some point within the next three decades.”

It’s easy to look at those numbers and imagine a sea change in human behaviour. If you do not follow these topics closely – if you interpret “LGBTQ+” as 2024-speak for “This is about gay people,” you might come away with the impression that everyone is gay now, or will be in about five minutes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Canada’s Elites Suppress Freedom of Speech on Indigenous Matters

Under Section 2 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadians are guaranteed freedom of thought, belief, and expression. These freedoms are fundamental in our democratic society. In fact, an official government commentary on the charter states: “In a democracy, people must be free to discuss matters of public policy, criticize governments and offer their own solutions to social problems.”

Given this claim, it is indeed a mystery why free speech is protected when people say that Israel’s policies and practices towards the Palestinians are “racist,” but not when they say that Canada’s policies and practices towards indigenous peoples are “racist.”
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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, Canada, Freedom of speech

If Donald Trump is elected president again, will the biggest loser be Justin Trudeau or Pierre Poilievre?

Susan Delacourt: Canadian elections are rarely fought on foreign policy. Even the big free-trade election of 1988 boiled down to very domestic considerations, such as how expanding trade with the U.S. would affect businesses and employment here at home.

But I can picture the next election in Canada having some major foreign-policy debates. Since the last one in 2021, we now have war in Europe and the Middle East. We also have a monumental American election looming. That has me wondering who this will help or hurt in the battle between Conservatives and Liberals. Assuming we do have a foreign-policy election — and admittedly, that’s a big assumption — what are your thoughts, Matt?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

What’s behind a historic, unusual U.S. military cash transfer to Canadian mines

The United States was growing desperate, months before its entry into the Second World War. It was gravely short of aluminum, and scrambling for suppliers.

Its solution: turn north to Canada.

American public money flooded into Quebec, building the aluminum industry that supplied raw materials for Allied planes and tanks.

The Knee-Jerk Anti-Americanism of “Environmentalists” will soon have the usual suspects in full froth.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Conservatives, Bloc Québécois force meeting to investigate Liberals’ refusal to share foreign interference documents with public inquiry

The Conservatives and Bloc Québécois have forced a meeting of a House of Commons committee to investigate the Liberal government’s refusal to turn over cabinet documents on foreign interference to a public inquiry into foreign meddling in Canadian democracy.

The Globe and Mail reported Thursday that the federal government is facing pushback from Justice Marie-Josée Hogue for citing cabinet confidentiality in redacting records provided to the public inquiry investigating interference by China and other hostile states in the 2019 and 2021 elections.

My Theory: People have tuned out the Foreign Interference inquiry knowing that those who perpetrated these traitorous acts will suffer exactly ZERO consequences.

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