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The Great Panic

Ever since the Hamas attacks on October 7th, 2023, the American empire has been convulsed by increasingly deranged tremors. The Israelis adopted a policy that on the surface makes little sense. All it has done is poison relations with the Arabs and much of the world. In America, both political parties have gone nuts in response to the attacks, Israel’s response, and the reaction to that response. Peak madness may be Lindsey Graham suggesting Israel uses nukes on Gaza.

Interesting article that try’s to make sense of a very confused field of play.

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

Education in Canada: A Country at Risk

Relevant for today’s Canada is the 1983 U.S. report, “A Nation at Risk”: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”

The continuity of civilization and national prosperity depends on the education of next generations and their preparation as a capable and willing labour force. But many employers find Canadian-born youth lacking the required education, skills, and work ethic. That’s one reason for lagging business investment and corresponding productivity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Education

Canada’s Gun ‘Emergency’ Not So Urgent After All

While there are profound similarities between Canada and the United States, we would do well to remember that those cultural similarities simply hide the profound differences. And, of course, there are governmental differences as well.

For example, they don’t have a Second Amendment. There is nothing there to limit the government and preserve the right to keep and bear arms.

More than that, though, in the wake of Nova Scotia, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared that he needed to unilaterally do something about guns. It was an emergency.

An op-ed at the Canadian publication The Globe and Mail, however, is questioning that now.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Gun Control, Gun Rights, USA

The Man Whose Musings Fuel Elon Musk’s Nightmares

Elon Musk’s bedtime routine is giving him nightmares.

To hear him in public is to catalog a running list of his greatest fears: end-of-the-world type stuff, killer AI threats and, in recent years, the scourge of what he calls the Woke Mind Virus.

“I listen to podcasts about the fall of civilizations to go to sleep,” Musk said this past week during an appearance at the Milken Institute conference. “So perhaps that might be part of the problem.”

One provocateur, in particular, has caught his attention of late: Gad Saad, a marketing professor at Concordia University in Montreal, and author of the book “The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense.”

Saad wants a better immigration policy for his Canada, one that requires a hard look at whether Islamist migrants should be included at all. That’s not a bad thing.

I doubt we would be welcomed in his circles however.

He is on the public record seeking a meeting with Poilievre to discuss immigration policy. If it happens I bet it will be behind closed doors and will not change Poilievre’s approach to mass immigration which when compared to Trudeau’s amounts to “Same, Same, Different.” Poilievre needs to run the same identity politics playbook as Trudeau to get elected. Under normal circumstances I believe Poilievre would lose the upcoming election to Junior. However Trudeau has shot himself in the head with the housing and affordability crisis so all Poilievre has to do is keep his finger off the trigger and speak of immigration in only the most harmless of generalities if at all.

Musk as we know is an opportunist currently riding the populist wave. He is a rent seeker extraordinaire albeit an entertaining one. Do not trust him, what you see is this year’s model.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics", "Islamophobia", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Multiculturalism", "Oct 7 2023", Canada

Huawei Enlisted Entire Nortel Team for 5G, Team Leader Now a Royal Society of Canada Fellow

When Canada’s Nortel Networks went bankrupt in 2009, China’s Huawei recruited an entire Nortel team to its Canadian arm to advance its 5G networks development. As Canada banned Huawei in its 5G network in 2022 over security concerns, the former Nortel team leader became a Royal Society of Canada fellow that same year.

Wen Tong, the established engineer who brought his Nortel team with him to join Huawei Canada in 2009, currently leads the Chinese telecom giant’s 5G wireless technologies research.

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

Think tank says addressing low Canadian fertility and family erosion should be ‘a top priority’

Fertility and family are on the decline in Canada, and governments should be worried about it, a policy advisor warns.

In a new report, Decline and fall: Trends in family formation and fertility in Canada since 2001, jointly published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and the Centre for the Study of Living Standards, Tim Sargent asks three questions: (1) do people gain significantly from being part of a family? (2) What are the trends in family formation in Canada over the past two decades? And (3), what factors explain these trends?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Demography

If Pierre Poilievre really hates lobbyists now, maybe he should talk to Justin Trudeau

Susan Delacourt: Back in March, when Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called lobbyists “utterly useless” in an address to the Vancouver Board of Trade, many people wondered whether he was serious. Was it a slip? A week ago, we learned he really meant it — with an op-ed in the National Post urging business leaders to fire their lobbyists.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Are Foreign Terrorists & Assassins Operating In Your Country? You May Have An Immigration Policy Problem!

Suspect arrested in Brampton for Hardeep Singh Nijjar killing was allegedly one of two gunmen

An Indian citizen arrested in Ontario on Saturday was allegedly one of the two gunmen who shot B.C. Sikh temple leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Global News has learned.

Amandeep Singh, 22, is the fourth suspect charged so far with Nijjar’s killing, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has linked to the Indian government.

The resident of Brampton, Ont. was charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. He has been in custody since November on unrelated charges.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Asshat RCMP boss expresses desire for new law to criminalize citizens who call politicians bad names

RCMP boss expresses desire for new law to deal with threats against politicians

OTTAWA – RCMP commissioner Mike Duheme says he wants the government to look at drafting a new law that would make it easier for police to pursue charges against people who threaten elected officials.

The Mounties are seeing an increase in invective directed at politicians, including comments from the same individuals on multiple occasions, Duheme said in an interview.

However, often the behaviour does not meet the Criminal Code threshold for laying a charge of uttering threats.

This clown needs to go.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, RCMP, WTF?

Greasy party politics is no laughing matter

Fans of Sabrina Maddeaux queued up online Thursday to express their disappointment after the former National Post columnist announced she was suspending her bid for the Conservative nomination in Aurora–Oak Ridges–Richmond Hill. An excellent communicator who did very fine work in these pages covering the housing crisis, which is currently Canada’s crisis-in-chief and a leading preoccupation for party leader Pierre Poilievre, Maddeaux seemed like someone the party would at the very least like to give a fair shake.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Douglas Todd: Canada’s ethnic media reveal tough realities

Canada could head off foreign influence and intimidation by monitoring the country’s proliferating ethnic media, according to a new report.

Hundreds of foreign-language newspapers, radio shows and TV stations in Canada offer revealing insights into the hopes and tensions experienced by more than eight million migrants and their offspring, says a study titled Diaspora Dynamics: Ethnic Media and Foreign Conflict in Multicultural Canada.

Canada’s ethnic media is “the canary in the coal mine,” offering warnings about everything from foreign interference to psychological stresses on newcomers, whether from Iran, China, Russia, India, South Korea, the Middle East or beyond, says Andrés Machalski, president of Multilingual International Media Research (MIREMS).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Decrease number of temporary residents by making them permanent, fucking idiot of a federal immigration minister suggests

MONTREAL — One way Canada plans to shrink the number of temporary residents is to offer them the opportunity to remain permanently, the immigration minister said Friday, but that doesn’t mean everyone who wants to stay will be able to.

Marc Miller met with his provincial and territorial counterparts for the first time since he announced an unprecedented plan to set limits on the number of new temporary residents.

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

Canada abstains on UN General Assembly motion calling for Palestinian state

OTTAWA – Canada abstained on a motion at the UN General Assembly Friday designed to move the international body towards recognizing Palestinian statehood.

The motion passed by a wide margin, with only the U.S., Israel and a handful of other countries opposing the move. The motion recognizes that a Palestinian state is ready for admission to the UN. The UN Security Council has already rejected granting a Palestinian state full diplomatic recognition and Friday’s vote calls on the Security Council to reconsider that choice.

Abstention is just cowardice in this instance. Too many votes at risk for Junior to do the right thing I suppose.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government