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First ten armoured vehicles promised to Ukraine to be delivered by summer, Blair says

Defence Minister Bill Blair says the first ten of 50 Armoured Combat Support Vehicles (ACSVs) promised to Ukraine last year will be delivered to the war-torn country by this summer, but likely won’t be fully in service until the fall.

… The remarks from the defence minister come a week after a leading Ukrainian politician met with Blair and a number of Canadian lawmakers and pleaded for more armoured vehicles.

Oleksandra Ustinova, the head of Ukraine’s special parliamentary commission on arms and munitions, told the minister, members of key House of Commons committees and military leaders that both time and weapons stocks are running out for her country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Trudeau Lied: Foreign workers issue reignites at Windsor’s NextStar plant

The issue of temporary foreign workers being used to build the NextStar Energy battery plant in Windsor has bubbled up again with the Canadian Building Trades Union requesting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau intervene in the dispute and the federal Conservatives planning to raise the issue on Parliament Hill.

CBTU executive director Sean Strickland penned a letter to Trudeau earlier this month claiming an increasing number of temporary foreign workers were being used in Windsor. The federal Conservatives also announced Friday they plan to press the issue at the Government Operations’ Committee meeting this week.

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

‘I just want to be safe’: Ukrainian man in Ottawa faces limbo amid consular freeze

But a recent decision to restrict consular services for fighting-aged Ukrainian men has made him feel less certain of his next steps — and worried he could be pulled back to the war.

OTTAWA — The future was just starting to appear bright for Mykyta Zakharchenko.

The 18-year-old’s youth in Ukraine was shadowed by two major conflicts with Russia before he escaped to Canada in 2022.

With harrowing experiences of war behind him, he recently graduated high school, competes internationally as a rower and is determined to study finance in a few years.

Ukraine has a recruitment problem so they’ve restricted consular services to coerce the return of fighting aged men.

What about fighting aged women?

Should continued military aid be conditional on “peace negotiations?.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada

Many Canadians have heard enough from Justin Trudeau, but for a few dumb Americans it’s a different story

Many Canadians have heard enough from Justin Trudeau, but Americans are a different story

Talking to Americans got a lot of laughs when comedian Rick Mercer was doing his TV shows two decades ago. For Justin Trudeau right now, talking to Americans is part of a serious communication strategy, aimed at putting the Canadian prime minister in front of wider audiences.

Trudeau has been doing a flurry of podcasts in recent days, two of them based in the United States: one for the Freakonomics series, another for the Vox news program, Today, Explained. One of my colleagues joked this week that this is the Liberal reply to Pierre Poilievre’s fondness for slogans: when the Conservative leader goes short and snappy, Trudeau goes long form.

Talking to Americans to win Canadian hearts and minds says even your bought media is tired of the charade.

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

Charge dropped for man accused of flying Muslim ‘terrorist flag’

A charge against a Toronto man accused of flying what police called a “terrorist flag” at a pro-Palestinian demonstration earlier this year has been withdrawn.

A 41-year-old man was charged with publicly inciting hatred after marching down Queen Street W. and Bay Street on Jan. 7, allegedly waving the flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

The organization is listed as a terrorist group by Public Safety Canada, which says it seeks “the destruction of the State of Israel and the establishment of a communist government in Palestine.”

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

‘It’s clear’ Mark Carney wants Trudeau’s job and should appear at Commons committee: Conservatives

OTTAWA — Conservatives are hoping to grill former central banker Mark Carney during a House of Commons committee meeting on the carbon tax and affordability, arguing that he may be a future contender for leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Even though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has repeatedly said he is staying on as leader of his party, the ongoing speculation about Carney’s political prospects has only intensified in recent months, and more so after he delivered a speech Monday evening during which he criticized the federal budget.

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

Trudeau’s Canada: Standard Of Living Declines As Real Capital Output Plummets

Real output per capita has fallen to seven per cent below its long-term trend since the pandemic, resulting in a decline of roughly $4,200 per person, according to a new report by Statistics Canada.

To reverse the trend, GDP per capita, a metric used by economists together with other economic indicators to evaluate a country’s standard of living, would need to grow at an average yearly rate of 1.7 per cent, authors Carter McCormack and Weimin Wang found.

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

Canada’s polite Trumpism

“Are we a country that looks out for each other … or do you go down a path of amplifying anger, division and fear?”

That’s how Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the stakes in his country’s upcoming election in an interview with Vox’s Today, Explained this week — outlining the 2025 contest as no ordinary election but a referendum on the very soul of Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

OPP reviewing actions of officer who provided protester with security info of Prime Minister

Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is reviewing the actions of one of their officers who gave security information about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to a protester and expressed his support for the demonstrators.

In a video that has surfaced online, an officer tells the protester which route Trudeau’s motorcade is taking and agrees with the protestor’s comments describing the federal government’s bail policies as “catch and release.”

He should be promoted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Pallie Perv?

Raza got off light because the Goat wore suggestive clothing.

Anyone know if records like this can be obtained by a member of the public legally?

Is tweeting, publishing or otherwise making them public legal?

Raza at work.

h/t SDMatt

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

Home ownership is only for the rich in Trudeau’s Canada say 80% in new poll

Is home ownership only for the rich now? 80% say yes in new poll

The cost-of-living crisis facing Canadians is only getting more bleak, according to new polling that shows everything from buying a first home to affording groceries has gotten harder in the past year.

On Friday, Ipsos polling conducted exclusively for Global News showed that four in five Canadians (80 per cent) now feel that owning a home is only for the rich. That’s 11 points higher than a similar poll from just over a year ago in March 2023.

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

‘It’s soul-destroying’: How a malevolent online campaign is targeting Jewish doctors in Ontario

Dox a doc a day.

As anti-Israel — often anti-Jew — protests violently roil campuses across America, a different campaign dripping with malevolence is specifically targeting Jewish physicians right here in Ontario.

There’s no fig-leaf of divestment from Israel, no camouflage exploiting the horrors experienced by civilians in Gaza. Rather, the doxing has been a directed, co-ordinated crusade aimed at physicians whose only “offence’’ is their Jewishness.

It is unfortunate but not much can be done about it as that poisonous plant is now too deeply rooted to eradicate.

You may succeed in slowing its growth but inevitably it will win out.

If you supported Muslim immigration please kill yourself. You owe us that.

h/t Patti Jo

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

Lower Income Canadians Face Highest Marginal Effective Tax Rates: Report

Canadian families with modest incomes face the highest marginal effective tax rates, with those earning between $30,000 and $60,000 hit hardest, according to a newly released report.

Marginal effective tax rate (METR) measures the personal income taxes paid both federally and provincially as well as the reductions in government benefits linked to income.

Households earning $30,000 to $60,000 face marginal effective tax rates near or above 50 per cent, said the report published by the Fraser Institute.

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

John Ivison: How Canada’s military-industrial complex made sure Ottawa bought its preferred fighter jet

In his 1961 farewell address, U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower warned about the potentially detrimental impact of the “military-industrial complex” on public policy.

“We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,” he said.

The spectre of shadowy defence contractors plotting with unhinged generals has been the stuff of conspiracies ever since.

The reality is less dramatic but still alarming in its disregard for due process and democratic guardrails.

Take the nearly two-decades-long process to purchase the F-35 fighter jet.

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

“… the sounds of bleating goats first alerted him to unusual activity in the garage.”

Makeshift slaughterhouse in a residential garage points to growing concerns about illicit meat sales

Inside a garage in an established Edmonton neighbourhood, animals were being slaughtered and the meat was advertised for sale to consumers, a CBC News investigation has learned.

Police entered the rented garage in the quiet residential Woodcroft community in February 2023. Images shared with CBC News show piles of goat carcasses, tubs of blood and the remains of a skinned baby goat on a makeshift slaughter table.

Neighbour John Bos told CBC News that the sounds of bleating goats first alerted him to unusual activity in the garage.

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