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Conrad Black: The dirty Canadian secrets I don’t tell Americans

For some weeks, I have been committing the moderate indignities that are of the lot of all authors selling newly launched books. Even though I do not attempt to live off the proceeds of the book sales, I’m obligated to the publishers to do my best to promote sales, and am, of course, happy to do so. It leads to interesting encounters with an extraordinary variety of people in an era in which I can speak from a specially wired and illuminated place in my home by Zoom or Skype or equivalent methods to people and groups almost anywhere. Because my current book (the first volume of my anticipated three-volume treatment of the modest subject of the political and strategic history of the world), insofar as it attracts any interest, could be appreciated by people who can read English anywhere, I have so far spoken to people and groups in most states in the United States and an appreciable number of British and Australian connections, and I’m really just getting underway in Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Pierre Poilievre’s popularity is giving Doug Ford’s Tories a boost, poll suggests

Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s current popularity appears to be having a halo effect on Premier Doug Ford, a new Abacus Data poll suggests.

At the same time, embattled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is proving to be a drag on provincial Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie.

In the Abacus monthly tracking survey for the Star, Ford’s Tories were at 41 per cent to 27 per cent for Crombie’s Liberals, 21 per cent for Marit Stiles’s New Democrats and seven per cent for Mike Schreiner’s Greens.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Still Not Dead: Canadian students hunger-strike for college to divest from Israel-linked firms

A group of students at McGill University have spent more than three weeks on hunger strike in an effort to force the Canadian college to divest from “companies supporting the Israeli military”.

The move follows months of protests and sit-ins at McGill and at universities around the world, as students and faculty members have protested against Israel’s military offensive in Gaza.

Documents on McGill’s website show that it held investments in companies including Lockheed Martin, a defense contractor which has sold fighter jets to Israel, and Safran, a French air and defense company.

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

OMG! NOT A REBUKE!! MPs looking to have ArriveCan contractor rebuked by Speaker of the House of Commons

MPs are looking to bring an ArriveCan contractor before the House of Commons to be formally rebuked by Speaker Greg Fergus.

On Friday, Fergus found there was a prima facie breach of MPs’ privilege when GC Strategies’ Kristian Firth declined to answer certain questions during a committee appearance earlier this month.

Following Fergus’ ruling, Conservative MP Michael Barrett moved a motion calling on MPs to order that Firth appear before the bar of the House to be publicly admonished.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

GUNTER: Federal bureaucracy a seven-layer dip of management

With respect to the adage “No one can serve two masters,” that’s unfortunate because Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux calculates that the average federal frontline worker has seven managers.

We may finally have discovered why the current federal government is incapable of getting anything done. There are so many layers of management piled one on top of another that very little gets done.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

A national school food framework is on Chrystia Freeland’s desk. Will Ottawa say yes?

A framework for a national school food program has landed on the desk of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, and with the federal budget just weeks away advocates hope the proposal will get the green light.

The proposed plan comes as food prices continue to cause political headaches for governments across the country, said Tyler Meredith, a policy thinker and former economic adviser to Freeland and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“A proposal has now been put forward to Minister Freeland, and it’s now for us to watch whether it’ll be funded in the budget,” said Meredith. “I’m cautiously optimistic.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Ukrainian Congress Denies Involvement in Nazi Veteran Parliament Invite

The Ukrainian Canadian Congress has denied that it played any role in the invitation and acknowledgement of Nazi veteran Yaroslav Hunka to the Canadian Parliament last September during the Ukrainian president’s visit.

CEO of the Congress Ihor Michalchyshyn testified in front of the House Affairs Committee on March 21 and claimed that his organization had no contact with the office of the speaker of the House regarding the invite, Blocklock’s Reporter first reported.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Trudeau to lie before foreign interference inquiry

Justin is so full of shit he’s about to explode.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be one of 40 witnesses to testify before the commission probing allegations of foreign electoral interference over the next few weeks, as Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue and her team sort through what the government knew, or didn’t, about claims that China meddled in the past two federal campaigns.

The Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions (PIFI) resumes next Wednesday and will run until April 10. The inquiry was triggered by media reports last year which, citing unnamed security sources and classified documents, accused China of interfering in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.

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

The Civilizational Masochism of the West

We are swiftly approaching the consequences of our suicidal blindness.

Last week, Joe Biden issued a schoolmarmish warning to Israel, which he has been browbeating for months to placate his party’s anti-Israel left and Muslim American voters in Michigan, a critical swing state. Speaking to the press, he threatened, “There’s got to be a ceasefire because Ramadan – if we get into circumstances where this continues to Ramadan, Israel and Jerusalem could be very, very dangerous.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Cultural Insanity, Culture, Culture Wars, USA

Supreme Court won’t hear appeal of private school that wouldn’t let Muslim students pray

The country’s top court has declined to hear the appeal of a private Calgary school that was found to have discriminated against two Muslim students who were denied prayer space on campus.

The Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling Thursday ends a 12-year legal battle to overturn an Alberta Human Rights Commission (HRC) decision that resulted in a $26,000 fine against Webber Academy.

As is the SCC’s practice, no reasons were given for the court’s refusal to hear the appeal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, WTF?

Filing Patents for Wuhan Lab and Using Aliases: What the Fired Winnipeg Lab Scientists Are up to in China

Fired Winnipeg lab scientists and married couple Xiangguo Qiu and Keding Cheng are actively engaged in research work in China with various organizations, some of which have close links to the Chinese military, an investigation by The Epoch Times shows.

The two are also using aliases in some instances, while Ms. Qiu has been filing patents related to her area of research in Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - Security Risk Under Liberal Party Regime", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trudeau government sets meaningless temporary resident targets for the first time this fall

OTTAWA – For the first time, Canada will set targets for the number of new temporary resident arrivals to the country, Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced Thursday.

The federal government plans to decrease the number of temporary residents to five per cent of the population over the next three years, down from the current 6.2 per cent.

The first targets will be set in September.

Trudeau is intent on destroying Canada.

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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?