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The Body Shop joins Canada’s retail exodus. Here are the other stores that have closed

Canada’s retail exodus continues.

The Body Shop, the British cosmetic and skin care company, filed for bankruptcy protection in Canada on Friday. It will close its 33 stores and halt online operations while it owes more than $3 million to unsecured and secured creditors.

The company is also shuttering its U.S. operations and, according to British media, closing 75 of its stores in the U.K. Weeks ago, the company filed for administration in the U.K., the equivalent of bankruptcy in the United Kingdom.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Carelessness with security, as seen in the Winnipeg lab, has consequences

It seems careless to let uncleared foreign researchers roam unattended in a high-security microbiology lab, as one of the scientists fired in 2020, Keding Cheng, did.

To the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, it seemed even more careless, and suspicious, that his wife and colleague, Xiangguo Qiu, hadn’t told her employers she took a side trip to the

Wuhan Institute of Virology. Or that she had applied to a “talent program” in China that the Canadian spy agency suspected was connected to commercial espionage.

In the larger sense, the whole thing was an example of carelessness, here in Canada.

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

Winnipeg Lab: Government Lurching From Incompetence to Danger on National Security

There is an old saying, “It is always darkest before the dawn.” The meaning behind this axiom is that things may look dire, but they will soon turn for the better.

When it comes to the federal government and national security, however, I fear only more darkness for the foreseeable future.

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

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau tried to hide massive security failure at Winnipeg biolab

We now know why Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fought so hard to keep secret the documents revealing scientists Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, were fired from Canada’s highest security biolab because of their undisclosed relationships with agencies of the People’s Republic of China.

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

Double standard: Islamophobia and Jew-hatred

“Islamophobia” seems to be everywhere these days – or at least accusations of it. What does it mean?

Too often it leads to silencing people who have questions about Islam and its teachings. I don’t know of any laws preventing people from criticizing or questioning Christianity or Judaism – in Judaism it seems that what is said is based on context!

… Today, in 2024, there seems to be a double standard in Toronto. Although Brazau was charged because language can be a weapon, those calling for the extermination of Israel and the Jews are allowed to speak whatever they want and protest anywhere – without fear. The October, 2023 barbaric massacre of Jews in Israel by Muslims from Gaza led to full-throated Muslim protests.

Trudeau’s new hate crime legislation is a thinly disguised effort to implement sharia law in Canada.

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

ANALYSIS: Hiking Immigration to Boost Canada’s Economy Amid Aging Population Looking Doubtful

Canada’s mass immigration policy to revitalize the economy amid an aging population has yet to bear fruit. Compared to higher U.S. business investment and productivity, relying on immigration for economic growth has been to the country’s detriment, says a former Statistics Canada chief economic analyst.

“It is a clear fact that these very high rates of immigration have not given the economy a boost. … We cannot absorb this number of people that fast,” Philip Cross, senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, told The Epoch Times on Feb. 27.

Besides labour, capital and technology also contribute to economic growth, said Mr. Cross.

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

Under the right conditions, Canada open to sending noncombat troops to Ukraine, Defence Minister Bill Blair says

Putin warns West against sending troops to Ukraine

OTTAWA—Canada is open to sending a limited number of military personnel to train Ukrainian troops within Ukraine, so long as such an operation took place far from the front lines of the war with Russia in a clear, noncombat role, Defence Minister Bill Blair says.

In an interview with the Star, Blair said the idea was discussed earlier this week in Paris, where he attended a security summit alongside Canada’s NATO allies and fellow supporters of Ukraine. After the meeting, French President Emmanuel Macron floated the prospect of sending troops into Ukraine, prompting a series of statements from Western allies — including Canada — who shot down the idea of sending combat soldiers into the war-torn country.

On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned of “tragic” consequences for countries that deploy troops to support Ukraine, including the risk of global nuclear war.

h/t Mauser

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

Poilievre claims Trudeau is covering up lapses at high-security lab, PM accuses rival of spewing conspiracies

Facing questions about how scientists who were intentionally sharing information with China were cleared to work at a Winnipeg lab studying deadly diseases, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau deflected criticism to his chief political rival and accused the Conservative leader of weaponizing national security.

During a Thursday news conference in Thunder Bay, Ont., Trudeau was asked how scientists working on high-security viruses at the Winnipeg-based National Microbiology Lab were able to collaborate with the People’s Republic of China.

After a years-long fight for access, the federal government dumped hundreds of pages of documents about the dismissal of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng. The two were marched out of the facility in July 2019 and were stripped of their security clearances. Their dismissals were announced in January 2021.

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

Liberal Party adds funding to CBC propaganda broadcaster: Tax payers now on hook for $1.4B budget

Ottawa adds funding to CBC; broadcaster will get $1.4B budget

OTTAWA – Canada’s public broadcaster is getting an increase in funding, despite executives insisting that a request to cut CBC/Radio-Canada’s budget for the next fiscal year was one reason they announced layoffs for 10 per cent of staff.

Documents Canadian Heritage released on Thursday show CBC will get a $1.4-billion budget in 2024-25, an increase from the $1.3 billion it spent in the previous fiscal year.

It’s about a $90-million increase, documents say.

h/t Mauser

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

U.K. airline employee allegedly helped Indians enter Canada illegally to claim asylum

A former British Airways employee has allegedly fled to India after being arrested for allegedly helping Indian citizens get around immigration laws so they could claim asylum in Canada.

As initially reported in The Times of London on Tuesday, the employee who worked at Heathrow airport in London, U.K., is said to have enabled people without proper documentation to get on flights to Canada so that they could claim asylum upon entering the country. He allegedly charged £25,000 per person or about $43,000. The alleged scam is estimated to have made 3 million pounds or over $5.1 million. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Cost of living under Trudeau regime a key reason Canadians are having fewer kids: poll

Financial concern a key reason Canadians are having fewer kids: poll

The rising cost of living appears to be dragging down Canada’s birth rate, which recently hit its lowest level in recorded history.

Ipsos polling done exclusively for Global News found most Canadians are having fewer children than they would like because it’s too expensive to raise them.

The poll looked at responses from 1,001 Canadians between Feb. 16 and Feb. 20 on Canada’s falling fertility rate. Nearly half of respondents said they consider two the “ideal number of kids.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Demography

Is the ‘market value of becoming Canadian’ dropping? Fewer immigrants are becoming citizens

Canada is taking in more immigrants than it ever has. But new data suggests that fewer and fewer of them are becoming citizens.

The proportion of eligible permanent residents acquiring citizenship has dropped significantly, especially during the last census period. A study released by Statistics Canada on Wednesday shows the proportion of permanent residents who acquired Canadian citizenship after they met the residency requirement has decreased from 75 per cent in 1996 to just 46 per cent in 2021.

While the rate of newcomers acquiring citizenship has declined consistently during the past six censuses, the drop was steep in the latest national survey, particularly among recent immigrants with lower levels of education, lower family income and lower language skills.

Another Trudeau legacy – Migrants with ZERO loyalty or concern for 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?

Ottawa unveils national pharmacare plan that covers diabetes, contraception to start

Health Minister Mark Holland released the long-awaited details of the federal government’s pharmacare plan on Thursday, with a commitment to cover some diabetes treatments and contraception.

If this bill, C-64, passes Parliament, Holland will begin negotiating with the provinces and territories on a funding commitment that would cover the cost of providing these medications to people for free.

This is the first step in what could be a much more robust regime in the years ahead, although its future is uncertain, with some provinces already demanding the chance to opt out of the federal program or rebuffing Ottawa’s efforts entirely.

Thank goodness the Transvestites will have access to birth control!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Windsor Police Constable Michael Brisco Punished to Reinforce Political Control Over Law Enforcement

The Ontario Civilian Police Commission has reinforced its position that policing organizations and individual police officers should obey political orders without question, and ignore our Constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the Rule of Law.

Windsor Police Constable Michael Brisco was convicted of Discreditable Conduct for anonymously donating $50 to the Freedom Convoy on February 7, 2022. The Ontario Civilian Police Commission just disallowed his appeal of the conviction and the outrageous penalty of 80 hours pay.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada

Canada bringing back visa requirements for Mexican nationals to curb asylum seekers

The federal government is reimposing some visa requirements on Mexican nationals visiting Canada, a senior government source tells Radio-Canada.

The new rules will take effect on 11:30 p.m. ET on Thursday.

Quebec Premier François Legault has been calling on the federal government to do more to slow the influx of asylum seekers into his province. Last week, he said Ottawa should bring back the visa requirement for Mexican travellers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada, USA