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Canadians want defence dollars spent on Canadian-owned firms, not U.S. companies or their subsidiaries

Canadians strongly support investing in domestically owned defence companies and oppose relying on American companies to build equipment for the Canadian military, according to a new public opinion poll released May 21.

The research was done for the Alliance of Canadian Defence Companies (ACDC), an industry-led trade association and lobbying group representing wholly Canadian-owned defence builders and suppliers. The alliance represents more than 200 Canadian-owned and Canadian-controlled defence companies across aerospace, maritime, land, cyber and other defence sectors.

by Blazingcatfur•May 21, 2026May 21, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Why is the U.S. blaming Canada for the suspension of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence?

The United States says it is “pausing” its participation in the U.S.-Canada Permanent Joint Board on Defence “to reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defence.” Here’s what to know.

The Permanent Joint Board on Defence (PJBD) is the senior advisory body on continental defence. Composed of military and diplomatic representatives from both nations, it meets twice a year with locations alternating between Canada and the U.S.

by Blazingcatfur•May 20, 2026May 20, 2026•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Exclusive investigation reveals security gaps and organized crime at Toronto airport: ‘You could walk out carrying a cruise missile’

Passengers travelling through Toronto Pearson International Airport face layers of security designed to stop dangerous people and dangerous goods from boarding planes.

Carry-on bags are X-rayed. Water bottles are confiscated. Travellers are scanned, searched and monitored by cameras throughout the terminals.

But exclusive reporting from CTV News’ investigative unit W5 into how organized crime groups exploit airport insiders to move drugs has uncovered troubling gaps in the security systems meant to monitor employees with direct access to restricted areas of Canada’s busiest airport, including luggage and aircraft.

by Blazingcatfur•May 20, 2026May 20, 2026•0•Canada, Crime

With its pause on the Permanent Joint Board on Defence, the U.S. is attempting to constrain Canada

It is possible you have never heard of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence.

It meets just once or twice a year – these days not even that – to provide Canadian and American military leaders with the opportunity for a full and frank exchange of views on bilateral defence issues. But it is far from the only instrument of co-operation between the two countries’ militaries, or even the most important.

Carney has been in bed with the ChiComs since long before taking office.

My bet is this flirtation has reached a point that the US considers Canada a near enemy state, Venezuela norte.

Carney has said the relationship is dead on a number of occasions.

Perhaps the US has reached the same conclusion. Carney is not leading, he’s viewing his profit horizon.

by Blazingcatfur•May 20, 2026May 19, 2026•0•Canada, USA

Carney plays down U.S. suspension of North America defence board

Prime Minister Mark Carney played down the Trump administration’s suspension of a United States-Canada defence co-operation body and rejected its suggestion Ottawa has not boosted defence spending.

Elbridge Colby, the U.S. undersecretary of defence for policy, announced Monday that Washington was putting the 86-year-old Permanent Joint Board on Defense on hold and accused Canada of failing to live up to its military responsibilities, despite Ottawa boosting defence spending over the past year.

by Blazingcatfur•May 20, 2026May 19, 2026•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Report claims dozens of workplace complaints tied to pro-Palestinian views among Muslims in Canada

A Department of Justice report says hundreds of Muslims in Canada have reported workplace consequences linked to their political views, particularly support for Palestine.

The report, A Qualitative Look at Serious Legal Problems: Muslims in London and Toronto, attributes the findings to advocacy and legal support data provided by the Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association of Toronto, which says it has assisted more than 300 individuals who faced workplace repercussions related to their political expression.

by Blazingcatfur•May 20, 2026May 19, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", "Remigration", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Trump administration’s decision to freeze Canada-U.S. defence board is a gangland threat uttered through clenched teeth

Two fewer meetings a year.

In practical terms, this is the impact of Washington’s decision to suspend the Canada-U.S. Permanent Joint Board on Defence — not an eviction from Norad fortress headquarters within a Colorado mountain, not an end to joint military exercises and exchanges.

Symbolically, though, the tweet on a slow-news holiday Monday from Elbridge (“Bridge”) Colby, a top adviser to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, sounds like a gangland threat uttered through clenched teeth: after all we’ve done together, are you really prepared to throw it all away, and have you really thought it through?

by Blazingcatfur•May 19, 2026May 19, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada, USA

The man from Libya

The United Nations’ Panel of Experts on Libya is recommending that the UN Security Council impose sanctions on Ahmed Gadalla, a globe-trotting Libyan financier who is a permanent resident of Canada.

Mr. Gadalla, 46, and two of his foreign-based companies are on a list of individuals and entities accused of violating the UN arms embargo against Libya, according to the panel’s 2026 final report to the UN Security Council.

Imposed in 2011, the UN arms embargo prohibits the transfer of military equipment, such as weapons and armoured vehicles, to Libya, save for certain exceptions.

by Blazingcatfur•May 19, 2026May 19, 2026•0•Canada, Libya, WTF?

A Montreal man is wanted by the RCMP for terrorism, but Canada won’t take him back

Wassim Boughadou is wanted by the RCMP for terrorism. He insists he is “absolutely” willing to fly home from Turkey to surrender to police.

But the Montreal-born 34-year-old claims he can’t because Global Affairs Canada won’t let him.

“I am in a limbo,” he wrote in a text message, part of a cache of documents obtained by Global News that have gone unreported until now.

Additional background on this terrorist.

by Blazingcatfur•May 19, 2026May 19, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Montreal academic Gad Saad tells Joe Rogan he’s moving to the U.S.

Gad Saad, a longtime Concordia University professor known for his outspoken criticism of “woke” politics as well as his denunciations of antisemitism, has announced he’s moving this summer to the United States.

Can’t argue with that tweet.

by Blazingcatfur•May 19, 2026May 19, 2026•0•"Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

John Ivison: ‘Dangerous politics’: Trump suspends joint defence board with Canada

The moment when Canada moved from Britain’s orbit into America’s can be dated precisely to Aug. 17, 1940.

That was the day when Canadian prime minister William Mackenzie King and U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Ogdensburg Agreement that defined the principle of the joint defence of North America.

The agreement, drafted in pencil and without consultation with either cabinet, established the Permanent Joint Board of Defence that has been in place ever since.

by Blazingcatfur•May 19, 2026May 18, 2026•0•Canada, USA

Three police officers from Toronto arrested for sexually assaulting and beating a prostitute in Barcelona

‘The allegations are serious’: Three Toronto cops facing charges in Barcelona

Toronto police say three off-duty officers are facing charges in Barcelona following “serious” allegations made against them.

In an email to CTV News, a spokesperson for the Toronto Police Service (TPS) said the officers were vacationing in Spain at the time and not travelling in any official capacity.

Three police officers from Canada arrested for sexually assaulting and beating a prostitute in Barcelona https://t.co/CVEd6QOg7l via @arainenglish

— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) May 18, 2026

The Spanish site has much more detail.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2026May 18, 2026•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Canada, WTF?

Pentagon Suspends 86-Year-Old Canada-US Defense Board, Citing Ottawa’s Failure to Meet Commitments, in Direct Rebuke of Carney’s Davos Speech

WASHINGTON – On Monday morning, the Pentagon’s senior defense strategist suspended the oldest bilateral defense institution in North American history and pointed the announcement at Mark Carney’s Davos speech — a four-month-old address the Canadian prime minister’s admirers had called Churchillian, and that Washington now treats as a case study in the gap between rhetoric and reality.

A strong Canada that prioritizes hard power over rhetoric benefits us all. Unfortunately, Canada has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments. DoW is pausing the Permanent Joint Board on Defense to reassess how this forum benefits shared North American…

— Under Secretary of War Elbridge Colby (@USWPColby) May 18, 2026

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by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2026May 18, 2026•0•Canada, USA, WTF?

Nations Eventually Decline, but Canada Still Has a Choice

Time is corrosive—it wears away everything: coastlines change, mountains erode, whole continents drift, stars go nova. Anything human is particularly temporary. Our bodies age, our socks get holes, our computers become obsolete, customs change. Things we used to do, we don’t do any more. What man wears Brylcreem in his hair nowadays? What child tends to her Tamagotchi or Chia Pet?

by Blazingcatfur•May 17, 2026May 17, 2026•0•Canada

‘It was predictable’: Court ruling doesn’t slow this Alberta separatist

A court has struck down one Alberta independence petition,” says Keith Wilson, the St. Albert lawyer and advocate for Alberta’s separation from Canada. “This does not mean the referendum is over.”

“The legal path to an Alberta independence referendum remains open,” he declares on his YouTube channel, “and Alberta’s cabinet still has the authority to put the question to voters in October.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 17, 2026May 17, 2026•0•"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta, Canada