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Why Canada should make a bid to host the United Nations headquarters

Donald Trump’s assault on the United Nations continues. Last Wednesday, he signed an executive order pulling the United States out of 31 UN bodies or agreements, in addition to another 35 that work closely with it.

These 66 entities do crucial work promoting world order and global well-being. They include the Framework Convention on Climate Change – the only truly global effort to prevent catastrophic overheating of the planet – as well as the International Law Commission, the Peacebuilding Commission, the UN Conference on Trade and Development, offices dedicated to fighting child soldiery, violence against children, sexual violence in conflict, and so on.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, U.N., U.N. Corruption, United Nations, USA, WTF?

Olympic tensions flare as US skeleton star alleges Canadian coach rigged qualifying event

Sporting tensions between the USA and Canada have erupted once again, this time in skeleton as next month’s Winter Olympics approach.

The USA’s Katie Uhlaender, a five-time Winter Olympian in skeleton, has accused the Canadian team of depriving her of a place at the Milan-Cortina Games by manipulating a qualifying event over the weekend.

Uhlaender says that Canada deliberately pulled four of its six athletes from the race in the North American Cup in Lake Placid, New York. That meant the field was reduced to under 21 athletes and fewer qualifying points were on offer due to the lack of competition. Uhlaender believes the Canadian team did so to prevent American athletes from catching them in the standings for Olympic qualifying.

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

Amy Hamm: Canadian trust in institutions is at a low point — and that’s a good thing

Canadians are losing trust in major institutions, including Parliament and the school system. Good — because our institutions need an overhaul. Perhaps this country isn’t a lost cause, after all.

Statistics Canada released the “confidence in institutions” results from the Canadian Social Survey for the fourth quarter of 2024 earlier this month. Survey respondents were asked to rate their confidence in police, the justice system and courts, the school system, Parliament and Canadian media. Each institution was rated on a scale of one to five.

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

Russia and China co-operating more often and more closely in the Arctic, says NORAD commander

There’s been a subtle but significant shift in what NORAD has been seeing over the last year when it comes to mostly Russian — but also Chinese — activity in the Arctic, says the top commander of the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD).

U.S. Gen. Gregory Guillot tells CBC News that air and sea incursions into the zones just outside North America have not only become more frequent, but also more co-ordinated.

“I’d say the most consequential difference in 2025 has been the volume, the simultaneous volume,” Guillot said in an exclusive interview.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Arctic, Canada, Russia

Canadians’ pandemic drinking habits have stuck. Here’s how bad it’s gotten, according to new report

Canadians are drinking more frequently than they did before the pandemic, with a new report showing a rise in both daily alcohol consumption and weekly binge drinking since 2019.

Documented in the 2025 Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Monitor eReport, released Monday, the findings suggest that habits formed during COVID-19 have not switched back to previous levels and may be contributing to higher levels of psychological distress.

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WARMINGTON: Nine arrests at counter-protest against Canada First rally

Used toilet paper inside plastic bags with eggs and urine, as well as smoke bombs were allegedly being thrown.

The targets of this “disgusting” approach were Toronto Police officers and members of the Canada First “Stop Mass Immigration Rally” gathering. Cops were trying to keep Canada First demonstrators separated from a counter-protest made up of participants identifying as Antifa, local unions and some who have been regular participants of the pro-Palestinian movement in the past two years.

Half on both sides are likely RCMP .

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New poll suggests one in five Albertans would vote to separate

Although Alberta separatists are organizing for an independence referendum and say they’re gaining momentum, a new poll released Friday suggested that only one-fifth of Alberta respondents would vote to separate.

The Pollara Strategic Insights survey found that 19 per cent of the 1,000 Albertans surveyed say they would vote for separation, and 75 per cent would vote against it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta, Canada

John A. Macdonald was no cartoon villain. He may have been our most human prime minister

It may come as a surprise to Canadians to discover that Sunday is Sir John A. Macdonald Day. The first surprise might be that such a day exists at all, while the second may be that it has not yet been repealed, given various egregious “cancellations” of the Dominion’s first prime minister over the past decade. The statue removals, changed street names and cowardly expunction of his name from schools and awards reflected a moment in Canadian history that one hopes is not revisited.

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GOLDSTEIN: Liberals’ tough talk on Iran today follows years of inaction

While Canada’s condemnation of the Iranian regime’s brutal attempts to quell the latest popular uprising against its corrupt and insane leadership is welcome, it flies in the face of the actual Liberal record in dealing with Iran.

On Friday, Canada joined with Australia and the European Union calling for Iran to “immediately end the use of excessive and lethal force by its security forces, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) … against protestors. Too many lives – over 40 to date – have already been lost.”

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

Former Canadian politician emerges as key cheerleader for new Iranian revolution

Millions of Iranian citizens have taken to the streets since Dec. 28 in an unprecedented, widespread revolt against the Islamic Republic’s regime.

Watching events closely from Canada is Iranian-born Goldie Ghamari, who was just a year old when her family fled for Canada in 1986 – seven years after another revolution deposed the Shah of Iran and installed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Iran protesters tell of brutal police response as regime lashes out

Demonstrators have continued to take to the streets of Iran, defying an escalating crackdown by authorities against the growing protest movement.

An internet shutdown imposed by the authorities on Thursday has largely cut the protesters off from the rest of the world, but videos that trickled out of the country showed thousands of people demonstrating in Tehran overnight into Saturday morning. They chanted: “Death to Khamenei,” in reference to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and: “Long live the shah.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Iran

BURTON: Why people are leaving Canada — a country testing the limits of decline

Canadians are leaving — not in small numbers, not quietly, and not for trivial reasons. They are leaving because Canada is becoming economically uncompetitive, socially fractured, politically coercive, and increasingly intolerant of dissent. This is not a matter of pessimism or ideology; it is a rational response to a country that is steadily eroding the conditions that once made it attractive to live, work, raise a family, and invest.

For decades, Canada enjoyed a reputation as a stable, rules-based democracy with opportunity, fairness, and freedom at its core. That reputation is now under serious threat. People are voting with their feet, and the message they are sending is unmistakable: Canada is losing its way.

h/t Patti Jo

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

I Once Believed Canadians Would Demand Better. Fifty Years On, I’m Not So Sure: Clement

OTTAWA — For most of my career, I believed that if Canadians truly understood the scale of criminal infiltration, foreign interference, and systemic mismanagement within our national institutions, they would demand better. I still believe that.

But after the past several years—marked by mounting revelations, official denials, and a troubling reluctance to confront hard truths—I have come to believe something else as well: silence is no longer an option.

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

WAGNER: Canada’s fatal turn — the federal election of 1980

Pierre Trudeau alleged father of Canada’s worst Prime Minister

Canada faced a fork in the road in the 1980 federal election: stick with the centrist Progressive Conservative government of Joe Clark, or turn hard left with the Pierre Trudeau Liberals. Canada — or more accurately, Eastern Canada — chose Trudeau.

The die was cast, and Canada would never be the same. In his final four years in office, Trudeau would fundamentally transform Canada, and not in a good way. It’s like the country fell off a cliff, politically speaking.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government