Canada

Jamie Sarkonak: The federal judge determined to dismantle Canada’s immigration safeguards

Killjoy! Misunderstood Shakespeare: “Let’s Kill All The Lawyers”

In 2013, Toronto lawyer Avvy Yao-Yao Go described herself as a “loudmouth activist for politicians to contend with.” She was an advocate of chain migration, a former member of the Ontario law society’s equity committee, a vocal critic of journalists and politicians, and once, she even tried to force the government to pay reparations to descendants of Chinese-Canadians impacted by the head tax (after losing one appeal in this process, her organization accused an appeal judge of racism; the complaint was tossed out).

Call this what it is: Anti-white racism.  Ethno-terrorism is imbedded in Canada’s “diverse” institutions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity Fatigue", "Immigration from incompatible cultures", Canada

A U.S. takeover of Greenland could be ‘shattering of NATO,’ warns Canada’s former military commander

As U.S. President Donald Trump insists his country needs Greenland for security purposes, Canada’s former top soldier is warning that a U.S. takeover of the area could spell the end of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

“We have no history of one NATO partner seizing territory from another,” said retired general Wayne Eyre, formerly Canada’s chief of the defence staff, in an interview with CBC’s The House. “I share the Danish assessment that yes, this could be the shattering of NATO, much to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s delight.”

I’m pretty sure “Shattering NATO” is a Feature not a Bug to Trump.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Greenland, NATO, USA

I left Trump’s America last year to teach in Canada. I didn’t expect this from Canadians

On Jan. 3, United States special forces swooped into Caracas and kidnapped Nicolás Maduro, the despotic Venezuelan president. After the event, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that America now “runs” Venezuela — and plans to seize 50 million barrels of its oil to sell on the open market.

This sort of explicit power-grab is unprecedented among NATO countries. Kidnapping the head of another state, then seizing that state’s assets and taking control of its government, is something even the most autocratic of rulers would shy away from. Yet shortly after abducting Maduro, Trump threatened Colombia’s leftist president Gustavo Petro — a democratically elected leader who is by no stretch of the imagination a despot — with the same fate.

The U.S. has been veering toward fascism for some time. That is why my family and I decided to leave for Canada last March: Canada is a diverse and healthy democracy. Yet in my short time here, I have observed an alarming level of naïveté about what is happening south of the border.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Why Canadians feel unsafe despite crime rates dropping

I am one of those people who suffers from an acute, yet ephemeral, fear of flying, which washes over me the precise moment I feel the plane’s wheels lift off the tarmac. “What type of idiot risks her life in a metal box flying 30,000 feet above the ground?,” I think to myself as I look around the cabin, seeking comfort in the seemingly calm faces of the imputed idiots around me. I forget about this fear right around the moment the plane completes its ascent, only to be suffused with it yet again when the pilot announces he is ready to steer the flying metal box back down to Earth.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime

Mississauga bylaw governing tall grass violates freedom of expression rights, court rules

An Ontario court has struck down part of a Mississauga bylaw that requires homeowners to keep their lawns below 20 centimetres, in a victory for natural gardeners who argue the municipal rules violate charter rights.

Residents have the freedom to express themselves through their front lawns, Superior Court Justice Michael Doi ruled this week in the case of Wolf Ruck versus the City of Mississauga.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

With Trump’s Venezuela move and Greenland threats, are Canadians vulnerable?

U.S. President Donald Trump’s increasingly bellicose stance on taking over Greenland and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro are combining to trigger questions and theories about what the White House may have in mind for Canada.

The Trump administration’s moves come on the heels of its vow to “reassert and enforce” American pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere, spelled out officially in a new national security strategy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Older, 70% white, plunging fertility and lost faith: Who Canada is now

A deep dive into the population data paints a surprising picture of Canadian society and households

Numbers can tell a story. Canada is home to 41.58 million people, according to the latest population estimates, and the average age was 41.7. At the time of the last census, just over half were women and girls, and just under half were men and boys. Of the nearly 30.5 million people 15 and older, 100,815 (0.33 per cent) were transgender or nonbinary. The average household size was 2.4 people. Five per cent of the population — 1.8 million people — self-identified as Indigenous. Almost one-quarter, or 8.4 million people, were immigrants, many hailing from the three leading places of birth: India, the Philippines and China. Of the 450-plus ethnic or cultural origins reported, “Canadian” was tops at 5.7 million people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Demography

CHARLEBOIS: Canada poised to lose 4,000 restaurants in 2026. Does anyone care?

According to official figures, Canada’s restaurant sector appears remarkably resilient. The number of food service establishments has climbed steadily since the pandemic, surpassing pre-2020 levels and suggesting a sector that has not only recovered, but expanded. On paper, the industry looks stable.

On the ground, it does not.

Toronto is transitioning into a 3rd World Street Meat economy and I have very large suspicions about the quality and safety of Toronto restaurants in general.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Estimated 2,500 undeclared foreign agents operate in Canada: Ottawa

OTTAWA — The federal government estimates there are nearly 2,500 businesses or people in Canada working surreptitiously on behalf of foreign states to influence local politics and governments who will need to register publicly.

That’s according to proposed regulations for Canada’s long-awaited foreign agent registry published on Saturday.

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

The trouble with Carney

The trouble with Carney

“Thucydides warned that “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” Carney’s tragedy is that he quotes the rules‑based order while presiding over a country whose economic structure is colonial and whose security ultimately depends on the very power he is theatrically chastising. Posturing without power is not prudence. It is provocation without a plan. And yes it’s dangerous.”

The China Class sent Chretien in advance of Carney’s arrival. The Liberal Party should have to register as foreign agents.

Carney may not be working with Trump but he certainly isn’t working for us.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canadian Politics", Canada, USA

Canada’s armed forces are planning for threats from America

Canada never had an equivalent of Uncle Sam, sternly exhorting its citizens to sign up to fight for their country. That is changing. Jennie Carignan, Canada’s top soldier, is looking for Canadians—whether they are 16 or 65—who will come to their country’s aid in the event of a military attack or calamitous natural disaster. “We’re going to need heavy-equipment operators,” says General Carignan. “We’re going to need drone operators. We’re going to potentially need cyber operators as well.” Call her Aunt Jennie.

There is no direct line between her plan for a 400,000-strong civilian-defence force and Donald Trump plucking Venezuela’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro, from his safe house in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, on January 3rd. But nor is the timing entirely coincidental. In the past year Mr Trump has repeatedly asserted that it would be in Canada’s interest to become America’s 51st state. No one in a position of responsibility really believes the United States would ever invade. Even Mr Trump himself, when asked whether he would use military force to annex Canada, has said “no”, or that it is “very unlikely”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, USA

Alberta’s independence movement is a global rarity: right-wing separatists

OTTAWA — Referendum talk is heating up in both Quebec and Alberta to start the year, but the pro-independence talk is coming from opposite sides of the political spectrum.

While the (mostly) centre-left Parti Québécois and democratic socialist Québec Solidaire have long fronted Quebec’s separatist movement, Alberta separatism is an almost entirely right-wing phenomenon.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada

How Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland’s exit from Parliament was hastened

Ex-finance minister faced growing backlash over Ukraine advisory role before announcing Friday departure

Former Liberal finance minister Chrystia Freeland said she plans to vacate her seat in the House of Commons by week’s end after facing heat from the opposition to do so immediately over an advisory role with the Ukrainian government.

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