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Canada’s relationship with the U.S. is in decline, and no one wants to talk about it

This past week, on the very same day Donald Trump was being placed under arrest in New York, many of the leading voices in the Canada-U.S. relationship were jammed into packed meeting rooms and corridors at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Toronto.

They were there to talk mainly about what’s going right between Canada and the United States, economically. They were not there to talk about what’s gone so wrong with Trump, or politics in general in the Trump era.

Yet whenever any speaker did broach the subject of Trump or, more broadly, the crumbling state of democracy in North America, a definite ripple went through the crowded ballroom.

When they say “polarization” they mean “We’re scared of the little people because of the shit we put them through.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Man charged after threats uttered, car driven at Mosque worshipper: Cops

A man in a vehicle allegedly drove directly at a worshipper at a Markham mosque while yelling threats and religious slurs, according to witnesses.

York Regional Police say officers are treating the April 6 incident at the Denison St. mosque as a suspected hate-motivated crime.

 

He is of Indian origin, likely a Hindu so what we are seeing is vibrant diversity in action. There is a serious ongoing conflict between Hindus and Mohammedans in India.

Indian-origin man arrested for ‘hate-motivated’ attack at Canada’s Markham mosque 

Leicester is coming.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity", "Interfaith Dialogue", "Islamophobia", "Multiculturalism", Canada, WTF?

GUNTER: Lightweight Liberals need to bolster Canada’s military

Canada’s armed forces are ready for emergency pronoun deployment under battlefield conditions.

During the Cold War, the term “Finlandization” was derogatory.

Sharing a 1,300-kilometre border with what was then the Soviet Union, Finland had to endorse (or at least not oppose) the U.S.S.R.’s foreign and military policy in order to retain some semblance of independence.

Finland wasn’t exactly a puppet state, but it wasn’t entirely free, either.

The term became a symbol of capitulation in the face of a powerful nation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

A pro-Russian hacking group may have targeted Canada’s energy infrastructure.

A hacking group, under the guidance of Russia’s Federal Security Service, may have compromised the I.P. address of a Canadian gas pipeline company in February and caused damage to its infrastructure, according to leaked Pentagon documents.

If the attack by the cybercriminal group, Zarya, succeeded, the intelligence report said, “it would mark the first time” the United States intelligence community “has observed a pro-Russia-hacking group execute a disruptive attack against Western industrial control systems.”

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

Why are undocumented Gujaratis migrating to the US?

Authorities announced last week that the four bodies recovered from the St. Lawrence River in Akwesasne, a Mohawk reserve wedged between the Canada-US border, were of people who came from a village in the Mehsana district of Gujarat, in western India.

The family of four, Praveen Chaudhary, 50, his wife Diksha, 45, and their children, Vidhi, 23, and Mitkumar, 20, attempted to enter the US from Canada by boat across the St. Lawrence River, police said. They are believed to have reached Canada on a tourist visa in February.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Canada, USA

One in three Canadians in ‘bad’ or ‘terrible’ financial shape, up from pandemic highs: Angus Reid survey

One in three Canadians say they are struggling financially due to the high cost of living, a level not seen since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent survey from the Angus Reid Institute finds.

The survey of 1,600 Canadians, released on Thursday, found that 34 per cent of Canadians are in “bad” or “terrible” shape financially, up six percentage points from last July.

Read the comments in r/canadahousing I don’t recall this level of pessimism & defeat ever before in Canada.

Texted my niece this morning she lives in the Pontiac where I am from in PQ. They are still without power in her her little village from last week’s storm, lines are literally down in the street. Hydro Quebec does not consider them a priority over more populated areas.

I wonder if reader Raftsman has power he is nearby.

 

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

So Called “Canadian Politicians” Signed Letter to CCP Official Pledging to Promote Beijing’s Image in Fighting COVID-19: Report

Senator Victor Oh and former Ontario cabinet minister Michael Chan were signatories among those who signed a 2020 letter from an Ontario-based Chinese-Canadian business association to a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official saying the association has been promoting China’s image in fighting COVID-19 and pledges continuing support of the “great motherland.”

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

Bilingualism dropping in Canada, while feds spend billions promoting French

Over the past two decades, bilingualism declined in Canada despite spending billions in grants to promote French outside of Quebec, according to a department of Canadian Heritage report.

“The viability of francophone official language minority communities remains fragile,” said the report Evaluation of the Official Languages Support Programs 2004-2021.

I like Habitant pea soup.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Howard Levitt: On the China file, Johnston fails the test of Caesar’s wife — and he must know it

“With conflict of interest, the rule of Caesar’s wife applies. It must not only be pure but must be seen to be pure.” — Bursey vs. Acadia Motors, N.B. Court of Appeal

Does the conduct of our former governor general, David Johnston, in accepting the position of special rapporteur with respect to the Chinese government’s influence in two federal elections, a post that requires him to decide on the ethics of his friend and cottage neighbour Justin Trudeau, pass the purity test? Meaning, not only is he free of a conflict of interest, but is he “seen” to be “pure,” (i.e. unimpeachable) as well?

Johnston is a member of Canada’s China Class, like Justin Trudeau, Dominic Barton, John McCallum and many others in government, business and academia.

They have conspired to sell our country out to the ChiComs for personal gain.

They deserve nothing but our contempt.

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

PQ Doing It Right: Quebec Muslim associations denounce government ban on prayer rooms in schools

A group representing Muslim associations in Quebec wants the provincial government to rescind a directive prohibiting the presence of prayer spaces in elementary and high schools.

On Wednesday, Education Minister Bernard Drainville banned school service centres from transforming classrooms into places of prayer.

Islam has no place in our schools.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Ukraine’s prime minister will visit Canada in ‘coming weeks,’ PMO says

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal is planning to visit Canada in “the coming weeks,” according to a spokesperson for the Canadian Prime Minister’s Office.

No specific dates of when the visit would happen were given. His visit comes as the country is locked in a battle for the city of Bakhmut and after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Poland requesting more aid.

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

What Tools Are Needed to Curb CCP Influence Efforts in Canada?

Fifty years ago, amid an escalating organized crime problem in the United States, it took the creation of specialized teams and an innovative law, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, to deal a serious blow to mob operations.

Today, facing an ever-growing influence and subversion operation by China’s communist regime targeting countries like Canada, what key tools can be developed to help ward off activities that are clearly against Canada’s interests yet our security apparatus and justice system seem helpless to counter?

It would probably help if we could jail Canada’s China class sellouts.

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

CHARLEBOIS: Ethics of grocery CEO compensation; what Loblaw should have done

While Canadians are often holding their breath as they approach their grocery store cash register these days, it appears our grocers’ C-Suite chains are just getting richer.

Galen Weston, President and CEO of Loblaw will get a hefty raise this year, $32 million in salaries and bonuses, up 52% from 2022. Even though these past 12 months have been marked by historical food price inflation for consumers, the Loblaw Board felt Mr. Weston was underpaid.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Introducing ‘The Nations of Canada’

When I was a middle schooler growing up in Montreal four decades ago, I was taught almost nothing about Indigenous Canadian history. “Real history” supposedly began when Europeans showed up in boats to build settlements, spread Christianity, catch fish, and make money. Indigenous civilization, on the other hand, was compressed into a few pages, or even paragraphs—these being largely devoted to Indigenous practices that Europeans found instructive (often life-savingly so) in relation to hunting, foraging, and weathering the elements.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada