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‘Hands off Venezuela’: Demonstrators rally in Toronto following U.S. seizure of President Nicolás Maduro

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. Consulate in downtown Toronto Saturday afternoon, condemning a military operation in Venezuela that resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro.

The Toronto protest, which began at around 3 p.m. unfolded hours after the United States seized Maduro and his wife, announcing plans to prosecute them in New York, while also declaring it would run Venezuela during a transitional period.

For the most part the usual cranks who show up at any anti-American pro-tyranny demo.

I get the impression Carney’s media is deeply disappointed normal people and especially the majority of Venezuelans aren’t in a TDS frenzy over Maduro’s toppling.

h/t patthedog

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, Venezuela

A new ‘cold’ war? Canada aka Venezuela North looks to bolster Arctic security, sovereignty

An increasingly aggressive Russia coupled with China’s growing influence have renewed Canada’s focus on Arctic defence and sovereignty — and how to assert control over its remote northern geography.

The focus is on both increased surveillance — knowing what and who is poking around up there — and having military assets in place to deter any aggressor before they consider operating in Canada’s North.

Venezuela North aka Canada can’t or won’t ensure arctic sovereignty leaving it wide open for incursion by our CCP shadow rulers and their Russian pals.

When the US intercedes to stop this massive threat they will be declared Imperialist Aggressors worse than Hitler etc.

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

Republican claims of ‘terrorism’ leave everyone unsafe, Muslim leader of terrorist front group warns

The deputy director of the US’s biggest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group warns that Republican governors’ steps to declare his organization a “terrorist organization” won’t stop with the Muslim community.

“No governor should have the power to unilaterally declare a civil rights or advocacy group he disagrees with a terrorist organization, take punitive action against them, all in violation of due process and free speech,” Edward Ahmed Mitchell, the deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told the Guardian this month. “If any governor can get away with abusing that kind of power, then no organization is safe.”

In November, the Texas governor Greg Abbott designated Cair and the Muslim Brotherhood, the century-old movement founded in Egypt and active through chapters overseas, “foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations”. The Florida governor Ron DeSantis issued a similar order in early December.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", CAIR, Canada, Islam, Islamization of the West, USA

In Venezuela, Trump’s Donroe Doctrine is now in action. Canada can’t sit on its hands

The Donroe Doctrine has been put into action and the United States has re-entered the business of regime change in the Americas. Canada can’t keep sitting on our hands and hoping it will all work out.

Late Friday night, American might pounded military installations across Venezuela while helicopters full of special forces descended on Caracas to snatch dictator Nicolas Maduro.

It is the culmination of a pressure and extrajudicial killing campaign targeted at the Venezuelan state, and the best illustration yet that America is fully committed to enacting the “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine it unveiled late last year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Energy Win: Venezuela Has the Biggest Global Oil Reserves, and the U.S. Is Now in Charge

The nation of Venezuela is estimated to have the largest oil reserves in the entire world, and Donald Trump announced today that the United States not only captured Venezuela’s dictator, it will be taking over the country’s oil infrastructure.

The swift and sudden collapse of the Maduro regime is a massive punch to the nose for China, Russia, Iran, and all of our most violent enemies. But more practically for millions of Americans, it could also have a huge impact on our global energy dominance and gas prices. And that also, of course, is a source of concern to our enemies.

Trump is backing regime change in oil-rich Venezuela. Canada, beware

Donald Trump doesn’t want Canada’s aluminum, steel, lumber or cars. Could oil emerge next on this tariff-fuelled northern hate list? It might if he can find substitute supplies. How about Venezuela’s? Going after Venezuela’s alleged narco-traffickers alone does not justify the formidable U.S. military buildup off the country’s waters; going after its oil might.

The biggest U.S. armada assembled since the 1991 Gulf War is steaming off Venezuela’s coast. The array of weapons in the southern Caribbean and on nearby military bases includes the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, guided-missile destroyers, amphibious assault ships and – ominously – equipment, including Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, that is used by elite special forces. Various reports say those forces might include soldiers trained in risky infiltration missions, seizing airfields among them.

h/y Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, Venezuela

SMOL: Mobilization Plan Charlie calls for creation of volunteer ‘Maple Leaf Battalion’

In recent weeks, I have been both enthralled and perplexed by the over-the-top, literal call-to-arms from former NDP MP Charlie Angus.

As many of us might recall, Angus was once a serious contender for the NDP leadership. He is now a regular contributor on the popular anti-Trump American YouTube Channel Meidas Touch.

As a result, Angus is gaining popularity among impressionable anti-MAGA youth in the United States, many of whom now believe Canada under Carney is preparing to mobilize militarily against Donald Trump and the United States.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Tax havens cost Canada some $15B a year in revenue. Is Ottawa’s crackdown working?

Canadian parliamentarians are taking a crack at squeezing out more government revenue from tax havens, and we wish them all the luck and stamina.

Tucked away from the Conservative-to-Liberal floor-crossings and the nail-biting confidence-vote drama that have dominated this Parliament, MPs on the House of Commons finance committee were contemplating all the places where corporations put their profits.

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

The Prime Minister Who Opposed Confederation

Sir Wilfrid Laurier was one of Canada’s most successful political operators and served as the national Liberal leader from 1887 to 1919 (32 years), and about half that time as prime minister. He eventually took up the old Cartier-Macdonald mantle of Confederation, adding two new provinces, and even managed to play the imperial statesman, attending Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897, where he was knighted. In 1899, he reluctantly sent volunteers to participate in Canada’s first overseas expeditionary force, winning our first overseas military victory at Paardeberg in the Boer War in February 1900.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Mark Carney in 2026: Progressive pivot or Progressive Conservative?

Consensus analysis of the 2025 election results includes this thesis: centre-left ‘progressive’ voters abandoned the NDP and voted for the Liberals under Prime Minister Carney and gave him his victory.

Why? Two broad reasons: 1) to unite against Donald Trump and 2) to unite against the possibility that Pierre Poilievre could be prime minister.

Of course, there is more to it than that, but there’s no question that the worst showing for the NDP in history was accretive to the Liberals and that ‘progressive’ voters gave Mark Carney his victory against Pierre Poilievre despite Pierre’s strong showing – the best vote percentage for a Conservative campaign since 1988.

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

Ontario school board embeds Islamophobia lessons while neglecting antisemitism

Freedom of information documents reveal a stark double standard inside the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, where Islamophobia is woven deeply into the curriculum across math, art, literacy and social studies, at the expense of antisemitism education.

Despite Jews facing the overwhelming majority of hate crimes in the region, the subject of antisemitism barely earns a handful of standalone handouts.

h/t Patti Jo

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

A few Haitians deported they say …

Some Haitian migrants arrested in Quebec on Christmas Day deported to U.S.

Some of the 19 migrants of Haitian origin arrested in Quebec on Christmas Day have been deported to the United States.

Canada Border Services Agency says the migrants’ asylum claims were processed and those who were deemed inadmissible were sent back south of the border.

In an emailed statement, the agency didn’t say how many would-be refugees were deported.

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

‘Somewhere to put worker bees’: Why Canada’s micro-condos are losing their appeal

Big Smoke Toronto

Maggie Hildebrand’s first apartment in Toronto had a kitchen, a dining table, a workspace and a bed – all in the same 300-sq-ft room.

It was a decent home at first, close enough to her job downtown and with all the bare necessities for daily living.

But it didn’t take long for the 28-year-old to feel boxed-in. “It was so isolating in that tiny space,” she told the BBC. “It definitely feels like it’s just somewhere to put worker bees during the night.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada

Canadian political leaders celebrate, condemn U.S. strikes on Venezuela and Maduro capture

Canadian political leaders are celebrating and condemning the United States over its nighttime strikes on the capital city of Venezuela and the subsequent capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

In a statement posted to social media, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Canada has “refused to recognize any legitimacy of the Maduro regime and opposed its repression of the Venezuelan people, including the persecution of dissenters and particularly political leaders opposed to the regime.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Venezuela

Canada Rejects Iran’s Designation Of Its Navy As ‘Terrorist Organization’

A defiant Mark Carney makes for the Strait of Hormuz.

Canada dismissed Iran’s recent labeling of the Royal Canadian Navy as a “terrorist organization” as entirely baseless, amid rising diplomatic tensions between the two countries.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said the move was in “reciprocity” for Canada’s June 2024 decision to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist entity.

The Iranian announcement, referencing a 2019 law used to counter foreign sanctions or designations, did not outline practical consequences for Canadian forces.

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