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Star Upset Poilievre Not Upset About Stuff They Want Him Cancelled For

Poilievre mum on Tory MP’s ‘illegal refugees’ comment, calls for Roxham Road closure

OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for the closure of the Roxham Road irregular border crossing but side-stepping questions about a Tory MP denying help to a family who used it to enter the country.

Poilievre told reporters today he is in favour of legal immigration but can understand the desperation that leads migrants to cross into Canada through the unofficial entry point south of Montreal.

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2023January 10, 2023•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Camp Of The Saints, Canada, Conservative Party, The F$CKING Toronto Star, WTF?

Canada to Buy $406-Million Surface-to-Air Missile System for Ukraine

Canada is buying a U.S. surface–to-air missile system for Ukraine nearly a year after Russia’s invasion of the country began.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau informed U.S. President Joe Biden of the purchase on the sidelines of the North American Leaders’ Summit in Mexico City on Tuesday.

Trudeau’s office said the move would involve buying an American-made National Advanced Surface–to-Air Missile System.

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2023January 10, 2023•0•"Ukraine - Russia", Canada

Toronto’s Queen Victoria school recognizes contribution to diversity made by bloodthirsty ISIS murder cult as part of Islamic History Month

They’re not even trying to hide it any longer that’s how fecked the TDSB is.

h/t MP

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2023January 10, 2023•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, TDSB Scandals, TDSB Toronto District School Board, WTF?

Vancouver man wants to open Canada’s first crack and heroin store

With only three weeks to go before British Columbia’s decriminalization of hard drugs, a Vancouver man says he is already planning to open Canada’s first store selling crack, meth and heroin.

Known as The Drugs Store, it would be a retail location selling hard drugs in quantities of 2.5 grams per customer. Staff would wear bulletproof vests and face masks – not for COVID safety, but to shroud their identities.

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2023January 10, 2023•0•Canada, WTF?

Criminals catch Lucki break – RCMP says tips on shady finances ‘may not get investigated’ due to police constraints

The RCMP says many tips from Canada’s financial intelligence agency about possible crimes “may not get investigated” due to a lack of policing resources and conflicting priorities.

The Mounties make the candid admission in a briefing note prepared for Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino on the working relationship between the national police force and the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, known as Fintrac.

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2023January 10, 2023•0•Canada, Crime, WTF?

What to expect as Trudeau meets Biden, López Obrador this week

The North American Leaders’ Summit has grown larger and more formal since the original “Three Amigos” get-together then-U.S. president George W. Bush hosted in Texas in 2005.

As President Andrés Manuel López Obrador hosts U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on home turf in Mexico City this week, the global threats these regional partners must confront have also grown.

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2023January 9, 2023•0•Canada, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

Five problems with America’s F-35s (now that Canada is buying its own)

The U.S. F-35 program has been dogged by technical problems and operational shortcomings that continue to pose safety risks and raise questions of mission readiness. Despite multiple delays, the most advanced (and expensive) warfighter ever mass-produced has critical issues highlighted by the Pentagon that still need to be reconciled for the jet to meet its lofty promises.

by Blazingcatfur•January 9, 2023January 9, 2023•0•Canada

Biden heads to Mexico, as White House ignores Canada under Trudeau

Is it just me, or has Canada lost its lustre in Washington? Joe Biden heads to Mexico City this week for a leader’s summit, and the American president still hasn’t visited Canada.

There was a time when it was widely believed that the first foreign visit of an American president would be to their neighbour to the north.

by Blazingcatfur•January 9, 2023January 8, 2023•0•Canada, USA

The “Re-education” of Canada

Jordan Peterson isn’t the only one whose free speech is under threat

Free speech is under increasing attack in Canada. Over the past decade, ideologically emboldened political leaders, activists, and professional regulators have narrowed the field of allowable discourse and sought to punish any expression that ventures outside it.

The latest threat to free speech in Canada involves an Ontario College of Psychologists (OCP) investigation of clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson for allegedly harming various individuals for his public comments on Twitter and The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Examples of Peterson’s supposed crimes on social media include calling for an end to unscientific, discriminatory vaccine mandates, retweeting Canada’s Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, and lambasting Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.

by Blazingcatfur•January 8, 2023January 8, 2023•0•Canada

Canadians think the country is headed in the wrong direction. That means trouble for Trudeau

It might have felt like the first “normal” holiday season in several years, gathering with friends and family without any restrictions, but the mood of Canadians is not very festive. The news is neither good for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals nor Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives.

Every December for the past 16 years, Nanos has conducted an annual tracking survey. For the most recent survey, when asked about the direction of the country, 43 per cent believe we are going in the wrong direction, while 40 per cent say Canada is headed in the right direction.

by Blazingcatfur•January 8, 2023January 8, 2023•0•Canada

Talking to an Investigative Reporter Who Exposed Chinese Influence in Canada

… Cooper and other experts (including U.S. national security officials interviewed by ProPublica) say Canadian political leaders have ignored or minimized the extent of the threat from China. Cooper has received criticism from pro-Beijing figures in the Chinese-Canadian community and is fighting two defamation lawsuits from subjects of his coverage. But his reporting has drawn praise from national security officials, dissidents of Chinese origin and academics in Canada, the United States and elsewhere. It helped spur a governmental inquiry known as the Cullen Commission, which recently concluded that organized crime had laundered billions of dollars in the province of British Columbia. And the latest revelations of Chinese interference are having a potentially dramatic impact on the political debate in Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•January 8, 2023January 7, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

How the dream of the single-family starter home vanished

When she and her husband moved here in 2002, Liz Scanlon immediately wanted to break into Toronto’s real estate market.

At 28 years old, she’d been renting in Ottawa after finishing school. But when they decided to put down roots in Scanlon’s hometown, buying a house was top of mind.

So it wasn’t an unreasonable goal, with a combined salary from her work in non-profits and his as an early-career lawyer.

A couple of thousand words and not a mention of the outsized demand created by mass immigration, foreign investors, low interest rates and legislation that limited new construction.

by Blazingcatfur•January 8, 2023January 7, 2023•0•Canada

Canada ‘committed to remaining competitive’ despite U.S. EV subsidies

Canada’s ambassador to the United States says the federal government should be watching American investments in electric vehicle manufacturing, but wouldn’t give specifics on how it plans to compete with the subsidies offered in the Inflation Reduction Act enacted south of the border.

Kirsten Hillman told CTV’s Question Period host Vassy Kapelos, in an interview airing Sunday, it’s important Canada remain competitive in the electric vehicle market, an arena in which it already has several advantages, including the workforce, expertise, and critical minerals resources. She said experts are working to ensure Canada is ahead of the curve and encouraging investment in the electric vehicles sector, but she didn’t specify how.

I’m old enough to remember when all the EV hurdles were solved between the US and Canada!

by Blazingcatfur•January 8, 2023January 7, 2023•0•Canada, Green-Scam, USA

GOLDSTEIN; Canada isn’t broken, government is

Health care has always been the canary in the coal mine when it comes to government competence and in Canada it’s on a death watch.

Our health care system is one of the most expensive in the world among comparable, developed countries with universal health care systems.

by Blazingcatfur•January 7, 2023January 7, 2023•0•Canada

Usual suspects protest against purchase of F-35 fighter jets

Activists are holding rallies across the country to oppose Canada’s plan to buy several new fighter jets.

In Montreal, a demonstration took place downtown, where chants of “no new fighter jets,” could be heard outside of the offices of Canada’s Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault.

Might just be a coincidence, but in 2021 World Beyond War led a campaign against "The Arrest of Meng Wanzhou & the New Cold War on #China" https://t.co/ylb4rCT9NK

— Greg Renouf 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 (@grenouf) January 7, 2023

by Blazingcatfur•January 7, 2023January 7, 2023•0•Canada, Communism, Communists, WTF?