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Jamie Sarkonak: He was caught with child porn. An immigration discount helped him stay in Canada

When permanent resident Navinder Singh was caught with child pornography on his phone in 2018, he didn’t understand what was so wrong about it. He thought that his 19 videos of sexual abuse were “funny” and told a forensic psychologist afterward that things “were different in India.”

Without any details — it gets worse — this alone would tell any regular Canadian that Singh was incompatible with our society. But at every step of the way, the system has fought hard to keep him in Canada. By 2024, he was still here, fighting deportation, and it’s very possible that he remains. His case highlights the many failure points at which the immigration system fails to keep criminal perverts out of the country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", Canada, WTF?

Canada’s top general says we’re ready for war

Not a Lesbian.

As a youngster in Quebec, she dreamt of becoming a dancer. Instead, Jennie Carignan soared to become Canada’s first female Chief of the Defence Staff, the highest-ranking military position in the Canadian Armed Forces.

Appointed to the rank and position in July 2024, Gen. Carignan was educated as an engineer, has served in the Canadian military for more than 35 years, and has held leadership roles with missions to Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq and Syria. In 2013, she became the first woman commandant of the Royal Military College in Saint-Jean, Que.

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

Conrad Black: Trump Will Not Tolerate Foreign Influences Compromising the Integrity of America’s Hemisphere

The Trump administration’s statement of the strategic goals of the United States, published last week in accordance with recent custom, is much more original than the general press response would indicate. It declares the objective of maintaining America as the “strongest, richest, most powerful, and successful” country in the world.

This is a reasonable ambition that does not imply hostility or disrespect to any other country. The statement replaces what is represented as having been the “laundry lists of wishes or desired end-states and vague platitudes about what we should want,” of previous administrations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trump trade rep targets Canada’s beer and dairy rules in new CUSMA review conditions

U.S. President Donald Trump’s point-person on trade laid out a series of conditions Wednesday that Canada must meet in order to extend the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement (CUSMA) when it comes up for a review next year — revealing publicly for the first time what the administration expects Prime Minister Mark Carney to do to keep the pact for the long term.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told the U.S. Congress that CUSMA has been “successful to a certain degree” but there need to be changes before Trump agrees to extend it for another 16 years or revert to yearly reviews, something Canada is eager to avoid given the resulting annual uncertainty.

“I don’t think we can say that USMCA is an unqualified success,” Greer said in his remarks, which were shared publicly after his closed-door meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

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

Canada’s recent economic growth performance has been awful

Recently, Statistics Canada released a revision of its calculations of Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP) in recent years. GDP measures the total production in an economy in a given year, and per-person GDP is widely accepted by economists as one of the most useful metrics for assessing quality of life. The new estimate places Canada’s GDP for 2024 at 1.4 per cent larger than previously reported.

By the standards of these sorts of revisions—which are usually quite small—the recent update is significant. But make no mistake, the new numbers do not change the fundamental story of Canada’s economic performance, which has been one of historically weak growth and stagnant living standards for an unusually long stretch of time.

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

Canada ranked 12th ‘freest’ country amid global decline in human freedom: think tank

A conservative Canadian think tank ranked Canada as the twelfth “freest” country in the world based on a global index that measures human freedoms, while claiming that freedom has declined for the vast majority of the world’s population in recent years.

The Fraser Institute, jointly with the U.S.-based Cato Institute, released its annual Human Freedom Index on Tuesday, which found that nearly 90 per cent of people across the world had less freedom in 2023 – the latest year for which data was available – than they did in 2019.

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Liberals concealed deal with alleged ‘raging antisemite’ Laith Marouf, Conservative MPs say

The Liberal government concealed a deal with alleged “raging antisemite” Laith Marouf, two Conservative MPs say after they learned about it through a written inquiry.

Marouf received $122,661 as part of a Canadian Heritage program to deliver anti-racism lectures. According to Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), where Marouf was a senior consultant who led seminars, three consultative events by the centre took place in Montreal, Vancouver and Halifax in 2022.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

67 Percent of Canadians Say Cost of Living in Their Region Is Worst They’ve Seen

Nearly seven in every 10 Canadians are identifying the cost of living in their area as a major issue, according to a newly released survey.

An Abacus Data poll found that 67 percent of the 1,500 people surveyed earlier this month said the cost of living in their area is the worst they can ever remember it being. Another 21 percent say the cost of living is bad where they live, although they can recall periods when it was even more challenging.

Only 11 percent say the cost of living is not bad, the survey said.

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Poll finds 75% of Canadians back new pipelines to East Coast and BC

Support for new pipeline construction across Canada is rising, with 75% of Canadians saying they favour building new routes to Eastern Canada and British Columbia, according to an MEI-Ipsos poll released Tuesday.

The survey also found that 71% of Canadians believe the approval process for major energy projects, including environmental assessments, is too long and in need of reform.

(Incognito)

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New Records Link Carney Floor-Crosser MP to Pro-Beijing Network That Criticized Conservative Leaders’ Tough-on-China Platform and Targeted Foreign-Agent Registry Critics

Made in China

TORONTO — Michael Ma, the Conservative MP who crossed the floor last week to bring Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals one seat short of a majority, was part of a controversial diaspora organization that urged former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole to resign after the 2021 election over what it described as his “anti-China” stance, told Chinese Canadians to “vote carefully” ahead of the 2025 election, and later called for Pierre Poilievre to step down, according to Chinese-language records reviewed by The Bureau.

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

Jen Gerson: Read this to understand what Donald Trump really has planned

If there’s one conclusion we can draw from the recently released National Security Strategy put out by the Trump administration, it’s that the current crop of Americans in power really do feel like victims of the world that America created.

In that strategy, the White House outlined the Trump administration’s priorities, outlooks and hoped for direction. While it’s common for U.S. presidencies to release high-level documents of this kind, this year’s version is, to put it mildly, a serious vibe check. Taken in toto, the strategy is a rationale for America to withdraw its support for the world order as we know it, and instead take a role that is overtly transactional and self interested. This is an America that sees global leadership not as being a chief among equals, but rather one in which the top dog barks while the rest of us are expected to roll over. One in which American strength and wealth are not built by mutual alliances, but rather through zero-sum infighting.

This is stated quite explicitly in the document, which I implore every Canadian to read fully and understand.

The Star has a surplus of hysterical types.

The shock that after 80 years America isn’t going to pay everyone’s way is just too much to handle.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

LILLEY: Surging food prices highlight Canadians’ cost-of-living concerns

The cost of living is worse than it’s ever been: That’s the view of 67% of Canadians, according to an Abacus Data poll.

The news from Statistics Canada on Monday morning won’t help with that feeling as grocery prices spiked yet again just before Christmas.

The latest inflation report from StatsCan shows core inflation rose 2.2% in November; food inflation, though, rose 4.7% for what we pay stores as opposed to restaurants.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

‘My advice actually would be don’t go’: Expert warns Canadians about U.S. travel risks

A growing number of Canadians, including several young children, have been arrested or detained by U.S. immigration authorities over the past two years, according to newly released government data obtained through a U.S. federal court case.

The figures, analyzed by CTVNews.ca using data tools developed by the Deportation Data Project, were released as part of a lawsuit the project filed against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The data show that more than 200 Canadians have spent time in ICE custody at some point since January, compared with 137 detained in 2024. While the increase accelerated this year, the records show Canadian detentions dating back to before U.S. President Donald Trump began his second term.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

For the first time in a decade, Canada’s War Crimes Program shares what it has been up to

Atrocities in Sudan, Gaza and Ukraine raise a question: do Canadians have a role in addressing the suffering of others?

While these wars can appear to affect only distant strangers, their horrors increase the chances that victims – and perpetrators – will seek to enter Canada. It’s unsurprising, then, that Canadian authorities are busier than ever in identifying suspected perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Yet Canada continues to deport perpetrators without any guarantee they’ll be subsequently held accountable.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?