Canada

What are your rights as a Canadian if asked by a U.S. border agent to see your social media?

The news that some travellers visiting the U.S. might soon be asked to share personal things like social media and email accounts has left many Canadians unsettled about what could happen at the border.

A notice published Wednesday in the U.S. Federal Register said U.S. Customs and Border Protection advises collecting five years’ worth of social media information from travellers from some countries that don’t need to get visas to come to the U.S. It’s the latest move by the Trump administration when it comes to monitoring international travellers and immigrants.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Report Raises Concerns About Canadian Universities, Others Collaborating With Beijing-Backed AI Labs

A new report warns that prominent Western universities, including Canadian institutions, have collaborated with Chinese artificial-intelligence labs on research that could advance Beijing’s mass-surveillance apparatus and other tools tied to human rights abuses.

The Dec. 8 report, authored by the New York-based business intelligence firm Strategy Risks in partnership with the non-profit Human Rights Foundation, outlines how leading Western institutions in countries such as the United States, Canada, and others in Europe have collaborated with Chinese AI labs that are part of, or closely connected to, Beijing’s surveillance and security apparatus.

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

‘Don’t Be Canada’: Journalist’s Book Examines How the Great White North ‘Did Everything Wrong All at Once’

Once a thriving nation, Canada has seen a steep erosion in prosperity and security in just 10 years, a slide journalist Tristin Hopper blames on a string of self-inflicted policy failures detailed in his new book.

“Don’t Be Canada: How One Country Did Everything Wrong All At Once” was released in April. In it, the National Post columnist says Canada has mismanaged several critical issues compared to other developed nations, including drug and crime reform, euthanasia, health care, transgender policy, the judiciary, and housing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Canadian donations to charity take a hit, drop to all-time low, study shows

A new study from the Fraser Institute on Canadian generosity has found that the number of Canadians donating to charity dropped to the lowest point in two decades in 2023.

The Canadian public policy think tank study showed that around one-in-six Canadians — or just under 17 per cent — are making charitable donations on their tax returns.

The percentage of Canadians donating to charity dipped to 16.8 per cent in 2023 from 21.9 per cent in 2013, the study showed.

The economy, mass immigration from incompatible cultures, social balkanization I suspect there are many reasons.

Perhaps if the thieves in Ottawa stopped stealing our money to give to foreigners we would have the means once again to be charitable.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Ontario judge questions U.S. case against Deepak Paradkar at bail hearing

An Ontario Superior Court justice repeatedly questioned the strength of evidence Friday against a Toronto-area lawyer facing extradition to the United States on charges tied to fugitive and alleged cocaine kingpin Ryan Wedding.

During a bail hearing for Deepak Paradkar, Justice Peter Bawden pushed back on Crown submissions that if the suspended lawyer were released pending the outcome of his extradition hearing, he would be a flight risk.

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

Margareta Dovgal: Liberals twisted themselves into pretzels over their own pipeline MOU

The plan isn’t designed to succeed

Playing politics with pipelines is a time-honored Canadian tradition. Tuesday’s events in the House of Commons offered a delightful twist on the genre.

The Conservatives introduced a motion quoting the Liberals’ own pipeline promises laid out in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Alberta, nearly verbatim. The Liberals, true to form, killed it 196–139 with enthusiastic help from the NDP, Bloc, and Greens.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Donald Trump has a plan for America’s place in the world. What is Mark Carney’s vision for Canada?

The promise of a new and long-awaited national security strategy would be laughable if it were not so late in coming

OTTAWA — The promise, yet again, that Canada will soon produce a new and long-awaited national security strategy would be laughable if it were not so late in coming, a perennial work in progress, not to mention fairly relevant right now.

The latest word is that sometime in the new year, weeks after the U.S. threw down its own aggressive America First plan on the desks of global leaders, the Liberal government will present Canada’s vision of the main threats to national sovereignty and security, and how best to tackle them.

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

34 arrested, more than $2.7 million in drugs seized following months-long investigation

Police forces across the GTA have teamed up to shut down a street gang whose criminal tentacles reached well beyond the region.

Police in Durham Region say a nine-month-long investigation into drug trafficking and illegal firearms began in April 2025, targeting a gang that calls itself “44”. It’s alleged that members bragged about their illicit earnings in social media posts.

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

SLOBODIAN: No coffee for you — Ottawa’s DEI Ramadan rules crossed the line

So, thousands of Shared Services Canada (SSC) employees had to forgo coffee breaks and lunches during the month-long Ramadan 2025 to spare a few fasting Muslim coworkers from feeling uncomfortable.

Managers were instructed to schedule key meetings and chats around times when fasting “energy levels were low.” Work wasn’t to interfere with their pre-dawn and post-sunset Suhoor and Iftar meals.

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

Populism without populists: New polling reveals Canada’s puzzling political contradiction

Canada is experiencing a period of political turbulence that is easy to misinterpret precisely because it lacks spectacle. There have been no sweeping electoral realignments, no mass populist insurgencies, and no wholesale rejection of democratic institutions like we’ve seen in other peer countries. Governments continue to function, elections still confer authority, and leaders continue to win votes, leadership reviews, and confidence tests.

Yet beneath this surface continuity, leadership authority is being challenged. Leaders survive procedurally while struggling to retain confidence, coherence, and durability. What defines the current moment is not a single crisis, but the slow accumulation of internal fractures: leadership reviews that resolve little, caucus dissent that spills into public view, and parties that appear organizationally intact yet directionally adrift.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Populism

Trump wants to boost European nationalists. Should Canada be worried?

The Trump administration’s implicit endorsement of “patriotic” European political parties has renewed concerns about American meddling in Canadian political movements and causes.

Washington’s updated National Security Strategy, released late last week, says little directly about economic or security ties with Canada. But it raised eyebrows among Canadian national security watchers with its full-throated support for nationalist parties in Europe and its vision for the future of the Western hemisphere.

“It’s not clear to me if they consider Canada part of European ‘civilization’ I doubt they consider us civilized.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

People are waking up to the fact that new vehicles are the Great Canadian Money Suck

The triangle of sadness in personal finance is houses, groceries and vehicles.

Nothing in the outlook for 2026 suggests major relief is coming on any of those fronts, which leaves you to take action yourself.

After five years of oppressive inflation, you’ve likely pared down your grocery spending as much as possible. Selling your home to cut living costs is no real option, either; it’s a last resort and opens up a new set of problems.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

GOLDSTEIN: Sell our oil and natural gas to pay for a clean economy

In the real world, a green energy economy can only be financed through the strategic sale and use of fossil fuel power.

The memorandum of understanding between Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney on building a new bitumen pipeline to B.C. with the goal of selling our oil to Asian markets — as opposed to at a perpetual discount to the U.S., where 97% of all sales now go — recognizes this.

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Extortion suspects have all claimed refugee status, Canada’s border agency says

Canada’s plan to expel those behind B.C.’s extortion epidemic has hit a roadblock after every single suspect sent for a deportation hearing claimed refugee status.

The foreign nationals were identified by B.C.’s Extortion Task Force, but once the Canada Border Services Agency began investigating them, all claimed to be refugees.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, WTF?