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Geoff Russ: Canada desperately needs to find its ‘we’ again

The classical liberal John Stuart Mill once warned that “free institutions are next to impossible in a country made up of different nationalities.” He wrote that, without a “united public opinion,” representative government lacked the common sympathies and culture required for it to work properly. He added that even entities like the army would cease to identify with the people and become another branch of the state.

Liberty’s better theorists have always presumed a “we,” and Canada needs to find its “we” again.

There can be no “we” in a nation subjected to the abuse of it’s culture, values and heritage by the heinous immigration scam orchestrated by Canada’s so called “elites”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Creating a Youth Climate Corps could be Carney’s FDR moment … or not

Being raised in Canada taught me two enduring lessons: To care for the environment, and to contribute meaningfully to public life.

That’s why in 2023, when an unexpected call from the White House came in, I stepped forward. I was appointed by president Joe Biden, and within months began work on the historic American Climate Corps program.

In his first budget, Prime Minister Mark Carney has proposed a similar climate corps for Canada – a bold, consequential, nation-building program with deep roots and a rich legacy dating back nearly 100 years. This is exactly the kind of generational investment that young people need.

Sounds like a job application.

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

Carney’s new nation-building projects list to include mines, LNG, Iqaluit hydro: all realized in LEGO say sources

New nation-building projects list to include mines, LNG, Iqaluit hydro: sources

Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to announce a second set of “nation-building projects,” including at least three focused on critical mineral extraction, one for exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) and at least one transmission project, sources told CBC News.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Maybe we shouldn’t have stopped him?

Foreign National Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Migrants From Canada Into the US

A foreign national has pleaded guilty to conspiring to facilitate the smuggling of illegal migrants into the United States, and will face deportation after serving a two-year prison sentence, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) says.

Edgar Gonzalez de Paz, 37, pleaded guilty to facilitating illegal entries into the United States at a Montreal courthouse on Nov. 6, the CBSA said in a Nov. 10 news release. The agency says Gonzalez de Paz faces a prison sentence of two years less a day.

I bet he moves more illegals out of the country than the government does.

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

Chinese-Owned Trailer Park Beside U.S. Stealth Bomber Base Linked to Alleged Vancouver Repression Case

A sprawling U.S. investigative report has placed a Richmond, B.C., couple already identified in a high-profile Chinese-diaspora repression case at the center of an even more explosive national-security controversy south of the border: they are linked to a web of shell companies that own a trailer park beside Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri — home to the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and launch point for the June 2025 strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

h/t SC

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

Second World War veterans are a shrinking presence on Remembrance Day

As the Second World War came to a close, Elmer Friesen and his brother, Alvin, received a letter from their Mennonite church in Aberdeen, Sask.

They could return to the church, it said, but not without publicly apologizing to the small rural congregation. They had been expecting the ultimatum since first being given the choice at the outset of the war: Serve and renounce your membership to the church, or don’t participate at all.

But the appeal to pacifism – a core belief of the church – didn’t land with the Friesen brothers.

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

ALBERS: MAPLE MIRAGE: Canada – a cautionary tale for America

“When inflation, ideology, and immigration collide in a nation that forgot arithmetic.”

As a Canadian, I confess to watching my country’s troubles not with outrage first — but with disbelief. A stunned, slack-jawed astonishment at how quickly a nation once steady, responsible, and confident has managed to drive itself into the ditch and keep the accelerator pressed.

And now, a fresh Liberal budget is upon us — yet another thick, glossy brochure promising “investments in the future,” which in the plain tongue of the taxpayer means more spending, more debt, and another shovel-load of red ink poured into a pit we can no longer see the bottom of.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

More Canadians trust the military than the federal government: poll

Over representation of “White” hands merits a hate crime complaint.

In the lead up to Remembrance Day, Canada’s military remains one of the most trusted institutions in the country.

A new poll by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies suggests that trust in Canada’s military sits at 75 per cent. Trust in police, meanwhile, remains close behind, at 71 per cent. Only 13 per cent of Canadians distrust the armed forces and police.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Toronto city hall agrees to fly Palestinian flag this month for the first time

Toronto city hall will fly the Palestinian flag for the first time next Monday to commemorate State of Palestine Independence Day, a gesture long sought by advocates that the city says it has now agreed to because Canada recognized Palestine in September.

City hall hoists several dozen flags a year. In 2024, it raised more than 60. Most were national flags but about a third were for sports teams or various causes, including the End Polio Now Flag, the Black Liberation Flag and the Period Purse Flag on Menstrual Health Day in May.

One Term Chow.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Ekos poll finds Canadians most concerned about ‘growing political and ideological polarization’

While the focus last week was on how Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s budget will affect Canadians’ pocketbooks, the top issues “keeping them up at night” involve deep concerns about the country’s future, according to Frank Graves, founder and president of Ekos Research Associates Inc., based on the results of a recent Ekos poll.

In the late October survey involving 1,581 respondents presented with a set of 10 choices, 70 per cent identified “growing political and ideological polarization” as their top issue of concern. Next, at 67 per cent, was the “acute decline of our democratic and public institutions.” The poll results were released on Oct. 29.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", Canada

A retreat from opportunity: Is the Canadian dream still alive?

For generations, the Canadian covenant was straightforward: Work hard, play by the rules, and you’ll climb higher than your parents did. Merit, not inheritance, would determine success. That certainty is eroding.

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s persistent claim that “Canada is broken” resonates because it captures a growing anxiety that effort no longer guarantees advancement. The sentiment transcends party lines.

In early 2025, Policy Horizons Canada (the federal government’s own foresight agency) released projections for 2040 where “upward social mobility is almost unheard of” and “downward social mobility might become the norm.” This scenario challenges the foundation of Canadian identity.

A long read but packed with data. Sadly this century will most certainly not belong to Canada or what remains of it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

‘National embarrassment’: Canada is no longer a country that has eliminated measles

In the old days we exiled them from the village.

Canada no longer can claim it has eliminated the most infectious virus known to medicine after the Pan American Health Organization announced Monday it has revoked the country’s measles elimination status.

The decision comes after Canada failed to contain spread of the same viral strain of measles for more than one year.

h/t XC and Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Liat Schwartz: It was unreal as anti-Israel protesters attacked our off campus event

Nov. 5 is a day Jewish students at Toronto Metropolitan University will never forget. What should have been a peaceful evening of dialogue became a night of fear, violence, and betrayal. For many of us, it was the night our trust, in our peers, in our university, and in the idea of equal rights on campus, was shattered.

Diversity and multiculturalism mean violence when Islam is involved.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Canadian military will rely on an army of public servants to boost its ranks by 300,000

The Canadian Forces is counting on public servants to volunteer for military service as it tries to ramp up an army of 300,000 as part of a mobilization plan, according to a defence department directive.

Federal and provincial employees would be given a one-week training course in how to handle firearms, drive trucks and fly drones, according to the directive, signed by Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan and defence deputy minister Stefanie Beck on May 30, 2025.

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DND expansion plans are wildly unrealistic

Have the senior leaders of the Canadian military lost all connection to reality?

Their unpublicized plan to increase Canada’s military reserves to 400,000 people, as reported by the Citizen’s David Pugliese , is wildly out of synch with their own organization’s recruitment capabilities, the attraction of serving in the armed forces, and the country’s needs.

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