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Golden Dome? ReArm Europe? Canada negotiating military relationships amid trade war, sovereignty concerns

“You can only control what you can control.”

Those were the words from newly minted Defence Minister David McGuinty Wednesday morning on his way into a cabinet meeting after a reporter asked him to respond to U.S. President Donald Trump’s US$61 billion price tag to join the Golden Dome.

“What we can control here now is decisions around strengthening our sovereignty and our security,” he said.

The Golden Dome, a name that plays off Israel’s Iron Dome, is a project Trump told the Pentagon to pursue. It would employ ground- and space-based weapons to destroy missiles mid-flight.

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

Migrant arrested over letter threatening to assassinate Trump

An undocumented US immigrant has been arrested after he sent a handwritten letter to the government saying he planned to assassinate President Donald Trump, officials said.

The man, 54-year-old Ramon Morales-Reyes, said in the letter he would “shoot your precious president in is [sic] head” before self-deporting back to his native country of Mexico.

He is now in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention in Wisconsin with deportation proceedings pending, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA, WTF?

Trump Tariffs Ruled Illegal by Federal Judicial Panel

The U.S. Court of International Trade said the president had overstepped his authority in imposing his “reciprocal” tariffs globally, as well as levies on Canada and Mexico.

A panel of federal judges on Wednesday blocked President Trump from imposing some of his steepest tariffs on China and other U.S. trading partners, finding that federal law did not grant him “unbounded authority” to tax imports from nearly every country around the world.

The ruling, by the U.S. Court of International Trade, delivered an early yet significant setback to Mr. Trump, undercutting his primary leverage as he looks to pressure other nations into striking trade deals more beneficial to the United States.

Appeals are being filed, Judges are not elected President.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", "Liberation Day", USA

King Charles’s visit to Canada was a show of weakness, not strength

Ever since Donald Trump began issuing threats about absorbing Canada, Canadians have been unusually rattled and resolute. In our hour of peril, we thought leaders from around the world would stand up for our country – and especially, King Charles III.

Why Charles? It’s not only because he is Canada’s sovereign, which has certain obligations. It’s that Mr. Trump admires him. Had Charles uttered something definitive in response to Mr. Trump’s rhetoric, that might have deterred the President. The King did not.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals", Canada, USA

O Canada! King Charles visits a realm that ain’t as glorious and free as it used to be.

King Charles’s big day on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, May 27, began with a welcome by four First Nations men in native costume. They sat in a semicircle around a huge drum and banged on it with sticks while wailing loudly. A war chant? Who knows? It did seem to be right out of an old Western — the Indians getting themselves all revved up just before leaping on their horses, tomahawks in hand, to take on the palefaces. Through it all, Charles and Camilla stood there like a couple of chumps, he with a dozen or so shiny medals pinned to his chest, her in a wide-brimmed hat not unlike the one Melania wore to the inauguration.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals", Canada, USA

HANNAFORD: Carney thinks Canada is a country, now he must convince the West

In this much, Mark Carney is different from his predecessor. He thinks Canada is a country with a defining identity.

Regardless of what so many Albertans may feel about independence for Alberta or Saskatchewan today, Justin Trudeau’s cringeworthy New York Times interview ten years ago left us, well… cringing. Canada, he said, was the world’s “first post-national state,” and seemed pleased with the thought. He added for good measure, “There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", Canada, USA

King Charles Undercuts Canada’s Sovereignty While Trying to Affirm It

By all accounts, King Charles III’s major address on Tuesday in Ottawa was meant to be a rebuke to Donald Trump and all his taunts about Canada becoming a 51st state if it had to depend on money from the U.S. in order to survive. Yet when Charles finally delivered his highly anticipated address, he ended up undercutting Canadian sovereignty more than supporting it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals", Canada, USA

Dr. Oz Offers To Import 400 Canadian Bird Flu Farm Ostriches

Dr. Mehmet Oz has offered sanctuary to 400 ostriches facing death in Canada due to bird flu.

Dr. Oz, the Trump appointed director of the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), along with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, have intervened to rescue the flightless birds after authorities in British Columbia pledged to cull them amid an outbreak of avian flu.

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

The typical Canadian pays 70 percent more income tax than the typical American

In the recent federal election, the Liberals and Conservatives both campaigned on lowering income taxes to ease the burden on working- and middle-class Canadians. Sure enough, an income tax cut is planned for July 1st.

This focus on tax cuts raises the question: how much of a burden are income taxes on the typical Canadian?

The “typical Canadian”—defined as the median income earner—is currently taxed at an average of just over 17 percent (federal plus provincial). The upcoming tax cut will decrease that by about half a percentage point, bringing it to just under 17 percent.

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

The shooting of Israeli embassy workers didn’t happen in a vacuum. And it could happen in Canada next

What we have witnessed in Canada and other Western democracies over the last year and a half is the rapid establishment of social licence.

Social licence for the type of violent extremism that resulted in the assassination of two Israeli embassy diplomats, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, in Washington last week. Social licence for the open celebration and justification of the murders – from extremist voices, yes, but also from academics, influencers and a former Green Party candidate in the recent Canadian election – by people convinced that emptying a gun into two people on an American sidewalk is a defensible form of “resistance” against the actions of a foreign government half a world away.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada, USA

Smackdown 2025: Homan vs AOC

In the political cage match that America didn’t know it needed—2025 has delivered. On one side: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the self-anointed heroine of the progressive revolution, armed with Instagram reels, virtue signals, and a dogged resistance to anything resembling border enforcement. On the other: Tom Homan, the no-nonsense former ICE director turned Trump’s new immigration enforcer—armed with the law, federal authority, and a mandate from the American people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Why Do Truck Drivers Need to Speak English?

The left is furious that the Trump administration is officially enforcing (effective date: June 25) the longstanding law that truck drivers must be proficient in English.

The left claims that you don’t need to speak English to drive; this must be bigotry against immigrants, or against Spanish speakers, or against the uneducated, or against certain ethnicities.

It’s not.

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

FBI to reinvestigate 2023 White House cocaine find and leak of supreme court Dobbs draft

The FBI will launch new investigations into the 2023 discovery of a bag of cocaine at the White House during Joe Biden’s term, as well as into pipe bombs discovered at Democratic and Republican party headquarters before the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot by supporters of Donald Trump, and the leak of the supreme court’s draft opinion before the historic overturning of national abortion rights with the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that overturned Roe v Wade in 2022.

Dan Bongino, a rightwing podcaster turned deputy director of the FBI, made the announcement on X, where he said he had requested weekly briefings on any progress in looking into the old cases. The incidents have been popular talking points on America’s political right wing and among conspiracy theorists.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

How Trump has turbocharged a Canadian province’s quest for independence

For Canadians, there’s nothing new about a province contemplating secession. Two referendums on Quebec’s potential independence – in 1980 and 1995 – brought the country uncomfortably close to the precipice. Today, it’s not Quebec but the oil-rich western province of Alberta that is chafing under the constraints of Canadian confederation. US president Donald Trump’s tariffs and comments about turning Canada into the 51st state have set in motion a chain of political events that will probably result in a referendum on Albertan independence sometime in 2026.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Canada, USA