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Chris Selley: Why would B.C. pay more for ferries just to spite Donald Trump?

British Columbia’s transportation minister claimed Friday that buying new ferries from European shipyards would have cost roughly $1.2 billion more than buying them from a Chinese government-owned shipyard in Weihai, Shandong province, which is a city roughly the size of Montreal that I had never heard of until this week. China knows how to build cities. They burst into existence from nothing, like popcorn. China also knows how to build ships, and highways, and high-speed rail, and just about anything else you would care to name, better and more efficiently than the Canadian public service can realistically comprehend.

Someone’s gettin paid.

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

Mark Carney’s first big test on the world stage

KANANASKIS, Alberta — In Canadian diplomatic circles, “Charlevoix” is shorthand for summit disaster. Avoiding a repeat of the 2018 summit that Donald Trump set ablaze is job one for Prime Minister Mark Carney this week as he hosts G7 leaders.

Carney came to power by campaigning openly against Trump’s belligerence. But now he has a direct line to the president, with whom he’s negotiating an economic and security deal.

Hanging out with Starmer is no measure of success.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Canada is sovereign, says Starmer in rebuke to Trump

Sir Keir Starmer has described Canada as an “independent, sovereign nation” ahead of his trip there in a clear rebuke of Donald Trump.

Sir Keir will become the first British prime minister to visit Canada in eight years as he travels first to Ottawa and then to Kananaskis for the summit of the G7 group of nations.

Mr Trump, the US president, has repeatedly talked about making Canada the 51st state of America, insisting his interest is not a joke. It has forced Mark Carney, Canada’s new prime minister, to hit back, leading to a deterioration in relations.

I bet Trump is just shakin!

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

“F–k Gaza”

Montreal police investigating after a mosque was defaced with hateful graffiti

The Montreal police hate crimes unit is investigating after a mosque in the city’s downtown was defaced with anti-Palestinian graffiti earlier this week.

The words “F–k Gaza” were painted multiple times on the exterior walls of The Canadian Institute of Islamic Civilization, at the intersection of Belmont Street and Union Avenue, Tuesday evening.

I suggest the police make better use of their time and listen to what is said in mosques.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, WTF?

French officers raid importers of banned El Mordjene spread – the Muslim rival to the Infidel’s Nutella

El Mordjene the contraband Muslim Nutella

The delicacy is being sold on the black market in France. Some think the ban is an attempt to ‘keep down’ the country’s Muslim immigrants

Customs agents in Marseilles were jubilant when they pried open a shipping container to find nine tonnes of contraband substance.

The illicit goods were not, however, drugs or cigarettes, but 15,300 jars of sticky hazelnut spread.

The port seizure in May was part of a campaign by the authorities to bar El Mordjene, a sweet Algerian spread that enjoyed explosive success last year thanks to a craze propelled by TikTok and Instagram.

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

The Big Bang myth – Our origins will always elude us

Universes are nested, a bit like Russian dolls or coffee tables — at least, that’s what I took from a new cosmological theory presented this week. According to a team of physicists from the University of Portsmouth, the edge of the observable universe might be the event horizon of a black hole, belonging to a different, upper-level universe. In other words, “our” universe — for now suddenly we have to use the possessive, to ward off potential confusion — is enclosed by another. It’s even possible that our cosmic backyard might itself be the host for various universes, lurking within the black holes scattered about the place like children’s marbles down the side of a couch; little bounded nutshells, occupied by unknown kings of infinite space.

Such disorientating ideas were casually passed on by the Portsmouth team in pursuit of a bigger headline. According to their theory, the world kicked off not with a bang, but with a “crunch” then a “bounce”. The idea that 13.8 billion years ago there was a singularity followed by a period of cosmic inflation is fake news, apparently. Instead a black hole collapsed a bit — our very own dear black hole, the beautiful home of all our possibilities, as I now fondly think of it — before rebounding outwards again, producing all the familiar furniture of the universe but more elegantly explained.

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And the much anticipated sequel …

h/t Allen, Miss Trixie, Patti Jo & XC

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