Why do we keep letting Canada’s ultrarich use tax havens to stash wealth?

Imagine, in our incredibly polarized times, a truly unifying issue. A clear problem that everyone from the late great Ed Broadbent on the left to Pierre Poilievre on the right has agreed on. Imagine a policy proposal with 90 per cent popular support.

You can stop imagining. The issue is tax havens. This trick that allows Canada’s ultrarich and big corporations to stash wealth and avoid paying their fair share of tax is almost universally loathed. So after decades of public conversation, years of international negotiations and several pieces of new legislation, corporate Canada’s use of tax havens must be on the decline, right?

Not a chance. In fact, the problem just keeps getting worse.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

When U.F.O.s Become Religion

A UFO in 1665: The Air Battle of Stralsund

The skies — and the government — could be hiding more than we know.

An interview with Diana Walsh Pasulka by Ross Douthat

… Douthat: How did that pull you into studying people who claim to have had a U.F.O.-style encounter?

Pasulka: When I was doing my work for the book about the Catholic doctrine of Purgatory, that brought me to a lot of archives. I’d go into the archives — and archives are places where things aren’t digitized — and I started to look into how Catholics viewed how souls ascended into Heaven or Purgatory.

What I found was a lot of documents from 1,000 years ago, 800 or 500 years ago, about recorded sightings of aerial phenomena that Catholics had from Europe.

From an interview with Joe Rogan

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

In the Heart of Berlin: Hundreds Celebrate Massacres of Druze

In front of Berlin’s Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall), the seat of the city’s mayor, nearly 400 men—many of them reportedly Syrian refugees—publicly celebrated the recent massacres committed against the Druze community in Syria. Eyewitnesses report that chants included “Out with the Druze!” and “Today we liberate Suweida, we will break the Druze,” along with calls for rape, murder, and ethnic cleansing. Although 65 police officers were present at the scene, they did not intervene.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Druze, Islam, Islam and violence, Syria

Judge rules immigration to Canada is not a right

A Saskatchewan judge has ruled that foreign nationals do not have a guaranteed right to immigrate to Canada, rejecting a legal challenge from an Indian lab technician whose provincial permit was revoked over suspected fraud.

Court of King’s Bench Justice Andrew Davis said in his ruling that immigration decisions fall within the discretion of government and that applicants have “few or no rights at stake.”

(Go Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Pierre Poilievre puts spotlight on Alberta riding ahead of federal byelection

The upcoming federal byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot has Jennifer Fossen in unknown territory.

Fossen is the president of the Camrose & District Chamber of Commerce. In the April federal election, it held a candidate forum. Only one nominee showed up to speak to a half empty room.

Three months later, Fossen is hosting another candidate forum, this time in a byelection race featuring Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, and the response is, well, off the hook.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Our Post-Deportation Future

A lot of drivers in Los Angeles are now posting Google Maps and Waze screenshots of improved commutes as empirical evidence that deportations are working. No red lines at rush hour? Just thirty minutes from Calabasas to Century City?

Big if true. Is this effect real? How many deportations did it take to perform this miracle?

According to Google AI, quite a few: “In June 2025, immigration judges in Los Angeles County completed 126,930 deportation cases, resulting in 45,902 removal orders and 3,676 voluntary departure orders, according to TRAC Immigration. This means that approximately 39.1% of the completed cases in June resulted in deportation, either through removal or voluntary departure.” 

VIA HotAir

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

The silent exodus: Why some Canadians are giving up

How many Canadians would leave if the door to the United States was held open by a President Donald Trump?

It’s not a rhetorical question anymore. The exodus has already begun. Families are quietly packing up and heading south. People who once wore the maple leaf with pride are asking themselves a painful but unavoidable question: Can I still raise my children here?

(Open incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

De-aged stars, cloned voices, resuscitated dead icons: AI is changing the art and business of acting

For filmmaker Scott Mann, three dozen F-bombs had the makings of a million-dollar headache.

When Mann wrapped “Fall,” a 2022 thriller about two women stranded atop a 2,000-foot radio tower, he figured the hard part was over. Shot in the Mojave Desert on a $3-million budget, the film didn’t have money to burn and seemed on course. But Lionsgate wanted a PG-13 rating and, with 35 expletives, “Fall” was headed for an R. Reshoots would cost more than $1 million — far beyond what the production could afford.

In the past, a director might have taken out a second mortgage or thrown themselves at the mercy of the ratings board. Mann instead turned to AI.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence", Hollywood

Lowering Canada’s voting age to 16 is her ‘top parliamentary priority,’ senator says

Kymani Wint -Future LPC Voter

OTTAWA — Now that the British government has vowed to lower its voting age to 16 by the next general election, one Canadian senator says it’s past time for Canada to do the same.

The U.K. announced last week that it would lower its voting age from 18 to 16 in a bid to strengthen British democracy and restore trust in politics.

Sen. Marilou McPhedran said the issue has been her “top parliamentary priority” since she joined the Red Chamber. She said lowering the voting age to 16 would be good for democracy and that the only arguments against it are “based on stereotypes.”

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

No Bigger Fish To Fry Than These two Losers?

Controversial so-called street preachers charged with hate crimes in British Columbia

A pair of so-called street preachers known for verbally harassing women in Ontario are now facing hate crime charges in relation to allegations they interfered with worshippers at two churches in B.C.’s Lower Mainland last fall.

According to court documents obtained by CBC News, Steven Ravbar and Matthew Carapella are accused of mischief “motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression” for a pair of incidents dating back to a Sunday in November 2024.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inhate crimes, WTF?