House passes Big Beautiful Bill, sending it to Trump’s desk

Republicans on Thursday notched the first major legislative victory of President Donald Trump’s second term, a mammoth tax and immigration agenda the GOP hopes will reshape the U.S. economy and unwind many of the Biden administration’s accomplishments.

The House, in a 218 to 214 vote, passed Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” a $3.4 trillion measure to extend tax cuts from Trump’s first term and implement new campaign promises — such as eliminating income taxes on tips and overtime wages — while spending hundreds of billions of dollars on immigration enforcement and defense. It raises the country’s borrowing cap by $5 trillion, staving off a debt default that the Treasury was weeks away from breaching.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Joel Kotkin: The West’s immigration reckoning is here

The recent riots in Los Angeles, sparked by President Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, could be a harbinger to a new era of ethnic conflict not only in the U.S. but throughout the West, including Canada.

Many leading countries for immigrants, notably in the Middle East, may have higher percentages of international migrants, but many are only there temporarily. But in Canada, Australia, and the U.S. — where the foreign born represent between 15 and 30 per cent of the total population — most come to stay, with sometimes problematic results.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

HUNTER: Islamic State fanatic slashed B.C. bus riders’ throats

Abdul Aziz Kawam fully manifested the Islamic State fever he had contracted on April Fools’ Day in 2023.

And so, at the behest of the death cult, he slashed the throat of a rider, leaving a bloodbath on a Surrey, B.C., bus. Miraculously, the male victim in the frenzied, unprovoked attack survived.

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

Microsoft to cut 9,000 jobs as chatbots take over

Microsoft is cutting 9,000 jobs as executives order staff to delegate more work to artificial intelligence (AI).

The $3.6 trillion (£2.7 trillion) technology giant will shed 4pc of its workforce, it confirmed on Wednesday, with redundancies hitting divisions including its Xbox arm and King, its mobile games studios.

The job losses follow a round of cutbacks in May, when Microsoft laid off 6,000 staff including hundreds of middle-managers and engineering roles.

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

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Durham police investigating swarming of Muslim woman at Oshawa Pizza Pizza

The Perps appear to be from the mysterious Blurry People race! Much discussed in the comments on X.

Update: Suspects are Teenage girls

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

Accused High Park sex attacker was on probation at time of June assault

Police have a man in custody following a sexual assault in High Park last month.

Speaking to reporters Thursday morning from inside the park, Sex Crimes Det. Adrian Pileggi said the victim was walking alone on a paved pathway at around 10:40 p.m. on June 4 near Howard Park Ave. and Parkside Dr. when she was approached from behind by an assailant.

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

4 dead, 14 injured in drive-by mass shooting outside Chicago nightclub: report

Four people were killed and 14 others wounded when gunfire erupted outside a Chicago nightclub Wednesday night, CBS Chicago reported, citing authorities.

Police said a drive-by shooting occurred around 11 p.m. outside the Artis Restaurant and Lounge nightclub on the 300 block of West Chicago Avenue in the Near North Side neighborhood of the Windy City.

Revelers were leaving the “high-end dining and nightlife destination” after an album release party for Chicago-based rapper Mello Buckzz.

Odd how this has received so little publicity compared to the Idaho incident. Higher body count, higher number of wounded but much less media.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

York Region paramedic shouldn’t have been fired over Israel comments: union, law experts

The Centre for Free Expression is calling for the reinstatement of a York Region paramedic whose union says she was fired over a social media post criticizing Israel’s military operations in the Middle East.

An open letter from James L. Turk, the director of the centre at Toronto Metropolitan University, and a group of lawyers and professors, expresses “deep concern” that the dismissal of Katherine Grzejszczak violates her Charter right to freedom of expression.

Was it wise to advocate for dismissal given her reinstatement will be viewed as license?

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How London’s crime-ridden Underground became emblematic of Broken Britain

It was 4pm on a busy Victoria line train heading north. Sally Wynter was standing by the door on her way to meet a friend. Her thoughts were on the evening ahead, her eyes trained on the emails on her phone. As the doors opened at Green Park and she stepped to the side to let people off, she felt a sharp pain in her right arm and was propelled with a thud into the clear partition at the end of the adjacent row of seats.

A man had, completely out of the blue, punched her, making her lose her balance and fall smack into the perspex. She looked around, dazed and unsure who had assaulted her or if another blow was about to land. A man stepped onto the platform. To the back of his head she shouted: “You’ve just hit me! Did anyone see?” The crowd waiting to board barely looked up.

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Matthew Lau: CBC’s very balanced reporting of just one point of view

If you are looking for solid analysis and balanced reporting on climate change and climate policy, you are unlikely to get it from CBC News. See, for example, a story last week on Ontario’s climate targets. Internal documents from the public service project Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions will be around 145 megatonnes in 2030, depending on industry actions and other factors. If the projection holds, the province would miss its target to reduce emissions to 142 megatonnes by 2030. The environment minister, appearing to contradict these projections, said on June 5th that the Progressive Conservative government’s plan “is working” and that the province was in fact on track to hit its targets.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCBC, CBC Scandals

‘No means no’ is Eurocentric, South African lawyers say in sex harassment case

Lawyers for a South African high court judge accused of sexual harassment have dismissed a gender expert’s testimony that “no means no” as “Eurocentric”.

They also accused the expert of an “imposition of whiteness” in her assessment of the case brought against Selby Mbenenge, judge president of the Eastern Cape, by a secretary in his court, Andiswa Mengo.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

New supply management law ties the hands of our trade negotiators

After climbing down on the digital services tax, Canada is back at the table with the U.S. to negotiate the two countries’ trade relationship. Unfortunately, Canadian negotiators have a fresh problem to deal with: the recent passage of a bill through Parliament that protects supply management.

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

Boulder terror suspect Mohamed Soliman’s wife, 5 kids can be deported, judge rules — reversing decision that paused proceedings

The family of the Colorado terror suspect who injured 8 Israeli hostage supporters with homemade firebombs last month can be deported, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.

US District Court Judge Orlando Garcia dismissed Mohamed Sabry Soliman family’s legal challenge to their deportation — stating that the Trump administration has conducted normal and legal removal proceedings.

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