Hate Crime: School district forced to explain after speculation it told teachers the word ‘family’ is racist

There’s a lot of drama associated with this “family.”

After a year and a half of speculation that teachers in Canada’s Waterloo Region District, just outside of Toronto, were being taught the word “family” is racist, its school board was forced to come clean this month.

The controversy began in November 2023, when the district offered a professional development presentation titled “Dismantling Whiteness at W-O: Words Matter,” according to the CBC.

Reports earlier this month on the training included screen grabs from the presentation highlighting the word “family,” followed by an explanation claiming the word is “identified as harmful by our racialized students” and “values positions of (male) authority and hierarchy.”

Parents have to file Hate Crime complaints.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism"

Mass protests against Trump across US as president holds military parade

Protests against President Donald Trump have taken place in towns and cities across the US in a coordinated event titled “No Kings”.

The demonstrations were held to counter a rare military parade hosted by Trump in Washington DC, and came after days of protests in Los Angeles and elsewhere over his immigration policies.

Lawmakers, union leaders and activists gave speeches in cities including New York, Philadelphia and Houston to crowds waving American flags and placards critical of Trump.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State", Trump Derangement Syndrome, USA

Data Dive with Nik Nanos: The West is angry

The spectre of Alberta separation is on the horizon. The path to independence is clear. The separatist offramp back to Canada’s federation is trickier.

Western alienation and disenchantment with Ottawa are long-standing and part of Alberta’s political DNA. Right now, the mood in the West is quite ugly. Ask people that live in the Prairie provinces the emotions they feel when they think of the federal government – anger tops the list at 35 per cent followed by pessimism at 26 per cent. Feelings of anger and pessimism towards Ottawa are the most intense in the Prairies, outstripping every other region of the country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation"

Protesters march through London waving Iranian flags and chanting ‘stop bombing Iran’

Thousands of pro-Palestine demonstrators waved Iranian flags as they marched through central London on Saturday demanding an immediate end to Israeli air strikes on the Islamic fundamentalist republic amid rising fears of a wider conflict in the Middle East. Crowds gathered in Parliament Square, chanting “stop bombing Iran” and calling on the UK Government to end all military support for Israel.

h/t XC and Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Only 13% say they would definitely consider NDP after election collapse

The New Democratic Party is facing deep uncertainty following a crushing defeat in April’s federal election, with new polling showing just 13% of Canadians say they would “definitely” consider voting NDP in the future.

The Angus Reid Institute survey reveals the scale of the challenge ahead for interim leader Don Davies, who took over after Jagmeet Singh lost his Burnaby-South seat and stepped down.

That many?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNDP

‘Less burnout, more babies’ — meet the young women of Maga

A conservative health podcaster dressed in pearls, a tweed blazer and a miniskirt burst onto the stage at a Dallas conference hall to announce the beginning of a revolution for young American women.

“Less Prozac, more protein. Less burnout, more babies. Less feminism, more femininity,” Alex Clark announced to whoops from the audience. “Look around this room. Let’s be honest: it’s never been hotter to be a conservative.”

Hundreds of young women dressed in pastel dresses and cowboy boots, their perfect curls tied back with bows, hung on her every word.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump World, USA

Canada’s world junior trial saw juries tossed, intense testimony. Here’s a recap

Five members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team will wait weeks until their fate in their high-profile sexual assault trial is determined.

Michael McLeod, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote have been on trial since late April inside a London, Ont., courtroom – accused of engaging in non-consensual group sex with a then-20-year-old woman in June 2018.

All five men pleaded not guilty to sexual assault when the trial began on April 22; McLeod also pleaded not guilty to an additional charge of being a party to the offence of sexual assault.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Starmer has been forced into this. Don’t let this inquiry become a new cover-up

Is it any wonder this went on so long?

In January, Sir Keir Starmer accused opposition MPs expressing concern over grooming gangs of “amplifying what the far-Right is saying” and “jumping on a bandwagon”. Having fought tooth and nail against any public inquiry into the scandal for months, he now appears to have conceded they were right all along, announcing that he has accepted Baroness Louise Casey’s recommendation of a full statutory inquiry.

So that’s that. Judged by his own words, the Prime Minister is jumping on a far-Right bandwagon. It demonstrates how absurd his reflexive statement was, but it also illustrates exactly how this scandal was permitted to go on for so long: an instinctive urge to protect the narrative of a cohesive multicultural nation built through immigration, with a few far-Right malcontents, rather than a deeply divided society where neutral enforcement of the law could lead to chaos on the streets.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Muslim Rape Gangs, UK

Vivian Bercovici: Is this the end of Iran’s vicious regime?

Attack sirens wailed in every corner of Israel at 3 am on Friday morning, including the isolated kibbutz in the south where I live. This was followed immediately by an ear-splitting screech that overrode every Israeli cell phone. It was followed by a message from the Home Front Command. The screech and message were unprecedented. It did the trick and grabbed the attention of this war-weary nation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Shelters Adjusting as More Older Canadians Becoming Homeless, Non-Profits Say

Canadian non-profit groups are seeing an increase in the number of older individuals seeking assistance at shelters, and they say it’s changing the way their organizations respond to the rising homeless population.

The Mustard Seed senior director of shelter operations Samantha Lowe says her organization experienced a “consistent” rise in the number of individuals aged 55 and older seeking shelter between 2023 and 2024.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Obama Trusted Iran — Israel Didn’t

Where Obama’s rhetoric failed, Israel has taken steps to neutralize Iran’s nuclear program.

Israel’s massive strike on Iran’s nuclear program, codenamed “Operation Rising Lion,” is a stunning rebuke to the Obama (and later Biden) administration’s nuclear deal with the Mullahs. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a Churchillian-like address to his nation and the world, said that Iran was perhaps months away from producing at least nine atomic bombs that threatened Israel’s very survival. “Israel will never allow those who call for our annihilation to develop the means to achieve that goal,” he said. The Jewish state, he continued, “backed those words with action.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, Obama

As Leftists Riot, Trump Should Look To Washington And The Whisky Rebellion For Inspiration.

While Donald Trump famously does not drink, alcohol has always played a role in American life, usually ancillary but occasionally central. He could take a lesson from an early instance where it played a central role and how it was handled by our greatest president.

During and after the Revolutionary War, America’s economy was a wreck as the prices of products it exported—fish, lumber, tobacco, and cotton—collapsed with the removal of the British market. It’s estimated that between 1774 and 1790, the economy declined by 41 per cent.

The country ended the war heavily in debt. The federal government owed $54 million, and the states together owed an additional $21 million. During the war, both tried to print their way out of their difficulties. It didn’t work.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Group of 7 Mountain Summit Time

Come one, come all!

Prime Minister Mark Carney is playing host in Kananaskis, Alberta, to nearly 20 global leaders including President Trump.

Canada is rolling out the red carpet from Sunday to Tuesday for the annual Group of 7 industrialized nations summit. The group’s members are Canada, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan; the European Union has a permanent seat.

Mr. Carney, in keeping with tradition, has invited several leaders from nonmember nations to join the seven on Tuesday, making it all the more interesting. Leaders from India, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, South Korea, Ukraine and South Africa will be there, too, along with the secretary general of NATO.

I hope Trump blows this up.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inG7

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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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The LA Riots Were Supposed to Make Newsom President

Gavin Newsom Oily Evangelist

Here’s how it was supposed to work. A Hispanic version of BLM operating out of California, funded by government money, would kickstart a national movement and catapult Newsom into the White House. But the plan isn’t working because the public isn’t invested in the riots.

The BLM riots formed a movement, but illegal aliens waving Mexican flags and Antifa setting Waymos on fire isn’t resonating with Americans the way George Floyd’s golden coffin did.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCalifornia