Ex-top homicide cop Hank Idsinga says he won’t do interview with Toronto police after explosive allegations in memoir

Ex-top homicide cop Hank Idsinga says he won’t do interview with Toronto police after explosive allegations in memoir

Hank Idsinga says he won’t be going for an interview with Toronto police over allegations he’s raised of dysfunction, racism and antisemitism in their ranks.

“I’ll let the book speak for itself,” Idsinga told the Star, referencing “The High Road: Confessions of a Homicide Cop,” his memoir of 34 years as a police officer, which ended with him walking away from a celebrated career as leader of Toronto’s homicide unit. Toronto police have this week written Idsinga and sent uniformed officers to his door in an attempt to get him to appear for an interview.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

The Reconquista Reversed

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, whose wife has recently been charged with corruption, is having his way with the destiny of his homeland. A socialist and social engineer at heart, he reserves the right to legalize a civilian invasion by Muslims.

So far, the Muslim population has swollen to an estimated 2.4 to 2.5 million souls—roughly 5% of the nation’s total—fueled overwhelmingly by immigration from North Africa, above all Morocco, which accounts for 65% of the Muslim immigrant cohort. These communities cluster with ominous symbolic precision in the ancient strongholds of al-Andalus: Andalusia and Granada alone shelter some 400,000 Muslims, while Madrid, that later-born capital, now harbors 100,000. Fertility differentials compound the shift; children born to at least one Muslim parent represented 11% of all Spanish births in 2024, a rate that mocks the anemic native birth figures.

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

What Canada’s Euthanasia Surge Reveals About Single-Payer Health Care

What Canada’s Euthanasia Surge Reveals About Single-Payer Health Care

Medical assistance in dying now accounts for roughly one in 20 deaths in Canada, according to the latest government data. That makes it the country’s fifth-leading cause of death.

For patients facing severe illness and suffering, the option is framed as an act of compassion. But its rapid expansion raises uncomfortable questions about how government-run health systems respond to the reality of scarce public resources.

Caring for patients with complex, chronic or terminal conditions is among the most expensive obligations in any health system. That creates an inherent tension in systems where the government both finances care—and decides what care is worth covering.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Healthcare Crisis", "Healthcare"

Crazy Old Racist Joy Reid slams Trump administration over ‘absolutely insane’ indictment of Racist Hate Group SPLC

Crazy Old Racist Joy Reid slams Trump administration over ‘absolutely insane’ indictment of Racist Hate Group SPLC

Joy Reid blasted President Donald Trump’s Justice Department (DOJ) as ‘absolutely insane’ after it brought a sweeping federal indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

The DOJ accused the group of secretly funneling millions of dollars to extremist organizations including the Ku Klux Klan. The SPLC said the payments were to informants embedded with the groups.

Former MSNBC star Reid used her show to sharply criticize the case unveiled by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, which alleges the civil rights nonprofit defrauded donors by paying informants.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The costly fantasy of high-speed rail

The costly fantasy of high-speed rail

A family relies on a rusty sedan to get around. It’s slow and breaks down often. But the family, instead of opting for a practical replacement, puts in an order for a flashy, new model not yet in showrooms.

Sure, the luxury vehicle is significantly more expensive, and it will take years to arrive. But it is sleek and fast, and the family figures the time they will save commuting makes the higher price worth it (despite the loan they will need that will add to their already considerable debts). Besides, many of their neighbours have luxury cars – it’s about time they had one, too.

This in a nutshell is the faulty logic the Liberal government is using to create a high-speed rail line between Quebec City and Toronto.

Halto Alto!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Chekhov’s Lesson for Tehran

Chekhov’s Lesson for Tehran

famous saying of Anton Chekhov’s has been making the rounds. “If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall,” Chekhov advised, “in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.”

I wonder if the thugs and theocrats who have been plundering Iran for the last 47 years have read Chekhov. If so, I conclude that they are slow learners. In January, the Iranian authorities slaughtered more than 40,000 protesters—Iranian citizens, mind you, who were fed up with the oppressive death cult that has been oppressing Iran since the dour clown Ayatollah Khomeini waddled off that plane from Paris in Tehran in 1979. Over the course of about a month this past winter, the US assembled a huge military presence in the waters around Iran: two aircraft carrier strike groups and innumerable air assets.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Kari Simpson, Culture Guard face 18 human rights complaints over gender identity commentary from Canada’s most esteemed authority on Transgenderism

Kari Simpson, Culture Guard face 18 human rights complaints over gender identity commentary from Canada’s most esteemed authority on Transgenderism

Veteran Canadian activist Kari Simpson and her organization Culture Guard are facing a wave of human rights complaints in British Columbia tied to public commentary on gender identity, with legal support being provided by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms says its lawyers are representing Simpson and Culture Guard before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal in response to at least 18 complaints filed by Jessica Simpson, a self-described transgender activist formerly known as Jonathan Yaniv.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Here are some of the most ridiculous reactions from the left after last night’s attempted assassination

Here are some of the most ridiculous reactions from the left after last night’s attempted assassination

It should be no shock that journalists are gonna journalist, even in the midst of near tragedy, and last night was no exception.

We’ll start with the most egregious examples from news websites last night documenting “loud noises” at the Hilton ballroom where an assassin attempted to target Trump officials.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Trump Derangement Syndrome

J.D. Tuccille: U.S. getting richer while Britain, Europe and Canada are falling behind

J.D. Tuccille: U.S. getting richer while Britain, Europe and Canada are falling behind

We sometimes forget that the bad economic policy choices of U.S. politicians often pale in comparison to those of their counterparts in other countries. The result is that, despite the government’s best efforts, Americans are growing more prosperous at a faster rate than their peers elsewhere. The divergence is happening so rapidly, the U.K.’s Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) recently pointed out, that Britons (among others) lose track of how quickly they’re falling behind Americans’ wealth and living standards. A return to free-market principles could help to once again even the score.

You have to wonder what the Elbow people were voting for.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada in decline", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Climate Change Scientists Set a Date for the Arrival of Hell on Earth: the Year 2085

Climate Change Scientists Set a Date for the Arrival of Hell on Earth: the Year 2085

I was worried and irritable. I’m so used to the press announcing the end of the world every day that when I open the newspapers and don’t see any apocalyptic predictions, I feel uneasy. We’ve learned to live with death at our heels, and now they can’t just tell us everything is fine. It’s like reading the major international media — almost all of them progressive — and suddenly coming across an article saying Trump has done something right. That throws you off and makes you uncomfortable. It feels like a secret warning that something terrible is about to happen.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

What counts as the woods? Judge axes Nova Scotia’s ban that defied ‘commonsense definitions’

What counts as the woods? Judge axes Nova Scotia’s ban that defied ‘commonsense definitions’

As wildfires raged across Nova Scotia last summer, the Canadian province made a simple plea to residents: stay away from the woods.

As the situation deteriorated, authorities turned the request into a prohibition: anyone caught hiking under the shade of the forest canopy faced a C$25,000 fine – a figure more than half the average worker’s yearly salary.

But exactly the emergency rules considered to be “the woods” was a challenge better suited to a philosopher than a confused hiker in a parking lot. Rock barrens, scrubland or marshes were all considered “woods”. So too was forest – but the presence of actual trees wasn’t necessary, just evidence they had once been there. Residents could still travel as long as it wasn’t “any great distance” through the woods.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Justice"

What’s Wrong with a Little Microlooting?

What’s Wrong with a Little Microlooting?

If you’re wondering what the hot new trend among Brooklyn progressives is—apparently, it’s stealing from Whole Foods. That’s according to a recent episode of The Opinions, a New York Times podcast, in which host Nadja Spiegelman and guests Hasan Piker and Jia Tolentino discuss what Spiegelman calls “microlooting”—“taking small things from big corporations and . . . feeling justified.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Urban Dystopia"

Barbara Kay: Trans activist files human rights complaints against media for failing to deny reality

Barbara Kay: Trans activist files human rights complaints against media for failing to deny reality

In Jonathan Swift’s satirical 18th century masterpiece, “Gulliver’s Travels,” his sea-faring protagonist visits various fictional lands, whose inhabitants represent facets of human nature that range from the merely irksome to the grimly repulsive. In the final chapter, we meet the noble race of Houyhnhnms — clean, attractive, kind, intelligent horses who are capable of conversing with Gulliver.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?