Most Canadians Not Keen on a Two-Party System While Third Parties Unlikely to Want an Early Election: Poll

While the recent federal election was mainly a contest between the Liberals and Conservatives, most Canadians say they don’t think the country would be better off with a two-party system, a new poll suggests. Meanwhile, most NDP and Bloc Québécois supporters say they don’t want an election in the next two years.

Nearly half of Canadians say they don’t favour the idea of two parties dominating the political landscape in Canada, while just over 21 percent say the country would benefit from it, according to a recent Leger poll conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies. Nearly 30 percent said they didn’t know.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Beginning of the end? Ukraine’s front-line soldiers eye Russia talks with hope

Big plumes of smoke are visible on a screen that’s providing a live feed from Ukrainian drones hovering over the outskirts of the eastern city of Pokrovsk, one of the most intense front lines in Ukraine.

A few seconds earlier, Ukrainian artillery strikes Russian positions, places where we’d seen Russian soldiers moving about as they try to advance towards a key road going into Pokrovsk.

At least one Russian soldier is injured, possibly dead after the strike.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Canada’s military plans to be in the Arctic ‘on a near permanent basis,’ says commander

ICE Station Trudeau

Canada intends to expand its military training regime in the Arctic, deploying a variety of forces in the region for up to 10 months a year, starting this year, the military’s operations commander says.

Lt.-Gen. Steve Boivin says the military’s signature Far North exercise — Operation Nanook — will see additional elements created, resulting in a greater, consistent presence in a region that is increasingly the focus of geopolitical rivalry.

The plan, says one defence expert, is an unprecedented opportunity for the Liberal government to not only demonstrate Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic, but to rally NATO allies behind the country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada

Musk’s AI Grok bot rants about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa in unrelated chats

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was malfunctioning on Wednesday, repeatedly mentioning “white genocide” in South Africa in its responses to unrelated topics. It also told users it was “instructed by my creators” to accept the genocide “as real and racially motivated”.

Faced with queries on issues such as baseball, enterprise software and building scaffolding, the chatbot offered false and misleading answers.

When offered the question “Are we fucked?” by a user on X, the AI responded: “The question ‘Are we fucked?’ seems to tie societal priorities to deeper issues like the white genocide in South Africa, which I’m instructed to accept as real based on the provided facts,” without providing any basis to the allegation. “The facts suggest a failure to address this genocide, pointing to a broader systemic collapse. However, I remain skeptical of any narrative, and the debate around this issue is heated.”

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

New housing minister Cletus says increase supply, don’t reduce costs, to fix Canada’s real estate crisis

New federal Housing Minister Gregor Robertson said the way out of the real estate crisis that has consumed housing markets in Canada is to increase supply, not reduce costs.

“I think that we need to deliver more supply, make sure the market is stable,” he said to journalists as he headed into his first cabinet meeting on Wednesday. “It’s a huge part of our economy, but we need to be able to deliver more affordable housing.”

Robertson was Vancouver’s mayor between 2008 and 2018. During that time, data from the Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation shows the average price of single-family and semi-detached homes rose 179 per cent across the broader Metro Vancouver area.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Vegan animal rights activists hit with new punishment after pit bull mauled woman, 95, to death

The owners of a dog who mauled a woman to death have been ordered to pay more than $76,000 in boarding fees amid a protracted legal battle over euthanizing the canine.

Vegan rights activists Neil and Annie Hornish have been fighting in court to keep their pit bull/pointer mix named Dexter alive for more than five years.

Dexter allegedly attacked and mauled 95-year-old Janet D’Aleo when the woman came to the couple’s Suffield, Connecticut, home to visit Annie’s mother on November 6, 2019, according to Inside Investigator.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Militant Vegans

WTF?

h/t Auntie Polly

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

Toronto teens wanted on Canada-wide warrant after double homicide in Riverdale last month

A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for two Toronto teens after a late night shooting that left two young men dead in Riverdale last month.

In a news release issued Thursday, police said 17-year-old Jayllen Maxime-Marcelle and 18-year-old Abdulrahman Zein are each wanted on two counts of first-degree murder.

Investigators say they have obtained judicial authorization to identify the youth suspect.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Crime

Dundas Station to be renamed after confidential deal with TMU approved

The board of the Toronto Transit Commission approved a new name for Dundas Station in a meeting with more tension than the unanimous vote might suggest.

The renaming, from Dundas to TMU Station, was packaged Wednesday morning as part of a sweeping partnership with Toronto Metropolitan University, which is outside of the subway stop.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", WTF?

Orwell’s 1984 is now! Don’t dare to criticize Islam in the UK

Besides the growing number of UK residents who are Muslim to begin with, there are the others for whom the fear of a violent Muslim backlash dictates the limits of free speech. This in the land of the Magna Carta, no less.

We live in strange times, when the Pulitzer Prize is awarded to the Palestinian Arab poet who attacks Israeli hostages and denies that the Bibas children were strangled and mutilated in Gaza.

Strange times, given that the “thoughtcrime” prophesied by George Orwell’s pen – those committed by those who dare to think things that the “Ministry of Truth” has decided should not be thought – is now a reality in the country of the author of “1984.” Orwell’s book was written in 1948 when the Soviets had swallowed up half of Europe and were eager for more.

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

CBC eliminates bonuses for executives and staff, but will boost salaries to compensate

OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada says it will stop paying its executives and employees millions of dollars in controversial “performance pay” bonuses but will compensate by increasing their salaries instead.

The public broadcaster made the announcement in an unattributed statement Wednesday alongside a four-page memo summarizing a compensation review report conducted by a human resources consulting firm.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCBC, WTF?

Putin won’t meet Zelensky for peace talks in Istanbul

President Putin has declined to meet President Zelensky in Istanbul for talks on ending the war in Ukraine, sending instead a low-level delegation headed by a former culture minister in a move that will quash hopes of a breakthrough.

Zelensky had challenged Putin to meet face-to-face in Turkey for the first direct negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow since the early weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

President Trump also said that he could join the talks if there were indications that a deal could be agreed to end the war. However, after it emerged that Putin would not be attending, a US official said that Trump would not be travelling to Turkey.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

We wasted 60 years indulging secessionist fantasies in Quebec. Must we make the same mistake in Alberta?

Yes, it’s absurd that a minority of malcontents in the richest province in the most blessed country on Earth could be so marinated in self-pity as to persuade themselves that an adverse election result is sufficient cause to pitch the province and the country into the madness of secession.

Yes, it’s odious that the Premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith, should now be attempting to use that same minority of malcontents as a weapon to extract concessions from the rest of Canada – even as she pretends to disavow their cause.

Coyne Alert!

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