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BBC under fire after putting transgender man who lived 16 years as a girl on gay dating show I Kissed A Boy

The BBC has sparked furious backlash after putting a biological woman on its gay dating show I Kissed A Boy with critics branding the move ‘homophobic in the extreme’.

The reality show, fronted by pop star Dannii Minogue, features single men looking for love but with a twist. Contestants must kiss before getting to know one another.

But controversy erupted after it was revealed that one of the participants, Lars, was born female and lived as a girl for 16 years despite now identifying as a ‘gay man trapped in a woman’s body’.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The Unraveling of the King of Davos

Sleazy is too kind. Every bit as slimy as we imagined.

For decades, Klaus Schwab ruled over Davos like royalty. That reign ended when he hit “send” on an email to World Economic Forum trustees on a recent Friday afternoon.

Schwab was seemingly headed for a graceful exit from the organization he founded more than a half-century ago, after a 2024 investigation by The Wall Street Journal exposed evidence of a toxic culture at the Forum for women and Black employees. But by Friday, April 18, the trustees’ audit committee recommended opening a probe into a new wave of whistleblower allegations against Schwab and his wife, Hilde.

Incensed, Klaus Schwab fired off a two-paragraph message to the board’s audit committee, threatening trustees with an investigation into how they were carrying out their duties and accusing them of risking the future of the organization.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWorld Economic Forum

GUNTER: Carney cabinet as radically ‘green’ as Trudeau’s

The Parliamentary press gallery is all aglow over Mark Carney’s new cabinet. It’s so much smaller than Justin Trudeau’s last cabinet, they beam. And its full of so many rookies. Surely that proves Carney intends a clean break with the Trudeau past.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

LYTLE: It’s Ottawa’s high-handed ways that make the case for leaving Canada

In an earlier life, as a newly appointed member of the National Energy Board, I participated in a conversation about pipeline regulation with citizens affected by pipelines and hence, by their regulation. I was as thrilled by the opportunity, as I was to visit a part of the country new to me.

That is when I was educated about two important aspects of the legal process.

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

Poilievre opposed to Alberta sovereignty but says he understands province’s frustration

Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he is opposed to Alberta sovereignty but understands the frustration in the province that is driving the possibility.

He spoke about the issue Tuesday as he commented on the new federal cabinet announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney.

“I’m against separation. I’m a born and raised Albertan. I love Canada. I think we need to unite this country,” Mr. Poilievre said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Conservative Party

How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump

President Joe Biden got out of bed the day after the 2024 election convinced that he had been wronged. The élites, the Democratic officials, the media, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama—they shouldn’t have pushed him out of the race. If he had stayed in, he would have beaten Donald Trump. That’s what the polls suggested, he would say again and again.

His pollsters told us that no such polls existed. There was no credible data, they said, to support the notion that he would have won. All unspun information suggested it would have been a loss, likely a spectacular one, far worse than that suffered by his replacement as the Democratic nominee, Vice-President Kamala Harris.

The disconnect between Biden’s optimism and the unhappy reality of poll results was a constant throughout his Administration. Many insiders sensed that his inner circle shielded him from bad news. It’s also true that, for Biden to absorb those poll results, he would have had to face the biggest issue driving them: the public had concluded—long before most Democratic officials, media, and other “élites” had—that he was far too old to do the job.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Biden Family Sleaze"

Mark Carney’s Mentor

The first celebrity economist was the prime minister’s ‘influencer.’

Justin Trudeau, an open admirer of China’s “basic dictatorship,” has now given way to Mark Carney. The new prime minister’s mentor will be of interest on both sides of the border.

Mark Carney earned a scholarship to Harvard, where he studied economics under John Kenneth Galbraith. Born in Ontario in 1908, Galbraith moved to the United States in the 1930s, earned a PhD in economics at UC Berkeley, and during WWII President Roosevelt tapped him to lead the Office of Price Administration. In 1949 the Canadian transplant became a professor at Harvard.

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

Canadian poll finds that racial minorities don’t believe drug enforcement is bigoted.

The Left Thinks Drug Criminalization Is Racist. Minorities Disagree

Is drug prohibition racist? Many left-wing institutions seem to think so. But their argument is historically illiterate—and it contradicts recent polling data, too, which show that minorities overwhelmingly reject that view.

Policies and laws are tools to establish order. Like any tool, they can be abused. The first drug laws in North America, dating back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, arguably fixated on opium as a legal pretext to harass Asian immigrants, for example. But no reasonable person would argue that laws against home invasion, murder, or theft are “racist” because they have been misapplied in past cases. Absent supporting evidence, leaping from “this tool is sometimes used in racist ways” to “this tool is essentially racist” is kindergarten-level reasoning.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Soft racism of lowered expectations", Drug Legalization, Drugs

Poll: college-educated women end friendships over politics

New polling data shows what you may already suspect: your experience of losing friends since the 2024 election of Donald Trump is absolutely real – if very divided depending on your political tribe.

When national pollster Cygnal offered me the opportunity to suggest a question or two for their latest national survey, it was a chance to put to the test the experience of many Americans I know: in the past six months, they’ve lost at least one friend over the result of the 2024 election. The direction of lost friends seemed very politically consistent in my experience, but anecdotes aren’t data, and knowing more people on the right than the left, it’s possible this personal experience was skewed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Progressives

Trump’s secret hostage deal exposes rift with Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement last week of a massive military escalation in Gaza dominated all attention in Israel.

But while politicians and the media picked over his plan to wreak final destruction on Hamas, he had only the vaguest notion that his closest ally, Donald Trump, was in the final stages of a deal with the terrorist group.

Mr Trump’s envoys had gone behind Mr Netanyahu’s back to negotiate the release of Edan Alexander, the 21-year-old hostage.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsrael, USA

Toronto has greater priorities than a woke name change

There is no better indication of a government’s true priorities than its budget and how it spends its money. Secondary to that are the issues it chooses to spend its time on.

This is why the agenda for the Toronto city council board for the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is so concerning.

These useless parasites need to be removed from office.

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

Genocide in Syria: Jihadists Massacre Druze, Christians, ‘Infidels’

Ever since the terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) conquered the Syrian capital Damascus with Turkey’s help in December of 2024, HTS fighters and their affiliated militias — often offshoots of ISIS and al-Qaeda — have been massacring religious minorities throughout the country. The internet has been flooded with images — some discredited as old or manipulated, but many not — of Alawite men, women and children being barbarically shot at close range.

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

Is this is why we have MAID?

Canada facing high youth suicide rates, child mortality, new report finds

Progress to improve child and youth well-being in Canada is lagging compared to other high-income countries, according to a new UNICEF report.

It ranks Canada closer to the bottom than the top of the list when it comes to adolescent suicide rates, child mortality and competence in social skills.

“All orders of government in Canada have an opportunity to concretely address the downward trends we see in this Report Card — and frankly, an obligation to,” Sevaun Palvetzian, president and CEO of UNICEF Canada, said in a statement to the Star.

Liberal governments will do that to ya.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?