Disney has done the impossible, and made Snow White an even bigger bomb

Hi-ho, it’s back to the cinema for Disney’s flop live-action Snow White. Having originally crashed and burned in March, the movie misfired all over again after the House of Mouse re-released it in the US last week. Talk about putting the “grim” in Grimm Fairy Tale.

Disney’s apparent calculation was that that the advent of summer blockbuster season could give this dead-on-arrival feature a new lease of life. You can sort of appreciate the logic: after all, May saw the ailing Marvel Cinematic Universe return from purgatory when Thunderbolts proved a surprise hit.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

Gun control group urges PM Carney to ensure ‘timely delivery’ on firearm commitments

OTTAWA — A prominent gun control group is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to act swiftly to implement key Liberal election commitments on firearms.

In a letter to Carney, PolySeSouvient says the mandate letter for the next public safety minister should include a commitment to “timely delivery” of promised reforms, especially the buyback of banned firearms.

PolySeSouvient includes students and graduates of Montreal’s École Polytechnique, where a gunman killed 14 women in 1989.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

What Is the Reform Act, and How Will It Impact Poilievre?

In addition to selecting an interim Opposition leader in the House on May 6 while Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre remains without a seat in the House of Commons, Tory MPs also voted to invoke the federal Reform Act, which allows for a secret-ballot vote to review party leadership at any time.

While many Conservative MPs have expressed their support for Poilievre, the legislation could haunt him as he gets ready for the next federal election.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Is Russia co-opting US far-right groups to attack western democracies?

A former Pentagon contractor works with secretive sections of US special forces, then ups and moves to Russia. He gets married, radicalizes and starts popping up on Telegram channels as the leader of a neo-Nazi terrorist group recruiting Americans.

Soon, allegations swirl that he is a Russian spy.

While this sounds like something Tom Clancy would write, it is reality: Rinaldo Nazzaro, better known as the leader of the Base, once worked in drone targeting with the US Special Operations Command in Iraq and Afghanistan. Recently, the Guardian revealed allegations from inside the Base that he was long suspected of working with the FSB, one of Russia’s main intelligence services.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"extremists", "far right", "Russia! Russia! Russia!"

Honda to postpone plans for EV plant in Canada for at least 2 years

Japan’s Honda Motor Co. forecast a 59 per cent profit decrease in the current financial year and said it would put on hold a plan to build an EV supply chain in Canada, amid the uncertainty stemming from U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Honda’s forecast is the latest signal of the difficulty car makers are having navigating Trump’s tariffs on foreign-made automobiles at the same time the industry is being hit by the rise of Chinese EV producers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

The A-list offspring coming out as trans

Even the keenest of celebrity watchers may not have heard of Aaron De Niro before late last month. If they have since, it will likely be by a different name, as Oscar-winner Robert De Niro’s 29-year-old child says she now identifies as Airyn, a transgender woman.

“There’s a difference between visible and being seen,” she told online LGBTQ+ online publication Them in April about her transition. “I’ve been visible. [But] I don’t think I’ve been seen yet.”

De Niro, who has seven children in total, said he supported her decision. “I loved and supported Aaron as my son and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter,” the A-lister said, adding: “I don’t know what the big deal is…I love all my children.”

I believe the phenomenon to be a Biblical curse upon Hollywood’s denizens.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny, Hollywood, WTF?

Toronto ISIS financier pleads guilty

An Islamic State financier from Toronto has admitted he used online fundraising platforms to collect tens of thousands of dollars for the terrorist group’s fighters overseas.

At the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Monday, Khalilullah Yousuf pleaded guilty to terrorist financing and participating in terrorist group activity.

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

Man died of ‘blunt force injuries’ at US zoo after suspected kangaroo fight

Officials in South Carolina are investigating the death of a man who was believed to have been killed while fighting a kangaroo in an enclosure at a children’s petting zoo.

Eric Slate, 52, died of “multiple blunt [force] injuries”, according to Tamara Willard, the chief deputy coroner of Horry county, as reported by WPDE News.

Local officials said Slate, brother of 5 Star Farm’s owner, Robert Slate, liked to enter the enclosure containing kangaroos and wallabies and “roughhouse” with a kangaroo named Jack.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

2 men wanted after anti-Muslim slurs were ‘etched’ into parked car in Etobicoke

Police are searching for two men, one of whom was armed with a sledgehammer, after they say that anti-Muslim slurs were “etched” into a parked vehicle outside a home in Etobicoke last month.

Toronto police say they were called to the area of Steeles Avenue West and Martin Grove Road at around 3:35 a.m. on April 26.

According to police, the victim’s vehicle was parked in the driveway and was vandalized by two suspects. Police say that the suspects were captured on the vehicle’s video camera. The damage included paint and anti-Muslim slurs etched into the vehicle, police say.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia"

DROVER: Here we go again… Carney pledged more use of courts to change Canada

The government shouldn’t be paying lawyers to sue the government.

That it’s even necessary to write that sentence is absurd. Worse, taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to secretly fund lawsuits that try to make their lives more expensive.

But newly re-elected Prime Minister Mark Carney intends to do even more of that. The 2025 Liberal platform contained a commitment to “expand” the Court Challenges Program.

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

Is Trump Breaking With Israel?

Or is the far-left media trying to provoke such a break?

Is Donald Trump really preparing to recognize a Palestinian state? The news hit like a thunderbolt on Saturday, amid an avalanche of stories claiming that Trump is angry with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and is changing course from his previous wholehearted support of Israel’s defense against Hamas and the other jihadist entities that are determined to destroy it. As is so often the case in such matters, however, there was decidedly less to the story than there initially appeared to be.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsrael, USA

Why Are Popes so Soft on Migration?

We Catholics have had a few days since Thursday to reflect on the appointment of our new leader Pope Leo XIV. The cardinals have flown home, St Peter’s Square is less crowded and tourists will be back in the Vatican Museum surreptitiously photographing the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

The election was mercifully quick, Cardinal Robert Prevost chose a significant Papal moniker. Reflecting one of our greatest popes who established a significant aspect of Catholic social teaching with Rerum Novarum (1891) on the proper relationship between capital and labour, his demeanour and mode of address when he appeared on the Vatican balcony were encouraging.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Catholic Church

What is a judicial recount and could it leave Liberals with a majority government?

An Elections Canada judicial recount flipped a riding back to the Liberals over the weekend, but the results of three more recounts yet to be completed won’t give Prime Minister Mark Carney and his party the 172 seats needed for a majority government.

In fact, the Liberals could lose two seats to the Conservative Party of Canada and drop to 168 members of parliament if the count doesn’t go their way.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada