Trump’s Mysterious Support of Canada’s Liberals

There is an old adage that in politics as in life timing is everything. That is why pundits often talk about such things as the importance of “momentum” and the necessity of not “peaking too early.” In March 2012 when President Obama was running for his second term he got caught on a hot mic in Seoul, South Korea asking then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to reassure Vladimir Putin, “After my election I have more flexibility.… On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space.… This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

GUNTER: Pierre Poilievre in strong position, despite Conservative infighting

Pierre Poilievre was far from faultless in losing his own Carleton seat in the Ottawa suburbs — a seat he had held for nearly 21 years, through six federal elections.

Leaders can’t take their own seats for granted, or at least their local organizers can’t. They have to develop a sense for when there is a voter uprising forming and warn the leader that he or she has to return home more often from cross-country campaigning.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

‘These people are disposable’: how Russia is using online recruits for a campaign of sabotage in Europe

Moscow’s intelligence services have launched a new type of attack on the west, violent but piecemeal and hard to prove

Serhiy was just about to board a coach bound for Germany when Polish security services detained him at the bus station in the city of Wrocław.

In his backpack, the officers found firelighter cubes, a juice bottle filled with paraffin, a lighter, two pocket knives, a mini handsaw and a face mask. Later, when they searched the mobile phone of the 49-year-old Ukrainian refugee, they found a pdf of a Russian-language book called Modern Pyrotechnics. It contained detailed instructions on how to start fires and detonate explosives.

Serhiy S – as he is identified in accordance with Polish law on naming criminal suspects – is one of dozens of people who have been rounded up across Europe over the past two years and accused of being foot soldiers in a new front of Russia’s war against the west.

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

The Fantasy of a World Without Police

The “defund the police” movement had its moment during the Black Lives Matter fervor of 2020. But even then, mainstream politicians distanced themselves from its rhetoric, and four-fifths of black Americans told Gallup they wanted to see the same or even more police presence where they lived. Over the next few years, voters in blue areas rejected defund-style ideas at the ballot box, while Democratic leaders worried that the party’s anti-police fringe would undermine its electoral coalition.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Depolicing"

Three quarters of Canadians say misinformation affected the federal election: poll

OTTAWA – More than three quarters of Canadians believe misinformation had an impact on the outcome of the federal election, a new poll suggests.

The Leger poll, which sampled more than 1,500 Canadian adults from April 29 to May 1, suggests that 19 per cent of people think false information or misinformation had a major impact on the election.

Almost a third (32 per cent) said it had a moderate impact, while 26 per cent said it had a minor impact on the election’s outcome.

Our gov’t bought media wants to talk to us about disinformation. Sounds legit.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation", Canada's Government Owned News Media, Election 2025

‘I Saw You Come Out of the Church’: The Persecution of Christians, March 2025

“Our imam had assured us that when you kill a kafir [infidel], Allah rewards one with a Jannah [paradise]… so I wanted to get that Jannah.” — Hanifa Hamiyat, a Muslim woman who poisoned and killed three people: a young Christian couple, as well as her own 18-year-old daughter, who accidentally ate the same poisoned food the Muslim woman had offered to the Christians; Morning Star News, March 28, 2025, Uganda.

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

Pro-Separation Albertans Hold Rally, Say Things Won’t Change Under Confederation

EDMONTON—Katheryn Speck said she used to be a Canadian nationalist, travelled the world with a maple leaf on her backpack and once lived in Quebec so she could become fluently bilingual.

But on Saturday she was among hundreds of people who rallied at the Alberta legislature to support separation from Canada, with many in the crowd waving Alberta flags and a few even displaying the U.S. Stars and Stripes.

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

Harry’s return to royal fold now impossible after dramatic interview

Two weeks ago, a Telegraph reader wrote in to ask: “What will it take for this rift between the King and Prince Harry to end?”

Back then, the answer seemed straightforward. When the security court case was over, whether the Duke of Sussex won or lost, there was a world in which they could conceivably talk again.

When the dust settled, whether the Duke was vindicated or at least felt he had tried his best, it was fractionally possible that father and son could reconnect – without leaks, without showdowns, without fears of jeopardising a Court of Appeal case in which the King must be scrupulously uninvolved.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

GOLDSTEIN: Liberals and Conservatives must accept new reality of minority governments

Minority governments are the new norm in Canadian politics and it’s time the two major political parties in Canada started acting like it.

In the past 25 years, since the last of three consecutive Jean Chretien majority Liberal governments was elected in 2000 – at a time when the federal conservative movement was divided – eight federal elections have produced six minority governments.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Gateshead fire: fourteen children arrested after death of boy, 14

Layton Carr died in the blaze at Fairfield Industrial Park in Gateshead, with eleven boys and three girls arrested on suspicion of manslaughter

Fourteen children have been arrested over the death of a 14-year-old boy in a fire at an industrial unit in Gateshead.

The blaze broke out at Fairfield Industrial Park on Friday evening and was extinguished by the fire brigade, but the body of 14-year-old Layton Carr was later discovered, Northumbria police said. His family have been informed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

How Carney’s election win will change direction of trade war

On Mark Carney’s final day of a gruelling race to be elected PM of vast and sparsely populated Canada I was with him.

It was his last push, not just to win, but also to get the majority he said he needed to stand up to the chaotic territorial and trade ambitions of his “neighbour to the south”.

For someone who had got to see Carney as a cerebral technocrat, a crisis-managing central bank governor a decade ago, the transformation into public orator was quite something.

I recall endless interviews trying to get the then governor to say something newsworthy, or something that would make a good headline.

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