Christopher Dummitt: The radical takeover of a Canadian studies conference in Britain

EDINBURGH — Imagine the scene that would have greeted any poor Scot who wandered off the street in Edinburgh to find himself in the middle of the annual British Association of Canadian Studies conference. Yes, there really is such a thing as the British Association of Canadian Studies (BACS) and 2025 is its 50th anniversary.

BACS is the well-worn but admirable remnants of the kind of soft power Canadian governments used to try to exercise — by getting people in other countries talking about Canada and encouraging academic links across the ocean.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Rubio: Europe Must Show “Political Will” To End Ukraine War

U.S Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged European Union member states and their allies to work towards a “lasting peace” and end the war in Ukraine. This means Europe must both commit tangible resources to the goal and show clear political resolve.

This renewed pressure from the Trump administration came in a meeting between Rubio and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot on Thursday, May 1st. According to Rubio, President Donald Trump remains committed to ending the “senseless bloodshed.” The two met in Washington for talks—described as centred upon advancing “on the path toward peace in Ukraine.”

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

Yemeni allegedly caught leaving Ontario to join Muslim terror group remains in custody

A Yemeni accused of trying to leave Canada to join a terrorist group appeared in court north of Toronto on Thursday for a bail hearing.

Husam Taha Ali Al-Sewaiee, 32, was arrested by RCMP national security officers on April 19 and remains in custody.

He has not been charged with any crimes.

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

‘We fear that violence will come the way of the Christians next’

Muslims Defaced Christan Icons Maaloula Syria

The priest would prefer that the ghosts of his community’s violent past are laid to rest. Every family in Maaloula — where Christian and Muslim neighbours were riven by bloodshed — has a deeply personal memory of the civil war: a killing, an abduction, a disappearance; displacement, grief and loss.

In the interests of reconciliation Father Fadi Barkil believes it may be better to forgive and forget.

Yet as word of the latest sectarian violence against the Druze community in Syria spreads, fears for the future keep Maaloula’s ghosts of the past alive.

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

What happened in the GTA?

The 2025 federal election delivered a fourth consecutive Liberal government under Mark Carney—but not the majority many expected. And the key reason? An underwhelming performance in the suburbs of the Greater Toronto Area, where the party lost six seats, or seven if you count the new riding of Milton East–Halton Hills South. The Conservatives made significant gains, especially in York Region, and those losses cost the Liberals their shot at majority territory.

That result stings for a party that improved its vote share across Ontario and benefited from a collapsed NDP vote. So, what happened?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Jamie Sarkonak: Mark Carney’s election win already has economists worried

Economists, commentators and casual observers alike predicted that the election of Prime Minister Mark Carney would do the economy more harm than good — and it seems that they’re already being proven right.

On Tuesday, Fitch Ratings, one of the great deciders of how much interest Canada pays on its debt, flapped a warning flag in our faces for electing Prime Minister Mark Carney the night before.

Carney and co. will rape Canada.

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

The Downfall Of 60 Minutes And The Biggest Media Scandal You’ve Never Heard Of

Last week, Bill Owens, the executive producer of CBS’ flagship news program 60 Minutes, resigned, “citing encroachments on his journalistic independence,” per The New York Times. In the first show since the news of Owens’ resignation broke, 60 Minutes ended the program with a glowing, if dubious, tribute to Owens that has since gone viral online. The program took the unusual step of alleging unethical behavior by CBS’ corporate parent Paramount for Owens’ resignation, though they didn’t present any direct evidence of this. And the facts suggest that Owens isn’t exactly the paragon of integrity he’s being made out to be.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inThe Media, The Media Lies

Extremist blogger to debate Harvard professor at unsanctioned campus event

An extremist blogger, who has become the Trump administration’s so-called “dark enlightenment” sage, is debating a Harvard professor of political philosophy at an unsanctioned event on its campus next week.

Curtis Yarvin, who was for a time an obscure darling of Silicon Valley and the broader spectrum of the fringe right wing, has emerged as a major philosophical influence on key Capitol Hill power brokers. He is considered a favorite of Vice-President JD Vance, an ally of the tech mogul Peter Thiel, and having the ear of senior state department official, Michael Anton, among others.

Yarvin’s outlandish politics vouching for dictatorships and a new “American Caesar”, as he discussed in a 2021 podcast with Anton, in place of liberal democracy has made him both a much-maligned and loved figure.

It’s the Guardian so anything right of Pol Pot is “extremist”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"extremists", USA

Danielle Smith’s reform is nudging Alberta separation vote from ‘if’ toward ‘when’

One hundred and seventy-seven thousand people.

That’s roughly 3.5 per cent of Alberta’s population. It’s also the amount of signatures that will be needed to force a separation referendum designed to take those five million people and their land out of Canada.

Alberta independence groups had already been gathering online registrants who were keen to add their names to a petition drive when the law required far more Albertans — around 600,000 — to sign up to trigger a constitutional referendum.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta

Bad news for America doomers

Europeans wish-cast US decline

It’s once more springtime for America doomers, those who believe the United States will soon lose its global top-dog status. Much of this is in reaction to the poorly considered ramblings of President Trump. The Economist, for example, suggests that “the actual land of the free” has moved from America to Europe, with the Continent epitomizing “moral norms” on the climate, free trade, and rule of law.

These prophecies — or dreams — of America’s downfall conflate the United States, a people and place, with the US government. The difference between the two things isn’t well-understood, especially in Europe. Whoever controls the White House and Congress has an effect, to be sure, but the true power of America lies not with its elected leaders, but in the ambitions of its people, its remarkable physical endowment, and the constraints of its constitutional order (Trump is learning about that last — to his chagrin).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Canada Blocked DEA Request to Investigate Massive Toronto Carfentanil Seizure for Terror Links

WASHINGTON — A former top U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration official has come forward with explosive allegations that Canadian authorities obstructed a high-level DEA investigation into a 42-kilogram carfentanil seizure tied to a 2018 mass shooting in Toronto and, according to senior U.S. investigators, potentially linked to Pakistani threat networks and Chinese chemical precursor suppliers.

The DEA learned, after 29-year-old Faisal Hussain’s shooting rampage on Danforth Avenue—which left two people dead and thirteen more wounded—that his brother and a network with Pakistani links were connected to a historic seizure of carfentanil, a synthetic opioid 100 times more potent than fentanyl, in September 2017. The drugs were discovered in a suburban Pickering home, alongside specialized equipment consistent with a transnational trafficking operation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Pakistan, terror attack, terrorism, Terrorism - financing, USA, WTF?

Transgender footballer broke knee of female opponent and scored five goals in one match

A transgender footballer was accused of leaving a female player with a season-ending injury, illustrating the consequences of the FA’s now-abandoned policy of inclusion.

Trans woman Francesca Needham was said to have accidentally broken the knee of an opponent who blocked her shot during a match in October 2023.

But rival players are said to have feared for their safety in matches against her, and at least four teams in the Sheffield women’s league boycotted games in response.

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

The white Afrikaners lining up to accept Trump’s offer of asylum

Witkruis or Plaasmoorde Monument South Africa

Kyle believed God was looking out for him when he survived a violent farm robbery in South Africa eight years ago with only a black eye and broken ribs. The robbers failed to get the kettle and iron working, so were unable to burn anyone. Then the gun trigger jammed when they tried to shoot Kyle in the spine.

“They specifically said they were coming back for this farm … [that] it was their land,” said the 43-year-old, who did not want to use his full name. “Only afterwards, we found out that the guy that stays on the plot was actually killed … the farmhand … I don’t know what his name was.”

Kyle, a divorced father of three, is one of thousands of white South Africans hoping to take up Donald Trump’s offer of refugee status, to escape crime and what they allege is discrimination against white people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSouth Africa, USA

With less than 1% of the vote, does the People’s Party of Canada have a future?

Four years ago, the People’s Party of Canada was poised to be a thorn in the Conservative Party’s side.

Riding the momentum of its anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown, anti-immigration agenda during the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, the young party won five per cent of the national vote.

It peeled supporters away from other parties — in particular, a more moderate Conservative Party led by Erin O’Toole — and found new ones who felt disenfranchised by the country’s traditional political system.

It will if the CPC decides fratricide is the way forward.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPPC - People's Party of Canada