How Trump’s Canada threats dampened Quebec separatist movement – for now

It was the middle of the night when the Bloc Québécois realized they had achieved the improbable. For weeks, the separatist party in Canada’s francophone province had been campaigning hard to steal an electoral district in Montreal long held by the Liberals.

When the trickle of votes finally stopped on that September evening, the Bloc’s Louis-Philippe Sauvé had emerged victorious by a narrow margin of 200 votes.

Chastened by the loss, the then prime minister, Justin Trudeau, admitted his Liberals had “a lot of work to do”. The defeat reflected a governing party in tatters and a leader losing his grip on power.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Hillary ‘the Russia Hoaxer’ Clinton wants to imprison people for ‘propaganda’

Hillary Clinton does not have a reputation for honesty. Indeed, ever since she burst onto the political scene, the one guarantee with Hillary was that you couldn’t trust her. Whole articles have been published about the whoppers she’s told over the decades (see, e.g., here and here). One thing, though, that’s always seemed to be true is her claim to have graduated from Yale Law School. After hearing her latest pronouncement, though, I must admit to having my doubts about that statement, too.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Clintons"

On thin ice: the brutal cold of Canada’s Arctic was once a defence, but a warming climate has changed that

In early February, during the depths of winter, Twin Otter aircraft belonging to the Canadian military flew over the vast expanse of the western Arctic looking for sea ice. Below, sheets of white extended beyond the horizon.

But the pilots, who were searching for a suitable site to land a 34-tonne (76,000lb) Hercules transport plane a month later, needed ice that was 1.5-metres (5ft) thick.

They could not find any. The teams scoured 10 other possible spots, stretching as far west in the Arctic as Herschel Island, five miles off the coast of Canada’s Yukon territory.

In the end, no site proved suitable for a sea-ice landing area. The north, it seemed, was too warm.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

It’s not racist to criticise Islam

The University of Sussex was fined £585,000 last month by the Office for Students, the universities regulator, for failing to protect Kathleen Stock’s freedom of speech. In 2021, Professor Stock was hounded out of her job by a censorious mob that accused her of ‘transphobia’. Around the same time, the University of Bristol also refused to defend my own academic freedom, in the name of combatting ‘Islamophobia’.

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

What’s really behind Larry David’s vile attack on Bill Maher?

Well, it finally happened. Larry David had a full-on Curb Your Enthusiasm moment — not on HBO, but in the pages of The New York Times. His target? Not Donald Trump himself, but Bill Maher, for the unpardonable sin of… eating dinner with him.

Sadly, Mr. David has lost his fastball as a comedian. He fell back on the laughable and hackneyed ‘Hitler’ trope that really has no audience in American political culture except among the most unhinged Boomer liberals (why are the biggest left wing lunatics all so old these days?).

That’s right. The guy who once made millions lampooning the neurotic extremes of elite liberal culture has now decided to embody them. His op-ed was less a political argument than a dramatic public excommunication. Why? Because Bill Maher dared to sit at a table with a former president — a Republican one — and didn’t immediately flip it over.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Belgium’s Easter Quran Hunt Leads to Police Investigation

The residents of the Belgian city of Liège woke up to quite a surprise over the weekend, hardly left by the Easter bunny: hundreds of pocket-sized, French-language Qurans had been distributed throughout multiple neighborhoods by unknown activists.

Concerned locals believe the stunt to be more of a provocation than friendly religious outreach, prompting the Belgian police to actively investigate the incident to find the perpetrators.

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

SNELL: ‘But the people are retarded…’ Carney’s election would force millions more into poverty

Indian spiritual teacher Osho once said, “Democracy basically means government by the people, of the people, for the people — but the people are retarded.”

His words resonate as millions of Canadians — like Matt Janes, pictured above — prepare to vote for Liberal Leader Mark Carney, who recently unveiled a $130-billion spending plan. The plan echoed Justin Trudeau’s mission to spend Canada into prosperity and offset what he calls “the biggest crisis of our lifetimes.”

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

OK, Boomers: Canada’s Surprising Electoral Generation Gap

Canadians go to the polls to elect a new prime minister next week. The center-right Conservative Party’s Pierre Poilievre is facing off against the Liberal incumbent, Mark Carney. For those who haven’t been following the situation in Canada, Carney is the Kamala Harris of the Great White North; he’s only in office because former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025

Talk show hosts who made their careers bashing Trump are changing their tune

Bill Maher, Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart are among comedians warming to US president

For more than a decade, the relationship between Donald Trump and Bill Maher had been marked by bad blood, legal action, and mud-slinging.

That changed earlier this month, when Maher said in a monologue on his HBO show that he had accepted the US president’s invitation to dinner at the White House, in a visit brokered by their mutual friend: Kid Rock.

What was even more incredible is that the comedian walked away charmed by the meeting, calling Mr Trump “gracious and measured”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Could this photo cost Mark Carney victory in Canada’s election?

Caryma Sa’d has captured the definitive image of the Canadian federal election. Over the weekend, the independent journalist posted a photograph from an event in Brantford, Ontario for Mark Carney, the former Bank of England governor who has replaced Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader and prime minister. The pic shows an older gentleman appearing to give two middle fingers to the camera while similarly-aged Carney enthusiasts around him laugh. In isolation, just another snapshot from an ill-tempered election. In the context of this poll, a readymade icon of everything Carney’s critics say he stands for and everything his Conservative opponent Pierre Poilievre is against.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Islamism, secularism, and the criminalization of warning bells

France is in the midst of an ideological struggle that could reshape the identity of its Republic. At the core of this struggle is the growing influence of Islamism—not as an external threat but as a domestic movement embedded in civic life—and the chilling treatment of those who speak out against it.

Marine Le Pen, president of the National Rally and one of the country’s most prominent opposition figures, has been convicted on charges relating to EU fund misuse. The sentence: four years in prison (two suspended), a €100,000 fine, and a five-year ban from holding public office. The timing is conspicuous. Just days before her sentencing, Le Pen called for an outright ban on the Muslim Brotherhood in France, citing national security concerns and intelligence reports alleging long-term “entryism” by the group.

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