What election promises on housing would mean for Toronto and the GTA

The soaring cost of home ownership is a challenge facing people across Canada, arguably nowhere more so than in big cities like Toronto.

From the 1980s through the late 2000s, the price of the average home in Toronto and the surrounding Greater Toronto Area stayed within three to five times the average annual household income.

But since 2010, that ratio has shifted dramatically. The average home now costs nearly 10 times the yearly income of the average household, based on data from the Toronto Region Real Estate Board (TRREB) and Statistics Canada.

Combine that with the fact that Toronto and the GTA account for one in six seats up for grabs nationally in the federal election and it’s little wonder the main parties are trying to woo voters with promises to make housing more affordable.

Only the CBC could produce propaganda like this.

At no point is the Liberal Party’s scandalous mass-immigration policy mentioned as a cause of Canada’s horrific housing shortage.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money"

Top secret American plan to turn soldiers gay

The US Air Force once made plans for a ‘gay bomb’ that would use chemical aphrodisiacs to make enemy soldiers ‘irresistibly attractive to one another.’

The bizarre plan, formulated by the military’s Wright Laboratory in 1994, was part of a six-year non-lethal weapons development project costing $7.5 million that was ultimately scrapped.

A three-page document obtained by the Sunshine Project, an anti-biological weapons organization, details the laboratory’s proposal for a bomb ‘that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soldiers to become gay.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

BROWN: The chance of a generational political betrayal looms large

The team from the National Citizens Coalition is in Ottawa this week at the Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference, the largest conservative gathering of its kind east of the Calgary Stampede, and to describe the mood as tense might be an understatement.

With less than three weeks until Election Day, the more trustworthy polls dead-locked, and the Liberal-paid push-polls showing them lapping the field, business leaders, broadcasters, third-party advocates, and energy champions such as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe have made the trip to put in vital advocacy and organizing hours, to ensure the clock is able to strike midnight on a lost Liberal decade.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Liberals promised the carbon tax would reduce emissions, but emissions went up

The Trudeau government pushed the carbon tax as the best way to help the environment and reduce emissions.

But it’s clear a carbon tax in Canada wouldn’t be effective at lowering global emissions. That’s because Canada only makes up 1.4 per cent of global emissions, a fact former prime minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged.

“Even if Canada stopped everything tomorrow, and the other countries didn’t have any solutions, it wouldn’t make a big difference,” Trudeau said in 2018.

Carney will be worse.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Manicures and Manliness

Can men resolve toxic masculinity by wearing nail polish? Spoiler alert: no.

Can men help resolve their own toxic masculinity and mental health crises by wearing nail polish? This was the question posed about a recent pilot program which took “a small yet bold step” to solve men’s issues through gender nonconformity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Dave Smith-Douglas Murray debate highlights Right-wing fault lines

Yesterday’s much-discussed debate between Douglas Murray and Dave Smith, hosted by Joe Rogan, almost perfectly epitomises the divide on the political Right. Murray is a neoconservative intellectual and one of the most prominent public defenders of Israel; Smith is an anti-war libertarian comedian and firm anti-Zionist. The conflict in Gaza has provided a clear fault line for their differences to be exposed.

Here’s one snippet of many on twitter

Here’s the full podcast

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

Woke privilege: Why white elites love to boast about how guilty they feel.

With all the current debate about tariffs and trade, it would seem timely to talk about one of the worst American exports ever: the concept of ‘white privilege’. This notion – that you can have an automatic and decisive advantage in life because of your skin pigmentation, regardless of your class, sex or where you live – is one of the most divisive myths of our times.

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

The Slow Disintegration of Canada

W.B. Yeats once wrote that “the centre cannot hold.” In Canada’s case, this is increasingly true.

The country isn’t collapsing under the weight of competing separatist projects. Rather, it’s quietly dissolving under the acids of institutional unraveling, political incoherence, and a growing sense that regional interests and identities are more important than any sense of “Canadianness.” The problem, therefore, is not one of a dramatic crisis. It’s more one of incremental balkanization. Provinces aren’t formally breaking away from the Canadian confederation. Rather, they’re just increasingly doing their own thing – irrespective of Ottawa and the national vision that that city represents.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

White House Shuns Reporters With Pronouns in Email Signature

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Lorne Gunter: Carney pauses Liberal campaign to avoid tough questions

On Thursday, Liberal Leader Mark Carney announced he was pausing his campaign for the third time so he could deal with the Trump trade tariffs.

But Trump’s tariffs are the campaign.

Without the chaos created by the deranged trade policies of the Madman of Washington, the Libs would still be a distant second in voter preference.

A TDS purity test is mandatory for all Canadian columnists beyond that it’s not a bad piece.

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

Carney vows to push for internet censorship

Prime Minister Mark Carney says a re-elected Liberal government will move forward with new regulations targeting harmful online content, marking a third attempt to legislate internet speech in Canada.

Blacklock’s Reporter says Carney made the comments during a campaign rally in Hamilton, after being interrupted by hecklers.

You may need to open the link using incognito mode.

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

Bell: Mark Carney is now on a collision course with Danielle Smith

If Liberal Leader Mark Carney thinks Danielle Smith is just going to go away he has got another thing coming.

If Carney wins the election and remains prime minister and ignores Albertans, he is in for a fight with the Alberta premier.

The smart money says this will shape up to be a battle Carney will not be able to stickhandle around.

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

Some People Need a Lesson in What Self-Defense Is and Isn’t

A lot of people have ideas of what self-defense actually means, and a lot of people have a very wrong idea.

Usually, this doesn’t matter all that much since it’s largely confined to internet discussions between people who, thankfully, will never need to act in self-defense. Many of those who do find themselves in situations where the actions are clear, so their wrong ideas about the edges of what’s legal and what isn’t don’t come into play.

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