Hundreds of workers laid off at Ingersoll, Ont. assembly plant as GM halts production

The General Motors CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll, Ont., will shut down next month with plans to re-open in the fall at half capacity.

The company said in a statement Friday that production is coming to halt as a direct result of the market, and available inventory to build the BrightDrop electric delivery vehicles manufactured at the plant.

“CAMI is making operational and employment adjustments to balance inventory and align production schedules with current demand,” GM said in a statement.

A mix of electric vehicle viability and tariffs are responsible I suspect.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Canada’s ‘Islamophobia’ guide falsely equates legitimate criticism with bigotry toward backwards death cult

The greatest victims of extremist interpretations of Islam are Muslims themselves. This uncomfortable truth undermines Canada’s approach to combating anti-Muslim bigotry, as outlined in “The Canadian Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia.”

The guide defines Islamophobia broadly as, “Racism, stereotypes, prejudice, fear or acts of hostility directed towards individual Muslims or followers of Islam in general.” This definition creates an intellectual sleight of hand, conflating prejudice against Muslims with criticism of certain doctrines or political movements operating under the banner of faith.

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

Pro-Palestinian protesters pelted with eggs while blocking traffic

Pro-Palestinian protesters were pelted with eggs as they blocked traffic in central London.

Youth Demand activists with orange flares and banners reading “Free Palestine” and “Stop Arming Israel” took to the streets in the Moorgate district, Farringdon Road and Fenchurch Street.

Passers-by threw a “shower of eggs” at the crowd of activists in Farringdon Road and a truck attempted to drive through them, according to Youth Demand, which organised the protest.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Some Conservative supporters question whether the polls can be trusted

Outside a convention centre where Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre held a rally in Brampton, Ont., Wednesday evening, two of his supporters unfurled a long white banner that read: “Do you believe the polls?”

“If he’s not going to win, we’re going to lose Canada,” said one of the supporters named Sarah, who didn’t want to give her last name, and wore a sweater with the same message.

“Look at the crowd coming out for Poilievre! We cannot believe the polls are right.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025

Diet of worms will help us survive climate change, say top chefs

Crunchy worms au paprika, carrot kimchi and artichoke caviar could feature on the fine dining menus of the future, according to Alain Ducasse and other leading French chefs.

Ducasse and more than 100 fellow exponents of haute cuisine tested this dish and other delicacies at a chefs’ lunch in Meudon, near Paris, this week with the theme “What will we be cooking in 2050?”

The chefs squirmed at first when presented with an hors d’oeuvre of grilled mealworms — the larval form of a species of yellow beetle — spiced with paprika.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Foreign interference tactics in Canada always changing, says target

The Chinese Communist Party is always changing the way it interferes in elections in Canada and other countries, says former Steveston-Richmond MP Kenny Chiu.

The Conservative party politician was the target of a smear campaign during the 2021 election, which took place when many Chinese-language media outlets in Canada labelled him “anti-Chinese” and a “race traitor.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "Foreign Interference", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

‘You can’t have your cake and eat it, Harry’

A Telegraph poll reveals most voters are not in favour of taxpayer-funded security for the Duke of Sussex.

The Duke returned to London on Sunday to attend a two-day hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice to win automatic state security for him and his family.

The Duke has argued that he was “singled out for different, unjustified and inferior treatment” when he was denied the right to automatic police protection after quitting public duties.

Entitled much?

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

Surge in young gun owners hitting voting age alarms the usual suspects

Surge in young gun owners hitting voting age amid calls in firearm circles to loosen bans

Canadian-born Hashim Akbar first shot his grandfather’s gun as a child while visiting Pakistan.

“It was obviously scary. I was a small child, but it was also very exciting as well. There’s … a lot of adrenalin that goes through someone’s body,” said Akbar, 23, vice-president of the Simon Fraser Sports Shooting Club (SFSSC) in Burnaby, B.C.

As a teen, the university student tried and loved skeet shooting and now owns his own lever-action rifle. He applied for a gun licence last October, making him one of 7,446 Canadians under 30 to do so in 2024. But by the time he received the document, the guns he wanted were prohibited by the federal government.

And …

Key plank in Mark Carney’s crime platform has been Canadian law for decades

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

I work at a migrant hotel. Many of them will never work a day in their lives

I am the clinical lead in an asylum hotel in the north of England. We’re right in the centre of town. Though we try to keep a low profile, that’s not always easy with 24-hour security guards in hi-vis patrolling the entrance. The building is modern, but it was never intended to house hundreds of people long-term. It’s starting to degrade quickly. My role is to provide a GP service within the hotel.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, UK

Canadian travel to the U.S. has plummeted. One reason why: fear

When political science professor Arash Abizadeh heard last month about foreign travellers being detained at the U.S. border, he cancelled plans to speak at an upcoming academic conference in Durham, N.C.

He believes heightened scrutiny at the U.S. border makes travel to the country too uncertain.

“Why would we subject ourselves to this?” asked Abizadeh, who teaches at McGill University in Montreal.

Leave it to the CBC to gin up the fear by featuring a Muslim as victim.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Opec+ escalates war with US over shale

Crude oil prices have started to decline again today, after initially rising thanks to news that most of America’s trading partners will receive a 90-day tariff suspension. Donald Trump’s escalated tariff strategy against Beijing, which increased the overall rate on Chinese imports to 125% effective immediately, has further contributed to the negative market outlook. There are now strong indicators that long-term crude oil prices will continue to trend downwards.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOPEC, USA

Israel’s Netanyahu Asks Canada’s Carney to ‘Backtrack’ on Comment About Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted to comments made by Canadian Prime Minister and Liberal Leader Mark Carney during a political rally this week, when he commented on the situation in the Gaza Strip.

“Canada has always sided with civilization. So should Mr. Carney,” Netanyahu wrote in an April 10 post on the social media platform X. The Israeli prime minister’s comments appeared on a repost of an excerpt of the video taken during Carney’s rally in Calgary on April 8.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Russian spies ‘paid teenager to burn down Ikea’

Russia allegedly paid a Ukrainian teenager to firebomb an Ikea store as part of its “hybrid war” on the West, US media reported on Thursday.

Russian spies are said to have offered the 17-year-old $11,000 (£8,000) in cash and a BMW to carry out the attack on an Ikea store in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, the New York Times reported.

The agents communicated with him via the encrypted Chinese messenger app Zengi, under the James Bond-inspired alias of Q, Lithuanian prosecutors allege.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRussia, WTF?

Carney ‘did a terrible job’ as Bank of England governor, says former British PM

Lizz Truss, the shortest-serving prime minister in British history, said Mark Carney did “a terrible job” as the Bank of England’s governor and blamed him for “a lot of the problems” that led to her quick departure from 10 Downing Street in 2022, even though he’d resigned two years earlier.

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