There’s No Such Thing as a “Safer Supply” of Drugs

Sweden, the U.K., and Canada all experimented with providing opioids to addicts. The results were disastrous.

Last August, Denver’s city council passed a proclamation endorsing radical “harm reduction” strategies to address the drug crisis. Among these was “safer supply,” the idea that the government should give drug users their drug of choice, for free. Safer supply is a popular idea among drug-reform activists. But other countries have already tested this experiment and seen disastrous results, including more addiction, crime, and overdose deaths. It would be foolish to follow their example.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDrug Legalization, Drugs

Cynical opportunists or dutiful Canadians? For Liberals MPs who changed their minds about running again, maybe a bit of both

It’s a hard line to straddle. Are the Liberal MPs who announced they were heading for the exits when the polls were down but now want to contest their seats political opportunists? Or are they answering a call to duty?

On Tuesday, Sean Fraser, the Nova Scotia MP and former minister of housing and immigration, announced he’d changed his mind and would stand for re-election. “I will be the Liberal candidate in Central Nova during this federal election,” he posted on Facebook. “Yesterday, Prime Minister Mark Carney called and asked me to join the team that will be responding to this unprecedented economic threat from the United States. I said yes.”

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

LILLEY: Carney is all in for Canada, just not for paying taxes

Mark Carney says that he’s all in and elbows up for Canada, but it seems the firm Carney used to oversee liked foreign countries better. Not only did Brookfield Asset Management move its headquarters from Toronto to New York when Carney was its chairman, he set up $25 billion worth of Brookfield funds in a Caribbean tax haven.

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

Confounding Conventional Wisdom, Polls Find Trump Stronger Than Ever

President Trump’s foes are hopeful that White House chaos will rid them of this turbulent president. So far, though, Americans are happier than ever that Mr. Trump’s circus is in town — and many welcome the very disruptions that make Washington insiders queasy.

“The true New Yorker,” John Updike said, “secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” On social media, many MAGA foes are just as convinced that the 77.3 million people who voted for Mr. Trump are playing some electoral practical joke.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Police-reported hate crimes against Jews increased sharply in 2023: Statistics Canada

Authorities have yet to find a motive behind the sharp increase in antisemitism.

Police services in Canada recorded a steep rise in hate crimes in 2023, with a significant amount targeting Jews, Statistics Canada reports.

There were 4,777 incidents reported, up 32 per cent from 3,612 incidents in 2022. It was the third steep increase in four years.

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

Bring Out the DOGE Machine for the ‘Public’ Broadcasters Who Hate Half of America

Were it not for the Trump Administration’s seriousness about trimming government waste, I’d say that the House Oversight hearings on cutting spending for NPR were just another dog and pony show. Yawn. Ho hum. Rep. Jim Jordan issues zingers and gets outrageous answers and we gasp and point, but ultimately nothing gets cut. Big Bird walks away with all his feathers again.

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

Nolte: First Quarter Box Office Is ‘Bad. Really Bad’ with ‘Plenty of Flops’

As last year’s dismal box office became apparent, we were assured and reassured by the so-called experts that this year’s box office would set everything right. Well…

“As of Sunday, movies have generated $1.34 billion in the U.S. and Canada this year, down 7% from the same period in 2024, according to Comscore,” reports the far-left L.A. Times. “March has been particularly weak. The month is expected to end down 50% year over year. Remember, last year‘s first quarter was down significantly from pre-COVID-19 levels, so business is bad. Really bad.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

Europe Confronts Reality That Vance’s Hostility Is More Than Just a Show

European leaders had hoped that Vice President JD Vance’s antagonism was a political show to build domestic support. Now, after Vance expressed disdain for Europe in a private text chat about Yemen attack details, officials are coming to terms with a vocal vice president whose antipathy for Europe appears to run deep.

“I just hate bailing Europe out again,” he said regarding planned U.S. strikes against Houthi rebels, in an exchange published by the Atlantic magazine. He told fellow administration officials that the U.S. was “making a mistake” by hitting the Houthis, whose attacks on Red Sea shipping have scrambled global shipping routes.

He noted that only “3 percent of US trade runs through the Suez. 40 percent of European trade does.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth replied to Vance’s comments: “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union, USA

Trump threatens EU and Canada with more tariffs if they work together to harm U.S.

OTTAWA – U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening large tariffs on the European Union and Canada if they work together to do economic harm to the U.S.

In a post on social media, Trump says the tariffs would be “far larger than currently planned.”

The comments follow Trump’s move to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all automobile imports to the U.S. starting next week.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Zelensky says ‘Putin will die soon’ and vows ‘it will come to an end’ – as rumours of the Russian dictator’s health gather steam

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed that Vladimir Putin ‘will die soon’ amid rumours that the Russian leader is battling poor health.

Zelensky’s damning assessment of Putin’s health came during a sit-down interview with journalists in Paris following a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday.

He said: ‘He (Putin) will die soon, and that’s a fact, and it will come to an end.’

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

‘I will not be silent’: Danielle Smith defends U.S. diplomatic efforts in face of national criticism

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith responded on Wednesday to the barrage of criticism she’s faced from across Canada for her recent diplomatic efforts and media appearances in the U.S.

During Wednesday’s afternoon session in the Alberta Legislature, Smith said she’s been unjustly criticized for her attempts to persuade officials that a trade war between the U.S. and Canada would be a bad idea. She defended her strategy, characterizing her actions as entering the “lion’s den” to change the hearts and minds of Americans that Canada needs on its side

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Top US officials’ personal data available online — report

The data of some of US President Donald Trump’s closest advisers was reportedly found online by German news magazine Der Spiegel.

Included in the report were national security adviser Mike Waltz, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The officials’ mobile phone numbers, email addresses and, in some cases, passwords connected to their accounts could be accessed via commercial data-search engines and hacked data widely available online.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?