U.S. says all NATO members should meet 2% defence spending target by June

The White House said Thursday that it expects all NATO members to be spending at least two per cent of their GDP on defence by the alliance’s next summit — four months from now.

The demand further ramps up pressure on allies like Canada — which has long missed the spending target and doesn’t plan to meet it for another seven years — from U.S. President Donald Trump, who is pushing for drastic defence spending increases and reducing reliance on U.S. security.

Goodbye NATO?

‘NATO Is Dead’ Might Be an Overstatement, but Markets Are Behaving as If It Were True

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNATO

Stellantis halts activity at Brampton Assembly in Ontario

In a move likely to induce whiplash for some Canadians in the automotive sector in Southern Ontario, it is being reported that Stellantis is stopping all activity at the Brampton Assembly Plant, effective immediately. Talking heads at Automotive News say the parent company of brands like Ram and Jeep is taking a pause on plans for the facility, a space which was to have been used to produce the next-gen Jeep Compass.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Liberals Increase Sudan War Refugee Quota as Quebec Bars Relatives From Resettlement

The federal government is increasing the number of refugees it plans to resettle as a result of Sudan’s civil war, with changes that could see 7,000 more people reach Canada through various programs.

But Ottawa says it remains impossible for Quebecers to sponsor relatives from Sudan to resettle in that province.

Instead, Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Quebecers can now apply to resettle their relatives as long as they go to another province.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ten Years of Islamist Terror in Germany

Over the past decade, Germany has experienced a series of Islamist attacks that have exposed the deficiencies of both the country’s and the European Union’s immigration policies, at a high human cost. According to reports from the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), the number of individuals classified as dangerous Islamists has increased drastically, rising from 550 in 2015 to over 2,000 in 2025, representing an almost fourfold increase in just ten years.

This sharp growth has led to a tightening of security policies, with increased surveillance and preventive detentions of terrorism suspects. However, some of these measures have sparked criticism, as they have involved restrictions on individual freedoms, including home raids for social media posts deemed “offensive,” a trend that has also been observed in the United Kingdom, especially for non-Islamists posting.

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

Colby Cosh: Is there even a case for the Liberal high-speed rail plan?

On Wednesday, our lame-duck PM quacked out the news that “Canada is getting high-speed rail”: this is of course duckspeak for “the usual engineering firms are being handed billions of dollars to devise a plan for high-speed rail in a 1,000-kilometre strip of Ontario and Quebec.” In the new spirit of national unity, I suppose I am not allowed to object to the idea on behalf of any of the other eight provinces. But, like a troll in a riddle, I have questions three before this railroad you will see. And the first is the Inevitable Mike Moffatt Question, already asked by the economist and tribune of southwestern Ontario …

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

Will the Pope resign? Ailing Francis battles health problems

For anyone wondering if the ailing Pope Francis will emulate his predecessor Pope Benedict and resign, it is not much use listening to what Francis himself has to say on the subject.

In a memoir, Life: My Story Through History, published last year, Francis wrote, “I think that the Petrine ministry is ‘ad vitam’ [‘for life’] and therefore I see no conditions for a resignation”, only to add in the next sentence, “things would change if a serious physical impediment were to arise”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPope Francis

Muslim arrested in Quebec in connection with alleged NYC terror plot against Jews waives right to fight extradition to U.S.

The federal government is increasing the number of refugees it plans to resettle as a result of Sudan’s civil war, with changes that could see 7,000 more people reach Canada through various programs.

But Ottawa says it remains impossible for Quebecers to sponsor relatives from Sudan to resettle in that province.

Instead, Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Quebecers can now apply to resettle their relatives as long as they go to another province.

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

Musk: Zelensky is ‘despised’ by the Ukrainian people

Volodymyr Zelensky is “despised” by the Ukrainian people and is “feeding off the dead bodies” of his countrymen, Elon Musk has claimed.

Parroting criticisms voiced by Donald Trump, Mr Musk wrote on X that Mr Zelensky’s approval ratings had slumped and accused the Ukrainian leader of rigging online opinion polls and the media to boost his popularity, without citing evidence.

“If Zelensky was actually loved by the people of Ukraine, he would hold an election,” the tech billionaire said. “He knows he would lose in a landslide, despite having seized control of ALL Ukrainian media, so he cancelled the election.

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

Majority of Canadians Say Immigration Levels Still Too High: Survey

Canadians want the federal government to implement even deeper cuts to immigration, beyond the 20 percent reduction implemented this year, in-house research from the immigration department suggests.

“Over half of surveyed Canadians, 54 percent, say they feel there are too many immigrants coming into Canada,” said a department report, which was drawn from a poll of 2,500 Canadians.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

St-Onge spectacularly fails to make the case for the CBC

‘Let us speak what the Trudeau Liberals consider unspeakable. There is no role for a public broadcaster in Canada.’

If the role of a public broadcaster is to be what Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge wants it to be, let’s not have one.

The CBC already presents its own version of Canadian values and reality. But, if the ‘vision’ she articulated this morning ever comes to pass, with its amplified funding and a mandate to fight ‘dis/mis-information,’ it becomes a semi-official news agency in fact as well as appearance.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Justin Trudeau declares US ‘can’t take our country’ after Canada’s 4 Nations championship win

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a shot at the US on Thursday night after his country’s hockey team defeated the Americans in the highly anticipated 4 Nations championship game.

“You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game,” the outgoing prime minister declared in a terse statement posted to X after Team Canada beat their North American neighbors 3-2 in overtime.

Despite Trudeau’s public assertion in keeping Canada a sovereign state, he seems to be less confident behind closed doors.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

U.S. Doubles Down on Demand That Ukraine Sign Minerals Deal

The Trump administration is stepping up its push for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to hand mineral rights worth hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S., after Zelensky’s initial rejection of the demand fueled President Trump’s escalating broadsides against Ukraine’s leader.

The White House called Zelensky’s refusal to sign a deal it proposed and his criticism of Trump unacceptable, a day after Zelensky said Trump is living in a “disinformation” bubble and Trump countered by calling Zelensky a dictator.

“They need to tone it down and take a hard look and sign that deal,” Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz said Thursday of Ukraine’s leadership on Fox News.

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