L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t

As the Los Angeles Fire Department faced extraordinary warnings of life-threatening winds, top commanders decided not to assign for emergency deployment roughly 1,000 available firefighters and dozens of water-carrying engines in advance of the fire that destroyed much of the Pacific Palisades and continues to burn, interviews and internal LAFD records show.

Fire officials chose not to order the firefighters to remain on duty for a second shift last Tuesday as the winds were building — which would have doubled the personnel on hand — and staffed just five of more than 40 engines that are available to aid in battling wildfires, according to the records obtained by The Times, as well as interviews with LAFD officials and former chiefs with knowledge of city operations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You"

GUNTER: Carney and Freeland cut from similar cloth, destined to fail

With the announcement by former B.C. Premier Christy Clark that she would not seek the leadership of the Liberal Party, the race is really down to two people who have not yet officially declared: former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney and former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.

Given how the criminal pigs of the LPC have turned Canada into 3rd World cesspit no member of the party should ever be elected again.

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

Metro Vancouver can’t absorb so many people so fast, says mayor and others

Douglas Todd: Ottawa has lured a supercharged volume of immigrants and temporary residents to Metro Vancouver — 119,000 in one year alone — without providing the infrastructure to support them.

“I guess the federal government had this misguided idea that you could invite all these people to Canada and they wouldn’t have needs. They were never going to use the health-care system, they were never going to flush a toilet, they were never going to send their kids to school.”

So says Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West, who is among the few politicians raising alarms about what he calls a “sleeper issue” — that Ottawa has been allowing a high number of immigrants and temporary residents into the country without providing the infrastructure to support them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

US, Israeli officials say hostage deal has been reached

A ceasefire and hostage deal has been agreed upon by Hamas and Israel, a US official told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.

An Israeli official later informed Israeli media that the differences in negotiations have been resolved and a deal has been reached.

Details are still sketchy

Israel and Hamas agree to hostage release, Gaza cease-fire deal after 15 months of war: reports

Israel and Hamas have reached a deal to halt the fighting in the Gaza Strip and free more than a third of the Israeli hostages, who have had to endure more than 15 months of captivity, officials say.

The breakthrough deal is the first of its kind in more than a year. It will create a 42-day cease-fire in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.

The pause in fighting will allow Israel and the terror group Hamas to negotiate the terms to release the 97 hostages remaining in Gaza.

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

Nearly 50,000 foreign students listed as ‘no-shows’ by Canadian schools

Close to 50,000 international students who received study permits to come to Canada were reported as “no-shows” at the colleges and universities where they were supposed to be taking their courses, according to government figures for two months last spring.

Numbers obtained by The Globe and Mail show that the non-compliant students made up 6.9 per cent of the total number of international students recorded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

This is criminal and those responsible should be jailed starting with Trudeau.

No Liberal should ever be elected again.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

LA fire victims fear new housing crisis

Thank Goodness Malibu Goat is safe.

Michael Storc and his family had just survived a devastating wildfire.

Now they have to face a daunting new challenge that he had hoped to never experience again – the Los Angeles housing market.

After losing the Altadena home that he owned in the Eaton fire, he was scouring for a new place to rent, and having little luck.

“What’s available is not nice at all and the rents have gone up a lot,” Mr Storc told the BBC. “I told my teenage daughter we had to accept we would live somewhere not very nice.”

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One third of Ontario newcomers say they felt safer in home countries, survey finds … Probably because all their criminals migrated here under Trudeau’s replacement scam

Oleg Redko came to Canada in 2022 to escape the war in Ukraine, while Parth Shah moved to Canada from India with dreams of prosperity and a specialized education.

Both had an image of what Canada would be, but soon after arriving, they had experiences that shattered their sense of safety in their new country.

Because all their criminals became Trudeau Migrants. I suggest they move back for their own safety!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Sweden celebrates huge success in migrant crackdown as number granted asylum hits 40-year low

The number of migrants granted asylum in Sweden dropped to the lowest level in 40 years in 2024, according to the country’s government – the result of a decade-long crackdown on immigration.

Sweden stunned the world by taking in nearly 163,000 asylum seekers during the 2015 migrant crisis – the highest number per capita of any EU country.

But following a dramatic policy reversal, just 6,250 asylum-related residence permits were granted in the Scandinavian country last year, according to Migration Minister Johan Forssell, who cited fresh statistics from the Migration Agency.

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

Ukrainian families question Canada’s commitment as residency applications appear ‘lost’

As Canada plans cuts to immigration, Ukrainian families say they’re worried and “disoriented” after getting mixed messages about their permanent residency applications under a special humanitarian pathway to reunite families fleeing war.

Some applicants allege Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) “lost” their applications, and question Canada’s commitment to continue supporting Ukrainians as the war rages on in Ukraine and Russia.

“It worries me very much because it’s once again interruption of promises,” said Eugenia Pynchuk, a Canadian citizen, as she sat next to her father. Her parents are currently in Ottawa under a visitor visa that’s set to expire next year.

Something is rotten at IRCC.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Student activists force RAF to close stalls at university job fairs

Attempts by the Royal Air Force to recruit graduates have been prevented by activists at universities, it has emerged, as a government adviser said “protests have gone beyond peaceful assembly”.

Footage posted on social media showed that RAF personnel were among those targeted at university careers fairs in recent months as protesters attempted to prevent students from signing up.

In one case, the RAF was forced to shut down its recruitment stall early and in another leave it temporarily amid security concerns, video footage and posts show.

Nothing a little carpet bombing couldn’t fix.

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

Colby Cosh: Mark Carney’s desecration of central bank neutrality

Ignatieff but without the charm.

The Economist Party is beginning to squawk a little bit about Mark Carney’s entry into electoral politics, which may be announced by the time you read this. The former boss of the central banks of Canada and the United Kingdom is said to be considering a run for the leadership of the Liberal Party, and will have lots of help from the inner circle of Justin Trudeau, assuming that this is the kind of help that ends up, y’know, helping. Carney has been talked about as a potential saviour of the Liberals for years, yet it seems we are only getting around to asking a basic question: is this at all a good idea?

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