Canada’s election is about to have an Elon Musk problem with Trudeau’s exit … Warns Guardian!!!!

The decision by the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, this week to resign as head of the Liberal party has set in motion a leadership race against the backdrop of a looming general election, which will be held amid political turmoil triggered by Donald Trump’s America First economic nationalism. It has also given Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, an opportunity to inject himself into yet another country’s political turmoil.

Since Trudeau’s resignation on Monday, Musk has posted repeatedly about Canadian politics on X – the platform formerly known as Twitter he bought in 2022 for $44bn. He has praised clips of Pierre Poilievre, the leader of Canada’s Conservative party, while relishing in Trudeau’s downfall and engaging with rightwing Canadian influencers.

Oh my!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

How much has Trudeau changed Canada?

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was elected in 2015, he promised sunny ways and “a real change.”

Over the last nine years, there’s no doubt his government has focused on fighting climate change, advancing Indigenous reconciliation and lifting some Canadians out of poverty.

But critics argue the Trudeau government has damaged Canada’s international reputation and the consensus around immigration.

Trudeau was the worst thing ever to happen to Canada. End of story.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

“Hate” and the Islamic onslaught on British values: Part 2

Batley School Blasphemy Protest – Islam Muslims UK

The subversions of the British Education system in Batley (2021) and Wakefield (2023) demonstrate on a small scale the tactics of Islam as laid down by Mohammed in the seventh century CE. There is a brutal simplicity to the three mechanisms which have ensured that Islam has spread across the world and through the ages, and which currently make it an urgent threat to British values.

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

US Bishops Denounce Trump’s Immigration Plans

The Catholic Church has clear teachings on immigration, but US bishops stand to lose lots of money from mass deportations.

As President-elect Donald Trump is just days away from returning to the White House, American Catholic leaders are denouncing his immigration agenda. Chicago’s powerful Cardinal Blase Cupich warned in a recent interview that U.S. bishops “are going to have to be prophetic and denounce any abuse of human dignity that may occur” as Trump rolls out his mass deportation program. “We are going to be vigilant and we are going to defend the human dignity of immigrants,” Cupich said. The cardinal called deportation plans “intolerable, especially in a country where we are all immigrants. I am a product of immigration!”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Catholic Church, President Trump

9 Things to Know About Pierre Poilievre, Canada’s Likely Next Prime Minister

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Jan. 6 announcement that he intends to resign as Canadian prime minister has shined a bright media spotlight on the man who is the odds-on favorite to succeed him: Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre.

According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s poll tracker, on Jan. 6, Poilievre’s Conservatives commanded the support of 44% of Canadian voters. The Liberals lagged far behind at only 20%, with the leftist New Democratic Party that has propped up Trudeau’s minority government since 2022 polling even lower at 19%. If these current polling numbers hold up after Trudeau’s departure, Poilievre (who pronounces his name in English as “Paul-ee-ev”) will remain on course to secure a massive parliamentary majority in the upcoming Canadian election that must be held no later than this October. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Who Really Denied Statehood to the Palestinian People?

One of the most pervasive myths of the Palestinian protest movement is that Israel has denied statehood to the Palestinian people. To the contrary, Israel agreed to Palestinian statehood in 1937-1938, 1947-1948, 1967, 2000-2001, and 2007. In each case, it was the Palestinian leadership that refused to agree to the two-state solution that would have created a Palestinian state, alongside a state for Jewish inhabitants.

In 1937 – in the midst of the terrorist revolt inspired by Adolf Hitler’s ally, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem – the British published the Palestine Royal Commission Report (also known as the Peel Commission Report).

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

Taxpayer-Funded NPR Relishes Using ‘Criminal’ and ‘Convicted Felon’ in Trump Court Coverage

Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio relished describing Donald Trump with words “criminal” and “convicted” and especially a “convicted felon.” Friday’s sentencing in New York offered a golden opportunity. I could tell this was coming because in Friday’s 9am top-of-hour newscast, they talked of Trump’s “criminal sentencing” three times.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

OH Boo Hoo!

This is what happened when Justin Trudeau’s mask finally began to slip

There was no snow when Justin Trudeau walked out Monday morning — just the salt-stained steps outside his cottage door. It was January 6, 2025. It had been nine years, two months and two days since he had taken on the job, fulfilling a destiny that had always seemed both inevitable somehow and a little bit absurd.

It seems strange to say he looked emotional; emotions have always been such a big part of his sell. But he did. And it was different. I have no insight into what Trudeau really feels about anything. But the feelings he projects as a public figure have always struck me as something of a mask — not fake necessarily, but performative, permanently infected with a phony tinge of CanCon cheer.

The Star has an unending supply of TDS afflicted Trudeauphiles.

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

Teenager’s note on post-war hardships found in door panel

A teenager’s account of the difficulties of post-war life has been found hidden in a door panel that was saved from the tip.

The handwritten note tells of the daily six-hour power cuts, no coal “in any quantity” and short supply of food.

Tom Yuen, 31, from Cardiff, was searching for second hand door panels when he found the note, from 1947, which he says felt like a “handshake through time”.

Rationing lasted until 1954.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inhistory

Hangover coming after Trudeau fiscal bender

Justin, we hardly knew thee!

The federal Liberal caucus has finally forced Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign. The dam broke after three regional caucuses — including from Ontario and Quebec — told Trudeau to pound sand.

Fighting back against such a large proportion of his caucus would have been near impossible. Trudeau read the writing on the wall.

So he’s gone. But not really.

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

The age of Trudeau’s censorship schemes is over

By proroguing Parliament on Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau snuffed the life out of one of his favourite darlings: Bill C-63, also known as the online harms act.

There’s no excuse for suspending democracy at a time like this, but we should at least celebrate the death of this atrocious bill. Had it (or the two bills the Liberals were to replace it with) passed, the Canadian Human Rights Commission would have been made sheriff of the Canadian internet, empowering it to drag anyone through a lengthy tribunal process making online comments perceived to be hateful. What’s worse, anyone reporting mean comments to this tribunal would be allowed to remain anonymous, which would have allowed the process to be weaponized with ease.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Freedom of speech