Canadian Digital Media Research Network found thousands of social media posts falsely linking the Conservatives to Russian interference after the U.S. indictment of Tenet Media.

Armed with newfound awareness about foreign interference, Canadian social media users have demonstrated a pattern of leaping to conclusions for partisan purposes, according to researchers examining the online response to the recent indictment of two Canadians accused of participating in an alleged Kremlin-backed influence campaign.

In its final report on its study of the Russian government’s alleged funding and influence of Tenet Media, the Canadian Digital Media Research Network (CDMRN)—led by the Media Ecosystem Observatory jointly run by McGill University and the University of Toronto—found that the firm is using the reach and following of its media personalities to align its content with “Russian objectives of sowing distrust and division.“

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Russia! Russia! Russia!", Conservative Party

WARNING: Trump’s Life Could Be in Danger

It feels like everything’s building to a crescendo, doesn’t it? The past is prologue, and it’s all leading to…

…something.

The trouble is, when you’re knee-deep in a historical arc, it’s next to impossible to accurately define it. You might be aware that something big and consequential is going on, but you can’t contextualize what the hell it means until afterward. It’s like trying to take a picture while driving 200 miles an hour — everything is blurry and distorted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Some Canadian EV buyers sour on Tesla after Elon Musk’s pivot to the right

When Jeff Cowie bought his first electric car in 2019, the Tesla Model 3 checked all the boxes: It meshed with his environmental ideals, offered a fun driving experience and the technology aligned with what he was used to as an avid Apple user.

Mr. Cowie admits he was also impressed by the bold ambitions of Tesla Inc.’s space-exploring chief executive officer, Elon Musk.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", WTF?

Boss accused of sexism for saying she wanted to buy ‘pink dresses’ for hoped for granddaughter

What a diseased mind.

An HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) boss was accused of sexism after saying she wanted to have a granddaughter so she could buy pink dresses, an employment tribunal has heard.

Rachel Gladstone demanded that her team leader Sandra Edwards keep her “overt spoilt-pink-baby-girl-princess sexism” for her private life after she made the remark in a team meeting.

This is a doozy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

US top doctor calls for cancer warnings on alcohol

This was a US Poster with the shield altered to erase the US Flag for Canada.

America’s top doctor has called for risk warnings on alcoholic beverages, similar to the labels on cigarettes, following new research that links the drinks to seven types of cancer.

The advisory from US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says the “majority of Americans are unaware of this risk” that leads to about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 deaths annually in the US.

It would require an act of Congress to change the existing warning labels, which have not been updated since 1988.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Kelly McParland: Trudeau skis while his party unites in calls for his resignation

The chorus of Liberals demanding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation has swollen to the point that it’s now fair to ask just who the prime minister thinks he’s still leading.

Days after the Ontario caucus — the country’s biggest by far, with 75 members — concluded it was time for Trudeau to step aside, Atlantic Liberals sent a letter to the prime minister indicating that “time is of the essence, and our caucus is of the view that it is not tenable for you to remain as leader.”

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

Was the Jan 6 pipe bomber a woman? FBI admits shock possibility as it releases eerie new video of 5ft 7 suspect

A figure filmed planting pipe bombs around Capitol Hill hours before the January 6 insurrection is so well disguised, the FBI isn’t sure if they are a man or a woman.

The 5ft 7in suspect was caught on CCTV laying the explosives outside the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee on January 5, 2021.

Newly released video showed they wore a white hoodie, dark pants and gloves, and a mask around their face – as most people did during the Covid pandemic at the time.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

Peter MacKinnon: A stark warning about the state of Canadian academia

The Netherlands’ Leiden University is one of the top-ranked in the world, so when one of its senior law professors takes the trouble to offer an international perspective to a science committee of the Canadian House of Commons, we should pay attention to his words.

Professor Yuan Yi Zhu’s advice to Canadian students who are not left wing is to keep their views to themselves until they secure funding: “[w]ithin Canadian academia there is a monoculture where, if you deviate even very slightly from what is fashionable and what is commonly accepted by your peers, not only will you be ostracized, but often you will not be able to have an academic career in the first place.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture"

Lockdown babies ‘can’t talk properly’

Children who were born during lockdown and started school in 2024 are often unable to talk properly, a new report has found.

A survey of teachers in England by four leading charities highlighted major concerns about development levels among children who entered reception in September.

In a joint report shared with The Telegraph, four charities – Save the Children, Child Poverty Action Group, the Children’s Rights Alliance for England, and the Centre for Young Lives – polled more than 350 reception teachers about children born during the pandemic.

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Mark Carney calls dozens of Liberal MPs as he considers leadership bid

OTTAWA — Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is seriously thinking about running for the Liberal leadership if Justin Trudeau resigns, a source close to him says, as the government grapples with uncertainty over the prime minister’s future in the face of the threat of American tariffs and a snap federal election.

A source with direct knowledge of Carney’s thinking told the Star on Friday that the former central banker in Canada and the United Kingdom has been taking and placing calls with dozens of Liberals MPs and political organizers in the days since Chrystia Freeland’s shock resignation as finance minister rocked the Liberal government and preceded the greatest wave of calls so far for Trudeau to leave.

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

The warning five years ago that could have stopped New Orleans attack

Officials were told in 2019 that the French Quarter’s Bourbon Street was vulnerable to car-ramming. Days on from those fears being realised, it has reopened

New Orleans officials were warned five years ago that the city’s famed Bourbon Street, a tourist hotspot that attracts thousands of people each day, was vulnerable to a “vehicular ramming” attack.

As revellers and residents returned to the strip, which reopened only 36 hours after Shamsud-Din Jabbar used a vehicle to kill 14 people and injure more than 30 others in the early hours of New Year’s Day, local officials pledged to strengthen security measures throughout the historic French Quarter.

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

Two words – “Heather Mallick”

Donald Trump has a new best friend; Justin Trudeau doesn’t have any friends left

The year of 2025 is looking very much like the year of 2024, chaotic, grim, worrisome, airplane-crashy, genocidal, and frankly a bit short of the generous human behaviour I had been expecting for its first week.

I’m glad that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, a good man among less good men, reached 100 but even he didn’t want to add a few more years, not if they were Trump years. Go out at your peak of esteem, a round number.

TDS is a form of mass hysteria.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

The Mystery of What’s Causing Young People’s Cancer Leads to the Gut

Researchers have uncovered links between cancer and diets high in processed meat and liquor

Researchers have identified a focal point for the forces they suspect of driving up cancer cases in young people: the gut. They are searching people’s bodies and childhood histories for culprits.

Rates of gastrointestinal cancers among people under 50 are increasing across the globe. In the U.S., colorectal cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in men under 50 and second for women behind breast cancer. Each generation born since the 1950s has had higher risk than the one before.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?