Trudeau rearranges deck chairs adds 8 new MPs to cabinet, changes the roles of 4 others

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce eight new cabinet ministers Friday and change the roles of four others in a cabinet shuffle designed to ensure the government can function properly, CBC News has learned.

The shuffle comes days after former deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland resigned suddenly, spurring an emboldened movement within the Liberal caucus to push Trudeau out of the leadership.

One senior government source told CBC News the timing and size of the shuffle should not be taken as a signal that the prime minister has made up his mind about his future, adding Trudeau is still “reflecting” on his position.

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

Why ‘skinny’ Diddy has lost so much weight in jail as his lonely Christmas plans are revealed

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is facing a ‘bleak’ Christmas in a Brooklyn jail and allegedly continues to refuse meals while in lock up as he waits for his criminal trial.

In the latest episode of DailyMail.com’s podcast ‘The Trial of Diddy’, prison expert Larry Levine said the 55-year-old music producer continues to refuse meals, according to sources inside the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York — which is notoriously known for inmate fights and deaths.

Levine — who is the director and founder of Wall Street Prison Consultants and has previously spent a decade in the prison system himself — said Combs could be refusing meals because of continued paranoia over his safety.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

‘It’s being abused:’ Group that led campaign for MAID is now calling for safeguards

Here’s an artistic interpretation of a slippery slope argument. It visually represents the cascading consequences and decision point metaphorically. – ChatGPT

The civil liberties group that led the push for the 2015 decriminalization of physician-assisted suicide in Canada is now warning it has become too easy to obtain MAID, and the government must enact safeguards.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Avian Flu Has Hit Dairies So Hard That They’re Calling It ‘Covid for Cows’

A fast-growing outbreak of avian flu has upended California’s dairy industry, the nation’s largest producer of milk, infecting most of the state’s herds and putting thousands of farmworkers at risk for contracting the virus.

In just about four months, cows in 645 dairies in California have tested positive for H5N1, even as many ranchers have taken strict precautions to stop the virus from spreading. Gov. Gavin Newsom was concerned enough Wednesday that he declared a state of emergency over the outbreak in California.

The virus is spreading so quickly that dairy farmers are calling it “Covid for cows,” and scientists are racing to figure out how to stop the contagion.

They really want that pandemic.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

67 Percent of Canadians Say It’s Time for Trudeau to Resign: Survey

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government have hit an all-time low in public opinion since coming to power in 2015, with more than two-thirds of Canadians saying it’s time for Trudeau to step down, a new poll says.

In the Dec. 17 Abacus Data poll, 67 percent of Canadians said Trudeau should resign, while 19 percent said he should stay on as the country’s leader.

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

High Court fatwa ruling raises alarm over sharia courts in UK

A British sharia council was given credibility by the High Court when a judge used one of its fatwas to decide a case.

The Islamic Council, founded by the hardline preacher Haitham al-Haddad, issued a religious ruling forbidding a health trust from allowing a brain-damaged child to die. Secular campaigners said using fatwas in civil courts undermined liberal democracy.

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

Jamaican who was saved from deportation by BA passengers is a violent drug dealer

A Jamaican gangster spared deportation when passengers on a British Airways flight led a revolt, has been identified as a violent drug dealer jailed for his role in a gun battle on the streets of Birmingham.

Lawrence Morgan was convicted of firearms offences in 2021 and was due to be kicked out of Britain in November.

But his lawful deportation was abandoned at the last moment when passengers, who were unaware of his convictions, staged an intervention by refusing to sit down for take off.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Chrystia Freeland is not a hero

The departure of Chrystia Freeland from the federal cabinet is an interesting moment. That sounds like a statement of the obvious, but it’s an interesting moment for more than just the obvious reasons. While most of the speculation and analysis — and even, frankly, simply gossip — surrounding Freeland’s departure focused on what it meant politically for her and the prime minister and the government, and what it told us about the personal relationship between the two, there’s another element here. What does it tell us about the government’s vision of Canada in a changing world?

If there’s a vision at all.

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

Swedish police board Chinese ship to observe cables probe

Swedish police were invited aboard a Chinese vessel in the Baltic Sea on Thursday in order to observe a probe being carried out by Beijing into two severed undersea cables.

The telecom cables – one linking Finland and Germany, the other connecting Sweden to Lithuania – were damaged in mid-November off the coast of Denmark but in Swedish territorial waters.

The Chinese ship, the Yi Peng 3, had been tracked sailing above the cables at the time they were cut, and has remained anchored at the location since November 19.

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

Jewish community leaders call investigation into anti-Israel field trip ‘deeply troubling’

Jewish leaders fear that a provincial investigation into a field trip authorized by the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), during which students participated in anti-Israel chants, is too limited in its scope.

In September, students from 15 TDSB schools attended the Grassy Narrows River Run rally in downtown Toronto. The demonstration was framed as an opportunity to learn about mercury contamination and Indigenous access to natural resources but featured anti-Israel chants and signage. Parents said they were informed that students would “observe and learn,” but not participate, as the crowd made its way to the provincial legislature at Queen’s Park.

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

Inside the organization at the forefront of the anti-carbon tax crusade

For nearly a decade, one organization has led the crusade against what it has deemed to be ineffective climate policy in Canada.

The work done by Alberta-based Modern Miracle Network has had a tangible impact on the discourse both at a governmental and civilian level, with more and more politicians and ordinary Canadian opposing the carbon tax in favour of solutions it has promoted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Generation Z now openly supports terrorism

A plurality of young Americans now openly support terrorism. Yes, seriously. This sounds like right-wing alarmism or hyperbole, but it’s just reality, as revealed by a disturbing new poll.

For context, popular internet personalities responded to the cold-blooded murder of a healthcare CEO by celebrating and even sexualizing the alleged killer, Luigi Mangione. But observers had no way of knowing how widespread this sentiment was and how much of it was meant at least partially in jest.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Revenge attacks in post-Assad Syria fuel fear and mistrust

AL-HAKEEM, Syria — The woman was clutching her infant, still in the dressing gown and pajamas she had been wearing a day earlier when fighters overran this village in Syria’s Latakia province, the heartland of Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority sect.

Her scorched home still radiated heat from the fires they had set. She hadn’t seen her husband since he fled into the citrus groves.

“We are dying from fear,” she said, standing outside the house, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. “It’s as though our hearts are in our hands.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSyria

The Prince Andrew spying scandal exposes the credulity of the elites

The British intelligence services intimated last week that a former business partner and friend of Prince Andrew may be a Chinese spy. For the prince, the younger brother of King Charles III, this is yet another fiasco of many he has blundered into. For the British ruling classes more broadly, this is another embarrassing display of their own credulity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Shocked and Appalled!"