Ontario to effectively bar international students from medical schools starting in 2026

The Ontario government will effectively bar international students from attending medical schools beginning in the fall of 2026, while also covering tuition for more than 1,000 students who commit to becoming a family doctor in the province.

Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Sylvia Jones said Friday upcoming legislation will ensure at least 95 per cent of medical school spots will be reserved for residents of Ontario. The remaining five per cent will be for students from elsewhere in Canada.

The change will only represent a small shift in enrolment, as roughly 88 per cent of all medical school spots in Ontario are already held by residents of the province, a health ministry official said.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada

NYT/Siena Poll a Gut Punch to Harris

The race is tied in a two-way sample, and Trump is up one if you include third-party candidates.

That’s the bottom line in the NYT/Siena Poll, and that is terrible news for Kamala Harris.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris", Election 2024

Liberal MPs lack the means – but mostly the courage – to take down their Leader

It was, by all accounts, a “robust” discussion at Wednesday’s Liberal caucus meeting. And not only robust, but “frank” and “difficult.”

And why not? Ostensibly Liberal MPs were there to debate whether Justin Trudeau should stay on as Leader. But there were also important principles at stake, as I need hardly tell you. Principles like: will I lose my seat? Or: will I get into cabinet?

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

Election mania already underway in Arizona where man was filmed taking a machete to a Trump sign

An Arizona man was caught chopping down a Trump-Vance campaign sign with a machete after plowing into them with his car.

Authorities are investigating multiple reports of a person wearing a white T-shirt, pizza patterned pants, white slip-ons and a baseball cap vandalizing political signs in the Fortuna Foothills area.

Witnesses reported a man damaging signs near East 40th Street and South Foothills Boulevard by running them over with a vehicle, kicking them over and slashing them with a machete.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUncategorized

US border with Canada faces crisis amid uptick in migrant encounters

As Election Day approaches, border control has become a key topic among the presidential candidates. While much of the discussion focuses on the southern border, the northern border — the international border between Canada and the United States — often receives less attention.

The northern border is more than 5,000 miles long, double the length of the southern border, and is experiencing a record surge in migrant encounters. Data collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection show agents encountered migrants over 198,000 times in fiscal year 2024, more than seven times the encounters in 2021.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Canada, USA

Children’s handwriting is dying. Here is the proof

Children’s handwriting is now so bad that teenagers need lessons in secondary school, experts have warned.

Handwriting is taught in primary schools, with children expected to write in cursive “legibly, fluently and with increasing speed” by the time they leave at the age of 11.

But the increasing use of screens in and outside of the classroom has been blamed for a decline in how often and how well children can write compared to previous generations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Postmedia reporter says KGB allegations are ‘ridiculous’ and ‘entirely false’

OTTAWA — Postmedia journalist David Pugliese says allegations by a former Conservative cabinet minister that he was recruited by the Soviet Union’s intelligence agency in the 1980s as part of a global subversion campaign are “ridiculous” and “entirely false.”

Chris Alexander, a former politician and diplomat, made the accusations during a House of Commons standing committee on public safety and national security on Thursday evening, saying they were based on documents that “originate in the pre-1991 archives of the Ukrainian KGB.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", WTF?

Pennsylvania County Investigating Huge Trove of Fraudulent Voter Registration Forms

Officials in Lancaster County, Pa., are investigating about 2,500 voter registration forms dropped off in two batches at the last minute before registration closed on Oct. 21 to determine whether they were fraudulent.

Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams said in a statement that “numerous applications appeared to have the same handwriting and other details, like addresses, appeared incorrect on some applications.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, WTF?

SLOBODIAN: In Quebec, parents furious as teachers suspended amid charges of brainwashing kids

A firestorm has erupted over revelations that “Islamic religious concepts” have been abusively forced on elementary students at Montreal’s Bedford public school since 2016.

And a threatened Quebec politician who spoke out on behalf of students and against the school’s tense and toxic environment said she’s on “high alert” and requested extra protection for her and her family.

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

CHARLEBOIS: Canada’s dairy waste — time to legalize raw milk

A recent peer-reviewed study revealed that Canadian dairy farms dispose of between 600 million to one billion litres of milk on farms annually. This staggering waste, which should be inconceivable under a supply management system designed to balance production and demand, has brought renewed attention to the long-standing debate over the legalization of raw milk sales.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Bruce Springsteen’s Absolute Betrayal

Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band is merely the latest Springsteen EPK (electronic press kit) directed by Thom Zimny, who has been a fixture of the pop star’s entourage for 25 years. (Zimny’s lugubrious Letter to You was released in 2020.) But this behind-the-scenes concert-tour film has been timed for release two weeks before the election; it’s part of the ABC-Hulu-Disney+ conglomerate’s election-interference strategy, as was its notoriously biased September 10 presidential-candidate debate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Will the Russia-Ukraine war escalate into a global conflict?

Military chiefs believe that the fighting in Ukraine could break into a multinational war as North Korea sends troops to Russia for training.

A wider conflict had been thought inconceivable but Pyongyang’s dispatch of up to four brigades, amounting to 12,000 troops, marks a worrying trend, according to one senior western government source.

The deployment highlights the emergence of a power block opposing the West, one “willing to trade lives and money to forge an axis of aggression that risks the very foundations of the international rules-based system”, the source said, referring to a “deadly quartet” of Iran, North Korea, Russia and China.

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

I Was Giddy When The FBI Raided Mar-A-Lago, But Now I’m Voting For Trump

By most metrics, I’d be categorized as a young conservative. I am a 22-year-old college student. I interned for a Republican in the U.S. Senate. I was elected president of my former college’s Republican club. No one would mistake me for a progressive activist.

But if you had asked me a year ago about the 2024 presidential election, I would have told you that I was hopeful the Republican Party would move on from Donald Trump. In fact, I would have supported Joe Biden before backing Trump, even though I did not like much of anything about Biden.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024