Doug Ford and Mark Carney have bought Ontario some time. But the hard choices lie ahead

Mark Carney and Doug Ford’s deal to cut development charges by up to 50 per cent for three years won’t, by itself, solve the province’s housing crisis. But it will provide much-needed temporary relief to homebuyers and renters.

Housing news has not been all bad in recent years, as the drop in rents and resale home prices has been welcome news for Ontario renters and buyers. However, even as prices fell, housing starts declined, and pre-construction sales dried up in the GTA because construction costs have not kept pace with prices. This has created a paradox: homes remain too expensive for most middle-class buyers, yet not expensive enough to build profitably.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

US jibes at Royal Navy are uncomfortable because they have substance

While Pete Hegseth has mocked the ‘big, bad Royal Navy’, the First Sea Lord has sounded the alarm about its readiness

The US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, had his tongue firmly in his cheek when he singled out the “big, bad Royal Navy” in a recent press update on the US-Israeli war against Iran.

Hegseth’s sarcastic comment was the latest in a long line of jibes against the capabilities and readiness of the British Royal Navy.

However, less political figures have also warned of the perilous state of the UK’s naval warfare force, including the First Sea Lord, the highest-ranking naval officer on active duty.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

James Moore: The next election is about one big thing

James Moore is a former federal cabinet minister under prime minister Stephen Harper, and is a contributing columnist for CTVNews.ca.

Now that the federal New Democrats have selected Avi Lewis as their leader, Canadians know the leadership offering that they will be presented by the major parties in the next campaign.

Now the race is on between the parties to try to frame the ‘ballot question’ of the next campaign – whenever that may be. But at this moment, given the climate and context in which we live, the ballot question for the next campaign seems quite cemented.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics"

Canada’s police union president says policing protests is complicated. So where are his solutions?

Hamas supporters – Avenue Road

Tom Stamatakis is president of the Canadian Police Association. He represents more than 60,000 front-line officers. He has decades of experience in public-order policing. He has personally navigated riots, international summits, and the full chaotic repertoire of crowd dynamics. He is, by any reasonable measure, exactly the sort of person whose voice ought to count for something when Canadians ask why their streets have become a theatre of tolerated intimidation.

And what does Mr. Stamatakis have to say for himself?

That it’s complicated.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civil Unrest"

The DSA Is Following the Soros Playbook

The Democratic Socialists of America is prioritizing local elections to advance radical policies.

Americans pay too little attention to local politics. A decade ago, progressive billionaire George Soros took advantage of this fact, pouring millions into local races to get progressive district attorneys elected across the country.

Now, the increasingly radical Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has adopted the Soros strategy. Rather than supporting candidates at the national level, the organization increasingly focuses on small, local elections. Races for city councils, state assemblies, and state senates often get scarce media attention but represent real opportunities for power that the DSA is increasingly seizing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGeorge Soros

GOLDSTEIN: Carney’s two-faced policy on China exposes his Davos speech as nonsense

Based on what Prime Minister Mark Carney, a Liberal cabinet minister, and a Liberal MP said publicly about China’s use of forced labour, the idea they are fiercely criticizing Chinese President Xi Jinping about it in private is laughable.

Indeed, watching the performance of Carney, Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson, and former Conservative, now Liberal, MP Michael Ma on the issue over the past week, would have been hilarious if their milquetoast responses weren’t so alarming.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada in decline", "Canada's China Class", "Canadian Sovereignty", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Egypt’s Dangerous Muslim Brotherhood Organization

Carney speaks at a Muslim Brotherhood function

Many Westerners, it seems, still choose to believe a lie: that the Muslim Brotherhood organization is a political and social movement that can be engaged, moderated, and safely accommodated within democratic systems.

This belief is both mistaken and dangerous.

Recent developments in Egypt expose an alarming reality that should shake not only the Egyptians, but also the US and other Western countries.

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

Ryan Wedding’s alleged Ontario ‘cocaine lawyer’ got bail. The Court of Appeal is set to decide whether that was a mistake

Federal prosecutors are set argue Wednesday why bail should be revoked for a Toronto-area lawyer accused of abusing his professional status and network to help alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding run a billion-dollar trafficking empire.

The Attorney General of Canada, representing U.S. prosecutors, contends that a Superior Court of Justice made several “serious reviewable errors of law” and “materially misapprehended” evidence in granting Deepak Paradkar bail last December, according to a notice of application.

h/t MW

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

CNN Sugar: Trans Woman T.S. Madison Does Talking Points on the ‘Erasure’ of Trans People

On Saturday morning, CNN’s First of All with Victor Blackwell featured a gushy talking-points interview with trans activist T.S. Madison. The two discussed the “erasure of trans people” and the potential impact of the Save America Act. Madison warned parents that they need to be “protecting” their kids from the “people making these laws.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Iranian facing deportation for sanctions evasion tries to sponsor mother to immigrate

A Toronto man facing deportation for violating sanctions against Iran has filed a court case against the Canadian government for rejecting his attempt to sponsor his mother to immigrate.

Amin Yousefijam, an Iranian citizen who also goes by Ameen Cohen, filed his case in Federal Court after Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada turned down his sponsorship application.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Dems’ Ballroom Hate Is the Saddest Proof Yet of Their State of TDS Mental Unwellness

There was a time not so long ago when the Democrats were formidable and — I’m not kidding here — occasionally enjoyable political foes. During the Tea Party years, we would often encounter Dem activists and hang out with them for a while. Sometimes we would even socialize. The Democrats of recent yesteryear bore no resemblance to the feral, frothing rage mob that the No Kings/Resist Dems are today.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome