IDF begins ground operation in southern Lebanon, attacks Hezbollah terror targets

IDF soldiers entered southern Lebanon as part of a ground assault on Monday night while the conflict with Hezbollah continued to escalate increasingly, Israel’s military confirmed the operation during the early hours of Tuesday morning.

“The IDF began limited, localized, and targeted ground raids based on precise intelligence against Hezbollah terrorist targets and infrastructure in southern Lebanon,” Israel’s military said.

It added that the IDF will be carrying out “a methodical plan set out by the General Staff and the Northern Command, which soldiers have trained and prepared for in recent months.”

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Defence minister Blair caught misleading China Inquiry while under oath

Records submitted to the Commission on Foreign Interference suggest Defence Minister Bill Blair misled investigators while testifying under oath.

Documents disclosed by lawyers marked the second time Blair’s explanation for the mishandling of security matters was contradicted, per Blacklock’s Reporter.

Compulsive liars, every last one of them.

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

Residential school survivors press Ottawa for more money to find more fake graves

A group of residential school survivors and their supporters are asking the federal government to reverse what they’re calling a funding cut and come up with more money to help find the unmarked graves of students who went to these institutions.

The request comes the same day Canada marks the fourth annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, established in 2021 to honour the survivors of residential schools, and the children who never came home from them.

The Survivors’ Secretariat, which is parsing through decades-old records and searching the grounds of the former Mohawk Institute near Brantford, Ont., is leading the charge against a series of changes that Ottawa announced earlier this year that it says will reduce the total pool of money available to Indigenous communities to document residential school atrocities and deaths.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Residential School Mass Grave Mania", WTF?

Conservatives’ path to victory propelled by women, young voters, and a deep desire for change, say pollsters

The federal Conservatives are poised to form one of the largest majority governments in Canadian history, and push the governing Liberals into third—if not fourth place—in the House following the next general election, say pollsters.

Whether the national win will eclipse Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservative victory in the 1984 federal election that resulted in a 211-seat majority in the then-282-seat House, the Conservatives will almost certainly capture at least 200 ridings in the newly configured 342-seat Commons if polling trends continue.

From the Star … Justin Trudeau’s Liberals continue to trail the Conservatives in all age groups, with men and women, and in all provinces but Québec.

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Here’s how college campuses are prepping for October 7 after Israel-Palestine turmoil interrupted last year

Police in riot gear. Occupied buildings. Thousands of arrests. Distrupted classrooms. An atmosphere of fear and campuses crisscrossed with encampments.

In the year since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, universities across the globe were riven with protests, vigilante mobs, and antisemitism and Islamophobia investigations. Now, college officials are cracking down and trying to avoid similar scenes as the conflict approaches its one-year anniversary. Universities are announcing measures they say will keep campus safe and uninterrupted this year, after last year’s Israel-Palestine turmoil.

But activists say new restrictions on protest rights only further their resolve.

H/T PA Cat

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", USA

Britain’s (And Canada’s) Mass Immigration Scam – Not only does it make fools of all those who call Britain home, it makes all-out civil war inevitable.

Britain is floundering, there’s no getting away from it. As to why, you could write an encyclopedia on the subject: The critical absence of conservatism since Thatcher, to the extent that a third of the electorate mistook Keir Starmer for a viable political option outside of North Korea; insane virtue signals like Net Zero, which sees Britain playing “Save the Planet” while the rest of the world wisely gives Greta the finger, and laughs all the way to the bank; an Exchequer bankrupt to the tune of 3 trillion quid, while the Chancellor dithers over rounding errors like the Winter Fuel Allowance.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Derek Finkle: What drug injection sites aren’t telling you

Now that more than a month has passed since Ontario’s Conservative government announced the province would be closing 10 of its 17 supervised injection sites, there is some very interesting manoeuvring going on in harm reduction circles.

The injection site that I live across the street from, in the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, just east of downtown Toronto, has a particularly pressing conundrum. The province has given South Riverdale and the other nine sites being closed for being within 200 metres of schools and daycares until March 31, 2025, to wind down their operations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDrug Legalization, Drugs

Iran’s Newest Proxy: Sudan

Iran, having just had two of its major proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, seriously degraded, is setting its sights on a new, “consolation prize” proxy to use as an additional base of operations: Sudan.

Iran has, for a while, been trying to establish a port in Sudan’s major coastal city, Port Sudan. Iran’s strategy of supporting and infiltrating other countries and terrorist groups — as it has done in Iraq, Syria, Gaza, Lebanon, Venezuela and Yemen — appears as yet another extension of its strategy of moving into territories with weak or unstable governments to expand its influence throughout the Middle East, to create new fronts for its campaign to destroy Israel and bring down the world order led by the West.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, Sudan

Canada–China Ties Moving From Elite Control to ‘State Capture,’ Former Canadian Diplomat Warns

China’s influence on Canada is evolving from influencing political and economic elites to a more dangerous form of “state capture,” says a former diplomat posted to Canada’s embassy in China.

Charles Burton, a sinologist who is now a senior fellow at the think tank Sinopsis, made the remark during a Sept. 26 event in Ottawa for the launch of investigative journalist Sam Cooper’s third edition of “Wilful Blindness,” a book that examines China’s influence in Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "Foreign Interference", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

David Frum Accuses Trump of Planning To Build A Network Of ‘Concentration Camps’

Lunatic

Don’t be fooled by David Frum’s rather reserved academic mien. The CNN regular is as rabid a Trump/JD Vance hater as anyone on the liberal media’s Team Kamala.

In recent times, we have caught Frum calling Vance a “racist, corrupt” Trump with better hair and a law degree. And comparing Trump to psychopathic mass murderer Charles Manson.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome, WTF?

As Toronto falls apart …

Fossil fuel ads on the TTC will now face pre-screening

Some fossil fuel advocate advertising will now be pre-screened by TTC staff before it runs on vehicles, as the transit agency takes steps to ensure the groups are making factual claims in their messages to the public.

The TTC board directed staff to review all future advertising from a pair of fossil fuel advocates to confirm the claims they’re making have been independently verified. The board has also asked staff to propose changes to current policies that would allow the city to decline fossil fuel ads if they don’t align with Toronto’s own climate change policy, TransformTO.

The TTC is in dire financial straits so it makes sense to strangle ad revenue on the say so of a few fear mongering ideologues.

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Does Poilievre Represent a Threat to Canadian Identity?

On his way to the Conservative leadership, Pierre Poilievre called Jean Charest a Liberal and Patrick Brown a liar. More recently, he’s called opioid policy in British Columbia wacko and Montreal’s mayor incompetent. He’s expressed support for Freedom Convoy protesters and disdain for lobbyists. He wants to defund the CBC. Will he coarsen the national character?

If I’m being honest, I have to say I’m not particularly worried.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party, WTF?