Sabrina Maddeaux: Canada’s political parties have a power hoarder problem

The Liberals are in freefall. With this week’s Bloc Québécois victory in Montreal’s LaSalle—Émard—Verdun byelection, on top of the five-alarm byelection defeat in Toronto—St. Paul’s earlier this summer, Canada’s “natural governing party” returns to Parliament down two longtime urban strongholds.

The evidence, both from polls and reports of private inner-party conversations, is overwhelming that the problem is the prime minister himself. Yet, he refuses to leave and Liberal MPs have few mechanisms—particularly since they rejected the Reform Act at the beginning of this parliamentary session—to get rid of him.

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

Jet-setting academics branded hypocrites for lecturing about climate

University researchers have been branded “hypocrites” for condemning air travel as bad for the planet but then flying to conferences anyway.

A study found that about a third of the academics at a leading UK university had flown to at least one meeting in the previous year, despite a large majority expressing concerns about aviation emissions.

“There is a level of hypocrisy: academics know that flying is bad for the environment,” said Professor Jonas De Vos of UCL, the lead author of the study. “But still, we often fly to international conferences, often to [make the argument] that society should be more sustainable.”

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

Sexual assaults, robberies surging in Canada’s cities: report

OTTAWA — Sexual assaults and robberies are up in Canada’s major cities, according to a new report.

The Macdonald Laurier Institute’s Urban Violent Crime Report sheds new light on the state of Canada’s increasingly unsafe streets, including an alarming rise in the incidence of urban sex crimes.

Sounds like we have a huge mystery on our hands! Is there some link? Some commonality? Authorities are stumped! 

Note. This Bolo collection is for illustrative purposes only as it is not updated with recent captures or new additions from 2023.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime

Diversity Alert: Ontario police arrest 2 suspects, search for 3 others in door-to-door sales fraud

Two people have been arrested, and three others are still at large in connection with a door-to-door sales fraud that police said victimized more than 200 people across Ontario.

In a news release on Wednesday, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) provided an update on its investigation into the fraud, which began in the summer of 2021. Dubbed Project Nettle, investigators uncovered that salespeople attended homes of older adults and vulnerable people “to initiate frauds where victims unknowingly entered into home service and/or renovation agreements at exorbitant prices.

… The three outstanding suspects are 23-year-old Anas Ayyoub, 33-year-old Muhammad Waqar Afzal and 28-year-old Muhammad Wasiq Afzal. They are wanted on several charges, including fraud over $5,000 and possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada

Immigration holds up the clearest sign yet that the Liberals have all but given up on governing

There are a few basic expectations of any federal government: secure the border, nurture trade relationships, keep the federal courts running, maintain and uphold national defence, cultivate economic growth and so on. These are the fundamentals – the responsibilities that a federal government is supposed to have in order – so as to earn the trust to take on ambitious secondary projects. Indeed, when alleged sex offenders (and even those found guilty) are set free because of procedural delays stemming from judicial vacancies, the government has no business – or credibility – announcing plans for a national school lunch program.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Businesswoman accused of sparking Southport riots has police case dropped

A businesswoman accused of sparking the Southport riots is no longer being investigated by the police.

Bernadette Spofforth was alleged to be one of the first people to share the incorrect name of the suspected knifeman in the attack, in which three young girls killed.

She said she was arrested on Aug 8 on suspicion of publishing written material to stir up racial hatred and false communications.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Federal civil servants score hundreds of millions in overtime: Documents

OTTAWA — While Canadians struggle with the ongoing cost of living and affordability crisis, newly-released documents suggest some overtime-addicted public servants are doing just fine.

As questions swirl around Parliament Hill over the state of Canada’s bloated bureaucracy, documents obtained by The Toronto Sun show government agencies are shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars in overtime.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Public Service Union Predator Class

MICHELLE REMPEL-GARNER: Exposing the Carney appointment’s massive conflict of interest

Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he would be appointing uber-elitist and longtime carbon tax supporter Mark Carney as his key economic policy czar. Mr. Trudeau structured Mr. Carney’s appointment — with his myriad of board appointments, private interests, and investments — so that it would not be subject to any conflict of interest rules for public office holders.

Today, the reason for this may have become more apparent.

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

Kamala Harris Is on Autopilot

Harris’s interview with the National Association of Black Journalists showed why she doesn’t do many interviews.

Kamala Harris spent the hour she devoted to only her second “high-profile national media interview since announcing her presidential run,” according to Politico, “carefully parrying” her interlocutors’ questions. That’s a diplomatic way of describing her evasive, equivocating, deliberately ambiguous performance in an interview with representatives from the National Association of Black Journalists. Keeping voters in the dark may be a civic sin, but, for now, it’s a winning strategy. And for the political press, whatever gets Harris across the finish line first is permissible.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris"

Four years ago, a study said white doctors were effectively killing black babies. The study was wrong.

In America, an inordinate number of so-called “scientific” studies are subject to what’s called the “replication (or reproducibility) crisis.” If someone publishes a study that feeds into leftist shibboleths, no matter how poorly done the study is (small sampling, foolish assumptions, bad math, etc.), the results are widely trumpeted and become embedded in the popular consciousness. That the study cannot be replicated (run again from scratch) or reproduced (subject to a new analysis of the study’s data)—and often nobody even tries to do these things—is irrelevant. The narrative overrides the scientific method.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism"

My remarks over a ‘dog in a frock’ plunged me into a Kafkaesque nightmare

Lesbian social worker Elizabeth Pitt was reported by council colleagues for ‘gender-critical views’ – kickstarting a 10-month legal battle

It started with a dachshund in a dress, and ended with a legal case that has cost taxpayers thousands. Elizabeth Pitt, 63, a social worker, has won her 10-month legal battle against Cambridgeshire County Council for harassment and direct discrimination, after she was investigated for being transphobic.

“The whole thing has been a Kafkaesque nightmare,” she says. “I didn’t want to complain about anything, I just wanted to get on with my job. These people accusing me of transphobia thought they needed sympathy and empathy but in fact it was my rights which were being impinged. This all comes down to basic common sense.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Muslim Migrants and the Seething in Europe

Why Europeans are turning rightward.

In Great Britain, tens of thousands of people came out this summer to protest against Muslim criminals, and to bewail the failure of their government both to halt Muslim migration and to enforce its own deportation decisions. In France, the government is without a prime minister, as President Macron struggles to avoid confronting the matter that most exercises the French — Muslim migrants, the expense they cost the French taxpayers, the crimes they commit, the general sense of disorder and insecurity they create in the land. In Germany, the anti-Muslim immigrant party, Alternative für Deutschland, has become the winner in the recent election in Thuringia, and the runner-up in Saxony, results that have sent the other parties into a panic, as AfD’s inexorable rise, despite the national media’s attempts to blacken its image as a “most far-right party since the Nazis,” continues.

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

Kamala Harris is a neocon in disguise

Her progressive pedigree makes her all the more dangerous

Kamala Harris may have succeeded in convincing America that she’s a hip, “joyful” alternative to Sleepy Joe, but those outside the US shouldn’t be fooled. When it comes to foreign policy, all the signs suggest that Harris will follow the path set down by her former boss: one grounded in aggressively countering any challenges to America’s waning hegemony, by any means necessary.

But what, one might ask, about Harris the Progressive? For months, the American Right has gleefully painted the Democrat as a “woke” warrioress, a liberal campaigner who cares more about “kindness” than keeping America safe. Yet the truth couldn’t be more different. In fact, on the global stage, Harris’s progressive pedigree is precisely what makes her so dangerous.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris"