Pierre Poilievre’s grand seduction of Quebec

The Grand Seduction. That’s how some media outlets referred to Pierre Poilievre’s many visits to Quebec this summer. It’s perhaps a reference to the 2013 movie of the same name based on the 2003 French version, “La Grande Séduction.”

The film centres around the struggling fishing village of Ste-Marie-la-Mauderne in Quebec, where all residents are on welfare and engage in charming antics to secure economic revival. This metaphor fittingly encapsulates Poilievre’s campaign trail across the province.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Gaza hostage deal: US, Qatar and Egypt to put non-negotiable offer on table

Israel is braced to receive a non-negotiable Gaza hostage deal on the table from mediating countries Qatar, Egypt and the United States.

“I think that what will happen in the end” is that “there will be a kind of take it or leave” deal which US President Joe Biden would put forward “together with the Egyptians and the Qataris,” Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Yuli Edelstein told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday morning.

“Then we will have to take a decision” because “it won’t be negotiable again,” he said.

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

Star Continues To Propagate Fake Graves Story

As an archeologist, it’s impossible to ignore evidence of harm at Indian Residential Schools

I am an archeologist. It’s a field that I was initially drawn to because it felt comfortably distant from the things that got people upset. I couldn’t have been more wrong.

In recent years, we archeologists have found ourselves drawn into deeply acrimonious debates about Canada’s history with Indigenous Peoples. It makes sense. Our profession puts us into a physical encounter with the past. We collect evidence.

Recent articles in some corners of the media landscape have made much of the fact that the number of suspected graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia has been revised downward. Indeed, some columnists have gone so far as to suggest this proves the Indian Residential School system was not genocidal and that Canada has been libeled.

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

‘You have been abusive to me for over 40 years’: Did Barry and Honey Sherman’s toxic emails lead police to believe murder-suicide?

In the days following the discovery of Barry and Honey Sherman’s bodies, Toronto police vigorously pursued a murder-suicide theory, despite forensic evidence to the contrary. The theory was only abandoned six weeks later following the Star’s publication of the results of a second set of autopsies revealing it was a double murder.

Why did homicide detectives stick to the murder-suicide theory for so long? That’s a question the Star has been trying to answer since the high-profile case began nearly seven years ago. From day one, police were scouring the Sherman home and their electronic devices, looking for a suicide note, while at the same time asking family and friends why Barry would have done such a thing, according to police documents.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

4 killed on train in Chicago-area appeared asleep before shootings, police say

Four people fatally shot on a commuter train in the Chicago area early Monday appeared to be attacked while asleep in their seats, police said.

The victims — whose names, ages, and genders have not been confirmed — appeared to be asleep and were seated apart from each other according to security footage, the Forest Park Police Department said.

“Random attack” say police.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Ontario school hid girl’s transition, called CAS on parents questioning trans identity

Julie’s life turned upside down after COVID hit. Barely ten, and physically isolated from much of the world, in early 2021 she installed TikTok and began spending hours online, falling down social media rabbit holes. She eventually “discovered the LGBTQ+ community” and started questioning her identity.

“At first, it was only my sexuality: pansexual, lesbian, maybe bi?” she later wrote in a personal essay. Eventually, videos asking viewers whether they were “anxious and uncomfortable” in their own bodies triggered her to question her gender identity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

UK suspends some arms exports to Israel

The UK has suspended some arms sales to Israel, saying there is a “clear risk” the equipment could be used to commit serious violations of international law.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the UK will be suspending 30 out of 350 arms export licences to Israel.

The affected equipment includes parts for fighter jets, helicopters and drones.

Mr Lammy said the UK continued to support Israel’s right to defend itself, and this did not amount to an arms embargo.

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

Jewish CUPE members express concern as union doubles-down on leader’s comments

Despite several locals and even the union’s national executive calling for his resignation, CUPE Ontario’s affirmation of their leader and his controversial statements about Israel has alarmed its Jewish members.

You can feel their disease.

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

Police log more non-crime hate incidents despite crackdown

Police are recording more non-crime hate incidents than last year despite a crackdown on the practice, according to official data.

Suella Braverman, the former home secretary, last year told police they should only log reports of hate incidents that were below the criminal threshold if there was a serious risk of harm and not just because someone was offended.

The changes, introduced through statutory guidance in June last year, followed “trivial” cases such as a man who ended up with a police file for whistling the theme tune to Bob the Builder at his neighbour, who perceived racial hatred.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", WTF?

Liberal staffers’ rebellion reveals growing tension over party’s stand on Gaza conflict

More than 50 Liberal ministerial staffers, mostly of Muslim and Arab origin, are refusing to volunteer in the LaSalle-Émard-Verdun by-election because they object to their own party’s stand on the conflict in Gaza, revealing how deeply that conflict is tearing at the Liberal Party.

And while this speaks to the internal division of a tired government, it also reveals how starkly polarized Canadians have become over the Middle East.

We know what side Trudeau is on.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West