From ‘open hearts’ to closed borders: behind Sweden’s negative net immigration figures

Ten years ago the then prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt asked Swedes to “open your hearts” to refugees. Now the country’s migration minister is celebrating the fact Sweden has “negative net immigration”, with more people thought to be leaving the country than entering for the first time in more than half a century.

“The number of asylum applications is heading towards a historically low level, asylum-related residence permits continue to decrease and for the first time in 50 years Sweden has net emigration,” Maria Malmer Stenergard announced earlier this month.

Sweden’s Moderate-led government, which is supported by the far-right Sweden Democrats, has pursued increasingly restrictive asylum policies, including plans for a “snitch law” that would legally require public sector workers to report undocumented people.

The Swedes are realizing the horrid mistake they made.

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

HANNAFORD: Charles Adler, the man nobody but Trudeau would have picked for the Senate

What is going on with appointing Charles Adler to the Senate? Do they really know the guy? Or do they know him only too well?

Here’s the Adler deal. The old blowhard having had the sense to get out of near-bankrupt Corus (in 2021) while the getting was good, will now be received into the Senate at the age of 69 with a $178,000 annual salary. That will take him comfortably over the next six years to mandatory retirement at 75. Thereafter, the genteel poverty of a Senate pension.

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

Upcoming by-elections may reveal if it’s time for NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to step down

Everybody is wondering whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will step down before the next federal election. They should be asking the same question of Jagmeet Singh. A pair of by-elections next month could reveal whether the time has come for the NDP Leader to depart.

Mr. Singh can take pride in knowing that, thanks to him, Canada has a new national dental care program and the beginnings of national pharmacare. He entered into a supply-and-confidence agreement with the Liberals after the last election on the condition the government implement those programs

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WARMINGTON: Only in Toronto would illegal residents be celebrated

Just call this a party at Toronto city hall for residents who are not legally supposed to be here.

One might think encouraging illegals to attend an official gathering between 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. would be the perfect time to address their illegal status, return to their country of origin, and then return when they get their documentation right.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", WTF?

Tasha Kheiriddin: Trudeau’s ‘independent’ Senate is a sham

Who knew Canadians cared so much about the Senate? Congratulate an old friend on his appointment to the Upper House, as I did to veteran broadcaster and newly named Senator Charles Adler, and you unleash a volley of cheers — and a torrent of vitriol. The most recurrent slurs were “Liberal” and “hypocrite,” referencing Adler’s trenchant criticism of the Conservatives, anti-vaxxers, and the institution he is now joining. The implication is that appointees must curry favour with the prime minister, and that if you say a bad word about the Red Chamber, you shouldn’t accept an appointment there.

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

Federal Conservatives ahead in the polls in nearly every respect

To federal Liberal Party supporters, the end of summer was supposed to bring positive momentum for the country’s governing party. The reality is remarkably different.

Our latest look at the federal political scene shows a particularly dominant Conservative Party, counting on the support of 40 per cent of decided voters across Canada (up two points since April). The Liberals are second with 25 per cent (down one point), followed by the NDP with 17 per cent (down three points), the Bloc Québécois with nine per cent (down one point), the Green Party with six per cent (up three points) and the People’s Party with two per cent (up one point).

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For a Democrat, the American heartland’s normalcy is a terrifying dystopia

The Civil War tore America apart and left 600,000 dead. Still, despite its ferocity, it had at its heart only one big issue: whether the Constitution’s promise of individual liberty overrode states’ rights to govern themselves. Otherwise, Americans were much the same: the Bible, hard work, heterosexuality, the nuclear family, anti-crime, etc. America today actually faces a more profound schism than it did then because we’ve become two entirely different people. An opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle really hammers the point home, as a regular columnist looks at a county fair in the Heartland and sees a dystopian world.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, WTF?

Would you buy an affordable EV made in China?

As the federal government mulls whether to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, some Canadians say they would jump at the chance to buy a cheaper EV manufactured in that country.

Ottawa held a month-long consultation in July on how to handle Beijing’s powerful presence in the EV sector. Tariffs are among the options on the table.

Michael Wawrykowicz, who lives in Edmonton, uses a small Mitsubishi EV he bought second-hand four years ago for short trips around the city.

Given this is the CBC, I suspect the article is a trial balloon sent up by the Trudeau gov’t.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

‘The Black Day’: A Decade of Displacement for Iraqi Christians

August 6 marked the tenth anniversary of “the Black Day,” a day indelible to Iraqi Christians as the start of the unrelenting atrocities to which they were subjected on August 6, 2014, ten years ago.

On that day, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) unleashed a jihadi massacre of unprecedented terror, brutally attacking ancient Christian communities across northern Iraq. Villages were overrun, homes and churches looted and destroyed, and countless lives shattered. Christians were murdered, raped and sold into slavery. Those who survived were forced to flee, leaving behind everything they held dear.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Persecution Of Christians, Islamization of the West

Charter challenge launched against Ottawa for excluding mental illness from MAID

OTTAWA — A Charter challenge has been launched against the federal government over its decision not to allow those suffering solely from mental illness the ability to access an assisted-death.

On Monday, a statement of claim was issued at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice by Dying with Dignity Canada, a national charity that advocates for people’s right to access the procedure, along with two individuals diagnosed with mental disorders who say it has filled their life with suffering.

How long before conservative political beliefs are legislated as a mental illness requiring involuntary “euthanasia”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, WTF?

Shocking Federal Police Report: Over 2,100 Crimes Per Day in Germany Last Year

The number of crimes committed in Germany has risen to its highest rate since 2012, according to the federal police’s report on crime in 2023. According to the report, released on Monday, August 19th, the total number of crimes was 790,245 last year.

Announcing the report at a press conference on Monday, federal police chief Dieter Romann added a shocking number to the already distressing figures, saying that “in relation to the total population, non-Germans are statistically six times more likely to resort to knives in an attack than German citizens. And in sexual crimes, it is seven times more likely.”

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

Ford gov’t walks back 234K homeless number

What Doug Ford’s government gets wrong about Ontario’s homelessness crisis — and why it’s a problem

When Ontario’s new deputy housing minister assumed the role this summer, he was given an internal document briefing him on the housing crisis. That document included a staggering figure the government now concedes is false — an “unofficial” estimate that nearly a quarter of a million Ontarians are homeless.

The 234,000-person “unofficial” estimate is repeated twice in the footnotes of the transition documents prepared for MPP Vijay Thanigasalam in June. First reported by the Trillium, it’s a figure that bewildered experts — if true, it would suggest more than 95 per cent of Ontario’s homeless population is either living outside Toronto or off the radar, as the city’s own count in June sat at 10,627 people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"