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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity"

CHARLEBOIS: How rail labour dispute could shake global food security

A nationwide rail labour dispute looms on the horizon, potentially starting as early as Thursday, and it has already captured the attention of American media.

The dispute threatens to disrupt a rail network that stretches across the continent—from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico. This network is critical to Canada’s agri-food economy, and a disruption involving over 9,300 engineers, conductors, and yard workers could have severe consequences for the entire food supply chain.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

STUDY: Networks Deliver Massive Media Honeymoon to Kamala Harris

Since Joe Biden exited the 2024 presidential race four weeks ago, the liberal networks have delivered an unprecedented boost of positive publicity to his successor in the race, Vice President Kamala Harris. Not only has Harris received 66% more airtime than former President Donald Trump, but the spin of Harris’s coverage has been more positive (84%) than any other major party nominee, even as Trump’s coverage has been nearly entirely hostile (89% negative).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris", The Media, The Media Lies, Trump Derangement Syndrome

Singh urges Liberals to stay out of rail dispute as deadline to avoid massive shutdown looms

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party would oppose any government intervention in the ongoing labour dispute between Canada’s two main rail companies and unions as the deadline to avoid an unprecedented service shutdown approaches.

Both the Canadian National Railway and the Canadian Pacific Kansas City remain at loggerheads with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference union. The union has been demanding better wages and benefits — including better crew scheduling — for workers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Arrest footage surfaces of Transgender YouTube personality accused of incestuous relationship with 82 yr. old Mother

Bodycam footage of the moment YouTube personality Chris Chan was arrested on an incest charge has surfaced – three years after her arrest and a year after the case was dropped.

Chan, a 42-year-old transgender vlogger well known for her webcomic series who goes by the name Christine Weston Chandler, faced 10 years in prison when she was arrested at her home in Virginia in August 2021 accused of having an incestuous relationship with her 82-year-old mother, Barbara.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Joly heads to Africa as Liberals craft ‘approach’ to continent, instead of strategy

OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is headed to Africa as her government assembles a long-delayed plan on how to engage with the continent.

Joly is heading to Ivory Coast today before visiting South Africa for two days starting Wednesday.

Her office says the trip to Ivory Coast is aimed at exploring shared counterterrorism priorities and affirming Canada’s ties with both English- and French-speaking countries.

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

‘Uncommitted’ Democrats Want to End Support for Israel. How Far Can They Push at This Week’s DNC?

A handful of delegates is threatening to pierce the Democratic Party’s kumbaya for Kamala as its national convention kicks off in Chicago today.

These potential spoilers are known as the Uncommitted Movement, representing voters who deliberately declined to back Joe Biden when he was seeking a second term in the primaries. The movement has drawn delegates from three states—Michigan, Minnesota, and Hawaii—where they voted “uncommitted” in their state primaries this spring. The Uncommitteds argued that voters should use their leverage to change Biden’s policy of supporting Israel’s war in Gaza, and at the DNC this week, they say they are planning to agitate for a “ceasefire, anti-war, pro-peace narrative.”

WTF?

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemocratic Party

We’re getting lousy value for the taxes we pay in Canada

Every year at the Fraser Institute, we calculate the total tax bill — which includes income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, fuel taxes, etc. — for the average Canadian family. This year we found the average family paid 43.0 per cent of its annual income in taxes in 2023. That is more than it spent on basic necessities such as food, clothing and housing combined, and significantly higher than the 33.5 per cent it paid in 1961.

Put differently, the average family’s tax bill has increased 2,705 per cent since 1961 — or 180.3 per cent after adjusting for inflation.

The Fraser Institute in The Star? Sign of the End Times!

h/t DS

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

Nord Stream sabotage: How are the key players reacting?

The attack on the Nord Stream pipelines was shocking, the damage enormous, and the geopolitical consequences are still keenly felt almost two years after the attack. The 1,200-kilometer (746-mile) Nord Stream 1 served as the key delivery system between Russian energy giants and their buyers in Germany, with Berlin braving the ire of its allies to construct another undersea delivery system, Nord Stream 2, which would run mostly parallel to the first one and carry another 55 billion cubic meters (1.942 trillion cubic feet) of gas per year.

It was not to be. A series of underwater blasts on September 26, 2022, crippled the pipelines, which were already out of action due to tensions between Berlin and Moscow provoked by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Nearly two years later, no suspects have been arrested, and it is not fully clear who was behind the sabotage.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Doug Ford shifts direction on wind power in Ontario

One of Doug Ford’s first acts as premier of Ontario, just days after taking office in 2018, was cancelling more than 750 renewable energy projects, including a large wind farm that was already partially built.

Fast forward to today, and Ford’s Progressive Conservative government is poised to oversee the biggest expansion of green energy that the province has seen in nearly a decade.

Ontario has laid out plans to procure an additional 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy by 2034. By comparison: the capacity of all wind power projects currently installed across the province totals about 4,900 megawatts.

Palms must be greased.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Crime-filled Chicago displays all that’s wrong with Democrats in one failing city

If the message of this week’s Democratic National Convention is “We’re going to make America more like Chicago” then run for the hills.

After nearly 100 years of Democratic rule, the Windy City is a basket case. Soaring crime, high taxes, crippling debt, crumbling infrastructure, and a declining population are just some of the miseries inflicted on its citizens.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemocratic Party