Controversial councillor ‘created an environment of fear’: Pickering, Ont. council

PICKERING, ONT. – The mayor of an eastern Ontario city and five out of six municipal councillors are condemning the last member of the group for appearing on an online show they say promotes hate speech and extremist views, arguing her increasingly controversial history has “created an environment of fear and intimidation” on council.

In a scathing press release published on Wednesday, Pickering Mayor Kevin Ashe and the rest of Coun. Lisa Robinson’s fellow council members sounded the alarm over her recent appearance on the Kevin J. Johnston show hosted on Rumble, which they call “a far-right video platform.”

They said the show host called the council members “pedophiles” and “Nazis” and said they “deserve a baseball bat to the face” among other pointed remarks, asserting Robinson smiled or nodded instead of refuting Johnston’s comments.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture"

Learning From the Collapse of Catholic Ireland

How did a nation once famous for Saints and Scholars reach such lows? The president of the Irish Freedom Party has some thoughts.

In the sixth century, the monk St. Columba left the Emerald Isle and sailed to Iona to build a new monastery and spread the Christian faith. For centuries afterwards, Ireland held a reputation as a deeply and even fundamentally Catholic nation, responsible for training priests and religious scholars and sending them out across the wide world to preach and teach the Gospel. But today, there is only one seminarian currently studying for the priesthood to serve the entire Archdiocese of Dublin, which comprises over 200 parishes and approximately one million baptized Catholics.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIreland

The oldest hatred is thriving in Britain

Britain’s antisemitism problem continues to grow. A report from the Community Security Trust (CST), a charity that monitors racist attacks and abuse against British Jews, documents 1,978 incidents in the first six months of 2024. That is the highest figure ever recorded for the first half of any year and a 105 per cent increase on the same period in 2023. It is no coincidence that this comes after the October 7 attack, in which Palestinian terrorists invaded Israel, killed 1,200 people, raped women and took 250 hostages. As the CST noted in a previous report, October 7 occasioned an outbreak of antisemitic activity in the UK long before any Israeli military response was under way. This latest report confirms the connection, with 52 per cent of incidents linked to Israel or its war against Hamas in Gaza.

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

Nuclear war would turn Canada into one of the worst places on the planet. (Toronto would see marked improvement)

OTTAWA—In the unlikely, but unfortunately not impossible event of nuclear war, Canada would be one of the worst places on Earth to live.
Or rather, to die.

Alan Robock, a pioneering researcher in the science of nuclear devastation, provides the terrifying picture.

“Countries like Canada — you think you’re safer because you’re a member of NATO and (American) nuclear weapons will protect you. But you’re actually not,” he says over the phone from New Jersey, where he is a professor at Rutgers University.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Armageddon"

Iran Knows It Cannot Win a War against Israel

For all Iran’s threats to retaliate against Israel for assassinating key Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, the key concern for the ayatollahs will be that, in any confrontation with the Israeli military, they have no chance of winning.

Tensions between Iran and Israel have risen considerably since Israel was accused of carrying out the assassination of Hamas Political Bureau leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran shortly after the swearing in ceremony for Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian last month.

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

Law Allowing Phone, Laptop Search at Borders Unconstitutional, Ontario Court Rules

A law that allows border agents to search electric devices, including computers and phones, violates Canadians’ charter rights, Ontario’s top court has ruled, telling Parliament it needs to rewrite the law in six months.

In an Aug. 9 court decision, justices Michael Tulloch, Jonathon George, and Patrick Monahan said that the Canadian Charter “guarantees everyone the right to be secure against unreasonable searches.”

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Tim Walz’s ‘weird’ slur just shows how much of a wacko he is among the rest of the left

Tim Walz wheeled out his “weird” slur against Republicans again this week when he was introduced to the nation as Kamala Harris’ VP candidate.

He’s proud of the fact that his quip on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” went viral a couple of weeks ago and helped earn him running-mate status.

“These guys are creepy and, yes, just weird as hell,” Walz said of Donald Trump and JD Vance during his debut speech in Pennsylvania Tuesday.

H/T DS

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

Are Justin Trudeau’s Liberals tired, stale and out of touch — or just bad communicators?

Susan Delacourt: The Liberal caucus is set to meet in a few weeks in Nanaimo, B.C., and while you and I are wary of making predictions, Matt, I’m going to venture one here. The Liberals are going to talk about their “communication problems.” I feel safe making this forecast because it is what Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have been saying ever since their fortunes started to slump in the polls. Is that all this is? A failure to communicate?

No one believes a single word they say.

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

Self-Preservation “Un-Christian” Says Putative Head Of Fading Church

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby

Far right ‘unchristian’, says archbishop of Canterbury as he condemns riots

Far-right groups are “unchristian” and their use of Christian imagery in this summer’s riots is an “outrage”, the archbishop of Canterbury has said.

Writing in the Guardian, Justin Welby condemned violent unrest he said was “racist”, “anti-Muslim, anti-refugee and anti-asylum seeker”. His intervention follows a week of violent disorder that began after a mass stabbing of children at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport last month.

Fool saints.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUncategorized

Stronach civil case highlights Succession-like battle over family’s billions

An Ontario judge’s looming decision on whether to compel the Stronach Group to disclose evidence of any coverup of sexual misconduct may add yet a new dimension to a deepening scandal surrounding the multinational’s billionaire founder.

The civil court case also offers a peek into the deep divisions at the heart of a family feud involving auto parts tycoon Frank Stronach’s adult children and grandchildren.

According to at least one longtime observer, the conflict bears a resemblance to the infighting involving another famous clan.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada