‘Humanitarian crisis’: Ontario cities beg province to create new ministry for homelessness

The leaders of Ontario’s largest cities are calling on the provincial government to appoint a cabinet minister to manage a provincewide response to a growing trend of homelessness and a number of encampments they say have reached crisis levels.

Launching a new campaign at Queen’s Park on Thursday, Ontario’s Big City Mayors said local governments were at a breaking point trying to tackle homelessness, opioid addiction and a series of tent encampments that have appeared and stayed in the heart of the province’s towns and cities.

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

Police assess ‘all intelligence’ before Taylor Swift’s London shows

British police are assessing intelligence concerning Taylor Swift concerts in London after her shows in Austria were cancelled because of an alleged Islamist terror plot.

A 19-year-old man and two younger teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of planning a suicide bombing at one of the singer’s three nights in Vienna. Police found Islamic State propaganda and bomb-making equipment during a house search. They are not looking for anyone else.

No shortage of suspects in Britain.

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

PoCo mayor calls on authorities to ‘take action’ against local imam who called for annihilation of Jews

Port Coquitlam mayor Brad West has called on authorities to investigate a local imam who called for the annihilation of Jews and supporters of Israel.

He condemned the “vile hatred” espoused by Masjid Alhidaya’s Adnan Abyat, saying in no uncertain terms that such an ideology was not welcome in his community.

Personally I do not think anything will happen to the irritating Imam.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

How a ‘Southport Wake Up’ Telegram post sparked fears of far-Right rallies

Not long after police had taken off their riot gear and finished their shifts after a weekend of violence, in the early hours of Monday morning, anonymous members of the far-Right were already posting a hit list of new targets.

At 1.59am, subscribers to a Telegram group named Southport Wake Up created by members of the far-Right received a message flashing up on their phone with 11 fire emojis followed by the words “Wednesday night lads” in capitals.

“They won’t stop coming until you tell them,” it read. “No more immigration […] 8pm/mask up /spread this as far and wide as you can.”

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

Mobile-home park residents on P.E.I. wonder how nationwide sale will affect them

Residents of six mobile-home parks on P.E.I. are worried about how a large buyout of properties across the country will impact them — and a U.S. watchdog group says the change in ownership could mean higher fees.

Last month, the Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust — or CAPREIT — announced it was selling the six parks on the Island as part of a $740 million deal with TPG Real Estate, a private-equity company based in the U.S.

The sale involves 12,138 residential lots for manufactured mini-homes or mobile homes spread across 75 sites throughout Canada.

This is the world we live in, corporations profiting from the housing shortage caused by Trudeau’s mass immigration scam.

What will become of the Trailer Park boys?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Canadian Economy’s Underperformance Pre-Dates COVID and Is ‘Worsening’: Study

Canada’s economy has been outperformed by many of its peer countries before the COVID-19 crash of 2020, due to lags in key sectors such as business investment, says a public policy think tank.

The Fraser Institute released a new study on Aug. 7 which compares Canada to other developed countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

“It may be tempting for policymakers to blame Canada’s poor economic performance on the COVID pandemic and all the disruptions it caused, but the truth is Canada has been underperforming its international peers in important ways for many years,” said in a statement Jason Clemens, executive vice president of the Fraser Institute.

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

Trump Challenges Harris to Debates, Calls Out New Rival for Ducking Media

Former president Donald Trump challenged Vice President Kamala Harris to three debates during a Thursday press conference at Mar-a-Lago, pointing out that his new rival has avoided unscripted media appearances since replacing President Biden atop the Democratic ticket.

Trump said that he has agreed to appear at three debates, one on September 4 on Fox News, a second on ABC on September 10, and a third on NBC on September 25. Harris had previously said that she would attend the ABC debate but it’s unclear whether she’ll appear for the other two contests.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Battles persist in western Russia after bold cross-border attack by Ukraine

A surprise Ukrainian attack into Russia’s Kursk region raised questions about whether Kyiv’s forces violated U.S. restrictions on the use of donated fighting vehicles.

KYIV — Ukrainian troops battled Russian forces Thursday for a third day in Russia’s Kursk region, occupying villages and part of a town, in what has become Ukraine’s largest incursion into Russia since Russia’s invasion in 2022.

Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, have confirmed the cross-border Ukrainian attack, which stunned Moscow and appeared to involve the use of Western donated infantry fighting vehicles.

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

A tale of two Hitler salutes

British Jews have endured months of racism from Islamists and the left, but too few called it out.

For the peripheral observer, the madness of the past week in the UK might be summed up by a singular image: a group of white men in Leicester performing a full Sieg Heil. But for me, it’s the image of a person of colour making the exact same gesture in London that is far more illuminating. In fact, it’s the different reactions both have elicited across the political spectrum that get us tantalisingly close to understanding how we have arrived at this grim moment. It might even point to how we can exit the swirling whirlpool of community clashes that threaten to drag our society down to the depths.

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

What the media gets wrong about ‘Asian’ protesters

The vague adjective “Asian” is still deployed by some sections of the media to describe the ethnicity of sexual “grooming gangs”, which in towns such as Rotherham, Rochdale and Telford have involved men of predominantly Pakistani Muslim heritage. Now, a week after the horrific stabbing of three young girls in Southport was the catalyst for nationwide riots, the term is being used to describe gangs of mostly Muslim counter-protesters.

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

As burglars torment L.A. neighborhood, anxious residents consider buying guns, hiring security

A palpable tension hangs over Encino as news of the latest burglary spreads through the San Fernando Valley neighborhood after months of reported break-ins.

It’s all people seem to talk about while walking their dogs or in group text chats with neighbors. Some residents want to form a neighborhood watch, while others are taking quotes from private security companies to patrol the streets outside their multimillion-dollar homes.

At least 10 burglaries were reported in Encino in the last month, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Residents say there have probably been more in this Valley neighborhood, which is home to roughly 60,000 people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise", Crime, Gun Control, Gun Rights