Trump delays strikes on Iran power, energy plants for five days, citing ‘very good and productive conversations’

President Trump announced Monday that the US will not attack any part of Iran’s power and energy infrastructure for five days after Washington and Tehran engaged in “very good and productive talks” over the weekend about ending the three-week-old war.

“I am please [sic] to report that the United States of America, and the country of Iran, have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East,” Trump wrote, without elaborating.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Canadian companies could face big losses as change looms in Cuba

In Havana on Friday, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, Carlos Fernández de Cossío Domínguez, argued that Canada should maintain the commercial relationship with Cuba that has made it the country’s largest foreign investor after Spain.

“Since 1972, it has maintained the largest flow of visitors to Cuba. It is an important relationship,” said de Cossío, who once served as Cuba’s ambassador in Ottawa.

“There are important trade relations. There is foreign investment…. Despite the fact that we do not have a coincidence in all the political and international positions, we have always known how to solve our problems, our differences, and work with them based on dialogue and based on mutual respect.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Cuba, USA

Two pilots dead, 41 people hospitalized after Air Canada plane hits fire truck when landing at LaGuardia, causing airport closure

An Air Canada passenger plane smashed into a rescue truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport late Sunday — killing two pilots and hospitalizing 41 others in the horrific crash that obliterated the front of the jet and forced the major travel hub to close for most of Monday.

Emergency vehicles swarmed Runway 4 at the Queens airport after a regional jet landing from Montreal struck a rescue truck responding to a separate incident just before 11:40 p.m.

Horrific images showed the front of the commuter plane obliterated and tilted up in the air, with debris and cables hanging from the mangled cockpit.

h/t All who sent this in. This happened at 11:40 last night, I hit the hay at 11:30 because today is “New Fancoil Day” an all day affair I am told.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Casualty Event"

Cuba’s power grid collapses in third nationwide blackout amid US oil blockade

Cuba’s power grid collapsed on Saturday leaving the country without electricity for a third time in March as the communist government battles with a decaying infrastructure and a US-imposed oil blockade.

The Cuban Electric Union, which reports to the Ministry of Energy and Mines, announced a total blackout across the island without initially giving a cause for the outage.

The union later said the blackout was caused by an unexpected failure of a generating unit at the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant in Camagüey province.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCuba, USA

Children make up 33% of food bank visits in Canada.

Despite community efforts to feed the city’s youngest residents, the percentage of children using the Saskatoon Food Bank hasn’t declined in the last 18 years that Laurie O’Connor has worked there.

About 40 per cent of the food bank’s requests for hampers are made on behalf of children, according to O’Connor, the food bank’s executive director.

“That number really hasn’t fluctuated much in those two decades. So whether or not we can respond to the need hasn’t made that big of an impact on child poverty,” she told CTV News.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada in decline", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Human Rights Wasn’t ‘Proactively’ Raised During Carney’s China Visit: Privy Council

During Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to China in January, the issue of human rights wasn’t “proactively” raised during discussions with Chinese officials, according to the Privy Council Office (PCO).

“Topics of human rights and foreign interference were not brought up proactively by the Canadian Prime Minister,” says a document tabled in the House of Commons on March 13 by the PCO, which is sometimes referred to as the prime minister’s department.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - China's 24th Province", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Unseen by Orwell, ‘everlasting’ England on her deathbed

GEORGE Orwell’s 1941 essay England Your England, written at the height of the Blitz and at a moment in English history when it was not unreasonable to think that the nation and its distinctive culture might not survive, contains the following sentence:

‘The Stock Exchange will be pulled down, the horse plough will give way to the tractor, the country houses will be turned into children’s holiday camps, the Eton and Harrow match will be forgotten, but England will still be England, an everlasting animal stretching into the future and the past and, like all living things, having the power to change out of recognition and yet remain the same.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGeorge Orwell, UK

Commissioner Duheme’s Repression Denials Will Not Restore Public Trust

OTTAWA — Commissioner Mike Duheme’s recent interview with Vassy Kapelos, in which he stated there is “no credible intelligence” indicating foreign interference in Canada, was likely intended to reassure Canadians. Instead, it risks doing the opposite — particularly for diaspora communities who have long warned that foreign state actors operate within Canada’s borders.

They lie about everything.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference"

How smart are battery-operated semi-trucks?

Tesla Transport Truck

I remember how excited the media and customers were when the ugliest truck that ever existed came out, the Tesla Cybertruck. It came out in 2023.

Musk predicted they would sell 250,000 to 500,000 Cybertrucks. In 2024, Tesla sold around 40,000; in 2025, around 20,000. I wonder why vehicles that are expensive, won’t go very far on a charge, are ugly, and take much longer to charge, would have trouble selling.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Ottawa promises Canadian-made flags for Canada Day after years of foreign souvenirs

The federal government says this year’s Canada Day celebrations will feature Canadian-made paper flags after years of criticism over departments purchasing patriotic items from overseas suppliers.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the Department of Canadian Heritage confirmed it is seeking up to 1.5 million hand-held paper flags manufactured in Canada as part of the federal Buy Canadian policy.

(Incognito)

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

Ukraine’s allies are falling away

As Ukraine emerges battered but unbowed from the third and most terrible winter of the war against Russia, its people have proved that they can survive and fight on even as Vladimir Putin’s troops destroy swathes of their country’s heating, transport and electricity infrastructure. But one thing that Ukraine cannot survive without is money – and that, the European Union seems critically unable to provide.

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