Pierre Poilievre prepares to embrace the notwithstanding clause — and all its controversy

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre laid down a historic marker Tuesday with a promise to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield criminal justice reforms from being overturned in the courts.

Poilievre pledged to invoke the Charter’s Section 33 — something that has never been done at the federal level — to reverse a Supreme Court decision that criminals can’t be locked up more than 25 years before being eligible for parole.

After raising the idea while speaking to the Canadian Police Association on Monday , Poilievre told reporters on Tuesday that the promise would keep murderers like Alexandre Bissonnette, the gunman who killed six people in a Quebec City mosque in 2017, behind bars for life.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

NRCC drops off ‘F*** Hamas’ T-shirt at Tlaib’s office and sparks outrage

A spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee said it sparked outrage at Rep. Rashida Tlaib‘s (D-MI) congressional office when they dropped off a “F*** Hamas” T-shirt on Wednesday morning ahead of the vote on the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Act, a bill that supporters say help combat antisemitism on college campuses.

h/t XC

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

Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre are both playing a dangerous game

… Vox’s Zack Beauchamp, who deconstructed Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for American readers, comes to a less alarmist conclusion. Where Mr. Marche sees a threat to Canada’s “liberal and multicultural society,” Mr. Beauchamp cites Mr. Poilievre’s support for immigration as the clearest evidence distinguishing him from right-wing radicals elsewhere. “His populism is primarily rhetorical – rather than system-threatening – because the Canadian system for limiting extremism is still basically intact.”

Until this week, I might have agreed with that conclusion. Now, I’m not so sure. The events of the past few days do suggest that Canada has finally joined peer democracies in entering a postliberal age in which the left and the right no longer agree on even the basics of liberal democracy.

I agree with the Vox guy Poilievre is a status quo identity politics guy. That’s hardly dangerous.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada

Poilievre flirts with far right while media looks away says silly woman who went moist between the hams for Venezuelan dictator

A dozen years ago, Pierre Poilievre was a relatively obscure political figure who was mostly regarded — to the extent he was regarded at all — as a fiercely anti-labour guy on the far-right of the Harper cabinet.

But there he was in Parliament last February, voting in favour of pro-labour legislation banning scabs in federal workplaces.

Has he fundamentally changed his thinking — or was that simply part of his new, air-brushed “friend of the working man” look?

More on Linda and her fellow travelers: Venezuela’s collapse and the ‘useful idiots’ of the Canadian left

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"extremists", "far right", Canada, Conservative Party, The F$CKING Toronto Star, WTF?

Netflix Hates Funny

It platforms mediocrities and makes great comics boring.

Recently, in an article about the latest Netflix outing featuring the spectacularly unfunny comedienne Hannah Gadsby, I wrote the following: “The best 10 or 20 or 30 stand-ups in the English-speaking world could never get anywhere near the stage of a Netflix comedy special because, by definition, they use their wit to ridicule establishment orthodoxy, not affirm it.” I’m afraid that I now feel obliged to withdraw that remark, or — let’s put it this way — qualify it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

Crack Down on Anti-Semitic K–12 Curricula

It’s not just on campus: even in primary and secondary education, Jews are often portrayed as privileged whites and Zionist colonial oppressors.

Anti-Semitism is spreading in K–12 school districts. Even in primary and secondary education, Jews are often viewed as privileged whites and oppressors, with Israel branded as an egregious example of “settler colonialism” and oppression of “indigenous people.” “Liberated ethnic studies” curricula, like the one mandated by California, have created a distinct variant of critical theory aimed at Jews for being Zionist colonial oppressors.

I’ve read a number of articles on the topic of DEI and CRT in the classroom and also the wider world.

A few recognize that it is poison for everyone. But others seem fine with DEI so long as Jews are able to secure a safe space in the victimhood hierarchy.

Groups like the ADL of course are keen to grab a piece of that action leaving whites as the Eternal Oppressor.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", "Oct 7 2023"

“Shedding colonial habits” sounds like the old “Wasting tax payer money habit” but more expensive

What’s her name is retiring from politics so this must be her legacy we’re paying for.

Ottawa commits another $187M to ‘shed colonial habits’ and help more First Nations assume control of land

OTTAWA — The federal government has signed a five-year funding agreement worth more than $187 million to help more First Nations assume governance of reserve lands and their natural resources.

The memorandum of understanding signed Wednesday by Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu and Chief Robert Louie, chair of the Lands Advisory Board and Austin Bear, chair of the First Nations Land Management Resource Centre, will provide additional funding for First Nations land management across the country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues

What consequences could ICC warrant have for Netanyahu?

According to Israeli media outlets, the government in Tel Aviv has cast a cautious eye toward The Hague, Netherlands — home of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The government’s unease comes after recent reports that the court may issue warrants for the arrests of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Herzi Halevi, chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), before the end of the week.

Netanyahu commented on a possible arrest warrant on Friday, April 26, on the social media platform X, writing, “Under my leadership, Israel will never accept any attempt by the ICC to undermine its inherent right of self-defense.”

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

Will the West Get Ever Serious about Sanctions on Iran?

If attempts by Western leaders to impose further sanctions against Iran in retaliation for its direct attack against Israel are to have any validity, they will need to be a great deal more effective than those implemented in recent decades.

For decades, the US and its allies have been imposing sanctions against Tehran in an attempt to restrain its malign support for terror organisations, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

Maybe start with paint.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Pro-Hamas activist who spoke at Columbia despite being banned from Germany is New Jersey communist who led chants of ‘long live October 7’ after massacre of 1,700 Israelis

Samidoun Bitch Charlotte Kates

A pro-Hamas activist who spoke at Columbia despite being banned in Germany for supporting terror is a communist from New Jersey who openly supports the October 7 massacre of Israelis.

Charlotte Kates, a major figure in the pro-Palestine movement in colleges for over two decades, has been a constant presence at anti-Israel encampment at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

The New Jersey native is the international coordinator of Samidoun Prisoners Solidarity Network, a group with ties to the PFLP that is listed in Israel as a terror group and banned in Germany as such.

Update – Hate-Crime Probe: Vancouver Woman Arrested Over Speech That Praised Hamas Attack

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

Liberal MP won’t seek re-election, citing fears for her safety and disgust with toxicity in politics

OTTAWA — Describing how politics has grown so “toxic” and “hyperpartisan” that she is often afraid to appear in public, Liberal MP Pam Damoff says she will not seek re-election in her suburban riding west of Toronto.

Damoff, the three-term MP for Oakville—North Burlington who was first elected in 2015, told her Liberal colleagues about her decision Wednesday at the party’s caucus meeting on Parliament Hill.

Her leader is largely responsible for this state of affairs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Terrified kids flee as trans sex offender allegedly tries to grab one of them from school grounds

Disturbing video captures the moment screaming kids run in terror as a transgender sex offender allegedly tried to snatch one of them from their Colorado elementary school.

The surveillance footage leading to the arrest of Solomon Galligan, 33, was first shown Monday to families of the children involved in the scary ordeal at Black Forest Hills Elementary School in Aurora last Friday, according to CBS Colorado.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"They really do want your children", WTF?