Trudeau and Ford double down on wasteful corporate welfare with yet another EV deal

The saga of Bombardier, once a symbol of Canadian pride, is a sobering one. Joseph-Armand Bombardier, who founded the company in 1942, was a great Canadian inventor and entrepreneur. But over time, the company that bears his name morphed into the poster child for corporate welfare in Canada, becoming utterly dependent on using its outsized political clout to browbeat successive governments into funneling them perpetual taxpayer largesse. The results have cost Canadians more than $4 billion in direct costs alone; distorted and disfigured our economy at the expense of other sectors not so favoured; and sowed unhelpful regional divisions to boot.

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

White House: There Are ‘Too Many Civilian Casualties‘ in Israel‘s War, ‘The Number Needs to Be Zero‘

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby stated that Hamas doesn’t care about the Palestinian people and if they did, “they’d lay down their arms, they’d step aside, they’d release those hostages,” but they’ve refused hostage release offers. Kirby also stated that there have been too many civilians killed in Gaza and the number of civilian casualties “needs to be zero.”

If I didn’t know better I’d say there was an election pending.

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

Months after they were promised, Ottawa still hasn’t imposed sanctions on violent Israeli settlers

The Government of Canada has announced multiple rounds of sanctions against various parties in the Middle East since October 7. On Friday, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly announced sanctions against Iran’s minister of defence and its general staff.

On February 3, she announced that Canada would impose sanctions on both leaders of Hamas involved in the October 7 massacre and extremist Israeli settlers involved in violent attacks on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.

But there’s an important difference between the sanctions announced against Palestinians and Iranians and the ones announced against Israelis — the ones against Israelis have not been gazetted and therefore never took effect.

Joly’s appointment is an embarrassment to all sides in the current conflict.

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

Don’t buy the left’s gaslighting — ‘outside agitators’ aren’t behind campus antisemitism

Far-left and pro-Palestine extremists mobilized at Columbia University last week for an occupation that’s shut down campus.

Promoters of revolutionary “direct action” chanted explicitly in support of Hamas and urged the Palestinian Islamist terror group to “Burn Tel Aviv to the ground.”

Over the weekend, a group of pro-Israel counterprotesters were met by a keffiyeh-wearing woman who held up a sign and arrow declaring: “Al-Qasam’s next targets.”

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

Many Canadians have heard enough from Justin Trudeau, but for a few dumb Americans it’s a different story

Many Canadians have heard enough from Justin Trudeau, but Americans are a different story

Talking to Americans got a lot of laughs when comedian Rick Mercer was doing his TV shows two decades ago. For Justin Trudeau right now, talking to Americans is part of a serious communication strategy, aimed at putting the Canadian prime minister in front of wider audiences.

Trudeau has been doing a flurry of podcasts in recent days, two of them based in the United States: one for the Freakonomics series, another for the Vox news program, Today, Explained. One of my colleagues joked this week that this is the Liberal reply to Pierre Poilievre’s fondness for slogans: when the Conservative leader goes short and snappy, Trudeau goes long form.

Talking to Americans to win Canadian hearts and minds says even your bought media is tired of the charade.

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

Charge dropped for man accused of flying Muslim ‘terrorist flag’

A charge against a Toronto man accused of flying what police called a “terrorist flag” at a pro-Palestinian demonstration earlier this year has been withdrawn.

A 41-year-old man was charged with publicly inciting hatred after marching down Queen Street W. and Bay Street on Jan. 7, allegedly waving the flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

The organization is listed as a terrorist group by Public Safety Canada, which says it seeks “the destruction of the State of Israel and the establishment of a communist government in Palestine.”

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

Ontario NDP will defy Hamas rag ban if Ford doesn’t step in: Stiles

Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles has given Premier Doug Ford a deadline to step in and reverse the ban on the wearing of keffiyehs at the provincial legislature or else she says the NDP will defy the ban.

In a video posted on X, formerly Twitter, Stiles said Ford has until May 6 to reverse the ban. That date is when the legislature is scheduled to resume sitting.

“We’ve been working to reverse the keffiyeh ban inside the walls of Queen’s Park, but Doug Ford’s MPPs keep blocking us,” Stiles said in the video posted on Friday. “So we decided to give the government until May 6 to reverse this unjust rule or expect us and the community to defy the ban.”

h/t Ontario John

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

Gang of women weep in court after kidnapping and beating innocent stranger

Two women who kidnapped an innocent victim before driving her to a secluded area and beating her have been jailed.

Bitterly jealous Nadia Gubran, 21, plotted to kidnap a nursery nurse after she suspected she had been exchanging Snapchat messages with a man she herself was interested in.

Gubran recruited best friend Alya Dahshan, 21, and Layla Obad, 20, to carry out the ambush at around 6pm on March 21 last year.

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

French police slice migrant boat with knife and use pepper spray to thwart crossing

French police have used a knife to puncture an inflatable boat as it prepared to leave Dunkirk with dozens of migrants across the Channel to Britain.

One officer was photographed brandishing a knife, after slicing the boat to prevent the group of people from leaving.

The attempted crossing was thwarted at the beach of Graveline, near Dunkirk in northern France on Friday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, France

‘It’s clear’ Mark Carney wants Trudeau’s job and should appear at Commons committee: Conservatives

OTTAWA — Conservatives are hoping to grill former central banker Mark Carney during a House of Commons committee meeting on the carbon tax and affordability, arguing that he may be a future contender for leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Even though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has repeatedly said he is staying on as leader of his party, the ongoing speculation about Carney’s political prospects has only intensified in recent months, and more so after he delivered a speech Monday evening during which he criticized the federal budget.

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

“My Europe Builds Walls”: Sweden Dems Unveil EP Election Campaign Message

The leader of the conservative, sovereigntist Sweden Democrats presented the party’s central European campaign message on Thursday, ahead of EU elections in June that will determine the bloc’s fate over the next five years and beyond.

Like other parties in the European Conservatives & Reformists (ECR) and Identity and Democracy (ID) groupings, the Sweden Democrats have placed the need to stop mass migration at the top of their campaign priorities. They poll presently in second place, with 21% of the projected national vote.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Sweden

B.C. backs off drug decriminalization pilot project following outcry

B.C. has banned all illicit drug use – except inside people’s homes, drug-checking sites or supervised consumption sites – rolling back its decriminalization pilot project after significant criticism from mayors, provincial and federal conservative politicians as well as a recent outcry from health care workers put at risk by patients using drugs in hospitals.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDrug Legalization, Drugs