Honda deal is good publicity for Liberals, but who will buy all those EVs?

The largest deal in Canadian history. That’s how Premier Doug Ford has described a recently inked agreement between Ontario, Ottawa and auto giant Honda, officially announced Thursday.

Under the terms of the agreement, Honda will pump billions into building an electric vehicle assembly plant. For the automaker, the plant would be the first of its kind in Ontario; for the province, the third after automakers Stellantis and Volkswagen inked similar agreements last year. In touting the virtues of the agreement with Honda, the Premier said, “everyone’s going to benefit.”

But that’s not true. Not everyone. The move saddles Canadians with a product for which enthusiasm is tepid at best.

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

We are the West’s last generation before the new Dark Age begins

There is no future for our civilisation if universities’ totalitarian indoctrination of the young continues

There is a fatal contradiction at the heart of Western societies, a nihilistic impulse, a pathological self-loathing that threatens to destroy our way of life. We live in the freest, wealthiest, healthiest, fairest and most technologically advanced polities in history, and yet millions of young people are being taught to hate the West, to despise the liberties that make their lifestyles possible, to tear down every institution and tradition.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "Diversity - Code for anti-White racism", "Identity Politics", "Islamophobia", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Multiculturalism - Code For Anti-White Racism"

Police arrest 108 at Emerson College as antiwar student protests spread

Confrontations between pro-Palestinian student protesters and police continued to spread at colleges across the country, with fresh arrests at Emerson College, the University of Southern California and the University of Texas at Austin, and reports of new encampments set up at Princeton University and Northwestern University.

In Boston, police moved to break up a protest led by Emerson College students outside the State Transportation Building, moving in on students who formed a human wall and raised umbrellas, according to video footage from the scene.

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

The Media Say Crime Is Going Down. Don’t Believe It

The decline in reported crimes is a function of less reporting, not less crime.

Americans think crime is on the rise, but the media keep telling them they’re wrong. A Gallup survey last year found that 92% of Republicans and 58% of Democrats thought crime was increasing. A February Rasmussen Reports survey found that 61% of likely voters say violent crime in the U.S. is getting worse, while only 13% think it’s getting better. Journalists purport to refute this by citing official crime statistics showing a downward trend.

Americans aren’t mistaken. News reports fail to take into account that many victims aren’t reporting crimes to the police, especially since the pandemic.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

MPP Sarah Jama asked to leave Ontario legislature for wearing a keffiyeh

Independent MPP Sarah Jama has been asked to leave the Ontario legislature for wearing a keffiyeh on Thursday.

Speaker of the House Ted Arnott banned the wearing of the traditional Palestinian scarves after he said it appeared to him the keffiyeh was being worn to make a political statement.

Jama, who represents Hamilton Centre, was asked to remove the keffiyeh, but refused. She was then asked to leave, however, remains in the chambers and has refused so far.

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

CUPE president silences members who call her out for wearing keffiyeh at union meeting

Some members of a Toronto-area public sector union say it has become an unsafe space for Jews after their union president wore a keffiyeh during a video meeting and then muted fellow union members who raised objections to her “political” attire.

The news comes as the Ontario legislature is embroiled in a fractious debate about whether the keffiyeh — a traditional scarf often worn by Palestinians — is acceptable clothing to wear within Queen’s Park.

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

Ukraine war: Kyiv uses longer-range US missiles for first time

Ukraine has begun using longer-range ballistic missiles against Russia that were secretly provided by the US, American officials have confirmed.

The weapons were sent as part of a previous US support package, and arrived this month. Officials said they were not announced publicly to maintain Ukraine’s “operational security”.

They have already been used at least once to strike Russian targets in occupied Crimea.

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

GOLDSTEIN: When it comes to Jew hatred, the Liberals are paralyzed

Today, a simple question for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Does he agree with his anti-Islamophobia adviser, Amira Elghawaby, that the only problem with what we’ll laughably call a “pro-Palestinian” demonstration in Ottawa last weekend was that, as she put it on ‘X’, “a few individual protesters engaged in problematic speech?”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Outrage as drag queen leads young kids in ‘Free Palestine’ chant: ‘Wrong on every level’

Drag Queens For Palestine – I wanna be there when Hamas tosses this guy off a roof.

Video of a drag queen in Massachusetts leading a group of young kids to chant “Free Palestine” has sparked fierce backlash — with some calling it “indoctrination” that is “wrong on every level.”

The encounter, which unfolded at a “Queer Storytime for Palestine” event organized by the Valley Families for Palestine group in Amherst last week, had gone viral by Thursday as outrage mounted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

With capital gains change, the Liberals grasp the tax reform nettle again

In the fall of 2021, the editors of the Canadian Tax Journal devoted several dozen pages to the “hotly debated” topic of capital gains.

On balance, the editors wrote, their selected contributors were in favour of raising the inclusion rate for capital gains — the share of an individual’s capital gains that are subject to income tax rates. But they acknowledged that putting such a change into practice would not be easy.

“Opposition to capital gains tax increases among affected taxpayers is apt to be vociferous,” Michael Smart and Sobia Hasan Jafry wrote in one of the featured papers, “precisely because such a reform would act like a lump ­sum tax that would be difficult or impossible for taxpayers to avoid in the long run by changing their behaviour.”

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