What happens if — or when — Mark Carney and the Liberals get to a majority?

If or when Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals succeed in cobbling together a majority in the House of Commons, it will surely be one of the most unique majorities in Canadian political history — cobbled together from 166 MPs elected as Liberals last spring, at least four floor-crossers and perhaps two or three byelection victories.

Those four party-switchers are remarkable enough. But they have now come from two different parties — the Conservatives and the NDP — that are, for the most part, diametrically opposed. Until today, it might have been hard to imagine that Matt Jeneroux, elected four times as a Conservative in Edmonton, and Lori Idlout, elected twice as the NDP MP for Nunavut, could sit in the same party caucus.

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

Iran’s new impotent supreme leader releases first statement — after reports emerge he is in coma, had leg amputated

Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, released his first statement Thursday — after reports circulated that he was in a coma and had his leg amputated after being severely injured in the US-Israeli strikes that killed his father.

The message was read out on Iranian state TV by an anchor as an image of Khameni was displayed.

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

CHARLEBOIS: The rise of the pyjamas economy and what that means

If you spend enough time in a grocery store these days, you will notice something that would have been unusual not long ago: Shoppers pushing carts in pyjama pants.

What once felt like a social faux pas is quietly becoming normal. Pyjama bottoms, flannel lounge pants and slippers have become part of what could be called the new “errand uniform.” And while it may seem trivial, consumer behaviour — even clothing choices — often reveals deeper economic shifts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

It’s over for Western civilisation if Trump makes the wrong choice now

It’s double or quits for the civilised world, for the cause of human flourishing, freedom and democracy. Either Donald Trump holds his nerve, crushes the Iranian regime, rides out the oil shock and reopens the Strait of Hormuz, or he and America are finished, exposed as unserious, fickle and incapable of forward planning, a superpower manquée felled by drone-wielding barbarians.

The challenge is Trump’s character, his willingness to accept short-term economic and electoral pain, not America or Israel’s exceptional military capacities. Does the US president, a hawk on Iran for 47 years, have it in him to finish the job, going down in history as the saviour of civilisation from nuclear Islamism, or is he merely the unidimensional man child his critics believe him to be?

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

Bob Gale resigns as chair of Niagara Region amid allegations over copy of Hitler’s book

Bob Gale has resigned as chair of the Regional Municipality of Niagara amid calls for an apology from local anti-racism groups that claim he owns a copy of Adolf Hitler’s book.

Gale submitted on Wednesday a letter to Rob Flock, the Ontario minister of municipal affairs and housing, stating that his resignation was effective immediately.

“Today, a member of the communist party circulated a dated document that listed my name as the owner of a historical book found in many libraries,” Gale wrote in his letter to Flack.

Earlier Wednesday, the Niagara Region Anti-Racism Association and the Justice 4 Black Lives Niagara issued a joint release alleging that Gale purchased and owned a copy of “Mein Kampf,” Hitler’s political manifesto, signed by the Nazi leader.

It’s an historic document. The latter day Nazi Karens would burn all of us at the stake on the flimsiest of pretexts.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "Peak Woke", WTF?

Report: Rising Islamist and Antisemitic Attitudes Among Young Muslims in Germany

Islam does not belong in Germany

Concern has increased about radicalization among Muslims in Germany—particularly within the younger generation—following the publication of research funded by three federal ministries.

The MOTRA network—which has been monitoring extremism and radicalization processes since 2019—released its 2024/2025 monitor, which spans nearly 600 pages. The report indicates that younger Muslims appear more susceptible to Islamist and antisemitic attitudes than older generations.

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

Just over half of Americans say they don’t want tariffs on Canada: poll

As U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war against Canada stretches into its second year, more than half of Americans said in an Angus Reid survey that they don’t want any tariffs on Canada, with the majority viewing their northern neighbour positively.

With the Canada-U.S.-Mexico (CUSMA) free trade agreement up for renegotiation this year, 51 per cent of U.S. respondents told the survey that if they had their way, there would be no tariffs on Canada at all.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Surrounded by enemies, can the Iran regime survive Trump’s war?

The US president’s allies fear he may pull out of the region and leave people to face the aftermath. How will the new ayatollah fare?

When George W Bush prematurely announced an end to the Iraq war in 2003, he was wearing a pilot’s uniform and strutting aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln under banners announcing “mission accomplished”.

It was a less grandiose affair when President Trump declared victory over Iran in his first press conference since launching the joint US-Israeli attacks on February 28. In a ballroom at his golf resort in Florida, he spoke conversationally, but to similar effect.

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

Derek Finkle: This injection site was shut down. What followed proved activists wrong

Last week, CTV News published an article with a headline harm reduction activists across the country pounced on: “Drug overdoses in Toronto up nearly 50 per cent since last January, city data shows.”

The party to blame in their view, of course, is the Ontario government because it closed injection sites within 250 metres of schools and daycares a year ago. But if you look at the data the story was based on, the activists’ I-told-you-so’s are wildly off the mark.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDrug Legalization, Drugs