Ottawa denies it told CBC to cut 3.3 per cent of its budget, as executives claimed

OTTAWA – The federal Liberal government is denying that it told CBC/Radio-Canada to cut its budget by 3.3 per cent, despite executives with the public broadcaster insisting that’s part of the reason they’re laying off 10 per cent of their workforce.

The Treasury Board, which oversees spending in the federal budget, said that no such directive was given to the public broadcaster.

“Whatever Radio-Canada and CBC is doing is their decision,” the office of the Treasury Board president, Anita Anand, told The Canadian Press on Wednesday.

I don’t believe a thing either side says.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, CBC

Alberta to Ban Medical Transition for Children

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her province will not permit medical transitioning or puberty blockers for children as part of newly announced policies.

“For minors aged 17 and under, top and bottom gender reassignment surgeries will not be permitted,” Ms. Smith said in a video posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Jan. 31.

She also said that those under 15 years of age will not be allowed to take puberty blockers or hormone therapies as part of gender reassignment therapy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

Designate UNRWA as a Terrorist Organization

Jihad textbook provided by UNRWA

Rather than ‘relief and works,’ what UNRWA provides is rabid antisemitic indoctrination, rockets, and jihadists.

It is mind-boggling to read in the New York Times this morning that the Biden State Department is assuring its fellow transnational progressives and Hamas pom-pom squads not to worry because only a tiny amount of American taxpayer funding for the Hamas branch known as the United Nations “Relief and Works” Agency for Palestinian “Refugees” (UNRWA — my sneer quotes) has been “paused” (more sneering).

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

Enough Is Enough: No Mo Bro-Fo Omar

Her latest comments make obvious she’s anti-American.

We’re now, as a country, presented with a question: At what point do we reclaim our status as a sovereign nation that takes itself seriously?

That question has been presented to us by categorically the most pristine kakistocrat in all of our governing class, this being Ilhan “Bro-Fo” Omar, the Somali Islamist Muslim, likely violator of our immigration laws, who serves as a member of the House of Representatives from a majority-white district of Minnesota and is now openly advocating for the United States government to become a vassal state of Somalia.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's 5th Column, Islamization of the West, USA

Nine ways Elon Musk’s brain implant could change the world

Would you let Elon Musk stick a microchip in your brain? On Sunday, the billionaire’s Neuralink start-up put its first human test subject under the knife. The anonymous patient had a tiny chip inserted under their skull, entwining the minute filaments from the processor into their brain.

Musk hopes the patient will now be able to send instructions to the implant using thoughts alone.

The chip, or “brain-computer interface”, which Neuralink began developing in 2016, promises to change the lives of people with disabilities that prevent them from moving or communicating.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Green Crime: An Electric Car, Wind and Solar Crime Wave

Biden’s Inflation Increase Act intends to spend $7.5 billion taxpayer money to build charging stations for electric car owners. Two years later, no EV chargers were built. And that’s good.

The modern sheen of the electric car is running into the medieval state of American cities.

Seattle began installing dozens of EV chargers only for thieves to show up and raid at least eight of the charging cables for copper requiring thousands of dollars worth of repairs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

The Normalization of Polyamory

“I have been covering the push for the normalization of polyamory for several years now, as human interest stories on formalized cheating came into vogue. In California during 2017, a ‘throuple’ of men first successfully petitioned a judge to put all three of them on the birth certificate of a little girl named Piper before authoring a book titled Three Dads and a Baby. Several U.S. cities, including Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts, have approved family benefits for polyamorous clusters over the past few years. These stories seemed to fizzle swiftly.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Canada used to punch above its weight, but our defence capacity now seems an impossible dream

Join CAF’s Tampon Brigade! Give the enemy “Bloody Hell!”

“To dream the impossible dream.” These words, sung by Don Quixote in Man of LaMancha, reflect a sentiment often felt about the state of Canada’s national security. For decades, our positions on foreign policy, defence and security could only be evaluated as weak. And this is not a partisan perspective: since at least the end of the Cold War, successive federal governments have done as little as possible in these policy areas. Why does a G7 country – one of the richest in the world – systematically prioritize these sectors below virtually all others? We continue to do this while Canada benefits from the international order, which is now clearly at risk.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

Ottawa to pour $100 million into Telefilm Canada over two years

OTTAWA – The federal government plans to pour $100 million into the film and TV industry.

Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge says the money will go to Telefilm Canada over two years.

… In a press release, St.-Onge says the funding will also lead to projects that connect Canadians, deepening the population’s shared cultural touchstones.

Shared what?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Trudeau lavishes $362.4 million on housing for benefit shopping illegal alien invaders and Chairman Chow lowers extortionate tax hike a whopping 1% to 9.5 per cent

January 31, 2024—Ottawa—With increasing global migration, Canada is experiencing a rise in the number of people claiming asylum. While housing and supports for asylum claimants are the responsibility of provinces and municipalities, the federal government recognizes the need for all orders of government to work together to address the rise in the number of people claiming asylum in Canada.

Today, the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, announced an additional $362.4 million in funding for the Interim Housing Assistance Program (IHAP) as part of the 2023–2024 fiscal year. Through the IHAP, the Government of Canada provides funding to provincial and municipal governments, on a cost-sharing basis, to address extraordinary interim housing pressures resulting from increased volumes of asylum claimants.

Chow lowers budget tax hike to 9.5 per cent

The Star has learned that Mayor Olivia Chow plans to boost Torontonians’ property tax by a total of 9.5 per cent — down from the 10.5-per-cent hike earlier recommended by city staff.

Chow will make the announcement Thursday morning in Scarborough while unveiling the rest of her version of the city’s 2024 budget that will go to city council on Feb. 14, according to a source briefed on the plan.

The mayor’s proposed tax hike — eight per cent plus the 1.5 per cent city building fund dedicated to transit and housing — would be the highest in modern Toronto history, but would remain below the psychological double-digit increase that caused some shock when city staff first proposed it on Jan. 10.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"extremists"