FIRST READING: Canada’s rapidly fraying social cohesion

Polls are beginning to show signs that Canadians are breaking with their traditional reputation for tolerant social cohesion.

In just the last few months, there’s been a significant breakdown in the numbers of Canadians viewing immigration as an automatic good. At the same time, tensions between Canada’s various demographics are on the upswing – most notably when it comes to Canadian Muslims.

For decades, immigration polls have typically showed that the average Canadian is skeptical about increasing immigration levels, and worried that newcomers aren’t integrating. But these fears were usually checked by an overall acceptance that immigration was a net good for the country.

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

State-backed plans to bring about an EV revolution are backfiring

Why big fleet buyers are going into reverse on electric cars

Three years ago, London’s biggest taxi company reached a fork in the road.

Regulations announced by Transport for London meant all private hire vehicles registered in the capital would have to meet tougher green emission standards by 2023.

For Addison Lee chief executive Liam Griffin, it meant a choice: invest in plug-in hybrid cars, or “go full electric” and stump up millions for a new fleet of electric cars.

5 Year plans didn’t work well in the Soviet Union either.

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

We Are at War With Iran’s Mullahs

Someone should tell Joe Biden.

Each morning for the last several days I’ve turned first for news concerning the two SEALs lost at sea off the coast of Somalia, hoping—by this moment, hoping against all hope—that they will somehow be found alive. I’ve been privileged over the years to know and work with a few members of this very small and very special community. I use the word “community” advisedly. It’s a term they often use to describe themselves, and, when one listens to them talk about each other, it seems exactly right—they are a true community, one built on shared values, shared experience, shared commitment to excellence. Surely, they are already hurting deeply as they contemplate the fate of their fellow SEALs. Surely, too, they are wishing that those responsible are held to account. For these are not simply the victims of an unfortunate accident—they are the casualties of war.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA

Portland’s Encampment Kids

I’m standing outside the Central Police Precinct in downtown Portland, Oregon. Officer Eli Arnold and I have bicycled over to meet two of his colleagues, returned from a drug bust. We examine the proceeds of the crime on the hood of a squad car. The officers weigh the fentanyl powder on a small scale, record the amounts, and take out a few bags of pills to show me. A pill falls to the ground; one of the officers rushes to return it to the bag.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Drug Legalization, Drugs

Biden Threatens Netanyahu’s Drive to Destroy Hamas

The deepening antipathy of the Biden administration toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening to derail Israel’s military offensive to destroy Hamas.

With every day that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) maintain their military effort to end the threat to Israeli security posed by Hamas’s presence in Gaza, more details emerge of the staggering underground terrorist infrastructure the Iranian-backed group has constructed in Gaza.

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

Ottawa is putting all our eggs in an EV battery basket

Ever since the federal government signalled an open bar for subsidies for the electric vehicle industry, the list of companies wanting to set up shop in this country in exchange for taxpayer cash just keeps growing. We learned recently that both Honda and Toyota have added their names to it. If the past is any guide, there’s a good chance Ottawa will give each of them a wad of Canadian taxpayers’ money.

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

Liberals announce national summit to tackle surge in auto-thefts

MONTREAL — The federal government will convene a national summit to tackle auto theft in Canada, after a surge in stolen vehicles in Toronto and much of the country sparked concerns the problem is funding organized crime abroad.

Arriving at a downtown Montreal hotel for two days of meetings with the federal Liberal cabinet, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said on Sunday evening that he wants national, provincial and municipal governments and police forces to attend the summit, which is set for Feb. 8 in Ottawa.

Once they find out that Canada’s car theft rings are primarily racialized “minorities” the Liberals will Deep Six the inquiry.

11 charged after 52 stolen vehicles worth $3.2M recovered: York cops

CHARGE LIST

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime

WEF Member Demands ‘Global Carbon Taxes’ to Force Climate ‘Transition’

During the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual summit in Switzerland, one of the unelected organization’s most powerful members called for nations to enforce “carbon taxes” on a global level to force the public to “transition” into the globalist climate agenda.

During a panel discussion at the Davos event, Saudi Arabia’s Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan laid out plans for introducing a ” globally coordinated system of carbon taxes.”

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

‘No government could afford it’: Why a newly proposed guaranteed basic income is likely doomed

OTTAWA – The controversial idea of a guaranteed basic income, which could cost tens of billions each year, might be making its way to the House of Commons this spring.

But the chances of a guaranteed income becoming actual policy are “very close to zero,” said Kevin Milligan, an economics professor at the University of British Columbia who specializes in government social spending.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"The Big Lie"

Hamas Leader: We Reject a Two State Solution. We Demand It All.

Consider this the one point of agreement between Israel and the terror network that has conducted war against it for nearly 20 years. Although perhaps there could be another point of agreement now as well — that October 7 changed everything. For Israel, it finally woke them from their fantasy that Hamas would turn into a governing entity rather than a genocidal terrorist network.

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

Jamie Sarkonak: ‘Trans-affirming toolkit’ tells teachers to put ideology above biology

Wall of Transgender Heroines

Schools are a provincial matter, but that doesn’t mean the federal government won’t stick its fingers in where it can to drive a social agenda in the classroom. The latest instance? A new, federally-funded, “Trans-Affirming Toolkit” for teachers loaded with poor scholarship and ideological preaching.

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