‘Outrageous’: Privately, Justin Trudeau’s Toronto MPs are furious at Olivia Chow over her property tax gambit

OTTAWA — A fault line between the Toronto mayor’s office and local Liberal MPs is opening up over a proposed increase to property taxes linked to a perceived shortfall in federal funding support.

Her office, in turn, is accusing Ottawa of dragging its feet when it comes to getting funds out the door and argue local MPs need to fight harder for their city.

At issue is the city’s forecast that the cost to house asylum-seekers will rise to at least $250 million in 2024 — and its request for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to pick up the tab.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

MSNBC Associate Producer Accuses IDF of Rape, Mutilation

An MSNBC producer called condemnation of Hamas’s violence against Israeli women “tone deaf” on Sunday and accused the IDF of perpetrating similar atrocities against Palestinians.

Nicole McReynolds, an associate video producer on Ali Velshi’s MSNBC show, scolded Big Time Rush singer James Maslow over an Instagram post that described Hamas’s murder, mutilation, and rape of Israeli women on October 7.

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

Houellebecq, Prophet of Post-Christian Europe

A video clip accompanied by the alarming claim “Conquered: French Christians Surrender!” has been making the rounds lately. The video is of an Arab Muslim chanting the adhaan, the Islamic call to prayer, inside a Paris church,

Well, not really. The ‘call to prayer’ in this case was part of a performance of “The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace,” a 1999 work of classical music by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins, who composed it in the wake of the Kosovo war. It combines elements of the Catholic Mass with the Islamic call to prayer, a secular poem, and a Hindu text.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

WEF convenes in Switzerland to address the ‘most severe global risk’ anticipated in the near future: brushfires of truth

“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”

Samuel Adams, a son of liberty in every sense of the word, would be proud—the Self-Imagined Elites currently circling the wagons in Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s annual summit meeting are panicked, thanks to the “irate, tireless minority” lighting brushfire after brushfire of truth (or what the WEF acolytes call “misinformation” and “disinformation”).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWEF

A 43% Drop in White Recruits Caused the Army’s ‘Recruitment Crisis’

The military recruitment crisis that has crippled our defense capabilities has been talked to death by generals, politicians and pundits who have blamed everything from rising minimum wages to obesity to Gen Z culture for the problem. They have raised enlistment bonuses to unprecedented levels, spent fortunes on ad campaigns that feature lesbian weddings and doubled down on DEI as the answer to the crisis. And yet the crisis has grown worse.

That’s because recruitment was a self-inflicted problem caused by a woke racist military.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

RFK Jr.’s popularity shows that Americans aren’t despairing (yet)

Amid the muck created by America’s two inadequate presidential frontrunners, green shoots are rising. They may not grow to maturity this year, but the basis for the emergence of better political choices already exists and is showing surprising life.

The majority of voters, particularly independents, do not want a Biden-Trump rematch. That’s no surprise, since three-quarters of the population think that Joe Biden is too old, with the vast majority considering him not mentally up to the job. For his part, Donald Trump has consistently failed to gain approval from more than 42% of the electorate. Astonishingly, the most favoured of all the candidates is neither one of these two, but instead independent candidate Robert Kennedy.

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Leaked German Defense Document Sketches out Russian War Scenario

A confidential document drawn up by the German Ministry of Defense (MoD) envisions how a possible escalation of the war in Ukraine could potentially develop. The hypothetical development involves Russia and NATO each gradually increasing troop build-up in eastern Europe until hundreds of thousands of troops face off against each other at the Suwałki Gap in June 2025—and leaves the outcome of the confrontation open.

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Blowout in the Hawkeye State: Trump Wins Iowa Caucuses in Landslide

Former President Donald Trump cruised to victory in the Iowa caucuses Monday, serving as a likely harbinger of what is to come in subsequent nominating contests.

CNN and the Associated Press called the caucuses for Trump just 30 minutes into the nominating process, with less than one percent of the vote reporting. The 45th president had garnered 64.5 percent of the vote, with one percent reporting as of 8:42 p.m., according to the New York Times’ election results. He was beating his nearest opponent, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), by roughly 40 percentage points.

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Liberals trying to play both sides in Gaza conflict

… But the Liberal Party since the days of Clifford Sifton in the 1890s has counted on immigrant voters for support. And between 2001 and 2021, the Muslim share of Canada’s population grew to 5 per cent from 2 per cent, even as the Jewish share of the population decreased slightly, to just below 1 per cent.

Mr. Trudeau’s promise during the 2015 election campaign to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada helped him win that election. Immigrant voters, many of them Muslim, in suburban ridings surrounding Toronto and Vancouver, helped the Liberals squeak through in the 2019 and 2021 elections. Now in the wake of the Hamas atrocities on Oct. 7 and the severity of Israel’s response in Gaza, the Liberal caucus is divided.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Rochdale grooming: authorities left girls ‘at the mercy of gangs’

Report finds Greater Manchester police and council failed vulnerable children — and 96 men still pose a risk to young girls

Girls in Rochdale were “left at the mercy” of Asian grooming gangs for years because of multiple failures by the authorities, a new report has said.

The 173-page independent report analysed child sexual exploitation in the area from 2004 to 2013, concluding there had been a “serious failure” to protect children by Greater Manchester police (GMP) and Rochdale council.

It identified at least 96 men who were still a risk to children but said it was “only a proportion” of the numbers involved in the abuse who have not been prosecuted.

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

WARMINGTON: Yorkdale may have looked like a Mall Cop movie set but this mayhem was real

The videos look like they are capturing something apocalyptic.

If you didn’t know better, you would swear they were doing a film shoot in Yorkdale mall on Saturday. There were police everywhere. And some had their big guns out.

This sort of enrichment has become common at Yorkdale and that’s bad for business so it’s no wonder this event is being downplayed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Canada needs to slow down population growth from immigration to improve living standards, say bank economists

Canada is caught in a “population trap” and needs to significantly rein in immigration to escape it, National Bank of Canada economists said on Monday, one of several such critiques to emerge from Bay Street in recent days.

In a report, National Bank economists Stéfane Marion and Alexandra Ducharme said that “staggering” population growth is stretching the country’s absorptive capacity, notably seen in residential construction that is nowhere near sufficient to house all those newcomers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class