Pakistani refugee who returned to his homeland six times wins chance to keep Canadian status

A Federal Court judge set aside a ruling by Canada’s Refugee Protection Division (RPD), saying it failed “to engage with a critical piece of evidence” when it revoked a Pakistani man’s refugee status after he returned to the country on multiple occasions.

Irfan Ahmad arrived in Canada under the “convention refugee abroad” program in 2014, citing his status as a member of the Ahmadi community, a persecuted Muslim minority group in Pakistan.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Justice", Canada, WTF?

Pro-Palestine activist vandalises Winston Churchill statue with graffiti calling ex-PM a ‘zionist war criminal’

This is the moment a pro-Palestine activist is filmed defacing Sir Winston Churchill’s statue outside the Houses of Parliament in the early hours of Friday morning.

The monument was defaced shortly after 4am with slogans including ‘Zionist war criminal’, ‘Stop the Genocide’, ‘Never again is Now’ and ‘Globalise the Intifada’.

The Dutch phrase ‘groetjes uit den haag’, which translates to ‘Greetings from the Hague’, was also spray-painted on.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUncategorized

MACLEOD: If talking to the neighbours is ‘treason,’ the Canadian marriage is already over

Alberta is flirting with the Americans again. A few bold souls are down in DC, on their own dime, asking about diplomatic recognition and — bless their pragmatic hearts — a line of credit.

Predictably, the “Forever Canada, Elbows Up” crowd has dropped their avocado toast in horror, screaming “Treason!” with the kind of theatrics usually reserved for a Truckers convoy or a minor dip in Toronto real estate prices.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, USA

How the Ukraine war ends

Yesterday, Russia, Ukraine and the US met for yet another round of peace talks in Geneva. At around the same time, scores of missiles and hundreds of drones pummeled Ukrainian infrastructure, causing chaos across eight regions and injuring dozens of people. And, in a sense, both these events are connected: as the war in Eastern Europe enters its fifth year, a peaceful resolution seems no closer than it did a year ago, when Trump began his second term promising a swift end to the conflict. If anything, in fact, peace seems to be receding ever further from reach.

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

Canada’s housing market has frayed our social fabric. How did this happen?

If there’s one thing Canadians can reliably expect from our housing market as we approach the spring, it’s plenty of drama.

No matter which group the market ends up favouring – those in search of a home or those looking to offload one – the high costs and high stakes of Canadian real estate are guaranteed to stir up the kind of suspense typical of a bingeworthy TV show. By its very nature, our market-based housing system is adversarial. It pits buyers against sellers and renters against landlords in a battle for fairness and fortune. That our system produces winners and losers has become a perverse but accepted norm in our society; it’s just the way it works.

By virtually any other measure, however, it doesn’t work very well at all.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

A News Crew Visited Downtown Portland to See If Things Improved. Guess How That Turned Out.

The Left believes that any time President Trump criticizes or rightly attacks the media, it represents an abhorrent, unconstitutional breach of the First Amendment, and threatens the concept of a free press. That, of course, isn’t true. But we can’t help but notice that the Left is awfully silent on this actual attack on the press.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

Report Raises Serious Concerns About FBI’s Surveillance of Religious Organizations and Journalists

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Roughly translated, this means “Who guards the guardians?”

While many attribute the phrase to the Roman poet Juvenal, I first heard it in an episode of Justice League Unlimited, a kids’ cartoon about the adventures of Superman, Batman, and their assorted costumed friends. It’s an apt phrase for contextualizing the recent news concerning the FBI and its use of assessments to surveil and investigate Americans at whim.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFBI, USA, WTF?

The NDP hopes its revival will come through public grocery stores and zero votes in Quebec

The NDP should have a singular focus for the short- and medium-term: finding a way back to official party status. Everything else can come later. In fact, everything else will only come later if the NDP is once again a party with at least 12 seats in the House of Commons. That official party status will unlock desperately needed funds for a starving party: more than $1.1-million, for example, for a party leader’s office budget. There’s another million and change for research. Money for technology, printing and travel. Plus dedicated spots on parliamentary committees, and daily questions during Question Period. A political party needs those things to get its message out, to fundraise, and to grow.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", NDP

What Would the World Look Like Without Trump?

Donald Trump is everywhere; that’s true for his country and for the world. At home, Trump is engaged in an astonishing number of high-visibility battles with institutions once controlled by the progressive Left: the lower courts, the prestige universities, corporate media old and new, cultural gatekeepers like the Smithsonian Institution and Washington’s Kennedy Center, the governors and mayors of Democratic-run jurisdictions, and more. Beyond these shores, we find him bunker-bombing Iran, orchestrating peace between Israel and Hamas, inaugurating a shooting war on Mexican and Venezuelan drug cartels, forcing NATO allies to jack up their defense spending, and ripping apart the globalized economy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Shooter had second ChatGPT account, OpenAI reveals as it overhauls safety protocols

OTTAWA — OpenAI says it is taking “immediate actions” to overhaul safety protocols after it chose not to report a Canadian ChatGPT user that police say went on to kill eight people, including six at a secondary school.

On Thursday, the tech giant revealed that the perpetrator managed to create a second account after OpenAI shut down the first over problematic entries.

The company has since faced scrutiny for not reporting the account to police amid questions about its ability to track banned users.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting", Big Tranny

The Middle East: A Stack of Fake Narratives, An Attempted Fake ‘Palestinian State’ and the Real Threat to the West

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, when he liberated Europe’s concentration camps, insisted that journalists and photographers document the atrocities immediately, or, he predicted, the world would soon say they had never actually happened.

In a few years from now, the last survivors of the Holocaust will have disappeared, and the memory of what happened will fade even further.

The Holocaust was infinitely more than an attack on “dignity and human rights.” It was a unique crime: the attempt at the total extermination of an entire people by industrial means in supposedly civilized countries of the West.

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