It’s the end of personal privacy. ‘There’s nowhere to hide anymore’

By the time the Class of 2026 convenes this spring, the world will already know all sorts of personal details about these mostly 25-and-under university and college grads, things no one would have even thought to ask about the generations that preceded them.

Parents began trumpeting their arrivals on social media beginning in 2004, with baby steps and kindergarten performances chronicled on Facebook and, later, Instagram. Security cameras captured their first toddle into a grocery store. Today, they, and the rest of us, can be photographed and videoed without consent or even knowledge, from any one of the more than 12 million CCTV cameras or 30 million smartphones in use in Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Personal Privacy", "Surveillance Society"

London’s grooming gangs shame Sadiq Khan

In a now notorious exchange, London mayor Sadiq Khan said last year there was no ‘indication’ that grooming gangs – of the kind that have plagued towns such as Rotherham and Telford – exist in London. Evidence uncovered by the BBC last week has exposed the foolishness of this claim. It is now indisputable that vulnerable women and girls, some as young as 14, are being lured into a world of rape and exploitation by grooming gangs in London.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Muslim Rape Gangs, UK

Damien C. Kurek: The double standard surrounding PM Carney is impossible to ignore

I have a pretty high tolerance for political spin. You kind of have to when you’ve spent years in the House of Commons and on the ground here in Alberta. But a recent opinion column published right here on this platform claiming “moderates are fleeing” the Conservative Party crossed the line from standard spin straight into fiction.

It’s a perfect example of a double standard in our national media that’s getting harder and harder to ignore. As a western and rural Conservative, I’d be the first to suggest there’s always been a left-leaning bias in parts of the press. But since Mark Carney took over the Prime Minister’s Office? It’s on a whole different level. Every single day, it seems like many in media are simply a megaphone for Liberal insiders to vent their wishful thinking about their opponents. Meanwhile, the Carney government gets a near free pass on policies that are actively crushing a once prosperous middle class.

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

The mountain of evidence over weight-loss drug damage

THE UK’S drug regulator has warned doctors of the ‘small risk of severe acute pancreatitis’, a potentially fatal condition, in patients taking weight‑loss and diabetes drugs linked to around two deaths per week in the UK. Meanwhile, Novo Nordisk, maker of Ozempic, faces more than 1,800 lawsuits alleging the drug has caused not only acute pancreatitis but also stomach paralysis, vision loss, kidney injury, gallbladder disease and other permanent harms. If successful, the claims could cost the company up to $2billion.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Indigenous man who cleaned up after murder bragged Gladue ‘discount’ would half his sentence

An Indigenous man who bragged to an undercover cop about the Gladue “discount” that would cut his penalty in half for helping to clean up after a Calgary murder has been sentenced to 6.5 years in prison, even though the Crown was looking for as much as 10.

A jury convicted Jason Leo Tait of being an accessory after the fact to murder in the death of Keenan Crane. He was acquitted of manslaughter.

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

Afghan asylum seeker who sexually assaulted two women in their own homes while delivering their takeaways is jailed

Rapey The Deliveroo Driver

An asylum seeker who sexually assaulted two women at their homes while delivering their takeaways has been jailed.

Shafiullah Rasooli, an Afghan national, was charged with three counts of sexual assault and was convicted following a trial at Sevenoaks Magistrates’ Court.

The 29-year-old, who is based in Maidstone, Kent, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years imprisonment for ‘wickedly and unfathomably’ molesting his victims while reportedly illegally working for Deliveroo.

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

Canadian Liberals let in nearly 25k unvetted asylum seekers from world’s most dangerous countries: report

An insider report authored by a former director of policy at Immigration with the Canadian government has shown that, for nearly a decade, Canada let in 25,000 asylum seekers without any of them ever being properly vetted.

The report, by the Toronto-based C.D. Howe Institute, and authored by James Yousif, who is the former director of policy at Immigration, noted how the federal government “slashed all its usual controls to weed out fraudsters, human traffickers and terrorists” in letting these people into the nation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Mass Immigration Weaponized As Electoral Strategy", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

German Court Blocks Intelligence Agency From Branding AfD ‘Confirmed Extremist

A court in Cologne has dealt a significant blow to Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, ruling that it may not, for now, classify the opposition Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) as a “confirmed right-wing extremist” organisation.

In a decision published on Thursday, February 26th, the Administrative Court said that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) must await the outcome of the main legal proceedings before treating the party as “gesichert rechtsextremistisch”—a designation that would allow expanded surveillance powers and further embolden calls for a party ban.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Germany - AfD party

Sabrina Maddeaux: Canada didn’t become poorer than Alabama ‘out of nowhere’

Some Canadians clutched their pearls so hard they nearly shattered last week, after The Globe and Mail published a deep dive into how, as its online headline read, “Out of Nowhere, Canada Became Poorer Than Alabama.”

There was some debate about whether analyses showing that our GDP per capita had recently fallen behind Alabama’s is enough to declare us poorer (GDP per capita is a nation’s economic output divided by the population, and is used to determine a country’s standard of living). But the real source of righteous indignation was far more revealing: the idea that Canada’s moral and social standing is so superior that such data can’t possibly reflect reality and, even if it does, it doesn’t matter.

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

Is a North Dakota Judge About to Bankrupt Greenpeace?

In December, the environmental activist group Greenpeace tried to circumvent United States law by appealing to a Dutch court to overturn an American jury’s verdict. Greenpeace was ordered to pay $667 million to Energy Transfer, a pipeline company, after the group tried to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. A trial judge later reduced that amount to $345 million

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

State Typist Andrew Coyne Defends Liberal Party’s Extravagant Healthcare Coverage For Fraudulent Asylum Seekers

Smith and Poilievre find someone to blame for their problems: immigrants

Danielle Smith has a problem. Her government is heading toward a deficit projected, before Thursday’s budget, at $10-billion. This is only partly because it overestimated oil revenues, with oil prices now projected at roughly $5 to $10 a barrel lower than forecast in last year’s budget. It is because the government set spending at levels that could only be sustained so long as the oil boom continued. She needs something, or someone, to blame for her excess spending.

Pierre Poilievre, too, has a problem…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Why Iranians Have Unified Around Reza Pahlavi

On the morning of Oct. 31, 1978, Iran’s 19-year-old crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, stood beside President Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office. Officially, he was the heir to one of America’s closest allies in the Middle East. Unofficially, the Carter administration was already preparing for his father’s possible downfall.

Thousands of miles away, Iran was unraveling. Protesters flooded the streets, chanting “Death to the Shah!” Nationwide strikes shut down factories, schools, and oil fields, threatening vital Western interests. Before the cameras, Carter projected calm and reaffirmed the U.S.–Iran alliance. Behind the scenes, the White House was quietly planning for the collapse of the Pahlavi monarchy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Canada’s global performance rankings are in freefall

There is an ongoing debate over whether Canada is doing better economically than Alabama, based on their relative GDP per capita, with many on the Canadian Left arguing that our country’s economic performance and quality of life look much better when other factors are taken into account.

Unfortunately, this argument misses the mark. When we expand our comparisons beyond Alabama, it quickly becomes apparent that GDP per capita is, if anything, overstating the relative state of our economy and wellbeing relative to our global peers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?