Toronto can get much shittier, count on it

Video of police taking down person who stole their bike has people worrying about Toronto

It could be the cost of living and housing crisis, the lack of mental health care (or any healthcare), the side effects of months of lockdown, or the compounded weight of a number of pressing issues in Toronto, but people in the city do not seem okay lately — like, even less okay than usual.

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

Certificate to own car in Singapore rockets to $106,000

To own a car in Singapore, a buyer must bid for a certificate that now costs more than $106,000 (S$145,000), equivalent to four Toyota Camry Hybrids in the US, as a post-pandemic recovery has driven up the cost of the country’s vehicle quota system to all-time highs.

Singapore has a 10-year “certificate of entitlement” (COE) system, introduced in 1990, to control the number of vehicles in the small city-state, which is home to 5.9 million people and can be driven across in less than an hour.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

John Tory broke ethic rules over relationship with Bimbo & 2026 World Cup vote: report

Former Toronto mayor John Tory broke city council’s code of conduct when he had a relationship with a woman that started when she was a junior subordinate in his office, the integrity commissioner has found.

In a report released Thursday, Jonathan Batty finds that Tory, who resigned in February after the Star revealed his relationship with the young woman, breached two articles of the code of conduct.

Tory “failed to observe the terms of the Human Resources Management and Ethical Framework” for council members staff, Batty found in a 122-page report.

That world cup scam should be trashed. It was a bad deal for the city which leaves tax payers on the hook for for any losses incurred by the Bimbo’s employer MLSE.

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

Donald Trump Followers Targeted by FBI as 2024 Election Nears

The federal government believes that the threat of violence and major civil disturbances around the 2024 U.S. presidential election is so great that it has quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump’s army of MAGA followers.

The challenge for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the primary federal agency charged with law enforcement, is to pursue and prevent what it calls domestic terrorism without direct reference to political parties or affiliations—even though the vast majority of its current “anti-government” investigations are of Trump supporters, according to classified data obtained by Newsweek.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome, USA, WTF?

Trudeau lied about how much Montana holiday cost taxpayers

Trudeau’s Montana holiday cost taxpayers much more than reported

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Easter weekend vacation in Montana cost taxpayers nearly a quarter of a million dollars, CBC News has learned — far more than the sum reported to Parliament.

The price tag for the April 6-10 trip comes to more than $228,839 once the costs carried by the Canadian Armed Forces, the Privy Council Office and the RCMP are included.

That sum does not include the regular salaries of the RCMP officers tasked with protecting the prime minister, the Royal Canadian Air Force aircrew or the Privy Council official who normally accompanies the prime minister with the equipment needed to communicate securely.

Junior is a compulsive liar.

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

Leftist MEPs Ridicule Migrant Gang Victims in Parliament

The European Parliament’s leftist majority continued to downplay the security risks brought by the mass influx of illegal migration during Wednesday’s key plenary debate on the Migration Pact in Strasbourg (October 4th), with some going as far as laughing when conservatives presented Europe’s worsening crime statistics.

Reaching an agreement on the EU’s flagship Asylum and Migration Pact is without doubt currently the highest priority on Brussels’ agenda as all institutions are racing to get it done in the next few months or risk losing grip of it altogether amid next year’s European elections.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints

‘It’s a new party’: How Conservatives try to rebuild trust among Muslim communities

OTTAWA – When Pierre Poilievre pitches the Conservative party to Muslim Canadians, he talks about “faith, family and freedom.”

For months he has been pointing out what he sees as their overlapping values during visits to mosques, at community celebrations, with businesses and in conversations with ethnic media outlets.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Conservative Party

Sam Bankman-Fried: FTX crypto empire ‘built on lies’ – prosecutors

Former crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has appeared in a New York court to answer to charges that his bankrupted financial empire was “built on lies”.

Prosecutors told the court on Wednesday that the former FTX boss stole billions from clients and investors to “commit fraud on a massive scale”.

His lawyers deny all charges, saying the so-called “crypto king” is a “math nerd” who was acting in “good faith”.

The blockbuster trial is expected to last about six weeks.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency"

Indigenous women, girls killed at rate six times higher than non-Indigenous: StatCan

OTTAWA – A new Statistics Canada report says homicides of Indigenous women and girls are less likely to result in the most serious murder charges than cases in which victims were non-Indigenous.

More than half of cases involving non-Indigenous women and girls between 2009 and 2021 resulted in charges of first-degree murder, but the offences of second-degree murder and manslaughter were more common when the victim was Indigenous.

StatCan says during that time period, Indigenous women and girls were killed at a rate six times higher than that of women and girls who were not Indigenous.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues

Rev. Calvin Robinson wins settlement after he was ‘canceled’ for opposing drag queen story hour

Rev. Calvin Robinson has won an out of court settlement after being cancelled by the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) for opposing ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ for children.

After critiquing Drag Queen Story Time on his GB News show and on Twitter, Calvin was terminated from his role on RAD’s education sub-committee.

Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, Calvin made legal claims of harassment, direct and indirect discrimination on the grounds of his Christian beliefs. He was awarded £8,000 [$9724 US] after the RAD settled the matter rather than face scrutiny in court.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

Rideau Hall apologizes for honouring Nazi veteran with Order of Canada in 1987

OTTAWA – Rideau Hall says it deeply regrets that a man who fought for a Nazi unit in the Second World War was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1987.

Peter Savaryn was chancellor of the University of Alberta and leader of the World Congress of Free Ukrainians, according to his Order of Canada biography.

He also fought for the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, a voluntary unit created by the Nazis to help fight off the Soviet Union.

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

The Iranian influence campaign went further than many realize

The evidence that Iranian officials ran an influence operation that penetrated the State and Defense departments is damning. Not only did Iranian American academics and think tankers meet with Iranian officials, but leaked emails suggest they also took direction from them. Not only financial gain motivates espionage; ideological solidarity motivated some of the most damaging spies in American history.

While the Biden administration seeks to downplay the scandal, more than 30 senators now demand the Pentagon suspend and review the security clearance of Ariane Tabatabai, one of the members of the so-called Iran Experts Initiative, now in a sensitive Pentagon position.

You can’t help but wonder how complicit Ottawa is in this.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA