Poll finds more than half of Canadians want fewer immigrants than Ottawa’s target

More than half of Canadians want the federal government to accept fewer immigrants than it is planning for in 2023, a new poll shows – a rise from one in three in March.

The poll also found that 55 per cent of Canadians want Canada to accept fewer international students than the 900,000 expected by the government this year.

A Nanos poll for The Globe and Mail found a rise of almost 20 percentage points in the past six months in the number of Canadians who think this country should accept fewer immigrants than Ottawa’s 2023 target of 465,000.

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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

Two million litres of red wine flood the streets of a village

It is enough to make a connoisseur weep – the sight of millions of litres of red wine flooding down the streets of a Portuguese village.

The freak occurrence took place when two huge wine tanks burst at a distillery in Sao Lourenco do Bairro in central Portugal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Feds Open to Revising Immigration Targets to Address Housing Challenges, Says Minister

Canada’s housing minister says the government is open to revising its immigration targets amid unprecedented strains on the country’s housing market.

One avenue to alleviate housing pressures could be through reducing the surging number of international student visas, said Sean Fraser, who previously served as immigration minister.

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

Spanish Security Company Recruiting Soldiers for Ukraine

Get your soldier certificate. Join Ukraine’s International Legion. Earn €3,400 a month.

So offers a private tactical and security training company in Spain.

According to Euronews, G.O.A. Tactical, based in Lleida, is recruiting soldiers for Ukraine.

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

Sask. premier accuses Trudeau of risking trade with India, hiding status of talks

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe’s government is accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of damaging relations with India and keeping the provinces in the dark about trade talks.

In a letter Moe released Monday, Saskatchewan Trade Minister Jeremy Harrison argues Trudeau is picking a fight with India for domestic political gain and risking access to one of his province’s most important export markets.

Harrison claims the province learned that Canada paused trade talks with India through media reports, and that Trade Minister Mary Ng had not replied to a late July letter seeking an update on the negotiations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, India, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

Ruby Franke and 8 passengers: The rise and fall of a parenting influencer

A woman who sprang to fame giving controversial parenting advice has been charged with six counts of child abuse. What happened to Ruby Franke and her family?

On a late August morning in Utah, a 12-year-old boy covered in open wounds knocked at the door of a neighbour’s house asking for food and water.

He had escaped a nearby home moments before, by climbing out a window and running away with duct tape still on his ankles, police say.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

RCMP boosts contract scrutiny following review of dealings with China-linked firm

RCMP boosts contract scrutiny following review of dealings with China-linked firm

OTTAWA – The RCMP says it is updating its procurement practices after an internal review of dealings with a company that has ties to China.

A standing offer with Sinclair Technologies to provide the RCMP with radio-frequency filtering equipment was suspended in December after media coverage focusing on national security implications.

Sinclair’s parent company, Norsat International, has been owned by Chinese telecommunications firm Hytera since 2017, and the Chinese government has a 10 per cent stake in Hytera through an investment fund.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRCMP, WTF?

The Government Censored Me and Other Scientists. We Fought Back—and Won.

When I was four, my mother took her first flight and first trip out of her native India to the U.S. with me and my younger brother in tow. We were going to meet my father, an electrical engineer and rocket scientist by training, who had won the U.S. visa lottery in 1970. He had moved to New York a year earlier. By the time we arrived he was working at McDonald’s because engineering jobs had dried up during a recession.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", USA

A blunt and chilling (but accurate) appraisal of where our government schools are taking us

When I came across this X thread written by John Hayward of Breitbart (hat tip: Ace of Spades Headquarters), I was deeply impressed by its use of language and the scope of its overview.  Like many conservatives, I have come around to the view that the takeover of government schools by the revolutionary left is dooming out constitutional republic, unless parents rise up, their consciousness raised by the outrageous overreach underway and their view of the indoctrination underway during online classes for the lockdown, primarily but not exclusively related to indoctrination of pliable and confused children into life-altering steps toward transsexual status.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEducation

22 Years Later

The freedom that the 9/11 hijackers hated is slipping away from us with terrifying speed.

“Only days after 9/11, Norwegian author Gert Nygårdshaug sneered at the idea that there might soon be an attack on ‘Oslo or Rome or Copenhagen.’ He was far from alone in his mockery. Then came Madrid, London, Bali, Beslan, Mumbai….The Western European elite played down, even denied, any connection among these events. Yet year by year the truth has become increasingly clear: though the U.S. was the target on 9/11, the front line of the war with Islamism is Europe.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in9/11

Las Vegas is the future of the West

Neil Postman foresaw our trivial dystopia

Of the very few activities in my life that I count as being unambiguously improving, reading books and visiting authoritarian states probably score highest. Both are generally engaging, educational in some form or other, and force me to confront alternative visions of life. I feel much the same way, whenever I dip into Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), which explores how and why populations might realistically become oppressed or compliant.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Armageddon"

How social-justice activists revived anti-Semitism

In Western, leftish circles, Israel is now treated as a uniquely wicked nation. We’re told it is a racist, colonialist, ‘apartheid state’, despite ample evidence to the contrary. Social-justice activists treat this imperfect Middle Eastern democracy with infinitely more contempt than they do brutal dictatorships elsewhere in the region. Meanwhile, anti-Zionism has become all but indistinguishable from anti-Semitism, as ancient prejudices are expressed through a new woke language and cloaked in a phoney anti-imperialism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism and the Left

Demolition of Marilyn Monroe’s house halted after widespread outrage

The final home of Marilyn Monroe – and the only residence she ever owned independently – will remain standing for now after Los Angeles officials intervened to block the property’s demolition.

The news that the new owners of 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, where Monroe died at age 36, filed for demolition permits had attracted widespread outrage. Los Angeles city councilwoman Traci Park said she received hundreds of calls urging her to save the Spanish colonial-style house in the city’s Brentwood neighborhood.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood