Trudeau says he will testify with ‘enthusiasm’ if called as a witness at foreign interference inquiry

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday he will “willingly” testify before the public inquiry into foreign election interference if he’s asked.

“Willingly and with very much enthusiasm,” Trudeau told reporters at a news conference in Singapore.

“I think it’s important for Canadians to know exactly everything this government has been doing in regards to foreign interference and to talk frankly about the challenges that we continue to face in our democracies around the world.”

Just don’t ask him about China.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Ex-military general says Canada being destroyed by ‘woke movement’

Retired lieutenant general Michel Maisonneuve and his wife, Barbara, took the stage on Thursday at the Conservative Party convention, with the couple deriding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s so-called “woke agenda.”

“Our country has been led by a government that has been focused on virtue signalling,” Maisonneuve told the crowd in Quebec City. “Apologizing for who we are and how we came to be.”

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

Powerful quake in Morocco kills more than 800 people and damages historic buildings in Marrakech

MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night, killing more than 800 people and damaging buildings from villages in the Atlas Mountains to the historic city of Marrakech. The toll was expected to rise as rescuers struggled to reach the remote areas hit hardest.

People woken by the quake ran into the streets in terror and disbelief. State television showed people clustered in the streets of Marrakech late at night, afraid to go back inside buildings that might still be unstable.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You", Morocco

Head of CCP Department Now Designated a Spy Agency Met With Canadian Ministers in 2018

The former head of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) department responsible for engaging with foreign political parties met with multiple federal cabinet ministers and the national security adviser to the prime minister during a 2018 visit to Canada. This CCP department was recently designated an “intelligence service” by a German federal intelligence agency.

The International Department of the Central Committee of the CCP, also known as the International Liaison Department (ILD), operates “de facto as an intelligence service of the People’s Republic of China and is therefore part of the Chinese intelligence apparatus,” says a “Safety Notice for Politics and Administration” in German.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The Media Belatedly Discover Biden’s Age Problem

Democrats are now stuck with the declining president, but they didn’t have to be.

Last Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS might as well have been broadcast a year ago — a time when the press was still dedicated to debunking the notion that President Joe Biden was anything other than fit, cogent, and capable.

Why is it that no one brings up Donald Trump’s age as a demerit against his candidacy, Politico’s Kyle Cheney asked rhetorically. When pressed to answer his own question, he blamed the “years of concerted effort” by Republicans to inject into the public consciousness a narrative “weaponizing Biden’s age against him.” Though Cheney did allow that Trump has “a different demeanor” about him, the Atlantic’s Mark Leibovich went a step further in his condemnation of the GOP. “It’s not just making an issue of Biden’s age, it’s lying,” he added. “It’s saying he’s senile, saying he’s demented, saying he’s out of it.” “Right,” the magazine’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, concurred. “Mentally, he’s quite acute.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden"

UK Postpones Mass Surveillance Plan Until It’s “Technically Feasible”

The British government decided to leave out the so-called ‘spy clause’ from its upcoming Online Safety Bill at the last minute, but the decision’s only temporary until the technology behind scanning encrypted messages becomes accurate enough, The Register wrote on Thursday, September 7th.

“If the appropriate technology does not exist that meets [certain] requirements, then [the regulators] will not be able to use Clause 122 to require its use,” Stephen Parkinson, a Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport minister said in Westminster on Wednesday. “A notice can be issued only where technically feasible and where technology has been accredited as meeting minimum standards of accuracy.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

EV drivers have the sads because of no-amenity charging stations

I just returned from a half-day road trip. We tanked up twice and, both times, we headed for the building attached to the gas tanks. There, we had clean restrooms (complete with toilet paper) and, if we so desired, access to a bit of food and drink, too. Not great food and drink but, when you’re tired, hungry, and thirsty, good enough. All those things are lacking when you’re hanging out for an hour at a roadside charging station for your EV, and EV drivers are not happy. Heh.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

Canada’s Freedom Convoy truckers go on trial

This week, the trial of Canada’s two main leaders of the trucker protests began. The lead prosecutor has argued that Tamara Lich and Chris Barber “crossed the line” and “committed multiple crimes” while insisting that this trial will not be about the truckers’ political views. The pair face charges including mischief, counselling others to commit mischief, intimidation, and obstructing the police. They face a maximum of 10 years in prison should they be convicted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

Britain is turning into South Africa

From schools to prisons, our state is crumbling

I’ve always suspected that Europeans are incapable of understanding South Africa, the strange and complicated nation where I was born and often return. At bottom, the issue is this: how can people so accustomed to safety, stability and a well-functioning state really grasp the nature of a place where none of these things can be taken for granted?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

The Left’s Colonial Mission

On August 29, a CNN headline went viral: “Two men in Uganda are facing separate charges of ‘aggravated homosexuality,’ an offense punishable by death under the country’s controversial new anti-gay laws.” The clarifying community note attached to the tweet provided important context: “One man is accused of having a sexual relation with a disabled man, the other of a sexual act with a 12-year-old child. Both are charged with ‘aggravated homosexuality,’ defined as same-sex relations with someone who is HIV-positive, a child, an elderly person, or disabled.”

Consider the difference between the narrative provided by CNN and the reality behind the headline. Now consider the fact that the mainstream press has been doing this for years—and the impact that has had on the public perception of many issues. They’re doing this to us on purpose.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Gay

Today’s Shoplifters, Unlike Victor Hugo’s ‘Misérables,’ Are Stealing More Than Bread, as Theft Gets Decriminalized

Those who see low-dollar shoplifters as 21st-century Jean Valjeans should realize that theft is not necessarily a nonviolent crime and that low-value theft losses can inflict severe damage on those with modest incomes.

You could blame Victor Hugo. In 1846, the French novelist observed a young man being arrested for holding a loaf of bread he stole.

Deeply touched, he fashioned his novel “Les Misérables,” published in 1862, around the character Jean Valjean, who is imprisoned for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread and pursued relentlessly after his release by Inspector Javert.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Marine Le Pen’s niece turns rival in hard-right clash

Frail and fading in his suburban Paris home, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the 95-year-old patriarch of France’s hard right, could not have been cheered by the family news this week.

His granddaughter Marion Maréchal has returned to front-line politics and taken up arms against the party of his daughter Marine Le Pen at the head of a rival right-wing outfit in elections to the European parliament.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFrance

‘This is an existential battle’: Meet SAG-AFTRA’s chief negotiator, the most important Hollywood player at TIFF 2023

The most important Hollywood person at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend is not a director, actor, studio executive or high-powered agent: it is one unassuming labour expert who no one outside of the entertainment industry has likely ever heard of.

On Friday, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the national executive director and chief negotiator for the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) arrived at TIFF to participate in a live discussion about the strikes tearing the industry apart. His attendance puts a spotlight on not only critical issues affecting entertainment workers in the United States but also Canada – he’ll be staging a joint rally with members of the Alliance of Canadian Cinema Television Radio Artists (ACTRA) on Saturday in solidarity with that union’s 500-plus-day battle with the Institute of Canadian Agencies.

Not impressed frankly, I think the writers and actors have lost to the studios.

If it lasts till the new year bet on a deal little better than what they currently have.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood