GREEN: Trudeau government’s anti-plastic crusade enters dangerous territory

Having banned some single-use plastics of convenience (straws, cutlery, etc.), the Trudeau government has turned its sights on plastics of necessity, including plastic films to keep foods isolated from contamination, protect them from pests and destructive oxidation, and help keep them cold, which is critical to preventing microbial contamination and spoilage.

This is a major turning point in the Trudeau government’s war on plastics, which incidentally fails on economic and environmental grounds. Even if its “Zero Plastic Waste by 2030” program was to work, it would prevent a paltry increase from 0.02-0.03% to 0.023-0.033% of global plastic pollution, an undetectable reduction of three-thousandths of 1% by the government’s own admission.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

‘Alien hunter’ claims to have found material from outside solar system

Professor Avi Loeb says unusual meteoroid, named IM1, left interstellar metals in the Pacific Ocean

A controversial Harvard astrophysicist claims to have found material that “originated from outside the solar system” for the first time in history.

Professor Avi Loeb recovered fragments from the Pacific Ocean in June to determine whether they could prove an extraterrestrial artefact crashed there in 2014.

He has now provoked condemnation from peers for claiming that an early analysis suggests the deep sea discovery may have an “extraterrestrial” origin and could be proof of higher intelligence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

Canadian universities don’t want a cap on international students. Here’s why

Amid talk of a cap on international students due to the housing crisis, Universities Canada says there’s no need for any such limit.

Canada currently has 800,000 student permit holders and several federal ministers have hinted that the number be capped in the future to ease housing demand.

They love the money foreign students bring, pays for all those fat salaries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money"

Pope Francis urges young Russians to look to the tsars

Off the cuff comments by Pope Francis lauding Russia’s former status as a “great imperial power” have drawn condemnation from Kyiv, elicited praise from Moscow and prompted the Vatican to deny that Francis supports the invasion of Ukraine.

During a live video address on Friday to young Catholics meeting in St Petersburg, Francis delivered a prepared speech in which he encouraged his audience to be “artisans of peace”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPope Francis

B.C. sets new record with 1,455 drug deaths in 1st 7 months of 2023

Another 198 British Columbians died from toxic drugs in July, according to data released Tuesday by the B.C. Coroners Service, bringing the death toll in the first seven months of the year to 1,455.

The coroners service said the 1,455 deaths from January to July are the most ever reported in the first seven months of the year since a public health emergency over drug poisoning deaths in the province was declared in 2016.

“I am saddened to once again report that British Columbia’s toxic drug crisis shows no signs of abating,” said Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe in a statement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDrug Legalization, Drugs

TV news crew reporting on Chicago robberies robbed at gunpoint

A Chicago television news crew reporting on a string of robberies ended up robbed themselves after they were accosted at gunpoint by three armed men wearing ski masks.

The Spanish-language station Univision Chicago said a reporter and photographer were filming just before 5am Monday in the city’s West Town neighborhood when three masked men brandishing firearms robbed them, taking their television camera and other items.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

An international strategist says Canada is sitting on the largest housing bubble of all time — is he right?

Canada could be sitting on the biggest housing bubble of all time, a strategist says, and once it bursts the nation could be propelled into a deeper recession than economists have originally forecast.

Phillip Colmar, managing partner and global strategist at research firm MRB Partners — which has offices in Montreal, New York, and London, U.K. — has analyzed housing bubbles across the globe and flagged Canada as potentially having the most concerning one.

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

WHO Dat?

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWHO

Fugitive drug lord ‘Taliban’ who stole cartel’s 450lb cocaine shipment is tossed ALIVE into ocean with an anchor tied to his waist

This is the moment a fugitive Venezuelan drug trafficker known as Taliban is dumped alive in the ocean with his hands zip-tied and an anchor around his waist in revenge for stealing 450 lbs of cocaine – and cash – from a cartel.

Reinaldo Fuentes is seen bound and gagged with blood stains on the back of his head before his killers struggle to heave him – and the anchor – over the side of a boat into the Caribbean Sea near Martinique.

h/t Canucklehead

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

How to fix a broken foreign student visa system? Send it back to school

Marc Miller, the new federal immigration minister, gets it. Whether he plans to fix it; whether the Prime Minister’s Office is interested in fixing it; and whether the provinces will help all remain to be seen.

The “it” is Canada’s student visa program. Its defects and side effects have been getting a lot of attention, mostly in relation to housing prices. The fact that more than 800,000 visa students were in Canada last year, compared to fewer than 200,000 a decade and a half ago, is one of many contributors to a growing mismatch between housing demand and supply. It’s not discriminatory to point this out. It’s just math.

My bet is Miller will do nothing, ethnic vote blocs matter to the Liberals and they will not do anything to jeapordize votes.

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

Tasha Kheiriddin: Stacking judicial appointments with partisans makes a comeback under the Liberals

How much does it cost to get a judgeship in Canada? The answer should be “nothing.” Judges are supposed to be independent and apolitical to ensure public confidence in the legal system. All who come before the courts should be equal, whatever their political affiliation, and governments whose laws are challenged should not be favoured by friends on the bench. The judiciary has no room for partisanship, and certainly not for partisan financial gain.

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

Shorter Mulcair: Parents are transphobic bigots

Tom Mulcair: These conservative politicians claim they’re protecting kids, but they’re making victims of them

Saskatchewan is joining New Brunswick in an unseemly political manoeuvre, using the sensitive issue of gender identity to gain the support of certain voters at the expense of the fundamental right to equality.

If it were an oblique attack against people for who they are in terms of their religion or ethnicity, calling out that prejudice would be a slam dunk. Most segments of our society would denounce it. No serious politician would ever get close to it.

This is what Mulcair supports for your children.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Deviant, WTF?

National Archives Confirms Existence of 5,400 Emails, Records Containing Alleged VP Biden Pseudonyms

The National Archives and Records Administration has confirmed that it is in possession of nearly 5,400 emails, electronic records, and documents containing pseudonyms President Biden used as vice president.

Legal non-profit Southeastern Legal Foundation filed a Freedom of Information Act request in June 2022 for the records. Those included emails containing the names Robin Ware, Robert L. Peters and JRB Ware, pseudonyms Biden used while serving in the Obama administration, according to House Republicans investigating Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Biden Family Sleaze"