What It Takes to Make the ‘Buy Canadian’ Defence Industrial Strategy Work

Canada is finally having the defence conversation it has deferred for a generation. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new $6.6 billion Buy Canadian defence plan promises to prioritize domestic production, expand small- and medium-sized firms into the sector, and create up to 125,000 jobs over the next decade.

At the same time, Canada has pledged to raise core defence spending to 3.5 percent of GDP within 10 years, alongside an additional 1.5 percent for dual use security infrastructure. By 2035, that implies annual defence-related spending approaching $160 billion.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

Cap on international students leading to drop in Ontario transit ridership

After the COVID-19 pandemic, ridership on Toronto’s buses, streetcars and subways struggled to rebound.

But it surged back in nearby cities.

Brampton, Mississauga and parts of Waterloo Region were among the suburbs that rapidly recovered from COVID-19, setting records for the number of passengers and struggling with overcrowding.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Nolte: Hollywood Reporter Accidentally Admits Network Talk Shows Blacklist Conservatives

The far-left Hollywood Reporter has accidentally admitted that network talk shows blacklist conservatives.

The news that Republicans are blacklisted from network talk shows, such as the View, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, and Stephen Colbert, is something we already knew. What’s fascinating is the lack of self-awareness in this Hollywood Reporter (THR) story, an outlet so bubbled it has no idea what it just revealed….

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood, WTF?

IDF says it dug up Canadian soldiers’ graves to destroy Gaza tunnel

The Israel Defence Forces have told CBC News that they dug 20 to 30 metres deep in a Gaza war cemetery where 22 Canadian soldiers are buried in order to destroy a Hamas tunnel.

An IDF officer who spoke to CBC News on background and who was involved in combat operations in the area said he was not able to give any assurance that Israeli forces had taken measures to preserve human remains.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Israel, WTF?

Mamdani Hires Three Founders of Muslim Group that Blamed Oct. 7 on ‘Israeli Apartheid Regime’

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani (D.) has appointed three officials who cofounded a Muslim group that blamed Israel for Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack to prominent roles in his administration. One of them is serving as Mamdani’s head of faith-based partnerships, another as his chief of immigrant affairs, and the third as the leader of his judiciary advisory committee.

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Ottawa shakes up immigration system to bring in military recruits

The federal government is shaking up its main economic immigration program to facilitate the entry of high-skilled military recruits for the Canadian Armed Forces, part of Ottawa’s renewed focus and spending push on the defence sector.

On Wednesday, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada announced new categories for selecting immigrants via Express Entry, a points-based system that is the main entryway for skilled workers seeking permanent residency.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Immigration from incompatible cultures", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Ukraine’s ambassador to UK blames Zelensky for failed offensive

There was a time when Ukrainian diplomats would quietly excuse Valerii Zaluzhny’s lack of willingness to speak in public in London, whispering concerns about him overshadowing President Zelensky.

But now the ambassador to Britain, widely seen as the top political rival to the Ukrainian leader, has indicated a possible desire to run for the presidency.

In a rare interview, Zaluzhny, 52, refused to explicitly discuss his political ambitions, saying he did not want to risk harming national unity during a war with Russia that is approaching its fourth anniversary.

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

White men always have to be the bad guys on TV. And now, we can see why

White men are just evil

A TfL advert has been banned for portraying a black man as an aggressor. It seems only Caucasian males are allowed to be villains

Transport for London (TfL) has had to pull part of its latest video campaign against harassment of female passengers because, in the offending clip, the man who was shown pestering a woman happened to be black (while the woman happened to be white). And, after receiving a single complaint from the public, the Advertising Standards Authority ruled that the clip “had the effect of perpetuating a negative racial stereotype about black men as perpetrators of threatening behaviour”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism"

Terry Glavin: Carney, leader of an anti-Trump alliance that doesn’t exist

The thing about “the world stage” is not just that it’s a place for play-acting. It’s also a global venue for wishful thinking, the construction of heroes and villains and imaginary plot twists and sometimes whole-cloth inventions of scenes that sometimes bear almost no relationship at all to events in the real world.

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