Feds quietly tested drone vulnerabilities at major Canadian airports, simulated crashes with planes: document

FIBRE OPTIC DRONE

In 2024, the federal government conducted counter-drone testing at several major airports around the country, including Ottawa, Montreal-Trudeau, Calgary, Toronto Billy Bishop, Halifax and Moncton, according to a report obtained by the IJF.

The assessments, a collaborative effort between Transport Canada and the RCMP, were designed to assess risks, inform policy and determine “how to procedurally mitigate drone incursions,” including the “tactical operations required to respond to a drone incident,” a 2025 review document says.

I doubt any of our airports will be able to act against a determined enemy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted interror attack, Terrorism - Domestic

FBI won’t share Alex Pretti shooting evidence, Minnesota authorities say

Minnesota law enforcement authorities have said the FBI is refusing to share any evidence on its investigation into the death of Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal immigration authorities in late January.

Pretti was shot on 24 January by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials in Minneapolis during the Trump administration’s surge of immigration enforcement operations in the city. His killing came just two weeks after an immigration official shot and killed Renee Good and 10 days after the shooting of Julio C Sosa-Celis.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, USA

Canadians now spending $1 billion per year to cover health-care costs of refugee claimants

Paying the health-care premiums of refugee claimants will cost Canadians a record $1 billion this year, with some of the beneficiaries continuing to receive free health care despite their claims having already been rejected.

That’s according to a new analysis by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, and it’s just one of several ballooning costs wrought by the unprecedented number of foreign nationals currently living in Canada by virtue of a claim of refugee status.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Camp Of The Saints, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

What is happening to Syria’s IS camps and their former residents?

Humanitarians warned for years that the camps in north-east Syria holding tens of thousands of family members of suspected Islamic State (IS) fighters would have to be dealt with. Calling them a “ticking time bomb”, relief groups said the women and children could not just be left to rot in squalid desert camps indefinitely, because eventually they would come home.

Despite the warnings, most states ignored the problem, refusing to repatriate their citizens. At least 8,000 women and children from more than 40 countries have been stranded in the camps of north-east Syria since 2019.

This week, they started to come home. Belgian authorities reported a woman charged in absentia for IS membership had made her way from Turkey to Belgium. An Albanian woman, kidnapped as a child by her father and taken to Syria, managed to smuggle herself to Turkey, where she requested travel documents.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Syria

Mandatory national service in Canada? Amid AI’s rise, that’s making more and more sense

In a recent interview, Geoffrey Hinton, the University of Toronto computer scientist often called “the godfather of artificial intelligence,” warned that AI will gain “the capabilities to replace many, many jobs.” Last year, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said AI “could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment to 10 to 20 per cent in the next one to five years.” This fall, a clear majority of Canadian workers surveyed said they believe such an outcome to be at least somewhat likely.

Even if some uncertainty remains about AI’s job-market impacts, Canadian policymakers should treat this challenge as what it is: the single most serious risk to people’s livelihoods in memory.

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A CCC type agency is what the author calls for. Maybe it will be necessary.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

Bondi Beach gunman complains about prison conditions

The gunman accused of killing 15 people in the Bondi Beach terror attack is enduring “very onerous conditions” in prison, his lawyer said on Monday.

Naveed Akram appeared in an Australian court via video link in his first public hearing since the Dec 14 attack.

The 24-year-old faces 59 charges including terrorism and murder over the massacre, which targeted Jews celebrating Hanukkah on the beach in Sydney.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence

Anti-feminist ideology ‘increasingly relevant’ to national security: CSIS

But this is OK.

Senior officials at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) say anti-feminist ideology is becoming “increasingly relevant” to Canada’s national security landscape and may lead to radicalization and violent extremism, but added that the ideology alone does not yet rise to the level of a security threat.

The comments came during testimony last week to the House of Commons standing committee on the status of women, which is conducting a study on the anti-feminism movement that has sprung up in some online circles and advocates for regressive roles for women in society and relationships.

OMG the witnesses names were withheld to protect their identities. No doubt they felt stupid.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Jesse Jackson dead at 84

Jesse Jackson was there in the vast throng gathered in Chicago’s Grant Park on the night that Barack Obama was elected US president in November 2008. He had tears streaming down his face, and why not? Growing up in deeply segregated South Carolina in the 1940s, the illegitimate son of a teenage mother, he could never have dreamt that he would one day see a black American winning the highest office in the land; or that he would have been the man who, as much as anyone else, had blazed the trail for Obama’s victory.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPassings

Canada Chooses to Dump Milk Rather Than Lower Prices

In November 2025, Canada’s supply management system deliberately destroyed millions of litres of perfectly good milk in Ontario, even as grocery prices remained high and food banks reported record demand.

That destruction was not an accident or a processing failure. It was the predictable outcome of policy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

RI hockey shooter Robert Dorgan threatened to go ‘BERSERK’ in trans-rights rant day before mass shooting

Robert Dorgan – the sick man who shot up his own family

The crazed transgender dad who shot up a high school hockey game in Rhode Island threatened to go “BERSERK” in a trans-rights rant just a day before he massacred two family members and injured three others.

Robert Dorgan, who also identified as Roberta Esposito, killed himself after opening fire at the Pawtucket ice rink where his son was playing on Monday afternoon — less than a week after another transgender gunman shot up a school in one of Canada’s deadliest mass shootings.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting", Big Tranny

Canadian immigration officers investigating hundreds identified by extortion task force

Next election cycle

Canadian immigration officials are investigating hundreds of foreign citizens identified by B.C.’s anti-extortion unit, according to new figures released to Global News.

The Canada Border Services Agency said it had launched probes into 296 people who were “brought to our attention by B.C Extortion Task Force partner agencies as persons of interest.”

The latest statistics, which are as of Feb. 4, represent a sharp increase from just a month ago, when the task force said that just over 100 CBSA investigations were underway.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics", "Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Pro-Palestine activists are accused of waging ‘campaign of intimidation’ by going door-to-door asking people to boycott Israeli products

Police are investigating after a group of pro-Palestine canvassers were accused of engaging in a ‘Jew hunt’ as they went door-to-door asking locals to boycott Israeli products.

Campaigner Jean Hatchet and her partner confronted members of the Sheffield Apartheid-Free Zone (AFZ) campaign on Sunday as they went canvassing in the Woodseats area of the northern city.

The altercation turned ugly as Ms Hatchet and her partner yelled ‘Jew Hunt’ at the trio of men. One of the men appeared to headbutt Ms Hatchet’s partner.

That’s a bit Brown-Shirty I’d say.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", WTF?