Carney speaks to Trump after president erupts over Gordie Howe Bridge

Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke to his U.S. counterpart early Tuesday morning about the Gordie Howe International Bridge, which Donald Trump has threatened to block, explaining to him that Canadians paid for the bridge in full and that the Americans already have an ownership stake.

Carney said he told Trump that the federal government paid some $4 billion to build the Windsor-Detroit bridge and that it was built with Canadian and U.S. workers and steel from both countries, despite the president’s bogus claims that there was “virtually no U.S. content” used during construction.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Netanyahu rushes to Washington for talks with Trump over Iran

Spooked by President Trump’s praise of “very good talks” with Iran, Binyamin Netanyahu is rushing to Washington on Tuesday to try to impress upon the US that any deal must curb ballistic missiles as well as Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.

The Israeli prime minister requested that a visit due on February 18 be brought forward after Trump touted an imminent follow-up meeting between his envoys and Tehran. Iran insisted that only nuclear issues were on the table.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, Israel, USA

Conservatives to propose banning foreign predators convicted of crimes from claiming asylum

OTTAWA – The Conservatives are planning to introduce a motion today to bar non-citizens convicted of serious crimes from making refugee claims.

The motion also calls on the government to prevent asylum claims from people whose cases are still working their way through the courts.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said on social media Monday non-citizens who commit serious crimes “must be forced to leave our country.”

So whose lame-brained idea was it to allow asylum claims by foreign predators to begin with?

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

Braid: Poll shows exodus from separate Alberta would make Quebec flight look minor

The prospect of Alberta leaving Canada is such a hot topic that the other potential “leavers” have been overlooked.

These are folks who would flee the province if independence goes forward in a serious way.

Probably ex-Torontonians who would prefer living in China’s 24th province..

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta

First chilling pics of Nancy Guthrie kidnapping suspect released by FBI

Terrifying surveillance photos and videos of an armed person in a ski mask tampering with Nancy Guthrie’s home security camera on the morning she vanished were released by the FBI on Tuesday.

The skin-crawling black and white stills and footage were pulled from a Nest camera mounted by the front door of Nancy’s Tucson home, and showed the individual with a gun on their hip staring straight into the lens.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Cowichan decision leads to another claim on private lands in B.C.

Real estate turns Brave against Brave!

An Indigenous group on British Columbia’s central coast is claiming ownership of private lands in a case that relies on a groundbreaking court decision from last summer that opened the door to Aboriginal claims on private property.

The Dzawada’enuxw First Nation is seeking a court declaration that almost 650 hectares of fee simple lands around Kingcome Inlet are rather “Indian settlement lands” that should never have been pre-empted by settlers more than a century ago. (Fee simple lands have long been known in Canadian law as the highest form of private land ownership.)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue"

How Sweden defied liberal outrage to crush the gang violence epidemic

Famed for its openness and slower pace of life, Sweden is one of the last places you might expect to see children being pulled off the streets and searched without a warrant, or having their phones spied on by detectives.

But after four years of gang violence that has seen children as young as 12 recruited on social media to carry out hit jobs against rival gangsters, police say it has become a grim but necessary reality.

In April 2024, Swedish police were handed sweeping new powers to tackle the rise of Middle Eastern drug syndicates who groom boys and girls into being “foot soldiers” by offering them up to 150,000 kroner (£12,500) per job.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Trump Admin Set to Repeal Key Obama-Era Climate-Change Finding

And suddenly, millions of voices cried out in unison: I voted for this.

Seventeen years ago, the EPA under Barack Obama issued an endangerment finding citing greenhouse gases as pollutants that posed significant harms on Americans. In the years since, that finding has served as the foundation for massive regulation on energy production, auto manufacturing, and a host of other industries. One of the first acts Donald Trump took on his second Inauguration Day was to order the EPA to review that finding and determine whether and how to reverse it.  By July, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin began the process of repealing it, calling the effort “driving a dagger into the heart of the climate-change religion.”

Meanwhile in Climate Cult Canada

Inflated climate change data to be adopted by 250 Canadian financial institutions

A climate change study that was retracted for inflating data is still being used as evidence for climate change risk assessments (CCRAs) at Canadian financial institutions — and 250 more institutions are planning to use it. 

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Don’t tell the Elbow People! … Canada discreetly puts money down on 14 additional F-35s

Ottawa has started to make payments for key components for 14 additional U.S.-built F-35s, even as the Carney government has been reviewing future fighter-jet purchases in the context of trade tensions with Washington, sources have told CBC News.

The money for these 14 aircraft is in addition to the contract for a first order of 16 F-35s, which will start being delivered to the Canadian Armed Forces at the end of the year.

According to sources, the new expenses are related to the purchase of so-called “long-lead items,” which are parts that must be ordered well in advance of the delivery of a fully assembled aircraft.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, RCAF

ICE List: the small European website exposing US immigration agents

ICE Agents Hunt For Illegal Alien Invaders In Minneapolis

It started as a cheeky response on social media to the US secretary for homeland security. Months later, however, a Europe-based project to unmask US immigration and custom enforcement (ICE) agents has racked up millions of views and mobilised hundreds of volunteers.

“What we’re doing is a reaction to a problematic regime,” said Dominick Skinner, the Netherlands-based Irish national behind the website ICE List, of its mission to remove the anonymity that many of the armed federal agents operate under while deployed to US cities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Camp Of The Saints, USA

Ontario to examine 45 police departments in response to Toronto corruption probe

Ontario’s inspector general of policing is launching a province-wide inspection into 45 police departments in response to the corruption probe that saw Toronto officers facing a slew of criminal charges.

Ryan Teschner — a lawyer who was the executive director and chief of staff on the Toronto Police Service Board — said his office will hire an “outside” individual with knowledge of policing to bring “expertise singular focus and rigorous methodology that this important work requires.”

Teschner did not say who the individual might be nor did he say when his inspection would be finished.

That can’t be good.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Law and Order"

Europe’s ‘painful’ realisation it must be bolder with US set out in security report

Europe has come to the painful realisation that it needs to be more assertive and more militarily independent from an authoritarian US administration that no longer shares a commitment to liberal democratic norms and values, a report prepared by the Munich Security Conference asserts.

The report sets the scene for an all-out ideological confrontation with the Trump White House at the high-level annual meeting of security policy specialists, which starts on Friday.

In a now infamous speech to last year’s MSC, the US vice-president, JD Vance, claimed European elites were suppressing free speech and “opening the floodgates” to mass migration. The address marked the moment Europe realised the Trump administration would no longer be a reliable trading and security partner.

Whatever is in the water at the Guardian calls for quarantine.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, USA

Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus will be sentenced for Discreditable Conduct – May 19, 2026

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