LYTLE: Bubble-wrapped world — how safety culture has destroyed our sense of adventure

LYTLE: Bubble-wrapped world — how safety culture has destroyed our sense of adventure

Are Canadians less adventurous than they once were? It’s hard to argue otherwise.

Alexander Mackenzie was only 24 when the North West Company named him chief fur trader at Fort Chipewyan, in what is now Alberta. A few years later, in 1789, he travelled north along what is now known as the Mackenzie River to become the first European to reach the Arctic Ocean overland. Four years later, he crossed the Rocky Mountains and was the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean, beating Americans Merriweather Lewis and William Clark by a full dozen years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Marauding bear chases down and mauls terrified man

Marauding bear chases down and mauls terrified man

A Japanese man was chased down and mauled by a bear before it smashed through a glass door in a violent attack.

Police and fire department officials rushed to the scene in the Sasakino district of Fukushima in northeastern Japan on Tuesday after receiving an emergency call from the Fukushima Steel Works reporting bear attacks on two employees.

Security camera footage shows a black bear appearing and chasing an employee near the entrance.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

In skipping so many question periods, Carney dodges accountability

In skipping so many question periods, Carney dodges accountability

As MPs gathered in the House of Commons at 2 p.m. Monday for daily question period, Prime Minister Mark Carney was 20 minutes away, posing for a photo op in front of a housing development in his riding.

The Leader of the Official Opposition, Pierre Poilievre, had hoped the prime minister would be present in the House of Commons to answer questions about the economy, given that, on Friday, Statistics Canada noted that gross domestic product output shrank during the quarter ending March 31, the second consecutive quarter in which the economy contracted.

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

Confession Secrecy: Catholic Church Targeted by French MPs

Confession Secrecy: Catholic Church Targeted by French MPs

The French National Assembly has dropped the most controversial part of a child protection bill that would have lifted the seal of confession in cases of violence against minors.

The provision, which sought to challenge sacramental secrecy, was the focal point of heated debates over the past few days in the Assembly during examination of the legislation aimed at protecting children and combating violence in schools. The bill was finally adopted on June 1 without this measure.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church, Christianity, Christianity and the left

Trump renews ’51st state’ rhetoric as LeBlanc heads to Washington

Trump renews ’51st state’ rhetoric as LeBlanc heads to Washington

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canada has signalled that it wants to see the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) renewed for 16 years to preserve trade growth on the continent even as U.S. President Donald Trump renews his calls to make Canada the “51st state” in a post shared to Truth Social.

Dominic LeBlanc, the minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, and Canada’s chief trade negotiator Janice Charette are heading to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, a day after LeBlanc’s office sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and his Mexican counterpart, Marcelo Ebrard, with Canada’s recommendations for CUSMA.

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

Ilhan Omar: Trump calls me ‘crooked as hell’. That’s rich coming from him

Ilhan Omar: Trump calls me ‘crooked as hell’. That’s rich coming from him

Donald Trump called me “crooked as hell” as he spread lies about the fraud that occurred in Minnesota. Any keen observer will recognize the pattern of inciting hostility against me and the Somali community whenever his own failures and corruption catches up to him. He routinely reaches for the same tired playbook of lies, racism and deflection.

They can’t deport her soon enough.

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

A Mass-Graves Myth Is Media Malpractice

A Mass-Graves Myth Is Media Malpractice

A hoax costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and appears to incite arson attacks against dozens of churches.

No, this isn’t the latest headline out of Minnesota — look a little further north.

In 2021, at a time when media throughout the Western world were still in a state of agitation after the killing of George Floyd, Canadian outlets picked up a story too sensational not to be true …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Liberal Party Anti-Christian Pogrom", "Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

A Chinese Intelligence Organ Finds Its Hero in Ottawa, and the Words It Uses Are Carney’s Own

A Chinese Intelligence Organ Finds Its Hero in Ottawa, and the Words It Uses Are Carney’s Own

OTTAWA — On May 6, Guangming Daily — not just an official Chinese Communist Party newspaper, but allegedly the favored mouthpiece of the world’s largest intelligence agency — published an admiring essay under a headline that reads “From dependence to autonomy: how the Carney government is reimagining Canada–U.S. relations.” The piece, which approvingly amplified Carney’s odd choice to flourish a figurine of the British general Isaac Brock, famed for repelling an American invasion in 1812, does not report on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s rupture with Washington so much as celebrate it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - China's 24th Province", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

How Long Will Democrats Keep Defending Platner?

How Long Will Democrats Keep Defending Platner?

To get a sense of how bereft the Democrats are of genuine principles, a good place to start is their defense of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. This is the “oyster farmer” they hope can unseat five-term Republican Senator Susan Collins in November. And, in that cause, they are willing to overlook a lot of controversies surrounding Platner. Among these is the tattoo of a Totenkopf, the insignia of the Nazi SS, which he sported on his chest for 18 years. Yet, when Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) was asked about Platner on ABC News, he feigned “concern” then pivoted to President Trump: “This man is dangerous, and it’s time that we take back the Senate. And that’s what I’m focused on.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemocratic Party

The United States Should Offer Asylum to Canadian Jews

The United States Should Offer Asylum to Canadian Jews

The United States should open the door. It should offer asylum to Canadian Jews.

Asylum. A real, expedited refuge pathway for Canadian Jews who no longer believe their government can protect them, their children, their schools, their synagogues, or their future.

That is a shocking thing to say about Canada. It should be shocking. Canada is not an enemy state. It is not a dictatorship. It is not a country collapsing into anarchy. It is a wealthy democracy, a G7 nation, and a country with a near-bottomless appetite for congratulating itself on tolerance.

Trump might very well do this simply to spite Carney.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada, USA

UK: Protesters clash with police in Southampton as more than 1,000 take to the streets over Henry Nowak’s death

UK: Protesters clash with police in Southampton as more than 1,000 take to the streets over Henry Nowak’s death

Protesters clashed with police in Southampton on Tuesday night as more than 1,000 took to the streets over the arrest of murdered teenager Henry Nowak.

Demonstrators arrived outside Southampton police station just before 6pm, holding banners which read ‘Save Our Kids’ and chanting ‘I can’t breathe’ – while others lobbed wheelie bins and beer cans at riot squad officers.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures"

Doctors Without Borders: Promoting Hate Through Medicine

Doctors Without Borders: Promoting Hate Through Medicine

For half a century, Doctors Without Borders enjoyed an enviable reputation. They were known and respected for their work in war zones and disaster areas, where volunteers and employees treated the wounded and sick. Known globally as Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF, the NGO built its credibility on the principle that doctors are there to save lives, not to wage political campaigns.

That reputation is now largely gone, and like other powerful groups in the NGO industry, MSF has become a major platform for political and ideological propaganda campaigns that often accompany wars and terror atrocities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"