Prisoners of war from Azov: Do the fighters face the death penalty in Russia?

More than 1,700 Ukrainian soldiers defending the Azov steel plant in Mariupol have been taken into Russian custody since May 16, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Wounded soldiers were among them, some of whom were taken to Novoazovsk, in the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic, for treatment.

Ukraine officials have offered assurances that soldiers held could return home through an exchange, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also expressed hope of saving the soldiers’ lives, saying: “Ukraine needs living Ukrainian heroes.”

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

HUNTER: Crime spike gets nary a mention on campaign trail

ITEM: A wealthy member of the Toronto Maple Leafs is the victim of a shocking carjacking.

ITEM: A smaller Ontario town is being ravaged by a drug-fueled homicide epidemic.

ITEM: A young girl’s body is found in a dumpster in one of Canada’s wealthiest neighborhoods; another child’s body is discovered floating in the Grand River.

This is truly the quietest election in some time.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOntario

Terry Glavin: There’s no Huawei ‘ban’ until we get it in writing

Among the many circumlocutions and outright non-answers to straightforward questions about what the federal government announced Thursday, in relation to restraints Canada might place on the ability of China’s multinational telecommunications giants to hack, spy and hold Canada’s critical telecommunications infrastructure to ransom, it isn’t easy to pick one that stands out in its absurdity. That’s because there were so many of them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Iranian soccer official coming to Canada attended party with man sought by FBI over kidnap plot

The head of the Iranian national soccer team coming to Vancouver next month for a controversial exhibition game recently attended a party with a man wanted by the FBI in relation to a plot to kidnap international targets, including three people in Canada.

The April 8 birthday party in Tehran was captured on camera and photographs were posted online. At the time, a warrant had been out for the arrest of the alleged Iranian intelligence informant for almost a year.

Team manager Hamid Estili appears in the photos with Mahmoud Khazein. Khazein is facing criminal charges in the U.S. which include conspiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Why is he coming to Canada? Why won’t Trudeau simply bar entry to the Iranian team?

Political football: How the Iranian government intervenes in sports

… The motives of the IRGC are not purely financial. The Guards see sports as a form of social control to be exploited in pursuit of domestic policy objectives. The country’s two most popular sports, wrestling and football, attract a young male demographic, often from poor socio-economic backgrounds, that needs to be managed and directed. Furthermore, sports have a symbolic value, as policies applied to the athletic domain project ideals for society at large. Gender discrimination, for example, is reinforced through the ban against women attending football stadiums and limiting women sports.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Iran

Monkeypox: Health Canada says to continue to patronize Monkey owned restaurants you speciest H8trs!

‘A crutch to continue to prejudice’: Montreal’s LGBTQ community fears stigma from monkeypox

David Hawkins wasn’t alive during the height of the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s, but decades later, his organization is still working on dispelling harmful myths associated with the disease.

“All these years later, it is still seen as being the gay disease, and it’s stuff like that that people still point to as the reason for the blood ban for men who have sex with men to donate blood … We’re still fighting that,” said the executive director of Montreal’s West Island LGBTQ2+ Centre.

Now, LGBTQ advocacy groups and experts are concerned about another wave of discrimination hitting the community as several countries, including most recently Canada, are confirming cases of monkeypox, which has so far been identified mainly among men who have had sexual relations with other men.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Congress Passes Bill Giving Biden Regime Sweeping New Domestic Spying Powers

The legislation, the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2022, gives the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) increased snooping powers in order to target domestic threats. This will inevitably be used against patriotic Americans, who have been demonized as terrorists since the Jan. 6 protest at the U.S. Capitol.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", "Surveillance Society", spying

The Trudeau government isn’t using all the tools to protect Canadians from inflation, economist says

… Prime Minister Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland have been reminding people that the factors driving inflation are not entirely within their control. Supply chain backlogs and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are the main culprits making life less and less affordable for Canadians — especially those on fixed incomes.

One expert said the government’s talking points on the causes of inflation are “a bit of a cop-out.”

“It’s a half-truth at best,” said Carleton University economist Vivek Dehejia during a panel discussion on this weekend’s edition of The House about what can be done to reduce the impact of inflation on Canadians.

They are however continuing their mass immigration plans. They hope to fight inflation by depressing wages. It’s a lie. It won’t work because the total of working class wages are simply not large enough to move the inflation needle. In truth it’s their justification for doing their corporate cronies a favour.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

A Primer on the WHO, the Treaty, and its Plans for Pandemic Preparedness

The World Health Organization (WHO), whose constitution defines health as ‘a state of physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity,’ has recently orchestrated remarkable reversals in human rights, poverty reduction, education, and physical, mental and social health indices in the name of responding to the Covid-19 pandemic.

WHO proposes to expand the mechanisms that enabled this response, diverting unprecedented resources to addressing what in terms of history and disease are rare and relatively low-impact events. This will greatly benefit those who also did well from the Covid-19 outbreak, but has different implications for the rest of us. To address it calmly and rationally, we need to understand it.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inDisease, Fearmongering, Health care, WHO

Biden Admin Names Replacements To Head ‘Disinfo’ Board And They May Be Worse

The Biden administration announced this week that it was putting its “Disinformation Governance Board” on ‘pause’ for the time being, with another report noting its goofy director, Nina Jankowicz, would be resigning.

But on Thursday, a new report noted that the Department of Homeland Security, under which the board will serve, announced the names of two new successors to Jankowicz who are expected to manage the new agency during the pause.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Disinformation", "President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", Censorship, Freedom of speech, Propaganda

Canada facing shortage of allergy-friendly baby formula, feds say

Federal authorities are acknowledging that Canada is facing a shortage of formulas for babies with food allergies and some health conditions.

Health Canada says in a Thursday advisory that supplies of allergy-friendly formulas aren’t meeting demand in some provinces.

The statement comes amid widespread formula shortages south of the border after the shutdown of a large U.S. manufacturing plant, which also ships hypoallergenic formula to Canada.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, Food shortage