Canadians face confusion over new U.S. border crossing rules

Angela and Leigh Faubert have been going to the U.S. for many years, travelling months on end throughout the winter.

On Nov. 6, they crossed the border between Aldergrove, B.C. and Washington.

This border crossing, however, was unlike any other they’d done before.

“We crossed the border, and they asked me to pull up on the other side of the border and told to walk into this little building,” said Leigh. “I had to get fingerprinted, show my passport. I think it was $30 that we had to pay, and I had to get my photo taken.”

I am expecting an onslaught of Muslims refused entry at US border stories.

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

Christmas returns to Bethlehem with tree-lighting ceremony — for first time since outset of war in Gaza

From missiles to mistletoe.

Christmas celebrations publicly returned to Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, for the first time since the outset of the war in Gaza.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristmas

Liberals look to criminalize faith, while allowing hate to fester

In their attempt to protect vulnerable Canadians from hate crimes, the Liberals are planning to criminalize faith.

This is the compromise they have reportedly made to pass Bill C-9, which would ban the public display of swastikas and terrorist symbols to incite hate against an identifiable group, and create new offences for “hate crime” and religious obstruction.

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

Swiss man jailed after saying women and men have different skeletons

A Swiss musician claims to have been imprisoned for a post on social media in which he said that skeletons can only be male or female.

Emanuel Brünisholz was convicted of hate speech and fined by a court in the Swiss canton of Bern over the Facebook post, which also suggested that trans people were mentally ill.

When he refused to pay the fine, Brünisholz was instead sentenced to ten days in prison and began his sentence on Tuesday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

TTC employee and customer charged after allegedly stabbing each other at subway station

A TTC employee and a customer have been charged after they allegedly stabbed each other at a downtown subway station last week.

Toronto police said a call came in for a stabbing at TMU Station, formerly named Dundas Station, on the afternoon of Nov. 26.

Police initially told reporters that only a TTC employee was stabbed and that a male was subsequently arrested.

h/t Patti Jo

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Iran arrests marathon organisers over women not wearing hijab

The Iranian judiciary says two organisers of a marathon have been arrested for allowing women who were not wearing hijabs to take part.

The move comes after images appeared online of unveiled women competing in the race on Friday.

Around 2,000 women and 3,000 men took part separately in the marathon on Kish Island off the southern coast of Iran.

Dressed in red t-shirts, some of the female competitors were clearly not wearing the hijab or any other head covering.

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

GOLDSTEIN: Guilbeault playing separatist card to oppose Alberta pipeline

Steven Guilbeault Enjoys Kissing Xi Jinpings Ass

Steven Guilbeault’s claim the federal government’s memorandum of understanding with Alberta to build an oil pipeline to B.C. is fuelling Quebec separatism is nonsense.

In interviews with Bloomberg News and the CBC last week after he quit the federal cabinet, Guilbeault attempted to toss a grenade into Canadian unity by arguing that by signing the MOU with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, Prime Minister Mark Carney is fuelling Quebec separatism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

Like Trump, Benjamin Franklin Sought to Annex Canada

After Madelaine Drohan left a long and distinguished career in journalism for graduate studies in history, she took on a largely forgotten aspect of the relationship between Canada and the United States. The result was her recently published book, “He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada.”

My conversation with Madelaine, who is now a senior fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, has been edited for length and clarity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Canada plays host to World Cup games that don’t live up to its dreams

If anyone was still under the misapprehension that Canada is an equal partner in the upcoming World Cup, FIFA disabused them of that notion shortly after noon on Saturday.

Friday’s draw determined who would play whom, and when. But for the first time, it did not decide where.

That was left to an opaque process of FIFA’s own. They took 24 hours to think about it, and then they shafted Canada. It was a gentle shafting, but a shafting nonetheless.

Someone will make money off the tax payers footing the bill for this scam.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Bread and Circuses"

Musk: EU must be abolished

The billionaire lashed out at the officials after social media platform X incurred a €120m (£105m) fine for transparency breaches

Elon Musk has called for the EU to be “abolished” after the bloc fined his social media platform X €120m (£105m).

The billionaire lashed out at the officials who handed out the punishment for transparency breaches and threatened to pursue each country individually in a series of posts on the site, which he rebranded from Twitter in 2022.

“The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people,” Mr Musk wrote.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEU

BC’s newest political party OneBC takes hard stance against reconciliation

BC’s newest political party, OneBC, came into the spotlight this week after their leader tried to host a public, unsanctioned event at UVic.

The public speaking event focused on denying the existence of 215+ unmarked graves at the Kamloops Residential School, and refuting the fact that what was done to Indigenous Peoples in Canada qualifies as a form of genocide.

OneBC is doing splendid work.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Aboriginal Fatigue", "Residential School Mass Grave Mania"