GOLDBERG: Smith’s pipeline gambit will force Carney to choose a side

As Canada’s pipeline saga continues, Prime Minister Mark Carney won’t be able to sit on the sidelines much longer.

Here’s what’s happening: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith isn’t waiting around for a private sector proponent to come forward with a proposal to build a pipeline to bring Alberta oil to British Columbia’s northwest coast.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Israel’s war for survival is only just beginning

This was always a war that Israel could not afford to lose but could never decisively win. It remains to be seen whether the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas represents a successful outcome for the Jewish State or a Pyrrhic victory.

Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, was right to say yesterday that ‘the world is witnessing a historic moment’. But his claim that the deal opens ‘a door of hope for the peoples of the region for a future defined by justice and stability’ sounds like wishful thinking.

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

How Many Gulags Will We Need to Rid Us of the Progressive Blob?

I was gently chided recently by a fellow writer for being insufficiently polemical in my writing. My initial reaction: “right then… here goes!” Before I knew it, I had shipped the entire progressive Establishment of the Western world off to a gulag. The whole damn academia-preaching, social justice-legislating, human rights-lawfaring and commissariat-regulating lot of them. That great cancerous legal/managerial progressive Blob that has been growing inside the entrails of Western civilisation for many decades now – all the millions of them. Then I mentally ran through the paucity of course-correcting options realistically available in a liberal democracy and reminded myself why I don’t go in for ‘What we, as a society, need to do is…’ rhetoric.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

Conrad Black: Carney’s budding bromance with Trump

Not since Lester Pearson, still in Opposition, heaped praise on the crisis management talents of U.S. President John F. Kennedy after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 has any Canadian political leader showered such a torrent of compliments upon an American president as Prime Minister Mark Carney did on U.S. President Donald Trump on Oct. 7. (Admittedly, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau would have been a strong contestant if he had not become almost tongue-tied in complementing U.S. President Richard Nixon on his triangulation of great power relations with his diplomatic overture to China, a field in which Trudeau fancied himself something of a pioneer.) There is nothing wrong with this, and it is almost certainly an astute diplomatic gambit as President Trump’s threshold for considering praise of himself excessive and questionably motivated is relatively high. The prime minister’s compliments were nothing but the truth: ending illegal immigration, pressuring allies to increase defence spending, generating economic growth, advancing the Middle East peace process and terminating Iran’s nuclear program. And Trump responded with gracious compliments for Carney.

I wonder where he gets his optimism from?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Vance and Musk attack ‘shameful’ graffiti art at Canterbury Cathedral

JD Vance and Elon Musk have led criticism of “shameful” graffiti art at Canterbury Cathedral.

The US vice president said the art installation in the building made a “beautiful historical building really ugly.”

The brightly coloured temporary display is designed to display questions people have for God in moments of doubt and curiosity but has attracted controversy with one critic describing it as “belonging in a car park”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", WTF?

Malala the once favoured symbol of Magical Islam to virtue signaling liberals is feeling neglected

‘To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op’: Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical – and how getting high nearly broke her

The global icon of women’s education is ready to tell the full story of her turbulent recent life, from arguing with her parents to being ghosted by the statesmen who were once desperate to be seen with her

I am at the shed where Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai smoked her first bong. No, there’s no punchline – it’s not that kind of anecdote. “My life has changed for ever,” Yousafzai says sadly, as we gaze at the semi-derelict structure. “Everything changed for ever, after that [night].”

The shed is tucked away at the back of Lady Margaret Hall, away from the prying eyes of Oxford’s college life. You have to know how to find it. Yousafzai leads me through quadrangles and out into a hidden garden. Inside are dusty pint glasses and spiderwebs, and board games with the pieces missing.

We are meeting on a bright summer afternoon, ahead of the release of her memoir, Finding My Way, a sequel to her 2013 bestseller I Am Malala. Dressed in a blue shirt, jeans and a headscarf, Yousafzai is accompanied, at a discreet distance, by two close-protection officers. The college is quiet – it’s the summer holidays – and Yousafzai attracts no attention from the few students who remain as she tramps across the grass.

Idiot liberals trotted her out at every opportunity pretending she represented the real Islam. 

She made out like a bandit and her foundation is still raking in the bucks yet she complains about her financial obligations to friends and family.

The foundation seems a means to market Malala and nothing more.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Useful Idiot Apologists, Islamization of the West

Congratulations, Canada. This is the stupidest attack on JK Rowling yet

Without doubt, the nicest people in the world are Canadians. They simply can’t do enough for you. I’ve always been convinced that, if a Canadian awoke in the night to find you burgling his house, he’d offer to help. He’d hate you to hurt your back, carrying that big heavy TV all by yourself.

This near-pathological niceness, however, does have a downside. I’m certain it’s why Canada has fallen for gender ideology harder than any other country. Canadians’ eagerness to please has left them hopelessly vulnerable to the #BeKind mantra.

As a result, they sometimes do and say some very silly things. For proof, see the story this week about the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, whose members have issued a tearful public apology – for organising a “magical-themed forest walk” inspired by Harry Potter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", Big Tranny, WTF?

Canadians skeptical of Carney’s plan to raise defence spending to 5% of GDP

A new federal study suggests Canadians are wary of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pledge to boost defence spending to 5% of GDP by 2035, with most respondents in focus groups reacting negatively to the proposal.

Blacklock’s Reporter says according to the Privy Council report, participants questioned whether such a rise was economically feasible, especially given other financial pressures like inflation and high living costs.

“Almost all reacted negatively to this idea,” the report said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we all be worried?

Mark Zuckerberg is said to have started work on Koolau Ranch, his sprawling 1,400-acre compound on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, as far back as 2014.

It is set to include a shelter, complete with its own energy and food supplies, though the carpenters and electricians working on the site were banned from talking about it by non-disclosure agreements, according to a report by Wired magazine.

A six-foot wall blocked the project from view of a nearby road.

Asked last year if he was creating a doomsday bunker, the Facebook founder gave a flat “no”. The underground space spanning some 5,000 square feet is, he explained, “just like a little shelter, it’s like a basement”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Armageddon"

Does Canada even want a friend like Donald Trump?

One of Donald Trump’s former chiefs of staff passed along a tip this week to a high-powered Canadian audience on how to deal with the president. Basically it amounted to this: Trump wants friends.

“The president’s a one-on-one guy, and he’s personable. He likes to be friends with the people that he’s talking to,” Reince Priebus, who served as Trump’s first chief of staff after his 2016 election victory, told a Canada-U.S. summit in Toronto.

How did the Star manage to get both elbows up their butt?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

China will remove canola tariffs if Canada scraps EV levies: ambassador

 

China will remove its tariffs on Canadian agriculture — including on canola products — if Canada scraps its levies on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), that country’s ambassador says.

“If Canada removes the unilateral unjustified tariffs on Chinese products, China will also reciprocate accordingly,” Wang Di said through a translator in an exclusive interview with CTV Question Period airing Sunday. “And if the EV tariffs are removed, then China will also remove the tariffs on the relevant products of Canada.”

I would not be surprised if Carney plays the China card.

Canada is deeply corrupted by Communist China and defiance of the US will create opportunity for Carney’s carpetbagger pals.

The Elbow people will be in 7th Heaven.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The Insurrection Act: A short guide to President Trump’s options.

With resistance to ICE in many blue cities, there’s been a lot of talk about Trump invoking the Insurrection Act. There are other, lesser statutes that he can employ, but this is the big gun. It intentionally gives the President enormous freedom and power to put down resistance to the law.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civil Unrest", Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives