Carney and Trump: A Collision Avoided, Save for a Nasty Comment or Two

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada arrived at the White House on Tuesday with a few clear objectives: to take heat out of his early encounters with President Trump, to avoid references to Canada becoming a 51st state, and to begin talks on steel and aluminum tariffs.

In other words, to revert to the old days, when Canada and the United States were the tightest of defense and intelligence allies, and somehow managed to keep their disputes over everything from dairy products to softwood lumber to automobiles on a separate track.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Voters From Every Party and Region Say ‘Britain is Broken‘, Poll Finds

Three quarters of Britons agree the country is “broken”, a key Reform UK talking point, including the voters of every major political party, age group, and region.

“Britain today is broken” is a statement that enjoys widespread support in the country, pollster JL Partners found in research for the i paper. The revelation of apparently strongly held public sentiment comes as politicians and media figures butt heads on whether things are actually going well in the UK or not, with clashing views on crime, migration, integration aired daily.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

Canadian families of Oct. 7 victims criticize Carney for not meeting them since becoming PM

The Canadian families of eight victims of the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack on Israel have written to Prime Minister Mark Carney, criticizing him for not reaching out to them since taking office, and asking him for a meeting.

Their letter to the Prime Minister noted that other world leaders have held several meetings with families of victims in the two years since the attack.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Man charged with attempted arson at Kettering mosque appears in court

A 43-year-old man charged with an attempted arson attack on a mosque owned by Kettering Muslim Association has appeared in court.

Yesterday, (Tuesday, October 7) Arif Ali Rafiq of Harlestone Road, Northampton, appeared at Northampton Magistrates Court.

In line with new guidance, Mr Rafiq’s ethnicity was given out by Northants Police as a ‘British-born Asian man’.

h/t Patti Jo

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

Jesse Kline: Liberals use accounting magic to mask their fiscal ineptitude

The great magician Harry Houdini once said, “What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.” This is the philosophy Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals appear to be utilizing to downplay the dire fiscal situation they have put Canada in.

As the Liberals doubled the size of the national debt during the pandemic, then-finance minister Chrystia Freeland was fond of talking up Canada’s relatively low debt-to-GDP ratio.

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

‘I don’t feel safe any more’: Dearborn’s Arab Americans on rising Islamophobia

The real Dearborn Michigan

Amirah Sharhan recalls it being a regular fall afternoon in October 2024.

The Yemeni American, who had been living in the Dearborn and Detroit area for four years, was preparing dinner while her mother took Amirah’s seven-year-old daughter, Saida, to a nearby playground to play with her friends.

But when the door of their home slammed open a little after 3pm, everything changed.

Saida rushed in, holding a napkin against her neck. When Amirah moved it away, she saw a long, deep cut across her daughter’s neck. A man had approached her on the playground, grabbed her head and slit her throat with a knife.

Guardian horseshit:

Amirah is convinced her daughter and mother were targeted for being Muslims; the attack happened two days after the first anniversary of Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel and her grandmother was the only visibly Muslim person in the park.

That the accused was not ultimately charged with committing hate crimes has angered the local Muslim and Arab American communities who have been feeling abandoned and afraid since 7 October 2023.

The real Dearborn

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

Canada has been working for years to prepare for Golden Dome, Air Force general says

Canada has been working for years to be ready for an initiative like the U.S.-led Golden Dome defence system, says the Royal Canadian Air Force’s top commander in NORAD, who argues that the two countries have little choice but to work together in the face of a shared, escalating threat from polar attacks.

The commander, Major General J.D. Smyth, told The Globe and Mail that the Air Force has been preparing for the Golden Dome as part of its work to shore up Canada’s military presence in the Arctic and modernize North American air defences.

I bet Carney has the General sidelined.

I don’t think Carney wants anything to do with the USA, all the better for he and his cronies to strip mine the nation of viable assets.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trump says Pritzker, Chicago mayor ‘should be in jail’

President Trump on Wednesday called for Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) to be jailed as the two leaders push back on the Trump administration’s crime crackdown and immigration enforcement raids on the Windy City.

“Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] Officers!” Trump posted to Truth Social, referring to Johnson. “Governor Pritzker also!”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State"

Anthony Furey: Don’t punish Toronto taxpayers for federal asylum-seekers mess

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow recently threatened to increase property taxes by two per cent to cover the increasing costs associated with housing asylum claimants in the city’s shelter system, if she doesn’t first get the funds from the federal government. This would be over and above whatever tax rate increase she was already planning.

This isn’t the right way to go about solving the crisis of so many asylum claimants residing in our shelters, motels and streets. It’s not the taxpayers’ fault.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Megyn Kelly tells Miranda Devine that Joy Reid is ‘racist,’ ‘insane lunatic’

Megyn Kelly blasted former MSNBC host Joy Reid as an “insane lunatic” who’s “extremely racist” and predicted Reid’s new podcast “is not going to go well.”

The former Fox News star’s fiery remarks came during an interview with The Post’s Miranda Devine, which will stream on this week’s edition of “Pod Force One.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Progressive Racists

Navjeet Singh the driver accused in the fatal crash that killed a mother and her 8 yr. old daughter fled Canada but is now free on bail

An Ontario truck driver accused of killing a Manitoba mother and her eight-year-old daughter after running a stop sign has been granted bail — despite previously fleeing the country to avoid prosecution.

Navjeet Singh was arrested at Toronto’s Pearson Airport nine months after leaving Canada following the crash. Police say he was aware of the charges when he left. Now, he must surrender his passport, stay at a relative’s home in Ontario, and phone the RCMP on a weekly basis. That’s it. For a man who already fled once, the court’s decision raises serious questions about how Canada defines a “flight risk.”

I wonder if the family could sue the federal government for homicide by negligent immigration?

h/t MW

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity Crime", "Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

The Man Without the Golden Gun? Amazon’s Bond Posters Go Woke

Tech giant Amazon released a set of James Bond posters on its Prime Video platform showing the fictional spy without guns, sparking criticism from fans and media outlets over the artwork’s woke approach.

The reasoning behind the gun-free edits has not been publicly explained, though similar changes have occurred in promotional material for other franchises, including Disney’s Han Solo (part of Star Wars).

The posters had depicted actors such as Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig without their signature firearms.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?