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Photo radar does not belong in a free society

Years ago I received a letter informing me that, some months before, I had run a red light, and would have to pay a fine. It included a series of pictures of the rear of my car, captured by photo radar.

There must be some mistake, I thought. I’ve never run a red light in my life. Sure enough, closer inspection of the images revealed that I had in fact turned right on a red, a perfectly legal act. I took the letter to the address indicated for inquiries. The lady behind the desk glanced at it, and said: “Yeah, you didn’t wait the required three seconds before turning.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

Noah Schwartz: Liberals’ botched gun buyback program may create a dangerous ‘grey market’

It was obvious to anyone familiar with the data that the government’s ban on assault-style weapons was never going to make Canada safer. The poor implementation of the policy now means that it will likely end up making Canada more dangerous.

The government’s justification for the ban was weak from the beginning. When former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau first announced the prohibition by Order-in-Council in the aftermath of the Nova Scotia massacre, significant problems were already clear. The government could not define what they wanted to ban. Instead, they created a laundry list of infamous guns with equivalent firearms left out.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Video shows shooting in Richmond Hill that left 47-year-old man dead

Security footage has surfaced showing the moment a 47-year-old man was fatally gunned down on a residential street in Richmond Hill on Thursday night.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The New Jim Crow in Dearborn

Dearborn, Michigan — Dearborn is not the place to live if you want to criticize government actions without being called an “Islamophobe.” Americans who expect politicians to distance themselves from people who say nice things about terrorist organizations that have killed U.S. citizens in the Middle East should also stay out of the city.

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

Two Ontario diploma mills face deep cuts as foreign student scam hit by enrolment cap

Two Ontario colleges face deep cuts as foreign student cap shrinks enrolment, reports show

Two Ontario colleges are facing significant financial hardship if they do not slash costs to cope with weaker foreign student enrolment, according to reports prepared for the Ontario government.

Loyalist College in Belleville and Northern College in Timmins could suffer revenue declines of approximately 60 per cent and 35 per cent, respectively, between 2025 and 2030, according to the reports, which were authored by consulting companies KPMG and Deloitte and obtained by The Globe and Mail.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Camp Of The Saints, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The ‘Free’ University of Brussels: An Anti-Semitic Madrassa in Europe?

The Free University of Brussels (ULB) has been making headlines in Europe. Law students decided to name their class after Rima Hassan, a French Islamist politician known for her anti-Semitic positions and her apologetics for Hamas and other terrorist organizations. That decision came against the backdrop of countless attacks and threats targeting Jewish students on the Brussels campus.

Has the ULB become a breeding ground for Islamist and anti-Semitic hatred in Europe?

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

Parliamentary budget watchdog forecasts sharp rise in deficit to $68.5B this year

OTTAWA – The parliamentary budget officer said Thursday he expects the coming fall budget will reveal a sharp increase in Ottawa’s deficit that puts the government’s previous fiscal anchors in jeopardy.

Ottawa’s fiscal watchdog Jason Jacques now projects the federal government will post an annual deficit of $68.5 billion this year, up from $51.7 billion last year.

He said in a new report that he expects federal debt-to-GDP is no longer on a declining path over the medium term — a ratio that previously was a key fiscal anchor for the federal government.

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

The Corporate Media’s Inexcusably Cozy Relationship with Antifa

President Trump’s designation of antifa as a domestic terrorist entity has the corporate media seething. In a vacuum, journalists expressing outrage at a president quelling domestic terrorism would probably sound insane. But for anyone familiar with the leftist press’s longstanding affection for antifa, the media’s response has been all too predictable.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAntifa

CHARLEBOIS: The TikTok effect on food

Whether we like it or not, TikTok has become one of the most powerful engines of consumer influence, especially in the food sector.

What used to be shaped by advertising budgets and lifestyle magazines is now often determined by a few seconds of user-generated video. Even mainstream news outlets increasingly rely on TikTok clips for entertainment value, giving them additional visibility and reach.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Jihad in Texas? Bullets Rain Down on Kids’ Baseball Tournament

A kids’ baseball coach was leading his team in a pre-game prayer when bullets flew across the Ameripark sports complex, locally known as The Rac, in Katy, Texas.

Players ran as the shots rang out. The team’s coach took a bullet to the shoulder. He was evacuated to a hospital by helicopter.

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

Idiot convert to Islam charged with terrorism elects trial by jury

A B.C. woman who used to belong to ISIS and is charged in Canada with terrorism offences has elected to have her trial next year heard by a judge and jury.

Kimberly Polman appeared in B.C. Supreme Court on Thursday by video for a half-day hearing to have federal prosecutors and her defence lawyers confirm dates for her trial and for pretrial matters before Justice Catherine Murray.

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

Netanyahu attacks Palestinian recognition as dozens walk out of UN speech

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attacked the recognition of a Palestinian state by multiple Western countries during a combative speech at the UN General Assembly.

Netanyahu labelled the recognition moves a “mark of shame” that sent the message “murdering Jews pays off”.

Dozens of officials and diplomats staged a walk-out as he took to the podium, leaving large parts of the conference hall empty. Outside, protesters against Israel’s war in Gaza gathered in Times Square.

The Star is real proud – Canada not part of mass walkout when Israel PM Netanyahu spoke at UN General Assembly

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

Weasel Boy Carney quietly dropped more U.S. counter-tariffs than advertised

The federal government quietly removed more counter-tariffs on American goods than initially advertised, according to an order-in-council published online.

The notice published last month indicates that, with the exception of sectoral tariffs for the steel, aluminum and auto industries, all Canadian retaliatory tariffs have been removed — in apparent contradiction to what the prime minister had said about the decision.

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