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With retaliatory tariffs removed, a look at items that will be cheaper for Canadians

A new chapter in the trade dispute with the United States opened this week when Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that retaliatory tariffs on some U.S. exports included in the existing Canada-U.S. trade deal would be rescinded.

“I think this is a positive step because we had the U.S. ambassador last week saying this was a major impediment to making any progress … that Canada had retaliatory tariffs on some goods that were actually covered under the existing trade agreement,” financial analyst Michael Campbell told Global News.

Maybe a little but not much.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

France summons US envoy over antisemitism claims

France says it will summon the US ambassador to Paris, Charles Kushner, over what it says are unacceptable allegations of failing to tackle a surge in antisemitism.

Kushner, who is Jewish and whose son is married to US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, made the comments in an open letter to French President Emmanuel Macron in the Wall Street Journal.

Echoing Israel’s criticism of France days earlier, Kushner said there had been an explosion of hatred towards Jews in France since the war in Gaza began.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism, France, USA

Man’s sentencing improperly considered deportation risk, B.C. court rules

In March of 2024, a middle-aged man was having a cigarette outside his Surrey, B.C., social housing complex when he noticed Jae Won Lee, a 23-year-old Australian-born permanent resident of Canada, lifting the cover off another resident’s motorcycle.

The man approached Lee to ask what he was doing, to which Lee replied, “Mind your own business, old man.”

Lee then pulled out a knife with a six-inch blade and stabbed the man’s arm before chasing him into the building’s lobby, where he stabbed him in the abdomen.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Crime

The Russia-Ukraine war: Where it stands and where it might be going

In most Western countries, including Canada, the celebration known as flag day is greeted with a kind of benevolent, restrained enthusiasm.

Rarely is it ever a visceral event, the way it has become in Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy brought that sentiment into sharp focus on Saturday, a day before Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Kyiv as a special guest for Independence Day celebrations and pledged Canada’s ongoing support of Ukraine.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Ukraine

What the Ghislaine Maxwell transcript says about Prince Andrew

In an office at a federal courthouse in downtown Tallahassee, the capital city of Florida, Ghislaine Maxwell tasted something resembling freedom last month.

Outside of prison for the first time since being convicted of child sex trafficking crimes, she sat before Todd Blanche, President Trump’s deputy attorney-general, for two interviews on July 24 and 25. The first lasted six hours, the second half as long.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

PINKSY: When economists dance, Canada pays the price

Mark Carney — once hailed as the agile economist whose skill as a professional would dance Canada to prosperity — has delivered a performance that looks less like a choreographed waltz and more like the chicken dance. And not even the part where the wings flap in rhythm, but the clumsy bit that’s half shoulder shrug, half existential dread.

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

Irish elites are putting the needs of outsiders before their own constituents

A nation’s true character is sometimes found in the hospital wards treating unwell children. If they are not a priority, then what is?

That question now hangs over Ireland’s foreign minister, Simon Harris, whose resignation has been demanded by some parliamentary colleagues, thousands of petitioners, and the parents of a dead child.

In 2017, as health minister, Harris pledged that no child would wait longer than four months for spinal surgery. It quickly became clear this was an overpromise, giving false hope to families of sufferers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elites vs. Populists", Ireland

Amy Hamm: Father of ‘evidence-based medicine’ turns his back on science

Bullied by activists, Gordon Guyatt is now arguing against using his own findings to guide policy

Canadian physician Gordon Guyatt coined the term “evidence-based medicine.” According to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, into which he was inducted in 2016, he is one of our country’s “most cited researchers” and “is considered a world authority in the fields of health-related quality of life research, study design, systematic reviews and guideline development.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

BARCLAY: Liberal mass migration policies have eroded public safety in Canada and Alberta

Recently, Alberta’s Minister of Jobs, Economy, Trade, and Immigration, Joseph Schow, declared that Mark Carney’s Liberal government “has lost control over immigration” and warned that the Liberal government’s inability to effectively regulate the influx of international mass migration within Canada has imposed a severe strain upon “housing, healthcare, employment, and other public services” throughout Alberta.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Shut the System heralds new phase of eco-radicalism in UK

Climate activists from the underground movement Shut the System (STS) have launched “a period of sustained sabotage” against banks and insurance firms. Security experts believe that STS has the means and experience to carry out this threat, thereby posing the greatest challenge yet to the Labour government’s ability to maintain law and order — not least because of its close links to radical, pro-Palestinian activists.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", Eco-Terrorism, Terror groups, terrorism

‘Tortured and Gang-Raped’: The Persecution of Christians, July 2025

Muslim extremists now forbid Christians from farming, and punish defiance with shootings, kidnappings, and threats against families. Thousands remain displaced, living in overcrowded shelters with no food or medical care….. Despite military presence, extremist Muslim militias continue to terrorize rural Christian communities with near total impunity. — persecution.org, July 1, 2025 — Nigeria.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Persecution Of Christians