Contracts handed out to build Volkswagen subsidiary EV battery plant in Ontario amidst tariff uncertainty … meanwhile Porsche shutters EV battery division

The company behind the plan for a massive battery plant in southwestern Ontario says uncertainty in the electric vehicle market and U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs aren’t causing a rethink, as it marks a new milestone for the project.

PowerCo SE, founded by automaker Volkswagen, is currently building a gigafactory in St. Thomas, Ont., to produce batteries for its growing electric vehicle range.

Germany’s Porsche is closing battery subsidiary Cellforce, reports say

According to German media reports, the sports car maker has decided to largely shut down its battery-making and research subsidiary Cellforce, cutting hundreds of jobs.
German sports car giant Porsche plans to close the majority of operations at its subsidiary Cellforce, a factory for high-performance battery cells.

According to the German newspaper Der Spiegel, the sports car manufacturer plans to lay off around 200 of its 286 employees at the factory in Kirchentellinsfurt, Germany.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

MN Dems Claim Vote Fraud In Endorsement of Mayoral Nominee

Socialist ballot-stuffing? Radicals taking control by any means necessary? Minnesota Democrats running an incompetent election? Whoda thunk it?

Update…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, USA

Man found shot dead in mall washroom initially deemed suspicious until Scarborough location revealed

Man found fatally shot inside Scarborough Town Centre washroom

A man in his 20s was found shot to death in a restroom inside the bustling Scarborough Town Centre on Thursday afternoon.

But Toronto Police are so far only saying the death of the victim — found in a public bathroom within the mall near McCowan Rd. and Hwy. 401 — is “suspicious.”

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, WTF?

Nolte: After Deliberately Alienating Males, Desperate Disney Wants Them Back

The Disney Grooming Syndicate’s open and seething hostility towards men and boys reaches back more than a decade. Franchise after franchise has been retooled, deconstructed, and woke-raped to tell young men they are a disease and to deliver sweet feelzzz to women and the LGBTQ crowd. And as we have seen at the box office, that approach has blown up in the groomer’s bigoted, smug, self-satisfied fat face.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

Lindsay man charged with assaulting home intruder acted ’within his rights’: Lawyer

A Lindsay, Ont., man who is facing charges after allegedly assaulting an intruder in his apartment is accused of using a knife in the incident, a court document shows, but his lawyer says he was acting within his rights to defend himself.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Two Tiered Policing", Castle Law, Crime

Furious anti-migrant campaigners face off with counter-demonstrators in Portsmouth

Anti-migrant protesters waving Union flags faced off with counter-demonstrators in Portsmouth city centre today as police brace for a weekend of rallies.

Police watched as people on each side gathered on the steps outside the council offices in the Hampshire city.

One protester tied a large flag of St George to the balcony which had on it the words ‘Born in England, Live in England, Die in England’.

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

Carney Liberals dropping countertariffs on U.S. goods covered by free trade deal

OTTAWA — Canada is dropping its countertariffs on the American goods that are covered by the free -trade agreement between the two countries, amid the ongoing trade war with the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday.

Carney made the announcement during a news conference Friday, following a virtual meeting of his cabinet, and the day after a discussion with U.S. President Donald Trump.

In a statement to CTV News on Friday, a White House official said the U.S. welcomes the move, calling it “long overdue.”

The official added they look forward to “continuing our discussions with Canada on the administration’s trade and national security concerns.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Comet? UFO? Astronomers puzzle over fastest object in solar system

Just after midnight in a part of Planet Earth known as Massachusetts, a team of scientists who track comets and minor planets in the solar system announced that they had spotted something new: a spark in the southern sky, visible in the data they were getting from a telescope in Chile.

The telescope, high in the Atacama Desert, is tasked with searching for objects that might collide with Earth. “We at the Minor Planet Center have the role to collect the information and also to post it quickly, almost in real time, on our website if the object is somehow interesting,” said Peter Veres, a Harvard astronomer sometimes described as an air-traffic controller for the solar system.

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Canada joins call for Israel to halt settlement plan meant to crush Palestinian statehood

Canada and 21 other countries issued a joint statement on Thursday calling for the immediate halt of a recently approved Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.

On Wednesday, the Israeli government gave its final approval of a 3,500 apartment expansion plan in a tract of land east of Jerusalem known as E1. The development has been under consideration for more than two decades, but was frozen due to U.S. pressure during previous administrations.

Surprise surprise … Wanna bet MP’s are on Qatar’s payroll?

h/t Patti Jo

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

Trump: Joe Biden made it impossible for Ukraine to defeat Russia

President Trump has accused Joe Biden of making it nearly “impossible” for Ukraine to defeat Russia because he restricted Kyiv from launching cross-border strikes.

In a post on Truth Social, the US president accused Biden of not allowing Ukraine to “FIGHT BACK”. Speaking after Russia struck a US electronics company in western Ukraine, Trump promised “interesting times ahead”.

“It is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking an invader’s country. It’s like a great team in sports that has a fantastic defense, but is not allowed to play offense,” Trump wrote.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Chow says Toronto will face a $107M shortfall if feds don’t provide more funding for refugee supports

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow is speaking out after recently learning that the federal government plans to only provide a quarter of the funding the city requires to cover the costs of providing interim housing for refugees and asylum seekers.

In a letter addressed to her City Council colleagues, Chow said the feds notified the City of Toronto that they would be paying out only 26 per cent of what Toronto projects to spend on shelter costs for refugees and asylum seekers in 2025.

In the note, Chow suggests that the shortfall amounts to a “cut.”

We are governed by Monsters who hate us.

h/t Auntie Polly

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Camp Of The Saints, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

FBI raids home of John Bolton, Trump’s ex-national security adviser

The FBI raided the home of Donald Trump’s former national security adviser turned critic John Bolton on Friday morning.

The federal search of Bolton’s house in the Washington DC area was as part of an investigation involving the handling of classified documents, the Associated Press reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.

A government source confirmed the raid to the Guardian, but did not disclose further details.

h/t Mauser and XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

Jamie Sarkonak: DEI gardening — the new Liberal priority for agriculture

DEI gardening under Mao.

Free money alert: next Monday, the federal agriculture department will begin accepting applications for cash handouts that fund garden boxes, refrigeration units, greenhouses, ATVs, snowmobiles, tractors, hydroponic systems and more. But there’s a catch — anyone who receives these funds must use them to directly support “food production for equity-deserving groups.”

Letting the government decide who eats and who doesn’t always works swell, just ask Mao or Stalin.

Pure evil, as if we’re being conditioned to accept mass murder.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?