Prince Andrew’s biographer: ‘The Queen knew what was going on’

When Andrew Lownie submitted his manuscript for his incendiary book about Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, he was braced for heavy legal redactions. But in the end there were far fewer deletions than feared. “I was surprised by what the lawyers let through,” he tells me.

The result of this leniency is among the most lurid, marmalade-dropping, outlandish books published about a senior royal. Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York makes Prince Harry’s Spare look positively restrained.

Andrew and Harry are destroying the Monarchy.

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

Canadian Road Trips to US Plunge for Seventh Month

Road trips to the US decreased for a seventh straight month as Canadians ramped up their American boycott.

Canadian-resident return trips by automobile from the neighboring US slumped 36.9% in July from a year ago, Statistics Canada data showed Monday.

Return trips by air from the US also slid 25.8%, while those from other countries grew 5.9% as Canadians traveled elsewhere.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Ukraine prepared to cede territory held by Russia

Ukraine could agree to stop fighting and cede territory already held by Russia as part of a European-backed plan for peace.

Volodymyr Zelensky told European leaders that they must reject any settlement proposed by Donald Trump which sees them giving up Ukrainian land they still hold – but that Ukrainian territory in Russia’s control could be on the table.

This would mean freezing the frontline where it is and handing Russia de-facto control of the territory it occupies in Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Crimea.

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

‘Where else am I going to go?’: He’s 91 and newly evicted. Why it’s so hard to find him — and many Toronto seniors — a home

The wallet Isidoro Ventullo pulls out to try and pay for brunch at a restaurant in Little Italy is makeshift — a patch of grey duct tape stitched together like a foldable envelope. In it, he has neatly folded in his photo ID, some smaller denominations and a yellow flash card bearing a list of essential phone numbers and names.

At his stage in life, the 91-year-old is determined to hold on to what is familiar — whether it’s a tattered wallet or the neighbourhood he calls home.

It’s partly why more than a month after being evicted from his apartment in Little Italy in the midst of a heat wave, he has yet to find a permanent place to live.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Alberta farmers in this conservative stronghold feel conflicted as Battle River-Crowfoot byelection nears

Harvey Nahirniak walks toward his paddock of cattle, his tall rubber boots caked with rich, black soil.

Cows, dusted with mud, huff in the afternoon heat. His beloved workhorses stand in the sun like statues while the farm’s fat, white guardian dog, Marvin, pants in the shade.

Nahirniak’s expertise lies in crops and cattle. His family has farmed the same stretch of land in the sleepy hamlet of Round Hill, Alta., for generations.

The CBC wants you to believe Poilievre is in trouble.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Conservative Party

Hollywood Rocked by Amazon-Backed AI Tool, Showrunner, that Allows Viewers to Create Their Own Shows

Filmmakers, educators, and other entertainment industry professionals are reacting in alarm at a new Amazon-backed tool that will allow viewers to create their own TV shows using an artificial intelligence system called Showrunner.

Fable, a company backed by Amazon, is touting Showrunner as the “Netflix of AI,” and allows users to create their own animated series by using text prompts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence", Hollywood

Adam Pankratz: B.C.’s shameful race to give up public land

Shame. There used to be more of it and that was a good thing. Nowadays, a lack of shame runs rampant as people gaslight the world in the hopes no one will check up on them. In British Columbia, our current gaslighter-in-chief is Randene Neill, the minister of water, land and resource stewardship.

In a lengthy Aug. 1 Facebook post, Neill addressed recent changes to land use planning in B.C., which she claimed had been “misunderstood.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", "White Guilt", Aboriginal Issues

Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe dies two months after being shot

Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe has died two months after being shot in the head in a targeted attack which shocked the South American nation.

The 39-year-old was hit by three bullets – two of them in the head and one in the leg – at a campaign rally on 7 June in the capital, Bogotá.

His wife confirmed his death on social media, paying tribute to “the love of my life”.

Tweet translation – “Miguel Uribe Turbay, leader of the Colombian right, passed away after two months of hospitalization.

This is how he was shot by an infiltrator at his last campaign rally”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Corporate Welfare Class Hardest Hit: Ottawa yet to launch program announced last year that would grant permanent residency to low-wage workers

More than a year after announcing a new immigration stream that would have granted permanent residency to low-wage workers already in Canada, the federal government has yet to move ahead on formally launching the program – suggesting that Ottawa could be backing away from the plan altogether.

The plan targeting low-wage workers was informally announced in April 2024, through the Canada Gazette. Consultations were set to begin last year on amending immigration laws to admit a “new permanent economic class of workers in TEER 4 and TEER 5 jobs.”

Mass immigration from incompatible cultures is a feature not a bug. Yes they are out to get you.

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

Terry Newman: Let’s talk about post-sex regret, baby

Post-sex regret is not a bad thing in itself. It is a normal, and even potentially constructive, emotion. While the feeling of a regretted sexual act or entire encounter is experienced negatively, it also creates an opportunity to reflect and change our behaviours to avoid future regret. It becomes a problem when an individual, without having voiced any objection during an act or encounter, takes that feeling of post-sex regret and hurls it as an accusation toward an unsuspecting sexual partner.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?