Donald Trump’s next target could be deal that shields most Canadian imports from tariffs, experts warn

Canada’s biggest shield against U.S. tariffs is still intact after Donald Trump’s latest trade deadline, but that could change by next year, experts warn, as Prime Minister Mark Carney prepares for a new round of talks with the mercurial American president.

While Trump raised the tariff on Canadian goods to 35 per cent in an executive order Thursday night, an exemption for goods which comply with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) was maintained. The order was signed after Ottawa and Washington failed to reach an economic and security deal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Hamas negotiators demand Jerusalem be Palestinian state capital

Hamas says it will not disarm unless an independent Palestinian state is established with Jerusalem as its capital.

The statement, which reasserts a long-held demand by the group, seemingly came in response to a declaration by the Arab League last week that called for Hamas to lay down its weapons and release all remaining hostages. On Tuesday, the 22 member nations called for Hamas to relinquish control of Gaza and hand it over to the Palestinian Authority, which rules the West Bank.

I assume Carney agrees.

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

Canada Post is a case study in Canadian dysfunctionality

Canada Post, which predates Confederation, is a vital national institution, playing a particularly important role in serving rural, Northern and Indigenous communities across our vast country.

But today, Canada Post is effectively insolvent. Indeed, it would have run out of cash had the government not recently extended a billion-dollar lifeline.

This situation is no surprise, and it has been developing for a long time. Canada Post has been impeded from adapting to modern business realities because of long-standing labour inflexibility as well as oscillation by prior governments between political indifference and political interference.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

White House backs anti-Islam preacher in two-tier policing row

The Trump administration is backing a controversial Christian preacher at the centre of a “two-tier” policing row over his right to criticise Islam, The Telegraph can reveal.

Dia Moodley, a father of four, met US officials dispatched to interview British “victims of censorship” amid growing concern in Washington that free speech in the UK is under threat.

In the past four years, the evangelical pastor, from Bristol, has been the subject of repeated enforcement action by Avon and Somerset Police over his street preaching, which includes comparisons between Christianity and Islam, as well as sermons on abortion and homosexuality.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFreedom, freedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech, UK, USA

MORGAN: Junkies aren’t harmless

Junkie is a harsh term and that’s why I’m using it. It represents a harsh reality and I want to tear the sugarcoating from it. People addicted to substances who live on the streets of Canada are putting themselves and other citizens in danger every day. Activists, bureaucrats, and politicians dancing around the problem using euphemisms and refusing to acknowledge the harm caused by unchecked addiction are killing people and making the catastrophe worse.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDrug Legalization, Drugs

Why more fentanyl production could be moving to Canada

Fentanyl Precursor Chemical 4-Piperidone

Although there’s no evidence of any significant flows of fentanyl into the United States from Canada, an American authority on “criminal supply chains” warned Friday that that could change abruptly if U.S. efforts to better seal its border with Mexico are successful.

Jonathan Caulkins, who researches supply chains that support illegal markets for the Manhattan Institute think tank and Carnegie Mellon University. said the drug cartels that control the North American fentanyl trade may well shift large chunks of their operations to Canada if the northern border becomes the path of least resistance.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, USA

We Don’t Need The Durham Annex To Know Hillary And The FBI Set Up Trump. We Watched It Happen

Just hours after the release of bombshell intelligence showing that the Clinton campaign orchestrated the Trump-Russia hoax, The New York Times and Washington Post rushed out articles that misrepresented the intelligence entirely — one falsely claimed Durham dismissed it, the other falsely claimed the FBI investigated it. In reality, Durham treated the intelligence as credible and preserved it in a classified appendix to his report without disclaiming or refuting it — because the facts were confirmed by what unfolded in real time.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Clintons", "Deep State", Trump Derangement Syndrome

London: a city of strangers – A housing crisis, rampant crime and uncontrolled immigration are corroding our once vibrant capital.

Donald Trump attacked mayor of London Sadiq Khan this week for doing a ‘terrible job’ of running a formerly great city. It is hard not to think the US president has a point.

Yes, London has long been – and remains – a global powerhouse. Economically, it continues to be a key hub for the world’s commercial and financial activities. And in almost every cultural domain, it still stands out. It houses some of the greatest collections of art in the world. Its theatre scene is second to none. And with more than 50 universities and colleges, it has the highest concentration of higher-education institutions in Europe.

Sounds just like the GTA.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", The Great Replacement

Piece by piece, cranes lift 84 prefabricated rentals into place in downtown Calgary

Along a busy street on the west end of downtown, another new rental building is going up — but instead of being built from scratch, prefabricated units are being craned into place, piece by piece.

Each box being stacked contains two studio apartments, already filled with appliances like fridges, stoves, washers and dryers.

Altogether, the pieces will make up 84 studio apartments across six storeys.

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

Pedro Pascal and The Precariousness of Woke Celebs

It’s easy to see why Pedro Pascal was crowned as the internet’s new “unproblematic fave.” He is, as you would expect for a Hollywood actor, decently good-looking. He’s been in Game of Thrones, took the lead in Star Wars spin-off Mandalorian, featured in the TV adaptation of The Last of Us, and more recently had a starring role in the latest installment of Marvel’s Fantastic Four. Equally as important for a celebrity nowadays, Pascal has some impeccably woke credentials. He is an advocate of ‘trans rights.’ He’s vocally anti-Trump. He makes all the right noises about Palestine. He embraces a nauseating brand of “non-toxic masculinity,” whereby he talks at length about his men’s mental health—specifically, his anxiety, which he copes with by… getting uncomfortably cosy with his pregnant, taken co-star?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", Celebrity Idiots, Hollywood

Occam’s Razor Gardening, Cooking & Canning Ep 72

Welcome. 13C this morning. The sun is getting up later. 6 Weeks left for Summer. Just over 10 weeks of growth for anything that doesn’t harvest above ground, except for hardy plants like Kale, which I have yet to eat yet as my other garden foods have kept me full and busy. I should make some crispy kale.

The beetle egg laying on the squash leaves seems to be diminishing, so they might be coming to the end of their life cycle. A zucchini got away from me and grew a little too big, but we’ll try to pickle it anyway.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

Terry Glavin: Is Trump’s lionization of James Polk an ominous sign of things to come?

American Progress by George Crofutt

Shortly after his January inauguration, U.S. President Donald Trump made the peculiar decision to remove a portrait of the great Thomas Jefferson from the Oval Office and replace it with a portrait of James Polk.

Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and the third American president. Polk, the eleventh president, launched the Mexican-American War and expanded the reach of American sovereignty from what is now Texas to Washington State, and from Wyoming to California.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

‘It’s his safe place’: searching for Tommy Robinson in Tenerife

“As far as I am aware, he is on mainland Spain,” said Barry Armstrong, a convicted fraudster and longtime friend and benefactor of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson.

It was difficult to fit with what the staff at Robinson’s favourite breakfast place in Costa Adeje, in southern Tenerife, had said just that morning. “He was in here yesterday,” a member of the waiting staff said of Robinson.

Neither did it quite tally with Armstrong’s own Facebook postings. “Have you seen your mate we aren’t supposed to talk about on Facebook?” a friend asked of Armstrong. The response was a thumbs up emoji from the retired businessman from Newcastle.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTommy Robinson