Car Lovers Rejoice! After 50 Miserable Years, CAFE Standards Are Dead

One of the most important provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill has gone completely unnoticed, but promises to make the auto industry great again.

For 50 years, the federal government has been forcing fuel economy standards on auto companies. If the average fuel economy of the cars sold in a year exceeded a federal standard, the companies had to cough up enormous penalties.

Passed in 1975 as a way to deal with an energy crisis (that was caused by government price controls), “corporate average fuel economy” (CAFE) standards – required the fleet of cars sold by an automaker to achieve an arbitrary miles-per-gallon goal. If they missed the goal, they paid hefty annual fines.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Canada seeks tariff exemptions as Donald Trump demands ‘completely open markets’

OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump will accept nothing short of “completely open markets” to American goods in other countries, his commerce secretary said Tuesday, as uncertainty continues over whether Canada and a host of nations can reach agreements with the United States before Trump’s latest threatened tariffs are supposed to kick in Friday.

The statement comes as Canada’s cabinet point-person on U.S. trade talks, Dominic LeBlanc, travels to Washington for the second time in recent days for what Prime Minister Mark Carney described Monday as an “intense” phase of negotiations before this week’s deadline.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

BURIED: Nets Give 1,000 Times More Coverage to Russia Probe Than Gabbard Bombshell

On July 18, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified bombshell findings about the role of the Obama administration played in late 2016 and early 2017 to manufacture the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. Unsurprisingly, ABC, CBS, and NBC — which spent 2,284 minutes on their flagship evening newscasts salivating over every turn — have devoted only two minutes and 17 seconds on Gabbard’s disclosures.

To put that in perspective, the networks have dedicated just over 1,000 times more airtime on a story used to bludgeon the first Trump presidency than on revelations that they were not only dubious, but a manufactured lie.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Deep State"

The right’s new cause, crime without punishment, and its new martyrs, the Ottawa hostage-takers

If there is one thing Canada’s Conservatives believe in, it is getting tough on crime.

Wherever there is a debate on what penalties should be imposed for criminal offences, Conservatives stand squarely and proudly for more. Whether as a matter of deterrence, or simple retribution, Conservatives almost always favour longer sentences rather than shorter.

Except, it seems, when the criminals involved are their friends. Take, for example, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, organizers of the notorious “Freedom Convoy” that took much of downtown Ottawa hostage for three weeks in 2022, and folk heroes to the populist right.

Andrew Coyne watch In effect

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada

Putin says U.S. indebted to Russia for birth, survival; suggests humility, gratitude in peace talks

The United States of America owes credit for its birth in the 18th century and its survival during the Civil War to an unlikely source: Russia.

That narrative has taken hold in some circles inside the former Soviet Union, and it’s a viewpoint recently espoused by Russian President Vladimir Putin. This month, Mr. Putin went out of his way to highlight historical examples of what Moscow’s state-run media called “Russia’s contribution to U.S. statehood.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRussia, USA

Shakedown: Toronto hit with $50M class action lawsuit over decision to deny refugees shelter beds

A proposed class action has been launched against the City of Toronto on behalf of refugees, refugee claimants, and asylum seekers who were denied access to shelter beds between November 2022 and October 2023.

The lawsuit was filed on May 30 by the Black Legal Action Centre, Lewis Litigation PC, and Stieber Berlach LLP, on behalf of 40-year-old Nigerian refugee claimant Wasiu Adekanmbi, who is a member of the Black and LGBTQ+ communities.

Adekanmbi arrived in Toronto on Sept. 11, 2023 and knew no one and did not have a place to stay, the lawsuit’s statement of claim said. He’s since found work and is now living in Niagara Falls, Ont.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", WTF?

British PM: We Censor Anti-Migrant Protests ‘for the Children’

“For the children” — the last refuge of the censorious tyrant.

Asked at a joint press conference with President Trump on his European tour earlier this week, Keir Starmer, current occupant of the premiership of the once-great British state, about his regime’s draconian censorship of social media, the PM resorted to the tried-and-true justification that rulers of his ilk always do at the end of their rope: the “children.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", "Surveillance Society"

CNE receives record-breaking 54K job applications amid high youth unemployment

As the summer job hunt intensifies, one of the city’s biggest hiring events is set to draw thousands of people.

With youth unemployment reaching some of the highest levels seen in decades, thousands of job seekers are expected to attend the Canadian National Exhibition’s annual job fair on Wednesday at the Enercare Centre at Exhibition Place.

In a statement released by the CNE, they say they’ve already received a record-breaking 54,000 online applications for more than 5,000 seasonal positions, marking the highest number in its history.

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

Nolte: Netflix, Disney Openly Embrace AI for Content Production

Netflix chief Ted Sarandos is making no secret of the fact his company is eager to use AI in “content production” because it’s faster and less expensive.

“Netflix Inc. has begun using artificial intelligence video generation software from startup Runway AI, testing the waters with a technology that’s controversial in Hollywood,” reports the far-left Bloomberg. “Sarandos said the company is using AI in content production. That includes creating special effects shots more quickly and cheaply than it previously had been able to with traditional visual effects tools and processes.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

Charging a soldier with terrorism may be a first, but Canadian military has history of extremism in its ranks says extreme-left broadcaster

Early on the morning of July 8, RCMP officers arrested four suspects — two of them active military members — in an alleged plot to form an anti-government militia.

The Mounties maintain the group had stockpiled a trove of weapons, including dozens of firearms and 11,000 rounds of ammunition, as part of a plan to take control of a piece of land near Quebec City by force.

Three of the suspects, including one of the active military members, are facing terrorism charges. A judge will rule Thursday whether to grant them bail.

It’s the usual CBC effort to degrade & emasculate the Armed Forces.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

Inside the Nightmare at 345 Park Avenue, a Manhattan Office Tower Under Attack

Jon Ferrer was working late Monday evening, reviewing tax returns and trying to get a head start on the week. The KPMG senior tax associate said he heard a faint alarm when he was in the bathroom, but thought nothing of it.

Then an associate walked over to his desk and gave him the horrifying news: There was an active shooter in their office building. “My heart sank to my stomach,” Ferrer said.

He was ushered into a partner’s office with about 15 co-workers, as colleagues pushed a desk across the door and put blankets up on windows in the room. They sat together in a circle.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

Trump Trade Deals Threaten Canada’s Vital Auto Industry

For decades, Canadians have been, by a wide margin, the world’s largest buyers of cars and trucks made in the United States. In most years, four out of every 10 vehicles that roll out of Canadian dealerships were shipped from American factories.

But being the most important overseas market for America’s vehicle industry has not insulated Canada’s own auto industry from President Trump’s move to unravel the global trading system. On Friday, Mr. Trump threatened to impose a new 35 percent tariff on Canada unless the two countries struck a deal.

But even before then, Mr. Trump’s recent trade deals with Japan, Britain and the European Union meant that their auto exports would now be entering the United States at tariff rates lower than that on Canadian cars and trucks.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Video of Mayor Olivia Chow welcoming well fed Gaza “refugees” to Toronto pulled from Instagram over online abuse

Mayor Olivia Chow says she’s been forced to remove a video she posted to social media in which she welcomed a Palestinian family to Toronto, after they faced a barrage of online abuse.

In a post to Instagram on Monday, Chow criticized Israel over the deepening crisis in Gaza, saying she supports “the Canadian government’s recent condemnation” of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government “as the humanitarian disaster worsens.”

“Israel must allow Palestinians to access food, water and humanitarian aid. Famine should never be used as a weapon,” the mayor wrote in the post.

They look well fed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Islamization of the West, WTF?

Two charged with assault in connection with viral Cincinnati brawl

Montianez Merriweather and Dekyra Vernon – ferals

Two people have been arrested in connection with a brawl in Cincinnati after footage of the incident went viral.

Police in the US city earlier said they were searching for a total of five people in connection with the fight, which sparked reaction by Vice-President JD Vance, Elon Musk and others.

Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge said during a public meeting on Tuesday that Montianez Merriweather, 34, and Dekyra Vernon, 24, had been arrested.

h/t PA Cat

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", "Black Fatigue"