Author: Blazingcatfur

Loblaw, George Weston Settle Bread Price-Fixing Class-Action Lawsuits

Loblaw Cos. Ltd. and its parent company George Weston Ltd. have settled their involvement in a pair of class-action lawsuits related to an alleged industry-wide scheme to fix the price of bread.

Lawyers involved in the case say the $500 million settlement was announced last year and executed on Jan. 31, but is still subject to court approval in Ontario and Quebec.

Loblaw and George Weston are paying a combined $404 million, with the remaining $96 million accounted for through Loblaw’s gift card program announced in 2017.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Western Europe’s poorest country is about to oust its government over immigration

Lauren Clark loves life in Lisbon. The 32-year-old Briton credits moving to Portugal five years ago with allowing her to build up a successful career as a freelance wellness and lifestyle writer.

“The lifestyle is definitely the main drawing point, for sure. The food is amazing. Obviously, the weather’s gorgeous. It’s very easy to make friends,” she says.

“I go to a really lovely co-working space where there’s lots of new faces. You get that kind of social interaction that I would perhaps not have had so much in London where co-working spaces are too expensive.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPortugal

Federal report deems it ‘racist’ to criticize Hamas supporting Jew hating murder cultists

The federal government has dropped a new guide that, according to critics, deems it “racist” to criticize Palestinian advocacy or extremism.

The guide also defines both “sharia” and “jihad” as benign terms that are misrepresented by Westerners, with sharia defined as a means “to establish justice and peace in society.”

It’s contained in “The Canadian Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia,” a document published last week by the Department of Canadian Heritage.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

GREEN: Carney’s climate plan will keep costing Canadians money

Mark Carney, our next prime minister, has floated a climate policy plan that he says will be better for Canadians than the “divisive (read: widely hated) consumer carbon tax.”

But in reality, Carney’s plan is an exercise in misdirection. Instead of paying the “consumer carbon tax” directly and receiving carbon rebates, Canadians will pay more via higher prices for products that flow from Canada’s “large industrial emitters,” who Carney plans to saddle with higher carbon taxes, indirectly imposing the consumer carbon tax by passing those costs onto Canadians.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

World Leaders Who Rushed To Embrace New Syrian Leader Nearly Silent Following Massacre by His Forces

Muslims on murder rampage in Syria

Perhaps some would call it the good massacre: Following a global rush to legitimize the new strongman at Damascus, Ahmed al-Sharaa, his forces are killing Syrians — up to 15,000 over one weekend — and condemnations, including at the United Nations, are nearly nonexistent.

A few days after Secretary-General Guterres shook Mr. Sharaa’s hands and praised his efforts at uniting all Syrians, has the world body’s chief made a call to Damascus? “No, he has not,” the UN spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, tells the Sun.

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

Conservatives now just 1 point ahead of Liberals: Nanos

As Canadians’ concerns about U.S. President Donald Trump rise, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative polling advantage appears to have evaporated, with the Liberals now just one point behind according to the latest Nanos numbers.

In new weekly tracking released Tuesday, the Conservatives are at 36 per cent support, the Liberals – now under the leadership of Mark Carney – have risen to 35 per cent support, and the NDP are at 15 per cent.

PolyMarket says Poilievre.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Trump ramps up auto tariff rhetoric with threat to finish Canadian industry

U.S. President Donald Trump fired new shots in the tariff war on Tuesday, vowing on social media to put an end to Canada’s auto industry amid a chaotic volley of trade threats that sent stock markets lower.

Mr. Trump has said a key goal of his protectionist trade policy is to persuade foreign manufacturers, especially automakers, to shift production to the United States. The President’s language has become increasingly menacing in recent weeks, turning outright hostile to the Canadian auto industry on Tuesday, after Ontario Premier Doug Ford briefly imposed a surcharge on electricity exports to the United States.

Wouldn’t it be great to have an all Canadian ICE 4WD that was robust and easy to maintain unhindered by chips or ludicrous government net-zero limitations etc …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Rosie O‘Donnell Self-Deported to Ireland After Trump Election: Will Return to U.S. ‘When It‘s Safe for All Citizens to Have Equal Rights‘

The decades-long feud between actress and former daytime talk show host Rosie O’Donnell and President Donald Trump just got a little more complicated.

“It’s been pretty wonderful, I have to say. The people are so loving and so kind, so welcoming. And I’m very grateful,” O’Donnell said in a TikTok video posted Tuesday, in which the league of Their Own star detailed her move to Ireland before Trump’s inauguration.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCelebrity Idiots

Trump is driving Carney’s Canada into Britain’s uncertain arms

The new Canadian PM is intimately familiar with Britain’s Left-wing elites. He may seek to exploit that to his country’s advantage

Mark Carney’s crushing victory in the Liberal Party leadership race means he will become Canada’s next prime minister. The former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor won 85.9 per cent of the vote, with former deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland finishing a distant second on 8 per cent.

Carney will become the first Canadian PM to have never held elected office. His political inexperience could be a disaster of epic proportions, rivalling that of the inept Justin Trudeau. Yet, as fate would have it, this political novice is in a unique position to resolve one pressing problem.

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

Study: Concealed Carriers Do A Better Job Of Stopping Active Shooters Than Police

You’d never know it from watching television, but civilians stop more active shooters than police and do so with fewer mistakes, according to new research from the Crime Prevention Research Center, where I serve as president. In non-gun-free zones, where civilians are legally able to carry guns, concealed carry permit holders stopped 51.5 percent of active shootings, compared to 44.6 percent stopped by police, CPRC found in a deep dive into active shooter scenarios between 2014 and 2023.

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

Has Canada Learned From Its Lost Decade?

‘Why don’t I become a circus clown?” That was Mark Carney’s sensible reply when asked in 2012 about ambitions to enter Canadian politics. On Sunday he was elected leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, soon to be sworn in as Prime Minister. Welcome to the circus.

Mr. Carney, a central banker who became a global face of “net-zero” and “ESG” environmental schemes, won 86% of the Liberal leadership vote. His big advantage: He was off in England, or globe-trotting as a United Nations climate envoy, or working for large U.S. firms rather than serving as a minister in Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government (2015-25).

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

Trump buys a Tesla to support Elon Musk after share price crash

President Trump turned the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom and picked out a car for himself in a gesture of support for Elon Musk after protests against his car company and the collapse of its share price.

Trump admired a row of five electric vehicles on Tuesday afternoon while holding a handwritten list of prices. After careful examination, he announced he would purchase the cherry red Model S.

Trump used the display to condemn recent protest attacks on Tesla dealerships, saying such acts would be treated as “domestic terrorism”. “You do it to Tesla and you do it to any company, we’re going to catch you and you’re going to go through hell,” he said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Canada hits the U.S. with tariffs on $29.8B worth of goods after Trump slaps levy on metals

The federal government announced a plan on Wednesday to slap tariffs on $29.8 billion worth of American goods to hit back against U.S. President Donald Trump after he imposed punishing tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum early this morning.

Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, the government’s point person on Canada-U.S. relations, said Trump’s attack on Canadian industry is “unjustified and unjustifiable” and the government must hit back as the U.S. inserts “disruption and disorder” into what was once one of the most successful trading relationships in the world.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA