Author: Blazingcatfur

Loblaws, Sobeys owners under investigation by Competition Bureau for alleged anti-competitive conduct

… The covenants can “leave restrictions or exclusions on competitors that extend beyond ownership of the land, sometimes for decades,” the applications say.

The probes are also looking into “exclusivity clauses” in commercial lease agreements that “limit or restrict” who a landowner can lease to and which products can be sold by other parties close to another leaseholders’ business.

The property controls, the commissioner says, may give the companies “the ability to exclude actual or potential competitors from selling food products within certain geographic areas or to dictate the terms upon which they carry on business.”

Canada is a Banana Republic.

I wonder if these covenants are allowed in the US?

In the US the perps behind the Bread scam would have done hard time. In Canada the government gives you new freezers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class

‘I’ll wring your neck’: Grandmother reprimanded by police after shouting at gate vandals

Teenagers broke Gillian Mears’ garden gate twice, costing £500 to repair, and caused distress to her disabled husband

Scary Huh?

A grandmother was reprimanded by police after telling a group of vandals she would “wring their necks”.

Gillian Mears, 70, said she “just saw red” before chasing the teenagers away after they damaged the back gate of her house in Kessingland, Suffolk.

However, when police visited her home after she made a complaint about the damage she was warned about making threats.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

U of T issues trespass notice to pro-Palestinian encampment – Warns of Finger Wagging

As it said it would, the University of Toronto issued a trespass notice to a pro-Palestinian encampment at 4 p.m. Friday.

Those gathered at the encampment now have until Monday at 8 a.m. to leave, before the school pursues “consequences under University policies and the law.”

Potential academic consequences include a five-year suspension or expulsion.

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

Addictions minister had ‘deep concerns’ with Toronto’s decriminalization pitch – “Junkies as Street Ambassadors” plan set off alarms

Federal Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks says she had “deep concerns” about the lack of limits Toronto put on its now-rejected pitch to decriminalize the possession of illegal drugs — and the city health agency’s refusal to make any changes.

Earlier this month, Saks told reporters that Toronto Public Health’s long-standing application was “dormant,” then announced its denial days later, on a Friday evening before a long weekend.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Drug Legalization, Drugs

The Most Dangerous Part Of The NYT Alito Flag Meltdown Is The Politicization Of Patriotism

On Tuesday, the Times published another smear piece on Justice Samuel Alito to indict the conservative judge as a partisan ideologue corrupted by far-right politics. The evidence presented to suggest Justice Alito is a right-wing provocateur incapable of serving as an impartial jurist? An “Appeal to Heaven” flag, also known as the Pine Tree flag, with historical roots in the American Revolution, flew outside his New Jersey home on Long Beach Island last summer.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

SD firefighters fly in fire experts to tackle lithium battery fire still blazing from last week

On Wednesday, May 15th, Gateway Energy Storage Facility erupted into flames—it’s a San Diego battery storage in a border community—and firefighters contained the blaze before handing operations off to the facility’s own team. But by the very next day, the fire reignited and it’s been going ever since. We’re now on day nine, by the way.

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

German Spy Agency Being Misused for Political Purposes

An employee of the domestic intelligence service says real threats are ignored while ordinary citizens are harassed for their political opinions.

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) is being used for political purposes and is protecting the interests of the Berlin Government’s three coalition parties, the Social Democrats, the Greens, and the liberal FDP, according to a BfV official who spoke anonymously about his concerns to the Schwäbische Zeitung.

The man, referred to as Gregor S. in the article, said the agency is not competent enough to investigate serious enemies of the state, genuinely violent left-wing and right-wing terrorists or radical Islamists, and instead goes after people who should not be of interest to the BfV: people who don’t like the Greens, hang up posters or submit posts on social media that are critical of the state. “What used to be considered legally acceptable criticism can now be a reason for the BfV to target someone,” he explained. The agency is devoting a lot of time to investigate not only these targets but their whole environment, their employers, their friends, their lovers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Germany

London’s Jews are fighting back against the bigots

Phoenix Cinema – The show did go on.

On Thursday evening, over 1,500 members of London’s Jewish community and their allies chased off an anti-Israel protest outside the Phoenix cinema in East Finchley, north London.

The anti-Israel protest, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, was prompted by the Phoenix’s decision to show a film from Seret, the UK-Israeli film festival. The film in question, Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre, documents the Hamas attack on 7 October last year, in which hundreds of music fans were slaughtered.

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

Trump launches his New York heist

He sees a chance for blood in the Bronx

For decades, Charlotte Street in the South Bronx was a symbol of New York’s urban decay. Riven by crime, unemployment and outright destitution, countless politicians — from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton — would visit the street, decrying the treatment of the residents of this unloved hellscape.

Democrats, by and large, were welcomed. Republicans were not. When Ronald Reagan visited in 1980, he was heckled to such an extent that he cut his visit short. Indeed, his experience was so scarring for the party that few followed in his footsteps for the next 50 years. Some 44 years later, however, no such treatment was visited upon his successor. Just a stone’s throw from Charlotte Street (now a tree-lined road populated by bungalows and 4×4 trucks) lies Crotona Park, where the former president is due to speak.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

Wild video shows Boston Democrat Tania Fernandes Anderson curses at colleagues and pounds on table demanding respect ‘as a black woman’

A Democratic Boston city councilor who wants to ‘dismantle America’s white backdrop’ has been seen cursing at her colleagues in a resurfaced outburst.

Tania Fernandes Anderson has been a controversial presence in city hall since she was elected in 2021 and pledged to ‘create a revolution’ for ‘equity.’

But now even her liberal colleagues have become concerned that she has created an ‘unhealthy’ environment, with one anonymous source telling Fox News Anderson often swears, yells and screams at public city hall meetings, deeming her colleagues racist.

Per Twitter she’s even worse.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in#BlackLivesMatter

CNN: Latinos Voting For Trump Have ‘A Very Stupid Attitude’

CNN Newsroom host Jim Acosta and senior political commentator and occasionally co-host of The View Ana Navarro sought on Friday to explain the “disconnect” between former President Donald Trump’s “rhetoric… about migrants” and minority support for him. Navarro claimed such voters have “a very stupid attitude” and suggested they are on a doomed mission to appease racists who shoot up Walmarts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Ottawa’s $1.7-million subsidy for 10 pasta jobs reveals deep problems in our economy

Last week, the federal government announced a $1.7-million subsidy for a pasta manufacturer in Brampton, Ont., citing the creation of 10 jobs. This may appear insignificant compared with the tens of billions allocated to industries such as electric vehicles, but it highlights just how normalized corporate welfare has become across our economy.

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

Ottawa will let gun shop owners use couriers for buyback program

OTTAWA — Retailers participating in the federal gun buyback scheme should be able to turn in banned firearms using courier companies starting this fall, as the Trudeau government gears up to begin the first phase of the long-awaited program.

On Wednesday, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced regulatory changes that will allow retailers to surrender banned firearms using courier services, a move critics say is long overdue and that gun-control advocates celebrate as a “critical” first step in a program that has been mired in controversy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights