Loblaw Cos. Ltd. and its parent company George Weston Ltd. say they have agreed to pay $500-million to settle a class-action lawsuit regarding their involvement in an alleged bread price-fixing scheme.
The class-action case was brought against a group of companies that includes Loblaw and the Weston companies, Metro, Walmart Canada, Giant Tiger and Sobeys and its owner Empire Co. Ltd.
We’ve already admitted more foreign students into Canada than we did in the same time period last year.
In the middle of a housing crisis.
At a time when health systems across the country struggle to hire enough doctors and nurses to care for the population that is already here.
Canada has what seems like a rare win in the competition space. Stakeholders are celebrating the finalization of the Grocery Code of Conduct – a milestone more than three years in the making that was threatened this year when Loblaw and Walmart indicated they wouldn’t be signing.
Now, the grocery industry has slightly better processes to resolve disputes among suppliers and retailers regarding issues that include random fees, sudden cost increases, lack of clarity on contracts, and late payments. The code includes important elements such as no unilateral contract modification, no refusals to deal, and a board with representatives from across the supply chain.
“… To many, the Grocer Code of Conduct remains an enigma. Fundamentally, this code aims to enhance competition in the Canadian market by imposing accountability across the food industry, particularly targeting practices that have traditionally occurred out of public view. Under this new regime, various opaque practices, such as the exorbitant fees charged to suppliers by retailers, will be subjected to scrutiny and regulation.”
To boil down the economy of labor for his university students, Mikal Skuterud often poses them a basic question: Would they prefer to graduate when jobs are scarce or when workers are scarce?
They mostly vote for a time of worker scarcity. Workers can benefit in a vast job pool through employers’ competition to attract them — with better wages, for example — though this dynamic varies across industries, said Professor Skuterud, a labor economist at the University of Waterloo in Ontario who specializes in immigration.
“Labor economists tend to see labor shortages not as a first-order economic problem that governments need to solve,” he said.
The lack of business investment in information technologies and research and development, compared to the U.S., is lowering the productivity of Canadian workers and suppressing our standard of living, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
“The underinvestment in key technologies is showing up in Canada’s productivity numbers which are essential for improved living standards,” Steven Globerman writes in a report by the fiscally conservative think tank, titled “Comparing the Investment Performances of Canada and the United States Over the Past Five Decades.”
Why invest in productivity enhancing technologies when the government allows its corporate cronies to import cheap foreign labour by the shitload?
Hell Trudeau will even silence critics of the wage depressing mass immigration scam by smearing them as racist on behalf of our Captains of Industry!
Temporary residents and recent immigrants are driving up Canada’s unemployment rate, as record numbers of newcomers welcomed to the country to fill labor shortages are now struggling to find work.
The unemployment rate for temporary residents – including foreign workers, international students and asylum seekers – was 11% in June, according to Bloomberg calculations. Using comparable data, the unemployment rate for all workers was just 6.2% last month.
Immigrants who’ve landed in the last five years are also having a hard time finding a job, with their unemployment rate reaching 12.6% in June.
We are on track to beat Venezuela at being Venezuela.
Summer jobs could prove tough to come by for students, according to latest job stats
According to a recent Statistics Canada report, Canada’s population has just hit the level it was previously expected to reach in 2028. That startling finding underscores the extraordinary growth of the country’s population since the pandemic, driven by record inflows of both permanent and “temporary” immigrants.
A rapidly expanding population can bring some benefits, notably by stimulating overall economic activity and providing additional workers. But it’s not an alloyed good. The number of Canadian residents is increasing faster than economic output (gross domestic product), which has translated into an unprecedented series of declines in per-person GDP over the last several quarters. Productivity is stagnant, as newcomers struggle to find their way in the economy and job market. In addition, a significant share of new immigrants don’t seek or obtain employment, dampening immigration’s contribution to the growth of economic output.
Hundreds rallied in northwest Winnipeg to call on the federal and provincial governments to allow more international workers to remain in Manitoba.
Protesters gathered at the city’s Adsum Park in The Maples on Sunday afternoon to demand that more people get their expiring work permits extended, among other things.
The federal government announced late last year it would stop offering an 18-month extension to post-graduate work permits, which began during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Students can’t find jobs? Gee how did that happen?
Especially difficult summer ahead for young people looking for jobs, economist says
Isabelle Burzese started looking for a summer job in February. Now, after finishing her first year of studies at Concordia University in Montreal, she’s back home with her family and she’s still looking. With expenses piling up, her search is becoming more and more urgent.
“I’m not looking to get a job for spending money or money to have fun, even though I would love to,” the 18-year-old from Toronto says. “It’s really for tuition and rent and groceries and things like that for next year.”
Do not believe a word that the business community or the government says about the need for mass immigration to offset labour shortages. They are evil liars.
Canadian international student goes to Tim Hortons job fair
finds 100 other international students there pic.twitter.com/JK50WqqrzJ
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) June 24, 2024
The front-page headline demanded action: “Time to Close the Gates.” It was March 26, 1908. Centred on the page, a list of three recently murdered men and their four “supposed slayers” – their non-Anglo-Saxon, ethnic names unmissable in all-caps. “The Goth is at our own gates,” The Globe editorial warned.
“One has only to glance at this list to see that the Slav and the Italian are swelling the statistics of crime in this country.” The only effective cure for the “invasion” would be “the closing of the gates on the offscourings of the Slav and Latin races.”
This Globe piece is one of a small flurry of articles that have recently appeared expressing concern about Canadian attitudes toward immigration and or identity politics.
It’s not surprising that the paper of record for Canada’s Corporate cronies will have published 3 such pieces in that last week.
The elite have have sold Canadians a “patriotic myth” that immigration is always beneficial and that to oppose it is racist.
Someone is getting worried about their supply of cheap foreign labour hence the push to remind Canadians to know their place in the run-up to Canada Day.
Globe – Canadians don’t need to worry about identity politics
Globe – In a country where immigrants are the majority, anti-immigration politics are obsolete
Ottawa Citizen – As Canada ages, it risks losing the post-war consensus on immigration
Epoch Times – Identity Politics Destroy a Country’s Unity (Despite the title just a big ‘Hurrah’ for immigration)
New Democrat MP Alexandre Boulerice is outraged that Loblaw Companies and its subsidiaries have received over $10 million in federal subsidies since 2019, while many Canadians struggle to afford groceries.
“Liberals are giving Loblaw millions of dollars in handouts,” Boulerice said in the Commons.
“While ordinary folks are going hungry, CEOs are getting the VIP treatment. Enough is enough.”
Steal bread from the mouths of children for 14 years and you too can be rewarded!
Among the less commented-on results of the Toronto-St. Paul’s by-election was the performance of the People’s Party of Canada, the populist-nationalist party led by former Conservative cabinet minister Maxime Bernier. If you missed it, here it is: they got 234 votes, or 0.63 per cent of the total.
What a disappointment this must be for the PPC, after winning 2.67 per cent of the vote in the riding in the past general election. But it’s in keeping with the trend nationally. In the 2021 election the PPC took nearly 5 per cent of the vote. Nowadays it’s mired in the two-to-three-per-cent range.
Coyne bullshits for a living, but this nonsense is below even his typically low standards.
Ann doesn’t know how old she is. She thinks she’s probably 40 or 41, but she became separated from her parents as a child, and she has no record of her birth. When she was a child she lived alone on the streets of Kampala, Uganda—one of thousands of homeless youth in the city—and survived by collecting plastic bottles and scrap to sell to recyclers. She slept outside at night, then later in a church, and attended school by day. Remarkably, after years of diligent study, she secured a high school scholarship, saved money and enrolled in university. She earned a degree in international business and began a career in business development for multinational corporations.
“Asylum Seekers”, “Temporary Foreign Workers”, “Foreign Students”, “Mass Immigration” “Chain Migration” “Anchor Babies” all part of the plan to alter Canada’s demographic forever.
And Canadians are made to pay and pay and pay for their ever falling standard of living and fractured low trust society all to appease Trudeau’s corporate cronies and their insatiable demand for cheap labour.
“Good enough to work. Good enough to stay.”
“Extend post-graduate work permits.”
“Tens of thousands face deportation.”
“Let us in. Don’t let us down.”
Those are some of the slogans that guest workers and international students have been unfurling on protest banners and social media across Canada.
They should be deported. End of story.
There are more unemployed people in Toronto than in all of Quebec.
When that stat was passed my way the other day, I was dismissive and thought it was someone on social media making things up.
Turns out it is 100% accurate and the reasons behind it are disturbing.
