More than a year after the Buy Canadian movement took root, grocery giants Loblaw and Sobeys are facing increased scrutiny over “maple washing” — the practice of promoting imported goods as homegrown.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) slapped two Loblaw-owned stores in January with $10,000 fines each for maple washing, and one month later, two other Loblaw-owned stores got formal warnings for the same violation, CBC News has learned.
10K fines? The cost of doing business is all.
I’ll disclose my bias straight off: I believe there’s a special place in Hell below even Dante’s imagination for adults who exploit children. Civilized societies should show absolutely zero tolerance for crimes involving child sexual abuse material or the destruction of childhood innocence.
One of my older sisters once told me that “hate” is a strong word; only say it when it’s necessary. Unfortunately, similar to words like “awesome,” “literally,” and “Nazi,” they’ve been overused to the point where those words lose their strength. Because of what she told me, I’ve refrained from saying “hate” until the situation demands it.
Turning Point USA has announced that Kid Rock and country star Lee Brice will headline its “All American Halftime Show,” which will air during Super Bowl LX this coming weekend. “The All American Halftime Show will be a unique, patriotic event proudly celebrating American culture, freedom, and faith,” Turning Point USA said in its announcement on Monday.
Cross dressing Puerto Ricans and the NFL just seem a natural fit.
The NFL’s decision to have Bad Bunny perform at its Super Bowl halftime show, while offensive to its traditional demographic, is actually a smart marketing idea. He’s not hugely appealing to the current NFL demographic (mostly older, affluent(ish), white men), but he’s huge in the fastest growing demographic group in America: Hispanics.
The National Football League (NFL) furthered its descent into gay race communism on Sunday with the announcement that uber left-wing rapper-singer Bad Bunny will be the featured performer of the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
Ben & Jerry’s has said its chief executive, David Stever, was being removed by its parent company, Unilever, in a growing dispute over the ice cream company’s political activism.
The allegation was part of a legal case filed in a US court by Ben & Jerry’s that says Unilever violated a merger agreement by trying to silence its “social mission”.
Unilever did not immediately reply to a request for comment from BBC News.
It comes a month after the ice cream company accused Unilever of demanding that it stops publicly criticising US President Donald Trump.
Missouri has sued Starbucks for discrimination because its workforce has “become more female and less white”.
Filed on Tuesday by the state’s Republican attorney general, the lawsuit accuses the coffee chain of engaging in “systemic racial, sexual, and sexual orientation discrimination” through its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, including hiring quotas, advancement opportunities and board membership.
The lawsuit alleges that as of 23 August 2020 the company’s US employee breakdown was 69% women, and that by 24 September 2024 the figure was 70.9% women.
TD Bank is expected to pay about $3 billion in penalties and accept limits on its growth in the U.S. as part of a settlement with regulators and prosecutors over charges it failed to properly monitor money laundering by drug cartels.
As part of the agreement, the bank’s primary U.S. regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, is expected to impose an asset cap barring the bank’s retail business from growing above a certain level in the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter.
But TD was the Social Justice bank! – Oh well they’ll just jack up customer service charges and pay this off in a week or two.
In an internal memo Molson Coors shared with The Canadian Press, the company says its DEI employee training is complete and that it will no longer have specific “representation goals” in its hiring process.
The way Randall Dill tells it, he was a ‘model employee’ for IBM, nurturing relationships with the Pentagon and other big spenders.
Then came the diversity targets, and the Michigander was kicked out of the computing giant so it could hire more women and minorities, he says.
Worse still — says a lawsuit filed with a Michigan US District Court on Wednesday — Dill’s bosses didn’t tell him straight why he was being axed.
More bosses are pulling the handbrake on costly and inconclusive diversity initiatives
Behind office doors, HR departments at some of Britain’s biggest businesses have recently been feeling defensive and on the backfoot.
Increasingly laid at their doors is the blame for allowing toxic identity politics to enter the workplace, and wasting millions of pounds on pointless diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) schemes.
Pointing the finger are belt-tightening senior leaders scrutinising their returns amid soaring wage bills, with some even feeling betrayed for being shepherded by HR into the vicious culture wars.
In the decade between 2013 and 2023, Pride Month went from an obscure American event to a nearly global—and in many quarters obligatory—celebration of homosexual acts, cross-dressing, BDSM, and gender ideology. For those of us who believe some or all of these things to be immoral (or at least not the stuff of which parades ought to be made), June has become an uncomfortable month.
It turns out the boycott of Bud Light over its employ of trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney a year ago wasn’t just a passing fad, as many on the left and in the media laughed it off to be.
In fact, the Bud Light brand is still suffering a year later, according to a new report from 6ABC.
For an American company to build and maintain a customer base, it must choose one of two courses: either be apolitical and serve all Americans, or be political in a single consistent direction and serve only some (like Ben & Jerry’s). It cannot be political in all directions at once, or in different directions at different times as fashions or the caprices of company leadership dictate. If it does, it halfway alienates all its customers which, in a competitive market, is as good as alienating them entirely.
It isn’t a riot unless a Starbucks is trashed.
Gee’s Bend is a unique aspect of Alabama history. It’s a settlement situated on what was once a plantation, and the people who live there are direct descendants of former slaves; after the war officially ended in 1865, former slaves stayed on the land and worked as sharecroppers and tenant farmers, but when the the economic instability of the 1930s hit, the federal government purchased ten thousand acres of the plantation and created loan programs for these black families to acquire land ownership.
