‘A BIT OBSCENE’: People encouraged to ‘steal from Loblaws’

While some people can certainly try to avoid the big chains, for others, it’s not so easy when their options for stores are limited.

However, a new course of action is being suggested, which is essentially, go on the attack as far as Loblaw stores are concerned.

Posters encouraging Canadian shoppers to take back from the man have been spotted in Toronto.

h/t Patti Joe

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Troubled Teens …

Markham carjacking suspects chased through parking lot in video of dramatic police takedown

Police have released video footage of a dramatic takedown of a group of teens wanted in connection with an attempted carjacking in Markham earlier this month.

On Friday, York Regional Police said the vehicle used in the carjacking has been connected to other armed carjackings in the Greater Toronto Area and investigators are releasing video surveillance footage of the suspects in an effort to find others who may be “linked to this criminal network.”

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French schoolgirl, 14, dies from heart attack during lock-in to protect children from knifeman

A French teenager died from a heart attack during a lock-in to protect students from a knifeman attacking children outside their school.

The 14-year-old went into cardiac arrest early on Thursday afternoon as the attack unfolded in the town of Souffelweyersheim, in France’s northeastern Alsace region. She was taken to hospital but died later on Thursday.

The knifeman, who launched his assault outside the school about 2pm on Thursday, targeting two girls aged 11 and 7 before fleeing. The pair suffered minor injuries.


From Fdesouche Perp is a known loon … Google translate

The attacker was arrested shortly after 2:15 p.m. in the square. The man no longer had the knife in his hand and allowed himself to be questioned. According to the gendarmerie, Antoine M. is “not known to the services” , and his motivations “do not seem to be linked to radicalization” . Furthermore, the suspect, born in Strasbourg, presents a certain “mental fragility” , indicates a source close to the case who adds that the individual spent three stays in psychiatry and was followed by a psychiatrist.

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Queen Charlotte was ‘person of colour’, museum claims in LGBT guide

Queen Charlotte was a “person of colour”, a museum’s LGBT audio guide has wrongly claimed.

The audio guide for the Royal Museums Greenwich tells visitors that despite what “insecure white boys” have said, George III’s wife was the first British royal from a non-white background.

Queen Charlotte’s purported ethnicity has been sidelined because of “structural racism”, according to the guide, which states that she was a “person of colour”.

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Lunatic Guilbeault to force banks to call carbon rebate a carbon rebate in direct deposits

OTTAWA – Canadian banks that refuse to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits are forcing the government to change the law to make them do it, says Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault.

Guilbeault is taking the stand after Tuesday’s federal budget promised to amend the Financial Administration Act so government payments accepted for deposit at Canadian banks will carry whatever title the government wants.

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Minister Says He Was Taken Aback After Learning Deadly Viruses Were Shipped From Winnipeg Lab to Wuhan

After learning that samples of deadly Ebola and Nipah viruses had been sent from Canada’s top-security lab in Winnipeg to China, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said his reaction was similar to that of an MP who expressed incredulity upon learning of the move.

“I’m really concerned about the March 2019 incident where [Winnipeg lab scientists Xiangguo Qiu and Keding Cheng] were implicated in a shipment of live Ebola in Hanipah [Nipah] viruses on a commercial Air Canada flight. How the hell did that happen?” NDP MP Charlie Angus asked during a House of Commons Canada-China committee meeting on April 15.

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The 10 Most Cringeworthy Excerpts From The New York Times Article On ‘Polycules’

This week, The New York Times Magazine released a long profile on “Lessons From a 20-Person Polycule: How they set boundaries, navigate jealousy, wingman their spouses and foster community.”

“Polycules” are still obscure enough that the Times feels the need for an explainer in the first paragraph, so it’s an open question whether such a high-profile outlet giving these people attention is a good idea. But if you’re curious, here’s the explanation…

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