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The Body Shop joins Canada’s retail exodus. Here are the other stores that have closed

Canada’s retail exodus continues.

The Body Shop, the British cosmetic and skin care company, filed for bankruptcy protection in Canada on Friday. It will close its 33 stores and halt online operations while it owes more than $3 million to unsecured and secured creditors.

The company is also shuttering its U.S. operations and, according to British media, closing 75 of its stores in the U.K. Weeks ago, the company filed for administration in the U.K., the equivalent of bankruptcy in the United Kingdom.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Clash of the ‘extremism reporters’

The biggest drama coming out of CPAC last week comes courtesy of a woman who wasn’t even admitted. Amanda Moore is a freelance reporter best known for going “undercover” with the MAGA movement. She found herself denied entry to the event, as one of the “propagandists” singled out by ACU chairman Matt Schlapp, along with reporters from HuffPost and Mother Jones. Instead Moore sat in the lobby of the hotel where the conference was hosted, writing about the experience for the Nation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"NAZIS! NAZIS EVERYWHERE!", WTF?

‘Am I too white?’ Maine residents in uproar over $13million ‘Taj Mahal’ migrant housing complex where asylum seekers can stay RENT FREE for two years

Residents of a Maine town have hit out at the $13million construction of a complex of 60 apartments for asylum seekers, where they can live rent free for two years then pay a fraction of the rental price.

Locals in Brunswick have expressed fury over the project, which is being funded by a mix of private and public money and which has been heavily criticized by Donald Trump Jr.

The apartment complex in Brunswick is one of the many projects being launched by the town in what critics have labeled a ‘Taj Mahal’, red-carpet welcome for asylum seekers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

Oompa-Loompas reveal: how the Willy Wonka Glasgow experience went wrong

When Kirsty Paterson signed up to portray an Oompa-Loompa at the Willy’s Chocolate Experience she was expecting £500 and the chance to display some of her acting skills.

Instead she achieved worldwide fame as press from the Washington Post to the Straits Times in Singapore picked up the story of the underwhelming visitor attraction based on Roald Dahl’s story Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Toronto cops make arrest in ‘random’ pellet gun shooting of woman, 76 … motive eludes them

A 27-year-old Toronto man faces charges after a 76-year-old woman was shot with a pellet gun in the face and hands in what’s believed to have been a random attack in Scarborough.

… “She suffered some pretty serious injuries,” Toronto Police Insp. Michael Williams told a press conference Friday. “Thankfully, she’ll recover from them but quite obviously she’s very traumatized and is actually concerned to walk back on the street again.”

Williams said suspect Umer Saad lives in the neighbourhood where the incident happened.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", WTF?

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau tried to hide massive security failure at Winnipeg biolab

We now know why Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fought so hard to keep secret the documents revealing scientists Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, were fired from Canada’s highest security biolab because of their undisclosed relationships with agencies of the People’s Republic of China.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - Security Risk Under Liberal Party Regime", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

George Galloway wins Rochdale by-election as ex-Labour candidate finishes fourth

George Galloway sealed a shock return to front line British politics on Thursday night as he stormed to victory in the Rochdale by-election.

The Workers Party leader claimed his fourth Parliamentary seat and will return to Westminster after almost a decade in the wilderness.

He secured a comfortable 5,697 majority with Azhar Ali, the candidate who Labour ditched over an anti-Semitism row, pushed into fourth place.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Public servant’s company received more than $200M in government contracts since 2015

An IT firm run by a defence department employee has been awarded millions of dollars in government contracts since 2015.

Dalian Enterprise has come in for scrutiny recently over its involvement in the development of the ArriveCan app. The company had received $7.9 million for its work on the project as of last March, according to a recent report from Canada’s auditor general.

The company has received more than $200 million in government contracts since 2015, according to a CBC News analysis of documents tabled in the House of Commons in January.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

They fell for the pro-Bin Laden 9/11 propaganda… now they glorify the deranged airman Aaron Bushnell who burned himself to death. Is there no end to the gullibility of the purple-haired leftist Gen-Zers who will inherit America?

US airman Aaron Bushnell, a man so clearly deranged and mentally unwell, burnt himself to death this weekend outside the Israeli embassy in DC in an apparent ‘protest’ against the war in Gaza.

Terrifying footage – that Bushnell livestreamed – shows him dousing his Air Force uniform in lighter fluid before igniting himself and screaming ‘Free Palestine’ as his flesh literally melts away.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", WTF?

Surrey schools pull To Kill a Mockingbird and other books from recommended reading curriculum

Surrey public school educators have pulled four classic books from the recommended reading curriculum over concerns about racist content.

The Surrey school district quietly decided to remove Harper Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, John Ball’s In the Heat of the Night, and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck from the list of books recommended for students Grade 10 and older.

… “We did a comprehensive review of these resources that determined that the merits of these novels do not outweigh the potential trauma and harm they may cause to some students,” she said.

They’re not “banned” but a teacher must have permission to use them in the classroom.

I was reading about WW I, WW II and the Holocaust in elementary school. Are kids that fragile today?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", WTF?

Under the right conditions, Canada open to sending noncombat troops to Ukraine, Defence Minister Bill Blair says

Putin warns West against sending troops to Ukraine

OTTAWA—Canada is open to sending a limited number of military personnel to train Ukrainian troops within Ukraine, so long as such an operation took place far from the front lines of the war with Russia in a clear, noncombat role, Defence Minister Bill Blair says.

In an interview with the Star, Blair said the idea was discussed earlier this week in Paris, where he attended a security summit alongside Canada’s NATO allies and fellow supporters of Ukraine. After the meeting, French President Emmanuel Macron floated the prospect of sending troops into Ukraine, prompting a series of statements from Western allies — including Canada — who shot down the idea of sending combat soldiers into the war-torn country.

On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned of “tragic” consequences for countries that deploy troops to support Ukraine, including the risk of global nuclear war.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada, WTF?