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?

Carelessness with security, as seen in the Winnipeg lab, has consequences

It seems careless to let uncleared foreign researchers roam unattended in a high-security microbiology lab, as one of the scientists fired in 2020, Keding Cheng, did.

To the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, it seemed even more careless, and suspicious, that his wife and colleague, Xiangguo Qiu, hadn’t told her employers she took a side trip to the

Wuhan Institute of Virology. Or that she had applied to a “talent program” in China that the Canadian spy agency suspected was connected to commercial espionage.

In the larger sense, the whole thing was an example of carelessness, here in Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

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?

The left’s deathly embrace of Islamic identitarianism

So the House of Commons now has an MP for Gaza. His name is George Galloway. Last night, the fedora-sporting left-wing malcontent won a stunning victory in the by-election in Rochdale. ‘This is for Gaza’, he said in his victory speech. Not for Rochdale’s poor, then. Not for its struggling families. Not for its working-class girls who suffered so terribly at the hands of Pakistani grooming gangs. No, for a small patch of land 2,500 miles away. Rarely has the British left’s penchant for deserting its own working class in favour of cosying up to more ‘glamorous’ causes overseas been so brutally illustrated.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Is Nato heading for nuclear war?

On Monday, Europe crossed yet another red line in its ever-escalating, no-longer-so-proxy war against Russia. In a hastily arranged meeting of European leaders in Paris — a response to significant Russian breakthroughs on the Ukrainian frontline over the past few weeks — Emmanuel Macron shattered one of the few taboos left in Western circles by saying that sending Nato troops to Ukraine should not be ruled out. “We must do everything necessary to prevent Russia from winning the war,” he declared, adding that France could even take such action without the consent of other EU members because “each country is sovereign and its armed forces are sovereign”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

The Long March of the Lemmings

In an interview with John Anderson last fall, Douglas Murray delivered a passionate denunciation of a plan by Muslim groups to host the so-called ‘Million Man March’ for Palestine on Remembrance Day.

“The soul of England, the soul of Britain, is about to be trampled on very, very visibly by people who are gleeful in their trampling,” he said with fierce contempt. “They have defaced and defiled all of our holy places, and I think that I know the British soul is awakening and stirring with rage at what these people are doing. These people came into our house—many of them broke into our house illegally. Many of them were never wanted here. They have come here; they have betrayed all of our attempts at hospitality; they’ve spat in our faces; and now they want to trample everything we have underfoot. No. No.” 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Batshit Crazy Progressive Hypocrites, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

‘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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Silicon Valley electric cars are dead

After spending over $10 billion, screwing over corporate partners, hiring and firing talent and a decade of work trying to develop a flagship product for a new, massive market, Apple has killed what could have been its most ambitious product yet: an electric car.

Its death comes with no announcement, for Apple never officially acknowledged “Project Titan” existed, but Mark Gurman of Bloomberg reported Tuesday that its 2,000-person team had been shifted to other projects. But its demise is surprising because Apple rarely gives up on big projects, and because of just how much time and money had been spent on it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

Canadian government’s top science advisor provides update on official UFO study

The Canadian government’s top scientific advisor says her office will release a public UFO report by early fall.

Speaking to lawmakers in Ottawa this week, Mona Nemer also said that more can be done to make UFO information available to Canadians.

“I think that there is room for improvement in terms of the gathering, reporting on the information, and also making it available to researchers and to the public,” Nemer told Parliament’s science and research committee on Tuesday(opens in a new tab).

10 KEY FACTS ABOUT UAP

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Winnipeg Lab: Government Lurching From Incompetence to Danger on National Security

There is an old saying, “It is always darkest before the dawn.” The meaning behind this axiom is that things may look dire, but they will soon turn for the better.

When it comes to the federal government and national security, however, I fear only more darkness for the foreseeable future.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

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?