‘Consumers are lost forever’: Bud Light sales remain 30% down since Dylan Mulvaney marketing debacle

Bud Light’s damages are so severe, there is concern over whether the brand can ever fully recover after the prolonged decline in sales and loss of consumer confidence ever since the Dylan Mulvaney marketing debacle six months ago.

The damage to the brand is now being described as ‘quasi-permanent,’ according to Beer Business Daily publisher Harry Schuhmacher. ‘The Bud Light situation has actually gotten worse,’ he told Fox News Digital.

Despite initial hopes of a rebound, the brand remains down around 30 percent in volume compared to last year, persisting since May or June, and consumers might be lost ‘forever.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors"

How more homeless encampments in Ontario signal a housing crisis out of control

Homeless encampments have been multiplying across Ontario since the pandemic, but experts say this visible symptom of the national housing crisis has been a long time coming.

With limited shelter space, a lack of social housing, increasing cost of home ownership and ballooning rents, more and more people are left with few options but to pitch a tent in a public space.

But how did we get here? And what can be done?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Toronto Public Health warns of spike in overdoses as city experiences ‘drug toxicity crisis’

Toronto’s public health unit has issued an alert warning of a spike in opioid-related overdose deaths in the city since Aug. 31.

Toronto Public Health (TPH) says 11 people died of suspected opioid-related overdoes between Aug. 31 and Sept. 6, which the health agency says is double the weekly average for the city.

TPH says there have been recent reports of red and green fentanyl linked to overdoses both in the community and at supervised consumption sites, though specific information about those drugs is not yet available. The city’s drug-checking service, according to a media release from Toronto Public Health, continues to find other highly potent opioids and benzodiazepine-drugs in samples expected to be fentanyl.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

New data shows hundreds of condos flooding Toronto’s home resale market as investors sell off and get out

Hundreds of condos in downtown Toronto are up for sale, flooding the market as high interest rates spur an exodus of investors, and some homeowners, who are unable to keep up with mounting mortgage costs.

Year-over-year sales for detached and semi-detached homes in the GTA dropped by 12 and 14 per cent, respectively, in August, while townhouse sales rose a modest 0.6 per cent. All three saw price increases. Condo sales, however, jumped by 7.6 per cent but saw average price drop by one per cent, according to the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Is Eritrea stoking conflicts between its migrants abroad?

Authorities in several countries are facing a moral, legal and diplomatic conundrum over migrants from the East African nation of Eritrea.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the deportation of Eritrean migrants who were involved in violent clashes last Saturday.

The trouble erupted when a demonstration against an event in the Eritrean Embassy turned violent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEritrea

GOLDSTEIN: Canada a global leader in defusing the real carbon bomb — coal

While you seldom hear about it, Canada is a global leader in reducing the use of coal to generate electricity, the single largest source of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions on the planet.

Forget about the so-called “carbon bomb” of Canada’s oil sands, a favourite target of Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and other environmental radicals.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

How earthquakes happen — and why Morocco was hit harder

Morocco is hardly the first place that comes to mind when people think of earthquakes, but they are actually quite common. Compared with the colossal quakes that shake Turkey, Indonesia, Japan, China and other very seismically active parts of the planet, however, those that affect Morocco are not especially large.

Probably the most infamous is the 1960 Agadir earthquake, which took up to 15,000 lives in the south of the country. More recently another quake in 2004, with an epicentre on the north coast, killed more than 600 people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You"

Canadian Population Growth Requires 50k New Jobs Per Month: Stat Can

Canada’s population boom led to a talent windfall, but the country has no idea how to use it. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data revealed much better-than-expected job gains in August 2023. However, those job gains failed to keep up with the population growth, ultimately softening the labor market. It may get a lot worse soon, with Stat Can estimating Canada needs to add about 50k jobs per month to maintain the strength of the current market. That would imply a near-record needs to be hit every single month.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Electric Vehicles: The (Unwanted) Car-Rental Preview

I have written before about how renting a car can turn into an unwanted preview of the electric-vehicle (EV) experience. Whatever the rental companies may be saying, it seems reasonable to think that car renters are increasingly being “forced” into EVs whether or not they want them because EV manufacturers are finding it more difficult than expected to find enough buyers for their product on the open market. Signing up for a central-planning project can be like that. Spotting a way to get hold of cars at a discount price, the rental companies have stepped up.

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

New York Times: Eric Adams Is A Democrat So It’s No Longer Hateful To Oppose Uncontrolled Mass Migration

A favorite pastime of mine is watching how quickly the national media discover nuance and complexity in a tragedy once it’s a Democrat who’s at the root of it.

Political violence committed by a Republican? Right-wing, pro-gun, white supremacist inspired by Fox News and Donald Trump’s hateful rhetoric!

Political violence committed by a Democrat? Well, there’s plenty of blame to go around, and both sides need to do their part in bringing down the temperature a little.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", USA

More Climate Fairy Tales

What a great summer it’s been for climate activists.

It’s been a good summer for climate activists who are pushing the false narrative of “climate change.”

We had the Canadian wildfires with smoke drifting into other parts of North America. Then there were hotter than usual temperatures in many parts of the country (it’s summertime and I predict temperatures will drop this fall, winter and spring, as usual), followed by a devastating fire in Maui, and then Hurricane Idalia.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

America’s Untouchables

In this decade, America’s most effective conservative activist has likely been Chris Rufo, who in 2020 came up with a winning euphemism for all the racist antiwhite hate suffusing our schools, streets, and screens during the racial reckoning: “Critical Race Theory,” Rufo called it.

Personally, I just refer to racist antiwhite hate as “racist antiwhite hate.” But my term is far too self-explanatory to ever catch on. In the 21st century, Americans prefer opaque neologisms like “jump the shark” or “motte and bailey,” which require lectures on Happy Days trivia or feudal fortifications to understand.

“Critical Race Theory” has the advantage of being incomprehensible to those who haven’t been briefed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism

The new woke James Bond is beyond parody

The near-universal loathing for Charlie Higson’s new Bond novel has restored my faith in humanity.

Last week on X (formerly known as Twitter), Ed West, journalist and eternal Eeyore of the British right, shared a few pages from the latest James Bond novel. He included no prompts to indicate how we should feel about it, or indeed why he had thought it worth bringing to our attention. But the derision it drew was immediate. The consensus was overwhelming: it was tripe.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

Caribbean nations to formally demand slavery reparations from Royal family

Caribbean nations are to formally demand slavery reparations from the Royal family, The Telegraph can reveal.

Lloyds of London and the Church of England are also set to be approached with demands for reparative justice for their role in the slave trade and plantation system.

National reparations commissions in the Caribbean want to bypass the British Government and pursue financial payments directly from British institutions with historical links to slavery.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals", Slavery and Reparations