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The CFIA says the product might have been sold in clerk-served packages or smaller packages without a label, or in a package that doesn’t bear the same brand or product name.
Hotels, hospitals, retirement homes, bakeries, etc: all places where these are served with no reference to their brand name. Heads up.
I suspect the plastic bag/straw issue is politicians virtue signalling to the Oil and Gas lobby, like “I’ll make sure you still get pennies for your nurdles, Boss!”
[edit - link’s to a vox article from 2022 explaining what nurdles are]
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How everyone in Parliament doesn’t have an aneurysm from having to deal with him is beyond me. Just 3 minutes of his blatant bullshit gives me an ice cream headache.
Highlight of the debate imo: Skippy says I’m “living in terror” here in Toronto, because of car theft.
Sweet mother of god, someone muzzle the attack poodle. I really want to hear everything everyone has to say tonight, but SkiPPy is working his ass off to make me turn off the radio. Everyone’s losing continuity and intelligibility with the amount he’s talking over and interrupting.
The Manning Centre trained him well.
More mainstream and big budget, so everyone probably already knows this one. But if you like puzzles and wish your gameplay was narrated by Prometheus gentle-parenting manbaby Zeus through your hero’s journey, Immortals: Fenyx Rising is fluffy fun. It’s an ubisoft game, and they’re still a Quebec company so it absolutely counts.
[There’s no indication any of the officers or jailers at any of the detention locations were women. Every reference gives male pronouns (unless I missed something).]
Moved her to 4 different states in 1 night, kept her awake and hungry after fasting all day for Ramadan, 4 o’clock in the morning, made a point of letting her know they saw pics of her without her hijab. Then someone taking the scarf off her head without asking (to cure her asthma! who knew it was so easy! /s), while she’s protesting. Absolutely, I’d assume cruel sarcasm on the part of both these people.
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The only reason we know this is happening, is because Lyft fucked up once by sending her the transcript. Assume it’s happening in every vehicle.
The personal responsibility/choice narrative silicon valley loves so much when it comes to deregulation of labour standards and constant aggressive privacy violations is not useful irl. Any gig worker for lyft/uber/fuckworkers.com isn’t going to feel free to say no (if they have any choice at all) and putting the onus on riders doesn’t make sense here at all.
Canada has privacy laws that techbro companies from the USA simply ignore. Now is the best time to start enforcing them.
During their reunion in E.’s hometown, the first time they’d been together since the summer, the friends looked up know-your-rights tutorials and discussed whether Öztürk should cut short her doctoral program. They spent their last day together filling out intake forms for legal aid groups — just in case.
Right up until their last minutes together at the train station, they wrestled with how cautious Öztürk should be when she returned to Massachusetts. Öztürk wondered if she should avoid communal dinners, a feature of Muslim social life during the holy month of Ramadan.
“I told her to keep going out, to be with her community. I wanted her to live her life,” E. recalled, her voice breaking.
“And then she got abducted in broad daylight.”
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“What broke me was her screaming. And knowing that the same thing had just happened to almost 400 people in the Boston area the week before,” said [Fatema Ahmad of the Muslim Justice League], referring to a recent six-day ICE operation.
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Her last stop [after they moved her over 4 states in one night] was a detention center in Basile about an hour away, where she remains, one of two dozen women in a damp, mouse-infested cell built to hold 14, according to court filings.
Whole thing’s a fucking brutal read, but worth it.
Was watching cbc last night and saw a good bit where they investigate con and lib crowd number claims.
Liberals claimed 2,000 in a 1,100 capacity room, and a crowd science expert counted 756.
Conservatives claimed 5,500, and the cbc counted 1,522.
Cons also claimed 15,000; expert counted 1,772.
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Posting a quote from the entrepreneur in question, jic anyone doesn’t know who this good man is (link’s to a interview with him on CBC’s show the Next Chapter).
"I always say that Syria is my home by birth and Canada is my home by choice. I knew this country stands for human rights, for freedom, for supporting immigrants and refugees to start their new lives on this amazing land of opportunity. I’ve heard a lot of stories of Canadian immigrants starting from scratch like newborn babies.
“From the moment that I landed at the Canadian airport is certainly when the feeling became a reality. I was treated like I belonged — like I was born in Canada and taken away to the Middle East for 25 years of my life and then brought back. That’s how it felt because I was treated like a Canadian. I had every single right to do everything I wanted, everything I dreamed of.” Tareq Hadhad, founder of Peace by Chocolate, 2021
She’s the reason city council can’t meet in person anymore. Even trying to meet online, they’re bombarded.
The link is the 13 min video (linked in the article) the City of Pickering council put together in Dec documenting some of the harassment they’re dealing with, as well as how she encourages it.
(Antihate’s one of the best resources Canada has going atm, keeping track of all this nazi shit. ty for linking, OP.)
Heard it on my morning news program here in Canada. “I’ll do anything. I’ll do anything, sir,” he chuckled. Sounded like he was making fun of an abuse victim. Like that time he mocked the disabled. Filthy predator.
That any media outlet is featuring his latest truth claim in an uncontested headline is wild. Look at the amount of commentary already produced that assumes his version of events is what’s actually happening.
Really good read, OP. ty
At United Nations talks late last year, delegates from more than 170 countries (as well as industry lobbyists and the International Alliance of Waste Pickers, which represents workers who make a living from collecting recyclables) failed to agree on a global plastics treaty aimed at fighting pollution, mostly because of opposition from a group of oil-producing countries.
Good reminder that when you go up against plastic, you’re going up against the O&G industry.
Plastic Bank isn’t interested in hiring full-time collectors. “I think it’s even more exciting for the world’s most resourceful to have an unlimited opportunity,” Katz says. “If they want to work more, they’ll work more. They are the masters of their lives.”
Workers say “pay us a salary, pay us a wage” and the Owners are like, “lol no, this is better for your moral development. You’re welcome.” Plus ça change. Ask uber workers and all the poor friggers addicted to TaskRabbit if they’re “masters of their lives.”
When everyone knows all you need to heal all wounds is to ingest 1 cup of school glue. You have to dry it on your hands and peel it off before eating it though - a lot of people get that wrong.
Already bad enough here in Ontario with Doug “I’m a big Republican” Ford’s Ministerial Zoning Order addiction, gutting environmental protection agencies, trying to sell off the Greenbelt, using covid recovery bills to get his dirt done, etc.
Any rein we’ve been able to keep on the timbit would dissolve into nada if we allowed the US govt to run their game here. I can’t even conceive of much worse they’d make the tar sands in Alberta. 90% of the fisheries would just be trawlers digging up seabeds. Plus the dizzying amount of toxic waste they’re already legally dumping here and in Mexico?
Elbows up.
March '23 Trump gave a soundbite for his billionaire bosses about building “Freedom Cities.” Clear-cutting national forests, then signing an order that makes the area exempt from regulation? Sounds about right.
If they’re coming for all federally governed land, indigenous reservations will be on the menu as well (always are).
Not just nationwide either. Absolutely beautiful. Solidarity from Canada <3
Maybe OT, but there’s comfort knowing most online accounts minimizing irl resistance (saying this is nothing, or not enough, or they’re not doing it right, or I can do 6-7pm on Wednesday lmk, omg people have jobs, why aren’t they angry at this other thing, and on and on) are working overtime.
Remember learning about the work that went into de-legitimizing the Women’s Marches?
More than 4,000 miles away, organizations linked to the Russian government had assigned teams to the Women’s March. At desks in bland offices in St. Petersburg, using models derived from advertising and public relations, copywriters were testing out social media messages critical of the Women’s March movement, adopting the personas of fictional Americans.
They posted as Black women critical of white feminism, conservative women who felt excluded, and men who mocked participants as hairy-legged whiners. - NYT, Sept 22
The day after the World Said No to War, news article after article sold the story back to us that we didn’t really DO anything because the USA was still bombing people. But everyone who was there remembers looking around and realizing no matter what the news tells us about our activism, we still care enough to show up for each other, and We Are Everywhere. With oppositional media framing everything as hopeless, depressing, alienating, etc, physically being with other people who give a fuck is not just good for politics, it’s good for our mental health (or soul, if you’re into that).
Reading some comments here, I want to leave a gentle reminder to my fellow redditfugees: the block user option is your friend. Curate your feed or get fed.
When you see an aggressively oppositional account dropping shittastic hot takes, of course you can always engage and Have The Conversation if you want. You know what happens after you reply: the person likely leaves a bot to mess with your good intentions, raise your blood pressure, make you depressed and waste your time. Or maybe you successfully Prove Them Wrong and they change the goalposts, or wander off to needle someone else.
We know by now, the more we engage, the more online space they get to fill with accelerationist Content.
So just click the account name, then click the block button, and you’ll never see their viral brainrot again. Nobody needs to know; no need to announce it. If your freezepeach philosophy prevents that, maybe just upvote one of the replies you agree with and move on. If you’re on mobile, you can tag the account through Voyager etc instead of blocking, if you prefer.
However you manage it, removing doomscroller ragebait from your Feed is worth doing.
Headline misrepresents what their acting President said. From their own article: