Showing posts with label boycott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boycott. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Rants ONLY!

 June 2025 - Toronto ON

It's getting very hard to keep up with the lunacy!


ONTARIO






Danielle Smith Alberta premier - MAGA separatist 





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The US Ambassador to Canada thinks we shouldn't have travel advisories about US travel, well, this is what Canadians have to say.




I think it was three weeks ago that I mentioned Gavin Newsom begging Canadians to come to California and spend some money, I think NOT!


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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Just a Rant UPDATED

 

From The Hill

Opinion - The racist ideology behind Afrikaners’ red carpet treatment

Snopes debunks tRump's "white genocide" conspiracy theory.




Arlene Dickinson - is a South African and Canadian businesswoman, investor, author, and television personality. She is the general partner of District Ventures Capital and CEO of Venturepark.
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I was born in South Africa. I became Canadian when I was very young, but I still have family there. Watching Donald Trump ambush President Ramaphosa in the Oval Office last week with lies about “white genocide” was really upsetting to me.
There is no white genocide in South Africa. Trump’s claim is dangerous, false, and rooted in racist fear-mongering, something he keeps getting away with. Crime in South Africa exists and affects everyone, but especially Black communities. Land reform is a constitutional process, not a violent land grab. Trump used images and misinformation to paint a distorted and dishonest picture. He wasn’t trying to help anyone but himself and trying to do what he always does which is appeal to his base and use bully tactics to gain leverage in negotiations. It was brutal to watch.
He disrespected a country and stirred racist division to serve his own political narrative and to gain the upper hand. And because the stakes are so high, world leaders of course feel they have to stay diplomatic, even when the truth is being twisted right there in front of them. No one wants to become a White House scapegoat for reacting to Trump and give him any reason to punch back with tariffs or other harm to their nation. We’ve seen how quickly people like Zelensky got blamed for standing up, even when they should and have every right to.
President Ramaphosa did stay calm and dignified, while he was clearly being blindsided. But I wish more media and other leaders had said then, and since then, that what was said by Trump isn’t true.
Facts matter. Respect matters. And when powerful leaders twist reality to win, they don’t just harm one country they erode trust everywhere. Why do we keep letting it go unchecked? Why aren’t more media voices braver? I think it’s because they’re afraid, because he does this to them too. He embarrasses good reporters, dodges accountability, and strips people of respect as a tactic. It’s bullying 101 and sadly there’s always people who will follow bullies in order to be part of their circle of power.
I don’t know the answer. But I do know this. When we let disinformation lead, we all end up following something wholly unworthy of us.





















Friday, May 23, 2025

The "EH" List - MADE IN CANADA (and some ranting)



May 2025 - Toronto ON
We were on a four day bus tour to Ottawa last weekend. The company, Canadian, used to do a lot of bus trips to the States, NYC, Martha's Vineyard, Boston, Savannah, Nashville etc.
The guide mentioned that the American trips are just not selling as Canadians are boycotting US travel. So far they have had to cancel at least 20 trips. This impacts those states that depend on the Canadian tourist dollars.
They have now added many Canadian trips to Quebec and the Maritimes. They also mentioned that they will be expanding to Western Canada.
She also mentioned that we will have a lot of Americans travelling here over the summer months.


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Canadian Tire is acquiring Hudson’s Bay’s historic stripes, coat of arms, and brand trademarks for $30 million, as the department store chain winds down operations.
Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/m/RetailInsider













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ALBERTA


LETTER IN EDMONTON JOURNALTo Danielle Smith: I emigrated from Scotland 47 years ago; my family and I took out Canadian citizenship within three years and have enjoyed all the benefits provided by this country and have enjoyed a standard of living unequal to the average family anywhere else in the world. These benefits and opportunities are also available to every individual in Canada, including the less fortunate, people living on the margins of society due to ill health, misfortune or circumstances beyond their control. I feel fortunate being able to live side-by-side with the original inhabitants, the Aboriginal Peoples who still hold title to much of what we now call Canada and who have never ceded their lands to any government but continue to share. If you proceed with an agenda based on your ideals, the legacy of Danielle Smith will be the disenfranchisement of all the Canadians now living in Alberta who would become stateless. Call it anything you want, but this move would essentially be a coup against a legitimately elected federal government. Systematically, you have created a path forward for this scheme to succeed, technically.



I don’t think that this will succeed and I know that most Albertans are Canadians and are way too intelligent to fall for this scheme.
James Roberts, Sylvan Lake









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ONTARIO
Where are the homes, hospitals, schools, jobs ? Instead..billion dollar casinos, much more access to booze across Ontario, more access to pot. Billion dollar luxury foreign spa. Foreign hoteliers, foreign owned luxury hotel chain being given your tax dollars.



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MEANWHILE...



Yaron Lichinsky, a Christian man, was murdered in cold blood on U.S. soil for the sin of standing with the Jewish people. This isn't just a crime against Jews. It's a crime against America.



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Randy Rainbow #ThatsTrumpDerangement





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Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, bungled answers on Tuesday about habeas corpus, incorrectly saying that the legal right of people to challenge their detention by the government was actually the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people.


Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires the government to provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people. If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people, including American citizens, and hold them indefinitely for no reason.”
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect





‪Aaron Rupar‬
‪@atrupar.com‬
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KIM: Do you know what section of the Constitution the suspension clause of habeas corpus is in?


NOEM: I do not. Nope.


KIM: Do you know which article is it in?


NOEM: I do not, sir.



















Thursday, May 15, 2025

The "EH" List - MADE IN CANADA (and some ranting)

 

May 2025 - Toronto ON

The liquor stores continue to boycott American products yet the shelves are full as we all try new things.

We also continue to read labels at grocery stores and elsewhere finding American alternatives.

Back to my weekly ranting, highlighting some amusing memes I found this week.

Our new Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney met with tRump last week.

In Washington today: A world-renowned Oxford PhD economist meets a convicted felon, rapist & pathological liar who faked his SATs. One builds economies while the other posts a picture of himself as Pope. Who do you think is more serious about global stability?

Watch Carney's reaction to tRump's comment on Freeland. Just plain rude. Funny, how women are "always terrible people" to tRump.










And we have a new Pope.

 tRump on Monday dismissed the backlash against an AI-generated image of him as the pope posted by the White House on social media, saying it was a harmless joke, but communications experts said they did not see the funny side.
The weekend AI-generated posts of Trump dressed in white papal vestments and another of him wielding one of the red light sabers preferred by villains in the "Star Wars" movies appeared typical of the provocation the president employs to energize supporters and troll critics.



BREAKING: Vatican social media publishes photo of Pope dressed as president.
Shocking. This shows a lack of respect for the religious sensibilities of MAGA cultists. SARCASM!





So their cars need to be made in America but Air Force One can be made in Qatar?







Thank you from the 14th Librarian of Congress De. Carla Hayden. This is for  Leavitt since she doesn't seem to know what the Library of Congress is.

From The Irish Star:
tRump's latest move to take down diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), it’s been revealed that the first female and non-white person to serve as the Librarian of Congress, Dr Carla Hayden, was sacked this week because she “did not fit the needs of the American people”.

When asked why Trump took the decision to fire Dr Hayden, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Friday: “We felt she did not fit the needs of the American people. There were quite concerning things that she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] and putting inappropriate books in the Library for children.

“We don’t believe that she was serving the interests of the American taxpayer well, so she has been removed from her position, as the president is well within his rights to do.”

The Library of Congress is a research library where books are studied on-site, not checked out to be read at home:






Meanwhile at home...we have this loser.

Leader of the Conservatives, lost his own seat.


Petition · Evict Pierre and Ana Poilievre out of the Stornoway Residence in Ottawa, Canada - Canada · Change.org
Pierre PoiLIEvre lost the election!
Pierre PoiLIEvre lost the popular vote!
Pierre PoiLIEvre lost his seat!
Pierre PoiLIEvre lost the right to live in Stornoway!

CDNs are paying tens of thousands a month to keep squatter Poilievre living an extravagant lifestyle, surrounded by servants, chauffeur, and private chef. Even trump left the White House when he lost in 2020 FFS.








International travel spending in the United States is projected to fall by $12.5 billion, or seven per cent, in 2025, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC).

WTTC CEO Julia Simpson said the unpopular policies from the administration of President Donald Trump, fear of being stopped at the border and an unfavourable exchange rate had pushed international tourists towards alternative destinations.

We'll be spending our money elsewhere as well.



On a lighter (Canadian) note:
Caese the Day! It’s #NationalCaesarDay, the perfect time to try an over-the-top Canadian cocktail. Here are some of our picks 👇
🍅🍸 The Landing Cure & Classic Caesar at Hunters Landing
🍅🍸 The Caesar Menu at Score on King
🍅🍸 Not Your Average Caesar at the good fork