By Lucas Casaletto, The Canadian Press Jul 25, 2024 01:38:15 PM
Loblaw Cos. Ltd. and its parent company, George Weston Ltd., have agreed to pay $500 million to settle a class-action lawsuit regarding their involvement in an alleged bread price-fixing scheme.
The class-action case was brought against a group of companies, including Loblaw and the Weston companies, Metro, Walmart Canada, Giant Tiger, and Sobeys, and its owner, Empire Co. Ltd.
The plaintiffs allege those companies participated in a 14-year industry-wide price-fixing conspiracy between 2001 and 2015, which artificially increased packaged bread prices.
George Weston will pay $247.5 million in cash, while Loblaw will pay $252.5 million, which includes $156.5 million in cash and credit for $96 million previously paid to customers by Loblaw under the Loblaw Card program.
President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he is stepping aside as the presumptive Democratic nominee for the 2024 presidential contest and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party’s nominee.
The Donald seen with his promotional Trump Tea bag hung rakishly over his right ear.
The Court Painter persists in his endeavors to capitalize on the latest exploits of The Donald through the rendering of studio masterworks offered freely on the internet as a public service.
For example : In a spectacle both audacious and brilliant; The Donald in a spirit of calming the waters unveiled his latest promotion by theatrically suspending a Trump Tea bag over the flesh wound on his right ear. While Kool-Aid has traditionally been offered to cultish devotees, Trump Tea promises to elevate idolatrous devotion through its revolutionary symbolism and soothing sycophantic effects and is a perfect refreshment for celebrating the dismantling of US democracy as blueprinted in the Project 2025/ Presidential Transition Project.
“One sip and you’ll flip”
Both the Court Painter and The Donald are united by their mercenary inclinations, ever eager to seize any opportunity to bolster their coffers. Yet, thus far, it is only The Donald who has tasted the sweet nectar of success.
The following images are meant to illustrate the dignity that is expected when serving Trump Tea and Court Painter thanks the anonymous actors for their participation in these enactments of the white female chapter of the anticipated 2025 tea party. (Court Painter appears as eye candy)
Pierre ‘Gabby’ Poilievre sure had a lot to say with his fancy hat and dude duds at the Calgary Stampede…yes siree!
However PP didn’t quite measure up to his former prime minister boss Stephen Harper, looking resplendent in his jaunty fashion statement hat and dude duds…way back whencirca 2015.
“The US Supreme Court has become an unabashedly right-wing political machine, untethered by precedent, text, ethics, or judicial restraint in its pursuit of power.
In a matter of days, they handed the president sweeping criminal immunity, gutted the power of agencies like the EPA and FDA to protect the public, made it easier to pay off local officials, greenlighted the criminalization of homelessness, and more.”
Source: The Intercept/July 3/24
MEANWHILE LOOKING BACK…
Source of portrait :Thomas Paine oil painting by Laurent Dabos, circa 1791.NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON
“…some [dictator] may hereafter arise, who laying hold of popular disquietudes, may collect together the desperate and the discontented, and by assuming to themselves the powers of government, may sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge.”
Source: Thomas Paine from a 47-page pamphlet Common Sense , published in Philadelphia 1776
Thomas Paine was an England-born political philosopher and writer who supported revolutionary causes in America and Europe. Published in 1776 to international acclaim, “Common Sense” was the first pamphlet to advocate American independence.
“These are the times that try men’s souls”. Thomas Paine
Chief Justice Roberts has a plan for an American Autocracy {} Thomas Paine had a plan for an American Democracy
Project 2025, also known as the Presidential Transition Project, is a collection of conservative policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States Federal government and consolidate executive power should a Republican Party candidate win the 2024 presidental election.
Critics of Project 2025 have described it as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist initiative aimed at reshaping the United States into an autocracy. Several legal experts have argued that it would erode the foundations of the rule of law, the separation of powers, the separation of church and state, and civil liberties.
Court Painter seen with painting 6 Right Wing Republican Supreme Court Justices
