Oh my fucking god, dude. None of us loved doing that. I'm sure the people with long covid are feeling pretty affected now, and the people who died might also have some opinions for you if they were still able to do things like have opinions.

“Even if we don’t separate, I mean, we ought to talk about this stuff, you know? People don’t want to talk about it.”

Yeah, you're almost getting it. We want to talk and think about it so little you lost your business over it. Not that you're learning any lessons from that.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Let me guess he loves RFK

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

He claimed Alberta should also leave Canada largely because Ottawa has mismanaged Canada’s food system. He said not enough food is grown domestically and it’s highly processed.

“I just can’t even touch commercial chicken anymore. It’s just disgusts me,” he said.

If I gambled I think that would be a pretty safe bet.

[Edit] Not that I think these concerns on their own signify much, but taken as a whole with his other beliefs definitely paints a picture of the sort of granola fascist that supports RFK jr.

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So get a farm and grow your own. Oh I get it l, too much work eh?

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

If he's outside of Edmonton and had the money to buy a coffee shop, he could definitely raise chickens.

Chickens are the easiest domestic animal by far.

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Hahaha because the US is so highly renowned for its healthy, unprocessed food

[–] recursive_recursion@piefed.ca 49 points 4 days ago

An Alberta café owner (John Ewanek) says his business has shuttered after he hosted separatists and lost customers.

Deserved

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 38 points 4 days ago (2 children)

We love seeing good things happen to horrible people. Not enough of that these days.

[–] NGram@piefed.ca 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is actually quite similar to what happened to a local Ottawa business a few years ago https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/stella-lunas-wellington-location-closes-its-doors

TL;DR they supported the trucker convoy and then people stopped going to their two locations. They also got a newly-opened business in the same building kicked out. Both times they complained about the finding out part of FAFO. Eventually they closed two locations because they couldn't make money.

It was actually the best thing, because now the city's best ice cream shop is in that location and has long lines every night. I just hope the convoy supporters would close their remaining location...

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Haha, I didn't know that place closed down. I went when I visited in the summer of 23. Like most things in Ottawa, it was over hyped and over priced.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Canadians have been fighting off American imperialism since 1776

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Still too many american sympathizers around in my opinion

[–] rekabis@programming.dev 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If he really hates Canada so much, he needs to point himself south and start walking.

Eventually he’ll run into the American border and have the opportunity to immigrate.

[–] WasabiWabbit@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Where they will turn him around back north and say, no thanks. We don’t want you either.

[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We dont have freedom of speech, but rather freedom of expression. Important distinction.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

freedom of expression. Important distinction.

True, but it still does mean free from consequences.

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Quite true, fuck that guy (the American wannabe Albertan).

[–] UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 4 days ago

Also unsurprising, he was not a fan of mask mandates. Shocked, I tell you.

[–] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sucks to suck you traitor.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They should lose their citizenships too. Can’t see why they’d object ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 2 points 2 days ago

I highly encourage them to move to where they feel they'd be less oppressed.

[–] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 days ago

Awesome, fuck that guy.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I highly doubt this is because of hosting separatists, otherwise his business ran out of money insanely fast.

More likely is he’s been struggling for a while and now has a scapegoat (“I’m not a crappy business owner who ran it into the ground, it was the federalists!”).

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

What's interesting is that cafe has been there since 1999. There's clearly a market. He bought it two years ago and turned it into this.

[–] waitingtech@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

You "highly doubt"? Man, that's some messed up thought patterns. If they closed a coffee shop in Cold Lake (pop 16K - seven coffee shops remain) because of mismanagement this timing is exactly right - mismanage to till you run out of credit then cut your losses and bail. Stick the blame on anyone but yourself and your piss-poor management. He said the coffee shop's decline started with COVID when he joined a traitor-sect. Hmmm, who is the baddie in this recounting: COVID, traitors (let's call them what they are), or lousy management of the two.

Ya makes yer bed an ya lies innit.

Oh, and mismanagement IS doing stupid, trendy, selfish things like hosting traitors in hopes of grifting money off their cult. His mismanagement was not accounting for the inherent cheapness of his target demographic.

[–] BC_viper@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Good

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nice!

But I'm sure he'll start a go fund me and grift off other idiots "defending free speech"

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is that even technically a thing in Canada, from a legal perspective? Genuine curiosity - I’m not familiar with how those kind of laws are written in Canada.

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 9 points 3 days ago

Oh yeah. We had some nutjobs who were millions in debt turn their ostrich farm into a cash cow after the birds tested positive for bird flu, RFK Jr. even got involved. Then there's Tamara Lich, Jeff Rath and the like.

But to top them all, there's this mediocre halfwit, former UofT psych Proff, and junkie who wrote a shitty self help book, who made a sizable fortune by being anti-woke and claiming that he was being censored (no one was censoring him) because he got bent out of shape for being asked to respect people's pronouns.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

We have Freedom of Expression.

Which can be regulated, limited, or outright silenced when it comes to certain things.

Hate speech is the main limiter as far as it being regulated.

Eg Technically, it's not illegal to display a Nazi flag.

It would be illegal to do so if the intent behind it was to degrade or harass or insult etc. an ethnic or visible group.

Similar to using language.

I could say i hate all Christians.

But to promote the hate and call for acts against a group would become illegal.

Lots of grey areas.

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 days ago

Maybe they should just move south instead.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

[–] lookitsjustin@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

I mean, distance yourself and your business from the communities you exist to serve and this is bound to happen.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Bye Felicia

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

Sounds like Stella Luna in Ottawa. Suck on it moron.