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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It might simply be easier for Farm Boy to list “Prepared in Canada” for those items

You know what would be even easier? Not putting any label. I'd rather have no label than one that implies significant Canadian input for something consisting of "100% imported ingredients". It's also a bad look for things that are obviously imported. You see 'prepared in Canada' for something like orange juice and immediately lose all credibility with the customer standing in the aisle thinking their being duped.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Just FYI:

Look for “Product of Canada”— these items have at least 98% domestically sourced ingredients and production combined.

"Product of Canada" is a legally protected label. Note how the description used on the farmboy.ca website is exactly that legal definition. 👌

Our “Prepared in Canada” products are crafted in Canada with either a combination of domestic and imported ingredients or imported ingredients only.

"Prepared in Canada" is NOT a protected label other than the basic requirement of being truthful. So long as they can say with a straight face something in the product was prepared here it is legal. As such, it could entirely be US but once across the border they place boxing tape over the top flaps of the container and that label is o-tay. 🤔 There is a reason they did not use the legally protected weaker description of "Made in Canada". Because they couldn't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah I honestly feel like the Green Party will take a hit this election, which is a damn shame. I normally vote for them too, but based on the last provincial election I'm no longer in a safe riding as the conservative percentage jumped alarmingly close to beating the long established incumbent.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

You know you've lost the argument when you need to resort to insults. What's it like losing to a 'child' at your age?

Edit: oh, and here's something that might cause your head to explode so read with caution.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (8 children)

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the legal system.

No, you do. It is an adversarial system. Prosecuting attorneys... prosecute. Defense attorneys... defend. It is the jury that decides factual guilt or lack thereof, and the judges who sentence. ALL of these roles put the furtherance of justice as their #1 priority, or should at least.

If you want to argue she is responsible for some sort of prosecutorial misconduct, I will listen. To say she put people in prison without a guilty verdict and judge's sentence gives her authority she doesn't and shouldn't have and to argue otherwise is a "fundamental misunderstanding of the legal system".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Either way, have a good week.

and you as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's no frustration in my comment. Why would I even be frustrated? I'm speaking plainly about reality. Taking offense to that is a luxury OP doesn't have, and the faster they realize this the better their outcome will be. In my experience working with people in OP's position, trying to soften the message gets interpreted as platitudes, insecurity, and untrustworthyness which only gives them reasons to doubt or blow off the information. No bueno.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Who said life is fair? Like that place you finally obtained after years of searching? Want to keep it? Probably need money to pay for it. Being bitter about it won't change that fact so you need to figure out how to accept it and move on to improving your quality of life. Get an education/learn a trade, get a hobby or 2, make friends along the way and get some therapy from a professional to work on your trauma.

Choosing to be miserable instead of facing reality and working with it will only make things worse for you. Your misery will fester and grow. People will sense it and either avoid you or try to take advantage of it. Your past will dictate your future. I don't think you want that so good luck.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You mean speciesist. Instead of trying to troll, perhaps study a dictionary?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (15 children)

No, you are. A person who's job it is to convince judges to put people in jail runs on their record of convincing the judges to do so is ... unsurprising.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (17 children)

She didn't send people to prison. The judges did that. She just successfully argued that they should do it. What you posted was not true.

 

18:00hrs @ Spadina And Bloor

 

The NDP is proposing to waive the GST on vehicles made in Canada and ensure the federal government, including agencies such as the RCMP, buy only Canadian automobiles.

 

Protest outside Indonesia Parliament as it votes to pass controversial revision of its military law

 

The U.S. State Department announced on March 27 that it would provide short-term funding to an initiative documenting Ukrainian children abducted by Russia after White House terminated the program, Reuters reported.

At least 19,500 Ukrainian children have been confirmed as abducted by Russia since the start of its full-scale invasion, with only about 1,200 returned, according to Ukraine's Children of War database.

A State Department spokesperson said the short-term funding would allow program implementers to ensure that essential data on abducted children is properly transferred to the relevant authorities.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27461502

Rumeysa Ozturk's lawyer believes she is being targeted over a school paper editorial she co-authored

snips from the article:

U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin [...] did not specify what specific activities were engaged in by Ozturk, a Fulbright Scholar and student in Tufts' doctoral program for Child Study and Human Development. Ozturk had been in the country on an F-1 visa to study.

[...]

Ozturk co-authored an opinion piece a year ago in the school's student paper, the Tufts Daily, that criticized the school's response to calls by students to divest from companies with ties to Israel and to "acknowledge the Palestinian genocide."

"Based on patterns we are seeing across the country, her exercising her free speech rights appears to have played a role in her detention," said Mahsa Khanbabai, Ozturk's lawyer. Khanbabai called the claims against Ozturk "baseless" and said people should be "horrified at the way DHS spirited away Rumeysa in broad daylight."

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27464614

Around 1,000 disabled people and their supporters marched in central London Wednesday against the £5 billion in welfare cuts announced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves in her Spring Statement.

 

Quebec nationalism and provincial issues like language, immigration and secularism often loom large in federal election campaigns, but Trump's tariffs and threat of making Canada the 51st state has reshaped the campaign so far.

"It's weighing heavily on Quebecers the same way that it's weighing on Canadians," said Sébastien Dallaire, executive vice-president with the polling firm Leger.

"It makes it harder to talk about Quebec sovereignty when the whole country is being threatened by our giant neighbour."

 

I'll say this: I agree with the article. It's going to suck, but we need to reorganize our economy such that we cannot be afraid of US threats. Canadians need to come together and demonstrate the power of a social culture to overcome individualism.

Any politicians that express willingness to kowtow to Trump lose my support. Period.

 

cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/5679173

The protests come after calls were made on Tuesday on social media platforms for Palestinians in Gaza to come out and express their frustration against Hamas and the endless war in the Gaza Strip. Last week, Israel resumed its air and ground assault on Gaza in order to pressure Hamas to release all remaining hostages.

Some Palestinians voiced caution about publicly speaking out against Hamas for fear of retribution, but many of the demonstrators said they were tired of living under their conditions and need their voices to be heard.

 

A Russian military court on Wednesday handed down long prison sentences to 12 members of Ukraine's Azov regiment, which led the defence of the city of Mariupol in the early months of the war and is designated as a "terrorist organization" by Russia.

The defendants, charged with "terrorist activity" and with "violently seizing or retaining power," were sentenced to between 13 and 23 years in prison, Russian state media reported.

There was no immediate Ukrainian comment on the verdicts. Ukraine's human rights envoy, Dmytro Lubinets, denounced the proceedings when they began in June 2023 as "another sham trial" held for Russia's "own amusement."

 

The protests come after calls were made on Tuesday on social media platforms for Palestinians in Gaza to come out and express their frustration against Hamas and the endless war in the Gaza Strip. Last week, Israel resumed its air and ground assault on Gaza in order to pressure Hamas to release all remaining hostages.

Some Palestinians voiced caution about publicly speaking out against Hamas for fear of retribution, but many of the demonstrators said they were tired of living under their conditions and need their voices to be heard.

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