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Lowe's Companies, Inc. is selling its Canadian retail business to New York-based private equity firm Sycamore Partners for US$400 million plus a performance-based deferred consideration.

2 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Lowe's Companies, Inc. is selling its Canadian retail business to New York-based private equity firm Sycamore Partners for US$400 million plus a performance-based deferred consideration.

Now, I need to look up how much they paid for Rona. 

Lowe’s bought RONA Inc. in 2016 in a deal valued at $3.2 billion Canadian, or about US$2.4 billion, that at the time it said was a key step in accelerating its growth strategy.

Is Elon running Lowes? 🤣

For such a smart guy Musk is a idiot a filthy stinking rich idiot but an idiot non the less

 

More Favre criminality.

 

 

5 minutes ago, Wideleft said:

More Favre criminality.

 

 

Anal Apertures Abound!

Police officer kills bystander who helped victim after Walmart shooting

4 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Police officer kills bystander who helped victim after Walmart shooting

No good deed goes unpunished. I wonder if police would be so trigger happy if all wrongful death settlements came out of their pension funds.

KFC Apologizes For Using Kristallnacht To Promote Cheesy Chicken In Germany

The KFC fast food chain in Germany issued an apology on Wednesday after it sent an app alert suggesting customers commemorate the anniversary of Nazi-led attacks on Jews by eating cheesy chicken.

The chain’s German division sent a message to followers on its app that read: “It’s memorial day for Kristallnacht! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken. Now at KFCheese!” the BBC reported.

Not surprisingly, many people found KFC’s promotion to be tasteless. Kristallnacht, or “Night of Broken Glass,” is considered the start of the Holocaust. The two-night rampage on Nov. 9-10, 1938, led to the destruction of 267 synagogues and thousands of other Jewish-owned businesses in Nazi Germany, as well as the deaths of 90 Jewish people and the arrest of thousands more.

Germany takes the Kristallnacht anniversary seriously, according to the BBC, with numerous memorial events reflecting the Nazis’ murder of more than 6 million Jewish people.

About an hour after the alert, KFC issued a follow-up on the app that blamed the tasteless promotion on “an error in our system,” and added: “We are very sorry, we will check our internal processes immediately so that this does not happen again. Please excuse this error,” according to The Guardian.

https://wegotthiscovered.com/news/not-to-alarm-you-but-jesus-christ-is-now-verified-on-twitter/

                                              

A gentle reminder that there is a sucker born every minute and a person ready to fleece that sucker

1 hour ago, bustamente said:

A gentle reminder that there is a sucker born every minute and a person ready to fleece that sucker

Disagree. There are dozens of not hundreds ready to shear the sheep. 

13 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Disagree. There are dozens of not hundreds ready to shear the sheep. 

I stand corrected

14 hours ago, bustamente said:

I stand corrected

You must be tired by now. Have a seat.

Crypto boys are crying into their crunchy socks. Who could have ever predicted this?! 

19 minutes ago, Tracker said:

You must be tired by now. Have a seat.

About time 

well he must be serious I mean he did give Dolly Parton a $100 million grant as part of his Bezos Courage and Civility Award

https://deadline.com/2022/11/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-gives-away-most-of-124bn-fortune-1235171528/

 

 

Hundreds Of Workers Seem To Leave Twitter As Elon Musk's 'Hardcore' Deadline Passes

Hundreds of Twitter employees appeared to flee on Thursday after Elon Musk demanded that only “extremely hardcore” staffers remain as he seeks to transform the social media giant to fit his own vision.

Musk sent a memo to staffers Wednesday morning saying Twitter would only have room for those prepared to work “long hours at high intensity,” echoing expectations at his other companies, Tesla and SpaceX.
“Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore,” he wrote. “Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”

The email asked staffers to click on a link if they were prepared to meet those expectations. Anyone who declined would be offered three months’ severance, it said.

The New York Times reported that Musk and his team met with some Twitter workers who had not signed on to the new expectations just hours before the 5 p.m. deadline on Thursday, trying to stop some employees deemed “critical” to the business from leaving.

He also appeared to scale back his demand that all employees return to the office for at least 40 hours a week.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-hardcore-deadline-twitter-workers-leave_n_6376cfd6e4b08013a8b4d498

                                          

Good news for the company bad news for the Muppets (Iger barely did a thing with them and yet under Chapek we got Muppets Haunted Mansion, we're getting Muppet Christmas Carol with The Love is Gone restored (for Disney+), and the upcoming Muppet Mayhem)

 

https://deadline.com/2022/11/disney-bob-iger-returns-ceo-bob-chapek-out-1235178223/

Edited November 21, 20223 yr by iHeart

https://www.wsj.com/articles/anti-woke-bank-glorifi-to-shut-down-11669051554

3 hours ago, iHeart said:

Good news for the company bad news for the Muppets (Iger barely did a thing with them and yet under Chapek we got Muppets Haunted Mansion, we're getting Muppet Christmas Carol with The Love is Gone restored (for Disney+), and the upcoming Muppet Mayhem)

 

https://deadline.com/2022/11/disney-bob-iger-returns-ceo-bob-chapek-out-1235178223/

Pretty sure neither Iger or Chapek greenlight any of the projects. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/prince-rupert-rcmp-incident-1.6659079

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The Canadian Canada Border Services Agency has confirmed a CBSA employee had "involvement" in a murder-suicide at a downtown Prince Rupert, B.C., office mall on Monday morning.

"We extend our deepest sympathies to the victim's family during this difficult time," said Rebecca Purdy, a senior spokesperson with the Canada Border Services Agency, in a written statement to CBC News. 

A 44-year-old man entered Ocean Centre Mall and shot a woman before "turning the gun on himself" at around 8:30 a.m. PT Monday morning, said Prince Rupert RCMP spokesperson Const. Brody Hemrich. 

The 52-year-old victim died before she could be taken to hospital. 

RCMP say the shooter knew the woman who was killed. He was taken to hospital in critical condition but was dead by Monday evening.

Just horrible.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/all-downhill-for-pender-harbour-b-c-skateboarder-after-2nd-straight-world-title-1.6655008

 

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/freedom-convoy-2-0-being-planned-for-february-2023-1.6167154

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An organizer of the 'Freedom Convoy' says he's planning a reunion in Ottawa in February.

James Bauder, the founder of Canada Unity, a group that called for an end to all vaccine mandates, posted on Facebook calling for a 'Freedom Convoy 2.0' Feb. 17 to 21 in Ottawa.

"Bookmark these dates," Bauder said in the post. "Freedom Convoy Reunion theme will be the 'Olive Branch Edition.'"

Bauder was arrested on Feb. 20 in Ottawa as police cleared the occupation, which gridlocked the city's downtown for three weeks. He is facing charges of mischief to obstruct property, disobeying a lawful court order and obstructing a peace officer.

Bauder's Facebook post about the Freedom Convoy 2.0 plans calls for a two-week "Canada Unity-Fest" in February 2023.

"The simple fact is we can't have Unity without Reconciliation which has to come from "We The People " and not from our Gov.," he wrote. "Let's be grown-ups and start addressing the root of division, discrimination, and segregation in Canada by changing our focus away from division to that of one word 'UNITY.'"

The bolded part is comical in its utter lack of knowledge and self-awareness.

These ******* idiots are insufferable.