Global National: May 1, 2024 | Loblaw boycott begins — will Canada’s biggest grocer feel the pinch?

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The campaign to boycott Loblaw stores has officially kicked off, but will Canadians stop shopping at the grocery giant’s various banners — including the Real Canadian Superstore, Shoppers Drug Mart, No Frills, T&T, Zehrs, Provigo, and Dominion? Anne Gaviola explains what’s prompted the boycott and whether it will have a meaningful impact.

After much controversy, years of delays, and being billions of dollars overbudget, oil is finally flowing through the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Heather Yourex-West explains what Canadians are getting from the investment and whether it can be enough to silence critics who question the pipeline’s profitability.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and the rest of his caucus have returned to the House of Commons, after Poilievre was ejected for refusing to retract a statement calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a “wacko.” David Akin looks at how the first Question Period since that ejection was way more civil and why the tranquility likely won’t last.

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters have been arrested at college and university campuses across the U.S., with the majority of those demonstrations asking for their schools to divest from Israel in some form. Jackson Proskow reports on the disruptions at Columbia University, University of Wisconsin-Madison and UCLA.

The federal government is moving ahead with changes to Canada’s asylum claim system, which could speed up the country’s deportation process. Mackenzie Gray explains what some of those changes are and the reaction.

Plus, it has been 28 years since some of the cast and crew who worked on the blockbuster film ‘Titanic’ in Nova Scotia got mysteriously high after eating seafood chowder. It’s one of the entertainment world’s biggest mysteries. Heidi Petracek explains the new information Halifax police have revealed and the lingering question of who spiked the soup.

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25 COMMENTS

  1. are we also gonna boycott everything these days? every single thing has gone up exponentially in price since covid. for no need. they buy this junk in china or india for pennies sell it in canada for a hundred and then say wages in canada are the problem?

  2. The Trans Canada Pipeline IS UNBELIEVABLY AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh no you mean we wont be giving our oil away to the USA for pennies on the dollar. If Canada was to get paid for our oil by the USA every Canadian would be a millionaire. Think about that.

  3. India energy (oil, coal) consumption will be epic as it industrializes (akin to China).

    Oil will be around for a long time.

    EV experiment is faltering. Anyways, EVs will only have a minor impact on CO2s.

  4. The battle has begun! Fair grocery prices shall finally become real! (Mortal Kombal reference – 90s kids joke – don't worry it's all good! I'm on your side!)

  5. Unless we get fusion power soon, we will never transition away from fossil fuels – just as we have never met a carbon emissions reduction target since the 1990s (that is, we never have).
    Renewable energy is growing, but so is global demand for energy – faster than the growth in renewables. Renewable energy itself is new and flawed. For example, we are just starting to see the downside of EVs – from lithium mine eco-disasters to failing Salmon runs. Politicians want to make us think the party can go on forever – they'll just hook us up to some new drug. Pick your poison. I say better the devil we know.

  6. Fortinos which is owned by Loblaws is far more expensive than Loblaws people should realy check out there prices and boycott them as well there bakery items have been really reduced in size and higher prices and also there cooked items , check for yourself that outfit is a story in it,s own

  7. I know I'm tired of the markup Scam's every where !! Something else the liberal party has done nothing about !!! Where is our protection ,and they just let us get robbed everyday on everything !!! Useless Trudeau ,and twitchy witchy Freeland 2 useless people !!!

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