Canada is a failed state

[Betonhaus]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/hudsons-bay-creditor-protection-1.7477926

edit: HBC files for creditor protection

s/o to Prince Rupert of the Rhine

I can't remember the last time i bought something from The Bay or any of it's connected brands.

 

[Scale Smerch]

Good thing he is about to be replaced with based Mark Carney who agrees with Hamas.

Only while the election-geared focus groups tell him it's the right sort of agreement. He'll switch opinions the moment it starts affecting his polling numbers.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

I can't remember the last time i bought something from The Bay or any of it's connected brands.

I used to buy shortdated discounted Old El Paso Taco Shells at my local Zellers because they were always available, but stopped because I thought they were tasting funny.

Zellers closed in 2013.

My last time at The Bay was around the same time.

Went to a wedding solo & last minute and the couple were registered there. Was grumpy that the only thing left on the list was a 100$ veggie dehydrator.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

No Jack Daniel's or Jim Beam at the liquor store. Had to settle for a bottle of Bear Face.

Giving up alcohol for Lent, have a bunch of bottles of scotch calling my name, but my willpower will remain strong.

Trump calls out Canada for tariffing American agriculture:
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The US effectively has tariffs for their Dairy Industry in the form of subsidies instead of supply management. Canadian Dairy wouldn't be able to compete even in Canada if we subsidized the industry instead of supply management.

I completely understand the need for supply management to protect smaller suppliers from being gobbled up and ensuring Canada maintains a domestic supply of a critical resource. People often say it was Russians bodies or American industrial capacity that won WW2 and the SS. Instead it was the 150 years of feeding White Midwesterners in Canada, the US and ANZACs nothing but Beef and Dairy which created a race of super soldiers (Super SS).

 

[YautjaWeeb]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/hudsons-bay-creditor-protection-1.7477926

edit: HBC files for creditor protection

s/o to Prince Rupert of the Rhine

I never thought in a million years the stripey blankets and beaver pelts would be gone someday, along with the other last vestiges of anything actually Canadian. Every bloody house had one and if some busybody noticed you didn't you were getting one next xmas. There should be a Kiwifarms logo'ed "so long Canada" edition of that classic but I don't know how to sew.

I used to buy shortdated discounted Old El Paso Taco Shells at my local Zellers because they were always available, but stopped because I thought they were tasting funny.

Zellers closed in 2013.

My last time at The Bay was around the same time.

Went to wedding solo & last minute and the couple were registered there. Was grumpy that the only thing left on the list was a 100$ veggie dehydrator.

The Bay's wedding registry was basically keeping them afloat through the 2000's. From the boomer and older crowd if you weren't registered at The Bay you might as well drop the whole loveless charade you call a relationship it's clearly doomed right from the start and they'll want no part of it.

Was pretty fucked through the whole Target thing, and in classic Canadian fashion the only thing anyone external could identify in the company as valuable were the land holdings for retail spaces. Not an excellent, productive or significant business. Just "land, land, land". The true story of Canada's systemic inability to cause or create value in literally anything else but land. Global money laundering, snow washing, drug trafficking and state sponsored human trafficking by comparison are actually innovative, technically speaking.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

People don't realize Hudson Bay closing is the beginning of Canada's end.

We couldn't even keep Zellers alive long enough and Walmart basically swept the land like a tsunami. There is nothing unique about Canada. Even hockey is dying and they know it.

 

[Betonhaus]

People don't realize Hudson Bay closing is the beginning of Canada's end.

We couldn't even keep Zellers alive long enough and Walmart basically swept the land like a tsunami. There is nothing unique about Canada. Even hockey is dying and they know it.

Is argue that Tim Hortons being bought out and turned to shit was the beginning

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

People don't realize Hudson Bay closing is the beginning of Canada's end.

We couldn't even keep Zellers alive long enough and Walmart basically swept the land like a tsunami. There is nothing unique about Canada. Even hockey is dying and they know it.

Sad when the one of the oldest corporations in the world is closing down. Especially when they did Based shit like start shit with Louis Riel and the Metis and give the Injuns Firewater so they would be too drunk to raid White Settlements.

 

[OutInTheRain]

Is argue that Tim Hortons being bought out and turned to shit was the beginning

Tim's was always used for money laundering. That's why they fought debit for ages, and suddenly sold once it basically became law of the land.

As for HBC closing, I used to only see it in Pearson and it's been replaced by a chocolate store. HBC tried to be Target, but Canadians don't have Target money anymore. We have Walmart money, and even then we need to scrimp and save for that.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

Sad when the one of the oldest corporations in the world is closing down. Especially when they did Based shit like start shit with Louis Riel and the Metis and give the Injuns Firewater so they would be too drunk to raid White Settlements.

We lost our ways and got replaced with globehomo culture b

 

[Betonhaus]

Tim's was always used for money laundering. That's why they fought debit for ages, and suddenly sold once it basically became law of the land.

As for HBC closing, I used to only see it in Pearson and it's been replaced by a chocolate store. HBC tried to be Target, but Canadians don't have Target money anymore. We have Walmart money, and even then we need to scrimp and save for that.

Not to mention that the HBC was decimated by Sears who started the catalog thing, which in turn was decimated by Amazon who started the online thing. If they were more proactive we'd be buying from them to this day.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

Not to mention that the HBC was decimated by Sears who started the catalog thing, which in turn was decimated by Amazon who started the online thing. If they were more proactive we'd be buying from them to this day.

HudsonBay could have approached the market change aggressively but like ALL CANADIAN STUFF they got too comfortable and took things for granted.

 

[MS-09 DOM]

Company I skate for recently undercut there local manufacturer to have everything drop-shipped from China. The amount of "Blems" and warps in the trash are huge compared too the Canadian manufacturing place, yet "they still sell money"

With that, I just went direct too the manufacturer now. And I get discounts and options on "protos" if I choose now.

I just want a Canadian Maple deck, how hard is that these days.

 

[Betonhaus]

While trawling for historical Canadian movies to watch i came across these ones that seem relevant:
Orders (1974 film) is a 1974 Quebec historical drama film about the incarceration of innocent civilians during the 1970 October Crisis following the War Measures Act enacted by the Canadian government of Pierre Trudeau.
The Decline of the American Empire follows a group of intellectual friends from the University of Montreal history department as they engage in a long dialogue about their sexual affairs, touching on issues of adultery, homosexuality, group sex, BDSM and prostitution. A number of characters associate self-indulgence with societal decline.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

While trawling for historical Canadian movies to watch i came across these ones that seem relevant:
Orders (1974 film) is a 1974 Quebec historical drama film about the incarceration of innocent civilians during the 1970 October Crisis following the War Measures Act enacted by the Canadian government of Pierre Trudeau.
The Decline of the American Empire follows a group of intellectual friends from the University of Montreal history department as they engage in a long dialogue about their sexual affairs, touching on issues of adultery, homosexuality, group sex, BDSM and prostitution. A number of characters associate self-indulgence with societal decline.

Speaking of the Decline of the American Empire, we could mention its sequel, The Barbarian Invasions showing one of the intellectual friends, who terminaly ill, and his relation with his son.

 

[Jetpack Himmler]

People don't realize Hudson Bay closing is the beginning of Canada's end.

We couldn't even keep Zellers alive long enough and Walmart basically swept the land like a tsunami. There is nothing unique about Canada. Even hockey is dying and they know it.

I developed something of an interest in retail history and the downfall of HBC was inevitable as far as I'm concerned and not unique to Canada. Case in point, former retail titans like Sears and K-Mart are dead in the United States while Macy's and JC Penney are on life support. Hell, the shopping mall is practically dead as a concept in the States. I went on a brief excursion to Great Falls last summer and the state of its mall is sad. The JC Penney as run down as you'd expect and the food court was shuttered. Much of this could be attributed to the ascension of Walmart and Target as standalone big box chains, leading to the death of smaller national and regional chains in the 2000s. Then the rise of Amazon was the final nail in the coffin.

Talking about it now makes me nostalgic for days when Woolco and Woodward's (a chain of department stores that existed in B.C. and Alberta until 1993) existed. Mostly because I was a kid back then and oblivious to the shittiness of the world.

 

[Average Russian Spy]

I always found it funny how leftist Americans always just assume that because I am from Canada that I automatically despise Trump and anything to do with the right. There is no nuance, no middle ground, it's just the one assumption. And when you suggest that you are not pro fag/immigrant, or God forbid, not a rabid US hater, they are stunned and don't even know what to say.
Does anyone else ever get this when interacting with leftist Americans and Europeans?

I say this because I got into a heated argument with one person because they assumed that because of the whole tariff situation that I auto-hated Trump. When I joked that maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea if we were annexed, the person was utterly appalled and started explaining to me how I should feel/think.

 

[Brutality]

I always found it funny how leftist Americans always just assume that because I am from Canada that I automatically despise Trump and anything to do with the right. There is no nuance, no middle ground, it's just the one assumption. And when you suggest that you are not pro fag/immigrant, or God forbid, not a rabid US hater, they are stunned and don't even know what to say.
Does anyone else ever get this when interacting with leftist Americans and Europeans?

I say this because I got into a heated argument with one person because they assumed that because of the whole tariff situation that I auto-hated Trump. When I joked that maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea if we were annexed, the person was utterly appalled and started explaining to me how I should feel/think.

Both political extremes cannot understand nuance because their entire worldview is black and white

 

[Butterschmalz]

China tariffs too eh?

Time to take Chinese stuff off the shelves. Walmarts like 80% made in China. Dollarama even more. That will show them.

Quite the move I have to admit. From the Chinese. From an evil genius type of perspective. As revenge for the EV tariffs.

 

[Brutality]

Part 2 of the emo Ontario story