The English Bay Banner, Number 3

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SUPER VALU BOYCOTT NEWS IN BRIEF

Mr John Lederer, President of Loblaws, has been contacted for a comment as to why his suppliers, including President’s Choice, continue to supply and thereby allow to profiteer, this Super Valu store while it is owned by a member of the Hells Angels.

Chairman of Loblaws, Mr Gaelon Weston, has deigned not to comment after several attempts to reach him and leaving messages. Obviously he has more important things to do than worry about how the operation of that outlet affects our spiritual climate here in the west end. Perhaps he is consulting the Hells Angels Guide to Ethics and Morals (ghost-written by Martha Stewart) before responding to our queries.

ROT AT THE TOP
(As this commentary will be touching upon politics, don sewage suits please)

The trickle-down effect was a term once favoured by bankers and economists who actually expected all us plebes to anticipate that once the mega-corporations declared their obscene profits the wealth they generated would disseminate all the way down to benefit the lower classes. This term, as applied to that economic theory, has become laughable in the last decade but it does suit very nicely what’s happening in the rot department.

Now that we are all witness to the grotesque goings-on of the Liberal Party and its desperate and illegal kickback schemes in Quebec, and while we can still recall with a putrid taste in our mouths the corrupt shenanigans of the Mulroney regime, is it any wonder that young people think nothing of lying and stealing; or are becoming so despaired that suicide appears like a rational act in this age of ignobility?

Kiddie thugs engaging in park beatings and swarmings and high school mass murderers can seriously claim to be victims of the slithering goop trickling down into their lives from the remnants of the Chretien and Mulroney regimes.

(cartoon below by Graeme MacKay of Hamilton Spectactor)