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Backlash grows against Tim Hortons worker benefit cuts

The backlash against both Tim Hortons and individual franchise owners continues to rage after some owners cut employee benefits to offset Ontario's minimum wage hike.
cbc.ca/news/business/tim-hortons-minimum-wage-worker-benefits-1.4480097

Trump Waives Punishment for Convicted Mega Banks, Including Deutsche, Which He Owes Millions To

Trump's relationship with Deutsche Bank dates back to the 1990's, when the bank gave a line of credit to Trump after a series of bankruptcies.
telesurtv.net/english/news/Trump-Waives-Punishment-for-Convicted-Mega-Banks-Including-Deutsche-Which-He-Owes-Millions-To-20180110-0016.html

Death Toll Hits 15 in California Mudslides; Search Goes on

The death toll from the mudslides that struck Southern California climbed to 15 on Wednesday as rescue crews searched for anyone trapped, injured or dead in the onslaught that smashed homes and swept away cars.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/victim-search-expands-as-california-storm-mudslides-kill-13

Magnitude 7.6 Quake Hits Caribbean Sparking Tsunami Alert

One of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in modern times struck off the coast of Honduras on Tuesday night, shaking the mainland and setting off tsunami warnings that were canceled about an hour later.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/magnitude-7-6-quake-hits-in-caribbean-north-of-honduras

Trump blasts courts after Daca Dreamers ruling

President Donald Trump has criticised the US courts after a judge blocked him from ending protection for children brought illegally to the US by parents.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42637034

Canada files WTO complaint against US over trade rules

Canada has filed an expansive complaint with the World Trade Organization, accusing the US of breaking international trade rules.
bbc.com/news/business-42639459

Czech President Vows Continued Backing for Billionaire Prime Minister

Czech President Milos Zeman, who’s vying for re-election this month, pledged to stand by Prime Minister Andrej Babis even if his minority cabinet fails to win parliamentary approval on its first try.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/czech-president-vows-continued-backing-for-billionaire-premier

Trump Lawyer Sues BuzzFeed, Fusion GPS on Russia Dossier Claims

Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen sued BuzzFeed Inc. and Fusion GPS for defamation over allegations about him in the research firm’s dossier that was commissioned in 2016 by the president’s political opponents and published by the news organization.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/trump-lawyer-cohen-sues-buzzfeed-over-claims-in-russia-dossier

China Weighs Slowing or Halting Purchases of U.S. Treasuries

China added to bond investors’ jitters on Wednesday as traders braced for what they feared could be the end of a three-decade bull market.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/china-officials-are-said-to-view-treasuries-as-less-attractive

Trump Says ‘Sneaky’ Feinstein Testimony Release May Have Been Illegal

President Donald Trump said Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein’s decision to release a transcript of testimony on the controversial dossier about the president’s connections to Russia was "underhanded and possibly illegal."
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/trump-says-sneaky-feinstein-testimony-release-possibly-illegal

Colombia´s Santos Recalls Chief Negotiator After Accusing ELN of New Attacks

Santos' claims, however, go against the actions and all communications from the ELN, who has declared its interest in maintaining the ceasefire.
telesurtv.net/english/news/Colombias-Santos-Recalls-Chief-Negotiator-After-Accusing-ELN-of-New-Attacks-20180110-0015.html

Mexico's Inflation Rate Reaches 16-Year High: Report

Mexico's National Statistics and Geography Institute revealed that last year's inflation rate reached 6.77 percent.
telesurtv.net/english/news/Mexicos-Inflation-Rate-Reaches-16-Year-High-Report-20180110-0014.html

Other urls found in this thread:

reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-courtsecrecy-harassment/
theintercept.com/2018/01/10/haiti-raid-united-nations-police-grand-ravine/
theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/north-carolina-partisan-gerrymander/550139/?utm_source=feed
feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/3/9/3974a291-ddbe-4525-9ed1-22bab43c05ae/934A3562824CACA7BB4D915E97709D2F.simpson-transcript-redacted.pdf
apnews.com/cb0ef682ea534ff0b5d31e7c054a079e
archive.fo/xRv1c
washingtonpost.com/politics/decision-to-exempt-florida-from-offshore-drilling-prompts-bipartisan-uproar/2018/01/10/1f5befa4-f625-11e7-beb6-c8d48830c54d_story.html
npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/10/577064733/after-florida-gets-offshore-drilling-exemption-other-states-ask-for-the-same
nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/zinke-fl-got-drilling-exemption-because-it-asked-nicely.html
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

Fucking FARC should have known better than to cooperate with this snake-ass government.

OP/ED

How the courts help companies keep sexual misconduct under cover

Women sexually harassed on the job sometimes decide to hold their abusers – and their employers – accountable in court. But quite often, judges let companies keep their secrets.
reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-courtsecrecy-harassment/

A U.N.-Backed Police Force Carried Out a Massacre in Haiti. The Killings Have Been Almost Entirely Ignored.

theintercept.com/2018/01/10/haiti-raid-united-nations-police-grand-ravine/

North Carolina's Landmark Ruling Against Partisan Gerrymanders

Federal judges have yet again struck down North Carolina’s congressional districts as an unconstitutional gerrymander, dealing Republicans a blow and throwing the state’s maps into chaos just months before a pivotal midterm election.
theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/north-carolina-partisan-gerrymander/550139/?utm_source=feed

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

I WONDER…

The sky is blue.

Was it?

In the next 48 hours, the Trump Administration is planning to issue policy on how states can stop people from receiving Medicaid coverage if they don’t have a job. And they plan to put this in action in their first state— Kentucky.

This would mean all retirement home patients or sick adults who are bed ridden would cease to receive any medicare coverage, forcing them, despite their illness or inability and disability, to be employed in order to receive Medicaid benefits

This could lead to anything from hospital closures, to mass death of people who require disability to live, age minor to elderly

Not good

If there was a massacre in Haiti wouldn't the mainstream media say so?

This is how they plan on getting that 3% growth rate.

Good. I'm tired of people treating Tim Hortons like some sacred Canadian icon that can do no wrong.

Me too, this country fucking sucks

TYBNewsAnon2.0

Try being an American you fucking lightweight.

Being an American is suffering

Here's the goods on the Fusion GPS testimony.

feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/3/9/3974a291-ddbe-4525-9ed1-22bab43c05ae/934A3562824CACA7BB4D915E97709D2F.simpson-transcript-redacted.pdf

Have at it.

Are the Republicans trying to lose the mid-terms?

They literally won't, though.
The white classcucks in Kencucky would let Paul Ryan and Trump impregnate their daughters and kill their sons if it meant more legislation to screw the blacks/chinks/wetbacks/Muslims.

DRAIN THE SWAMP

Immigration agents descend on dozens of 7-Eleven stores

Immigration agents descended on dozens of 7-Eleven convenience stores before dawn Wednesday to begin checking on employees’ immigration status in what officials described as the largest operation against an employer under Donald Trump’s presidency.
apnews.com/cb0ef682ea534ff0b5d31e7c054a079e

Pastor Billy Bob at Billy Bob Sr's Bible Believin Church dun said that Jesus said to vote Republican so heck I'll dun do it

Is anyone else saying this besides one man on twitter?

Not Apu!

very good image

lol

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR

Tim Hortons should just be fucking nationalized at this point. If a sub-par coffee chain is to be seen as one of our major national institutions then it might as well pay a livable wage

Question: If Trump gets slammed with a money laundering charge, which seems more and more likely, what do you suppose will happen?

If Trump is really taken down with that, he could spill the beans about all the briberind he did during the time he was only a businessman on Twiter, just to make sure he doesn't fall alone.

Donald Trump: America could 'conceivably' return to Paris climate change agreement
archive.fo/xRv1c

^this is the detail that trumptards will forget about because >muh commie 'bama

Why stop there? Get the banks and railways as well. Hell even garbage collection has been privatized. Libtards ruined everything.

Can we get a source on that?

the FARC haven't been revolutionary in years though, they're every bit as cynical as the NPA in the Philippians

They'll quietly offer to let him step down prior to making any moves, the GOP will blame all the unpopular legislation on Trump and laugh for joy as Mike "puppet" Pence assumes control of the WH

At the very least, the Trump fandom will die down and we won't have to hear MAGA shit once he goes away.

Soon

Is there anyway we could start a shell-company that literally does nothing but hires people to a "payroll" so they can get their benefits back?

What will the pending destruction of the American empire do to the elites there? Will they go full nazi germany and start invading places and forcing them to buy Amerifat debt or something?

This is a great idea.

The job search has to be "approved" so that sort of thing wouldn't be possible. It's pretty fucked up how the elite are now literally rationing health care in order to make sick people work. They truly do deserve a what is coming to them.

Mar-a-Largo

I honestly don't know if I'm actually socdem or not, since I think proper social democracy would include the nationalization of hulking behemoths like Tims, Canadian Tire, renationalize AC and CN Rail, the 417, the big institutional banks

I also think it would be best to nationalize all natural resource extraction and hydro projects. I don't know why we aren't allowed to have our own Aramco or Statoil. I'd also love to see some form of construction job guarantee to fix the country's infrastructure

Also minimum jail sentences for financial crimes

Magnitude 7.6 Quake Hits Caribbean Sparking Tsunami Alert

Not suprising

Are Republicans trying to lose one of there strongest states in the country?

The problem is that there is no leftist organization in Kentucky. The only organized groups there is conservatives and the far right. We need more leftist organization there. Redneck Revolt might help, but it won’t be much because of how there idpol and everyone else’s idpol is so different.

Canada = America 2.0

Trump broke Zeno's paradox. He keeps falling lower and lower, without ever reaching rock-bottom. I have never seen a government official of any country abuse power for personal gain so undisguisedly, not even African tinpot dictators.

I'd like to point out that deadly mudslides are the most stsreotypical 3rd world natural disaster par excellence.

And speaking of 3rd world…

How many people know about Le Joola?

No, America will become Africa with snow and white people while American elites will move to Canada/Australia/NewZealand/Britain suck those countries dry of all there resources and wealth like they did to America. American urban and suburban workers will move to Africa for work. America will be left as an underpopulated, poor, rural, unindustrialized nation. And considering how spooked americans who live in the center of the country are it’ll probably be a Christian theocracy as well.

washingtonpost.com/politics/decision-to-exempt-florida-from-offshore-drilling-prompts-bipartisan-uproar/2018/01/10/1f5befa4-f625-11e7-beb6-c8d48830c54d_story.html
npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/10/577064733/after-florida-gets-offshore-drilling-exemption-other-states-ask-for-the-same
nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/zinke-fl-got-drilling-exemption-because-it-asked-nicely.html

Read them in that order for maximum effect

What’s next. The offshore oil wells get bought by Saudi Arabia.

This is one of the dumbest predictions I've ever read, I'm sorry

more likely to be given away tbh