A selection of Loblaw-owned No Name brand of beef burgers is being recalled across Canada due to a possible health risk.
On Monday, the Cana
A selection of Loblaw-owned No Name brand of beef burgers is being recalled across Canada due to a possible health risk.
On Monday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said it's recalling the No Name Beef Burgers due to potential contamination.
"The affected product is being recalled from the marketplace due to possible E. coli O157:H7 contamination," reads the statement.
As a class one recall, it means that "there is a high risk that consuming the food may lead to serious health problems or death."
Galen Weston is stepping down as president of Loblaw starting next year, replaced by a Danish retail executive.
Loblaw has named Danish retail executive Per Bank to be its president and CEO starting next year, replacing Galen Weston in the top job at the company.
The company announced the news in a media release on Tuesday morning.
Bank is currently CEO of Danish retail chain Salling Group A/S, which runs more than 1,700 supermarkets across three countries in Europe.
Loblaw says the leadership transition was planned in advance, and part of a "global talent search" that began in August of last year, when chief operating officer Robert Sawyer announced he was stepping down.
Canada’s ruling class is fond of praising the Westons for representing an ethical form of capitalism. This couldn’t be further from the truth. The Westons made their fortunes by ruthlessly exploiting workers.
Disgraced ex-media magnate Conrad Black recently used the pages of his former newspaper to justify the fortunes of the Weston family, the owners of Loblaw Companies Ltd. The wealth of the retail family are, Black claimed, the result of “talent,” “savvy,” and “ability.” The article — an obit for Galen Weston in the National Post — is a pitch-perfect example of elite back slapping and mutual approbation.
Black writes fondly of the Westons’ “novel form of Christian capitalism;” the “inborn altruism of their companies;” and their noble “policy of seeking no or minimal public recognition for their good works.” The narrative that Black spins about the heroism of the Westons’ business acumen is ludicrous — it could only have come from a fellow traveler of Canada’s ruling class.
Funnily enough, one does not need to rely on leftist caricatures to find a rejoinder to Black’s fanciful hagiography. The Westons and their surrogates have stated clearly that a program of wage and job cuts as well as monopolization have maintained the family’s wealth.
The Supreme Court of Canada has sided with Loblaw Financial Holdings in a dispute over the tax treatment of a subsidiary the company ran in Barbados.
Loblaw Financial Holdings should not have to pay Canadian taxes on income from a subsidiary the company ran in Barbados, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.
In a 7-0 decision Friday, the top court said Canadian provisions at issue in the case do not apply to the subsidiary, Glenhuron Bank, meaning tax on its income is not payable in Canada.
Loblaw Financial, part of a larger group that includes the well-known grocery retailer, incorporated the subsidiary in 1992. Barbados' central bank issued a licence for it to operate as an offshore bank.
An appeals court is weighing whether the firm’s code of corporate social responsibility means it has a duty of care to suppliers’ workers who were victims of the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster. Loblaw says there is no precedent for such a suit.
In a packed commercial district outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, there’s a large, rectangular plot of land overgrown with bushes and weeds amid several tall but decrepit industrial buildings — an eerie reminder of a structure that’s no longer there.
On a visit two years ago, when the plot was just a muddy pond, fish were swimming amid floating scraps of clothing, some with brand labels still attached. Joel Rochon, a Toronto lawyer, spotted some in a familiar orange: “Joe Fresh.”
Rana Plaza, a nine-storey clothing factory and commercial building, collapsed into that space on April 24, 2013. The death toll reached 1,130, alongside 2,500 injured, in one of history’s deadliest industrial disasters.
A day earlier, cracks had appeared in the structure. Despite warnings from local authorities to keep the building empty, an investigation into the collapse revealed garment workers were ordered to come to work that morning to finish an order of 24,000 pairs of Joe Fresh jeans.
The workers were employees of New Wave, the Rana Plaza-based factory from which Loblaw — owner of the Joe Fresh brand and one of Canada’s largest retailers — contracted manufacturing services. The majority of these employees were young women.
