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[Matt R.]

A&B Sound?

[Mike K.]

Serious Coffee!

[Nparker]

As long as it is not the Tapa Bar, I will be able to cope with the loss.

[Victoria Watcher]

I think Tapa bar is safe. When I was a much younger man I loved this place.

[Mike P.]

Ok then Ii'm gonna say Andalus, I went to Winners and just walked by there today. The store is closed, the lights are off and they have a buy one get one 40% sale going on.

[Victoria Watcher]

Tupperware files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

CEO says company isn't going anywhere, but needs 'essential flexibility' after years of financial woes


https://www.cbc.ca/n...uptcy-1.7326866

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 18 September 2024 - 09:42 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Canadian bookstore chain Indigo has received a temporary court injunction ordering internet service providers to block a website that the company says causes the brand “irreparable harm,” while also infringing on its copyright and trademark.  

 

Justice Janet Fuhrer ordered the temporary injunction for a 14-day period in an interim ruling issued late on Sept. 17, compelling Canadian internet providers to block the website during that time. The parties will return to court after that period.

 

Indigo’s lawyers appeared in a virtual Federal Court hearing Sept. 17 to ask a judge for an injunction that would block two “Indigo Kills Kids” websites.

 

The website incorporates or very closely imitates Indigo’s own visual branding and design, while accusing the company of supporting the Israeli military—and by dint of association, its Gaza war—following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel that left 1,200 Israelis dead. More than 40,000 casualties have been listed by the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry including a reportedly high number of children.  

 

The website and related social media accounts are calling for a boycott of the books and music retail chain over CEO Heather Reisman’s Canadian charity, HESEG Foundation, which funds scholarships for lone soldiers from abroad to stay on in Israel following their military service.  

 

Lawyers for Indigo from Dipchand LLP, including May Cheng, argued that each day the website is up, there is irreparable damage being done to Indigo’s public image, which Cheng noted cannot be easily measured in potential lost customers.  

 

Cheng told the judge that the website content clearly infringes Indigo’s copyright.   

 

“The most obvious [example is] where the design artwork of ‘Indigo Kids’ has been spliced to insert the word ‘kills,’” Cheng told the court in the videoconference hearing.  

 

In her ruling issued late Sept. 17, Judge Fuhrer wrote that Indigo had shown the “IKK” website amounted to irreparable harm, “with clear, convincing evidence that this is a harm which is non-compensable by a monetary award.

 

“I am persuaded that [Indigo] has shown a serious issue, if not a prima facie case, of copyright infringement in respect of the !INDIGOKIDS Work and depreciation of the goodwill attaching to the INDIGO Marks, particularly !NDIGOKIDS and !ndigokids Design,” wrote Judge Fuhrer, noting that “the IKK Image is a substantial copy” of the Indigo Kids branding.

 

 

https://thecjn.ca/ne...-court-hearing/

 

 

 

Website:  https://indigokillskids.ca/

 

 

 

According to the “Indigo Kills” website, Sept. 25 will be a national day of action at more than 40 Indigo locations across Canada, allowing site visitors to sign up to organize local demonstrations via a contact form, along with actions like writing to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) about ending HESEG’s charitable status and information about independent Canadian bookshops for readers to support instead of Indigo. 

 

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Lawyers for Indigo submitted affidavits that some telecom companies, such as Bell, had taken no position on whether the court should order the websites to be blocked. A representative of Telus who was present at the court hearing said the company took no position on the court’s decision regarding an order to block the site.  The judge’s order later affirmed that the major Canadian internet service providers including Telus, Rogers, Videotron and Bell, all either consented to the court-ordered website domain blocking, or did not oppose, or took no position on whether the court ordered telecoms to block the websites.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 18 September 2024 - 10:41 PM.

[Nparker]

I now know where I will be doing all my holiday shopping this year.

[Mike K.]

Fido has closed its Yates Street store. It’s been there since the late 90s.

[Darren14]

Fido has closed its Yates Street store. It’s been there since the late 90s.

 

Might have something to do with Rogers turning all there island stores from corporate to dealer store at the start of the month.

[Mike K.]

It may, but to give up a location that has been a prime spot for 25 years seems backwards. They just opened a store at Uptown, instead.

[Victoria Watcher]

I haven’t been in a phone store for about 10 years. Although I upgrade every two years or so. Maybe because I’m iPhone. Nothing else to look at.

[Darren14]

It may, but to give up a location that has been a prime spot for 25 years seems backwards. They just opened a store at Uptown, instead.

 

Yeah Fido took over rogers existing lease at Uptown, and then Rogers moved beside telus and bell and closed down the old shaw store up top. 

 

I haven’t been in a phone store for about 10 years. Although I upgrade every two years or so. Maybe because I’m iPhone. Nothing else to look at.

 

Sure hope your keeping updated on the latest offers then, waaay to many people paying insane amounts i hear it everyday. (i manage a cell phone store) 

[Victoria Watcher]

I pay about $50. Not concerned about a huge amount more/less either way.

[Mike K.]

7/11 on Douglas at Johnson is closing, according to a caller to CFAX, who said shelves are being cleared of product ahead of the closure.

That’s three downtown 7/11 closures in the span of a couple of years. 7/11 opens where there is ample street traffic.

Maybe we should allow them to sell booze and install a few bar seats.

[Nparker]

...Maybe we should allow them to sell booze and install a few bar seats.

Maybe our governments need to take a serious look at the decay in the downtown cores of many cities and ask themselves "why is this happening" and "how can we make this situation better"?

[dasmo]

Their policies have created the decay. I’m not sure they should get even more involved. We need to unwind a lot of their “projects” but the killing of the economy and then debasement of our currency is irreversible and will take time to recover from.

[Ismo07]

7/11 on Douglas at Johnson is closing, according to a caller to CFAX, who said shelves are being cleared of product ahead of the closure.

That’s three downtown 7/11 closures in the span of a couple of years. 7/11 opens where there is ample street traffic.

Maybe we should allow them to sell booze and install a few bar seats.

 

There are always people in there buying stuff.  Problem is there are so many just stealing.

 

Isn't 7-11 being purchased by Couche-Tard?

[UDeMan]

Couche-tard made an offer to buy 7-11, but the first offer was rebuffed. Would be a great takeover by a Canadian company of a Japanese based company, if it ever was approved.

[dasmo]

I saw 7-11 large scale vending / automated food zones in a couple airports in Europe. Perhaps they are changing the model to get away from the grunge....