{"id":5122,"date":"2010-08-31T08:03:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T12:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5122"},"modified":"2010-08-31T08:03:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T12:03:05","slug":"commercial-hypocrisy-oilsands-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/08\/31\/commercial-hypocrisy-oilsands-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial hypocrisy, oilsands edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ezra Levant<\/a> isn’t amused by some US businesses trying to make political statements by slagging Alberta’s oilsands while being less than clean themselves:<\/p>\n

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Walgreens is the largest pharmacy chain in the U.S.<\/p>\n

It’s also corrupt.<\/p>\n

For years, they secretly altered their customers’ prescriptions, without their doctor’s knowledge, in a giant insurance scam across 42 states. They targeted Medicaid, the program for low-income Americans. So they were stealing from taxpayers and the poor at the same time. That kind of big thinking is why Walgreens is number one.<\/p>\n

Walgreens replaced inexpensive drugs with drugs that were up to four times more costly. Only when an honest pharmacist finally blew the whistle on them were they stopped — and fined a whopping $35 million.<\/p>\n

Are you ready to take moral lessons from Walgreens? Because they’ve just announced that they’re switching their trucks to fuel that doesn’t come from Canada’s oilsands — as an ethical statement.<\/p>\n

Taking ethical guidance from Walgreens is sort of like taking abstinence lessons from Hugh Hefner.<\/p>\n

I’d call for a boycott of Walgreens, but they don’t have any stores in Canada (and, despite their name, they are no relation to Walmart).<\/p>\n

But Walgreens isn’t the only moral hypocrite to come out against Canada. So did The Gap, which also owns Banana Republic and Old Navy.<\/p>\n

Do yourself a favour: Don’t buy their clothes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ezra Levant isn’t amused by some US businesses trying to make political statements by slagging Alberta’s oilsands while being less than clean themselves: Walgreens is the largest pharmacy chain in the U.S. It’s also corrupt. For years, they secretly altered their customers’ prescriptions, without their doctor’s knowledge, in a giant insurance scam across 42 states. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,28,13],"tags":[542,86,480,616,443],"class_list":["post-5122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-media","category-usa","tag-alberta","tag-criticism","tag-hypocrisy","tag-oilsands","tag-pollution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1kC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5123,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions\/5123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}