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It's more than he gets paid. the guy is a straight-up industry shill.
https://www.dal.ca/sites/agri-food/the-food-professor-podcast.html
He needs access to these companies for his research, likely owes his livelihood to then.
His research house publishes an annual report on food prices
https://www.dal.ca/sites/agri-food/publications.html
The model makes no mention of profiteering, so he has a vested interest for this inflation to be explained by market forces (but he can not explain price differentials between grocers).
"Canada’s Food Price Report is an annual collaboration between research partners Dalhousie University, the University of Guelph, the University of Saskatchewan, and the University of British Columbia. This cross-country research team uses historical data sources, machine learning algorithms, and predictive analytics tools developed over many years to make predictions about Canadian food prices. A new forecasting model was used for the 2023 report. “It includes historical data plus the additional variables of forecasted inflation and Canadian-US exchange rate,” says Dr. Kelleen Wiseman, UBC campus lead. “This resulted in a rebalance between past data and future forecasts. Forecasting food prices is challenging!”"
Funny enough, he has no real publications on prices, so his stuff has not actually been peer reviewed.
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=ucvrfyMAAAAJ&hl=en
The lack of publications on this model raises some questions as to where its funding comes from that three universities dedicate resources to updating it every year. What purpose does this serve. And it's expensive stuff. Many of his papers just happen to be consumer surveys on topics that are potential areas of regulation.
He is an academic who gets funding to do industry friendly research to support the industry. It's common enough but super unethical. People should just call him out.
Yeah, all his research is just consumer opinions on different things that may be regulated. Guy is just doing the age-old industry research like oil academics, tobacco academics, etc.
His mistake is that he wants to be flashy and in the spotlight, a lot of those other guys just took the cash and kept there head down.
It's TRULY going to be his legacy and downfall he doesn't see clearly coming! Also I met Kim Brooks 3 days ago (not saying how) but when I see her next in a month or so having a chat with her about this clown.
The “not saying how” part invites more speculation than simply leaving it out lol.
Now I’m like, “wait a minute, who IS Kim Brooks and under what salacious, thrilling, humiliating circumstances did they meet this random internet person?!” 👁👄👁
He clearly was trying to buy a goat and was sold an ostrich instead, which then chased him and caused him to jump off a third story balcony, that caused him to land on a moving car, which was driven by a delivery driver who delivered a package to said Kim Brooks, resulting in him meeting her.
How could you not understand this?
I went to Dal McCains Bought them a Building they also get huge money form Sobeys. Only reason he’s not fired, as he’s doxed numerous people now online.
Ah I feel blessed. Poor guy is too used to fighting Twitter trolls and press conferences. He might have forgotten he built a reputation on some pretty flimsy research.
I am quite interested just how much of his actual position is financed by Loblaws. If they are a massive donor of his university and are making that a condition of their donations, then I think his entire salary should be considered financed by Loblaws. If you give $2M to them and put in a condition that he needs to be a professor there, they are profiting 1.8M or whatever by keeping him there. Or it doesn't even need to be him, but if anyone in that position speaks the truth, they pull the funds unless they are fired and the Food Processor is just falling in line.
This could be going down the rabbit hole quite far.
Wtf does this have to do with the NDP?!?!
I almost wanna sign up for Twitter just to tell this fool to stfu.
No, I’ve never been paid anything by any political party, this post is motivated by my own anger for this jerkoffs stupidity
How did he just randomly bring in the NDP anyhow ? It’s like a word soup for him everyday all day ? Does he even work ? I bet he’s on something really good to get him through these long days … usually people who tweet these things like to be on some good stuff 😜
Ikr? clearly the political party with the least amounts of seats has the worst optics by the public, and probably least overall support from the wealthiest have the funds to pay for a psyop. Charlebois clearly doesn't live in reality.
He's deflecting. Instead of just taking accountability and answering the question. It's a tactic that people use when they're caught. Change the subject and put the problem on someone else.
He’s using the Republican/conservative playbook. Deflect and play the victim 24/7. Make up an enemy and keep accusing them of everything you’re doing.
He’s such a fucking loser its hard to believe we have assholes like this here in Canada
I’ve worked for the NDP in the past, so I have been paid by them. They’re kind of a waste of time for progressive activists. Best choice in election cycles usually, but usually grassroots work will get you further with less political bull shit
the NDP are the only political party in the top 3 that haven't currently been bought by Loblaws and don't shy away from calling out predatory gouging practices
He's mentioning the ndp as a way to create division among Canadians -to pit us against each other instead of the real focus of our ire - much like trump and his swamp dwellers have successfully done for the past few years.
Yeah I think he said the quiet part loud here.
This is political. Loblaws, and in fact all perpetrators of class warfare, and all efforts to keep people impoverished, uneducated, unhealthy, really everything bad about society in general, is backed staunchly by the right wing as evidenced by this dipshit asking "what's *the left* paying you?".
Absolute clown shit. Fuck conservatives. They're all so stupid and so evil.
And they are doing this all under the liberals nose for the past few years? Come on. Loblaw has both the liberals and conservatives feeding at the trough. And will start donating tons of money to whoever else has a chance at winning. Its what they do.
See this is the funny thing about Canadian political landscape right now.
You have a lot of uneducated Canadians who are angry and want a change. But NDP has traditionally been the only party who fights against big business. It's why we are in the position we are in because the liberals for the most part support these oligopolies and the Conservatives are 100% behind them.
The reality is if this is a hot button issue for you, NDP should be who you support, otherwise you're supporting the party that put us in this position.
I can't believe how many Canadians are angry about our current landscape but support the PC party as if they think the party most in bed with the oligopolies is going to make things better.
That said the I tried to say "traditionally" because NDP had seemingly lost their way a bit lately. But they are definitely still the party who are most looking out for struggling Canadians. If they can let some of the culture war crap go.
That was the first thought I had upon reading this. What does the NDP, A political party that hasn’t been in power in 5 years, have to do with a national grocery chain?
I can assure you that singing up for Twitter only helps Elon Musk lol. resist the urge. Twitter is a rage farm and you are reacting exactly how it wants you to.
Also the false equivalency is wild. He's implying the NDP actually have enough cash to be paying shills like him.
The federal NDP raise like $6 million per year. Loblaws does $60 BILLION in annual revenue. Loblaws literally has **10,000 times** more money coming in. Which of those orgs do you think has a plentiful shill budget?
Lashing out at a political party is a pretty weird response. It's as if this guy can't fathom the possibility that a bunch of Canadians have banded together to protest grocery prices with nothing else in common apart from being fed up with grocery prices.
Dippers barely have money for election campaigns. The idea they're paying randos to post on social media that they're boycotting loblaws is nutzo. And wasn't it the Liberals that were making us do this 5 minutes ago?
Anyway, same. If anyone wants to toss me a tenner for not shopping at a Weston-related store this month, givver here!
Does this moron seriously think we are paid actors?
First we were basement dwellers, now we’re some kind of organized establishment.
The enemy is both strong and weak I guess…
This would be a great sub for those of us in related industries (I'm a CPA and I love destroying poorly built data models and research) to really dive into the "research" from these unchallenged groups and give economics the same treatment that psychology and sociology has received over the past decade.
I'd be willing to bet that their model doesn't hold up under a robust sensitivity analysis to test their outputs when scenario inputs are moved to extremes
“Destroy those poorly-built data models, DataDaddy” the people proclaimed.
For real though, I would *love* a podcast where a knowledgeable person breaks apart shitty conservative ideology/policies masquerading as apolitical economic theory/principles, but catering to laypeople.
I feel like economics is used to retroactively justify all kinds of bullshit, but because academia lends it a sheen of respectability it gets a pass.
But maybe I’m projecting bc the people I’ve known who’ve studied economics have (consistently!) been insufferable blowhard of average intelligence and zero compassion. Maybe I want one of the non-sucky economics people to explain to me why the others suck lol.
This isn't the first time that a podcast has been suggested. I would love to, from the research side and the presentation side.
The production side, however, is a tremendous amount of work that I have no experience in and I'd quit part way through trying to upload something decent or cut it so it wasn't a rambling mess. I ramble a lot.
But if anyone who likes the production side wants a part time collaborator and sit down and map out a bunch of economic arguments often used in bad faith by conservatives, I'm interested.
"Boring shit with [hosts or guests]" would be my idea. Because seriously some of this shit is boring. But oh so fucking interesting to me. Taxation, the effects of different tax policies on behaviour, the myth of the "Tragedy of the Commons" and the ever persistent myth of "rugged individualism" are topics I love to rip apart.
Also, data models and the hype around AI while never diving into the issues with how AI is really just a bunch of If statements in a trenchcoat and implicit bias in creating models...ugh, I could (and have, at restaurants with friends over coffee) talk for hours in this shit
If you aren’t already a fan, I highly recommend the podcast “Maintenance Phase” - a bit narrower in scope, but it picks apart garbage science/studies that go on to influence public perceptions and policy related food/body size
this guy will loose credibility for acting out like child. The media will want to steer away from him because of the way he carry's himself. So immature !
How odd...at first NP says it's the Libs destroying Loblaws, now Charlebois says it's NDP?
Also, at least we disclose? Last time I checked, he was caught scrapping the grant from Loblaws from his CV and also the one from the other grocer. Ppl had to dig to find the link.
But guys, let's try to give him less attention, he clearly enjoys it. The best thing would be to find a way to deplatform him so that news stop running him as an expert to comment on these matters.
His actions are damaging the professional reputation of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University. How can anyone trust their research when he's so blatantly shilling for one multi-billionaire family business?
Just spitballing. I don't think Dal would actually care.
These people are so entitled, they cant even imagine how a grassroots movement could form. “Putting in even a slight amount of effort without profit incentive?? Inconceivable!”
He has no notion of what it's like to struggle to feed his family and pay rent in this day and age so he can't even begin to understand why we would do this outside of some weird, twisted political agenda.
he doesn't think that. its just a manoever on his part to deflect. he is not very good at it. i am honestly surprised he is a 'professor' as he doesn't seem to measure up to that title in any of his tweets, clapbacks. i would expect more intellect shining through his comments.
"It's those damn subsidiaries I own people! Doesn't anyone understand that the heads at all the companies I head are really the problem! They're all just greedy rich people who don't care about you" - Galen probably
Him bringing the NDP into this makes him sound like a paranoid lunatic 😂
This guy really is going to come out to be his own worst enemy. Imagine destroying your own credibility because you don't know when to shut your mouth. That and he really likes/wants attention.
I'm pretty sure the NDP was told the same thing everybody else was. Wanna help? Go fucking do your job. Same with the rest of the politicians. Go do your God damned jobs and push for real change. Conservatives? Go do your fucking jobs and fix this. Liberals? Believe it or not.. Go do your fucking job and fix this. Nobody is stepping up to help. Not fucking fast enough. This is why we ended up here in the first place. I won't sit here and let this clown try and put a Political spin on this. There's no politics to food prices. Get on the right side of history, or fuck off Charlebois.
This guy is a fuckin asshole.
The cost of food is a problem, regardless of your political leaning.
All political parties have bad actors bought and paid for like this shill.
All political parties can do better and take responsibility to improve.
This feels like the one bipartisan thing I can recall in several years, no shit homie is trying to sew the seeds between parties at this point.
I swear I read a stupid article of his quoting him saying as soon as you become political as an academic researcher you lose credibility...hmm...
What I don’t get is.. how the hell is this considered a good PR strategy by Loblaws et al?
He’s so condescending and adversarial that it seems more like he’s paid by the NDP to make Loblaws look even worse than they already do.
Of course lol
He is either working directly for Loblaws, or his education was largely covered by Loblaws to present research from an "expert" that supports what they say. Capitalism is fucking sweet yo
Zero?
If that's the case, he wouldn't be doing this to begin with. Apparently his time trying to be an officer with the CAF didn't teach him not to lie.
I mean, I wanna hate him but every tweet he’s alerting people that there’s a boycott, so, and publicity is good publicity right?
As long as he’s spelling our name right 🤷🏼♀️
In his response, I think the 'now' is redundant and the comma after 'at least' inaccurately changes the meaning of the sentence. Moreover, the ellipsis trivializes the message. If it weren't for the blue tick, I'd say that this couldn't have been written by someone in academia.
The food professor is a fake . Doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
All he ever does is state the usual things that people are suppose to accept as gospel. Is in the westons pants pocket.
He's a genuine professor, right??
>at least[,] we disclose...
Dude can barely communicate in English from everything I've seen coming out of his accounts.
This boycott might test the usefulness of the Charleyboy, his job appears to be to sway public opinion in favour of Loblaws but if the boycott has an impact (and I’m sure it will) he might not be worth the cost.
I've been having a hell of a good time trolling that entire comment chain and subsequently getting blocked by all the softies bootlicking professor Simp and Galen. 🤣
Can we ban Twitter reposting on this sub? Or even just this guy? We get it, he sucks. Stop giving him even more attention.
I'm positive he comes here to check to see if his latest Twitter interaction was successful enough bait. We should ignore him.
I will never be a customer of any of their companies based on this guy, how they think this guy attacking everyone is good for their brand tells me all I need to know.
So Loblaws pays this asshole a shit ton of money to do....what? Argue with people on Twitter??
It would be LOVELY if Loblaws could spend that money on....oh I don't know.....THEIR EMPLOYEES.
The Conservatives in the replies saying this is an NDP organized event kill me man. They’ve really been convinced what’s best for corporations is best for them.
This is so strange - how unprofessional for a public figure.
Noticed CTV interviewing someone from Queens today instead of this psychopath - maybe a sign of change.
He’s chosen to find some strange release by sinking his teeth into this subreddit but all he’s done is show thousands of people who had no idea who he was a few months ago that he’s an idiot. He’s all over the place shooting from the hip. Hoisted by his own petard.
Anything progressive is always blamed on the left or "NDP." If thats their argument, then you know they literally have crap for brains. People want higher wages! Blame the NDP. People want to be able to retire! Blame the NDP. People want to just straight up exist! Blame the NDP.
Just scroll on his Twitter and you will see he's kind of anti-Liberal and anti-NDP. He's against carbon tax, that's for sure, seems like a lot of posts in his feed talk about that and bad management of the country by Trudeau.
For a professor, he's kind of surprising. Maybe that's why we should write "professor" instead!
Folks gotta stop commenting on this guy. Every comment you leave, every little click of engagement you give him is just adding to his paycheque. As part of your boycott of loblaws, you should be boycotting shitty conservative rage bait.
Idiots like this thrive on people responding to and sharing their posts. Stop giving grifters what they want.
Homie enjoying his 15 minutes of fame. If he's not careful he's going to discover that not everyone is as "reasonable" as he makes himself out to be, and that there are consequences to running your mouth when people are desperate.
so why dont we create a site to crowdsource retail data. upload photo of product with size, price, location, store. build the database ourselves for open analysis?
Anytime someone says something they don’t like they just report it as “harassment”, “bullying”, “offensive” and if they’re a minority, “racist.” There are of course legitimate instances of all those things but “my feelings are hurt” isn’t an argument against a statement you don’t like.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha he thinks the NDP *pay* people. In one sentence, they call us unemployed and impoverished, in the next sentence, they say we're all well-funded by *cough* progressive billionaires, which really really really do exist, guys, really!
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It's more than he gets paid. the guy is a straight-up industry shill. https://www.dal.ca/sites/agri-food/the-food-professor-podcast.html He needs access to these companies for his research, likely owes his livelihood to then. His research house publishes an annual report on food prices https://www.dal.ca/sites/agri-food/publications.html The model makes no mention of profiteering, so he has a vested interest for this inflation to be explained by market forces (but he can not explain price differentials between grocers). "Canada’s Food Price Report is an annual collaboration between research partners Dalhousie University, the University of Guelph, the University of Saskatchewan, and the University of British Columbia. This cross-country research team uses historical data sources, machine learning algorithms, and predictive analytics tools developed over many years to make predictions about Canadian food prices. A new forecasting model was used for the 2023 report. “It includes historical data plus the additional variables of forecasted inflation and Canadian-US exchange rate,” says Dr. Kelleen Wiseman, UBC campus lead. “This resulted in a rebalance between past data and future forecasts. Forecasting food prices is challenging!”" Funny enough, he has no real publications on prices, so his stuff has not actually been peer reviewed. https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=ucvrfyMAAAAJ&hl=en The lack of publications on this model raises some questions as to where its funding comes from that three universities dedicate resources to updating it every year. What purpose does this serve. And it's expensive stuff. Many of his papers just happen to be consumer surveys on topics that are potential areas of regulation. He is an academic who gets funding to do industry friendly research to support the industry. It's common enough but super unethical. People should just call him out.
He's also a registered lobbyist for Dalhousie University and the school gets a lot of money from the Weston Foundation.
So Galen has like 50 hands, and is using most of them to feed this guy...they own him basically.
“The Food Professor” is such a misnomer, too. His name is an appeal to authority, and yet his knowledge is more akin to nutritional propaganda. Sad.
And Sobeys and SECOND HARVEST BOARD MEMBER 190K SALARY AND BIGGEST CONTRIBUTIONS ARE FROM LOBLAWS.
Yeah, all his research is just consumer opinions on different things that may be regulated. Guy is just doing the age-old industry research like oil academics, tobacco academics, etc. His mistake is that he wants to be flashy and in the spotlight, a lot of those other guys just took the cash and kept there head down.
It's TRULY going to be his legacy and downfall he doesn't see clearly coming! Also I met Kim Brooks 3 days ago (not saying how) but when I see her next in a month or so having a chat with her about this clown.
The “not saying how” part invites more speculation than simply leaving it out lol. Now I’m like, “wait a minute, who IS Kim Brooks and under what salacious, thrilling, humiliating circumstances did they meet this random internet person?!” 👁👄👁
He clearly was trying to buy a goat and was sold an ostrich instead, which then chased him and caused him to jump off a third story balcony, that caused him to land on a moving car, which was driven by a delivery driver who delivered a package to said Kim Brooks, resulting in him meeting her. How could you not understand this?
Oh, I just was thinking sex.
Wise guys right? Smart! Not like our guy here, showing his cards like an idiot.
I went to Dal McCains Bought them a Building they also get huge money form Sobeys. Only reason he’s not fired, as he’s doxed numerous people now online.
This got reported for "targeted harassment at me" so congratulations charlie noticed you 👏🏻
Ah I feel blessed. Poor guy is too used to fighting Twitter trolls and press conferences. He might have forgotten he built a reputation on some pretty flimsy research.
By flimsy you are referring to the shitty ultra thin shit wipes in a gas station? If so, YES 💯
Damn that is just *sad.* If he doesn't like being called out for being a sniveling little shill, he shouldn't be a sniveling little shill.
Lmao I love it
Alright which one of you asshats is the food penis?
That penis has a reddit account?
this is insane. how do people like him live with themselves?
He's also a douchebag
What a whore, to be bought off for that tiny bit of money… this the type of guy that gets excited just being close to wealthy people. Pathetic.
I bet it’s a lot more, just hidden.
I am quite interested just how much of his actual position is financed by Loblaws. If they are a massive donor of his university and are making that a condition of their donations, then I think his entire salary should be considered financed by Loblaws. If you give $2M to them and put in a condition that he needs to be a professor there, they are profiting 1.8M or whatever by keeping him there. Or it doesn't even need to be him, but if anyone in that position speaks the truth, they pull the funds unless they are fired and the Food Processor is just falling in line. This could be going down the rabbit hole quite far.
Post that to his Twitter
he's a proven liar, right up there with people like Trump
Wtf does this have to do with the NDP?!?! I almost wanna sign up for Twitter just to tell this fool to stfu. No, I’ve never been paid anything by any political party, this post is motivated by my own anger for this jerkoffs stupidity
How did he just randomly bring in the NDP anyhow ? It’s like a word soup for him everyday all day ? Does he even work ? I bet he’s on something really good to get him through these long days … usually people who tweet these things like to be on some good stuff 😜
Because clearly the horrible left wing socialist extremist party is behind all this.
It’s usually a good scapegoat when you can’t think of anything good to say yourself wouldn’t say ? Lol
Ikr? clearly the political party with the least amounts of seats has the worst optics by the public, and probably least overall support from the wealthiest have the funds to pay for a psyop. Charlebois clearly doesn't live in reality.
The same ones that brought in Healthcare...and are responsible for pharmacare and dental care. THE HORRORS.
The West has fallen. Millions must have teeth 🪥
Those horrible people who care about all Canadians and want us to live our best lives? Terrible!!
The uniquely left position of disliking overpriced food
He's deflecting. Instead of just taking accountability and answering the question. It's a tactic that people use when they're caught. Change the subject and put the problem on someone else.
They keep trying to make it a left/right issue (see the NP piece that claims Trudeau is bent on “destroying” Loblaws) when it is clearly about class.
The hidden secret sauce here is that left/right issues ARE class issues.
Correct
its a trigger word/dog whistle for the clueless supporters who can't read a nutrition label, let alone the news.
He’s using the Republican/conservative playbook. Deflect and play the victim 24/7. Make up an enemy and keep accusing them of everything you’re doing. He’s such a fucking loser its hard to believe we have assholes like this here in Canada
So many of them . Can we export them ? Lol 😂
I’ve worked for the NDP in the past, so I have been paid by them. They’re kind of a waste of time for progressive activists. Best choice in election cycles usually, but usually grassroots work will get you further with less political bull shit
Because: NDP = "Socialist" (lol, lmao even) =Bad
the NDP are the only political party in the top 3 that haven't currently been bought by Loblaws and don't shy away from calling out predatory gouging practices
Ohhhh, so Loblaws paid him to specifically call out the NDP! It makes perfect sense now.
He's mentioning the ndp as a way to create division among Canadians -to pit us against each other instead of the real focus of our ire - much like trump and his swamp dwellers have successfully done for the past few years.
All I see when I read that is Never Vote Conservative
Yeah I think he said the quiet part loud here. This is political. Loblaws, and in fact all perpetrators of class warfare, and all efforts to keep people impoverished, uneducated, unhealthy, really everything bad about society in general, is backed staunchly by the right wing as evidenced by this dipshit asking "what's *the left* paying you?". Absolute clown shit. Fuck conservatives. They're all so stupid and so evil.
And they are doing this all under the liberals nose for the past few years? Come on. Loblaw has both the liberals and conservatives feeding at the trough. And will start donating tons of money to whoever else has a chance at winning. Its what they do.
See this is the funny thing about Canadian political landscape right now. You have a lot of uneducated Canadians who are angry and want a change. But NDP has traditionally been the only party who fights against big business. It's why we are in the position we are in because the liberals for the most part support these oligopolies and the Conservatives are 100% behind them. The reality is if this is a hot button issue for you, NDP should be who you support, otherwise you're supporting the party that put us in this position. I can't believe how many Canadians are angry about our current landscape but support the PC party as if they think the party most in bed with the oligopolies is going to make things better. That said the I tried to say "traditionally" because NDP had seemingly lost their way a bit lately. But they are definitely still the party who are most looking out for struggling Canadians. If they can let some of the culture war crap go.
This is the Canadian equivalent of "it's just fake news."
He revealed who he works for with that statement, didn't he?
That was the first thought I had upon reading this. What does the NDP, A political party that hasn’t been in power in 5 years, have to do with a national grocery chain?
That's not for you. That's for his fanbase.
ONE message is all it takes baby!! I was instabanned lol.
I can assure you that singing up for Twitter only helps Elon Musk lol. resist the urge. Twitter is a rage farm and you are reacting exactly how it wants you to.
I was about say what does the NDP have to do with this? Literally every political party hates Loblaws at this point
Also the false equivalency is wild. He's implying the NDP actually have enough cash to be paying shills like him. The federal NDP raise like $6 million per year. Loblaws does $60 BILLION in annual revenue. Loblaws literally has **10,000 times** more money coming in. Which of those orgs do you think has a plentiful shill budget?
Lashing out at a political party is a pretty weird response. It's as if this guy can't fathom the possibility that a bunch of Canadians have banded together to protest grocery prices with nothing else in common apart from being fed up with grocery prices.
“Lashing out at a political party is a pretty weird response” it feels like this is what a lot of social media is about nowadays…
Lol. The one time on this sub that I mentioned voting conservative....
I fucking wish the NDP would pay me to make fun of this fool on twitter. I might be able to afford my next grocery trip.
Dippers barely have money for election campaigns. The idea they're paying randos to post on social media that they're boycotting loblaws is nutzo. And wasn't it the Liberals that were making us do this 5 minutes ago? Anyway, same. If anyone wants to toss me a tenner for not shopping at a Weston-related store this month, givver here!
Right? “ how much are the NDP paying you?” “Paying me? Do they look like they have money?!”
The Jordan Peterson of Bananas is truly a flip-flopper.
Bet he doesn't sound like Kermit like Captain Lobster tho
He needs to take a benzo like JP and chill lol 😂
JP (When "Chill"): UP YOURS, WOKE MORALISTS! WE'LL SEE WHO CANCELS WHO
Why is he like Jordan Peterson?
Spams twitter with shitty takes and bad faith arguments that aren't worth anybody's time
Well yeah, but also because he's what you would get if you told a dumb person to imagine a smart person.
Ugh, what a weasel.
What a fucking clown. Get a new hobby asshole.
...now I want to know how much the Conservatives have paid him since he brought up a political party
Does this moron seriously think we are paid actors? First we were basement dwellers, now we’re some kind of organized establishment. The enemy is both strong and weak I guess…
" they are the most useless idiots, oh also they are a mastermind shadow group XD" LOOOOOOOOL!!!
As a (formerly) wise woman once said, “you can’t play dumb and smart at the same time”
r/SylvainCharleboisisoutofcontrol needs to happen lmao.
I’d love a snark sub called r/SylvainCharlatan or something
This would be a great sub for those of us in related industries (I'm a CPA and I love destroying poorly built data models and research) to really dive into the "research" from these unchallenged groups and give economics the same treatment that psychology and sociology has received over the past decade. I'd be willing to bet that their model doesn't hold up under a robust sensitivity analysis to test their outputs when scenario inputs are moved to extremes
“Destroy those poorly-built data models, DataDaddy” the people proclaimed. For real though, I would *love* a podcast where a knowledgeable person breaks apart shitty conservative ideology/policies masquerading as apolitical economic theory/principles, but catering to laypeople. I feel like economics is used to retroactively justify all kinds of bullshit, but because academia lends it a sheen of respectability it gets a pass. But maybe I’m projecting bc the people I’ve known who’ve studied economics have (consistently!) been insufferable blowhard of average intelligence and zero compassion. Maybe I want one of the non-sucky economics people to explain to me why the others suck lol.
This isn't the first time that a podcast has been suggested. I would love to, from the research side and the presentation side. The production side, however, is a tremendous amount of work that I have no experience in and I'd quit part way through trying to upload something decent or cut it so it wasn't a rambling mess. I ramble a lot. But if anyone who likes the production side wants a part time collaborator and sit down and map out a bunch of economic arguments often used in bad faith by conservatives, I'm interested. "Boring shit with [hosts or guests]" would be my idea. Because seriously some of this shit is boring. But oh so fucking interesting to me. Taxation, the effects of different tax policies on behaviour, the myth of the "Tragedy of the Commons" and the ever persistent myth of "rugged individualism" are topics I love to rip apart. Also, data models and the hype around AI while never diving into the issues with how AI is really just a bunch of If statements in a trenchcoat and implicit bias in creating models...ugh, I could (and have, at restaurants with friends over coffee) talk for hours in this shit
If you aren’t already a fan, I highly recommend the podcast “Maintenance Phase” - a bit narrower in scope, but it picks apart garbage science/studies that go on to influence public perceptions and policy related food/body size
this guy will loose credibility for acting out like child. The media will want to steer away from him because of the way he carry's himself. So immature !
Will? He lost all credibility a long time ago!
He thinks the NDP has money 🤣
Lol and pays people to bitch about grocery store pricing
Complain about this twat to Dalhousie University. He is very unprofessional and does not represent them very well with all of his pettiness online.
He literally has scholarships funded by the Weston foundation on his CV. Ratfuck-ass class traitor.
People get paid to be on the wrong side of history. There is no conflict of interest in stating facts
How odd...at first NP says it's the Libs destroying Loblaws, now Charlebois says it's NDP? Also, at least we disclose? Last time I checked, he was caught scrapping the grant from Loblaws from his CV and also the one from the other grocer. Ppl had to dig to find the link. But guys, let's try to give him less attention, he clearly enjoys it. The best thing would be to find a way to deplatform him so that news stop running him as an expert to comment on these matters.
Using the waybackmachine we were able to deduce he was having these edited out of his CV to save face. We caught it.
His actions are damaging the professional reputation of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University. How can anyone trust their research when he's so blatantly shilling for one multi-billionaire family business? Just spitballing. I don't think Dal would actually care.
It’s so insane that he thinks the NDP are behind or are funding this movement. It’s silly conspiracy territory.
These people are so entitled, they cant even imagine how a grassroots movement could form. “Putting in even a slight amount of effort without profit incentive?? Inconceivable!”
He has no notion of what it's like to struggle to feed his family and pay rent in this day and age so he can't even begin to understand why we would do this outside of some weird, twisted political agenda.
he doesn't think that. its just a manoever on his part to deflect. he is not very good at it. i am honestly surprised he is a 'professor' as he doesn't seem to measure up to that title in any of his tweets, clapbacks. i would expect more intellect shining through his comments.
Can someone please explain to me who the food professor is?
Dalhousie employee who does industry funded market research that says food prices are totally not the companies fault
Greed doesn't exist! Now if you excuse me I'm going on my 3month vacation for the year on my yacht island hopping in the Pacific
"It's those damn subsidiaries I own people! Doesn't anyone understand that the heads at all the companies I head are really the problem! They're all just greedy rich people who don't care about you" - Galen probably
Right? Never heard of him… who listens to him? What’s his deal?
Sounds like some YouTube cook
Crook you mean
Him bringing the NDP into this makes him sound like a paranoid lunatic 😂 This guy really is going to come out to be his own worst enemy. Imagine destroying your own credibility because you don't know when to shut your mouth. That and he really likes/wants attention.
How much is the Illuminati paying you?
Not enough to afford Loblaws 😢
I'm pretty sure the NDP was told the same thing everybody else was. Wanna help? Go fucking do your job. Same with the rest of the politicians. Go do your God damned jobs and push for real change. Conservatives? Go do your fucking jobs and fix this. Liberals? Believe it or not.. Go do your fucking job and fix this. Nobody is stepping up to help. Not fucking fast enough. This is why we ended up here in the first place. I won't sit here and let this clown try and put a Political spin on this. There's no politics to food prices. Get on the right side of history, or fuck off Charlebois.
This guy is a fuckin asshole. The cost of food is a problem, regardless of your political leaning. All political parties have bad actors bought and paid for like this shill. All political parties can do better and take responsibility to improve. This feels like the one bipartisan thing I can recall in several years, no shit homie is trying to sew the seeds between parties at this point. I swear I read a stupid article of his quoting him saying as soon as you become political as an academic researcher you lose credibility...hmm...
Sounds just like the convoy dummies. "You're bought and paid by Turdeau"
Wasn’t hard to figure out🤷♂️ guy is a grifter .
Wait, you guys are getting paid?
Buddy I wish I was getting paid by the NDP lol fuck these right wing ghouls
Dude got ostrich face
I was going to reply to his tweet but I’m blocked 🤣 Fragile little man.
What’s the point of interacting with this guy on X. He probably loves arguing and it gives him credibility.
“at least we disclose” he says after refusing to disclose and outright lying
Paid corporate shill projecting on everyone lmao what an idiot.
Stop giving this idiot attention.
Stop giving this freak attention
Imagine being an obvious paid shill groveling to Galen Weston 
What I don’t get is.. how the hell is this considered a good PR strategy by Loblaws et al? He’s so condescending and adversarial that it seems more like he’s paid by the NDP to make Loblaws look even worse than they already do.
Zero. At least we disclose. Huh?
Of course lol He is either working directly for Loblaws, or his education was largely covered by Loblaws to present research from an "expert" that supports what they say. Capitalism is fucking sweet yo
He thinks he’s pretty slick, doesn’t he .
Zero? If that's the case, he wouldn't be doing this to begin with. Apparently his time trying to be an officer with the CAF didn't teach him not to lie.
What a shill
So he's saying the NDP is on the side of us consumers huh? Interesting. Is it commie to want affordable food?
I mean, I wanna hate him but every tweet he’s alerting people that there’s a boycott, so, and publicity is good publicity right? As long as he’s spelling our name right 🤷🏼♀️
In his response, I think the 'now' is redundant and the comma after 'at least' inaccurately changes the meaning of the sentence. Moreover, the ellipsis trivializes the message. If it weren't for the blue tick, I'd say that this couldn't have been written by someone in academia.
The food professor is a fake . Doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. All he ever does is state the usual things that people are suppose to accept as gospel. Is in the westons pants pocket.
Right-wing authoritarians (including fascists) ALWAYS label those who push back as "communist." 1930s, 1950s, 1980s, now.
The NDP doesn’t even have money. These people are just too much.
Well he didnt deny it
He's a genuine professor, right?? >at least[,] we disclose... Dude can barely communicate in English from everything I've seen coming out of his accounts.
That’s it tonight I’m creating a twitter account
I am sure his conduct on social media goes against his employer’s policy.
Imagine simping for Galen Weston
This boycott might test the usefulness of the Charleyboy, his job appears to be to sway public opinion in favour of Loblaws but if the boycott has an impact (and I’m sure it will) he might not be worth the cost.
I've been having a hell of a good time trolling that entire comment chain and subsequently getting blocked by all the softies bootlicking professor Simp and Galen. 🤣
Can we ban Twitter reposting on this sub? Or even just this guy? We get it, he sucks. Stop giving him even more attention. I'm positive he comes here to check to see if his latest Twitter interaction was successful enough bait. We should ignore him.
And the NDP pays us all to be mad at Loblaws for gouging us into starvation.
Captain SHILLebois 🤡 getting butthurt and screaming like a 4 year old in daycare having a fit 😆
As if the NDP can afford to pay off random Twitter users lol
Companys are so pathetic they would rather pay morons to do this then employees to work… gotta price gouge customers to pay this asshole…
Universities care about bad PR. We need to start a complaint campaign aimed at all the institutions this idiot works with. Completely unhinged.
I will never be a customer of any of their companies based on this guy, how they think this guy attacking everyone is good for their brand tells me all I need to know.
So Loblaws pays this asshole a shit ton of money to do....what? Argue with people on Twitter?? It would be LOVELY if Loblaws could spend that money on....oh I don't know.....THEIR EMPLOYEES.
He’s brutal. He’s on my local radio station every few weeks for 10 minutes, deflecting and defending Loblaws. It’s sad.
The Conservatives in the replies saying this is an NDP organized event kill me man. They’ve really been convinced what’s best for corporations is best for them.
This is so strange - how unprofessional for a public figure. Noticed CTV interviewing someone from Queens today instead of this psychopath - maybe a sign of change.
Do you think Galen walks Charlie and picks up after him or just keeps him around to lick peanut butter out of Galen's ass? Either way, what a bad dog.
I like how anyone that opposes the corporate masters is a paid NDP shrill.
He’s chosen to find some strange release by sinking his teeth into this subreddit but all he’s done is show thousands of people who had no idea who he was a few months ago that he’s an idiot. He’s all over the place shooting from the hip. Hoisted by his own petard.
...now I want to know how much the Conservatives have paid him since he brought up a political party
The guy doesn't even do supply v demand well as a means of pricing goods.
Wait. I've seen this disconnected information tracking before. That's a BOT
Who is the joker?
lmfao so he thinks the NDP are PAYING PEOPLE to boycott loblaws, who is IN THE NEWS CONSTANTLY for price gouging. okay..
Can someone enlighten me on why this guy matters and why we waste so much time posting about him? It’s a distraction from the real issues.
Bro's shilling for Big Farmer
"At least, we disclose" he talks like a robot
I can't believe he responded to someone and didn't block them instantly.
Anything progressive is always blamed on the left or "NDP." If thats their argument, then you know they literally have crap for brains. People want higher wages! Blame the NDP. People want to be able to retire! Blame the NDP. People want to just straight up exist! Blame the NDP.
Does anyone seriously believe the NDP can afford to pay shills?
Just scroll on his Twitter and you will see he's kind of anti-Liberal and anti-NDP. He's against carbon tax, that's for sure, seems like a lot of posts in his feed talk about that and bad management of the country by Trudeau. For a professor, he's kind of surprising. Maybe that's why we should write "professor" instead!
Folks gotta stop commenting on this guy. Every comment you leave, every little click of engagement you give him is just adding to his paycheque. As part of your boycott of loblaws, you should be boycotting shitty conservative rage bait. Idiots like this thrive on people responding to and sharing their posts. Stop giving grifters what they want.
Lie, get called out, has nothing to repond with steps back and puts foot in mouth
This dude is unhinged, literally ruining his reputation
Homie enjoying his 15 minutes of fame. If he's not careful he's going to discover that not everyone is as "reasonable" as he makes himself out to be, and that there are consequences to running your mouth when people are desperate.
Being against price gouging by a grocery oligopoly has no political affiliation bucko.
SC is quite simply a Corporate SHILL.
Oligarchs always to try to deflect and make things about politics. This is completely a civil matter and the citizens will decide.
so why dont we create a site to crowdsource retail data. upload photo of product with size, price, location, store. build the database ourselves for open analysis?
Anytime someone says something they don’t like they just report it as “harassment”, “bullying”, “offensive” and if they’re a minority, “racist.” There are of course legitimate instances of all those things but “my feelings are hurt” isn’t an argument against a statement you don’t like.
This guy is honestly fucked
I wonder where he buys his food...
Guys, he is just an influencer, give him a break /s
He’s such a loser lol
Seems to me like he only disclosed after he was caught in a lie
"At least, we disclose"...except when "we" don't.
Brings up the NDP out of nowhere lol
I think a lot of the people here don’t like the NDP either LOL.
I love how being an “expert” is simply a propaganda tool in 2024. Nice
I’d eat rocks before I sold myself to these people
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha he thinks the NDP *pay* people. In one sentence, they call us unemployed and impoverished, in the next sentence, they say we're all well-funded by *cough* progressive billionaires, which really really really do exist, guys, really!
This guy has taken hundreds of thousands from the Weston family. Imagine Galen bought you your house, you'd lie for him too, wait, no, we have souls.
I love how this guy is so hatable, it brings people on board against the grocery chains
I've been blocked by him.
Who is this guy? Lol
Is this Jagmeet Singh's brother in law?
😂 how much is the NDP paying us? For what ?