Author: canadaman2020

Shoppers Drug Mart in Toronto offers a part-time job with no pay

by canadaman2020

Shoppers Drug Mart is giving Torontonians the honour of volunteering at one of their locations for free.

On Wednesday, the Shoppers Drug Mart at King Street West and Peter Street in Toronto, Ont., placed an ad for a volunteer position on the social networking site Linkedin.

The ad stated that to get the volunteer position, applicants must have flexible work hours and be willing to work evenings and weekends.

Previous customer service and retail experience are assets, it said.

“As a volunteer, you will be responsible for assisting with various tasks and providing support to the staff. This may include helping customers find products, restocking shelves, organizing inventory, and maintaining a clean and organized store environment,” the ad said. “Your role as a volunteer is crucial in ensuring that our customers have a positive and seamless shopping experience.”

According to Owler Shopper’s Drug Mart, it makes an estimated $10-50 billion in revenue.

When asked why the company was offering this position, Loblaws, the owners of Shoppers Drug Mart, did not respond before the deadline given.

One explanation might be that high school students at the Toronto District School Board and the Toronto Catholic District School Board must work 40 hours of “community involvement” to graduate in June.

For students who have waited too long, a co-op placement at a Shoppers Drug Mart might be their best option if they want to graduate with their peers.

Typically, co-op students apply for positions themselves, and organizations don’t advertise that they’re looking for free labour.

Emil Harba, the pharmacist and owner of that specific store listed the job.

His LinkedIn account appears to no longer be operational, and after one day of being online, the listing says it is “no longer accepting applicants.”

Shoppers Drug Mart in Toronto offers a part-time job with no pay

Convicted Child Rapist Behind Surrogacy Empire Now Under Investigation For Baby Trafficking

by canadaman2020

A surrogacy empire owned by a convicted pedophile has come under investigation for arranging fictitious marriages, falsifying documents to smuggle babies out of Ukraine, and trading children for profit, according to a Paris-based consortium of journalists.

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has released an investigation which links Barcelona-based surrogacy company Subrogalia to a network of corporations controlled by two men, one of whom sexually abused the other as a child and has an extensive history of child rape.

osé María Hill Prados, now 62, was 45 years old when he first met Didac Giménez Sánchez at the Casal Dels Infants del Raval center for minors in Barcelona. Prados exposed 12-year-old Sánchez to pornographic films in order to groom him at his home in Cervelló, Spain, where he also sexually assaulted the boy.

In 2007, Prados was sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually abusing both Sánchez and his sister on charges that included raping the children, and for creating illicit pornography of the acts he subjected them to.

However, the sentence was anonymized, with Prados’ identity being obscured as ‘Carlos Jesús’ in court records and Sánchez being identified as ‘Baltasar.’ The following year, Sánchez desperately recanted his allegations, claiming he was pressured into making the accusations. But the judge disagreed, having already heard the boy’s testimony presented to the court, and found there was sufficient evidence to sustain the conviction. Prados would go on to serve his full prison sentence.

This was not the first instance of child sexual abuse committed by Prados. In 1996, he was investigated by a Barcelona court for the alleged crime of corruption of minors and several more sexual assaults of which his four adopted children, aged between 12 and 17, were reported to be victims. Prados, then 36, was the founder of a Russian children’s foster organization called Padres para Siempre (Parents forever), and the details of the case were sealed from the public.

Convicted Child Rapist Behind Surrogacy Empire Now Under Investigation For Baby Trafficking