Toronto mayor called for boycott of Home Depot after it dropped out as Pride Festival sponsor

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Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow’s call for residents of Toronto to stop shopping at Home Depot could cost the city thousands of jobs. The company is currently looking to move its Canadian headquarters from an industrial park off of the Don Valley Pkwy. and Chow’s comments could see it leave the city altogether.

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At a Pride flag-raising ceremony on Monday, Chow called out Home Depot for deciding not to sponsor the Toronto Pride Festival this year by encouraging people to shop elsewhere.

“Don’t shop at Home Depot,” Chow said.

“Anyway, shop Canadian, shop Rona, yeah, yes, yes. We are not the 51st state. Are you kidding? We are proud Torontonians, right?”

Mayor Olivia Chow addresses corporate sponsors who pulled out of Pride, calling it “shortsighted”........

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