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Yahoo
6 days ago
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Canada Goose: Vertical manufacturing an edge against tariffs
This story was originally published on Supply Chain Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Supply Chain Dive newsletter. Canada Goose is using its vertical manufacturing capabilities to adjust production to demand in a market characterized by tariff uncertainty, executives said during a May 21 earnings call. The luxury retailer manufactured over 90% of its down-filled outerwear in the company's facilities in Canada in fiscal year 2025, per an SEC filing. By coordinating its in-house manufacturing with third-party suppliers, Canada Goose was able to adjust efficiently to customer demand. 'Our vertical manufacturing is a real source of competitive advantage for us,' Beth Clymer, president and COO, said. 'We are currently leveraging this capability more than we ever have before, which is especially valuable in today's dynamic market.' Canada Goose owns and controls its entire production process, from raw materials to finished products, allowing for sourcing adjustments to mitigate tariff disruptions. With production primarily based in Canada, the brand is largely unaffected by tariffs due to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, Clymer said. In the last fiscal quarter, however, tariff impacts were primarily felt in Canada Goose's European production, which makes roughly 20% of the company's products. Many brand manufacturers with more global production networks have scrambled to reduce manufacturing exposure to China to avoid hefty U.S. tariffs. SharkNinja, for instance, plans to move nearly all its manufacturing to Southeast Asia by the end of the year. Meanwhile, Colgate-Palmolive is reducing its reliance on suppliers in China while increasing the number of its U.S. manufacturing facilities. But Canada Goose hasn't fully escaped the effects of tariffs. The company decided not to release a financial forecast for fiscal 2026 because of jittery consumers in a changing economy. 'The pull of the guide and the decision not to provide an outlook for the year is entirely around what we see as a fairly uncertain consumer environment around the world,' CFO Neil Bowden told analysts. 'There's no doubt that the trade environment is choppy.' This story was first published in our Procurement Weekly newsletter. Sign up here.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Transgender activist claims 'science is on our side' while pushing Democrats to fight back on the issue
A transgender rights activist is urging the Democratic Party to continue the fight over trans issues, claiming "science" supports their side. "It's very easy to fight back on trans issues," activist Charlotte Clymer said on Saturday during MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show." "The science is on our side," Clymer added. "Every credible medical organization has come out and endorsed gender-affirming care and said that the trans military ban is ridiculous and unnecessary… But the more we don't fight back, the more Republicans are going to engage in bad faith and run up a score on Democrats." Top Us Hospital Hit With Scathing Ad Campaign Over 'Extreme Woke' Agenda: 'Politics Over Patients' Recent studies, however, point to troubling statistics for those who have undergone a sex change operation. A study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine found the rates of depression, anxiety, substance-use disorders and tendency to suicide were "significantly higher" among those who had a sex change surgery, assessed two years later. According to the study, men who had sex-change surgery had depression rates of 25% as opposed to males who did not have surgery (11.5%), and anxiety rates among that group were 12.8% compared to 2.6%. Women who had sex change surgery had depression rates of 22.9% compared to 14.6% in the non-surgical group. Read On The Fox News App Clymer is an Army veteran and a former press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy organization, whose Substack, "Charlotte's Web Thoughts," covers "Politics, religion, culture, and humor from a Christian trans woman." The transgender activist is concerned that more Democrats are not being more outspoken on the issue. Voters Widely Oppose Taxpayer-funded Gender Surgeries, Revealing Democrat Party's Vulnerability: Poll "I'm not seeing a lot of fight from Democratic leadership in Congress, and that is a huge mistake," Clymer said. "The problem with this thinking is that we have an open goal. No one's defending it. Why wouldn't Republicans keep kicking at that goal?" The contrast, the activist added, is with Republicans, who have made the issue a defining part of their platform. "Only one party is really talking about trans issues. It's the Republican Party," Clymer said. "They've made trans issues one of their central topics in campaigning and the national discourse." Fang, who interviewed Clymer, said Republicans "fearmonger" on the issue. "They love to fearmonger. That's their currency," Phang said. "It galvanizes people to vote based on fear, not on facts. I always like to say, don't vote on feelings, vote on facts." Clymer said if Democrats don't get better with their messaging, it could cost them. "The more the Democrats ignore this, the more it's going to come back to haunt us in future elections," Clymer article source: Transgender activist claims 'science is on our side' while pushing Democrats to fight back on the issue
Fox News
15-04-2025
- Health
- Fox News
Transgender activist claims 'science is on our side' while pushing Democrats to fight back on the issue
A transgender rights activist is urging the Democratic Party to continue the fight over trans issues, claiming "science" supports their side. "It's very easy to fight back on trans issues," activist Charlotte Clymer said on Saturday during MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show." "The science is on our side," Clymer added. "Every credible medical organization has come out and endorsed gender-affirming care and said that the trans military ban is ridiculous and unnecessary… But the more we don't fight back, the more Republicans are going to engage in bad faith and run up a score on Democrats." Recent studies, however, point to troubling statistics for those who have undergone a sex change operation. A study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine found the rates of depression, anxiety, substance-use disorders and tendency to suicide were "significantly higher" among those who had a sex change surgery, assessed two years later. According to the study, men who had sex-change surgery had depression rates of 25% as opposed to males who did not have surgery (11.5%), and anxiety rates among that group were 12.8% compared to 2.6%. Women who had sex change surgery had depression rates of 22.9% compared to 14.6% in the non-surgical group. Clymer is an Army veteran and a former press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy organization, whose Substack, "Charlotte's Web Thoughts," covers "Politics, religion, culture, and humor from a Christian trans woman." The transgender activist is concerned that more Democrats are not being more outspoken on the issue. "I'm not seeing a lot of fight from Democratic leadership in Congress, and that is a huge mistake," Clymer said. "The problem with this thinking is that we have an open goal. No one's defending it. Why wouldn't Republicans keep kicking at that goal?" The contrast, the activist added, is with Republicans, who have made the issue a defining part of their platform. "Only one party is really talking about trans issues. It's the Republican Party," Clymer said. "They've made trans issues one of their central topics in campaigning and the national discourse." Fang, who interviewed Clymer, said Republicans "fearmonger" on the issue. "They love to fearmonger. That's their currency," Phang said. "It galvanizes people to vote based on fear, not on facts. I always like to say, don't vote on feelings, vote on facts." Clymer said if Democrats don't get better with their messaging, it could cost them. "The more the Democrats ignore this, the more it's going to come back to haunt us in future elections," Clymer said.
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Porter fraudster Donald Johnson to remain in jail without bond as he continues to seek an attorney
Donald M. Johnson will remain in the Porter County Jail without bond for another six months after a Friday hearing in which he told the court that he still hasn't been able to find another attorney and the additional time will allow him to do just that. Johnson has cycled through attorneys at an almost dizzying pace — his last attorney stepped away in December — postponing time and again various elements of his most recent criminal case and, at least from the perspective of Porter Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Clymer and Special Prosecutor David Rooda, postponing payment of the hundreds of thousands of dollars to he owes to the victims of his securities fraud from his original case, which stretches back more than a decade. Clymer swore Johnson in from the jail for questioning about his ability to hire and pay for an attorney. He told the judge that his inability to hire an attorney was 'beyond my control' because he couldn't get a lawyer to call him back while he was in jail. 'Mr. Johnson had three months to hire an attorney and hasn't done so,' Rooda said, adding that it fits 'a pattern of conduct of Mr. Johnson intentionally delaying' the case moving forward. Johnson, 60, of Porter, has been held without bond in the Porter County Jail since late October after a late restitution payment, among other allegations, jeopardized his probation status. He also racked up a fresh criminal charge, a Level 6 felony count of obstruction of justice, during his Oct. 24 arrest at his parents' rural Porter County home. Johnson is on probation for four years after pleading guilty more than a year ago to a single count of securities fraud in a case that has stretched for a decade and involves multiple victims. Under the terms of the plea agreement reluctantly accepted by Clymer in January 2024, Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of broker-dealer registration violation, a Class C felony. The additional 14 counts against him were dismissed as part of the plea and he was sentenced to four years of probation and to pay $604,500 in restitution, the total owed to all of his victims. He has paid $58,031 of that so far, according to online court records. Johnson, Clymer said, has admitted in court that he was late with a restitution payment in October. The other matters to be resolved include the obstruction of justice charge and the other ways in which he reportedly violated the terms of his probation, including not reporting income from a job at a restaurant and bar; that in itself was a violation because he is not supposed to be at establishments that serve alcohol, much less work at them. Rooda, reminding Johnson he was under oath, asked Johnson if he had asked his family to hold off on hiring an attorney for him. 'I plead the Fifth,' Johnson said, referring to the Fifth Amendment right to be free of self-incrimination. When asked to speak up from the jail, he said, 'I choose not to answer that question.' Rooda asked Johnson if he had been in contact with an attorney who was willing to represent him, but whom he wouldn't hire. 'I plead the Fifth,' Johnson repeated before agreeing with Rooda that his family had the funds to hire a defense attorney. Johnson has continued to push Clymer's patience to the stretching point and Friday's hearing was no exception. He said he wouldn't have agreed to the plea agreement, 'which seems like a long time ago,' if it didn't include restitution to Johnson's victims. 'I would not have accepted the sentence if the admitted victims were not going to be made whole,' Clymer said, adding one victim is owed 'almost a quarter of a million dollars,' and another is out $100,000. 'They're entitled to be paid back,' Clymer said. He demanded to know how long it would be until Johnson got an attorney and Johnson said six months. If he hires an attorney in the meantime, Clymer said, the court will give the state notice and the hearing, scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 23, can be held sooner. 'The delay is charged to Mr. Johnson,' Clymer said. 'The court finds he is not attempting to find counsel.' The fastest way for Johnson to get out of jail, Clymer said, is to provide the remaining $550,000 to pay his victims back. 'Five witnesses are prepared to testify and this is the second time we've done this,' Clymer said. 'You can tell the court is not pleased.' The securities fraud allegations against Johnson include multiple victims who, according to charging documents, lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in real estate investments gone bad when they did not get the returns they were promised and couldn't get back the money they put into the deals. Charges against Johnson were filed in March 2014. He was initially charged with 14 counts related to securities fraud, Class C felonies at the time. Two months later, he was charged with one count of forgery, also a Class C felony, and two counts of theft, Class D felonies, in a related case. An appellate court ruling trimmed that to 15 counts after determining that the statute of limitations had run out for one of the victim's claims, but the rest of the charges could stand. alavalley@
Chicago Tribune
11-04-2025
- Business
- Chicago Tribune
Porter fraudster Donald Johnson to remain in jail without bond as he continues to seek an attorney
Donald M. Johnson will remain in the Porter County Jail without bond for another six months after a Friday hearing in which he told the court that he still hasn't been able to find another attorney and the additional time will allow him to do just that. Johnson has cycled through attorneys at an almost dizzying pace — his last attorney stepped away in December — postponing time and again various elements of his most recent criminal case and, at least from the perspective of Porter Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Clymer and Special Prosecutor David Rooda, postponing payment of the hundreds of thousands of dollars to he owes to the victims of his securities fraud from his original case, which stretches back more than a decade. Clymer swore Johnson in from the jail for questioning about his ability to hire and pay for an attorney. He told the judge that his inability to hire an attorney was 'beyond my control' because he couldn't get a lawyer to call him back while he was in jail. 'Mr. Johnson had three months to hire an attorney and hasn't done so,' Rooda said, adding that it fits 'a pattern of conduct of Mr. Johnson intentionally delaying' the case moving forward. Johnson, 60, of Porter, has been held without bond in the Porter County Jail since late October after a late restitution payment, among other allegations, jeopardized his probation status. He also racked up a fresh criminal charge, a Level 6 felony count of obstruction of justice, during his Oct. 24 arrest at his parents' rural Porter County home. Johnson is on probation for four years after pleading guilty more than a year ago to a single count of securities fraud in a case that has stretched for a decade and involves multiple victims. Under the terms of the plea agreement reluctantly accepted by Clymer in January 2024, Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of broker-dealer registration violation, a Class C felony. The additional 14 counts against him were dismissed as part of the plea and he was sentenced to four years of probation and to pay $604,500 in restitution, the total owed to all of his victims. He has paid $58,031 of that so far, according to online court records. Johnson, Clymer said, has admitted in court that he was late with a restitution payment in October. The other matters to be resolved include the obstruction of justice charge and the other ways in which he reportedly violated the terms of his probation, including not reporting income from a job at a restaurant and bar; that in itself was a violation because he is not supposed to be at establishments that serve alcohol, much less work at them. Rooda, reminding Johnson he was under oath, asked Johnson if he had asked his family to hold off on hiring an attorney for him. 'I plead the Fifth,' Johnson said, referring to the Fifth Amendment right to be free of self-incrimination. When asked to speak up from the jail, he said, 'I choose not to answer that question.' Rooda asked Johnson if he had been in contact with an attorney who was willing to represent him, but whom he wouldn't hire. 'I plead the Fifth,' Johnson repeated before agreeing with Rooda that his family had the funds to hire a defense attorney. Johnson has continued to push Clymer's patience to the stretching point and Friday's hearing was no exception. He said he wouldn't have agreed to the plea agreement, 'which seems like a long time ago,' if it didn't include restitution to Johnson's victims. 'I would not have accepted the sentence if the admitted victims were not going to be made whole,' Clymer said, adding one victim is owed 'almost a quarter of a million dollars,' and another is out $100,000. 'They're entitled to be paid back,' Clymer said. He demanded to know how long it would be until Johnson got an attorney and Johnson said six months. If he hires an attorney in the meantime, Clymer said, the court will give the state notice and the hearing, scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 23, can be held sooner. 'The delay is charged to Mr. Johnson,' Clymer said. 'The court finds he is not attempting to find counsel.' The fastest way for Johnson to get out of jail, Clymer said, is to provide the remaining $550,000 to pay his victims back. 'Five witnesses are prepared to testify and this is the second time we've done this,' Clymer said. 'You can tell the court is not pleased.' The securities fraud allegations against Johnson include multiple victims who, according to charging documents, lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in real estate investments gone bad when they did not get the returns they were promised and couldn't get back the money they put into the deals. Charges against Johnson were filed in March 2014. He was initially charged with 14 counts related to securities fraud, Class C felonies at the time. Two months later, he was charged with one count of forgery, also a Class C felony, and two counts of theft, Class D felonies, in a related case. An appellate court ruling trimmed that to 15 counts after determining that the statute of limitations had run out for one of the victim's claims, but the rest of the charges could stand.
