{"id":123354,"date":"2025-09-06T03:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T03:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/123354\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T03:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T03:21:11","slug":"quebec-asks-walmart-amazon-to-stop-selling-pro-hells-angels-merchandise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/123354\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec asks Walmart, Amazon to stop selling pro-Hells Angels merchandise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Staff<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted September 5, 2025 4:51 pm<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated September 5, 2025 6:16 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Amazon and Walmart say they will remove products from their stores that appear to promote the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/hells-angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hells Angels<\/a> outlaw biker gang.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes after the Journal de\u00a0Montr\u00e9al\u00a0first reported that shirts and baseball caps in Hells Angels colours were being sold online by Walmart and Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-figure__image\" alt=\"Quebec asks Walmart, Amazon to stop selling pro-Hells Angels merchandise - image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/walmart-hells-7.png?w=12&amp;h=12&amp;crop=1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/walmart-hells-7.png\"   data- data- width=\"587\" height=\"587\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\/Walmart.ca\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11390424\/temporary-foreign-worker-program-pierre-poilievre\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757128870_340_Poilievre-TFW.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tEnd Canada\u2019s temporary foreign worker program, Poilievre says\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11393006\/elon-musk-neuralink-toronto-canada\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757128870_520_Nuralink.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t2 Toronto hospital patients get Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink implants in Canadian 1st\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quebec\u00a0Public Security Minister Fran\u00e7ois Bonnardel asked the retailers to pull the items from their online catalogues, saying there\u2019s no room in the province for glorifying crime.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Walmart items include a \u201cHells Angels biker fashion\u201d T-shirt with the number 81 \u2014 widely seen as a reference to the motorcycle club, because the eighth and first letters of the alphabet are \u201cH\u201d and \u201cA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756402221_230_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart Canada says the listings \u201cstrongly contradict\u201d the company\u2019s values and have been pulled, adding that they were sold by a third party.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon, which sold similar 81-branded items, says it will remove them because of non-compliance with its guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 5, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Staff The Canadian Press Posted September 5, 2025 4:51 pm Updated September 5, 2025 6:16 pm 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,2797,50837],"class_list":["post-123354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hells-angels","tag-merch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}