Friday, January 31, 2020
Harper/Manning: The men who started the demise of Canadian democracy
No two Canadian politicians have done more to destroy what the Canadian people took years to accomplish than the team of Harper and Manning. Together they have brought forward policies of oppression, subtle but effective. Preston manning thought the Manning institute provides the training vital to the policies while Stephen Harper works behind the scene as head of the International Democrat Union.... nothing democratic about them.... their intent is to destroy liberalism and all that it stands for.
Make no mistake the conservative movement around the world is well funded by the wealthy, the elite and the corporate world who are profit oriented. Over the past thirty years or so we have seen the middle class become the working class while the working class have become the working poor and the poor have become the homeless.
Through the conservative propaganda campaign of flooding social media with misinformation about immigrants, the poor and false accusations that frame those less fortunate as losers, abusers and lazy individuals who don't want to work but would rather live off the "system" they have created a group of bigots and haters.
When in doubt or when they run into opposition the immediately turn to the GOP and their propaganda gang for assistance. We have seen it with Stephen Harper, Andrew Scheer, Jason Kenney, Doug Ford and the likes of Michel Rempel. These people are divisive and bring nothing but negativity to the table.
Ask yourself, "how will their next leader be any different"? He or she won't, they aretrained, cloned and tutored by a group of individuals paid by industry to create a corporate run party known as the CPC.
This can only end badly for us and our dependents as we watch criminal diplomacy unfold south of the border with a rogue President ordering the detention of children and the withholding of aid to a sovereign country he agreed to help only IF the committed a criminal act on his behalf.
As we watch the GOP senate commit themselves to ignoring the accusations against their own president I have to wonder why anyone would trust the conservative parties of Canada when we know that they are seeking advice and assistance from the GOP to gain power in Canada.
Thursday, January 30, 2020
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Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Monday, January 27, 2020
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Saturday, January 25, 2020
Friday, January 24, 2020
As the sewer opens and swallows the unsuspecting voter
"Watching conservatives today is like watching Jim Jones offering his flock kool aid"
Where fools walk min.... and vote
Ontario government’s plan to reimburse child-care expenses during school strike could cost taxpayers $48-million a day
The Ontario government plans to offset the child-care costs that families face as unionized education workers stage more one-day walkouts across the province with no deal in sight.
With negotiations stalled and no contract talks scheduled, the union representing most of the province’s elementary teachers said Wednesday that it was poised to stage one-day strikes on Monday in Toronto, York Region and Ottawa, issuing its required five-day notice.
Meanwhile, the union representing the province’s public high-school teachers said members in Toronto and several other smaller boards across Ontario would leave their classrooms empty on Tuesday, in their latest one-day rotating walkout. They will be joined that day by teachers and education workers at all of Ontario’s English-language Catholic schools – both elementary and secondary – across the province.
For the first time in more than 20 years, all teachers’ unions in the province are involved in job action, from work to rule to one-day walkouts. The union standoff with Premier Doug Ford’s government over class-size increases, wage hikes and cost-savings measures appears to be entering a new phase.
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
How the hunt for profits has shaped Ontario's home care system
The value of care work
Dyana Forshner-Juby is a personal support worker (PSW) with over 25 years of experience working in Ontario's care sector. She works in Belleville for CarePartners, an agency that is contracted by the provincial government to provide home care services.
The work is demanding, unstable and low-paying.
Forshner-Juby and her colleagues often drive long distances to visit patients at home -- generally seniors, but also younger people with disabilities. They provide personal care including feeding, showering and toileting people, but are increasingly tasked with responsibilities traditionally handled by nurses.
About 60 per cent of the 3,000 CarePartners workers represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) earn $16.50 per hour. Workers say they often earn less than minimum wage as they don't get hourly wages when travelling between clients, while still accruing expenses for gas and car maintenance.
Scheduling is unpredictable and unstable. Several back-to-back home visits may be followed by hours of no work -- time when workers must be available for their employer but which goes unpaid. As a result, workers tend to pick up shifts during off-hours.
"They will give you five or six hours, sometimes eight," says Gloria Turney, who works shifts at a local hospital to supplement her income.
"But there are days when they give you one hour, there are days when they give you two."
"But there are days when they give you one hour, there are days when they give you two."
Forshner-Juby mentions a colleague who recently had to visit her local food bank.
"She's got four children and she's a single mom," she says. "She couldn't count on her hours and then her car broke down and that's pretty much wiped her out. And she had to rent a car so she could continue to work."
"She's got four children and she's a single mom," she says. "She couldn't count on her hours and then her car broke down and that's pretty much wiped her out. And she had to rent a car so she could continue to work."
Unsurprisingly, staff turnover is high.
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Worthy read
A 10-step plan for turning a democracy into a dictatorship, from Robert Reich
Robert Reich is a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, he’s a best-selling author, a Rhodes scholar, and, as secretary of labor under Bill Clinton, was named one of the most effective cabinet secretaries of the 20th century by Time magazine. What he isn’t is a big fan of Donald Trump.
“A malignant megalomaniac facing no countervailing power will continue to expand his terrain until he is stopped,” he recently wrote.
And just last month, Reich asked on his blog, “Why did so many working-class voters choose a selfish, thin-skinned, petulant, lying, narcissistic, boastful, megalomaniac for president? It’s important to know, because we need to stop more Trumps in the future.”
Well said
Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger responds to Lara Trump mocking Joe Biden’s stutter: ‘I once stuttered — I dare you to mock me’
https://deadstate.org/capt-sully-sullenberger-responds-to-lara-trump-mocking-joe-bidens-stutter-i-once-stuttered-i-dare-you-to-mock-me/?fbclid=IwAR01T1nHCvPaJRQaB2QXL_2bsAzdCDAw-zT0INHl6WvS_x3NicR1jgw9zwI
https://deadstate.org/capt-sully-sullenberger-responds-to-lara-trump-mocking-joe-bidens-stutter-i-once-stuttered-i-dare-you-to-mock-me/?fbclid=IwAR01T1nHCvPaJRQaB2QXL_2bsAzdCDAw-zT0INHl6WvS_x3NicR1jgw9zwI
Monday, January 20, 2020
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Wednesday night Bluegrass Jam at the Bean Depot Cafe
Pat and I were introduced to the Bean Depot by my cousin Joyce and her husband gart this past Wednesday evening. If you are ever in Port Charlotte FL look up this local icon.
If you're looking for character the Bean Depot is the place, it isn't white tablecloth, fine dining, large venue, gourmet or on any star rating. Located in a historic old post office building near the Myakka River/Charlotte Harbor it is home to the local residents and showcases local bluegrass talent on Wednesday nights as well as presenting a variety of music on weekends.
When we were there there was a group of players with banjo's, fiddles guitars, steel guitars and mouth organs jamming on the lawn while inside there was another group which included a base fiddle and piano inside the Café. Folks were singing and some were stomping, it was fun and a marvelous experience.
Make sure you get there early as parking is crowded and the hours are short, the café is open from 12 PM to 9 PM.
Saturday, January 18, 2020
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Friday, January 3, 2020
A piece of history and personal courage
The Australian Holocaust
rnment camp just north of Perth. For sixty years, many Aboriginal children, particularly mixed-race children, were forcibly taken from their families and sent to such camps with the aim of assimilating them into white Australian society. Notoriously overcrowded and unsanitary, children at the camps experienced high rates of illness and premature death. After the girls arrived at Moore River, they were determined to escape; Molly later declared "that place make me sick." After only one night, Molly led the two younger girls out of the camp and they started a long and dangerous journey home using the country-wide rabbit-proof fence as a guide. Along the way, they had to live off the land, sleep in dug-out rabbit burrows, and evade trackers hired by the government who looked for "absconding" children.
Daisy Kadibil -- who was eight years old in 1931 when she escaped from an Australian internment camp along with her 14-year-old sister Molly and 10-year-old cousin Gracie -- was one of the Mighty Girl role models who passed away in 2018. The three girls' 800-mile (1,300 km) journey through the harsh Australian desert to return home inspired a book and the acclaimed film "Rabbit-Proof Fence." Daisy, who was the last surviving of the three, died in March at the age of 95. The extraordinary story of Daisy, Molly, and Gracie's nine-week trek introduced many people, both in Australia and around the world, to the tragedy of the "Stolen Generation", the tens of thousands of Australian Aboriginal children who were removed from their families between 1910 and 1970. "I come from Jigalong," Daisy wrote in a biographical note. "They took me away but I walked all around country back to where I was born. I came back."
After the girls were taken from their home in Jigalong, an Indigenous community in northwestern Australia, they were brought to the Moore River Native Settlement, an inte
Once they made it home, Daisy never left again; she spent many years working as a cook and housekeeper at ranches in the region, and passed on the traditions of the Martu people to her four children. Her story was virtually unknown until the 1990s, when her niece, Doris Pilkington Garimara, wrote "Follow The Rabbit-Proof Fence," based on her mother and aunt's experiences; Garimara had also been separated from her family and spent years at the Moore River camp. When the book was adapted into the movie "Rabbit-Proof Fence," Stephen Holden of the New York Times called it a "devastating portrayal" of Australia's "disgraceful treatment" of its Aboriginal population," observing that "on the side of wrong is the Australian government, which, for more than half a century, carried out this appalling program of legalized kidnapping.” Lynne Craigie, president of the Shire of East Pilbara, where Daisy lived, says her memory will be preserved: "Daisy’s remarkable story is an indelible part of the history of the Shire…. and one that will always be shared and never forgotten."
Thursday, January 2, 2020
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