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carefulspider 11-Mar-2009
Strategic changes to the province's employment standards are important. That's because with the economy on the skids, much is at stake for the 37 per cent of Ontario workers with part-time, temporary or contract jobs that pay low wages and offer no benefits or job security. link »
It's gotten to be pretty disgusting. Of course if anyone thinks it's so great, they should do it. link »
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carefulspider 27-Feb-2009
*&%$*@# You can't increase tuition fees just to boost student aid, it's counter-productive. If you have higher application numbers, admit more students (more money will be made). Some schools are looking to admit more international students because they pay more tuition, fewer Canadian students will be able to get into the programs they want. I'm not sure I like the discussion about average tuition rates when students in some programs (medicine, engineering, commerce, law) pay about $10 000 per year. Tuition at the University of Waterloo for engineering is increasing 8% for nest year because the 5% cap doesn't apply to all programs. Increasing tuition fees is not an effective means of raising funds for universities. Submitted by GeoEng at 8:17 AM Thursday, February 26 2009 link »
I see a very scary trend here and I'm not a conspiracy theorist. Talk about shooting ourselves in the foot. Cancel international students first. We need all the brain power we can get, right here. Expletives justified! link »
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carefulspider 25-Feb-2009
Nah, could it be? link »
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carefulspider 24-Feb-2009
Mr. Harper began his day with an interview with Fox News, where he reminded a U.S. audience of the value of the relationship between the two countries - even if one of them isn't prone to blowing its own horn very much. "The one thing we often suffer from is because were not a squeaky wheel, we often don't get the grease and we're forgotten," Mr. Harper said. "So it was great to h ave that kind of attention from our great friends in the United States." link »
Spoken like a true introvert. I guess it takes one to know one. I don't agree with his stance on protectionism. There have been trade deficits with low cost countries that have to be dealt with. These countries protect their industries, we, in Canada and the United States should have the same right. I think that it is dangerous to lose all manufacturing and become a resource country. China has manipulated it's currency for years as well. link »
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carefulspider 24-Feb-2009
I'm not really knocking anyone but... A single person really can eat for a few bucks per day, you just have to learn to cook and shop. I decide on what I will eat today by getting things on sale. I only shop for sale items and buy lots for future use.Why anyone would go to a variety store and pay three times as much as a budget store charges for the same item is something I will never understand. We need more Giant tiger stores! Submitted by makemyday at 11:23 AM Monday, February 23 2009 link »
I could be wrong but it seems that in areas where there is subsidized housing, there are no supermarkets to be seen (one comes to mind...the nearest grocery store is Richmond and Adelaide). In these same areas, variety stores are abundant. A person CAN eat for less than a few dollars a day if "push comes to shove"...it takes some planning and know how. Co-op kitchens are a great idea as you can get tips and they cook in bulk, pooling resources. One solution. link »
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carefulspider 24-Feb-2009
the answer lies in education The poor do not have to eat this way. I can live off rice and beans for less than 10 bux a week if I had to. Its healthy nutritious...but people just dont know how to cook anymore. Submitted by taitai at 10:57 AM Monday, February 23 2009 link »
Agreed. If this were part of life skills training, it would go a very long way. Unfortunately, much of the training is not practical and makes assumptions. You can indeed live on rice and beans and other cheap alternatives, the trick is to know what to do with what is in your cupboard. link »
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carefulspider 22-Feb-2009
Another Opinion from Toronto, Canada writes: I respect the notion of being a 'hustla', but I have also se en the impact of such a mindset when it doesn't pay off. Assertiveness has to be tempered with patience, or it will quickly turn to desp eration. I've faced employment challenges, and I made a point of trying to be productive every day. Sometimes it meant looking for work, while other times it meant doing home renovation or volunteer work. I may not have been the most aggressive job-hunter in the world, but I always had something to do. Something that boosted my confidence and made me feel like I was adding value. The only world you control is the one inside your head and nobody can stay positive ALL the time. It simply isn't natural. Don't just find A job, find the RIGHT job, and make sure that the day you walk in the door the feeling you have is pride.... not relief. link »
Good advice. Be productive at something and then the confidence naturally comes with it and is far more attractive than desperation or the sense that it has to be done. link »
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carefulspider 22-Feb-2009
Cut overtime and implement work share. Good ideas. Companies can retain experienced people and although there would be some belt tightening, when things pick up everyone benefits. I found one of the most demoralizing thing was seeing co-workers laid off. It has a ripple effect on moral especially when there is a great team. link »
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carefulspider 21-Feb-2009
Silver Standard (Our Government doesn't work for us) from Canada writes: Look this is not about the 'Type Setters' or the Yarn spinners' this is about deindustrializing a nation. Turning us in to a third world economy. Innovation is stifled by the government or quickly sent on slave nations. The 'tech boom' was suppose to be our next economy but of course that was quickly squashed by Globalism. Whats left? I KNOW the 'new economy'..yep coffee shop jobs and McDonalds. Without industry we can't defend ourselves, it turns us in to slaves period. Its not whining or anything else.. Again with the insults. Long John Silver from Barbados writes: DANGER DANGER; A new world order has engulfed us and wiilll take over. You have got that right, and the people brainwashed by them are all over this place. link »
I'm sorry to say this but it's true. We'll lose all machinists, engineers, tool and die makers and God help us if there is ever another war. Tried to say some of this years ago. We are heading to third world status if we don't start protecting industry. It's not rocket science. link »
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carefulspider 21-Feb-2009
Marvin60 4q from Canada writes: S H from Texas, United States writes: I owned a temp agency for most of a decade... might rather just call an agency and let them handle it the easy way. ------------------------------- As one who has had, at times, the misfortune of brief spells of unemployment and tried to get by by temping, I must take issue with this. Never in my life have I ever been treated worse, with more disdain or less consideration, than I was when I was temping. From unkept promises ("I'll get back to you before the end of the week") to ignoring messages to not showing up for meetings to having to fight to get the agency to follow-through on the contracted obligations (usually pay-related) and on and on and on, my personal experience with temping was little short of a disaster. But vengeance is sweet. Soon after a particularly difficult temp experience, I was offered, and accepted, a position which occasionally required working with a temp agency. And those very same people who treated me like dirt when I was looking for work were suddenly fawning all over me because I had the power to accept or reject their agency. Needless to say, those agencies that disregarded me in my hour of need never made the short list when the shoe was on the other foot. If calling a temp agency is "the easy way," I shudder to think what the "hard way" might be. link »
Never again! link »
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carefulspider 18-Feb-2009
Under the existing rules, an agency can charge a prohibitive "temporary to permanent" fee for releasing a worker to a client firm. It can bar its employees from taking a permanent job with a client firm. It can impose contract rules that prevent any exchange of letters of reference. link »
In other words, sign up with an agency and they own you whether you are actively working for them or not. What a crock. link »
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carefulspider 14-Feb-2009
It was his theory of natural selection. This accounted for our species by a natural process tracing back not just to monkeys but, implicitly, to inanimate matter - cosmic dust, rocks, water etc. - though he graciously left it to future explorers to fill in the steps, including the origins of life link »
I can accept that organisms evolve. This is quite obvious with bacteria and viruses but the theory still doesn't explain how the inanimate became animate in the first place. I can't see any experiments that create life from non-life, not to the simplest degree. I think there is a little more than our senses can discern. Perhaps we are all co-creators, just a thought. link »
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