Cuz I need to wear them tonight!!!
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June, 2012:
Wow.
The job of a School Board Trustee must be frustrating indeed… what kind of fool would consider taking on such a task!
Thanks, Cathy. I reckon your experience will be missed – at least by some.
OTTAWA — Kanata public school trustee Cathy Curry says she’s so sick of the board’s dysfunction that she’s calling it quits.
But before she goes, Curry’s also calling on the Ministry of Education to introduce sweeping changes to the way public school trustees conduct business provincewide and to launch an investigation into how Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustees govern themselves.
In a letter to the board’s senior staff — and circulated to trustees Friday afternoon, Curry quotes one of the board’s former governance coaches, saying, “If you can’t change people, sometimes you have to change people.”
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Friday miscellany…
Happy Canada Day edition!
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Public servants who got in trouble for wearing “Stephen Harper Hates Me” buttons to work are fighting back.
Several employees at the Canada Revenue Agency who were told to remove the buttons by their managers have filed grievances through their union to fight the order.
The buttons were made by members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), the largest union representing federal public servants, and have been circulating around the country. Some workers wore them at May Day rallies to mark International Workers Day and they were available at PSAC’s national convention in Ottawa at the end of April.
Robert Campbell, president of the Union of Taxation Employees (UTE), which falls under the PSAC umbrella, said some CRA employees pinned the buttons to their jackets and wore them to and from work in the following weeks. They complied when advised to remove them.
Look, folks criticise the government all of the time and I do think that The Robot and his minions don’t particularly “love” the PS. BUT, as long as it is done on your own time and own equipment (at home or over an iPhone, for example), criticism is within the bounds. But government critics who are also in the PS ought to be very careful about the line that is straddled because, like it or not, ultimately, the government is the boss. And one should not criticise them on work time or on work premises. As far as I am concerned, what public servants do outside these parameters is well within their rights, as long as they are not casting aspersions on their own departments.
So no, the employer is within their rights to demand that these buttons not be worn on work premises. Just like they have the right to dictate hours and dress codes.
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Even though I am not a BB user, I do of course feel for the thousands of families who are going to suffer because of the downfall of the once Canadian Golden Boy of the tech world.
But I gotta wonder if this would have happened hadn’t the previous CEO, Jim Basillie, been more concerned with his companies health than with landing an NHL franchise.
Just sayin’…
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How about that pony-tailed Senator that Justin Trudeau laid a thumping on? Pretty outta control, I’d say!
He was away for 31 per cent of the meetings of the human rights committee, where he is deputy chair.
Like I said to Dean, Dean, The Cheque Cashing Machine – stay classy, big guy!
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Hey! Maybe the Cons can use the old Gun Registry for this… just change a few data fields, et voilà!
A local MP and police in northwest Toronto are calling for a national stolen cellphone registry to stop an epidemic of thefts in their area and across the city.
Mike Sullivan, MP for York South-Weston, says the CRTC must act quickly to create a registry of identification numbers from stolen cellphones and ask providers not to reactivate phones on that list.
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That’s all for now! Have a safe and fun long weekend and try to picture a Canada Day a few years out when we will NOT have Stephen Harper living at 24 Sussex…
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These are hilarious!
Question – is there anything we can do to keep these yahoos OUT???
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I’m moving to Canada. Obviously the United States doesn’t know what they are doing anymore. This used to be a great country… Pretty sad.
Casey W @kclovesya 2.
The supreme court upheld Obama Care. That’s it. I’m moving to Canada!
Lucas Dargis @LucasDargis 3.
I’m moving to Canada, the United States is entirely too socialist.
Walter Weldon @WallyWeldon 4.
#SCOTUS holds up free healthcare for everyone?! Screw this commie country, I’m moving to #Canada #whoswithme
Van Summers @VanSummers 5.
Rachel T @kitty99369936 The idea of seriously moving to Canada seems very real to me now thanks to Obamacare.
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Dean, Dean, Dean (redux)
The Mulcair posts I threw on here…
over the past few days were fun… kinda like the #Harperhistory or #tellviceverything tags.
A point that I was trying to make is that these attack ads that are the darlings of the CPC inter-election “strategy” are becoming laughable – even to many conservatives.
I have an idea! Maybe The Robot and his merry gang of attack dawgs should put their majority (have they clued into this yet?) government to good use and expend some of the excess energy put into these ridiculous examples of video vomit into something more useful to Canadians. Perhaps a forward thinking and insightful policy or two? Perhaps?
C’mon you guys. Everyone is laughing at you.
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OC Transpo… stay classy
But considering the number of witnesses and the fact that the police are involved, I suspect it may be.
I can see where a parent could easily get separated from a child on a crowded bus. Routes like the 94, 95, 97. etc are often packed like sardines thus making it difficult to get to an exit upon arrival at one’s stop. Unless you are carrying your child, he or she may not make it to the door in time. I’ve seen this “almost” happen quite a few times in my 15 years of riding the big red limos.
Add this to the tendency of many an operator to get away from the stop as quickly as possible with little regard for those customers who are struggling to get to a door, and a scenario like this is almost expected.
Operators need to understand that it is the service to the public that is paramount and not their eagerness to get to their next lay-up!
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Thomas Mulcair…
… wants to give you Dutch disease.
A disease invented by the Dutch to attack Canada’s economy.
Holland.
Home to legalised drugs, windmills and Hollandaise sauce.
Thomas Mulcair wants to brings them here.
Drugs that will ruin your children. Windmills that will kill jobs. Hollandaise sauce that will make Canadians fat!
AND HE WILL HAVE YOU PAY FOR THEM!
This is risky. This will raise taxes.
But Thomas Mulcair doesn’t mind.
He’s just visiting.
FROM HOLLAND!
Only Stephen Harper and a strong Conservative majority government can save you from Thomas Mulcair and Dutch disease.
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Thomas Mulcair’s NDP…
Dangerous and weird ideas.
He experiments with ideas.
Ideas that would kill Canadian jobs.
Jobs like these:
Ideas are a gateway to job-killing drugs.
The kind that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is keeping away from your children.
Thomas Mulcair’s NDP want to drug your kids with dangerous and weird ideas.
Only a strong, stable, Conservative majority government can stop Thomas Mulcair and the idea-junkie NDP.
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