mr biggs

Nice work if you can get it, misters national securities, FBI, RCMP, Mr Biggs. 1) I wonder whose idea it was to blow the fuck up a via train. 2) I wonder whose idea it was to blow up BC's legislative assembly, find some fucking idiot drug addicts to do it, Mr FBI Biggs.

Argument: There wouldn't actually be these terroribles if it weren't for Mr Biggs, sekyurity-partnerin high-rollin cash-throwin safe-house safe-mansion anonin moneybaggin dupin terror-makin and tax-dollars-workin mind-theatrin no chaos, supplyin.

Entrapment, nice work if you can get it. Business is booming. I'd reckon it's the same fucking guy. And the Cleveland occupy encampment bridge bombers. And the eco-terrorist, recently released (“Anna” was a pink-haired 17-year-old who the FBI recruited).

deleting... gc hrsdc (TFWP), redtape

Modernizing...
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW)

New Wage Structure

On April 25, 2012, common-sense improvements to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program were announced to better meet labour market demands, reduce red tape for employers, strengthen protections for temporary foreign workers and support the economic recovery. These enhancements included a new wage structure.

Every employer continues to be required to pay temporary foreign workers the same wage that they are paying their Canadian workers for doing the same job in the same location.

Under the old wage structure, employers were required to pay temporary foreign workers at least the median wage for an occupation in a specific region, regardless of what they were paying their Canadian employees. In many cases, this resulted in employers paying temporary foreign workers more than Canadians. The method of determining the median wage was also inconsistent from region to region. The old structure was unfair to Canadians and did not reflect labour market realities. After various consultations, action was taken to address the problem.

Under the new wage structure, employers can pay wages that are up to 15% below the median wage for a higher-skilled occupation, and 5% for a lower-skilled occupation, in a specific region. However, employers must provide documentation that clearly demonstrates that the wage being paid to a temporary foreign worker is the same as that being paid to their Canadian employees in the same job and in the same location. The wage for a lower-skilled occupation cannot be below minimum wage and the wage range is set at 5% because these jobs pay less. The new wage structure is based on Statistics Canada's data and allows a set range that provides a flexibility that was not previously available.

The new wage structure does not apply to the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program, the Agricultural Stream or the Live-in Caregiver Program because employers participating in these programs hire mostly temporary foreign workers.
Scenarios

Date modified:

2013-04-16

AHS good news bad news

Doctors get a tentative contract. Nurses get layoffs during Nursing Week.
Alberta Health Services. 

In the past:

• severance details for former AHS CEO's
• Andrew Will, AHS Official Gets $738,000, 18-Month Severance Package 
• allaudin merali’s extravagant expenses and severance package
• Alberta Health Services cuts ‘bonuses’ but not necessarily executive pay
• Fired health boss Jack Davis gets $5.7M package, Sheila Weatherhill 
• Premier Alison Redford's Sister Expensed Public For Tory Party Events (Lynn Redford, former government relations adviser to the now-defunct Calgary Health Region from 2005 to 2008, is currently the vice-president in charge of special projects for the Alberta Health Services, or AHS, superboard)
• Alberta can't recoup executive's Mayo Clinic expenses
• Ralph Klein, the Holy/Huang Cross, private eye surgery
• AMA calls for inquiry into doctor intimidation (feb15/11) // Alberta doctors bullied by bosses, panel finds (feb22/12)
• Alberta’s queue-jumping inquiry shifts to University of Calgary
• Premier cool on past link with PM
• Redford elected MLA in Calgary-Elbow in 2008 and immediately appointed Attorney General and Minister of Justice

dustup at jails & fires

Calgary Prison Guards Rally At Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Calgary Constituency Office on Sat/September 15, 2012 -- "Mallette says the union has been trying repeatedly to meet with Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, but hasn't had any success." (After various protests at Harper's office, like Prorogue and Idle No More, no more of that youse... and Shoppers Only.) Calgary prison guards corrections officers protest at Solicitor General Jonathan Denis' office in Fri/ February 01*.

Grass fire - Calgary, Alberta

Edmonton officers are now on a wildcat strike with lockdown and riot police after the suspension of 2 union executives who on Fri/ April 26 relayed 'health & safety concerns' to management.

Fish Creek Park, dry & windy on Fri/April 26

*Russian student kicked into coma/ permanent brain damage by other inmates, Calgary Remand Centre.

Full moon: Thurs, April 25, 2013 1:58 PM

UPDATE: Associate Chief smartAssinine Justice John Rooke about the $100,000+ fines for province-wide strikers: "Banks are open tomorrow, last I checked." (Monday, Apr 29)

Amnesty ends strike.  Strike ends. Redford confirms pledge but

trains

The CN guy who caused the big dustup at CP Rail. CN sure had a bad safety record with that guy. (IC1998 to 2009)

Anywho. The New York CEO of CP Rail: lay-offs. E. Hunter Harrison.

2010 mystery cargo.

Here's a train going around in circles. Train 503 shipped the biodiesel to Port Huron, Mich., from Sarnia, Ont.; Train 504 brought them back.

hapner: lawheed's tru patriot act

welp. on the plus side peter lougheed walked away from karlheinz. hey, look, it's peter kent. sure was a lot of talk about the big conservative family.

peter lougheed (1928-2012)

besides stampedin', hapner rode in for frank glenfield's funeral last year. {hapner "entered the University of Calgary, which is right . . . of the Ayatollah Khomeini, as you probably know, and he became very much under that influence."}

in my mynde, 'patriot' is an american word. here's lougheed at the banff springs hotel as co-chair:

On September 12 to 14, 2006, business and government representatives from the three North American countries met in secret, with no media coverage, at the Banff Springs Hotel and convened the North American Forum. Judicial Watch, a U.S. public watchdog group got declassified government documents through a Freedom of Information Act request and made the documents available on their website. These documents reveal the discussions and membership in the secret meetings. The Canadian co-chair of the meeting was former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed, and Canadian participants included Day, D’Aquino (also a member of the NACC), all NACC corporate representatives, and John Manley. In the released documents, under the forum discussion on “Border Infrastructure and Continental Prosperity,” chaired by John Manley, a startling quote was revealed: “While a vision is appealing, working on the infrastructure might yield more benefit and bring more people on board (‘evolution by stealth’).” What exactly are they evolving by stealth? Oh right, our country. source

so, yeah, a true patriot act. next question: there was such a backlash about state-owned petro canada, yet selling nexen [china national offshore cnooc's $15b (cash) organ trafficking money laundering deal], and alderon stuff is okay, and bombardier private jet sales are booming, so is huawei telecomm. hapner still hates cuba: it's communist! funny how the days go. gotta wonder, whatever was going on with danny williams and the impoverished national hockey league (strike!).

as the afghanistan mission closes, the first 4 soldiers killed in 2002 by U.S. pilots (Tarnak Farm incident: eight seriously wounded) and the last 2 by suicide. that is that.

lisa raitt: strikes are sexy

Never mind about the AECL Candu binder; it wasn't the same as Maxime Bernier (Beauce) and the tits cleavage biker chick NATO files. Never mind about the sexy isotope shortage for cancer patients. Never mind about no one signing off on the CEO, Toronto Port Authority expenses or a $9000 lunch. And just never mind about proroguing (and even more proroguing, forty days and forty nights). btw, are MPs 'essential services'?

Geez. Electro-Motive plant in London (now closed) and its Caterpillar parent strike in Joliet, Illinois. Canada Post. Air Canada flight attendants. Pilots. Mechanics ("flying coffins" & Aveos outsourcing), baggage handlers, cargo agents. Canadian Pacific Railway and Pershing Square's 14.2% equity stake.

Welp. Saskatchewan essential services legislation deemed unconstitutional (07 Feb. 2012).

Recalibration: On January 19, 2010, Raitt moved from the Ministry of Natural Resources to the Labour Ministry.

The house was beginning to shake,
And good press it just did not make.
So Steve shut it down, Caused the country to frown. But then he was
saved by a quake.  

Nuclear workers: 900 scientists, engineers, technologists and technicians said 94+ per cent of members sanctioned the strike action on Thursday, May 3rd 2012: a stinging indictment of SNC-Lavalin's cavalier management style and brinkmanship bargaining. A union spokeswoman said Candu is looking to gut most parts of the collective agreement.

Ongoing: RCMP officers want to end a ban, in place since 1918, on Mounties forming a union or police association and having the right to collectively bargain. (Toronto Star, Nov 20, 2012.) "Toxic workplace": Mounted Police Professional Association of Canada (MPPAC), a merger of BC and ON associations, is expecting a ruling from the Ontario Court of Appeal in spring 2012.

Lay-offs: Canadian Space Agency. 100 staff and more to come? Speaking of SNC-Lavalin Defence Programs Inc. (AECL) and MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Inc., there's now a signed contract "to extend operational services for up to eight years for the Canadian Department of National Defence’s twelve Kingston-class Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels...Although their primary mission is coastal surveillance, the vessels perform a wide variety of operational tasks including search and rescue, fisheries and environmental monitoring, disaster relief, mine countermeasures and scientific research."

Does this make sense? The entire program of lay-offs in the public service is expected to cost Canadian taxpayers more than $2 billion.

Weird: Health care workers in Alberta have not had the legal right to strike since 1983.

federal budget 1812

It's an Industrial Revolution ! As long as miners, investors and stock market 'thought leaders' ccce's like it, yep, the main event, git 'er done. Wealth will trickle flake down like gold in Jason Kenney's ass trump's plane.

http://industrialchristmascarol.blogspot.ca/

Like effluent in tailings ponds, asbestos fibers in workers' lungs and happy uraniums for ... everybody! Nature Canada, press release: ... is particularly concerned about plans to amend the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations that expands a loophole in the Fisheries Act. Now, diamond and coal mining companies will join metal mining companies in being allowed to dump toxic waste into Canada’s living lakes.

(... few questions about MP pension plans, corporate lobbying, AECL/ SNC-Lavalin, CPP executive bonuses, F-35s.) Enough about metals, minerals, oil, gas, $13.5m for pipelines and $35.7m for tankers. It'll be fun setting up a full-fledged laboratory, somewhere, maybe the kitchen or beside the sofa, to test food product labels myself in my spare time - and when I let a company know about the results from my lab, it will can give itself a fine for possible misleading advertising or ... dangerous ingredients. hey... And why not test for GMOs too: I'll buy a book !

of oil camps, mice, gestapo

BONS MOTS: Words with the pictures describe slimy food, stinky bathrooms and staff that look the other way. ("Oilfied company defends firing over blog," Oct 11, 2010):

Electrician Mike Thomas said he was canned Thursday by his contractor on Suncor Energy's orders.

And, another camp attendant says,

Shots she took of a non-Suncor camp show dead mice laying on the floor and a bath mat's worth of hair scooped out of a shower stall. "It's not just Suncor that's like this. It's absolutely everywhere. Ninety per cent of camps I go to are absolutely disgusting," she said.

The Universe According To Mike, here.