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Ontario hospitals are paying their employees too much: study What a pile of garbage - same old, same old tripe! -from another website The Fraser Institute has nothing to say about skyrocketing economic disparity. They've made no comment whatsoever about corporate executives or CEOs being overpaid. Just the same old divide and conquer bullshit: Look at your neighbour with a critical eye, and a jealous heart. Why should he have more than you, who works just as hard? (Whatever you do, take no notice of the mansion on the hill.) :angry:

Do we have URLs that we can link to, to see this research?

Supplementary estimates How many times have we seen this movie before? Do you think the federales have the post meeting wrap-up prepared even before the health care conference began?

Some people confuse the word earn with the word exploit. The reason the rich want the poor around is that they could not get rich without doing it on the backs of the poor.

Proposed reforms means House leaders' meeting won't be routine Times, they are a changin' on Parliament Hill. This should prove to be delightfully devisive.

Blair to urge US to take tougher action on global warming Call me cynical but since when does Blair give two hoots about the environment? This is crass political opportunism. Oh well, I guess environmentalists will take help any way they can, eh!

Canada PM scolded by aunt, apologizes for blasphemy Gee, I wonder what Doer said that was so significant!

I will continue to say it, security is a bad joke. All what is going on here, is providing an opportunity for corporations and their capitalist owners to rake in millions or billions of dollars with little or nothing to show for it. There is not one shred of evidence to suggest we are one bit safer than we were before. This is one of the most massive con jobs ever perpetuated on society. Ex-Feds Blast 9-11 Panel and Bush

I think this hockey strike spells real trouble for PM Martin. Without the sort of diversion that hockey affords us during the winter, Canadians will begin to focus more on what is really going on in Ottawa - they will first be shocked, and then they will get angry, and then they will kick some serious Liberal butt in the next election.

Dreaded day finally arrives: NHL to trigger lockout Wednesday at midnight Is this for real? I thought there was so much money being generated through television hockey rights, that there was lots of money going around for all concerned, for both the players and the capitalists.

One of the biggest chuckles I get is when I see right wing Christians professing support for Israel or Jews. Since when did the Christian right give a shit about Jews or the Jewish community? Is it because the Jews beat up on people they hate even more, the Arabs. This is absolutely hilarious!

Doubts Cast on Common Prostate Cancer Test Maybe this is part of the problem with health care - perhaps we are just being sold a bill of goods concerning all these new high technological solutions. If you are an male over 50, chances are you have had a PSA test. Is everyone going to be reimbursed now that it is apparent these tests are a scam and ineffective? :angry: This though is a good example what happens when you privatize health care!

What a loser mentality for a Canadian leader! 90% of Canadians don't believe these health care talks will solve the serious issues we are facing in health care. That just about sums up what Canadians think of their provincial premiers - useless.

So the premiers have walked out on a meeting with Ottawa over health care. All the more reason to give serios consideration to abolishing the provinces. Who needs these clowns anyways?

I really get a chuckle at the assumptions that are made here, such as if you don't support tax cuts, or you don't support the rich ripping off the poor, somehow you are lazy or that you don't work, etc. Give us a break, eh!

- from the article And we all know don't we, that whatever CanWest Global says is gospel, don't we? Give us a break! Instead of being a fundamentalist reader, why don't you try and figure out why CanWest Global are on this kick.

More Alberta Report research, eh! Please quote your source and the URL for these outlandish comments!

The attacks of September 11, 2001 are just another bit of the ongoing violence in the continual clash between the rich and the poor in the world. This has been happening all around the planet for a long time, but just because it has now happened in North America doesn't mean the world is going to come to a stop. People need to look at the root causes for violence, rather than these knee-jerk reactions that solve absolutely nothing. What disturbs me most about September 11 is that the fascist tedencies of our governments use these occasions to curtail our rights. This is done by promoting paranoia, and by spreading fear and hatred. For a good example of what I am talking about in Canada follow the Maher Arar Inquiry currently taking place.

Are you not tired of the democratic ripoff that with 30% - 40% of the popular vote a political party ends up controlling a majority government? Let's think outside the box for at least a minute! Are you really a democrat or not, eh! I mean really, this is criminal behaviour, and the purpertrators deserve to be jailed as it is so serious an affront to democracy!

PR is a more democraticv process trhan the current system. All I'm looking for is the most democratic system possible. What do you think of BC Citizen's Assembly's recommendations (see today's Vancouver Sun front page) ?

Here is a simple and easy way to end most of the world's conflicts: Make it a rule that if any country is going to go to declare war that its leader's children will be on the front battle lines. Do you really think that Bush would have decalred war on Iraq, if his two daughters were going to get slaughtered by the Iraqi forces. You war mongers need to cut us UN peaceniks some slack. Instead of the bullshit world of CanWest and Fox News, let's all live in the real world at least here at mapleleafweb. Of course we would not have had a war with Iraq! :angry: What I am saying here is that you war mongers need to walk the talk!.

The problem is very few unions have the balls to confront management. Any security union could cripple the security company if they had the cahones (spelling anyone?). but my impression is that these security adjuncts are a cushy situation for the unions. Their security divisions are usually an add on to say the Steelworkers or IWA or whatever and it just helps the unions to have quite nice digs, and not bad union executive salaries and benefits to boot. Not against that, as long as the people on the line are not being exploited which I believe they often are. How many people here would be willing to work overnights, on their weekends, often threatened with violence, for minimum wage? Not many of us I can assure you! Maybe i missed my calling - perhaps I shoiuld become a labour organizer!

The BC Citizen's Assembly (and I am no fan of Gordon Campbell, but at least he set this in motion) has proposed BC adopt some form of Proportional Representation according to an article on the front page of today's Vancouver Sun. BTW I actually believe in giving credit where credit is due. Although, basically, most of you know by now, because you are all very perceptive, that I'm a bit left of centre, I am still ticked with the previous New Democratic Government for reducing benefits to the folks on social assistance. And if you don't think that was a major factor in the NDP losing support in BC in the last election, you are sadly mistaken. Now if only we could get both the New Democrats and the Liberals to keep their friggin' mitts off this Citizen's Assemply recommendation for this PR process, maybe, perhaps we could begin to restore true democracy in BC and hopefully eventually it will spread to all of Canada. August1991....Rene Levesque would have been a supporter of PR. The first myth that needs to be shattered is that minority governments are bad for Canadians, when actually the exact opposite is closer to the truth.

Did anyone else get an opportunity to read the article on Canada's Rent-A-cop Industry in Saturday's Globe? The whole industry is a farce. If there ever was a crisis the last people in the world you would want in control of anything are the losers in this minimum wage industry. What is even more pathethic than the low wages, is that a lot of these clowns are uninionized and making minimum wage, or very close to it. So shame on the unions here for this scam of low wage earners.

Which proves my point precisely. While you guys argue about have many dancers can stand on the tip of a pin, most people in Canada would love to have their fair share of $300,000. any way you wish to provide it. So tough if you don't have money, you just don't own of buy in Vancouver. Go and live Powell River. The reality is only the extremely wealthy can now purhase property in Vancouver.