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I doubt if people will move from the cities with the income, health, education, cultural and social opportunities to live in a province with the lowest income and life expectancy next to the old NWT. There are few jobs on PEI except for the working poor or those who are politically connected. There is limited freedom of speech due to political repression worse than the days of the Separatists in Quebec. I have five children. Not one of them will move back to PEI. They have friends here but nothing else - no opportunities, very little culture except the drug culture of desperation. Poverty sucks and PEI is a poor place. Older people like PEI to retire because its quiet. Even retirees complain about the high cost of substandard housing. There is virtually only one or two condo buildings in Charlottetown that isn't a wood frame fire trap. You can't build this poorly in Toronto and get away with it, except in slums.
De Urbanization - Population Strategy for PEI?
My niece sold her 700 square foot 2 bed condo in downtown Toronto for about $350,000. Young people are on the high wire in terms of their costs in a big city. Rather than trying to employ existing Islanders here on PEI in call centres - could we not make it easy for young families to come here ...
The scientific studies show that diet is not a determinant in cholesterol levels in blood. You cannot raise or lower your serum cholesterol by eating the right or wrong foods. Obesity is a factor, along with genetics and exercise.
Egg Wars on PEI Continue
In the guise of public safety the PEI departments of health and agriculture continue to shut down "Real Eggs". MONTAGUE - A local health food store here will no longer sell farm fresh eggs. Instead, the Turning Point will give them away. It's not a marketing ploy to boost sales, but a reaction t...
Ask me in 100 years when we get closer to the same rights as the majority. The courts rarely ever give a minority more than a taste of equality. Show me the oppression of the majority. UPEI?
The Fatal Flaw in the PEI Human Rights Act
So what is the problem? Do you see it? The focus here is on the individual. The act ignores groups. The act ignores consequences. So I can be a Prof at UPEI or a Bus Driver for the School Board and have my right not to be denied work because of my age accepted. But what about the "Rights" of...
I see this silly discussion all the time. When I was growing up I didn't get a handout from my dad. I went to work and made my own way. He didn't need to vacate his place in the workplace for me.
All this whining from Gen this or that.
Make your own way in life. Chart your course, set sail and live. Stop looking over the fence at someone else's bounty.
What about the rights of the Boomers" Kids
Soon enough, I expect to see lots more of this same kind of appeal – the people my age, who have been waiting our entire working lives for some of the Boomers to move out of the way (so that we can enjoy some of the same kind of benefit they’ve enjoyed their entire lives and build a life of o...
I think you are over-simplifying the Human Rights Act. First the Act does not exist in isolation from other laws and legal precedents.
For example, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which can be seen as the father of this act, clearly states the relativity of human rights. Human Rights don't exist as absolutes but only within the boundaries of society
"The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."
If someone can demonstrate that a limitation to the age discrimination is reasonable then it will be allowed, which is the example you are using.
The Act in itself is a very thin law when compared with Ontario and Nova Scotia, both of which proscribe many more instances of HR abuse.
The reality is that enumerated minorities have suffered thousands of years of abuse at the hands of the majority. The law is meant to redress those inequalities. Opponents of human rights, and I'm not assuming that includes you, like to point out individual rights are more important. We see this in the US with the rise of anti-civil rights politicians like Rand Paul. They use specious examples to knock down reasonable law that protects people.
In the case of age discrimination, there is plenty of legal precedent that says people can be retired for reasons of public safety. The school bus cases will test those precedents against PEI's regulations.
The rights of minorities are so poorly protected in our Province I find it hard to believe you think individual rights have supremacy.
As a disability rights advocate all I see is no rights. When a giant like UPEI takes away accessible parking, what recourse do the disable have? The HR commission is a 5 -8 year process that exhausts able bodied people. Where do the disabled fit into this process.
Canada and PEI need more rights legislation plus enforcement not less. If you were a person with a disability you would soon discover you are about on the level of a 19th century black person without the threat of personal violence. My vantage point of being an industry leader and reduced to a person with a disability certainly gave me an awakening on how miserably the disabled are treated.
Cheers
The Fatal Flaw in the PEI Human Rights Act
So what is the problem? Do you see it? The focus here is on the individual. The act ignores groups. The act ignores consequences. So I can be a Prof at UPEI or a Bus Driver for the School Board and have my right not to be denied work because of my age accepted. But what about the "Rights" of...
This story is all about big money. I agree Google has no respect for copyright property. The build on the Web 2.0 culture of what's yours is mine, which used to be called theft before it was "file sharing". A new system has to arise that fairly compensates content creators.
Viacom sues YouTube on Copyright but was a big uploader and a buyer
For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately "roughed up" the videos to make them look stolen or l...
I thought somewhat sadly about your leaving all week but didn't add a note because the thoughts were complex and confusing. Should I quote Thomas Wolfe (You can't go home again)? How gauche. Should I talk about my love for the Eastern Townships.
If you've only been gone 10 years there is nothing I can tell you except that Montreal is even more cosmopolitan than ever and exciting. The Townships have long lost their English-only towns and villages but that is not bad. Quebec is French and proudly so but not Habitant or romantic. The people are just proudly French.
I miss Montreal although I will not go back. It was a place to grow up when I was 17 in the 1960s.
But I love it there in any season and feel a bond with their control of their destiny.
Sometimes I dream of taking a small apartment in Cap de la Madeleine on the third floor with the dormer windows. In the winter the oil stove would not keep the frost off the window and we would dress warmer and light candles. We would spend hours with friends in the cafes drinking and eating and talking the talk of 19 year olds again - which is not hard to do even today.
What an adventure for you.
I will miss your great writing and erudite comments. But then, you will only be a click away.
Cheers.
Selling our lovely home – The Mundane & the Sacred
by robpatrob This is why I came to PEI. It’s a March day and I am walking my dogs. Yes, we get winters here and it is not always summer. I came to PEI after a traditional life working for a large bank. I needed to find the sacred. I had been worn out by the grind and I had detached fro...
For local production to flourish, marketing and distribution has to broaden beyond one point of access. The FM is a great place but it can't be the only one. I especially like the inner-city location of the Co-op. I pass it daily and it would be nice to have a reason to shop. Still I'm a FM fan for the socializing.
Coop Will Open a farmers Market
Co-Op Atlantic has announced a $700,000 renovation to its downtown Charlottetown grocery store. 'We have no intention of trying to displace vendors from the existing farmers market.'— Murray Hatchard, Co-op Atlantic The Queen Street location has lost money in each of the six years since it op...
It's an evocative article but begs the question from the title - are you staying or going? Has nuture from nature quelled the wandering beast within?
Selling our lovely home – The Mundane & the Sacred
by robpatrob This is why I came to PEI. It’s a March day and I am walking my dogs. Yes, we get winters here and it is not always summer. I came to PEI after a traditional life working for a large bank. I needed to find the sacred. I had been worn out by the grind and I had detached fro...
While this is an improvement, we still live in a country that gives more rights to every other Charter enumerated group. Many Canadians with disabilities live far below the poverty line. The social safety net provides CP Disability that is 1/3rd lower than the LICO. Women as a class fare better with better supports and direct legal aid and action to support their rights.
Is Harper Canada’s best disability champion
http://www.njnnetwork.com/njn/2010/03/is-harper-canadas-best-disability-champion/
Harper Government best Federal Champion Persons with Disabilities have ever had
I believe the Harper Government is hands down the most effective Federal champion people with disabilities and their families have ever had. The March11th ratification by Canada of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a significant addition to the unprecedented commitm...
As a full time activist it's hardly a career. It pays nothing and takes tons of emotional energy.
The only people for whom activism might be a career are the paid consultants, ceo's of non-government-organizations who exist as parasites on activist causes. They present the media and the government with bland statements on serious issues. Their reward is to divert attention while getting paid handsomely.
Parasitical activism is apparently lucrative. Authentic activism, at least on PEI, is largely unrewarded.
The 10 top new careers
via theoildrum.com More from Megan Quinn Bachman - Farming is top of the list - of course here on PEI - Farming as we do it now is the pits - but Megan does not mean growing spuds for McDonalds or pork for Sobeys. She means growing food for you and me. Nor when she talks about Teaching does ...
And the very next day voila a chance to promote PEI using the Internet and $0.00 of the $4 million.
PEI 3rd of 10 Extraordinary Islands Frommers
http://www.njnnetwork.com/?p=34589
PEI Online Strategy - Do it on PEI
So about $3.8 million is planned to be spent on the new online ad strategy for PEI Tourism. Let's see where the money will go and then look at a PEI alternative. My bet is that the agency will chew up most of the $3.8 million in "Creative" and in Placement. My bet is that at least 90% of the mon...
PEI drops TV adopts Internet marketing
The project will fail since it is agency driven and just doesn’t get what the Internet is.
http://www.njnnetwork.com/?p=34564
hmmm - auto URL doesn't appear to work but the Facebook signin was awesome.
PEI Online Strategy - Do it on PEI
So about $3.8 million is planned to be spent on the new online ad strategy for PEI Tourism. Let's see where the money will go and then look at a PEI alternative. My bet is that the agency will chew up most of the $3.8 million in "Creative" and in Placement. My bet is that at least 90% of the mon...
Good story...wry pov
Helena Guergis has a lot on her mind
Charges of cocaine possession and drunk driving against former Alberta Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer are likely to be resolved through a plea bargain in early March. At a brief hearing last week, the Ontario Court of Justice noted that the case will be resolved the next time it is in court. Ty...
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