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Will NOT save money - will save on one line item in the budget while increasing other line items in health.
Government actions will affect service delivery and costs for rural and inner-city seniors and families.
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Showing posts with label dominion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dominion. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Corporate Garbage - Literally - First up Dominion Supermarket
It is time we did some shaming of our corporations to clean up their garbage.
There is a tree of garbage bags flowing in the wind at Dominion on Stavanger Drive.
The tree looks like it is covered with long flowing white plastic leaves - reminding us that Dominion wants your money but does not want to be responsible for its garbage.
Can you please clean it up.
I will take a picture the next time I am out that way. Let's hope I am just taking a pic of limbs waiting for the spring and real leaves.
If anybody has pics of garbage around our big retailers - send them in so I can post them.
Time to clean the place up both in and outside the Confederation building.
Hard to have pride when we are living in dirt.
There is a tree of garbage bags flowing in the wind at Dominion on Stavanger Drive.
The tree looks like it is covered with long flowing white plastic leaves - reminding us that Dominion wants your money but does not want to be responsible for its garbage.
Can you please clean it up.
I will take a picture the next time I am out that way. Let's hope I am just taking a pic of limbs waiting for the spring and real leaves.
If anybody has pics of garbage around our big retailers - send them in so I can post them.
Time to clean the place up both in and outside the Confederation building.
Hard to have pride when we are living in dirt.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Will the Stock Market govern your Pharmacy Care?
Please take the time to visit the Pharmacy Blog to read the latest on pharmacy.
Today's story deals with what could happen when chain drugstores and mass retailers control pharmacy.
PRESS HERE
Today's story deals with what could happen when chain drugstores and mass retailers control pharmacy.
PRESS HERE
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
A fishery, who’s history has been cess pooled by private corporate usurping
Below please find a response to John Furlong's article on the Fishery:
Who are We?
“And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?”
‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, by T. S. Eliot.
It would be totally understandable, though not acceptable, if an ordinary citizen of our province had written the
Jan 1,2012 CBC news (cbc.ca) post ‘Assigning blame for lost jobs helps no one’, by John Furlong, host of NL’s CBC radio show ‘the fisheries broadcast’. Many people don’t, nor should they have to, understand the complexity of our fisheries problems. A fishery, who’s history has been cess pooled by private corporate usurping, and powering, of fish licences and quotas attained through the persuasion and coercion of the fisheries mismanaged federal and provincial governments.
Since our confederation a fishery, our treasured heritage, that the federal government has bartered and pandered away for favorable reciprocal international trading practices with the foreign fishing nations of NAFO and the EU. The final blow of the federal government’s policy of disinheriting us from our fishery will be played out in the coming months of the Canadian/EU free trade agreement.
The effect of this, as any elementary school child knows, has been the loss of 40,000 fisheries jobs, borderline rural poverty, gutted coastal communities and the dissemination of our maritime culture. Perhaps many young people, today, in the province don’t understand that it was the fisheries 500 year life line that gave our forefathers substiance, that built our family structures that gave us our unique character and godliness and made the province what it is today.
Losing our fishery will sever the connection we have always had to the sea, and to all these eternal things which we have uniquely been and to which we cling to today. Losing our fishery will destroy our ability, as individuals, to achieve, to connect to what our forefathers mastered and knew so well, the right they passed on to us. Losing our connection to the sea will destroy our birth right of dignity, in finding peace and pleasure, security and contentment within ourselves in our own homeland, from learning and exercising the mastered skills of seafarers. Who, or what, will we be then?
The conventional idea that a solution will solve a problem is an illusion, the thought or notion that ‘coming up with’ or ‘guessing at’ answers to problems will solve them. This hit or miss affair which does not encompass the breadth and depth of ‘what’s wrong’ and thus has nothing to do with the real structure of a problem and what will correct it. Only full understanding of a problem, which includes understanding it’s root cause, the nature and record of its history, if applicable to what may be still happening today, can bring proper insight and action that is needed to fix it. Simply put, if you learn and know fully, the problem, what it has been and what it is now. It will tell you what the solutions are. Fact!
“And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?”
‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, by T. S. Eliot.
It would be totally understandable, though not acceptable, if an ordinary citizen of our province had written the
Jan 1,2012 CBC news (cbc.ca) post ‘Assigning blame for lost jobs helps no one’, by John Furlong, host of NL’s CBC radio show ‘the fisheries broadcast’. Many people don’t, nor should they have to, understand the complexity of our fisheries problems. A fishery, who’s history has been cess pooled by private corporate usurping, and powering, of fish licences and quotas attained through the persuasion and coercion of the fisheries mismanaged federal and provincial governments.
Since our confederation a fishery, our treasured heritage, that the federal government has bartered and pandered away for favorable reciprocal international trading practices with the foreign fishing nations of NAFO and the EU. The final blow of the federal government’s policy of disinheriting us from our fishery will be played out in the coming months of the Canadian/EU free trade agreement.
The effect of this, as any elementary school child knows, has been the loss of 40,000 fisheries jobs, borderline rural poverty, gutted coastal communities and the dissemination of our maritime culture. Perhaps many young people, today, in the province don’t understand that it was the fisheries 500 year life line that gave our forefathers substiance, that built our family structures that gave us our unique character and godliness and made the province what it is today.
Losing our fishery will sever the connection we have always had to the sea, and to all these eternal things which we have uniquely been and to which we cling to today. Losing our fishery will destroy our ability, as individuals, to achieve, to connect to what our forefathers mastered and knew so well, the right they passed on to us. Losing our connection to the sea will destroy our birth right of dignity, in finding peace and pleasure, security and contentment within ourselves in our own homeland, from learning and exercising the mastered skills of seafarers. Who, or what, will we be then?
The conventional idea that a solution will solve a problem is an illusion, the thought or notion that ‘coming up with’ or ‘guessing at’ answers to problems will solve them. This hit or miss affair which does not encompass the breadth and depth of ‘what’s wrong’ and thus has nothing to do with the real structure of a problem and what will correct it. Only full understanding of a problem, which includes understanding it’s root cause, the nature and record of its history, if applicable to what may be still happening today, can bring proper insight and action that is needed to fix it. Simply put, if you learn and know fully, the problem, what it has been and what it is now. It will tell you what the solutions are. Fact!
These are just a few simple facts of what the fishery has
been and what it ‘is’ now, today. They are not biased or based on my
impression, opinion, wants, feelings, emotions or ego. It has nothing to do
with me or any one person’s opinion, nor does it have anything to do with going
back to the ways of the past, fishing in the ‘old ways’. It has to do with one
thing only, the truth. There are many who don’t want the truth exposed or who
would like those like me proven wrong and shown to be fools. Well that’s simple
to do, it only requires taking on the truth of the matter as it has been
requested. Why has it not been done?
After reading Furlongs article and in light of my comments I give the following response.
It is not acceptable that the host of NL’s premier fisheries radio show be permitted to belittle and denigrate the fisher people, the fishery and the coastal communities of this province. His opinion and manner in attacking attempts to expose fisheries truth and the people whose lives depend on it is wrong. But its consequences, of him being in the position of holding up the peoples trust on the Fisheries Broadcast, are in total disrespect of the crisis facing our province. For some time the FB present host has subtly been pushing and defending the federal and corporate agenda. He should be replaced.
What is this all about? Do you know?
It is about this planet’s god given treasure to us Newfoundlander’s and Labradorian’s, the Grand Banks of NL and the surrounding greatest fishery in the world. And what is that for? Yours and my children, and their children’s children. Fact!
“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.”
Philip Earle
After reading Furlongs article and in light of my comments I give the following response.
It is not acceptable that the host of NL’s premier fisheries radio show be permitted to belittle and denigrate the fisher people, the fishery and the coastal communities of this province. His opinion and manner in attacking attempts to expose fisheries truth and the people whose lives depend on it is wrong. But its consequences, of him being in the position of holding up the peoples trust on the Fisheries Broadcast, are in total disrespect of the crisis facing our province. For some time the FB present host has subtly been pushing and defending the federal and corporate agenda. He should be replaced.
What is this all about? Do you know?
It is about this planet’s god given treasure to us Newfoundlander’s and Labradorian’s, the Grand Banks of NL and the surrounding greatest fishery in the world. And what is that for? Yours and my children, and their children’s children. Fact!
“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.”
Philip Earle
Friday, August 26, 2011
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