Great news for the new year. The minimum wage in Ontario, Canada, has soared 25 cents to a sizzling $8 an hour. Man, that extra 25 cents will send stampedes of over-paid cashiers, fast-food friers, dish-washers and students to the chic local galleries, golf clubs and gourmet gratification centres, revelling in their new-found wealth, enabling them to avoid forevermore the greed machine created by Jesus-and-money-loving Sam Walton. Even my own cramped, dowdy, now-friendly Dwight corner store could be transformed into a pleasure palace the likes of which have not been seen outside of the Arab Emirates.....unless you include that brown and down Muskoka structure that passes itself of as an upscale resort , Deerhurst. No doubt they are preparing to be swamped with bookings from the newly-wealthy minimum-wage earners of Ontario.In monetary terms,the percentage rise is just over three. And what did our heroes, members of the Provincial Parliament just give themselves? A raise of over 20%.. Of course it's fair. And I'm a ham sandwich.
...MINIMUM RAGE
...by the members of the board of US Home Depot who fired their CEO of one year because of his catastrophically inept performance.Severance package awarded to him by outraged board? $210 million dollars
COOL-HAND STEVE
Another note of new year comfort comes from Steve who shuffled his cabinet as opposed to his wonderfully co-ordinated feet, The great news here is that Steve, with his steel trap of a mind, read opnion polls that concluded Canadians care about climate. (I can see a very bare Hidden Valley ski run from where I'm typing and the only snow I've come across this week is a dubious brown heap near my driveway), So Steve's brilliant gesture to save the world and Dwight from Farenheit 451 was to fire the hapless Ms Rona Ambrose and replace her with an unspeakably loud-mouthed robot called John Baird. Word has it, Baird is not to help the environment, and therefore earn the wrath of big business, but to shout down all those pathetic tree-huggers and naysayers who worry when huge chunks of the Arctic break off and see no snow in winter.
ALZHEIMER'S + A PLUG
One of the local rags has a whole page devoted to the mind-bogling complexities of tax breaks for folks who look after Alzheimer's patients at home.I have read the thing three times and I still do not understand who gets what. It's as though the plan were designed by a bureaucrat who did not want to give these brave, unsung caregivers a hope in hell of collecting what seems to be a pittance, anyhow.
Now the self-serving bit about Alzheimer's.. Next month, 360 Vision, the Vision TV current affairs programme nominated for a prestigious Gemini Award as the best current affairs programme in Canada, will run a powerful, provocative 20-minute story on Alzheimer's.
360 Vision's new season starts on Wednesday,January 17, at 10pm, with an explosive investigative documentary that should scare the hell out of you, the cops and the churches. The following week, a gripping, vitally important story about women leading a revolt in Islam right here in Canada.It is a revolt with world-wide ramifications.
For more details: http://www.visiontv.ca/
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