Liberal judgment
So we live in the most expensive city in Canada with a minimum wage of $10.85, welfare rates have not increased in eight years ($610 monthly, which allows $18 a week for food). One in five children live in poverty, and we are faced with increases in hydro, medical premiums and ICBC. I could go on. Yet 39 per cent of British Columbians support Christy Clark!
Who are these supporters? No one I know!
–Mallydee
Hazy days
Re: “Positively 4th Street: The Rise and Fall of Canada’s Hippie Mecca,” Grant Lawrence, Oct. 20, 2016.
I remember hanging out on West 4th at the Last Chance Saloon with a few friends when a friend of ours got busted for hashish and was taken away. We saw him an hour later, and he said they couldn't hold him as there was no law on hash yet, just marijuana!
-George Lee
Shift your thinking
Re: “Stock Response,” Rant/Rave, Oct. 13, 2016.
There are numerous medical studies that show that shift work impairs the health of the worker. Shift work has been linked to certain chronic diseases and illnesses. Long-term night-shift work is associated with an increased risk of certain cancers, heart disease and heart attacks, diabetes, ulcers, gastrointestinal problems and obesity.
For women, there is an increased risk of breast cancer, miscarriage, low birth weight and prematurity. Finally, there’s the increased risk of errors and accidents affecting both the employee and the employer.
Workers shouldn't have to risk their health and eventually even their lives just so that shoppers can avoid making their way around them. Shift work should be limited to emergency services that are required 24/7, i.e.police officers, firefighters, nurses, doctors, pilots. Even those should be kept to the minimum necessary.
–Sandy Bauer
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