The really stupid part of all this is that employers know that doctors will write any note you ask them to. The medical note isn’t to prove illness, but to put a burden upon the employee: - call in sick, spend half day at the walk-in clinic - and they are wasting doctors’ time to do it.
Legislated paid sick leave for all employees is what we need.
More bald faced lies and doublespeak from chief pig, Per Bank.
They’ve choked out competition so people have little or no choice but to use stores, they have an effective monopoly on their market so face little price competition. They are gouging as hard as they dare, offering “bargains” on their inferior, high-margin fakes and knockoffs. Every item they steal as a knockoff to generously offer us suckers as “value” takes money away from food suppliers, who then have less leverage to negotiate. Per Bank, Loblaws, Safeway, Save-On, all the major grocers play the same piggy game, gleefully gouging both ends of the market and hoarding the loot for there C suite bonuses and institutional shareholders… while throw handfuls of nickels to the retail shareholders to keep them voting the right way and parroting the doublespeak.
It’s a polite oligarchy. Per Bank is a thug in a yellow cardigan, holding a knife to your throat and emptying your pockets while he smiles and tells you how invested he is in bringing you more value.
Rampant and criminal exploitation of the working class that literally threatens their ability to feed their children, while government watches and does nothing - this is a recipe for violence.
I hope Per is setting some bonus money aside for security - history is full of pigs just like him who come to an end with their head on a stick.
Imagine what it’s costs LD to close for even a couple hours, let alone days, while paying pharmacists, then imagine what scale of threat it would take to force any corporation to take that step. My guess, it would take an attack on multiple levels of systems… POS or inventory alone wouldn’t do it, data breach alone wouldn’t do it.
I work for a major/international Canadian resource corp… we had all IT suddenly shut down for several days a couple weeks ago because of a sudden and intense surge in targeted hacking activity, across several attack vectors including both traditional network/data hacking and some very convincing and well-researched phishing attempts targeted across the company in different countries, including some subsidiaries that aren’t obviously connected to the parent corp. An IT shutdown for an international corp of this size is shocking and unheard of in my industry … it literally takes a death to stop production of one operation for one day, this was every operation crippled or shut down for a number days. It was definitely a crisis reaction from the corp and a situation where they didn’t know how fucked they were or that anything was safe. IT services had already starting going down when we got notice, late on a Friday afternoon… there had already been some penetrations, and seems like the attackers’ plan was to do a mass phish on Friday, then use the phished info over the weekend to deepen their penetration. I would guess the LD attack was planned for the weekend as well.
These types of large-scale, organized attacks are becoming more and more common. I hope there will be some public information forthcoming on the LD attack, including the suspected perpetrators (North Korea and Russia are both safe bets)… but for some reason the details on these incidents seem to only come out via investigative reporting.
How dumb do they think we are? The problem isn’t your supply chain, it’s your record profits raked in by gouging us. Gouging is their new business model.
I’m starting to think these pigs won’t change until we start putting their heads on sticks.
Hmmm. In BC, the provincial gov has subsidized energy-saving home upgrades for many years. Seems like other provinces have had their heads in the sand and now want my federal tax dollars as a reward?
Good. I’m glad that my tax dollars are going towards good jobs with fair wages.
They’re putting in overtime licking PP’s boots.
If you get in an argument with your neighbour and put a framing nail into him, that’s assault. If you put that nail into protected minority and it can be proven that you were motivated by bigotry and a desire to subjugate that minority, you are guilty of a hate crime, which is a much more serious crime
I’m not sure how closely you’ve been paying attention. Pierre has been making a point of publicly connecting with far right conspiracy protestors (ie Freedom Convoy, etc), and amplifying the “fuck Trudeau” meme, which is a carbon copy of the “fuck Joe Biden” movement ie it distracts from real issues while fanning the flames of the ‘us vs them’ rhetoric and ‘take our country back’ style of proto-violent hate.
And by the way, Harper was also happy to throw red meat to these groups, just in a more subtle and dog-whistley way.