Wide Open Net

11 Replies to “Wide Open Net”

1. I think that Ken is planning special camps and daycares for prospective hockey players; they will be found and recruited and taken away from their parents at the age of three. That’s hot, alright!

2. Carolyn Parrish.There’s so much heat radiating off her, why, she’s an inferno 😉

3. It seems you’ve caused a ‘Kateallanche’ The site has maxed out its download limit.
   Rona A. is married, is she?

4. It’s fixed now. Thanks for the publicity!

5. Gosh, I love our dear Dominion as much as anyone else.
   But I’m sorry – it’s hard to conflate hottest anything with the folks taking up oxygen and space in our particular Parliament.
   Perhaps Kate should run for office…

6. Sorry OT, according to this CBC story Canada’s health care system (among other things) gives us a competitive advantage.
   Industry experts say Ontarians are easier and cheaper to train – helping make it more cost-efficient to train workers when the new Woodstock plant opens in 2008, 40 kilometres away from its skilled workforce in Cambridge.
   “The level of the workforce in general is so high that the training program you need for people, even for people who have not worked in a Toyota plant before, is minimal compared to what you have to go through in the southeastern United States,” said Gerry Fedchun, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, whose members will see increased business with the new plant.
   The factory will cost $800 million to build, with the federal and provincial governments kicking in $125 million of that to help cover research, training and infrastructure costs.
   Several U.S. states were reportedly prepared to offer more than double that amount of subsidy. But Fedchun said much of that extra money would have been eaten away by higher training costs than are necessary for the Woodstock project.
   He said Nissan and Honda have encountered difficulties getting new plants up to full production in recent years in Mississippi and Alabama due to an untrained – and often illiterate – workforce. In Alabama, trainers had to use “pictorials” to teach some illiterate workers how to use high-tech plant equipment.
   “The educational level and the skill level of the people down there is so much lower than it is in Ontario,” Fedchun said.
   In addition to lower training costs, Canadian workers are also $4 to $5 cheaper to employ partly thanks to the taxpayer-funded health-care system in Canada, said federal Industry Minister David Emmerson.

7. a competitive advantage over…alabama? well, I’m just gushing now, Ralph. thanks. now my choice for hottest MP ever is Tommy Douglas. you convinced me.

8. For me, it’s a perfect tie between Rona and Helena. But as I can only vote for one, as looks are tied, I’ll cite Rona’s “hot-babe” T-shirts as worn in the HOC as the tie-breaker. I just LOVED the look of it contrasting with the business blazer.
   But if neither was married, I’d go out with BOTH of them, if you ask me. ;->

9. Too many pucks to the head.
   And he’s a lawyer too? There is the proof that he thinks a wee bt different than most people.
   I was in Fort McMurray Alberta this week and overheard this manager-type spouting in a nice Italian restaurant.
   He was so proud of the “upbringing his three or so year old was getting at daycare. Interacting with other kids, (away from the parents who MADE HIM)yada yada…At the end of the day he’s pick up the kid and bring him home just in time to eat and GO TO BED. This is raising children?
   What he really needs, IS A CAT!!
   Kids are too much trouble …it seems.
   By the way, my kids were raised by their stay at home MOTHER. Best person for the job..PERIOD.
   No florida vacations for us. Worth every penny she didn’t earn. Ten year old vehicle and all.
   SUV’s over homecare? we are doomed!……..you know that eh?

10. I think I have made a connection! Dryden’s daycare scheme is designed to raise a generation of little multiculturalists who will grow up too meek to ever think for themselves. That might be a bit of a negative for Judeao-Christian types, but think what a big improvement it will be for aspiring Islamic fundamentalist children. They will grow up way too fuzzy-headed to want to hurt anyone.
    Oh – wait a minute, they already have their own separate daycare system. How is Ken going to deal with that?

11. Eastern Paul, excellent points. As for Dryden, ah, what do you expect from a Librano? The simple state of being a member of that caucus is in and of itself a sign of a constantly farting brain. And when he stands up to speak, the sulfurous-smelling methane spews forth from his mouth, as with the rest of the bums on that side. Ask them a simple question and that’s what you’ll get!
    Just ask Rona… she was absolutely wonderful when going after the old windbag on the question of daycare!