Ezra Levant takes his show to an entirely new level, competing with the theatrics of Rick Mercer:
Video kindly uploaded by Matt from Mississauga
Ezra Levant takes his show to an entirely new level, competing with the theatrics of Rick Mercer:
Video kindly uploaded by Matt from Mississauga
lol Ezra is quite talanted – i didn’t recognize him at first. Keep the uniform – great skit!
The King of CUPE-dom!
I’m hearing the conversation from 20 years ago now at chez Levant:
Ezra: Mom, Dad I want to be an actor!
Mom and Dad: Well son, just promise us you’ll get something useful first, like a law degree. Then you’ll have something to fall back on.
The posties and their union do not seem to attract much support/sympathy….
I’m sure he’ll get him bags and bags of hate mail over this. oh wait…
Ezra must have large bills doing that skit and monologue……
all I’m seeing is the Game 1 Oh Canada vid from Wednesday.
Oh the brave posties, doing 1 and 2 day strikes in June. Oh the hardships of striking on a Saturday in Hamilton with highs in the low 20’s…
We moved our receptionists desk and the new configuration required 3 more steps to drop the mail on her desk, out postie refused to take those extra steps and for months dropped the mail on the first flat surface in the door. When we inquired as to why, he said we needed to call the post office and have them come measure the new route. He was rather pissed as the ‘new’ distance was really shorter than what the bosses had on file (a much older office setup 10 years before). You can’t make this stuff up.
all this will result in is more companies moving to e-billing. Sticking it to the man indeed.
You can tell Ezra never played football as a kid; that was one weird dropkick.
duffman, you raise a beautiful example. Imagine if our entire society ran like the postal service is run. Egad!
I always thought Ezra had an uncanny (but slimmer) likeness to the infamous Seinfeld postman, Nueman!
Sorry Ezra, couldn’t help it!
What about all the poor pensioners who live in the US? EFT is verboten.
Many of my bills are either direct payment or I get online invoices and pay them at the nearest ATM.
As for packages/parcels those are mainly shipped UPS for us.
We have no need for Canada Post at my home/business.
Let them strike for awhile to drain their pension/strike fund, then give them the axe.
I had a recent run in with the sub-humans at my local post office. The original complaint was bad enough: with our mail slot in very plain view, our mail was unceremoniously dumped on our front porch by the new, pre-verbal, as in “Huh”, letter carrier. (Fortunately, as I just happened to be walking down our street, I saw this breach of protocol: “What’s that?” the knuckle dragger asked me. She did understand the word, “rule”. Yes, there were rules, she agreed—“to put the mail in the slot”. Oh . . .)
At the post office, where I went to register my complaint—only because the letter carrier made no apology for her “unprofessional” behaviour—I was made to wait for over 20 minutes—“We don’t really know how long he’ll be”—before seeing, in the public space by the service counter, the “supervisor”: BTW, a person of colour.
Yes, he was polite, but he would not give me his last name—this is a GOVERNMENT employee—and, the contact phone number he gave me, which I tried, after not receiving the email follow-up I’d asked for, was a wrong number. I am telling the truth.
These idiots and their union extortionists are too stupid to realize that the game’s changed. Fie on the lot of them.
P.S. I’d raise Cain about this, but . . . these Neanderthals have real power: they know where I and my family live, who contacts us, and they can—I know it’s against the law: “What’s that?” they’d say—wreak havoc with our lives if they so choose. Do I think they wouldn’t? In a word, NO.
PPS: I saw Ezra do his postal act on SUN TV.
G_dspeed, Ezra!
Not that I’m condoning such practices…
(LANGUAGE WARNING)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo-C6AatP7g
I have been reducing my use of this absurd organization for years now, but the time has come to finally become completely free of them. Service on our route has become so bad that we routinely receive mail that is not addressed to us, while our own goes missing somewhere in the Canada Post ether. In the last month I am missing four sensitive pieces of mail and received Revenue Canada mail for three of my neighbours. We have discussed this issue with the posties, with their supervisors and the next level of management. All that has happened is that the errors are now happening more frequently.
There is no doubt somewhere a federal organization that is worse than Canada Post, but fortunately, whoever it is, I don’t have to deal with them.
lookout
next time take a camera with you and photograph the person “serving” you, t’is even better than getting a name, and far more intimidating to them:-)))
I was just calling my friends who live by Hamilton. I was going to leave them a taunting voicemail….”Hey, I hope you can live without mail for a few days…”
I had to hang up because I kept laughing at the hardship imposed (none) by the strike.
2nd try with link (Gremlins again)
Canada Post’s postal workers treatment of taxpayers/customers does figuratively what a US mailman does literally
He shouldn’t really draw too much attention to the vague similarity between his image and that of Newman the postie on Seinfeld.
But I digress.
The timing of these postal strikes is classic old school “agitation” in the face of a majority conservative government. The hope is that the reactionary clique will over-react and rough up a few of the brothers and sisters, leading to general strikes, marches in the streets, and a communist revolution.
Or at least a few extra bucks, and I don’t mean Tim Buck.
GYM, many thanks for the tip. But, remember, they know where I live . . .
There isn’t anything that a phone call, email, FedEx or the bank can’t handle. So CUPW can go for a full-blown strike and stay out forever for all I care.
@duffman – some years ago, Cda.Post Super shows up at our office building with his little wheelie-measuring device. He’s measuring how far our mailman has to walk from his truck to the reception desk! Told him L.(we were on a first-name basis, he was a co-workers neighbour plus his daughter knew mine)always left the mail for the two businesses in our building on the table by the door (which I could see from my desk)and whoever got to it first sorted it. Jeez, I thought he was going to have a stroke. It’s not the average letter carrier who’s the problem, it’s the officious bozos with their rules.
Re the banked sick leave, when our guy was retiring, he used all his accumulated sick leave a couple of days at a time.
@duffman – some years ago, Cda.Post Super shows up at our office building with his little wheelie-measuring device. He’s measuring how far our mailman has to walk from his truck to the reception desk! Told him L.(we were on a first-name basis, he was a co-workers neighbour plus his daughter knew mine)always left the mail for the two businesses in our building on the table by the door (which I could see from my desk)and whoever got to it first sorted it. Jeez, I thought he was going to have a stroke. It’s not the average letter carrier who’s the problem, it’s the officious bozos with their rules.
Re the banked sick leave, when our guy was retiring, he used all his accumulated sick leave a couple of days at a time.
HAHAHAHA
I have NOT used Canuckistan Post for over 2 decades.
If I need to send someone anything I use a courier because I want it delivered in a timely manner without a bunch of scummy unionista’s touching it.
Let them strike themselves into the oblivion they are already in, maybe one or 2 of them will notice they just shot themselves in the head… but then again I don’t think anyone cares.
When I drove cab in Calgary a few years back the company I drove for had the postie contract.
The usual scenario was p/u the postie at 7 or 8 am drive them to there route, come back an hour or so later and take them back to the postal station, they would then go home and get paid for the whole day. When I pointed out to the post office this little problem I was removed from the service list for Canada Post, no more driving posties around for me.
FREE: This is what I see as one of the problems. There seems a disconnect between cost and revenue. This caused by largess on behalf of the Government. Many comments here attest to the effect this has on management and some of the workforce.
Our Health Care system seems to be much the same. Who cares about the customer/patient. We get paid anyway. A situation that seems to attract the communists in throngs.
I think for the sake of the many good conscientious workers, and there are many, a responsible government should give ample warning that the service will undergo severe changes or phasing out. This would take guts most politicians won’t have but reduce economic stress for us all.
Gotta say Ezra seems made for this new tv gig. He improves by the week.
Somebody mention the bad word Tim Buck?
Ezra is the STAR of SUN TV and more and more are tuning in.
As to Canada Post – well their Courier Service is called “Drop and Run” – no ringing of an imaginary Doorbell for these Snivel protected Servants.
Mail service in rural areas? LOL. FAR Too dangerous they could be hit alongside the road by the 1 farm Truck or Tractor that comes by every hour.
I think the rate was 42 cents at the time and I only had a pair of 38 cent stamps, or something close, so I put two on a letter and mailed it. It was returned a week later with a ink imprint of a rubber stamp that said ‘Excessive Postage’.
I have never written a return address since.
Ther being Striked right out of any human relavence. No one needs the anymore.
Bad timing. Even worse reasons for a strike. The Unions are going to do what we all want. beak up thier own pools of workers & eventually thier own source of income.
JMO
Gord Tulk: “Gotta say Ezra seems made for this new tv gig. He improves by the week.”
At five o’clock, I turn to my husband (who usually has the remote) and say, with a smile, “EZRA TIME!”
If he doesn’t turn to channel 15, I squawk!
All mail should be in p.o boxes, then you can get ridof some dead weight.
Ezra reminds me of the new Jackie Gleason of the second millenia.
Good skit Ez
R(gh)
I realize your familiarity with our country depends largely on the internet connection in Bratislava.
But a postie with a small car is what we here in Kanadar call a courier.
Hello everyone. I am a postal worker.
What I have noticed over the last few days is the utter ignorance of people “commenting” on the various issues involved.
I would like to set up a program where we bring in each of you to try my job. We’ll run a timer for you and see how long it takes before you end up admitting you really didn’t know what you were talking about.
Without the posties who would be there to bring me my junk mail!
FREE….my wife’s ex is a postie.He gets up at 5:00 AM and arrives at the sorting plant @ 7:30 AM.He is then home by 11:00 AM,but paid until 1:00PM.
When I pointed out to him that it must be nice to get paid from the time you get up until 1:00PM, he just couldn’t wrap his leftoid head around the hyprocrisy and out right theft of tax payer monies.
His only response was/is,it’s in the union contract.
More people probably watch the links here, and elsewhere from Sun TV, than who watch Sun TV.
I think the project is doomed. Like the National Post. Committing to dinsosaur media when there is so much out on the web, is not a good business proposition.
Unless you have enough money like Rupert Murdoch to produce a first class TV operation that leans right.
Why must all international (incoming) Mail/Parcels/Etc go through the Canadian Post Office ??? Shipping to Canada more than doubles the normal cost and Time of a UPS or FedEX…..
I, a long time ago, frequently shared a table @ the Don Mills Tavern with the resident Don Mills Post Master…He had a endless supply of funny postal stories.. How Saturday mail delivery sat in trucks until Monday Etc…Canada Post was at one time a place/home for Ex-military patriots..
JMHO
Last year I lived in a neighborhood where a Canada Post carrier was filing complaints against people with dogs. Apparently he had a dog phobia and was traumatized by dogs that would bark at him through fences. He wasn’t attacked, just barked at. Of course, Post’s response wasn’t based on the premise that maybe being a mailman isn’t the best choice of career for someone with a dog phobia, but rather that pet owners need to better socialize or confine their pets to prevent mailmen from being traumatized by barking. For me, it was a “praying for the asteroid” moment.
I never want to hear ezra talking about bills again. I think I’m going to be sick…
Newman!
“I would like to set up a program where we bring in each of you to try my job. We’ll run a timer for you and see how long it takes before you end up admitting you really didn’t know what you were talking about.” Robert in Calgary
As an ex roughneck in the oilfields of your province I take your challenge and will pay you $5,000 if I can’t do it faster than you. Consider that a serious offer witnessed right here.
How would you like to live in a complex of 78 units? we pay the same price for a stamp as the people in the next block, they get their mail delivered to the door, we stand out in the rain and pick ours up at the outside club house. by the way, don`t mail a pkg at a drug store for out comes the tape measure all over, never mind the weight these days and they are allowed to charge more than a main P.O., service you know, havent rec`d it yet.
Smarten up posties your soft days are coming to a close and what is left of the mail will be privatized at half your pay today. keep smiling and don`t listen to your so called leaders as they would have to work for a living without you
Canada Post richly deserves to go down. In the first twenty years I had my small business, depending totally on first class mail promotion to communicate to my thousands of clients, we suffered through several strikes, and lost a lot of money. I then attempted to use Canada Post’s addressed admail “service”, with lower postage (33 cents a piece) but we had to presort 5,000 pieces by postal code, and bundle them for the “hard-working” posties. I then discovered that probably half of that mail was not even being delivered to my clients. No doubt dumped somewhere. We finally gave up on snailmail. For the last ten years we use email only and now social media too. I long to dance on the grave of Canada Post. No entity which can hold taxpayers to ransom should be unionised.
Janet, well said, both times.
I’m sick and tired of these self serving, union entitlement types.
they want to spent 20 years doing as little as possible, retire with a generous pension and have me work for fourty years to provide it for them.
what bs, screw the unions.
if they had to work for themselves they would starve.
fire the lot of em and privatise the place.