In a province with 7% unemployment; (h/t Paul)
Health officials said that as of Friday, 358 cases in High River and elsewhere in the region were linked to the Cargill facility. Many of the workers at the Cargill Ltd. plant are new immigrants or temporary foreign workers, whose jobs and shared living spaces make them especially vulnerable to infection.
Seven weeks in a Wuhan hospital: The ophthalmologists were the last line of defense.
Defiant Residents Grab Shovels, Dirt Bikes After Cali Authorities Dump Tons Of Sand In Skateparks
Think globally, manufacture locally: How COVID-19 Is Wreaking Havoc On Our Ability To Make Things
My friend Tom just received his ten pack of toilet paper from Amazon.
If you left NYC out — even keeping in those other dysfunctional blue areas — the US would be a shining example to the world.
Your related links in the comments.
Tom should consider himself fortunate the toilet paper wasn’t used.
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“Metropolitan Toronto Zoo beefs up security
after coronavirus miracle cure revealed…”
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Facci lied again he said “go into a situation where you have a big spike, you’re gonna set yourself back,”
I don’t think he knows how to read a logarithmic Chart, or he has his own model that doesn’t track doubling in the classic form 1.2..4…8 ..16 going up and -1,,-2, -4 -8 .-16 going down… The spike he is talking about is fake or data error…Especially past the plateau (1:1) and going down.
It a good thing SD did not apply and restrictions… so we have a clean dbase to compare virus response
JMHO
Anderson Cooper and former secretary of state Albright were on CNN today, discussing that western countries need to kiss China ass. We need to forge closer ties with China or they may withhold a vaccine.
I’m sorry about your friend Tom. That looks like the worst case of short sheeting I have ever seen. More hole in the middle than paper? Civilization is good and truly doomed. I’m growing a lot of corn this summer.
This was not a surprise to anyone paying attention.
https://calgaryherald.com/business/foreign-worker-debate-causing-concern-at-brooks-high-river-meat-plants/
https://brandyyanchyk.com/brooks
I have inside knowledge that the Chicom Virus has spread from Cargill to Superstores in South Calgary. They’re only cleaning at night when they stock the shelves and won’t tell customers or close the stores.
At least McKenzie, Shawnessy and Southland stores have been affected since last week.
There was a time when Edmonton had 4 large meatpacking plants full of unionized workers who took pride in their lifelong careers. Remember the 1986 Gainers strike where everyone considered Peter Pocklington to be evil incarnate? Nobody thinks of Pocklington as a victim but that’s exactly what he was.
The other three packing plants had already closed or were soon to close. The US meatpacking unions had been broken and Canada couldn’t compete. Pocklington fought for his investment and won the strike but lost the economic war. He had his cheap labour but still had a 50 year old plant, the former Swifts plant, and Gainers shut down.
Today they kill almost no animals in Edmonton. It is all done in Southern Alberta in a couple plants employing labour from shit hole counties and unbelievably a tremendous number of animals are sent to the US for slaughter.
The market has decided unions are simply a thing of the past. Nice while it lasted, but nobody is entitled to a career, a home, or pension. Allowing foreign workers in makes for lower prices, which benefits everyone. As for COVID, I would expect it would have spread in the plant, regardless of whoever was working there, and anyway, providing a sanitary working environment is the duty of the employer.
Well said. People who complain against Temporqry Foreign Workers (TFWs) are racist liberals. If Harper and Kenney liked TFWs, so should all of us.
Gat, should the employer also look after the cleanliness of their homes????? what a stupid comment, flue spreading has nothing to do with plant cleanliness
My understanding is a lot of the TFWs are living in company-supplied barracks. If they are living off site then obviously their living conditions aren’t a concern of their employer.
If their working conditions have them packed together, side by side on the line with poor ventilation, then yes, the employer may share some responsibility.
TFWs are never going to give a shit about joining a union. Or understand the benefits and drawbacks for that matter. Not sure I understand the link between TFWs and unionized companies going out of business (maybe that’s it, TFWs simply can’t join the union bc they are here for so little time). So the company hires more of them in the hopes of competing with big US firms and inevitably they can’t. But I do know that TFWs are destroying the lower tier of the labour market. They are pounding wages down for low skilled work and that deterioration is leeching upwards to semi-skilled and beyond.
TFW program also breeds racism. And why wouldn’t it? These people are shipped in like cattle to do work that (like you said) could and would be done proudly by Canadians. They are without a doubt taking jobs from Canadians which of course is going to breed resentment and anger, easily morphing into racism.
“They are pounding wages down for low skilled work and that deterioration is leeching upwards to semi-skilled and beyond.”
Good.
” They are without a doubt taking jobs from Canadians which of course is going to breed resentment and anger, easily morphing into racism.”
1) It’s not ‘your job’ it belongs to whomever the employer gives it to. 2) Racists cause racism, not employers making rational decisions.
If you seriously take pride in your work as a meat plant worker and blame brown people for losing your (overcompensated) job, you’re a loser.
Superstores, are those the same owned by the crooked, price fixing, Laurentien elite, Westons?
Who also own Shoppers Drug Mart.
Now do “farmers who NEED tfws” because “no one here will do the job”
Guffaw
Michael McCallion shared a link.
Apr 20, 2020, 1:31 PM
The worst of the coronavirus is over in Canada — but the bigger problem is about to begin
rebelnews.com
The Liberal Party of canada Government of the Nine Provinces R.O.C. & the Nation du Quebec are similar to the ‘One World’ bureaucracy control similar to the Democrat Party of america;
— Do not waste a Crisis as an Opportunity to change Society —
Not sure which of the Directions in ‘Saul Alinsky’s” guide to controling the general population uses this theme; but probably one will fit. Mike Sr.
From the Globe article (first link): “Fariborz Birjandian, chief executive officer of the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society…”
’nuff said…
And the latest from the WHO’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
“Thank you @GovCanHealth for your comprehensive words of support for @WHO & the importance of genuine global coordination to end the #COVID19 pandemic. Glad to hear Canada is implementing WHO’s public health guidance. Together!”
https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1251949509858525184
Canada is implementing WHO’s public health guidance? Really?
That’s all they’ve done, WHO standards, no antibody testing cause WHO says not to, no antimalarial drugs or antibiotics because WHO says not too. I could go on and on. It makes me SICK!
JustUN loves the WHO!
Anything the UN and the WHO says, goes in Canada after he signed over our border sovereignty to them.
Who cares if 20,000 Canadians die because JustUN won’t close the border? Or implement screening at the border? Or lying about masks?
What is important to JustUNis that Canada honors all the UN’s wishes!
WTI is currently at (negative) -$15.92/bbl today on the spot market, below WCS which was at (pos) $2+ a bbl.
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/
This is not off-topic because the Wuhan Travelling Flu (WTF) is the primary cause.
There’s nothing the Liberal government won’t tax or meddle in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El7350xYU_o
And don’t trust your neighbour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytzlybOPI7I
If we citizens would wear a mask or bandana,
in addition to physical distancing & hand washing,
the benefit, of each of us protecting others thru our mask wearing,
stacks on top of benefits from the other measures.
Cumulatively the 3 measures provide a great deal of protection, much more than 1 or 2 by themselves.
Coupled with industry specific measures,
this could assist politicians in reopening the economy sooner than later.
A population protecting itself thru these measures, protects its freedoms & economy, as well as its health.
“the US would be a shining example to the world.”
Utter nonsense. There is still almost no testing.
“Manufacture locally”
If you’re willing to pay the massive premium.