14 Replies to ““A dedicated food service stream with a pathway to Permanent Residency””

  2. OK.
    Bear with me, or not.
    But here is an anecdote to support Sheila Gunn Reid’s larger point.
    When I was a high school dropout in 1973, I went out west and planted trees and got enough work weeks in to get pogey for the winter,
    So I went back east and the pogey office said that to get my pogey, I needed to retrain.
    I opted for the 40 week cooking course, and learned to be a short order cook.
    I got a ‘diploma’ and was hired at a truck stop, where I worked hard doing dishes, prepping food, and flipping many eggs and burgers.
    It taught me that I wanted to do more, which I went on to do, girded by a work ethic.
    I was young then.
    Other stuff happened, including education and better career options, which were earned by merit and ability, etc.
    I am now retired in the Okanagan with a healthy pension and a loving wife.
    It was a long, strange trip, with many ups and downs, but it was the story of young people in this country who were given a start. To Sheila’s point.
    Oh, and it is how some of us gratefully rolled with the punches.
    Excuse the ramble, and boycott Timmy.
    PS: I was born and raised in North Bay, which had one of the very first Tim Horton’s Burger Joints, so I have some moral high ground in this ramble.
    OK I will shut up. Sorry, eh?

      1. yep. lm sure many share that career trajectory. l generally do. opportunity & education meet work ethic.
        kids nowadays l just dont know if they are going to get past the brainwashing in time to be ready when
        the brass ring whizzes past.

    2. I was a poor Foster child whose alcoholic parents were incapable of raising their two incredibly GOOD and intelligent boys. So I started working in Jr. High delivering 180 newspapers/day carried in bags over my shoulders that I could scarcely lift when I started the bike route. Then on to working at the Exxon Station where I polished the pumps, scrubbed the garage bay floors and cleaned the toilets in addition to pumping gas and filling customers gas tanks. I was paid $1.75/hr. Yeah, it was a different era … when white kids worked menial minimum wage jobs, and there was scarcely a Mexican or Punjabi doing any of these jobs.

      I never resented people who were wealthier and better off than I. No, I wanted to become them … not become a communist leaching lay-about. So I worked my way through college and earned a degree in something REAL and immediately monetize-able.

      But I wasn’t too poor or hard working to not enjoy some good music of the era … here is another sampling of my music … the Danny Kirwin Fleetwood Mac …

      https://youtu.be/CPNehVGp8BA?si=rePuJ3fzS_EDzF8F

    1. A lot of people don’t yet understand the link between highly processed foods and health. It’s to the point now that I avoid eating out at any restaurant. Everything I cook starts out as a recognizable vegetable or piece of an animal.
      Never eat anything your grandmother wouldn’t recognize and never eat factory food.

      That there is a market for fake meat concocted in a chemical plant validates the current ignorance about nutrition.

  4. Canadians can put Tim Horton’s out of business in a month. All they have to do is stop going there. It isn’t even good anymore FFS. I haven’t been there in a long long time and I will go out of my way to not go there in the future.

  5. Its not as if its a situation, which has not been building for a number of years. First it was some TFW’s, now it is almost exclusively TFW’s. Immigrants buy the franchise, and then slowly replace the pale face workers with those of a darker hue. Seen it happen many times. It’s gotten so I will not patronize those places. I know girls who have been squeezed out. Sometimes the hardest working ones on staff. Doesn’t matter if it’s donuts, pizza, breakfast, or burgers. May they all go bankrupt and we all prefer to cook at home.
    That being said, I did get Korean takeout tonight, but that’s different. I’ll see myself out now.

    1. BTW … most all the motels on my recent cross country tour are owned and staffed by dot.Indians. Yes, I avoided all but one. Nothing but Indians staffing them.

      This was not a pleasure trip, so I kinda slummed it.

      1. I have no problem with anyone owning and operating hotels and motels. It amazes me that any of them can keep sufficient staff employed to keep the rooms clean and continue operating. Thankless task, that. I have noticed in recent years that a lot of hotel staff are elderly people, presumably because the work is “beneath” the younger generation. I make a point to always compliment them and thank them for their work.

        1. I am beyond polite to all people of all derivation doing any task some feel is ‘below them’. I know what it’s like to toil away at the bottom. And I am a beyond-generous tipper. I only bristle at the macro view of it all … that our people are being replaced by the overpopulated nations of the world. That we have been invaded and our people pushed out of jobs and our culture transformed … for what? Cheaper, more compliant workers? Democrat votes?

          No. I can’t blame people for wanting to come here. Duh. But they need to adopt and adapt to our culture, not the other way around. So yes, the entrepreneurs who run bottom tier motels, and independent gas stations, mini marts, etc. are at least here working hard.

  6. Keji I agree. I grew up in Toronto.
    Most Dot.Indians were Entrepreneurs and spoke English and assimilated.
    The second Generation of these immigrants were OK too.

    3rd Generation Canadians figured out the Cultural Marxism and obtained their victim cards. Islamophobia, Homophobia, and all the other isms were engaged.

    These ones hate us.

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