Manitoba New Democrat MP, Judy Wasylycia-Leis says the federal government is turning back the clock on women’s rights. She says legislation to make pay equity part of the collective bargaining process takes away a woman’s right o complain to the Human Rights Commission.
A lack of a building code for farm buildings may have had something to do with the collapse of a structure out in Portage that killed a farm worker. The fire commissioner’s office says they found no records which even approved the construction of the building. The accident on Monday took the life of 48 year old Scott Giffin, one of the owners of Mayfair farms. The province by the way, is now looking into building codes for all farm structures.
Almost as good as the home land. Out of work Icelanders have been flocking to the Gimli area for weeks now. Last fall’s economic meltdown hit Iceland hard, where 11 thousand out of just 300 thousand people are unemployed. Gimli of course is home to the 2nd biggest Icelandic community in the world.
Another day….another octuplet story. The mother of the 8 babies born a couple of weeks ago, now says she’s done with having kids. In a “Dateline” interview that aired last night, 33 Nadya Suleman says the octuplets were a sign from God that she should stop having kids. By the way, in case you didn’t know, Suleman is divorced and unemployed.
Wall Street is not warming to this bank-bailout plan put forward by President Obama. Yesterday, the Dow Jones fell 380 points or about 4 and a half per cent. One critic says the good news is the government is going to spend nearly a trillion dollars….but the bad news is “they don’t know how.” Toronto’s TSX also took a hit yesterday, dropping 229 points.
A Sussex spaniel named “Stump” has become America’s new top dog. At 10 years old, the pooch became the oldest Best in Show winner ever last night, at the Westminster Kennel club show in New York. “Stump” by the way was a sentimental favourite, he nearly died 5 years ago, and came out of retirement only last week.
