http://cmkl.ca Chris Lawson's personal website Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:58:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cmkl.ca/2012/02/06/and-now-more-squirrel-search-and-rescue-this-time/ http://cmkl.ca/2012/02/06/and-now-more-squirrel-search-and-rescue-this-time/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:58:54 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=2279 Hard to argue with this. These cutbacks aren't out of necessity. They're choices. Harper's government would be happy to blow you out of the air with a stealth fighter (assuming they can make them fly) but they won't pluck you off the side of a cliff.]]> http://cmkl.ca/2012/02/06/and-now-more-squirrel-search-and-rescue-this-time/feed/ 0 http://cmkl.ca/2012/02/03/electro-motive-plans-to-close-its-london-plant/ http://cmkl.ca/2012/02/03/electro-motive-plans-to-close-its-london-plant/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:54:34 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=2268 handsomely profitable corporation buys a London Ontario locomotive factory in June 2010 and promptly tells the 465 or so members of the CAW local there that they'll have to cut their wages in half and give up their pension plan to keep their jobs. Things lead to things and on New Year's Day the company locked out the workers. ]]> http://cmkl.ca/2012/02/03/electro-motive-plans-to-close-its-london-plant/feed/ 0 http://cmkl.ca/2012/02/02/theyve-got-their-own-government-their-own-tv-network/ http://cmkl.ca/2012/02/02/theyve-got-their-own-government-their-own-tv-network/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:22:50 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=2264 http://cmkl.ca/2012/02/02/theyve-got-their-own-government-their-own-tv-network/feed/ 0 http://cmkl.ca/2012/02/01/cmon-people-now-smile-on-your-brother-everybody-get-together-try-to-love-one-another-right-now/ http://cmkl.ca/2012/02/01/cmon-people-now-smile-on-your-brother-everybody-get-together-try-to-love-one-another-right-now/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:01:53 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=2261 cheesey hippie song from the sixties. À propos of nothing, really, except this. No, I'm not expecting Stephen Harper will start getting together and trying to love all the low-income seniors he'd screw out of two years of OAS even as the F-35s scream overhead. ]]> http://cmkl.ca/2012/02/01/cmon-people-now-smile-on-your-brother-everybody-get-together-try-to-love-one-another-right-now/feed/ 4 http://cmkl.ca/2012/01/26/and-while-im-ranting/ http://cmkl.ca/2012/01/26/and-while-im-ranting/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:05:14 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=2242 http://cmkl.ca/2012/01/26/and-while-im-ranting/feed/ 1 http://cmkl.ca/2012/01/25/fewer-good-jobs-around-so-lets-eliminate-more-of-them/ http://cmkl.ca/2012/01/25/fewer-good-jobs-around-so-lets-eliminate-more-of-them/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:49:21 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=2238 fewer good jobs in Canada these days. The bank's job quality index dropped by a per cent over the last year. Wow they have a job quality index. It's almost like they care.]]> http://cmkl.ca/2012/01/25/fewer-good-jobs-around-so-lets-eliminate-more-of-them/feed/ 0 http://cmkl.ca/2012/01/24/and-now-we-fire-the-people-who-encourage-us-to-make-homes-energy-efficient/ http://cmkl.ca/2012/01/24/and-now-we-fire-the-people-who-encourage-us-to-make-homes-energy-efficient/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:37:57 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=2236 eliminating 100 jobs, Postmedia's Kathryn May reports. Ministry spokespeople say the positions being cut were those managing "sunsetting" programs and that there are no new decreases to service cuts.]]> http://cmkl.ca/2012/01/24/and-now-we-fire-the-people-who-encourage-us-to-make-homes-energy-efficient/feed/ 0 http://cmkl.ca/2012/01/18/wolf-lake-wednesday/ http://cmkl.ca/2012/01/18/wolf-lake-wednesday/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:13:46 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=2217 It's late but here's my week's contribution to Wolf Lake Wednesday. Friends of Temagami, Earthroots and no doubt a bunch of other organizations and individuals are trying to pressure the Ontario government to take Wolf Lake in the Chiniguchi waterway off the table for mining and logging.]]> http://cmkl.ca/2012/01/18/wolf-lake-wednesday/feed/ 1 http://cmkl.ca/2012/01/13/language-instructors-and-scientists-thats-who-theyre-firing-this-week/ http://cmkl.ca/2012/01/13/language-instructors-and-scientists-thats-who-theyre-firing-this-week/#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:44:11 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=2194 Environment Canada, no less. And from the training institute that, among other things, is supposed to help improve the level of bilingualism in the civil service.]]> http://cmkl.ca/2012/01/13/language-instructors-and-scientists-thats-who-theyre-firing-this-week/feed/ 0 http://cmkl.ca/2011/12/22/gerry-nicholls-has-my-blood-boiling/ http://cmkl.ca/2011/12/22/gerry-nicholls-has-my-blood-boiling/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:46:33 +0000 cmkl http://cmkl.ca/?p=2096 Postmedia item has had me in a lather all day. It's not just that they're whipping up the faithful against the people I work for. That always bothers me but it's ah... not new to me.]]> http://cmkl.ca/2011/12/22/gerry-nicholls-has-my-blood-boiling/feed/ 1