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Saving 200 jobs in Brantford   Positioning thoughts on Shop rite  SCC   and community initiatives

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Community leaders mobilize and pass it on . -This is a worthy cause that deserves priority attention. You can be part of the solution -please comment and make suggestions  you can make the  difference . Sieg

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Date: Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:50 AM
Subject: Business development SCC -informal thoughtsto garner expression of interest2

"When good men do nothing there are normally bad consequences and loses by default"- Sieg Holle BS MBA  About us

The purpose of this working paper is to see if there is the will or means in the community to save Shoprite ( Screenprint) and the 200 jobs in a revitalized and restructured form . The Shoprite Community Corporation or SCC model has proved effective in the past and  is a means to such an end .

Facts and background:

Fact:

Shoprite is a mature Brantford headquartered company with an over  50 year tradition of providing prosperity to the community or people of Brant /Brantford in terms of higher paying jobs ,municipal, provincial, and federal tax revenue,  and is both a purchaser and proven leading supplier of needed goods and services to the Canadian and international markets.

 

The company is in technical receivership with estimated assets of 2.5 million and liabilities of 5 million dollars. Over 200 jobs, with an average hourly pay level of $28 are at risk . The Receiver is presently running, and winding down the 2 facilities located on Elgin street  They are in the first stage of the receivership process and fulfilling existing orders. No formal RFP for the company or its assets have been publicly posted as is required. The entity is still in operation on a scaled down basis.

 

Fact:

Based on information provided by political candidates at the Taxpayer Coalition sponsored "Meet the Candidates" and other concerned citizens input- there are compelling reason to retain high paying jobs in the community.

• One in four jobs in Brantford has been lost in the economic downturn which has placed additional strains on community services and other community businesses.
• There are many empty or underutilized industrial factories  in the Brant/Brantford community. The economic base and tax base is eroding.
• Two mayor candidates ( Sless and Calnan)  have expressed support and suggested that a community initiative be undertaken to save the jobs and company if feasible .

 

Should good men in the community do something? Are their benefits that override the risks? When is talk and political posturing not enough?

·        Why not find out ? – a prudent business strategy and community decision   What is required ? –basically a will to succeed.

o       The five step process is proven and simple  - pre-feasibility( public consultation), Feasibility, Business Plan, Financial /ownership Plan , Implementation 

·        Leadership required – Who will champion the cause legally?

o       An entity is needed to consolidate community interests

o       SCC  is an entity which can be formed for the specific purpose

·        Considerations

o Do the creditors have an incentive to keep the restructured company alive by receiving  a benefit greater then getting a tax write off and write downs ?

§         What acceptable terms  can be negotiated in everyone's best interests?

o       What is the market for the existing and new products that can be produced and marketed by the restructured company?

o       What good men should serve on the SOS task Force committee and in what capacity?

o       What assistance is available from government or other sources?

§         Capitalize creditor write-offs

§         Incentives  -municipal, provincial, federal

·        Training

·        Equipment

·        Product service orders

·        Other

·        Guarantees

·        Tax deferrals and grants

·        Talent or services lend for task at hand

o       Time is of the essence

 

 

Other Points to be made:

• Once  the company is decommissioned , it is a sad fact that it will be hard to revitalize . The cost of creating the same level of  jobs has proven to be more expensive. See Enterprise benchmarks . The following adages apply
• A bird in hand is worth many promises in the bush
• All the kings horses and all the kings men will not be able to put humpty back together again
• Real time starts when the Receivers asks for public tenders or RFPs. Can we be ready ? It is estimated that this is a 3 to 6 month process.

 

Can the SCC model work?

Yes , with a few good men, real people that are  motivated, knowledgeable, productive  and with intelligent leadership

 

Should we make it work?

Yes , with real action , real energy , real plans, real people –not talkers or self interested posturing .

There are 1200 people ,their families, with  their purchasing power and influence  at stake.

 

Is it worth a shot?        Yes        Maybe        No

 

 

Job creation benchmarks – Brantford

Economic performance benchmarks   Information based on Enterprise Brant

Enterprise Brant is responsible for delivering the Community Futures Program in Brantford·Brant County which is a job creation program funded by Industry Canada.
During the past 21 years of operation Enterprise Brant has:
• approved over $16 million in loans to over 600 businesses in Brantford/Brant
• granted over $3.5 million to over 231 Community Development Projects
• assisted over 800 unemployed individuals with starting up 757 new businesses, creating 1028 jobs over the past 21 years.
Small and medium sized businesses can borrow up to $250,000 to expand an existing business or start a new one.

Quick benchmarks   Enterprise Brant

These funds are part of the South West Community Adjustment Funds that were allocated to Enterprise Brant to administer for stimulating local economic growth in Brantford and Brant County. As part of the Economic Stimulus package implemented by the Federal Development Agency for Southern Ontario, it is important that these funds are allocated to businesses that will enable them to grow and/or position themselves to take advantage of the improving economy.

What are 200 jobs worth?

SCC comparison using Enterprise benchmarks

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Advisors News | Industry news | ADVISORS - OBSI swamped with complaints

Advisors News Industry news ADVISORS - OBSI swamped with complaints

focus of 44 cases.
On the MFDA side, Investors Group Financial Services Inc. was the subject of 29 cases, followed by WFG Securities of Canada with 24.
Banking
Among the most common complaints in the banking sector were those regarding pre-payment penalties charged to customers seeking to refinance their mortgages. In most of these cases, OBSI found that the charges were explained in the mortgage documentation.
TD Bank saw the greatest number of banking-related complaints (102), followed by Scotiabank (79) and CIBC (48).
Overall, a disproportionate percentage of complaints came from Ontario clients, accounting for 57.8% of complaints, but only 38.8% of the country's population. British Columbians (13.3% of population) made 13.2% of complaints, while Quebec (23.4% of population) made only 12.5% of complaints.
"The proportionately lower number in Quebec reflects the fact that the caisses populaires Desjardins do not participate in OBSI for banking services," OBSI notes.
For the full OBSI report, click here.

Note :

Have you been ripped off by a bank lately ? Have they taken funds from you without your authorization? In normal countries that is known as stealing - do not let them get away with it. SH

Lets us know if you have been whooshed ,fees taken without your consent. A sorry is just not good enough! Let us know and we can start class action proceedings against them .It is your money -Banks are in a legal trust position which should not be abused without consequences and damages to them for bad behaviour .

Why Friedrich Hayek Is Making a Comeback: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy

Why Friedrich Hayek Is Making a Comeback: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy

Why Friedrich Hayek Is Making a Comeback
With the failure of Keynesian stimulus, the late Austrian economist's ideas on state power and crony capitalism are getting a new hearing. Russ Roberts, Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2010

Hayek's classic, "The Road to Serfdom," on his TV show, the book went to No. 1 on Amazon and remains in the top 10. Hayek's persona co-starred with his old sparring partner John Maynard Keynes in a rap video "Fear the Boom and Bust" that has been viewed over 1.4 million times on YouTube and subtitled in 10 languages.

Why the sudden interest in the ideas of a Vienna-born, Nobel Prize-winning economist largely forgotten by mainstream economists?
Hayek is not the only dead economist to have garnered new attention. Most of the living ones lost credibility when the Great Recession ended the much-hyped Great Moderation. And fears of another Great Depression caused a natural look to the past. When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke zealously expanded the Fed's balance sheet, he was surely remembering Milton Friedman's indictment of the Fed's inaction in the 1930s. On the fiscal side, Keynes was also suddenly in vogue again. The stimulus package was passed with much talk of Keynesian multipliers and boosting aggregate demand.

But now that the stimulus has barely dented the unemployment rate, and with government spending and deficits soaring, it's natural to turn to Hayek.

He championed four important ideas worth thinking about in these troubled times.
First, he and fellow Austrian School economists such as Ludwig Von Mises argued that the economy is more complicated than the simple Keynesian story. Boosting aggregate demand by keeping school teachers employed will do little to help the construction workers and manufacturing workers who have borne the brunt of the current downturn. If those school teachers aren't buying more houses, construction workers are still going to take a while to find work. Keynesians like to claim that even digging holes and filling them is better than doing nothing because it gets money into the economy. But the main effect can be to raise the wages of ditch-diggers with limited effects outside that sector.

Second, Hayek highlighted the Fed's role in the business cycle. Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's artificially low rates of 2002-2004 played a crucial role in inflating the housing bubble and distorting other investment decisions. Current monetary policy postpones the adjustments needed to heal the housing market.
Third, as Hayek contended in "The Road to Serfdom," political freedom and economic freedom are inextricably intertwined. In a centrally planned economy, the state inevitably infringes on what we do, what we enjoy, and where we live. When the state has the final say on the economy, the political opposition needs the permission of the state to act, speak and write. Economic control becomes political control.
Even when the state tries to steer only part of the economy in the name of the "public good," the power of the state corrupts those who wield that power. Hayek pointed out that powerful bureaucracies don't attract angels—they attract people who enjoy running the lives of others. They tend to take care of their friends before taking care of others. And they find increasing that power attractive. Crony capitalism shouldn't be confused with the real thing.
The fourth timely idea of Hayek's is that order can emerge not just from the top down but from the bottom up. The American people are suffering from top-down fatigue. President Obama has expanded federal control of health care. He'd like to do the same with the energy market. Through Fannie and Freddie, the government is running the mortgage market. It now also owns shares in flagship American companies. The president flouts the rule of law by extracting promises from BP rather than letting the courts do their job. By increasing the size of government, he has left fewer resources for the rest of us to direct through our own decisions.

Hayek understood that the opposite of top-down collectivism was not selfishness and egotism. A free modern society is all about cooperation. We join with others to produce the goods and services we enjoy, all without top-down direction. The same is true in every sphere of activity that makes life meaningful—when we sing and when we dance, when we play and when we pray. Leaving us free to join with others as we see fit—in our work and in our play—is the road to true and lasting prosperity. Hayek gave us that map.

Despite the caricatures of his critics, Hayek never said that totalitarianism was the inevitable result of expanding government's role in the economy. He simply warned us of the possibility and the costs of heading in that direction. We should heed his warning. I don't know if we're on the road to serfdom, but wherever we're headed, Hayek would certainly counsel us to turn around.

Mr. Roberts teaches economics at George Mason University and co-created the "Fear the Boom and Bust" rap video with filmmaker John Papola. His latest book is "The Price of Everything" (Princeton, 2009).

Candidates agree with demolition - Brantford Expositor - Ontario, CA

Candidates agree with demolition - Brantford Expositor - Ontario, CA


What will the Candidates for Ward 4 say next week ? An informed public is a strong public. Plan to attend next week on wednesday at 12 noon at the Station Coffee house and gallery .

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GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.
LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Tools - Interactive Website for Local Government Statistics Launched - Frontier Online - siegholle@gmail.com

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Media Release - Frontier Centre Launches New Interactive Website for Local Government Statistics The Frontier Centre for Public Policy today launched a new website which turns its three-year-old Local Government Performance Index into an interactive tool for journalists, municipal staff, and the public. The site contains comparative statistics from the Annual Reports of Canada’s municipalities, and judgements on the quality of their reporting. The URL is www.lgpi.ca

The Most Common Mistake CEOs Make — and How to Fix It | On Leadership | BNET

The Most Common Mistake CEOs Make — and How to Fix It On Leadership BNET

This is a worthwhile read


The Most Common Mistake CEOs Make — and How to Fix It By Kerry Sulkowicz
May 20th, 2010 @ 4:05 am

As an advisor to CEOs, I’m often asked what’s the most frequent mistake they make. While there are many — after all, they’re human — I’d say the most common one is not acting quickly enough on “people problems.”
The consequences can be disastrous. Keeping bad apples too long, especially in key roles, breeds all kinds of difficulties including dysfunctional teams, poor morale, and various liability risks. Ultimately, failing to address the problem of an under-performing or misbehaving senior executive undermines the credibility and authority of the CEO, and that sort of damage is hard to repair.

In an interview in the the New York Times Magazine, Alan Greenberg, the former Chairman of Bear Stearns, was asked why he didn’t fire James Cayne, his successor as CEO, who famously played bridge and golf during the week the company was going under and reportedly smoked pot in his office. Greenberg’s responses are classic rationalization: Cayne “owned about 5 percent of the company”; “it was hard to complain when things looked so rosy.” Owning 5 percent of nothing turns out not to be such a big deal, and everyone knows that things can look rosy but be rotten underneath.
It’s worth thinking about why CEOs often have so much trouble pulling the trigger. Some of the most decisive, visionary, principled business leaders I know still have trouble with this one issue. Here are a few reasons I’ve encountered, offered not as excuses but as explanations:

The CEO is too far removed from the executive in question and doesn’t quite see the extent of the problem. This can be compounded by a failure of talent management, in which the CEO doesn’t get the full scoop on problem people.

The CEO is too close to the executive in question. Either he or she is blinded by personal feelings of affection or loyalty, or others in the organization believe the executive is “protected” and are afraid to offer critical feedback about the CEO’s friend.

The CEO is aware of the problem, and showers the executive with all kinds of resources like 360 feedback, coaching, leadership development training, reassignment to another role, reading the latest bestseller on leadership, etc., all of which turn out to be exercises in wishful thinking and a big waste of time, because most people really don’t change very much.
The executive is high performing. The CEO makes the calculated decision that the benefits of keeping the person outweigh, or at least justify, the risks. This can be an exercise in self-delusion, because the benefits of the high producer are often eventually overtaken by the harm to the organization — and to the CEO’s reputation.

So what’s to be done? Perhaps most important is the need for CEOs to be more realistic about the malleability of human behavior. Our personalities are largely set by the time we’re adolescents or young adults. It’s not like you can send a problematic executive off for five years of psychoanalysis — which is what it really might take to make a dent in their behavior — and say “Come back and see me when you’re done.” My clinical background often comes in handy when assessing an executive’s capacity for change, and it allows me to tell CEOs that, in some cases, what they see is what they’re gonna get.

CEOs also need to recognize that their own emotions — their guilt about letting someone go, or their desire for financial performance at all costs, or their desire to be liked, or their fear of mustering the courage to be proactive and assertive — are major factors in this common conundrum. But what I also remind my CEO clients is that, as hard as these decisions are, people are usually tremendously relieved after they’ve made them and wish they’d acted sooner.

Kerry J. Sulkowicz, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is the founder of the Boswell Group, a consulting firm focusing on the psychology of business. One of the nation's leading corporate psychoanalysts, he advises CEOs, corporate directors, and other business leaders on critical aspects of managing complex organizations.

Re: HST Petition If Interested

Advocacy information for your information and pass on please to those that are interested  

 

         HST Petition - FYI and action if you choose.

         We need signatures of 10% of Ontario 's population to call a referendum, please show your opposition to HST.

Tax grab -and accountability?  -Be heard ?          -----------------------------------------------:





         Hey Friends,
         Please, sign this petition  and send it to
everyone you know. Now is not the time to be complacent. If
we all get behind this and do our part we can affect change
and send a very powerful message to the Premier of Ontario.
They've raised the roof out in B.C.and for the life of me I
can't understand why they aren't reacting here. Blows my
mind. At least B.C isn't adding the HST to gas. You know,
the sad thing about this whole situation is that the folks
in Ontario won't react until they see the price at the pump
jump by 8% on July 1st, as well as their heating bill,hydro
bill, water, etc.and perhaps shit will hit the fan then,
when it's too late. Let's just hope it picks up speed so
we're able to sign up 10% so we can hold a referendum. We
only have 6 weeks until this bill becomes law so you and
everyone you know has to sign this petition now and keep it
going.


         Your support is appreciated so please do not
delete this message -sign the petition and  pass it on
TODAY!.



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         HST Petition - FYI and action if you choose.

         We need signatures of 10% of Ontario 's population
to call a referendum, please show your opposition to HST.


         British Columbia is protesting every day to stop
the HST in their province. Why aren't we?  This is not a
"done deal" as they'd love for us to believe.  Please sign
the petition and circulate widely!  And forward to your
contacts!!!

         http://www.hstpetition.com/petition/sign.php

         please sign as soon as you can !!!

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Brant-Knights of Columbus: Ethics are a code you subscribe to or chose to ignore - Brantford Expositor - Ontario, CA

Brant-Knights of Columbus: Ethics are a code you subscribe to or chose to ignore - Brantford Expositor - Ontario, CA

Re: Seven Yrs of Dalton McGuinty

Thank you - very informative - least we foget  S

For the record

                             MAKES FOR SOME VERY INTERESTING READING.





     Dalton McGuinty



     Here is what our Premier has done for Ontario in the  past  seven years!!!!!!

     This was no tax increase election campaign.







     He increased all the licensing fees from your car to  your boat   including fishing and hunting.



     He introduced the health care premium (not called a
tax.)  Some couples

     pay as much as $1,500.00 a year.



     He doubled the price of most lottery tickets. (Not called a tax).



     He has put an ECO tax on many containers such as paint s and window

     washer fluid.  Most people still don't realize it is
on your bill.  He kept

     that one real quiet



     He has put a disposal tax on all electronics.



     He has put the disposal tax back on tires



     Now don't forget that all except the health care
premium are subject

     to the GST and PST (taxes on taxes.)



     And now he has passed the HST - the largest tax on the
province ever.

     The only other tax in Ontario that ever came close to
this in the past

     was the health care premium.



     He passed this bill even though 76% of the people in
Ontario were against

     it.



     This HST will provide the Province with an additional
THREE BILLION

     dollars a year.



     And now we will have our S.M.A.R.T. meters that we
will have to pay

     rent on and do our laundry in the middle of the night.
 We are going

     to pay big time for air conditioning from now on
because when we need

     it the most - that will be prime time. As if it costs
any more to

     produce hydro at two in the afternoon or ten at night
- another tax

     grab.



     Let us not forget the E health scandal with one point
two billion

     dollars wasted and paid out to friends and relatives.



     What was Mr. McGuinty's answer to this (well if the
people of Ontario

     don't like it, they can show it in the next
election.)
Nice

     attitude. This was after he fired the CEO and gave her
a severance

     package of three hundred thousand dollars.  Not bad
for only having the

     job for seven months.



     Then the windmill power plant - he awards the contract
to KOREA for seven

     BILLION DOLLARS. One would think that there was some
place in Canada

     or North America that could have built these.



     He closed the emergency rooms in Port Colburne and
Fort Erie because

     there is not enough money and there have been two
deaths since because

     by the time they got to St.Catharines, it was to late.



     He awards a hospital in Toronto three million dollars
in the riding

     where there just happens to be a by-election to
replace George

     Smitherman



     He has taken the richest, most prosperous province in
Canada, to one of

     the poorest and has created a deficit of TWENTY SEVEN
BILLION DOLLARS

     and he still has a year and a half to go.



     And don't forget his nice little salary increase of
$40,000.00 a

     year.  Millions of people in the province don't earn
half that.



     All the MPP'S got 14% increase



     Now that they all got nice increases he comes out with
a new budget

     and freezes all provincial employees wages for two
years.



     He has increased the hydro by 10% in April of 2010.



     He has increased the tax on liquor and wine by 10% in
May of 2010



     But Mister No Tax McGuinty will retire with his nice
comfortable

     pension and all his paid benefits.



     I hope this gets passed around the province of Ontario
and everybody

     remembers the way we got screwed by mister McGinty and
the liberal

     party.  Not one liberal MPP had enough guts to vote
against any of the above.

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Local MPs open about spending - Chatham Daily News - Ontario, CA

Local MPs open about spending - Chatham Daily News - Ontario, CA

Transparency is good

Identity theft and crisis - a warning and interesting food for thought

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul671.html

If someone incurred debts against you as an individual, without your knowledge or consent, you would call it identity theft. You would call your bank for a full accounting of the debts incurred in your name, and after some verification, those debts would be declared invalid and you would not be held responsible for them. Furthermore, if the culprit was found, they would be prosecuted and sent to jail.

Not so with governments and central banks. Governments that are supposed to be of the people and for the people routinely incur debts against the people. Some governments even borrow money to oppress their citizens, and then expect them to pay for their own oppression with interest. With a fiat monetary system, the sky is the limit for how much debt a government can place on the backs of the people.

We have reached the point in the United States where the debt our government has accumulated against us is mathematically impossible to pay off. Harder times, likely due to a wave of hyperinflation, will eventually find its way to our streets and I am fearful of how Americans will react. My hope is that we will come together peacefully and help each other, and that enough of us will be aware that the blame rests securely on the shoulders of the Federal Reserve and the special interests. They should not be looked to for salvation. They should not be given more power. Rather, they should be stripped of the powers that allowed them to create this mess in the first place.

Resistance to public transparency regarding public debts should be denounced in the strongest of terms, and the central bankers that incurred them should be seen as no better than common identity thieves

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How does this compare with Canada taxation?

And in Canada the trend is?

U.S. tax burden at lowest point in years

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The U.S. tax burden has shrunk to its lowest level in 60 years, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said.

Including state, federal and local taxes, the average tax bill came out to 9.2 percent of personal income in 2009, USA Today reported Tuesday.

That's down from an average of 12 percent over the past 50 years. The tax burden has not been this low since 1950, the newspaper said.

"The idea that taxes are high right now is pretty much nuts," said Michael Ettlinger, head of economic policy at the Center for American Progress.

The tax rate has fallen 26 percent since 2007, a sharp drop that reflects progressive tax rates passed during the Clinton and Bush administrations and the 2009 federal stimulus bill that cut taxes by $800 for married couples earning up to $150,000.

Despite the low numbers, the three things you can count on, death, taxes and complaints about taxes, remain a constant. Adam Brandon, press secretary of FreedomWorks, which is associated with the Tea Party movement, warned, "The money we borrow is going to be paid back through taxation in the future."



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The stop the 13% Tax grap movement - 4 months to go

This is a taxgrab of major proportions . Maybe with your help it can be stopped. If anyone is selling their house do so before July 1,2010. Please pass it on and tip the balance 

This is interesting and maddening regarding the HST. There is a legitimate petition at the end of the email for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to cancel the current plan to introduce HST on July 1^st.

     Thomas.

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   July 1,2010   is D day

 

 

Together we can stop the HST. Please sign petition    www..unfairtaxgrab.com

Centres target problem gamblers - Brantford Expositor - Ontario, CA#postbox

Centres target problem gamblers - Brantford Expositor - Ontario, CA#postbox

3.4% of the population are cursed by this disease

Pyne predicted that the agency will get busier now that the Responsible Gambling Council has a permanent centre at the Brantford casino.
Responsible Gaming Resource Centres are now located in all of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.'s 27 casinos and slot machine venues. The centres are operated by council staff, with the OLG providing free space and paying for operating costs.
Pyne also thinks there will be more referrals to St. Leonard's, which offers problem gambling counselling, a gambling support group and referral to residential treatment, now that the casino has been in the city for a decade.
"It can take 10 years to see the full effects of a gambling addiction."

Don't expect prison time for ministers - Brantford Expositor - Ontario, CA

Don't expect prison time for ministers - Brantford Expositor - Ontario, CA


Now for the good part.
If (House speaker) Milliken were to find the Harper government in contempt, the opposition parties would have the power to throw at least the three responsible ministers in jail -- Defence Minister Peter MacKay; Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon; and Justice Minister Rob Nicholson.
Luckily for them, the PM could quickly spring his ministers from the lockup by either turning over the documents or proroguing the House again -- an act that not only shuts down the Commons, but also ends parliamentary jail sentences.

Dangerous meds - Douglas

Senior meds linked to pneumonia

Elderly people suffering from conditions like dementia are often pumped full of powerful meds they don't need -- which is bad enough in and of itself. But unfortunately that's just the beginning -- because as it turns out, these drugs can actually increase the risk of potentially deadly pneumonia.

And when it comes to pneumonia in the elderly, even the mildest form can be a death sentence.

When researchers looked at data on nearly 2,000 seniors -- 258 with pneumonia, and 1,686 without -- they found that the patients on antipsychotic meds were twice as likely to get sick.

The higher the dosage, the higher the risk, according to the study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

But let's face facts here, because that's not the only way these drugs shorten lives.

These are dangerous meds for even the healthiest of people... but force a senior to take them and you're practically killing him yourself -- especially if he didn't need them in the first place.

And believe me, he almost certainly didn't need these meds in the first place. One study last year found that some 80 percent of seniors on these meds don't need them -- and I'd say that's being generous.

Most of the seniors who get these meds live in institutions. The ones that dish out steady doses of antipsychotic meds do so for one reason only: to create quiet, complacent, non-demanding zombified seniors who can be monitored by the smallest possible staff while the owners cash insurance checks.

If you have loved ones in a joint like this, get them the heck out now. If that's not an option, at the very least you need to keep tabs on what drugs they're being given, and why.

And if you're one of the sad sacks behind these pill-pumping operations, find a new line of work... because if I had my way, you'd be in an institution, too: Prison.

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Hollecrest & Associates Inc   -"Turnaround Consultants" http://www.ic.gc.ca/ccc/search/cp?l=eng&e=123456239975 .


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Equalization Is Indeed a Problem: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy

Equalization Is Indeed a Problem: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy


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Business News - Bank report spreads blame wide in Iceland - ArcaMax Publishing

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Bank report spreads blame wide in Iceland

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) -- An Icelandic inquiry into the 2008 collapse of its banking system found fault with key bankers, politicians and excessive growth of the industry since 2001. The Special Investigation Commission of Iceland's parliament issued harsh criticism of many officials, including former prime minister Geir Haarde, central bank Chairman David Oddsson, central bank governors and bank regulators, the EUobserver reported Tuesday. The report says underlying the collapse was a growth spurt in the banking industry, which grew twenty-fold in seven years, running far past the point where it could cover its bets. Reflecting the sweeping criticism, Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir said: "The private banks failed, the supervisory system failed, the politics failed, the administration failed, the media failed, and the ideology of an unregulated free market utterly failed." The report said regulators "did not enforce the legal provisions which were at its disposal even when they saw laws being broken." The banks' largest shareholders "had an abnormally easy access to loans in these banks," the report said. The Central Bank of Iceland held only a fraction of the necessary foreign currency reserves needed to protect either of the country's three large banks, Glitner, Kaupthing or Landsbanki. When the collapse occurred, the central bank could not protect one, let alone all three, the report said.

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more school choice for parents

More Choice a Good Thing For School Boards


The plan by the Toronto District School Board to allow the creation of specialty schools is a positive development but needs to go much further by embracing a more expanded form of choice. In a new column, Frontier research associate Michael Zwaagstra urges school boards across Canada to imitate Edmonton’s public schools and make school choice a fundamental component of their educational philosophy.
 
 
Another interesting Frontier article