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A City of London media release. Published by FMBS as a community service.

LTC Media Release

Received late this afternoon.

To: All News/Public Service Directors
From: London Transit Commission
Date: Monday, December 07 2009; 4:32 p.m.
Subject: LTC Labour Issues

We regret to advise that ATU – Local 741 members have turned down the Commission’s final offer as tabled on Friday, December 5, 2009. No further talks are scheduled at this time. The Commission will remain available should the Mediator deem it appropriate to request further talks noting it believes … Continue Reading

Public Transit is Essential

Now that it appears likely that LTC bus operators will go out on strike beginning Monday, I’ve begun to hear some local media personalities question whether public transit should be considered an essential service.

Anybody who relies on it can tell you that it already is. Continue Reading

The French Are Locking Up Their Bosses

Have you been following this story? The local mainstream media hasn’t had much (if anything) to say about it, but I think it’s fascinating. Right-wingers here like to whine that they’re living in a socialist country, but politics here is actually pretty moderate when you compare it to many other countries: Continue Reading

The MPP Holiday Is Finally Over

Pigs at the TroughPoliticians finally return to Queens Park on Monday, but you haven’t heard a peep from the local media about this absentee problem have you? Why not? It’s the first time that our elected ‘representatives’ have been in session this year. 01 In actual fact, the legislature has sat only two weeks in the past nine months! 02 It’s the first time that they’ve been in the legislature since pocketing another automatic salary increase which kicked in as fast as the new year began. Too bad that they couldn’t move as fast to get back to work. Nice gig if you can get it.
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CUPE’s Poverty Reduction Proposal

CUPE Ontario will make a deputation this afternoon that will propose three policy shifts that the government must make in order to achieve a reduction of poverty in the province… Continue Reading

Window Washer Horror

“Window washers have fallen six feet and died” (Stefan Bright; safety director; International Window Cleaners Association). “Fifty percent of people who fall four to five stories die. By the time you reach 10 or 11 stories, just about everyone dies” (Dr. Sheldon Teperman; director of trauma and critical-care surgery; Jacobi Medical Center).
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Liberals Discriminate Against Farm Workers

Ever ready to jump on a populist bandwagon, our electioneering Liberals have re-adopted the 80’s “Good things grow in Ontario” advertising slogan in order to align themselves with the “Eat local” movement. Just in time for the self-promotional summer BBQ circuit.

But maybe, if there was truth in advertising, what the Liberals ought to be chanting is “No good for those who … Continue Reading