Gregor Robertson or Susan Anton?

To tell you the truth they both scare me, Gregor may highlight a green hue in his Mascara choices but to me he appears to be cut from the same corporate cloth as those who came before him and as for Susan Anton, I wonder what is happening in her brain, I mean really, what won`t she say, from bike lane moratoriums to a 70 story St. Pauls hospital to now advocating removal of Occupy Vancouver demonstrators by whatever means possible, this I assume would mean use of water cannons, police dogs and tear gas....


The mainstream media still doesn`t get it, certain bloogers have their head stuck so far up their own asses they unfortunately will never get it..


Maple Leaf Foods Inc. unveiled a sweeping $560-million overhaul that will see it close most of its aging meat-processing factories in Canada in a bid to slash costs as it fights with more efficient global rivals.
Facing increased competition from U.S. meat suppliers and pressure from shareholders to improve the financial results, Maple Leaf chief executive officer Michael McCain pledged in an interview to significantly boost the company’s profits by closing eight plants and distribution centres, building a massive new factory in Hamilton and upgrading plants in Brampton, Ont., Winnipeg and Saskatoon. But the plan also comes with a human cost: It will cut 1,500 jobs, or about 12 per cent of the work force in the meat division, Maple Leaf’s largest unit.


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_____________________________________________________________________________________________  Most media has been concentrating their efforts in discrediting the "Evolution" by using the taxing the rich argument, claiming how futile taxing the rich would be in lowering the National debt, and that would be true however......However the media and right wing rant blogs have avoided the bigger questions and implications, ad nauseum emanating from the depths of the corporate balck hole...."It`s different in Canada, we have fairer taxation, Canada`s middleclass is well off, our banks behaved".....I love the buzz words, in particular this one.."Productivity"...The above story about Maple Leafs Foods is not a story about 1000,s of family supporting jobs vanishing, no, it`s a success story about productivity....


When and if the world financial picture improves, the markets, the markets will rise and oil will surge in price resulting in an even bigger shocks at the pump, gas prices will drive consumer demand downward thus repeating this hideous financial cyclethon we`re on, ..


Gregor and Susan are subtly suggesting violent measures to remove the occupiers, a certain nasty little blogger is almost demanding it, violence that is, ....yes indeed, this is Canada so by all means bring out the water cannons, the tear gas and the sonar stunner, who do these people think they are, they aren`t peaceful loving hockey fans, they aren`t football fanatics they are but down and outers, stinky smelly degenerates so by all means arrest them, haul their sorry asses to jail, after all, doesn`t Harper have some super max prisons needing to be filled....

What Maple Leaf Foods is doing is exactly what all the other corporate players are doing, becoming more productive with fewer and fewer workers, outsourcing jobs combined with automation means but one thing...

"Race Against the Machine" and human labour will be the only victim!...Below is a little prelude to the future
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More Jobs Predicted for Machines, Not People

Published: Monday, 24 Oct 2011 |

By: Steve Lohr
The New York Times

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A faltering economy explains much of the job shortage in America, but advancing technology has sharply magnified the effect, more so than is generally understood, according to two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The automation of more and more work once done by humans is the central theme of “Race Against the Machine,” an e-book to be published on Monday.

“Many workers, in short, are losing the race against the machine,” the authors write.

Erik Brynjolfsson, an economist and director of the M.I.T. Center for Digital Business, and Andrew P. McAfee, associate director and principal research scientist at the center, are two of the nation’s leading experts on technology and productivity. The tone of alarm in their book is a departure for the pair, whose previous research has focused mainly on the benefits of advancing technology.

Indeed, they were originally going to write a book titled, “The Digital Frontier,” about the “cornucopia of innovation that is going on,” Mr. McAfee said. Yet as the employment picture failed to brighten in the last two years, the two changed course to examine technology’s role in the jobless recovery.

The authors are not the only ones recently to point to the job fallout from technology.

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"Occupy the World"...The "evolution"....What is evolution in BC, last night on Global news there was a shocking story about how both Media and the corporate world see British Columbia, how they see our high-tech future....In an attempt to prop up a faltering and sagging Christy Clark Global news did a story about the future of jobs in BC...The story told of a bright future for families and the Province of BC....Apparently the future of British Columbia will rely on....


Coal mining....The story highlighted a young person with a degree in geology who got a job in the coal mine, the story went onto say...There is an extreme shortage of skilled coal miners!....I wonder why, BC`s future relying on coal to China for steel manufacturing, remember the Golden Decade Gordon Campbell promised, priorities being put on educating BCers into being the most literate and highest educated on the planet and now, and now your future is in truck driving, put down your pens and books and pick up that shovel and get in that truck, take your family and move to the frozen north.....


I`m not denigrating working with Gas n oil and coal dust but for a young person to enter that field is a life-time commitment, working with toxic chemicals and health hazards and once in the game you can`t get out, reliant on boom-bust cycles in the frozen north, -40 below in the winter, huddled indoors waiting for the warmth to return....


It appears that the BC Liberals have given up on a modern society and sent Global news to sell the gullible BC public on a life in the frozen north distilling gas n oil...In fact if you watched Global news last night and tonight you would think there are no parts of BC besides those set aside for gas n oil that have any jobs....


British Columbia and Canada are making a huge mistake by relying solely on petro-chemicals to propel the future, the message is confused, Christy Clark announced a new tourism strategy just today, Christy Clark said she was concentrating on "eco tours" ...


Yet with oil n gas, pipelines and oil tankers the eco-tourists will stay home...


None of that matters to Canada`s politicians, Harper is drunk on Alberta tar sand and Christy Clark is giddy for gas, and if anyone wants a life-long job driving a truck by all means head to frozen Fort Nelson, I spent a year there one month in 1975, you can have it!

"Occupy the World" is about common sense, it`s about corporate theft, occupy the world is about nasty bloggers wanting them dragged by force through the streets for mere pleasure, that and the occupiers message wasn`t clear enough, one particular nasty blogger goes down there looking for confrontation, there can be no other conclusion because he wouldn`t know a piece of art if he tripped over it, would a just message make "Occupy the World" acceptable to any of them, there is no message when Eyes and Ears are shut...

"There is none so blind as those who refuse to see"

Let EnCana gas poison lakes and destroy watersheds, let employees kill themselves through exposure of chemicals and hope the families of said workers don`t drink the toxic water, let`s give money dedicated for health and education to LaFarge cement and EnCana gas because....


Because they haven`t got enough money yet!....Poison thy environment and get praised by  big media, close down and shutter plants and halve your employment numbers and get a tax break......Yet join a world-wide justified protest against $billionaire corporate thieves and get hit by Susan Anton`s and Gregor Robertson`s water cannons!


Vision or NPA....No one cares and none of these candidates are worthy.


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