• Moderators, please send me a PM if you are unable to access mod permissions. Thanks, Habsy.

OT: The News Thread

Most webpages are littered with java scripts. If you have firefox, it's very easy and you can control which sites to allow the running of Java using the NoScript add on.
 
P.E.I. single mother without car loses EI benefits for being unwilling to work in Charlottetown

Marlene Giersdorf, single mother of a nine-year-old from Montague, P.E.I., is the first person known to be cut off Employment Insurance under a change of rules. As of this month, some recipients will lose benefits unless they are willing to work for 70% of their previous wage, commute for an hour or more and accept any job meeting those conditions. Ms. Giersdorf, 30, was recently told she was being cut off because of “an unwillingness to change your job demands,” and spent Monday morning protesting outside the city’s Service Canada building. A few months ago, she left a job at a nursing home with a doctor’s note citing stress from 60-hour work weeks. She said she has applied for many jobs in Montague, population just over 5,000, but hasn’t yet been able to find work.

Q: Have you had EI before?
A: Yes. Five or six times maybe. Most of it’s all sick benefits from when I needed a break and then switched onto regular benefits until I could find a job and yes, I did find a job.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/0...for-being-unwilling-to-work-in-charlottetown/
Click to expand...

Sounds like the exact type of case that the Conservatives were trying to address when they made the changes.

Choose to live in a rural community with only seasonal work? That's fine, but we're not keeping you on the payroll on the down months. Pack your bags and find work...you know...like everyone before you.
 
Does she not know that 1000's of people in this country (10's of thousands in the GTA alone) travel an hour or so to get to work? Heck, it takes my girlfriend 30 minutes to get to her office on a good day.
 
well she doesn't have a car and i doubt that public transit in montague pei or whatever is to the same standard as even a third rate city like ottawa.

so i get it. it's tough for her to get around. no doubt.

but, yeah, rather than just depend on a handout, at some point you have to pack up and move, if that's what it comes to. and especially when there's a kid involved, you find a way to make life work with a job.
 
EI abuse is a major problem on the East coast.

Seasonal work means that people sit on their butts for almost 7 months a year and collect then bring in a "full" salary in a 5 month blitz.

It's a big cash-first industry too...which makes it even harder to control.
 
JaysCyYoung said:
Takes me seventy minutes round trip on Raptors/Leafs game days and that includes the cost of my presto card.
Click to expand...

something tells me they don't have a series of heated go trains and subways making regular round trips over a ~60 km radius in montague pei.
 
mbow30 said:
something tells me they don't have a series of heated go trains and subways making regular round trips over a ~60 km radius in montague pei.
Click to expand...

True. But you can also pretty much get anywhere in PEI in under an hour. I'm sure she could work out a finance plan on a beater car for an affordable price.
 
mbow30 said:
http://www.latimes.com/business/tec...urce=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=515009

Too lazy to look into whether this is actually serious or not, but I saw this on Twitter and can't recall anything similar to this. It sounds like they have found pretty big loopholes in java's security and Homeland Security is now recommending that people disable Java in their web browsers. I don't think Java is as prevalent as it once was (not like Flash), but am sure it must still be floating around for some purpose on the interwebs in some way.



for those who think there's reason for some concern, here's a link to disable (big pain in the ass if you're on explorer).

http://www.slashgear.com/turn-off-java-they-warn-heres-how-you-do-it-12265037/
Click to expand...

BeLeafer said:
Most webpages are littered with java scripts. If you have firefox, it's very easy and you can control which sites to allow the running of Java using the NoScript add on.
Click to expand...

FWIW....I run with javascript turned off everywhere with the exception of trusted sites on my bookmark bar. For general surfing, I run in sandboxie.

http://www.sandboxie.com/
 
corksens said:
Sounds like the exact type of case that the Conservatives were trying to address when they made the changes.

Choose to live in a rural community with only seasonal work? That's fine, but we're not keeping you on the payroll on the down months. Pack your bags and find work...you know...like everyone before you.
Click to expand...


Had a girl form the east coast come crying that her husband was divorcing her back home and she had to go back. Real tears. Bought it lock, stock and barrel. Magically, it was exactly the same time she qualified for UI. I learned later from the other girls that it was a put on and "oh my God, I got to go" was standard fare.
 
Last edited:
EI abuse is a major problem on the East coast.
Click to expand...

Also grew up in PEI.

EI abuse is ****ing major problem there. The stress excuse is bullshit...I went on EI due to stress when I lived there and used it to get the **** outta that place. It involved me going to see my doctor (who was my dad's brother in-law) and he wrote me a note..... after I had quit my job. And I still got it. On top of that after I moved I got a call from a family friend who worked in the EI office to remind me that I could extend it if I wanted to (which I didn't know about). Was only on it for a few months, moved to BC and have worked constantly for the past 10 + years.

The amount of people that relay on the government is insane. The fact of the matter is that PEI doesn't really have a lot to offer. The province used to relay mainly on fishing/farming and tourism but all of that is slowly going away. I would attribute the tourism decline over the past ten years or so due to American's not coming to visit anymore (economy etc etc) and I would also blame it on the fact that the province and people are unwilling to change whatsoever. They have been using the same marketing campaign for tourism for the past 25 years. On top of that, when they are smart enough to bring in a big concert (which injects millions into the local economy, they had Aerosmith a few years back and people from surrounding provinces flocked to go see them) people bitch and moan about traffic and the noise of the concert and drunk people blah blah blah. It's ****ing nauseating. They amount of bitching and moaning that goes on in that province is ****ing ridiculous.

On top of that, the jobs that are there are mainly federal or provincial government jobs and you could probably get rid of about half of the positions. A lot of unnecessary created positions.

She was on EI 6 times probably in the past 7-10 years. That is pathetic. There are a lot of people there that have this idea that they are entitled to handouts and they don't have to do shit in order to get it. I shouldn't have to leave my community in order to work is a bullshit excuse. The fact of the matter is a lot people there are scared of the outside world. I know people that haven't been out of the Maritimes for Christ sakes. The idea of leaving their comfort zone terrifies them. The would rather sit on their asses and collect EI and not try and be successful than leave that place to find another job.

Montague is 45 minutes from the 'city'. Charlottetown has adequate transit system in place now. That excuse about needing to have a car to live in the city is bs. To live in Montague than yeah it's probably necessary, but it's not like she's moving to ****ing Toronto or anything, on top of that the schools in the city have much more resources than the surrounding rural areas. Charlottetown also has.....jobs! Crazy I know.

The fact of the matter is that this is all an excuse to not have to work in the off season. It's ****ing lame and extremely pathetic.

Just a final note....

PEI has the one of the highest, Alcoholism, Cancer and Depression rates in the entire country! I wonder why that is?

For people to say that it's unreasonable or impossible to leave their home to support themselves is disgusting. I left there with like 600 bucks in my pocket and moved to one of the most expensive places in the country and survived. First couple of years were pretty tight but I kept working and saving to be able to put myself in a more comfortable position and so on and so on. I'm kinda glad the federal government is taking a stand on this type of abuse, maybe it will motivate her to get her shit together.
 
Last edited:
In a nation of immigrants, if anyone wont move to get a better life, or expects the government to hand them a better life, or somehow they deserve a better life to be handed to them, well, f*ckem.
 
corksens said:
EI abuse is a major problem on the East coast.

Seasonal work means that people sit on their butts for almost 7 months a year and collect then bring in a "full" salary in a 5 month blitz.
Click to expand...

But EI has a limit of about 12 months, or perhaps 18 months max term. While I'm glad they're trying to wrestle abuse of that system, I'd be more impressed if they tackled the abuses in Ontario Works instead. Virtually no term limits on that system, and hence, open to much more abuse and waste of tax dollars.
 
link
Two young children were found dead by their father, Jon Corchis, at a home in the suburban Ottawa community Monday. Their stay-at-home mom was still alive at the residence but died later.

Police sources said they were trying to reach the couple’s relatives in Windsor.

Jon’s father Robert Corchis is from Windsor.

Major crimes detectives were on the scene through Monday night investigating what police confirmed was a double-murder/suicide.

Emergency vehicles flooded the street after 5:30 p.m., responding to a call from the house at 25 Granite Ridge Dr., directly across the street from Stittsville public school, where the two kids were students.

The children’s father made the 911 call after he discovered the gruesome crime scene on a lower level of the house.

Alex, 10, and Katie, 6, were pronounced dead at the scene. Sources say the mother, Alison Easton, was still alive when emergency crews arrived but was pronounced dead a short time later.
Click to expand...
Bill 115?
 
BeLeafer said:
Most webpages are littered with java scripts. If you have firefox, it's very easy and you can control which sites to allow the running of Java using the NoScript add on.
Click to expand...

Javascript is not Java. Barely any websites run Java applets nowadays, and that is what the warning is actually for.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top