The Flames are refusing to do anything beyond the strict letter of the labour code when it comes to compensating employees put out of work by the coronavirus. So who are the owners of the Calgary Flames? calgaryherald.com/sports/hockey/…
Let’s start with the biggest fish. Murray Edwards, co-founder of the largest oil company in Canada and a certified billionaire is the chairman of the company that owns the Flames.
Alvin Libin is a seniors care tycoon who founded Extendicare. In Feb the CBC learned it locked up diapers to limit their use while incontinent residents sat in urine-soaked pads, suffering from severe bladder and yeast infections, rashes and open wounds cbc.ca/amp/1.5470130
Allan Markin is the other co-founder of the largest oil company in Canada. He started up a health care foundation that uhh, was a really big believer in the power of Vitamin D. A quick example. It gave homeless people massive, massive doses of the stuff cbc.ca/news2/interact…
The final owner of the Flames is Jeffrey McCaig. He is a trucking magnate and the owner of Trimac Transportation. They’re all billionaire scum who are refusing to take care of the workers who make their business go during this extraordinary health emergency.
And let’s not forget theae billionaire scum sucked $290 million out of the people of Calgary to build their new arena. This was a deal pushed through by conservative city councillors before the first brutal austerity budget from the UCP came out. google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.…
In short, the Calgary Flames owners are capitalist scum who can afford to pay their workers put out by the coronavirus but are choosing not to.
We need to put pressure on politicians to institute paid sick leave now seeing as how business owners like the Flames are going to leave their workers out in the cold. Send your MLA an email today #ableg progressalberta.ca/paid_sick_leav…
