In researching my book, I came across no evidence at all that CERB is causing a hiring crisis. I can't wait to read this and see what the CFIB says.
And the frame -- that EI "spoils" workers -- @RosaJSaba are you trying to be insulting to people who are desperate or did you just not think about this too much?
I will live tweet my reaction reading this garbage.
1. the whole article is based around the tweet of a random journalist who gave no citations, nothing to indicate she has anything more than rumours started by employers -- great start.
(Sorry I am also baking tea biscuits)
2. bwaahaaha Saba quotes the CFIB right off the smash. Can we *please* be less predictable?
3. wow, the CFIB is being fashioned as a pro-worker voice in this piece? And "a recent survey..." let me guess, was it one of the CFIB's weekly surveys that has driven small business coverage since March 2020? We don't know, at least yet in this piece...
4. Ahaha that's it. That's the story.
Here are things that if this were journalism, would have been mentioned --
1. That CRB pays people less than minimum wage and is not exactly a disincentive to make even a minimum wage job.
2. The CRB is basically expiring and will give people even less.
3. That we are still living in a pandemic and employers don't care about this and want people to jump back into their jobs, as if nothing in the past 16 months has changed
4. What are the wages that these anti-CERB voices paying their workers? Without this piece, we learn nothing useful about their approach to being bosses.
And
5. What about the CEWS, which unlike CERB is still handing tons of money over to the private sector ... and ..
which CFIB has advocated for and where no public announcements of widespread corruption have been made but we do know that CEWS is being given to Canada's wealthiest corporations and not a single CEWS-related tweet has triggered the Toronto Star to write about it....
Anyway I could go on but to only quote the CFIB as a source on CERB is total fucking propaganda. Great work.
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I'm going to do a live take two on how this article is propaganda now that I have a different paywall bypass and I can read the updated version. The version I read before was short and only referenced a random tweet and CFIB opinions.
And because it's live and I am extremely humble, if I am wrong, I will identify this throughout. Let's see...
1. Better start -- no reference to a tweet from a random journalist. But oop! Leading with the guy that owns Toronto's most boring chain of pubs the Firkin and who thinks -- wait for it! --- CRB is killing his employee base.
Of the 26,428 people who have died in Canada from COVID-19, I've linked 17,977 deaths to 1717 residential facilities -- no change in RF deaths since Friday (with most PHUs no longer reporting on weekends. But ... docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
I've now linked 185 deaths to workplace outbreaks (123 with healthcare teased out) -- with about 17 new deaths added to York Region. These had been reported previously, I've just been able to update my own list.
I can't say where these deaths happened, though.
York region lists deaths in a global total -- there's no workplace breakdown.
There are also 8 residents of York region who have died from COVID-19 workplace outbreaks but outside York, but I can't add them as I have no way to tell if they're already represented in other data.
Hi! You might see that there are hundreds of messages targeting me for making yet another completely reasonable point.
Don't worry about me! I'm really, really fine. I have visitors!!!! But ...
All this outrage over church burning makes me think of 3 things.
One: the church i grew up in was demolished. By the diocese. They wanted a shiny new church and despite the protests of many parishioners, our church was self-immolated.
I think of that because it's funny that destroying a church is "always bad" except when it isn't. And guess how much money the capital campaign raised for the new church that could have been paid out to victims of the church ...
Of the 26,214 peopel who have died in Canada from COVID-19, I've linked 17,745 deaths to 1715 residential facilities. That's one more death since last night.
In Southwestern Ontario there seems to be a crisis among homeless shelters of COVID spread -- Windsor, Waterloo, Owen Sound (yeah that is still south) and they're all being blamed on "itinerants" or a "homeless lifestyle" rather than on a system that inexplicably ...
is still not protecting individuals who rely on others to keep their living quarters safe. And what about targeted vaccination drives? How many 13 year olds in these cities are double vaxxed while people who are at the most risk of catching COVID are blamed for spreading it?
Every year, the names of the victims of the Holocaust are read. This important act of remembrance calls alive their memories. The names are read in public spaces around the world. Thread ...
My father-in-law lost most of his family. But they know -- they know the names and they know. And though not perfectly, Germany has tried to make amends. It isn't hidden. It's a crime to deny it.
And Canada?
Discoveries of children buried by the church, buried by the state are undocumented. They were loved and never forgotten by those who loved them, but there was no public record kept of these children.
We, Canada and Canadians have never even tried to account for this. Worse...