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Month: April 2010

Raise a glass today in honour of the hard-working souls who flip burgers, serve double-doubles and clean hotel rooms. In Ontario, they just got a decent raise: the minimum wage goes up 75 cents, to $10.25 an hour. That makes Ontario’s minimum the highest in Canada – and today marks the first time the bottom rung of our labour market passes that $10 threshold.

Raise a glass today in honour of the hard-working souls who flip burgers, serve double-doubles and clean hotel rooms. In Ontario, they just got a decent raise: the minimum wage goes up 75 cents, to $10.25 an hour. That makes Ontario’s minimum the highest in Canada – and today marks the first time the bottom rung of our labour market passes that $10 threshold.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/a-reason-to-celebrate-the-lowest-paid-in-ontario-just-got-a-raise/article1517697/

Wikileaks posts a classified US military video (17:47) to YouTube. It depicts “the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad – including two Reuters news staff.” Supporting documents from military whistleblowers appear at the site they set up, Collateral Murder.

Wikileaks posts a classified US military video (17:47) to YouTube. It depicts “the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad – including two Reuters news staff.” Supporting documents from military whistleblowers appear at the site they set up, Collateral Murder.

http://www.metafilter.com/90734/Collateral-Murder

What the heck is going on there, 1 degree of difference. I suspect we will see a radical alteration of this forecast before the day is out!

What the heck is going on there, 1 degree of difference. I suspect we will see a radical alteration of this forecast before the day is out!

Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was dressed in purple and felt, and was glittering with gold, semi-precious beads, and gem-colored rhinestones. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with pipe cleaners and white glue. This title was written on her forehead:
MICHAEL’S ARTS & CRAFTS
30% OFF ALL SCRAPBOOKING SUPPLIES
1070 HILLTOP DRIVE
REDDING, CA 96003-3810

Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was dressed in purple and felt, and was glittering with gold, semi-precious beads, and gem-colored rhinestones. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with pipe cleaners and white glue. This title was written on her forehead:
MICHAEL’S ARTS & CRAFTS
30% OFF ALL SCRAPBOOKING SUPPLIES
1070 HILLTOP DRIVE
REDDING, CA 96003-3810

http://www.metafilter.com/90724/Theres-Gold-In-Them-Thar-Hairs#3025932