Wandering up and down the four or five aisles of the Northern grocery store in Arviat, my husband and I check prices and expiry dates on everything. Skim milk is about $5.00 for 2 L, a bit high, but the scrawny, whole chicken is over $20.00, almost 50% pricier than at my grocery store at home in Ontario.
I pick up a head of lettuce. It’s is $6.99.
“Doesn’t the Co-op have it on sale this week for $3.99?” My husband puts the lettuce back into the bin.
“Let’s go there when we’re done here.” On the next aisle we see a loaf of garlic bread for $7.00. We return it to the shelf. Olive oil? Out of the question. It is cheaper to buy the bottled Caesar dressing with its long list of unhealthy ingredients at just over $4.00 even if its expiry date has passed. Carrots and apples seem to be the only reasonable fresh produce if we compare their pricesto those at premium grocery stores at home, not the prices at discount variety stores like Food Basics.
As we walked back to our daughter’s house, we carried basic ingredients for the evening’s dinner. A $100-dollar bag to feed four people for one meal.
PEI Green MLAs Hannah Bell and Peter Bevan Baker at the 2018 GPO Convention
Although I’m in Ontario, I have been trying to keep up with the PEI Greens since their electoral reform referendum– the one in which PEI voted to adopt MMP. The ruling Liberals decided not to implement the result, promising only to have a second referendum combined with the next election. This seems to have annoyed Prince Edward Islanders so much they’ve started electing Greens.
Would you look at that… now, I’m not much for believing in Opinion Polls, but nonetheless it certainly looks as if the citizens of PEI are taking note of the fact that their PEI Greens are actually doing politics differently than the same old parties. If this trend continues who knows, the PEI Greens may well be the next Official Opposition, or perhaps even be the first Canadian Green Party to form government.
PEI Green MLAs Hannah Bell and Peter Bevan Baker at the 2018 GPO Convention
Although I’m in Ontario, I have been trying to keep up with the PEI Greens since their electoral reform referendum– the one in which PEI voted to adopt MMP. The ruling Liberals decided not to implement the result, promising only to have a second referendum combined with the next election. This seems to have annoyed Prince Edward Islanders so much they’ve started electing Greens.
Would you look at that… now, I’m not much for believing in Opinion Polls, but nonetheless it certainly looks as if the citizens of PEI are taking note of the fact that their PEI Greens are actually doing politics differently than the same old parties. If this trend continues who knows, the PEI Greens may well be the next Official Opposition, or perhaps even be the first Canadian Green Party to form government.
Wow! Beginning a comment with an Ad Hominem! What an excellent way to establish you don’t have an argument.
I first learned about Islam (and its relationship to Christianity and Judaism) decades ago in a high school World Religions class. Here’s Wikipedia to explain it for you (with footnotes so you can go examine sources if you want to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam
Finally, you’ve characterized M 103 as being “Shariah-friendly” without any foundation at all.
You can believe anything you want to believe, but the fact that you believe it does not make it a fact. Your opinion is your opinion.
“Because I said so” is no more a valid argument than name calling. Should you choose to make a rebuttal, and manage to avoid any more logical fallacies or unfounded mischaracterizations, I would publish it, but I will not publish another comment as devoid of substance as this.
As erudite as you consider yourself, Islam is not built on Christianity at all. I cannot conceive of a more facile comparison. M103 expresses the sentiments of anti-blasphemy laws found in 57 Islamic countries. This motion is Shariah-friendly and has no place in Canadian civics.
New DropSalesforce.com campaign targets company with crowdfunded bus ads near its headquarters in San Francisco, calls on speakers and vendors to pull out of flagship Dreamforce conference
Today, Fight for the Future launched a website that targets Salesforce and the tech company’s contract with Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The digital rights group is crowdfundingto run prominent advertisements on commuter buses in San Francisco in the immediate vicinity of Salesforce Headquarters ahead of its flagship yearly conference, Dreamforce.
DropSalesforce.comalso features: an open letter signed by dozens of organizations, many of whom are threatening to join a boycott if the company does not cancel the contract, as well as a tool that allows human rights supporters to tweet at speakers who are scheduled to appear at Dreamforce, calling on them to pull out of the conference if Salesforce does not do the right thing.
“Salesforce is helping Border Patrol violate human rights,” read the bus ads that will frequent downtown San Francisco, “Don’t work for them. Don’t use their products. Don’t go to their conference.”
“Salesforce prides itself on being a socially aware and responsible company, but they are showing otherwise by refusing to drop their contract with a government agency that has and is clearly violating human rights” said Jelani Drew, campaigner for Fight for the Future, “In history, tech has been used to drive the human suffering, oppression, and tragedy. It’s time for Salesforce executives to pick which side of history to be on and what they want their legacy to be.”
Since the news broke of Salesforce’s multimillion dollar Border Patrol contract, activists across the country have protested, employees have organized, and a steadily growing coalitionof organizations that are Salesforce customers have called on the company to cut ties with CBP. Salesforce has refused, made excuses, and attempted to sweep the issue under the rug.
In response, RAICES, one of the nation’s leading immigrants rights groups, recently refused a $250,000 donation from Salesforce, and Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters pulled outof catering their conference. The pressure will only continue to increase in the coming weeks.
