Canadian Advantage

‘Entitlement’ my ass, I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!! Just because they borrowed the money, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout !! Government  benefits, aka free healthcare, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, 20 weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days, now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my retirement, an ‘entitlement’ !!!!!!.....scroll down................

What the HELL's wrong with us???

WAKE UP CANADA !!!!

Someone please tell me what the HELL's wrong with all the people that run this country!!!!!!

We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,???????????

In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti , Chile , and Turkey . And now Khanistan , Pakistan ......home of bin Laden.  Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!

Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries!

They call Social Security and Healthcare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when it’s time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the government borrow from it in the first place?

We have hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans.

CANADA: a country where we have homeless without shelter,  children going to bed hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds, and mentally ill without treatment -etc, etc.

YET..................... They have a 'Benefit'  for the people of Haiti ships and planes lining up with food, water, tents, clothes, bedding, doctors, and medical supplies.

Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries.

Sad isn't it?

99% of people won't have the guts to forward this. I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did.

Some thing to think about

Passenger Trains

Prairie rails book tells historical story

Thursday, 12 July 2012 19:01 Stacey Lee

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For those who hold Prairie heritage dear, and those concerned about its loss, "Rails Across the Prairies," which chronicles the Canadian Pacific Railways influence on western Canadian communities, might be a good read.
More than 160 pages tell the tale of the CPR's arrival on the prairies, the towns that sprung up shortly afterward, the stations and hotels that serviced them, the fall of grain elevators, railway roundhouses, prairie water towers, essential bridge construction, and short lines. Author Ron Brown says while he did do some of his research online he did make a trek west from Toronto to visit the majority of the structures and towns he describes in the book.
"I spoke with many of the people whom I could locate, because when you go to a ghost town there aren't a lot of people around," says Brown. "I was down in Manyberries and had a nice chat with the lady who owns the inn there. . . she explained a few things to me. Don McGuire in Wainwright operates the railway park and he gave me a really nice tour . . . many, many people were very forthcoming."
Some of the information Brown found online was archival in nature, but helped him paint a bigger picture of western Canada's railway network.
"There is an incredible number of websites that contain two or three pages of information on the Books Aqueduct, for example, and are sometimes more extensive than that. With the Internet you can type in anything you want and you'll get a half dozen websites on (the topic). . . good detailed information."
Brown says he penned the book in an effort to bring attention to the historical significance of the railroad, locomotives, and structures that helped make the west prosperous.
"There have been people who have focused on the grain elevators, or the stations. . . there are individual historical societies dedicated to the preservation of these things and so on, but nobody has ever assembled the big picture. I even spoke a bit about the steamship lines."
With old wooden grain elevators disappearing from the prairie landscape, and many unpreserved rail stations beginning to sag, Brown says retelling the story of the railroad has become essential to future generations who won't remember them.
"Take Biggar as an example. That station was designated a historical site in the mid '90s by the federal government but nobody ever took over the management and preservation of the station building. Now there are trees growing through it."
Brown spent some time in Medicine Hat and says he was impressed with the city's rail station on North Railway Street S.E.
"The yards are still tremendously busy, and they've even preserved a couple of the steam locomotives down by the river. Lethbridge has maintained its station as well. The old station there is now a health centre, but their great claim to fame is the High Level Bridge."
"Rails Across the Prairies" is available online at http://www.Amazon.com and directly from Dundurn Publishing of Ontario.
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Find Brown's various other history based publications at:
http://www.ronbrown.ca/books.html

Governance

Politicians have turned over governance of our country, province to the bureaucrats

Friday, 06 July 2012 19:01 Letter to the Editor

It has come to my attention that this great country and province of ours is being bureaucracy, not our elected politicia run by an anonymous ns. Now "we" being us and our elected so called "representatives" are to blame for allowing this subversion to happen.
Vic Toews had to table extra legislation to stop provincial firearms officers from keeping their own statist gun registry after he had already passed a law telling them to stop. Did anyone catch the RCMP commissioner whining that all he can do to remove Mountie bad apples is to ask them nicely to leave? Then along comes good ol' Toews with high hopes and more legislation.
Have you noticed that all the legislation that is being passed these days is called 'enabling legislation'? In other words the politicians turn the description and regulation wording over to the bureaucracy that then enforces their interpretation Ñ not what the politicians wanted to happen. The politicos then show up on TV, shrug their shoulders, smile and wander off.ÊDoes anyone really believe Jim Flaherty wrote the last budget by himself, or that Doug Griffiths was given a magic pill and overnight knows all the municipal issues facing each city council in Alberta?Ê
Health Minister Fred Horne talking on the radio kept referring to Alberta Health Services as if it were a private contractor and not a body that reports directly to him. More than 200 AHC care executives make more than $150,000 per year, yet seniors have to pay for physiotherapy. The driver for AHS CEO has his own secretary, yet handicapped patients have to pay for parking.
AHS has its own private army of security guards known as protective services. These stalwart employees make sure the handicapped pay for parking while a contractor ensures the well being/security of patients and staff. Between visitors and hospital staff, AHS takes in close to $250,000 a year in parking fees in Medicine Hat alone, yet the only improvement has been to parking fee machines that freeze and break during anything colder than minus 15.

Ian Parkinson
Medicine Hat