Here are some articles that
I found interesting that I now wish to let you know about.
CITY OF WINDSOR WANTS TO
OUTSOURCE JOBS
I don't get it. Why would
the City of Windsor want to do this considering what happened only a few months
ago. Are certain Senior Officers effectively telling people that they will be
ignored and have their decisions changed if they don't do what these Senior
people want:
"The original motion to
contract out caretaking services was defeated on November 16, 2015, after some
public and a lengthy debate.
The City of Windsor is once
again considering outsourcing its caretaking work.
A report prepared by
administration suggests the city could save more than an estimated $900,000
annually by outsourcing the work at several facilities. It will be presented at
council Monday night." (CBC News March 4, 2016)
CUPE stated the following
which makes good sense to me:
"The original motion to
contract out caretaking services was defeated on November 16, 2015, after some
public and a lengthy debate.
After more than two tense
hours of presentations and debate, the motion was defeated
6-5.
"We live in a democracy.
Council spoke and voted to invest in public services by keeping the caretaking
services in-house," Rob Kolody, president of CUPE Local 82, said in the same
release. "One cannot just revisit an already defeated motion within weeks and
repackage it and reintroduce it to council within months of a defeated decision
so it can be approved. This is not how democracy works."
ANOTHER MESSY TOLL-FREE
PHONE NUMBER
My wife was doing some work
when she received a toll-free phone number phone call. As seems to be quite
common with these numbers, it rings but when answered there is no response. She
may say "hello" several times so that the caller can hear her and respond but
quite often there seems to be no one on the other side and the call just ends
all of a sudden on its own.
When my wife searched the
"888" number to see who the caller was, there was no one who was connected with
the phone number. It is not the first time that this happened to her and it gets
rather annoying to be disturbed this way.
In any event, she decided
to try and track down the phone number and used the site "Caller Complaint" to
do so. Using their section "Fight Back
Against Annoying Telemarketers!" unfortunately did not help out. As you can see,
there was no connection to any company so she could know who contacted
her.
Here is their section
dealing with this Company. (We deleted the actual phone number) They know
nothing about it or its phone number:
A NEW OUTER SPACE
DISCOVERY
It is truly remarkable.
Many of the stories that the media reports with respect to matters coming from
outer space are so awe-inspiring. Take a look at this one:
"Astronomers just saw
farther back in time than they ever have before
To look through the lens of
a telescope is to peer back in time.
The light we view through
it has spent hundreds, millions, even billions of years crossing the vastness of
space to reach us, carrying with it images of things that happened long
ago.
On Thursday, astronomers at the Hubble Space Telescope
announced that they’d seen back farther than they ever have before, to a galaxy
13.4 billion light years away in a time when the universe was just past its
infancy."
Apparently, it is quite a
significant site to examine:
"Since the light from
GN-z11 has traveled 13.4 billion years to reach us, that means it’s been
traveling for 13.4 billion years, so its source must be 13.4 billion years
old."
It appears as if it is one
of the first galaxies ever to be discovered so far away
WHY IS WINDSOR NOT
INCLUDED
I must admit that I do not
understand why the Province did not include Windsor as part of its new plan. In
my opinion, I think it is probably because they think that all we know about is
the automobile industry and nothing else so why bother with
us:
"The provincial government
has designed a region focused on research and development that stretches from
London and Waterloo through Toronto to Ottawa, according to the 2016 budget
released Thursday afternoon.
The Innovation
SuperCorridor is touted as “Canada’s most innovative region, with dense pockets
of startups, research institutions and world-class talent...”
“I was disappointed that
Windsor wasn’t included in that consortium because I believe we have a lot to
offer,” said Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens. “In this city we have a huge
manufacturing cluster that already exists. It’s been our bread and butter in
this community and we’ve got a world-class university right here.” (Carolyn Thompson, Windsor Star February 26, 2016)
It seems that no one
outside of this City understands that we are very progressive in this area. I
wonder what this Mayor is doing to change that and to make outsiders aware of
how advanced this Area is:
"Matt Marchand, president
and CEO of the Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce, said Windsor does
have a strong tech sector and many successful entrepreneurs.
“If the message about our
great entrepreneurs and tech sector hasn’t reached the ears of Queen’s Park,
certainly it’s our responsibility to make sure that happens and it happens in a
very aggressive and meaningful way, sooner rather than later,”
I saw this interesting
story which is just another example of how the rest of the Province ignores
us:
"young people are being
told, “if you can’t find a job, create one,” said Arthur Barbut, the
Accelerator’s managing director. “That’s where the next big push in jobs is
going to come front,” he said, adding his organization has shared that
pro-entrepreneurial message with thousands of local high schoolers." (Doug Schmidt, Windsor Star March 2, 2016)
It is a nice suggestion to
have but we also see in the article how we are ignored. What is anybody here
going to do to change this:
"The city and the province
“absolutely” need to increase support for Windsor’s Accelerator at 720 Ouellette
Ave., said Natyshak. Given the types of innovative companies and organizations
already active locally, he said it was “a big mistake” for the Liberal
government not to include Windsor in its budget announcement last week of an
Innovation SuperCorridor whose southern terminus is London.
“Hearing your (city’s) name
in the provincial budget means a lot,” said Natyshak. By not mentioning Windsor,
he added, “you’re sending a signal … that this is an area that doesn’t deserve a
lot of attention.”
Places like the Accelerator
and the jobs they create, he said, help the host city with greater economic
diversity and make local economies more resilient.
“It’s a missed opportunity
to not see the potential that’s there in Windsor and Essex,” said
Natyshak."
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