Even More News Articles

Lots and lots of news stories on which I can comment.  I will only do a few of them today because I do not want to give you too much to read in these articles of mine. 

It is interesting reading many of them and then reporting on them by setting out one's position on them to the many people who come to my website. Not everyone who reads my comments agrees 100% with what I say. Of course that is disappointing but hardly unexpected since everyone has their own position on what is happening. 

Of course, when I write on here, it is meant to set out what my position on the specific matter is. I hardly expect everyone to accept what I say. All that I really hope for is people reading my articles and from them understanding why I take the position that I do. Naturally, I always hope that everyone agrees with me but my reality is that not everyone does so. Accordingly, all I want from every person who comes online to this Website is to understand from my article what my position is and why and how I reached it.

Now when you read my articles below, you'll understand perfectly why I do what I do. 

EDGAR FRANCIS' NEW JOB 

I do have to admit that I have little knowledge about what Edgar's new job at the Credit Union where he now works includes. 

Accordingly, I have been able to pick up some of his duties by reading a couple of articles in the news media. I'm not sure if these tasks that he is undertaking will help make him the Head of the Credit Union one day but then again, what do I know. 

Here is the first news story which gave me some information about what he does at the Credit Union:
 

"For the first time in its 75-year history, Windsor Family Credit Union is offering banking services beyond Essex County by launching an online branch in London. 

“Research shows with demographic changes, most people first prefer to deal with online banking," Eddie Francis, executive vice-president, operations and member experience at WFCU Credit Union,  said Monday. “We’re able to reach more people through digital banking than if we were to open up bricks and mortar branches.” (Grace Macaluso, Windsor Star, February 8, 2016)

So, the Credit Union's business is expanding finally. I did see in that story that the Credit Union was going to do this fairly soon thereafter: 

"WFCU also plans over the next few weeks to open digital branches throughout Lambton, Kent and Middlesex counties, including Chatham and Sarnia, he said." 

I must admit I haven't seen any announcements about those new digital branches. Have you, dear reader? 

Then there was the recent Mayor Dilkens photo of him in Toronto at that hockey event for a possible new event there that was published in a Windsor Star story without his name being mentioned at all. That surprised me quite a bit. If he is involved, presumably for the advantage of the Credit Union, I would have thought that he would want to have as much publicity presence as possible for his employer. 

Now there is this that goes very far. At least it mentions his new position: 

"Former Windsor mayor urges Amherstburg to think big, plan for future

February 23rd, 2016 By Ron Giofu  

The Amherstburg Chamber of Commerce’s Business Excellence Awards included a visit from a former Windsor mayor who urged local people to think big and plan for the future. 

Eddie Francis, now the executive vice president of operations and member experience with Windsor Family Credit Union (WFCU), was the guest speaker at Saturday night’s event held at Pointe West Golf Club and while he didn’t urge Amherstburg to lose its identity, Francis wanted residents and town officials alike to look at the bigger picture. 

“Look at where you are at today and where do you want to go,” Francis told the crowd. 

Francis questioned residents to whether they see Amherstburg as a town of 21,000 people, or as part of a bigger area within the county and the region. He noted there are 5.7 million people in the “metro” area, which includes Windsor-Essex County and southeastern Michigan. 

“Can we view ourselves as a place within a larger context?” he asked, adding the Canada-U.S. Border is “just a geographical boundary.” 

Opportunities are opening up for Amherstburg, Essex County and the area, Francis believed, stating the area is “strategically located” along the “NAFTA backbone. 

“We’re part of a supply chain that feeds that,” said Francis. “We’re part of a production line.”  (Ron Giofu, rivertown, February 23rd, 2016)

So I see him setting up a new business in London, Ontario for his new employer who is headquartered in Windsor. Then he is involved in trying to get that hockey tournament for our area, although unnamed in the Mayor's photograph. Finally, I saw that story about him trying to generate business in Amherstburg with contacts there. 

Oh well, I presume that's the kind of work he is supposed to do working at his office given it to him by his new Credit Union employer. 

PERCY WANTS TO KEEP HIS JOB and perhaps get a better one

It appears that one of the NDP members for this area is a bit concerned about Windsor Star stories that may result in more Liberals being voted for office provincially in Ontario in the future rather than being replaced by NDP members. Here's what he wrote in a Letter to the Editor in the Windsor Star on April 21, 2016 about funding by Liberal MPPs of roads where there is no money being given here for our roads at this time: 

"I can assure you the three New Democrats representing Windsor and Essex County are three of the hardest working members at Queen’s Park and we remind the government every day of the need to keep our region at the top of their agenda. 

I can understand the frustration our municipal staff and representatives have when were miss out on project funding that we know we more than qualified for, but to suggest it’s because we are not represented by Liberals is just plain wrong. 

Believe me, governments come and go, and we won’t have a Liberal government in Ontario for much longer. 

PERCY HATFIELD, MPP, Windsor-Tecumseh" 

In other words, NDP are to be elected in the next provincial election! 

WHAT WILL SENATOR DUFFY DO NOW 

Obviously, he is pretty happy now: 

"Judge dismisses all charges against Mike Duffy

Stephanie Levitz, Canadian Press,  April 21, 2016

OTTAWA - The once-towering case against Sen. Mike Duffy collapsed utterly Thursday as a judge cleared the man at the centre of the long-running Senate expense scandal — and delivered a scathing indictment of the "ruthless" tactics of the Prime Minister's Office under Stephen Harper. 

Duffy celebrated with hugs from friends and hearty handshakes with his lawyers after Ontario Court Justice Charles Vaillancourt spent the better part of the day burnishing the controversial senator's long-tarnished reputation." 

The Senator must be pretty happy now since he has been reinstated already as a member of the Senate with full salary. 

What happens now? Does Duffy do anything and if so, against whom? What would he do and ask for? 

There is no doubt in my mind that we will be seeing more stories throughout the media over the next little while and slams against the Conservative Party for what they did previously.  

You know that former PM Harper's name will be plastered throughout the media as well because of his role in all of this. Whether action will be taken against him and what it will be, who knows.  Stay tuned.