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Morning Brew: January 9, 2009
Photo: "Blue Screen, Orange Shark, Black Ball" by tonalmotion, member of the blogTO Flickr pool.
What's happening in the GTA (and sometimes beyond):
Does Peel have a doda problem? No, not that Doda. This one's straight from Afghanistan and is created by grinding dried poppy husks into a fine powder. Apparently, Brampton city councillor Vicky Dhillon said he first noticed the problem when he spotted people lined up outside of neighbourhood meat shops.
Meanwhile, a Newmarket man was busted for importing 37 kilograms of raw opium in cans of expired tomato paste.
Speaking of Brampton, Post gossip columnist Shinan Govani says former 905er Michael Cera is at the top of the list to star as Gilligan in a big-screen revival of Gilligan's Island.
What was that about lost at sea? Oh, yeah, that would be the ongoing strike at York University, now looking as bleak as ever and threatening to derail the entire academic year. Some are now calling for the government or a binding arbitrator to intervene.
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Anyone else notice the high salaries earned by former fundraisers at the Hospital for Sick Children? The Star found that administration expenses at SickKids soared to $6 million annually, three times what they were five years ago; and that some of the paid fundraising initiatives (like those people on the streets constantly hitting us up for money) deliver less than 50 cents on the dollar.
Jane Finch is now called University Heights. But the signs erected in October are being called an insulting exercise in revisionist history. In the quote of the day, Paul Nguyen of jane-finch.com says "Air Canada used to call it coach, now they call it Tango. They're just giving it a fancy name. It doesn't change the fact you're still in the back eating peanuts."
More rallies were held in Toronto on Thursday night, by both Palestinian and Israeli supporters in the ongoing conflict in Gaza. CityNews has video from both sides of the conflict. The Sun also has coverage.
And finally, Leafs lose!
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York U is in a bad way for 3 reasons:
a) More than 50% of teaching there is done by that crew of brain-dead idiots
b) The student union leader, who they are also forced to pay money to as part of tuition fees SUPPORTS CUPE
c) For the most part, students don't seem to care all that much. Some students actually support CUPE!
http://community.livejournal.com/our_truth_il/2827.html
And how is telling people, based on their background that they MUST agree with you otherwise they should be banned from pursuing their profession is the pinnacle of bigotry.
Besides, why haven't they boycotted educators of other backgrounds who's home countries have caused problems. Have americans been told to disavow the Iraq War before they can work in Canada? Etc., etc., etc.
And for the record I do NOT support what Israel is doing nor am I Jewish.
http://media.hamiltonspectator.com/acrobat/4a/d0/3da66fd948bc897d19ff70734c19.pdf
I know the president of a university has a lot of responsibility, and of course, it must be a tough job, but a salary starting at $325,000 with benefits like a car and personal driver? This comes close to the salary for the president of the US.
Um, I guess we know where that tuition money goes.
Good luck finding someone to run a university for ~100K - quite a few professors make that. ANd the president of the US has NEVER been a benchmark for any salary as it is not a job that you take for the pay. 325K for a salary pails in comparison to the ~9.9 Million extra that CUPE wants on top of York's last deal.
Speaking of tuition: I don't go to York, so I don't know how much YFS charges, but if its like my school, its at least $100/year. 100 * 50,000 = $5,000,000 in tuition money paid to the traitorous YFS who support the strike.
The person who is York U's president has made a large amount for a long time, before many of the geniuses on strike even came to the school. If they didn't like it, no one forced them to come to the school.
I don't understand (well I do understand, its greed) how the union members feel the conditions were good enough to work there, but now that they can strike, its to the point that they must have York bend over to accommodate their demands.
Its a shame we'll probably never be free of power hungry unions, whether its CUPE, the ATU, OPSEU, etc.