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[wackypacky]

Just a little info about the 10 million project on Portland where the dealerships use to be. A reliable source who is working on the demo says there will be a bank and a shoppers drug mart. Pretty exciting stuff.

[Keith P.]

Originally Posted by resetcbu1

just wondering if anyone else can't view the herald web page?

The Herald totally wrecked their website with the change a few weeks ago. No up to date content, nothing easy to find, terrible design and font choices, impossible to read. I imagine traffic must be way down. Apparently they had a big launch event where the top brass was touting it as the best thing since sliced bread. As usual, they were clueless about the reality of the thing. It really is a disaster.

[MonctonRad]

The mobile site for the IPad seems to be working.

[beyeas]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

The mobile site for the IPad seems to be working.

Yeah the ipad app works, but I also dislike how it is set up now. It is hard to easily sort of what is a new story versus an old one.

[kph06]

Originally Posted by Keith P.

The Herald totally wrecked their website with the change a few weeks ago. No up to date content, nothing easy to find, terrible design and font choices, impossible to read. I imagine traffic must be way down. Apparently they had a big launch event where the top brass was touting it as the best thing since sliced bread. As usual, they were clueless about the reality of the thing. It really is a disaster.

A friend of mine looked into it last week and said that they are about 50% down in traffic, one of the reasons is that you can't find them on Google, besides getting sent to a test page (here) that just says "howdy nurse". So anytime you want to look up a news article from Nova Scotia on Google News, the Herald articles won't show up, which is a huge blunder for a website that relies on hits to generate ad revenue.

[Empire]

Originally Posted by RyeJay

You saying something is a fact does not make it so. You are merely expressing your opinion.

What's not an opinion: higher education, in the demands of today's job market, is not optional. Either study, in order to compete with everyone else out there that has a degree, or be satisfied forever with a low-paying job. In Canada, you cannot independently live on a low-paying job. You used to.

While other countries invest in their labour force and fund their achievement of a higher education, Canada is expecting the highly educated but has no GI program in place for a college level education. We have socialism in our funding of junior high, yes (unlike much of the developing world), high school, yes (unlike most of the developing world), but college, no: unlike most of the industrialised world.

In Canada, either be rich enough to afford to over-priced, required schooling...or go in debt.

Canada is on parity with the USA in our manufacturing industry, our increased poverty, declining middle-class, low quality of public education, household debt, student debt, corporate welfare, corporate lobbying; we are less screwed, but still screwed nonetheless.

With the baby boomers retiring, I wonder if Canada's economy will be able to service the needed healthcare. Projections are that we will not.

You say the world markets need to be reformed? I say Canada needs to start with Canada.

RyeJay, I think what you are trying to say is outlined in the video below:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/OAOrT0OcHh0?version=3D3&rel=3D1&fs=3D1&showsea=

[Jonovision]

Public Information Meeting for the CD Plus redevelopment on Barrington Street is to take place November 22, 7-9pm in the old building itself. There is currently a sign in the window with some of the renderings as well.

[RyeJay]

Originally Posted by Empire

RyeJay, I think what you are trying to say is outlined in the video below:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/OAOrT0OcHh0?version=3D3&rel=3D1&fs=3D1&showsea=

This video is so warped, it's as though the 1% collectively authored it.
This comes from the perspective of someone moaning that he doesn't have enough money to make his private boat payments because the government taxes too much in order to pay for public services.

If you want to get into the issue of the Western World's non-empathy toward how people less fortunate have it: we should discuss the quality of life of the majority of people in undeveloped countries.

Here are a couple videos I'll throw out there, in response. My videos discuss the issues, unlike your video which attempts to misrepresent who the vast majority of the protestors are. The only sense of entitlement the protestors have is the belief that one has the right to paid employment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZgZeAOaq4U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAhHPIuTQ5k

[Keith P.]

Originally Posted by RyeJay

The only sense of entitlement the protestors have is the belief that one has the right to paid employment.

What? Nobody has the right to a job. This is not the old Soviet Union. You have to earn the ability to have someone want to buy your services. Judging from what I saw today up at Victoria Park, the usual Spriing Garden Road freakshow has just multiplied by a factor of about 10. Nobody is going to hire that bunch.

[resetcbu1]

90% of these idiots are unemployed by choice. There's help wanted signs all over this city. Heck, if some of them are qualified, I'll hire them. I need people... Ahh but they don't want jobs, they just want to bitch and do drugs... Hardly contributing members of society... If it was the ordinary average working person down there, I'd support there right...but it's not.

[RyeJay]

Originally Posted by Keith P.

What? Nobody has the right to a job. This is not the old Soviet Union. You have to earn the ability to have someone want to buy your services. Judging from what I saw today up at Victoria Park, the usual Spriing Garden Road freakshow has just multiplied by a factor of about 10. Nobody is going to hire that bunch.

I'm getting tired of you taking me out of context. I have in no way said I desire for us to suddenly become some sort of commi state and award everyone a job even if they haven't the skill to complish it. This protest isn't about hand-outs (which are apparently for bankers in the form of bail outs, high income earners in the form of tax credits, and large corporations in the form of subsidies), it is about paid employment.

Keith, I wish everyone was like you: debt-free, with a salary that isn't stagnant.

This protest is NOT anti-capitalistic. This protest is a demand for a smart balance of capitalism and socialism; it is a demand for our democracy to be clean from lobbying and corporate dollars.

And I do believe this is the first time in my life I am more proud of the Americans.

[resetcbu1]

Originally Posted by RyeJay

And I do believe this is the first time in my life I am more proud of the Americans.

Why?

[Empire]

Originally Posted by RyeJay

I'm getting tired of you taking me out of context. I have in no way said I desire for us to suddenly become some sort of commi state and award everyone a job even if they haven't the skill to complish it. This protest isn't about hand-outs (which are apparently for bankers in the form of bail outs, high income earners in the form of tax credits, and large corporations in the form of subsidies), it is about paid employment.
Keith, I wish everyone was like you: debt-free, with a salary that isn't stagnant.

This protest is NOT anti-capitalistic. This protest is a demand for a smart balance of capitalism and socialism; it is a demand for our democracy to be clean from lobbying and corporate dollars.

And I do believe this is the first time in my life I am more proud of the Americans.

What about the $5000.00 hand-out by the Canadian Federation of Labour to the group of wayward campers loosely called "Occupy NS". What was the money for and shouldn't it have been rejected as tainted corporate greed money? The only theme from this protest that is clear is to allow enough capitalism for corporations to make money and then implement enough socialism to give it to uninspired lazy protesters. Once corporations are driven into the ground because of high demands from labour unions an high taxes it is time for protesters to declare there aren't enough jobs because of greedy corporations.

[Antigonish]

Originally Posted by Empire

What about the $5000.00 hand-out by the Canadian Federation of Labour to the group of wayward campers loosely called "Occupy NS". What was the money for and shouldn't it have been rejected as tainted corporate greed money? The only theme from this protest that is clear is to allow enough capitalism for corporations to make money and then implement enough socialism to give it to uninspired lazy protesters. Once corporations are driven into the ground because of high demands from labour unions an high taxes it is time for protesters to declare there aren't enough jobs because of greedy corporations.

So I take it your completely satisfied with the way the financial system is working?

I don't understand the point your trying to make man. The system needs accountability and stability and thats the idea of the protests. These protesters are raising awareness, not asking for handouts!

[fenwick16]

I am shocked that the Canadian Federation of Labour would fund such a demonstration. It certainly seems like a conflict of interest to me.

[Empire]

Originally Posted by NISH89

So I take it your completely satisfied with the way the financial system is working?

I don't understand the point your trying to make man. The system needs accountability and stability and thats the idea of the protests. These protesters are raising awareness, not asking for handouts!

Why don't the protesters get jobs in the financial sector and change things from the inside instead of banging on a pie plate in 100mm of rain.

[Empire]

Originally Posted by fenwick16

I am shocked that the Canadian Federation of Labour would fund such a demonstration. It certainly seems like a conflict of interest to me.

I think they are trying to keep them away from province house...............

[Jstaleness]

Could the power be cut at Province House like it has been at Victoria Park? I doubt the protest would move to Province House as the Police would be there within minutes to clear it out.

[Keith P.]

Originally Posted by Empire

What about the $5000.00 hand-out by the Canadian Federation of Labour to the group of wayward campers loosely called "Occupy NS". What was the money for and shouldn't it have been rejected as tainted corporate greed money? The only theme from this protest that is clear is to allow enough capitalism for corporations to make money and then implement enough socialism to give it to uninspired lazy protesters. Once corporations are driven into the ground because of high demands from labour unions an high taxes it is time for protesters to declare there aren't enough jobs because of greedy corporations.

While we're talking about handouts, don't forget the free electricity that HRM foolishly provided them with during their time at Parade Square, and the $25,000 cleanup tab we taxpayers are now stuck with, according to the mouth of downtown, Sloane. She sounds like she has turned away from them, which is a telling sign if even she cannot support them any longer.

As for the labour unions secretly supporting this movement, it really is no surprise. Having long ago outlived their usefulness, they now have become a hotbed for left-wing extremists and are using their vast war chests, taken from the paychecks of their members, on useless activities like this. When one sees the likes of Kyle Buott involved, who was one of the Coalition Against Poverty bunch, it becomes clear that these misguided young people are really just being used as pawns by the far left to advance their own ridiculous view of the world.

[Keith P.]

Originally Posted by RyeJay

I'm getting tired of you taking me out of context.

I did not misquote you, I merely repeated what you wrote. How is that out of context?

This protest is NOT anti-capitalistic. This protest is a demand for a smart balance of capitalism and socialism; it is a demand for our democracy to be clean from lobbying and corporate dollars.

We had an election; socialism was largely kicked to the curb by the electorate. In 4 years there is another election where the left can try to make Canada a socialist state once again. Until then I suggest that the election results be respected.

I love the line "clean from lobbying and corporate dollars". It shows quite clearly the naivete involved here. Every time an elector calls their MP or MLA to complain about something the govt has or has not done, that is lobbying. Every time a union gives money to the NDP, that is corporate dollars. Unless we somehow go to a direct democracy system, which I will certainly not live long enough to ever see, thank god, you cannot get away from groups wanting to advance their interests to govt. Just like the Occupy bunch are trying to do.