First things first. I haven't had time to tell you-all about Fort Erie Council. Bottomline, I want to thank them right now. Every last one of them. More later because the entire issue and Fort Erie's response deserve a full report.
MESSAGE TO MISSISSAUGA COUNCIL
Congrats to Councillor Saito for calling on the Province to remove municipal wiggle room that's currently embedded and festering in existing provincial legislation --and by doing so, helping to ensure that Ontario citizens get a "level playing field". KUDOS.
MISSISSAUGAWATCH calls on The Province for a "level playing field" too. YO! Province! We need a "level playing field" and it can't come too soon!
Here's the Pat Saito video clip. I'll challenge those at Big Yellow to watch and (especially) connect the 80-kabillion dots and bread-trail crumbs..
Video: MISSISSAUGA "INFINITE WISDOM"
(Click here to go directly to YouTube or Google Video)
And how can Ontario citizens get "a level playing field"???? Which brings us to...
GOOD NEWS FROM THE GOOD GUYS
Just got this in from "Anonymous" as a "Comment" and decided that considering I devoted a Blog to "ONTARIO OMBUDSMAN'S STAFF VOTE TO STRIKE" it's in the interest of fairness that I also post this latest contribution from "Anonymous" as a Blog entry.
From: Anonymous
"All is well, that end's well! (Nice salary increases indeed!)
http://www.ombudsman.on.ca/smuploads/Ratification%20release.pdf
OR
Ombudsman and union reach agreement
TORONTO (February 20, 2008) – Unionized employees of the Ontario Ombudsman have ratified a new collective agreement, in effect until March 31, 2011. Some 60 employees are members of the Canadian Office and Professional Employees union Local 343, which ratified the contract yesterday in a majority vote after being without a contract since March 31, 2007.
The new agreement includes an immediate pay raise of 3.5% retroactive to April 1, 2007, another 3.5% effective April 1, 2008, plus 3.5% in each of the next two years. It also enhances health and drug benefits.
Effective immediately, the Ombudsman staff work week will increase from 35 hours to 36.25 hours, the same as the Ontario Public Service standard. The agreement also phases out five days off that were previously given in lieu of overtime, replacing them with overtime compensation at time-and-a-half for extra hours worked, to be given in cash and/or time by mutual consent.
'Our investigators, intake officers, administrative and other staff work hard to help the people of Ontario,' said Ombudsman André Marin. 'I’m pleased to have an agreement that ensures they are fairly and properly recognized for that work.'
The Ombudsman is an Officer of the Legislature, independent of the provincial government and political parties. His Office investigates public complaints about provincial government services, ministries, agencies, boards and commissions. Staff handle more than 20,000 individual complaints per year and have conducted numerous large-scale systemic investigations that have sparked reforms ranging from improved screening of newborn babies to an overhaul of the provincial lottery system.
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Aussi disponible en français
For more information, see www.ombudsman.on.ca or contact:
Linda Williamson
Communications and Media Relations Manager
Ombudsman Ontario
416-586-3426
lwilliamson@ombudsman.on.ca"
Signed,
The (QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES?) Mississauga Muse
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"We must employ every possible tactic to dissuade those who try to silence us with fear" ---The Mississauga News Editorial (2007-03-24)
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Comments (12)
Level playing field in Ontario?
Hmm
Read the "Designation" (or not)
on "UP YOURS DALTON!"
from South Glengarry.
Actually on their letterhead.
I was impressed.
The request for a designation is now back in the paws of the Ontario Liberal Gov`t.
http://jmac53.bravejournal.com/entry/26504
You may notice that I don`t have much respect anymore for politicians.
There are a few...
I won`t mention their names.
They know who they are.
Posted by Mac`s Gang | February 22, 2008 4:34 PM
Posted on February 22, 2008 16:34
Here`s how we level the playing field in Ontario in regards to Bill 132 (known as the "Unicorn" Ban)
IT`S TIME TO STOP THE PUPPY KILLERS IN THEIR TRACKS!
I have been advised by a Law Firm to do the following
(Everyone else was also advised to do this.)
Send a request for a designation on your dog (along with pictures) to the following people.
1) Your Mayor
[ALL CONTACT INFO PROVIDED BY The Mississauga Muse and appears in bold]
FOR MISSISSAUGA (hah hah, good luck, dudes!):
Her Worship Mayor Hazel McCallion
Office of the Mayor
City of Mississauga
300 City Centre Drive
Mississauga, Ontario L5B 3C1
EMAIL:
mayor@mississauga.ca
2) Premier McGuinty -to both his Queens Park office and his constituency office.
snailmail:
Dalton McGuinty
Main Legislative Building, Room 281,
Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M7A 1A1
416-325-1941
Fax: 416- 325-3745
Constituency Office
1795 Kilborn Ave.
Ottawa, ON, K1H 6N1
613-736-9573
Fax: 613-736-7374
ONLINE:
at McGuinty's website:
https://www.premier.gov.on.ca/feedback/feedback.asp
McGuinty's constiutency office:
dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
3) Attorney General Chris Bentley`s offices.
snailmail:
Ministry of the Attorney General
McMurtry-Scott Building
720 Bay Street, 11th Floor
Toronto, ON
M5G 2K1
ONLINE FORM:
http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/feedback.asp
Constituency Office:
Unit 8 - 11 Base Line Rd East
London ON N6C 5Z8
EMAIL:
cbentley.mpp@liberal.ola.org
Send everything registered and request a signature confirming receipt at the other end.
EVERY DOG OWNER IN ONTARIO MUST DO THIS!
http://jmac53.bravejournal.com/entry/26504
Posted by Mac`s Gang | February 29, 2008 1:42 PM
Posted on February 29, 2008 13:42
MUNCHIE HAS BEEN EUTHANIZED BY THE LIBERAL BASTARDS AT QUEENS PARK!!
http://jmac53.bravejournal.com/entry/27018
(I know you will have to edit this comment but there is NO other word for them)
[From: The Mississauga Muse: I have no problem with the word "BASTARDS", Mac's Gang. I used the word "Bastard" the other day how I (and someone who's a native of Malton) feel the City of Mississauga treats Malton, like a bastard son.
However, your use of the word and mine have very different meanings. But that's what happens when you try and describe politicians.
A normal person's definition of the word "appropriate" is wildly different from Mississauga's.
A normal person's definition of the word "investigation" is wildly different from Mississauga's.
A normal person's definition of the word "diversity" is wildly different from Mississauga's.
A normal person's definition of the word "caring community" is wildly different from Mississauga's.
It's not "appropriate" to blame Queen's Park, Mac's Gang. Research here shows the degree to which Queen's Park has been shaped to dance to the Municipalities' Tune.
Believe it.
Posted by Mac`s Gang | February 29, 2008 1:50 PM
Posted on February 29, 2008 13:50
Do you get it yet Mayor Hazel!!!!!
This isn`t about one damn dog called Rambo in Mississauga!
Canadian Citizens are being persecuted and prosecuted!!
I have a news flash for you and other Mayors in this province...we`re entitled to the same rights as you presently enjoy, regardless of the shape of our dog`s head!
Stand up to these DIMWITTED Fiberal politicians now!!!
And Carolyn,
Don`t you DARE tell me to "LIGHTEN UP"!!!!!
Re my last post...I do know how to spell liberal.I think I spelled it with a double "L"
Yes I`m damn angry!!!
Wake up Ontario!
Jamie MacDonald
Williamstown
Ontario
Posted by Mac`s Gang | February 29, 2008 2:29 PM
Posted on February 29, 2008 14:29
Mac`s Gang, you wrote:
Mac's Gang, few people "get it" like McCallion does. That woman GETS IT.
You wrote:
Mac's Gang, you're writing to a person whose city hasn't cared enough to even have a legitimate publics complaints process in place. Not just for their Parks and Wreck but also for their security guards.
"rights"? Come on, Mac's Gang. You should see what personal information Mississauga keeps on its private citizens (especially those who are politically active).
If you've been even remotely into a run-in with your local government, you better drop down a Freedom of Information and request what personal information they've recorded about you.
Your BUTT might fall off at the revelation.
Mac's Gang, you wrote:
Ontario won't wake up unless there's a direct ding on their pocket books. Your pooches don't count.
Neither do human beings.
Not in Ontario.
Here's why. IF human beings mattered, Ontario wouldn't be "DEADLAST" in Accountability.
DEADfrikkin'LAST.
And that's more "efficient" to have governments with no Accountability mechanisms in place.
I know. My parents brought me from one such government when I was four years old.
YOU DON'T MATTER, MAC'S GANG. YOU JUST DON'T MATTER.
Posted by The Mississauga Muse | February 29, 2008 3:48 PM
Posted on February 29, 2008 15:48
Thank you for adding the contact info.
I am slightly calmer but not much.
Let me stress that this request for designation must come from every owner of every dog in this province.
If you know a Senior that has a dog, please offer to help them with this, if they need your help.
We`re not talking about those imaginary "special" dogs, we`re talking about ALL dogs in Ontario.
Muse I had another more apt descriptive term for the Ontario Fibs but I knew that wouldn`t get published.
Admittedly my term is not the best choice but....you know how it goes.
I wonder why Wayne gets edited so much.
He must be posting what I`m thinking.
Posted by Mac`s Gang | February 29, 2008 3:55 PM
Posted on February 29, 2008 15:55
I can`t post what I`m thinking at this moment!
I`m going to Tim Hortons for a herbal tea to calm down.
Posted by Mac`s Gang | February 29, 2008 4:04 PM
Posted on February 29, 2008 16:04
Hey there Mac's Gang. Good to see you drop by again. I used to get crabby when people used the term "FIBERALS" what with me being a small-l liberal.
Now, that I've been paying attention to politics (municipal and provincial) I think you're being too kind calling them "Fiberals".
But why quibble with wording.
Why Wayne gets edited so much?
You wrote
I edit Wayne, Mac's Gang. He's actually thinking what we're all thinking but that's not why he's "edited". Wayne doesn't use profanity. But Wayne has a rather caustic observation style that goes beyond even my caustic observation style.
Wayne's dropped down some rather remarkable causticity, let me tell you. Even made me go "WHOA".
What Wayne has revealed over these months shouldn't happen to dogs let alone people.
You're.. we're not going to win, Mac's Gang. But that doesn't mean you quit. You can't Ever quit.
But just know goin' in --nless an issue affects people significantly in their pocketbooks, municipal council benches are EMPTY.]
Posted by The Mississauga Muse | February 29, 2008 5:17 PM
Posted on February 29, 2008 17:17
My car battery is dead.
I can`t even get to Tims.
No I didn`t take it wrong.I knew you meant "we don`t matter".
I`m going to continue to calm down.
Posted by Mac`s Gang | February 29, 2008 5:22 PM
Posted on February 29, 2008 17:22
[The Mississauga Muse HUGS Mac's Gang]
I hope you didn't take that wrong, Mac's Gang about you just not mattering. Like that it's me thinking you don't matter.
I just want to make certain that readers know I meant that you don't matter to THEM (government).
Anymore than I do.
Allow me to change what I wrote ever so slightly to "WE".
Hmmm... doesn't make ME feel any better. I sure hope the change from "YOU" to "WE" doesn't make you feel any better.
Mac's Gang, as I said before, I'm researching both municipal and provincial governance --particularly how the two interact --symbiotic relationship.
If we, as citizens really mattered to our local government and The Province, there'd be significant evidence of that.
We'd see that "mattering" right there in the provincial acts and in our cities' by-laws.
I don't see it.
The TakeHome Message I got even at the "Our Future Mississauga Visioning Symposium" was "YOU MATTER IF YOU HAVE $$$$."
Repeat. "YOU MATTER IF YOU HAVE $$$$." Beginning, Middle --and End, of Story.
Municipal governments (at least in Ontario) operate on one exclusive level. MINIMIZE LIABILITY.
What's "right". What's "good" --doesn't factor in.
MINIMIZE LIABILITY.
You said yourself, friend. "WAKEUP ONTARIO".
Municipal governments have so Massaged the Message, most people have zero idea of what's going on.
I laugh at the City inviting Youth to a "Conversation for the 21st Century".
Think about it. Youth having a say. There's FAR TOO MANY ADULTS who don't have a say.
I'm here (like, here, here --Blogging) not because I can change anything. I'm "here" to bear witness.
I'm NOT going to let THEM write their "history".
And YOU can't allow that either, Mac's Gang.
By now I hope your Tim Horton's caffeine has kicked in. You need to reach out (as do I) for all the other citizens who "JUST DON'T MATTER".
Peace bro' and much aloha
P.S. Was at Rambo's hearing this afternoon. Preliminary stuff. They're tryin' to get the pooch out on bail. Yes. Really.
People picketing. Mississauga RESPONSE UNIT "676" was about to boot. Fortunately there were Peelers about --including three beautiful Dodge *sigh* Chargers.
Posted by The Mississauga Muse | February 29, 2008 5:29 PM
Posted on February 29, 2008 17:29
Posted by Mac`s Gang | February 29, 2008 6:42 PM
Posted on February 29, 2008 18:42
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( Bill 132 has got to go!)
Posted by Wayne Nagy | February 29, 2008 7:11 PM
Posted on February 29, 2008 19:11