If only it was that easy
The Toronto Star blares out "EI claims drop" here, implying that economic conditions are improving. They may be in other parts of the province but here in the good old Muskokas-Haliburton-Northumberland region the stats tell a different story. Check out the monthly report here
In January 2009 there were 9,900 people declared as unemployed, one year later we have twice that many, 18,400. We also know that very few of the unemployed got jobs in January as the employed workforce only expanded by 1500 people. So the stimulus package hasn't kicked in yet!
The slogan, "Come to the Muskokas - Ontario's playground" is really ringing true as this area's unemployment rate is third highest in the Province behind Windsor and Niagara Falls.. Unfortunately the unemployed have little to play with. Perhaps this is something MPP Loo should be looking at as he goes about bragging what a wonderful place N'land is. Sadly those poor folks whose EI has run out will probably disagree!
In January 2009 there were 9,900 people declared as unemployed, one year later we have twice that many, 18,400. We also know that very few of the unemployed got jobs in January as the employed workforce only expanded by 1500 people. So the stimulus package hasn't kicked in yet!
The slogan, "Come to the Muskokas - Ontario's playground" is really ringing true as this area's unemployment rate is third highest in the Province behind Windsor and Niagara Falls.. Unfortunately the unemployed have little to play with. Perhaps this is something MPP Loo should be looking at as he goes about bragging what a wonderful place N'land is. Sadly those poor folks whose EI has run out will probably disagree!
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I think it's ridiculous to make pronouncements on employment/unemployment in Northumberland with its diversified economy and links to cities including Toronto when Northumberland stats are lumped in with really rural Muskoka and Haliburton where there is no industry and practically the only jobs are snowplowing or tourism?
Why can't we get statistics for Northumberland only? Is the government trying to suppress the facts by throwing such diverse areas together?
Muskoka is an advance view of what Northumberland will look like when the transformation to being a "Wellness" community is complete.
A playground for the rich with the rest of us competing for the low wage jobs looking after them. Just try not to be poor in the winter when the tourists, and the jobs, go south.
Anon wonders: "Why can't we get statistics for Northumberland only? Is the government trying to suppress the facts by throwing such diverse areas together?"
See Thread: 'Nobody Wants To Know'. Meanwhile, the answer to your second question is 'Yes'.
Deb: What's the opposite of a "wellness" community? And do I live in one? Is there an in-between community, somewhere between Wellnessville and Sickly City, you know, a kind of "SittingUpAndTakingSolidsburg? See, I really don't want to live (or die for that matter) in Clicheville. So I wonder what a 'wellness' community looks like. I imagine it to be quite regimented and that everytime you try to go for a swim this big bouncing ball explodes to the surface of the sea and pushes you back to the shores of your wellness community where you're No. 2 and don't you forget it. Me, well, I'm all for leaving wellness alone preferring to eat, drink and be unwell to my heart's content. The knees are shot.The hips precarious. Libido but a memory. And memory but a libidinous repository of what was, what wasn't and what could never have been. Except that, but for the imagination, the only thing left that works, it all could have been. And who knows...maybe it was.
Unemployment is down or has run out? I wonder if the former Star employees that lost their jobs overseas have found new employment?
You have really great taste on catch article titles, even when you are not interested in this topic you push to read it
After reading Northumberland News' account of Norlock's select round table discussion about "justice" issues, now I know what kind of career the unemployed can try.
With so many more of us headed to jail under the proposed changes to criminal law, people will be needed to build all those new jails, and guard and feed all those dangerous pot smoking criminals.
Many more foster families will be needed to care for the kids whose parents have been incarcerated, not to mention shrinks and assorted mental health types to counsel and comfort the berefit children, who didn't know that mom and dad were depraved criminals.
Apparently they also want telecommunication companies to have technology available to the cops so they can read our emails, so tekkie types will have opportunities too.
I'm sure jobs will be there for those inspired to inform on their friends and neighbours too.
Just be careful that your own life is pure and can withstand the scrutiny that will go with the job offer.
I don't have a name for the opposite of a wellness community, too early for creative thought just yet.
However, harumph, harumph, I will venture to say that the opposite is a community without a Chamber of Commerce or economic development office to dream up the right concept. People in these places should just keep quiet and count their blessings.
Before Cobourg was transformed into a wellness community we were just plain old No-burg and it was a better place to be.
I can't wait to live in Deb O's collective farm world where her band of merry pot farmers go on strike for more time off and subsidized day care.
Hang in there comrade your time is coming.
No-bourg and slow-bourg. Yep it t'was. It was always a dichotomy. Lots of hippies, hanging in Vic Park, a local on the bandshell stage at 2am strumming acoustic Dylan. It was good in those days, but of course the narcs were stalking, MacIntyre from the Peterborough RCMP brigade. Lotsa friends busted -- for pot. There was youth, sex, ambition, FUN. It was life. It was good.
I loved smoking poet in the mornings and snorting a line or two of Layton or Rosenblatt.
Btw anonyous, I knew a couple of the farmers back ion the day who grew some good weed, cheap, and paid off their mortgage ion 5 years. Now that was employent.
I'm 63 now. Where's the meds?
It's quite a giant leap for Anonymous to equate my disapproval of tory "tough on crime" legislation with an implied endorsement of some hippie commune daydream.
But then it's standard practice for the dinosaurs to personally attack anyone who disagrees with them, so I am not surprised.
But I don't appreciate it. If you are going to make false and inflammatory statements about me personally, try signing your name.
Or better yet, try explaining why you think this legislation is necessary instead of just going on a baseless and tasteless attack.
Coward.
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