Government of Canada introduces legislation to support workers with ten days of paid sick leave, protect health care workers and finish the fight against COVID-19

From: Employment and Social Development Canada

News release

November 26, 2021              Gatineau, Quebec              Employment and Social Development Canada

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a number of issues facing Canadians in their workplaces. Too many Canadians have been forced to choose between staying home when they are sick or being able to afford rent and groceries. Too many health care workers, those who assist them and Canadians seeking medical care have experienced or feared intimidation while attempting to provide or access health services.

Today, the Honourable Seamus O’Regan Jr., Minister of Labour, and the Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, introduced legislation that would amend the Canada Labour Code to provide ten days of paid sick leave per year to workers in the federally regulated private sector. The legislation would also amend the Criminal Code to enhance protections for health care workers and to ensure everyone has safe and unobstructed access to health services.

Access to paid sick leave is key to Canada’s economic recovery and to strengthening the social safety net that Canadians rely on. In 2019, the Government put in place three days of paid personal leave that federally regulated workers could use if they were sick. During the pandemic, the Government introduced the Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit for workers without employer-paid sick leave. Now, moving forward with ten days of permanent paid sick leave would protect workers’ incomes, jobs, and health as we finish the fight against COVID-19.

The Government will be engaging in consultations with federally regulated employers and workers towards the implementation of this legislation. Additionally, the Government will convene provinces, territories and other interested stakeholders to develop a national action plan to legislate paid sick leave across the country, while respecting provincial-territorial jurisdiction and clearly recognizing the unique needs of small business owners.

Everyone deserves to be safe when seeking or providing health services. Health care workers and those who assist them must be able to perform their duties without fear of threats or intimidation, and everyone must be able to access medical care safely. The proposed amendments to the Criminal Code also respond to longstanding concerns voiced by medical professionals, such as those who provide abortion services, about their ability to work in an environment free from violence and threats.

The amendments would create a new intimidation offence to protect health care workers and persons seeking health services. This means that individuals who use fear to stop a health care worker or those who assist them from performing their duties or who prevent a person from obtaining health services could be charged with the proposed new offence and, if found guilty, be subject to a penalty of up to 10 years in prison.

The amendments would also create a specific offence that would prohibit obstructing any person from accessing health facilities. In addition, new sentencing provisions would be created that would require courts to consider more serious penalties for offenders who target health care workers engaged in their duties or who impede others from obtaining health services.

The Government of Canada is committed to upholding and defending the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, including the freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly. Canadians’ freedom to voice their concerns and protest in a safe and peaceful manner, as well as workers’ freedom to take labour action, would be respected by these proposed changes to Canada’s criminal law.

Quotes

“Canadians shouldn’t have to choose between staying home when they’re sick and putting food on the table. Paid sick leave will protect workers and their families, protect their jobs, and protect their workplaces. It’s an important step in the fight against COVID-19 and a necessary addition to the social safety net that organized labour has been advocating for.”
– The Honourable Seamus O’Regan Jr., Minister of Labour

“No one should be intimidated for providing or seeking health care and everyone should be able to access the care they need without undue obstruction. This type of behaviour is completely unacceptable, particularly during a global pandemic where access to health care services is essential for Canadian society to recover and thrive. Today, we are delivering on an important commitment we made to Canadians.”
– The Honourable David Lametti, P.C., Q.C., M.P. Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada

Quick facts

  • In 2019, Canadian workers took an average of 8.5 days of leave for illness and disability.
  • The federally regulated sector is comprised of workplaces from a broad range of industries, including interprovincial air, rail, road, and marine transportation, banks, postal and courier services, among others.
  • There are approximately 18,500 employers in federally regulated industries, including federal Crown corporations that together employ 955,000 people (about 6% of all employees in Canada). The vast majority (87%) of these people work in companies with 100 or more employees.
  • The pandemic has exacerbated the already difficult work conditions experienced by health care workers, in which they have faced concerning levels of violence and threats of violence.
  • A 2019 report conducted by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health entitled, Violence Facing Health Care Workers in Canada (HESA Report), recently documented that health care workershave a four times higher rate of workplace violence than any other profession, despite most of this violence being unreported.
  • A Statistics Canada survey, Mental health among health care workers in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic, February 2021, revealed that 7 in 10 health care workers reported worsening mental health due to the pandemic.
  • The Government will be engaging in consultations with federally regulated employers and workers

RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner Hightails It Out of the Ukraine!

I am awakened at 4 in the morning by the Penniless Pensioner phoning from Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris and clearly he was a bit shaken up. He complained very loudly at a dinner that his beloved Tatiana was nowhere in sight and that he was upset with the Russian organizers. After dinner two burly Russian men came to his table and said please come with us as the “director” wanted to clear things up.

Clearing things up involved the burly men throwing him against the wall and told him to shut his mouth and that he would be taken for a “drive” in the morning. PP had posted some nasty comments on Facebook accusing the Russian organizers of kidnapping his beloved Tatiana. Bad move!

PP was escorted to his room and one of the burly men stood guard outside his hotel room door. PP offered the guard some vodka then some more and then the rest of the bottle laced with some sleeping meds PP uses to sleep on long plane trips. The burly guard then passed out and PP headed for the Kiev airport and caught a flight to anywhere out of the Ukraine which happened to be an Air France flight to Paris. And he was boarding a flight back to Toronto in a few minutes. He was very nervous he was being tailed. He bemoaned the kidnapping of his Tatiana and vowed to return to the Ukraine to find his true love. He did like a sparkling wine KrimSekt Semi-Sweet Red he bought at Kiev Airport duty free store for $5 and I recall seeing it on the LCBO shelves so I decided to buy a bottle and give it a try.

Trying the KrimSekt Red Semi-Sweet I think it looks like Baby Duck! A big nose of black cherry, cassis and butter tart. On the palate some bitter black cherry which is off putting indeed. And it seems there is no real sweetness to it. It also it somewhat tannic. This blend of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Saperavi should best stay on the shelves. Stay away from this bubbly.

(KrimSekt 2019 Red Semi-Sweet, Artwinery, Bakhmut, Ukraine, $19.95, Liquor Control Board of Ontario # 141655, 750 mL,12.5%, Robert K. Stephen A Little Birdie Told Me So Rating 65/100).

Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog is Back: What Makes Me Sad and Angry

Although many of you humans are kind and compassionate towards us dogs there are many cruel and nasty ones that hurt, abuse, kill, ignore and try to intimidate us. Why are you humans so evil? We surrendered to your care thousands of years ago to protect, hunt with you and serve you. We are compassionate dogs, police and army dogs, narcotic sniffers, animal herders and guide dogs for the blind. But pardon me so many of you humans are ASSHOLES. We have a social contract with you humans. We want respect, love, decency and care. But some of you are worse than the animals that you think are below you. You beat us. You eat us. You abuse us. You kill us. You ignore us. You chain us. You starve us. What is wrong with you? I can only hope when your time is done on earth when you go to the land beyond that Allah, Jesus or Buddha or whatever God you believe in will treat you as you deserve to be treated. Some of you humans are so low you make me sick and angry. But most of you give us the respect we deserve. Thank you and may you be blessed.

You humans are often idiotic killing each other in the names of Allah or Christ. Terrorist bombings in the name of Allah. Who perverted Allah’s name to justify such atrocities? Who sanctions drone attacks and chlorine bombings in Syria? You humans say it’s a dog-eat-dog world but believe you me we dogs would not do with each other what you humans do to each other. It is bad enough what you do to us dogs but what you do to each other makes me sick. I often put my paws over my eyes when I watch the news with Fay because you humans who were given the earth to prosper destroy it and yourselves. Dare I say it but could it be if dogs ruled the world it would be a better place. No not a “Planet of the Dogs” but a caring and compassionate world.

Of course, I could devise a long list of what makes me sad and angry but I am too sad and angry to continue. This plague has been a blessing for us dogs! You must stay with us all day many of you. No dog walkers and hours of loneliness. If matters ever return to “normal” many of us will not know what it is like to be left alone for so long!

Of course, dogs do not get COVID! Perhaps we are not so inferior as many of you think. Perhaps it will soon be “Planet of the Dogs”?

Tomorrow Dylan the Westie and I are going to Niagara-On-the-Lake for three nights. This will be our second overnight trip there for us. I love Niagara Falls and especially when Bob holds me and Dylan the Westie over the rails looking at the Falls. I love the walk along the lake but we need our coats at it is winter.

We are all looking forward to this adventure. I love Niagara Falls and Bob and Fay may pick up some pizza and we will get some delicious chunks.

RKS Wines: A Campanian Wine Landmark: Greco di Tufo

As far as Campanian white wines go on my last visit to the Greater Naples Area in pre plague days as a media guest I think that red wines predominated over white wines. However the Greater Naples area hugs the ocean which in many dishes demands a white wine. Not all depending how the pescatarian dishes are prepared. Fish prepared with a tomato sauce or a robust flavoured grilled octopus might suit a Barbera, Piedirossa or a Lacryma di Christi red. As my chef friend in Rome, Quirino, said, “It all depends on the sauce!” A great chef with his astounding Eggplant Tower! Sauce was magic to Quirino and pastry that was all a matter of chemicals. A man with a bias perhaps.

As the name of the grape has Greco in it is thought that it was brought to Campania by the Greeks although there seems little evidence it exists in Greece today. Historically the Greeks have had a presence in Southern Italy. For example, there are remote Sicilian villages where a Greek dialect is still spoken. While the Romans had a vast empire the Greeks did as well. Enough of history. Although take the local train from Naples to Pompeii and there is a town on the way with a Greco in its name and the HBO Italian series “My Brilliant Friend” the main character, living in a suburb of Naples, Helena has a surname of Greco.

What about a La Fortezza Sannio Greco? Sannio is a gorgeous town not far from Naples. On my last trip the mayor of Sannio wanted to meet us journalists to give a brief talk on the town. Although I love the architecture and vibes of Naples Sannio is on my bucket list to stay at for a few days and to discover it and tell you about it would be a dream. Wine writers, at least some of them, have curiosity that goes beyond wine and links wine to localities and their cuisine and culture.

The wine has rather a tropical nose with pineapple, guava, persimmons and tangerine. On the palate the pineapple and guava continues along with some pear and a strange but likeable twist of peameal bacon and ginger. The acidity is muted. The finish is gentle. It would suit simply prepared chicken and fish and a white Napoli pizza. There are too many acidic, washed-out wines in today’s wine world but this Campanian is not one of them. I think I had it on my media tour with an asparagus tart served with a fresh pea puree. Where else but in Italy could you have such seasonal delight?

As a last comment I have been on a few European wine tours for the media but the Italians often conducted their tastings with food whereas with the Portuguese it was almost always food after the tasting. Interesting difference? To me it cements the feeling that food and wine are inseparable and yes that cuisine and wine form a symbiotic relationship in Italy. And I see that trend here with the Italian Trade Commission events that have always ensured a good supply of food with wine tastings and have of late been emphasizing Italian food products with wine taking a secondary place. More on this with my upcoming articles on Italian olive oil tastings!

(La Fortezza Sannio Greco 2018 DOC, La Fortezza, Torrecuso, Italy, $15.95, Liquor Control Board of Ontario # 17744, 750 mL, 13%, Robert K. Stephen A Little Birdie Told Me So Rating 89/100).

RKS Wines: The Penniless Pensioner’s Ukrainian High Hopes

At last account PP held a celebratory BBQ pronouncing his love for the 23-year-old Ukrainian beauty Tatiana who he has only communicated with over his computer. Being in a hot tizzy it was love at first sight! Then it was 7,500 Euros paid to The Ladies Social Club Tour operating out of Moscow for a five-day visit to Kiev to spend time with Tatiana over 5 days of structured social events.

PP phoned me upon arriving in Kiev saying he had had a couple of glasses of Ukrainian champagne and was taking a nap to recover from some jet lag so he would be fresh for an opening night gala at his hotel with his fellow travelers, mostly elderly British men. He was very excited that he would meet his fiancé Tatiana the love of his life! Although I warned him about his rash adventure in the days of Omicron and Russian Ukrainian tensions, he jumped ahead with the idea so I shut my trap and wished him the best. A lawyer with his experience simply failed to perform due diligence on The Ladies Social Club Tour which in an hour of searching indicated they ferried groups of ageing single men to the Ukraine or the Philippines to meet ladies who had an open season on fleecing the men falling into their web. The owners of the outfit were both wanted in the United States for fraud.

PP said he would phone me the next day with a summary of his adventures.

PP asked me my thoughts on the Ukrainian champagne he had which I reminded him was not from the Champagne region of France so it was “sparling white wine”. I did find the KrimSekt white at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario and saw that it was a Semi-Sweet (demi-sec).

It is made in the Traditional Method, meaning identically to that of Champagne. On the nose loaded with apricot and peach and some baked pear. It is a blend of Riesling, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Aligote grapes. It has very good traction on the palate. There are tastes of French Toast, cantaloupe, honey and you can pick up the Riesling ever so slightly which gives this demi-sec a slightly dry finish mixed up with the sweet. Not being part of the incessant waves of Brut and Extra Brut sparklers we get here in Ontario this is a pleasant change. This is a decent sparkler but beautiful like Tatiana promises to be I think not.

While this would suit cheese perogies I would pair it with a Thai or Japanese curry. I wonder if PP will be having it at his “gala banquet” with dinner. I think I’ll pour a glass and watch it with “90-Day Fiancé “. There is an elusive and possibly fictional Ukrainian lady an American is desperately trying to locate for some three years!

(Krimsekt Semi-Sweet White Sparkling 2015, ArtWinery, Bakhmut, Ukraine, $19.95, 12.5%, Liquor Control Board of Ontario # 206441, 750 mL, Robert K. Stephen A Little Birdie Told Me So Rating 85/100).

THE ROLLING STONES | UNZIPPED EXHIBITION OPENS THIS WEEK AT THEMUSEUM IN DOWNTOWN KITCHENER

UNZIPPED is THEMUSEUM’S largest show to date and will feature over 300 artifacts and memorabilia from the Rolling Stones’ nearly 60-year history

KITCHENER | NOVEMBER 29, 2021 —

WHAT:     The Rolling Stones | UNZIPPED exhibition will be open to the public allowing fans to

giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most influential rock bands of all

time. The exhibition will feature rare audio fragments, video footage, personal

diaries, iconic costumes, posters, album covers and the chance to experience a

Stones concert in 3D.

WHEN:     The exhibition runs from November 30, 2021 to February 27, 2022. THEMUSEUM

will be open on weekdays from 10 am to 4 pm and on weekends from 10 am to 9 pm.

WHERE:     THEMUSEUM | 10 King St. W., Kitchener, ON N2G 1A3

NOTES:     Proof of COVID-19 vaccination will be required upon entry.

For more information on THEMUSEUM events, please visit https://unzippedkw.ca/events.

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The Rolling Stones | UNZIPPED delivered by DHL is the first international exhibition by and about the world-famous rock band. Following engagements in London, the United States, Australia and Asia, the show toured Europe in revamped form in 2020. The exhibition features hundreds of original Stones artifacts and memorabilia, offering the most comprehensive and immersive insight into the band’s nearly sixty-year journey.

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Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog is Back! What Makes Me Happy?

This may sound strange but I am happy, no grateful…..I am having trouble finding the appropriate word. But that Rottenwiler dog that bit me so badly in Cairo in a way probably saved my life. I do not know how long I could have survived in the street. But I forgive that dog as he was only doing his job guarding the market and I did steal some of his food. Why not say the end result is that I am safe and in Canada. CANADA MAKES ME HAPPY!

I am so very happy I have such wonderful masters. They love me. I can tell that by the way they speak to me and how they treat me. I get lots of belly rubs and if you were a dog like me I think you would say there is nothing better.

I am happy about living with Dylan the Westie. He is a brave Scot with a heart of gold. He is so wise and helped me adapt to live with Bob and Fay. I would be lonely without him. He is the BEST dog in the world!

I am happy that I have so much good food to eat. I love chicken kibble and that cool and clean Canadian water. And you know these treats I get are so yummy. I love turkey so much! And the morning treat of a piece of toast or bagel with a piece of fruit makes every day extra special. I love carrots raw and cooked. I love cooked cauliflower and broccoli. Why not say I love human food! Bob and Fay are very careful not to feed me onions leeks, grapes, chocolate and garlic as they would make me sick.

I love my walks especially at the off-leash dog trail at Sherwood Park and the golf course when it’s closed to golfers. I love rolling in the snow there and running around with Dylan the Westie. We don’t run too far away as both Dylan the Westie and I have seen coyotes on the golf course.

I love my fame but not in a selfish way but the money I have helped raise for Reggie’s Dogs which helps rescue dogs all over the world. And the story Bob wrote about me and the movie “Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog” that Disney released has helped educate the world about rescue dogs and even helped repair relations with Muslims because I am after all a Muslim dog although I think that Allah, Jesus and all other Gods are really the same.

I am happy my story and the film have made so many children happy. There is so much unhappiness in the world I know a bit of happiness can go a long way. You know I get hundreds of letters a week from children asking al sorts of questions including what makes me happy.

I love sleeping and a nap or two! And when I get to go under the covers with Dylan the Westie, Fay and Bob especially in the winter.

I love watching the news with Fay especially my favourite BBC News. And any show with dogs in it is so fun to watch.

I love car rides. Dylan the Westie does not like car rides especially when the car goes over bumps and is in reverse.

You might sum it all up by saying I love my life and sharing some of it with you. And there are many of you as Bob’s book has been published in 32 different languages! Disney estimates close to a billion people have seen my movie!

And of course, I love my friend Bosco and his master Mr. Gordon Lightfoot whom I have got to know very well since we became neighbours. He is so kind and when he sings and plays his guitar it takes me to a peaceful place. I LOVE “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”!

I suppose what I should discuss next is what I don’t like.

Passage of the Day: Behavioural Therapy: What is it?

“The work of behavior therapists, then, is to figure out which behaviors are causing problems in their clients’ lives, and then work to change them. Behavior therapy is therefore a form of psychotherapy that is based on a behaviorist approach. The focus of the treatment is to help clients replace negative behaviors such as anger and aggression toward others. With positive behaviors, including acceptance and the understanding that there is no good or bad. It’s about letting go of the negative in your life and embracing the positive. The most important thing in determining whether therapy is successful or not is whether the client does want to change his or her behavior. “

From “Building a Life Worth Living” by Marsha M. Linehan (Random House)

RKS Films: “Love it Was Not”

The great power of documentaries is that they explore what one can think of as untouchable. In “Love it Was Not” Helena Zitron, the daughter of a Slovakian cantor is transported to Auschwitz in 1942. An SS officer at the camp Franz Wunch takes a liking to Helena and acts as her protector saving her life against certain death. Yet as for the Jewish men at the camp he is a nasty brute. He manages to save her sister from the gas chambers but not her children. Is it love?

The name of this Austrian/Israeli documentary says no! Play the odds it was an act of survival but what does love know about the odds?

Having visited a concentration camp in Poland as a younger man in the 1970’s I remember taking a train there and thinking about the trains that transported thousands to their death. I remember travelling through forests. I remember a special exhibit of recovered children’s art that lingers in my memory today. But I remember little more. It may be that I have repressed it for my own mental health.

The film chronicles the life and sickening atrocities at Auschwitz. How could a Jewish woman fall in love with an SS officer? It may have saved many in her circle of “friends” not that she was popular with all being beaten on occasion but refusing to name her assailants.

We hear from Helena recounting her relationship with Wunch and from Wunch as well. Wunch tried to locate her after the war in Israel but she had married and had children. An SS officer in Israel! No way.

Some survivors call her a Jewish whore all very brave now but had she not had the relationship with Wunch would these survivors be alive today!

Wunch was tried for war crimes in Vienna in 1972 and Helena, despite death threats against her in Israel, testified what he had done for her perhaps saving him from a conviction. Wunch was acquitted and given the low conviction rates in the Austrian judicial system for war crimes that is no surprise.

It seems clear that Wunch loved Helena but not so clear the other way around.

Moral of the story is that survival causes twists and turns but Helena hurt no one. Betrayed no one and if she used love to achieve that goal what fault is there in that?

You be the judge of any moral wrong but who are you to judge never having been in Auschwitz?

This 2020 86-minute Israeli/Austrian production directed by Maya Sarfaty shows in early December at Ted Rogers Hots Docs Cinema both in theatre and virtually.

You can check out their website at https://hotdocscinema.ca/

You can see the trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KisIKrDl_Do

RKS Wines: Campanian Memories: Wine and Other Things

One thing for sure in this world is that a trip to Italy will evoke gastronomical, oenological, architectural   and topographical memories.

Since this is a wine column, we might want to talk about wine memories of Italy. My most recent memories are of the Greater Naples area few years ago, pre plague days, where I was invited by the Italian Trade Commission for a trip to Naples to experience its gastronomy, wines and tourism sights. I stayed on after the media trip and spent 4 days discovering Naples and then another two weeks exploring the Greater Naples area. You may have a preconceived notion it is some dangerous city best kept to a departure point to see Positano, Capri and Sorrento. Not so. It is one of the most beautiful cities of the world steeped in the old way of life. It has so many beautiful sites to see including what I would say an outstanding Archaeological Museum. I am not a great fan of marble statues but what I saw at the Museum had my jaw dropping. And the subway of Naples makes Toronto’s subway look like a third world barrio. And most importantly tourists are not rampant like in Roma or Venice.

Oh the pizza of Naples: Photo Robert K. Stephen

And here is Vesuvius and the spectacular Pompeii. And Capri, Sorrento and Positano just to name a few.

The food of Naples? Well it rivals Tuscan and Roman cuisine. Just visit Umberto’s in Naples and you might never want to leave. Superior dining in a casual setting that rivals the best in the world. And the pizza of Naples is enough to send you back across the ocean to tear into the world’s best pizza.

Not forgetting about wine the volcanic soils of Vesuvius add an element of complexity to the wines grown in that soil. You can pick out notes of charcoal and carbon in many of these wines. Incredible Barbera, the deadly smooth Lacryma Christi (tears of Christ) and the feisty Piedirosso (red chicken feet) and the Greco di Tufo all of which are so rarely seen in Canada and if they were they would give Tuscan wines a run for their money.

Sorry for meandering but why not try a Campanian wine from Donnachiara, its Aglianico. Aglianico is most often found in Campania and Basilicata concentrated in Campania in the provinces Benevento and Avellino.

This Aglianico has a transparent garnet colour and has aromas of bright red cherry, dark chocolate, strawberry, prunes, espresso and raspberry. On the palate one notes that this a tight and compact wine. One might say disciplined! Very restrained red cherry, cranberry, pomegranate and rhubarb. I might call this an old school European wine refusing to open its raincoat and reveal its fruit until it is ready to do so which in this case might be in 3-5 years. If you want to consume now decant for an hour. The label says good with strong pasta sauces, steak and cheeses. Generally speaking I’ll agree with that but wait what about a pizza made with Capputo flour and baked in a Matozzi pizza oven!

On the local Train to Pompeii: Photo Robert K. Stephen

OK so I am talking about Napoli pizza a bit too much. I am in a dilemma as now is not the time to return to Naples so I wake up with chills and night sweats dreaming of Napoli pizza. There is no pizza rehab centres here in Toronto specializing in Napoli pizza withdrawal. I am hanging on!

My favourite restaurant in Naples! Photo Robert K. Stephen

(Donnachiara Campania Aglianico 2019, IGT, Donnachiara, Montefalcone-Avellino, Italy, $18.95, Liquor Control Board of Ontario # 19334, 750 mL, 13%, Robert K. Stephen A Little Birdie Told Me So Rating 91/100).