Prostitutes of a kind
beautiful people
bought and sold on the auction block
cash by the hour
clean whoring
begging for the big break
the sirloin cut of life
but another photograph away
but
for now
snapping, clicking and whirring
anemic furiousity
all for the new fall line
fabricating
the New Lifestyle
for all to enjoy to suffer
Robert K. Stephen
Casualness
The all authority
beckons the leaches and menials
a court of the tactfully Polite
convieniently spellbound
Robert K. Stephen
Finalized conclusion
you don’t want to
BUT
you don’t know where to go
what you’ve done wrong
how many people you have hurt
pain
suffering
selfish grief
what can you say
what can you do
what shall you do
the razor blade gently calls
to
slide
you
away
Robert K. Stephen
NEWS RELEASE
New six-point plan includes mandatory on-arrival testing for international travellers
January 29, 2021
TORONTO — The Ontario government is taking immediate and decisive action to stop the spread of new COVID-19 variants throughout the province. It is implementing a six-point plan which includes mandatory on-arrival testing of international travellers, enhanced screening and sequencing to identify the new variants, maintaining public health measures to keep people safe, strengthening case and contact management to track the spread of new cases, enhanced protections for vulnerable populations, and leveraging the latest data to inform public health decisions.
Details of the plan were provided today by Premier Doug Ford, Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones, and Dr. David Williams, Chief Medical Officer of Health.
“We welcome the new measures announced by the federal government today, but we need a stop gap to prevent new cases, including variant cases, from arriving in Ontario until those measures are fully in place,” said Premier Ford. “That’s why our government is taking immediate and decisive action, which includes mandatory testing of incoming international travellers and providing additional layers of protection for the people of Ontario, especially our seniors. Through our six-point plan, we intend to stop this virus in its tracks.”
Ontario’s first COVID-19 UK variant case was confirmed last month and was due to international travel. Since that time, 51 cases of the variant have been confirmed in the province. Evidence shows that the UK variant could be up to 56 per cent more transmissible. Recent evidence shows Ontarians’ efforts to contain COVID-19 are working, with provincial trends in most key public health indicators trending down. However, recent modelling suggests that the UK variant and other new variants remain a significant threat to controlling the pandemic and could become the dominant strain of the virus in the province by March 2021, posing an increased threat to public health and hospital capacity.
“People across the province are staying home and helping to limit the spread of this deadly virus, and their actions are starting to make a difference,” said Minister Elliott. “However, the UK variant is now making its way into our communities and putting Ontario’s pandemic response at risk. In addition to maintaining the public health measures we know work and keep us safe, our government is taking decisive action to control the spread, protect our health care system, and save lives.”
Ontario’s six-point variant action plan enhances the existing coordinated and ongoing efforts of the province to detect, track, trace, and contain the spread of COVID-19. The plan includes:
Mandatory Testing of Travelers:To address the risks associated with variants of concern to the health of Ontarians, the Chief Medical Officer of Health is issuing a Section 22 order under Section 77.1 of the Health Protection and Promotion Act, mandating on-arrival testing for international travellers at Toronto Pearson International Airport effective at 12:01 p.m. on February 1, 2021 and exploring additional testing measures at Pearson International Airport and land border crossings in the coming weeks.
Enhanced Screening and Sequencing: Led by Public Health Ontario, the provincial diagnostic lab network is ramping up capacity to screen all positive COVID-19 tests in Ontario for known variants within two to three days of initial processing. This new measure will take effect as of February 3, 2021. Public Health Ontario (PHO) will also undertake and coordinate genomic sequencing efforts to identify new and emerging variants by sequencing up to 10 per cent of all positive tests by February 17, 2021.
Maintain Public Health Measures: Given the emerging evidence that the variants of concern are more transmissible and may cause more severe disease in some individuals, lifting of public health and workplace safety measures will not be considered at this time until more information on variant spread is known and overall trends in public health indicators improve. The declared provincial emergency and stay-at-home order were recently extended until February 9, 2021.
Strengthen Case and Contact Management: The provincial workforce will continue supporting public health units to ensure cases and contacts are reached as soon as possible and monitored through their quarantine period. All asymptomatic contacts will be asked to repeat testing on or after day 10 of their quarantine, and the entire household of all contacts and symptomatic individuals will be asked to stay home until the contact has a negative test.
Enhancing Protections for Vulnerable Populations: Dependent on supply from the federal government, the province will continue with the accelerated vaccination of residents in long-term care, high-risk retirement and First Nations elder care homes. The province is also introducing a provincial antigen screening program for the expansion of rapid testing in high priority settings, such as long-term care homes, retirement homes, essential workplaces, schools and congregate living settings.
Leveraging Data: The province will work with a made-in-Ontario technology company DNAstack to immediately establish a genomics databank and real-time analytics dashboard to empower the province’s public health officials and improve the government’s planning related to pandemic response. This will enhance the province’s capacity to identify known and emerging variants of COVID-19.
“Urgent action is required to protect Ontarians from the new COVID-19 variants. That is why our government is implementing a six-point plan which includes mandatory on-arrival testing of international travellers starting next week,” said Solicitor General Sylvia Jones. “We continue to urgently call on the federal government to impose a temporary travel ban on flights coming from countries where new COVID-19 variants are being detected.”
Ontario continues to monitor the developing situation with the Public Health Agency of Canada and other jurisdictions to ensure coordinated, effective and shared efforts to protect and safeguard the public. It remains critically important that all Ontarians continue following the stay-at-home order and public health advice and measures to protect our communities and most vulnerable populations, and to stop the spread of COVID-19.
I could easily summarize this documentary as “David vs Goliath”. However as a highly paid internet writer my audience expects more but certainly less than the 7 pages of notes I wrote on the film.
I’ll keep it simple.
Maxima Acuña and her family live in a remote part of the Peruvian highlands living off their land in a traditional and backbreaking way. Unfortunately, the second largest goldmine in the world, American owned, wants to expand as its strip mining operations are running out of gold. One problem they need Maxima’s land and the lakes in the area are filled with gold they want which would destroy the lake and cause water supply issues to the local town and farmers.
Maxima does not want to surrender her land. The mine owners and their security forces launch a vicious harassment programme destroying her crops and property and physically assaulting Maxima and her family and laying all sorts of legal charges along the line of abusive harassment. The mine owners have the audacity to block off public roads and ask for ID trying to prevent journalists from visiting Maxima. The abuse is quite frankly obscene, offensive, greedy, dangerous and attempts to humiliate and wear down Maxima. Political corruption scandals are disclosed.
However the owners of the mine and Peruvian politicians and judiciary appear surprised that this Peruvian peasant has garnered an international movement of human right activists. She travels to the United States to seek justice and explanations from the WORLD Bank which is a part owner of the mine and whose role is to alleviate poverty and maintain water quality throughout the world but their response was go away as we trust the owners of the mine are doing the right thing. This is despite the fact of mercury spills, discharge of contaminated water laden with heavy metals and remarkably high cancer rates amongst the miners and local population.
This is an expose of “The Ugly American” in horrific and nasty proportions. Maxima struggles on in the court system. But watch this documentary and you will be sickened by the acts of an American megacorp but you may be inspired by Maxima fighting a monstrous force with her courage and persistence to save her way of life and the land she and her family live on.
You can watch this film for free but must reserve tickets through HOT DOCS TED ROGERS Cinema website. The Festival runs from February 18-22.You can learn about the films in the Festival by checking out their website https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/01/14/18th-annual-toronto-human-rights-watch-film-festival#:~:text=The%2018th%20annual%20Toronto%20Human%20Rights%20Watch%20Film,that%20will%20be%20completely%20digital%20for%20the%20.
You can see the trailer here https://www.dropbox.com/s/izawxe48m0m0bni/MAXIMA%20TRAILER%20%28720p%20with%2023fps%29.mp4?dl=0
NEWS RELEASE
Campaign designed to ensure businesses are properly protecting staff and customers
January 29, 2021
Labour, Training and Skills Development
TORONTO — Ontario’s provincial offences officers have visited 1,147 big-box stores and other essential retail businesses so far this month and will be visiting more than 400 additional stores this weekend in Toronto, Hamilton and Kitchener-Waterloo. The inspections are designed to ensure businesses are following the public health guidelines and properly protecting workers and customers from COVID-19. So far this year, 112 tickets have been issued to businesses and individuals during three inspection campaigns.
“We’ve marshalled hundreds of officers to inspect over 1,000 businesses in a few short weeks, and we’ll keep it up as long as there are bad actors out there,” said Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development. “Our government is confident that the majority of workplaces are taking all necessary steps to protect their customers and workers from the spread of COVID-19. However, if we find businesses putting people at risk, we will take immediate action. This late in the pandemic, there is absolutely no excuse for owners, staff and customers alike not to be following health and safety rules.”
The most common reasons cited for non-compliance were failure to properly screen staff and patrons, improper social distancing and workplaces not having adequate COVID-19 workplace safety plans. All businesses operating during lockdown must have a COVID-19 workplace safety plan that is available to anyone who asks to see it and is posted in a place where it can be easily seen. The plan is meant to put in place controls that help make the workplace safer for everyone and does not replace the Occupational Health and Safety Act or the Employment Standards Act.
The upcoming weekend blitzes in Toronto, Hamilton and Kitchener-Waterloo will be followed by additional inspection campaigns in Halton and Huron Perth next week. Provincial offences officers, as well as local public health inspectors and municipal bylaw officers, are conducting inspections of big-box stores and a variety of other workplaces such as retail establishments, restaurants providing take-out meals and essential service-sector establishments such as gas stations. These inspection campaigns were developed in consultation with local public health units.
Similar inspections took place last weekend in Ottawa, Windsor, Niagara and Durham Regions, during which a total of 107 provincial offences officers from across the Ontario government conducted nearly 700 workplace visits. They found 41 per cent of businesses had at least one issue of non-compliance and 98 tickets were issued.
NEWS RELEASE
Inspections will help protect temporary foreign workers ahead of the growing and harvesting season
January 27, 2021
Labour, Training and Skills Development
TORONTO – The Ontario government is taking additional measures to protect farmworkers during the pandemic by expanding provincewide inspections to farms, greenhouses and other agricultural operations to ensure health and safety measures are being followed.
“Our government is taking action to protect essential temporary foreign workers who may be at a higher risk of contracting COVID-19 during the upcoming growing season,” said Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development. “We rely on these workers to ensure our grocery store shelves remain stocked and families have food on the table. These inspections will help stop the spread of COVID-19 on farms, and in our communities.”
The inspections will focus on locations that employ temporary foreign workers to ensure they are properly protected from COVID-19 through measures such as:
Inspectors will also check on engineering controls, movement of workers, whether a workplace safety plan exists as required under the Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Approach to COVID-19) Act, 2020, and whether occupational illnesses are being reported as required under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA).
“Our farmers, agri-food workers, greenhouse operators and food processors are working hard to keep their operations safe while continuing to provide us with a steady and reliable food supply,” said Ernie Hardeman, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. “Since last spring, we have taken several measures to support them, including reinforcing public health protocols, making investments to increase operational capacity and helping to address labour challenges. Agri-food workplace inspections are part of our continued efforts to raise awareness, and prevent and control COVID-19 outbreaks.”
Inspectors may take enforcement action, as appropriate, in response to any violations of the OHSA. Enforcement may range from the issuing of orders to the laying of charges. The maximum penalty upon conviction under the OHSA is $1.5 million for a corporation and $100,000 for an individual. Individuals may also be imprisoned for up to 12 months on conviction.
These efforts build on the provincewide “Stay Safe All Day” campaign announced earlier this month that focuses workplace inspections in areas of high transmission, including break rooms. It also provides resource materials to employers and workers to promote safe behaviour before, during and after work.
In the interests of productive behaviour
Motivation
goals
diversity
global inclusion
profit sharing
job enrichment
tasty tidbits to woo the middle class
bribery for the belligerent
soothed with technocratic brews
psychological manipulation
blessed in the holy catacombs of management classes
grovelling at the swill buckets of social mobility
fed by Harvard Business School priest-nobility
sacrosantly selling communion to the highest bidder
you can read all about it on Twitter
Robert K. Stephen
Evangelical Television Special
Four hundred dollar shoes from Milan
adorn the religious spreader
brains thick as peanut butter
sticky
impossible to digest
bringing God to the Brazilians aboriginals displaced by hydroelectric development
under a big white tent
the American sponsored God supposed to bring joy for a workplace employees of RCA
the hot breathed babbler graced with the spirit and hefty pay
the godly empires bloat
with the corporate accountants beginning to gloat
after all Satan is smote
Yankee bosses and government bureaucrats knows God encourages a docile worker
peacefully kept in line by a born again tear jerker
making the CIA obsolete
Reds will be in retreat
a veritable Billy Grahamcracker feat
Robert K. Stephen
The historians
contained in the pens
the scribes of the rulers
attend to the justifications of the slaughter|
one by one or by the thousands
throats slit and put on meat hooks
and guilty historians white lie in the books
justification of hero crooks
blind to the fact millions were took
by ITT, GM, Livingstone and Cook
Robert K. Stephen
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