About time -NDP MP’s bill to make Remembrance Day a national statutory holiday gets s

Ron in Regina

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It's a holiday in SK depending who you work for. It makes it quiet enough to hear the 105s firing in salute throughout the core of the city. You have no choice but be reminded of the meaning of the day when your windows rattle 21 times.

Since Remembrance day has been a stat in BC for years I didn't know it was not a national holiday until I saw the petition online. `Most of the time we would get the monday or friday closest off or if in camp we just work and it becomes an OT day.

I thought it was a national holiday until just now, to be honest.
Like Petros, I'm also in Saskatchewan. This year will be the
first Nov.11th I've ever worked on...only due to the fact that
where I'm staying (some nasty rural hotel) has no openings
on the Thursday night-Friday for some music festival, so we'll
work the Tuesday and take the Friday off.
 

taxslave

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I thought it was a national holiday until just now, to be honest.
Like Petros, I'm also in Saskatchewan. This year will be the
first Nov.11th I've ever worked on...only due to the fact that
where I'm staying (some nasty rural hotel) has no openings
on the Thursday night-Friday for some music festival, so we'll
work the Tuesday and take the Friday off.

On the website I looked for BC stat days it is a national holiday, except in four provinces.
 

gerryh

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I just can't let this go by.




I'd rather it not be mandatory as well. But I also can't help that I want to slap some of these ignorant fu*ckers upside the head. Freedom to be ignorant does not protect one from being chastised for it.




Really, the only one ignorant I see, is you. If someone doesn't want to support the continued glorification of institutionalized murder, then what gives you the "right" to "chastise" them? NVM, it was a rhetorical question, I already know the answer. The right was given to you by the death of brainwashed young men sent over seas to murder other brainwashed young men.


Never mind the soap and water, that kind of blood doesn't wash off so easily.





See I completely get where you're coming from and why, you know I do. You feel a strong connection to those whom we remember, and the reasons for which we should remember them. I have nothing but respect for that, I really do.

At the same time I'm coming at this from a position where I haven't provided said service to my country and I feel, very strongly, that we all need to collectively, at least for these few moments once a year, forget about our own selfish wants and take a damned moment. And if that means grabbing the ignorant little pissants by their ears and dragging them into it, then so be it. The same way one would to a petulant child who's not being respectful. As a Canadian I want them to be disrupted for one damned minute, and to look around at those who don't find it a disruption, perhaps they may even learn a little humility.




How nice of you, I'm assuming you don't see the irony AND hypocrisy in your comments.

I can do a lot to make them feel really, really bad about it.

And I'm only half joking.




because some 18 year old got blowed up over seas gave you that right.


It's a strong feeling. Hell, people can protest it, it doesn't bother me half as much, or at all really.


Bullshyte, you're going to add lying to the list I see. If it didn't bother you, you wouldn't be whining and threatening physical harm to those that don't think like you.


It's not really about forcing someone to show respect, it's more about not allowing their disrespect to interfere with my own need to show it.


and to do that you seem to need to force people out of work, do physical harm to them, and make them think like you do.

and the solution is simple, you close the malls




Of course, because it's all about the freedom.
 

Sal

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Of course, because it's all about the freedom.

if it's going to be a national day with school's banks and offices closed then why not the malls, they have employees too, why distinguish between a bank worker and a retail employee?
 

gerryh

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if it's going to be a national day with school's banks and offices closed then why not the malls, they have employees too, why distinguish between a bank worker and a retail employee?




of course, so we force the stores to close, cause it's all about the freedom.
 

Sal

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of course, so we force the stores to close, cause it's all about the freedom.

I can't do transactions inside of the bank, what makes them special?

If we close, kids won't be at school.

When did a mall become an essential service?
 

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I can't do transactions inside of the bank, what makes them special?

If we close, kids won't be at school.

When did a mall become an essential service?


Probably ever since shopping became an essential pastime.:) (I hear you, Sal)
 

gerryh

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I can't do transactions inside of the bank, what makes them special?

If we close, kids won't be at school.

When did a mall become an essential service?




It is their choice to close. They do have the option of staying open. It is their choice. Get it yet?
 

Sal

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It is their choice to close. They do have the option of staying open. It is their choice.

no gerry in a mall it is not their choice to close when they feel like it, and it is not the employees choice as to whether or not they work

and it is not an essential service

it is either a holiday or it is not

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm
 

gerryh

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no gerry in a mall it is not their choice to close when they feel like it, and it is not the employees choice as to whether or not they work

and it is not an essential service

it is either a holiday or it is not




Yes it is. The store signs a contract with the Mall. That is when THEY made the choice. The Employee has the choice to work or not work for said employer.


You not understanding when choices are made is not surprising.
 

Sal

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Yes it is. The store signs a contract with the Mall. That is when THEY made the choice. The Employee has the choice to work or not work for said employer.


You not understanding when choices are made is not surprising.

*sigh*

yeah I've heard that lame approach already

jesus you are so predictable it gets boring

enjoy your weekend
 

gerryh

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*sigh*

yeah I've heard that lame approach already

jesus you are so predictable it gets boring

enjoy your weekend




The fact that you use the same excuses for not taking personal responsibility for your choices is not surprising.
 

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It's already a stat in BC. For those of you against making it a stat nationwide, everything is fine out here. Go ahead and make it a stat. We still have ceremonies. We still learn about it in school. People still wear poppies. It'll be OK.
 

Sal

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The fact that you use the same excuses for not taking personal responsibility for your choices is not surprising.

assuming of course there were ANY excuses for my personal choices made anywhere in this thread or anywhere in this forum for that matter
 

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