The big downside to voting is that when you do it seems to put you at the top of the list for jury duty. Anyone else have that experiance?

The justice system is so fucked up that they sentence 99% of the criminals to either a native healing circle or Nintendo time at home with go out privelages since the court never follows up on sentencing. Whats the point of getting screwed up by an indeterminate time in jury duty when the judge disregrds everything thats said or proven during the trial and sends the perp home to shoot dope for 6 months.

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The good old days of getting laid off and going on UI are long gone for sure. Back in the good old days you could go to Mexico 6 to 8 months and surf Puerto Escondido and have your housemates fill out the UI cards for you when they came in the mail.

YES YES YES NO YES, this was the sequence of questions on the card. Houseloads of people were rotating in and out filing each others cards. The checks would pile up in your bank account and another groovy year would pass. It was a real blast to be on UI in the 70's. Ah the good old days.

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OK silly buggers it is then.

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Thats the pits alright. 2 months is a generous notice these days. In some business they just walk you out one day and take your pass. The EI peeps aren't your friends either. If your friend gets any severance EI divides it up into the sum you would recieve in weekly terms and you have to exhaust the severance before they will kick in.

Am I wrong anyone? I think thats how they work.

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"But I still feel obligated to vote after so many have died for the right"

Yes I agree wholeheartedly, go and vote, we owe them a lot for their sacrifice.

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Also good to see the empathy out there for others…the economy may have a silver lining in that it forces us, or reminds us or makes us realize what IS truly important in life, and to be there for friends and family.

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Remind your friend to use all resources. Being on EI gives him access to retraining programs and counseling. He can even make something good out of this if can train for an even better career.

There is no shame in using these resources as he has paid for them all those 20 years through his premiums.

To be blunt, if I landed in EI tomorrow, I wouldn't just grab at any job. I could just get laid off again. I would concentrate on the skills upgrade while living on reduced income.

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I've been laid off before. I thought I'd look forward to the time off, I have enough emergency savings to cover the bills, and I've got a lot of side projects I'd like to do.

It didn't work out the way I planned. After just a few days I started getting depressed and I'm generally a positive person. The low feeling caught me completely off-guard, because there were all these thing I wanted to do with my free time.

The thing I missed was the moment to moment feeling of people NEEDING what I was providing that I had regularly while I was at work. The one thing that helped distract me from my self-pity was visiting with friends.

Go for coffee, invite them out for lunch, have them over for a chat. Just be there for them. Let 'em rant a bit. Don't complain about your job if you have one, because they miss the very things that you're complaining about.

Be there for them now and it's far more likely that they'll be there for you in the future when you need them.

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We had three years of unelected government culminating in the unelected idiocy of Ujjal Dosanj

Unelected you say? What member of the government was unelected?

When you vote in a provincial election, you are electing your MLA for the next 4 years. The party with the most MLA's forms the government, and the leader of that party becomes premier. It's up to the parties to choose their own leaders, and they can do it any time they want. If you don't like their choice, you can vote for the other party in the next election.

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Anyway, it sucks all around. My friend worked in customer service for a large company btw. Most of us are scared as more and more friends seem to be heading to the chopping block.

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