Don’t decorate until after Nov. 11
The 10 days between Halloween and Remembrance Day should be free of Christmas sales and decorations to show respect to our veterans. Those who served and died to protect our personal freedoms died for your rights. During the war, if our side did not win, and the other side won, who knows what today would be like.
I do think it’s more respectful to hold off just a few days before decorating for the Christmas season. Those veterans sacrificed their lives, their limbs and many healthy minds. The least that business owners and individuals in the country can do is sacrifice 11 days of decorating in honour of the fallen.
Remember the veterans on their day, and leave the start of Christmas decorating to begin on Nov. 12. Joe Sawchuk Duncan economy. Unions raise wages of the employees they represent, allowing for extra money to be circulated throughout the community. They increase the retirement, medical, dental and extended health-care benefits of those same employees, creating pensioners with spending money.
Unions reduce income inequality and even increase the pay of nonunion workers by creating a standard. They reduce employee turnover and therefore increase the retention of the highest-skilled tradesmen and women.
B.C.’s construction unions facilitate the majority of completed apprenticeship training. It is for these key reasons that the B.C. NDP government established the Community Benefits Agreements.
“Community Benefit Agreements ensure projects will be on time, on budget, fair wages are paid to everyone and importantly that legacy of new workers for the future,” Premier John Horgan said.
So, it’s ludicrous for the ICBA to purport to know what constitutes “fairness” for working families. Phil Venoit President, Vancouver Island Building Trades Unions