As I tell anyone who will listen, I worked for Unemployment Insurance and its successors for over 40 years. I learned a lot of things about people over that time, especially about unemployed people.
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Posted in life, Opinion, Review with tags "Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women And Girls ", "Porchlight " Twin Flames, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Employment Insurance, Peter Montreuil, Robert Segarini on July 16, 2020 by segariniPeter VS Technology
Posted in Opinion with tags Air Miles, Alberta, C.P.P., Don't Believe a Word I Say, E.I., Employment Insurance, Harper, Luddite, National Service Desk, Ned Ludd, Ohio, Peter Montreuil, Phantom, Robert Segarini, Social Insurance Number, Toronto, Valetta, WKRP on November 23, 2017 by segarini
While researching this column, I discovered some interesting information about Ned Ludd, the founder of the Luddite movement, whose adherents would smash machinery with hammers because they feared job loss from industrialisation. There is some dispute as to whether he, in fact, even existed. Also, at that time, “factories” as we know them today were very rare. Hence it was generally a case of a mob breaking into a private home to destroy the machinery. Undoubtedly this was a recipe for violence.
