Club Q Q107-Loyalty Club (Southern ON Only) v4

[hmjm61]

Good morning!

[Mechman47]

[WolfDio]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbDb0F1ij1A

Home Sweet Home, Sudbury. Home of the Slag dump.

[rockit]

Morning Q-sters

Everyone got their umbrellas ready...

Keep dry and have a great day

[madchives]

ok and then so then - it's the browser or maybe not

http://youtu.be/v6EiYbRTv4M

hmmm sc is getting to be bothersome and doesnt' seem to care
see you all later on,,,

[heartgirl99]

Morning Q-sters

Everyone got their umbrellas ready...

Keep dry and have a great day

[heartgirl99]

[Danieladd]

good morning everyone!!!!!!!! have a great tuesday

[ecat444]

Good Morning All!

[Andit]

Good morning, everyone.

Off to the land of no technology (aka my parents ). Have a couple of appts today & tomorrow, so will be MIA. Tomorrow, I get to take the little Siamese in to have the operation (cause she doesn't hate me enough from last time I took her ). Here's hoping her time at the doctor is less traumatic than my time at my dentist.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day. Stay dry!

[kawam]

Time for a mid morning Expresso

[ecat444]

McGuinty says Ontario is ready to strengthen animal welfare laws

By Staff Torstar News Service
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Torstar News Service A petition by more than 76,000 people was delivered to Queen's Park by former staff of Marineland. MPP Cheri DiNovo accepted the petitions. Ontario is ready to strengthen its animal welfare laws, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Monday.
“My sense is we’re going to have to do something,” McGuinty said in response to six Marineland whistleblowers who presented a petition with nearly 77,000 signatures to Queen’s Park.
The premier’s pledge comes in the wake of a Torstar News Service investigation, where former trainers blamed chronic health issues among sea mammals, including the recent death of a baby beluga, on staffing shortages and sporadically poor water at the park.
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“Laws need to be changed in Ontario, they need to be established so the suffering of animals no longer continues,” said Phil Demers, a former marine mammal trainer at the park who quit earlier this year.
Jim Hammond, a former land animal care supervisor at the park, choked up at one point on Monday, saying he failed the animals.
“Provincial regulations are necessary and that’s why we’re all here,” Hammond said. “We have to speak for the animals that cannot speak for themselves.”
There are no regulations regarding sea mammals or other animals in captivity in Ontario.
Cheri DiNovo, MPP for Parkdale-High Park, will bring the Change.org petition forward when the legislature sits Thursday. On Monday, DiNovo delivered the petition to McGuinty’s office.
“We need to get this government to act and act as soon as possible,” DiNovo said.
Rob Laidlaw, director of Zoocheck Canada, a national animal protection charity that organized the petition, said, “Right now in Ontario, anybody can open a zoo or aquarium or menagerie.
“You do not require a licence from a provincial government, ministry department or any agency whatsoever.”
The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Niagara Falls Humane Society and the Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums are investigating allegations of animal suffering and neglect at the theme park.
It’s unclear if the reports will be released by the time Marineland closes for the year after Thanksgiving. CAZA inspectors gave Marineland owner John Holer a thumbs-up after its initial visit a week after Torstar News Service series broke in August — although it says its investigation wasn’t completed.
McGuinty said his minority Liberal government would be ready to move on tougher animal protection laws once the dust settles.
“We acknowledge the concerns expressed in that petition, but at the moment there’s an ongoing investigation,” he said.
“We think the responsible thing to do . . . is to wait for that investigation to be completed and see what recommendations come to the fore as a result of that, then make a determination as to what we need to do to further protect animals in Ontario,” added McGuinty.
Brad Dewar, an investigations and communications officer with the OSPCA, refused to discuss the ongoing investigation, but did embrace tougher animal welfare laws.
“The Ontario SPCA certainly encourages constant improvements to animal welfare laws and regulations and that’s something we certainly advocate,” Dewar said.
Demers and the others who came forward promised to keep the animals’ plight in the spotlight, regardless of the results of the investigations.
“We need these new laws. The animals need these laws,” Demers said. “The paycheque is gone, but our jobs remain for taking care of the animals.”
I sure hope they do more than talk about it and do it soon!!!!!!

[22hicks]

good morning every1

[the H team]

morning Q sters,
QUACK, QUACK!
what an interesting adventure coming to work this morning. talk about downpours almost all the way from my house to the QEW in Burlington. as soon as you got to the Burlington Skyway, the rain lessened off to spitting & once over the bridge, it was just cloudy, no rain. welcome to the twilight zone.
hope everyone has a great day & stay dry.

We did it, we won the last game 18/1! Won every one of the season except one where there was a tie!!!




Thanks for the good luck alahamom!

BIG CONGRATS FOR AN UNDEFEATED SEASON, ECAT!

I want to say, "THANK You!!!!" to Everyone for Your Cheering-Section Skills via Notes & Reps!!!!

It was an... Interesting Day, to say the Least.
Not very Productive.
Trying to Locate Items was (and still is) "Fun"... and will be for a while yet.
7 of us were w*rking in a Boardroom and 2 had Issues Logging into the Network.
After Helping them, there was Interuption after Interuption.

It will be Crazy, while I am Stupid-Busy, but that is the Song Playing on the Wind of Change.

Oh...
Since I am in Close-Proximity with Co-W*rkers, I may not be Online as much for a little while.
Also, no Radio or Q107... until I get a Desk.

soon you will have your office, but know we are thinking of you & i'm sure you'll pop in afterwork to let us know how you've been doing.

The new trips sound cool, and good luck to all. I will not be entering so your chances just got a teeny bit better. I'll be out of the country from later this week until late October. Please behave yourselves and that goes especially for you Loocie! I may be a couple of continents away but I have spies.

have fun on your trip. try not to get too "heated" up when you're there. of course you can always bring the heat back with you in October. they'll be some of us who would like it.

[22hicks]

Well my kitchen & bathroom renos are done !!! Yippee !!!
Still have other projects to work on, but I'm SO done right now !!
Nice to finally have my house back & some privacy again.

Personally, I find fall so depressing; neighbour just closed up their pool,
knowing that the good weather is almost done & winter is just around the corner.

I'm stressed & sad on so many fronts,
so, on a miserable day like this, I thought I'd try to put a smile on our faces. Hope u enjoy.