Save Our Sundays

Sunday shopping hours in Manitoba are going to be relaxed

Another province in Canada is going to relax Sunday shopping hours?? Reading this article has me fuming. I thought Nova Scotia was the last place in Canada to have wide open Sunday shopping. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/sunday-shopping-for-votes-148055965.html. Apparently Manitoba has limited hours that you can shop on Sundays. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/sunday-shopping-for-votes-148055965.html " Eight months ago, Premier Greg Selinger said the NDP had no plans to change the province's Sunday shopping laws. The premier said he believed the existing law struck the right balance between access to shopping and providing opportunities for families to spend time together."

What is the difference between a binding plebiscite and binding arbitration?

On March 7th, Openfile.ca reports on a suggestion to do a story on Sunday shopping five years later: "no such thing as a binding plebiscite" . Since then I have wondered and thought really hard about this and honestly I have more questions.

Openfile.ca reports ""no such thing as a binding plebiscite"

Have you ever heard about the web site openfile.ca ? You can suggest a story and they investigate it and report it. So that's what I did. I suggested a story and they reported it. Claire Michalewicz, a reporter from open file came up with this - Sunday shopping five years later: "no such thing as a binding plebiscite".

Diana Whalen's quest for a family day Holiday in February

On January 5th on News 95.7Fm on the Rick Howe show , I was listening to Rick and his guest Diana Whalen. Every year she has been pushing for Nova Scotia to adopt

a day in February as a family day . It's quite ironic that her party supported the government in taking away 52 family days and now she wants to give us one back.

Should Toronto stores be open on holidays?

When I came across this story on CTV's web site in Toronto "Should Toronto stores be open on holidays?" I just had to respond, thinking that the station would actually put my comments on their web site. How wrong I was to

believe that they would actually do it? It's not hard to see that Sunday shopping is still an issue in Toronto even though they had Sunday shopping for years.

Response to Valerie Payn's article Sunday Shopping 5 Years Later

In case you haven't read,"Valerie Payn's" article in the Chronicle Herald, the story can be found here titled "Sunday Shopping 5 Years Later" . She speaks about change and how we are scared of change and how good it was for Nova Scotia. She's got to be kidding!

The simple solution to the price increase in gas

As the debate rages on about gas prices and how it effects us, one has to wonder why we continue to remain silent about it.

TD Banks open on Sundays

As I watched the commercials on ATV this past two weeks, I'm shaking my head! 300 TD Banks across the country are now open on Sundays. After hearing that, some memories came back to me of an incident that took place before the 2004 Sunday shopping plebiscite, when I went to my local bank and Sunday shopping came up.

Sunday shopping bill passes Third Reading in PEI

Sunday shopping has passed it's third reading to allow Sunday shopping all year on PEI. Speaker Kathleen Casey broke the tie to allow Sunday shopping all year around. Last week, P.E.I. MLAs also split their vote on the proposed changes to the Retail Business Holidays Act with 13 MLAs voting for the bill and 13 MLAs voting against the bill.

Prince Edward Island Sunday shopping law voted down

I have to be honest, that after reading the news on CBC Canada's last Sunday shopping law voted down ,I'm fuming over this decision because so many people in PEI have not had the opportunity to vote on it. Why did Robert Ghiz allow a free vote in the legislature and at the same time allow his own party members to vote on what they wanted to?