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Don’t know if you noticed # 12 in today’s (June 6th) Staff News. It pointed to a link that eventually leads to this MGEU memorandum from May 31, which in turn points to a copy of this note sent by email to the Office of the Superintendent, Pension Commission, by Jody Gillis, Chairperson, Superannuation and Insurance Liaison Committee.

That note states,

“The government has communicated that there are no plans for changes to Manitoba’s public sector pension plans.“

So it looks like the government’s proposed target benefit/shared risk plan, which was opposed by the Liaison Committee, will not be applied to our CSSB defined benefits plan after all.

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As reported in  this morning’s Vancouver Post

Guy Dugas, 66, was arrested yesterday by Vancouver police for having allegedly assaulted a West End female resident over a period of months. The accused initially resisted arrest, police said, but was eventually safely taken into custody.

The complainant, whose name is protected by a publication ban, alleges that Dugas repeatedly accosted her verbally in the elevators of a Yaletown building in which both have a condo, he on the 16th floor, she on the 29th. Continue reading →

Not much in the way of news since our post: FAST ACTION REQUIRED! IS YOUR PENSION AT RISK?

The MGEU Website did post on February 23rd that it has put forward a pension submission, and holds the premier to his previous commitment that no changes would be made to public pension plans.

We, like the MGEU, continue to monitor any proposed changes. Please comment below if you hear or read of any new developments. We do not want to have our hard-earned pensions weakened.

Read the full MGEU submission to the Pension Commission (pdf)

Have you read about the latest Justin Trudeau PR fiasco? When a young woman commented during a town hall meeting, “Maternal love is the love that’s going to change the future of mankind”, Trudeau promptly interjected, “We like to say ‘peoplekind’, not necessarily ‘mankind’. It’s more inclusive.”

Fox and Friends, one of President Trump’s favourite TV shows, was only one of many to pounce on our PM. British journalist Piers Morgan crowned Trudeau the “Chief PC Plonker” (PC for Politically Correct), and “a spineless virtue-signalling excuse for a feminist”. Australian columnist Rita Panahi called him the “Kim Kardashian of political leaders; an all-style, no-substance himbo with all the depth of a puddle.” Ouch…

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