October 21, 2009

Free Boneless Chicken Fillets From KFC on Nov 1

To support the launch of the new premium all-white meat, skinless, Boneless Chicken Fillet, KFC Canada is giving away a free fillet to every customer between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. on November 1.

Details on KFC Canada's nationwide Chicken Fillet Giveaway:

- free Boneless Chicken Fillets will be given away from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, November 1

- KFC express locations are not serving the Boneless Chicken Fillet product and will not be participating in the giveaway promotion

- limit one Boneless Chicken Fillet per customer

- customers in line at 4 p.m. will still qualify to receive product while supplies last

- should a restaurant run out of Boneless Chicken Fillets during the designated two-hour time period, customers will be provided with a rain cheque that can be redeemed from November 4 to November 15

- no purchase necessary

This is the source

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October 14, 2009

Long Run for Business Studying

The University of Regina and SIAST have reached an agreement that lets graduates from SIAST’s two-year business diploma programs obtain the U of R’s four-year bachelor of business administration degree in just two years.

The agreement also allows graduates from SIAST’s one-year business certificate program to obtain the U of R’s bachelor of business administration degree in just three years.

The transfer credit agreement provides full recognition of SIAST’s business certificate program, as well as SIAST’s business accountancy, administration, financial services, human resources, information systems and marketing diploma programs at Palliser Campus.

Source from Leader Post

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October 13, 2009

The Paper Mate® Biodegradable Contest

Open only to legal residents of Canada who have reached the age of majority in the province or territory in which they reside. No purchase necessary.

Contest Rules

1 Grand Prize
One Toyota 2010 Prius with Premium Package (“B” Suffix), model code KN3DUP.

2 Secondary Prizes
One Apple Mac Book Pro 15’
Ten Roots Green Clothing Prize Packs
Twenty-five Paper Mate Prize Packs

3 Monthly Prizes (1 per month for 6 months)
Garden Gourmet Backyard Composter.

The Monthly Contests Draw dates will be
October 7, 2009
November 6, 2009
December 7, 2009
January 8, 2010
February 5, 2010
March 5, 2010
All Monthly Contests will be draw at 2:00 p.m.

Click here for more details.

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October 04, 2009

Take Your Best Shot

The Leader-Post's popular Take Your Best Shot readers' photo contest returns this month for another year.

Readers send in pictures; Leader-Post editors pick four monthly finalists, then you, the readers, pick the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place photos for the month, which we post online, but also publish in the printed edition of the Leader-Post on the last Saturday of each month, in the Weekender section.

After 12 months, we'll post the 12 monthly winners and readers will pick the Grand Prize winner, photo of the year

This is the contest rules. This is the address to submit your photos.

Join today! You just may be a winner.

Source from Leader Post.

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Scam On Cell-Phone

My cell phone bill for last month (the latest one) has an extra $30 to its usual amount around $40 leading to a big number of over $70. It really sucks. Where does that extra come from? And why does it appear in my bill? Simply, there are scams on my cell-phone but I have no idea about them until today after I consulted with a Sasktel customer service staff. The extra $30 is called Text Messaging Premium categorized as adjustments.

One day, when I came to a website which offers free hot movies (only available in cinemas) to watch, I had taken a short survey in order to use the access. In that survey, I have given it my cell phone number and email address, forgetting to double check the “rule”. Now this is the result!

As soon as I register my cellphone number, since then I am continuingly sent competition text messages ( for an IPod Touch) like these below:

Message from 84040.
Q: What is Canada’s longest river? A: Fraser River or B: The Mackenzie River. Text either GIFT A or GIFT B to 84040! Info: 18666700126.

Message from 77277.
Q: What animal is depicted on the Canadian quarter? A: a Caribou or B: a Goose. Txt either GIFT A or GIFT B to 77277! Info: 18666700126.

Because I took the survey twice, then I have two sources of service which are sending me texts as 84040 and 77277. Although I never reply to these texts, still each costs me $15 per month. To eliminate these scams, all I have to do is simply text STOP to reply these texts.

Though it is too late for me now but it works perfectly. Right after I texted STOP, I receive from 40404040 a message like “You will no longer receive messages from this service. / Vous ne recevres plus de messages de cet service.”

Keep an eye on your cell-phone or you will pay “extra” like me for unnecessary things. $30 is the cost for me to know this. Hopefully, it will help you to avoid cell-phone scams.

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October 03, 2009

Bill 80

This is Bill 80

There is an official petition against the Bill 80

Bill 80 is believed to be unnecessary and cumbersome. It is going to drive down the income of those who are working in construction sector just when wages are finally catching up with the rest of Canada, the government wants to roll them back, lead to unnecessary competition between career counterparts. It would create two parallel systems for the construction industry in Saskatchewan -- one for existing unions under the old legislation, and a new one aimed at getting out-of-province contractors and unions to come to Saskatchewan. The Bill is announced without consulting and notifying to construction labor forces and organizations. It is a “solution to a problem that doesn't exist”.

Bill 80 will make the workplace less democratic. Under the old system, workers were free to choose to be unionized or non-unionized. If they chose to be unionized, they would be represented by the craft union associated with their trade. And if the workers later decided they didn't want to be unionized, they could apply to the Labour Relations Board to have their union decertified. Not so under Bill 80. It allows employers to pick the union to represent the workers. Letting the boss choose the union is no choice at all.

Bill 80 allows employees a back door to get out of their union certifications. It will let employees shed their unions if they can prove that a union has been inactive for a period of three years -- even if that occurred in the distant past and during a period when the employer in question had no employees.

Right now, if a union doesn't represent its membership for three years, a company can go to the labour board and have that union decertified. We have no problem with that; a union must represent its members or face the consequences.

However, Bill 80 changes the rules and applies them retroactively. For example, consider a company that has been unionized for 25 years, was inactive for three years in the downturn of the 1980s and then started up again and has been in operation for the last 20 years. Under Bill 80, it could have its union decertified because of the three-year gap 20 years ago.

Each of these points is reason enough to reject Bill 80. But the most important reason to reject it is because this legislation resurrects old battles that have been put to rest between business and labour, and pits Saskatchewan workers against each other, union against union, and Saskatchewan contractors against large out-of-province rivals.

Above is paraphrased from The Starphoenix.

Following is the viewpoint of the writer, CEO of the Canadian Home Builders Association – Saskatchewan from Leader Post.

“Contractors are able to voluntarily recognize a union. That right already exists under the Trade Union Act. Such recognition is subject to challenges by other unions or by the employees of that contractor. The employees do have choices.

Collective bargaining agreements usually require the participation and agreement of both the employer and the union.

Bill 80 will provide workers with more choice about which union represents them, unlike the ill-conceived current provisions of the Construction Industry Labour Relations Act that makes this choice for the workers. Union leaders in the construction industry are going to have to work to organize and retain their membership, without the members simply being handed over to them as they are today.

Bill 80 clearly states that the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board will be the body to decide on any abandonment claims, not unionized contractors.”

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Saskatchewan Graduate Retention Program

Saskatchewan is thriving and opportunities for grads have never been brighter.

The Graduate Retention Program (GRP) rewards you for building your future in Saskatchewan by providing a refundable income tax credit to rebate up to $20,000 of tuition fee paid by eligible graduates who remain in Saskatchewan.

For 1 year certificate, Diploma or Journeyperson, max rebate for ‘06 & later grads is $3,000.
For 2 year certificate and diploma: ’06 & ’07 - $3,200, ’08 & later - $6,400.
For 3 year undergraduate degree: ’06 & ’07 - $5,000, ’08 - $10,000, ’09 & later- $15,000.
For 4 year undergraduate degree: ’06 & ’07 - $5,000, ’08 - $10,000, ’09 -$15,000, ’10 & later - $20,000.

Anyone who graduates in 2006 or beyond from an approved program in Saskatchewan in continues to live here is eligible. Approved programs must be equivalent to at least six months of full-time study and result in a certificate, diploma, or undergraduate degree; or provide journeypersons certification.

Eligibility will also be extended to graduates of approved programs at post-secondary institutions outside Saskatchewan. For a list of these approved programs, check out www.aeel.gov.sk.ca/grp

The above address is also for more information or to apply.

To learn more:
Email to SFAWEB@sasked.gov.sk.ca
Student Financial Assistance Branch
4635 Wascana Parkway
Box 650
Regina, SK S4P 3R3

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