Stompity

[trouble]

Dear Halifax:

I hate you and everything you stand for.

No love,

Me.

At least the liquor store was open since apparently no place else in the city is.

PS: I want Katie & Emmy to come home now. And Ginny! to get here. And Don to wake up. And a pony and free coffee forever.

Comments

[scruloose]

These are good points. The two practical advantages I saw in the Sunday Closing law were that it gave the same day off to everyone who it covered (which, admittedly, did not include small corner stores etc), and that it was already in place and so didn't require arduous and unlikely-to-succeed campaigning to change the labour protection laws. Hell, the majority voted in a "binding" referendum to maintain the status quo and the arrogant Tory government just ignored it.

[trouble]

Yeah, that last bit is the bit that irritates the heck outta me. It's the same thing they did in Western Australia. There's been either two or three referendum that have clearly indicated that the general public does not want to go over to Daylight Savings Time (I think they were 70 or 80% against), and yet, they decided to do it "for a three year trial run" anyway because of business concerns.