Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!gords
From: gords@cognos.UUCP (Gord Smith)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Sunday shopping
Message-ID: <7750@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 89 14:20:31 GMT
References: <656@crk56.bnr.ca>
Reply-To: gords@cognos.UUCP (Gord Smith)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <656@crk56.bnr.ca> janick@crk56.bnr.ca (Janick Bergeron 1617964) writes:
>How can you justify, in a city like Ottawa or Toronto, where
>most of its work-force are white colar workers with similar
>working hours and often both men and women working, the forced
>closing of stores on Sundays ???

How about letting the people who have to work in the retail stores have a
life?  Back in high school I used to work in a 24-hour restaurant (Fuller's on
Richmond Road, actually) and believe me it was no fun having to work on all
days when the rest of civilization is off. My sister-in-law (that's right!) is
an OC Transpo driver and has to horse-trade like crazy to get a weekend day off
when typical family stuff happens (She had trouble getting a Saturday off for
*her own* wedding).

I know some services like these are "essential", but shopping is not.

Give these poor folks a break!  (No, I don't work in retail.)

>I hope sunday shopping will be an issue at the next provincial
>and municipal elections !!

So do I.  Nuke it.

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D. Gordon Smith         Voice: (613) 738-1338 ext 6118       P.O. Box 9707
Cognos Incorporated       FAX: (613) 738-0002                3755 Riverside Dr.
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