The High COst of Politics

I love the juxtapostioning of opposing or complimentary stories on the same page in newspapers. I am sure that layout editors do this as a kind a marvelous prank.

On the left hand side of Tuesday's Sun, a story about political appointees getting mighty raises. Useless ciphers like the CRTC and the Immigration & Refugee Board (and we all are grateful for the wonderful jobs all these folks are doing) are receiving very generous Christmas bumps.

On the right hand side of the same page, the Human Rights tribunal determines that for years, nurses, as a class of people, have been discriminated against and could be owed hundreds of million s of dollars in back wages for doing the same tasks that doctors do and being payed a fraction thereof.