Morning Coffee – By Aaron Hall
Weather forecast for Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Today – A few flurries ending late this morning then a mix of sun and cloud with 30 percent chance of rain showers. Wind east 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light this afternoon. High plus 4. UV index 3 or moderate.
Tonight – A few flurries ending near midnight then mainly cloudy with 30 percent chance of flurries. Flurries or a few rain showers early this evening. Fog patches overnight. Local snowfall amount 2 cm. Low zero.
Wallaceburg Legion Chili Cook Off winners
The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 18 held their annual Chili Cook Off on the weekend.
Here are the winners:
Judges choice: 1st – John Daly, 2nd – Rob LaRiviere, 3rd – Velda Green.
People’s Choice: 1st – Velda Green.
Nursing Job Fair today
Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) is hosting a Nursing Job Fair on Tuesday, March 6, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the John D. Bradley Convention Centre, located at 565 Richmond Street in Chatham. Nurses from across Southwestern Ontario are invited to visit the job fair to meet representatives of the clinical management team, talk to staff nurses, view displays and enter prize draws.
CKHA is currently accepting applications for Registered Nurses, Registered Practical Nurses and Nurse Practitioners within many of its core programs including Emergency, Intensive Care Unit, Medicine, Surgical/Operating Room, Women & Children’s Health, Mental Health & Addictions, Rehabilitation and Complex Continuing Care.
“Our annual Nursing Job Fair is an excellent way for nursing professionals to explore career opportunities available at Chatham-Kent Health Alliance,” says Lisa Northcott, Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive, CKHA. “CKHA is an organization that strives to ensure we support our staff to provide the highest quality healthcare and we promote a safe and healthy work environment for all of our staff.” She adds, “Whether a candidate is just starting their career or seasoned in the healthcare profession, the Nursing Job Fair allows attendees to learn about our culture and values.”
CKHA Recruitment Advisor, Kyle Jelovic, explains the value of the job fair, “The Nursing Job Fair will give nursing professionals interested in employment with CKHA an opportunity to experience our culture and find out what we have to offer.” He adds, “We have numerous open positions and foresee a continuing need for nursing staff. Attendees will be able to learn about our application process and have their questions answered by clinical managers and staff representing all of our nursing departments.”
Interested candidates are encouraged to visit CKHA’s website, www.ckha.on.ca/careers and submit an online application under future opportunities. Registration is not required. Free parking is available at the John D Bradley Centre.
Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) is a 200+ bed community hospital, equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and technologies. Formed in 1998, CKHA is committed to core service excellence, top-flight operational performance and to becoming a facility of choice in Southwestern Ontario. With sites in Chatham and Wallaceburg, CKHA is comprised of approximately 1,360 compassionate staff, 178 physicians and 300 volunteers who serve the medical needs of 102,000 residents in the Municipality of Chatham-Kent. CKHA is designated a schedule one facility under the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and cares for tens of thousands of inpatients, outpatients and emergency patients annually.
Ontario supporting innovative solutions to fight climate change
To help fight climate change, Ontario is encouraging businesses, utilities, non-profit organizations, registered charities, conservation authorities and Indigenous organizations to develop new and innovative solutions for reducing greenhouse gas pollution.
Chris Ballard, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, was joined this week by Parminder Sandhu, Green Ontario Fund board chair and Interim CEO, to announce the launch of the GreenON Challenge.
This program will support the exploration and development of new projects to reduce pollution, advance the province’s low-carbon economy and meet Ontario’s greenhouse gas reduction targets.
Projects could include, for example:
– Developing buildings that use dramatically less energy than typical buildings due to energy efficient designs, including high level insulation, high-performance windows and construction materials that prevent air leaks
– A row of houses that save energy by sharing it from one centralized heating source
– Developing new financing mechanisms for low-carbon technologies and processes
– Developing more energy efficient practices to develop products, such as switching to less carbon-intensive fuel, like biofuels, recovering heat, or changing the chemical makeup of a process
– Finding transformative ways to increase the number of home energy improvements.
Funded by proceeds from Ontario’s carbon market, the Green Ontario Fund is making it easier for people and businesses to choose and adopt low-carbon technologies and processes that help reduce greenhouse gas pollut ion at home and work.
Making it easier to access and adopt low-carbon technologies and processes is part of Ontario’s plan to create fairness and opportunity during this period of rapid economic change. The plan includes a higher minimum wage and better working conditions, free tuition for hundreds of thousands of students, easier access to affordable child care, and free prescription drugs for everyone under 25 through the biggest expansion of medicare in a generation.
Ontario is investing up to $300 million in the GreenON Challenge, beginning in 2018-19. To apply or learn more, visit GreenON.ca.
Ontario-based private businesses, non-profit organizations, registered charities, conservation authorities and utilities, as well as Indigenous not-for-profit organizations, are invited to submit expressions of ideas by May 7, 2018. Selected applicants will be invited to submit a more detailed business case.
To be eligible, projects must be done in Ontario, have the potential to help Ontario meet its greenhouse gas reduction goals as part of its Climate Change Action Plan, be completed within four years and not receive funding from another program funded with proceeds from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Account.
The Climate Change Action Plan and carbon market form the backbone of Ontario’s strategy to cut greenhouse gas pollution to 15 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, 37 per cent by 2030 and 80 per cent by 2050.
The government will report on the plan’s implementation annually and review the plan at least every five years.
Budget 2018: Sharing parental leave for a stronger middle class
The Government of Canada is committed to breaking down barriers to gender equality in education, employment and entrepreneurship, so that women and girls can participate in, and contribute to, Canada’s growing economy to the benefit of the middle class and those working hard to join it.
When women have equal opportunities to succeed, they can be powerful agents of change—driving strong economic growth and improving the quality of life for their families and their communities.
This week, the Honourable Maryam Monsef, Minister of Status of Women, was in Peterborough to highlight Budget 2018 and to discuss how investments in Budget 2018 help the Government take the steps needed to encourage the broader participation of women in the workforce and build an economy that works for everyone.
“Investing in women means strengthening the economy for everyone,” Monsef said.
“Women often end up taking on more caregiving responsibilities, which impacts their ability to reenter the workforce after having children. In jurisdictions where they are in place, we have seen that policies that encourage shared parenting dramatically increase the number of fathers who take time off work to care for their newborns. And when support is available to both parents, including adoptive and same-sex parents, the result is a more equitable division of parenting responsibilities. This is one more way that we are creating systemic change and providing women with equal economic opportunities. Unleashing their full potential will drive innovation and support the middle class.”
With Budget 2018, the Government proposes to introduce a new Employment Insurance Parental Sharing Benefit that would provide an additional five weeks of Employment Insurance Parental Benefits when parents—including adoptive and same-sex couples—agree to share parental leave. This “use-it-or-lose-it” incentive encourages both parents in two-parent families to share equally in the work of raising their children—which will allow greater flexibility for new moms to return to work sooner.
With equality of opportunity as a guiding principle, Budget 2018 takes the next steps in the Government’s plan to create good, well-paying jobs, improve lives and grow the economy for all Canadians.
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