North Koreans In Russian Gulags

(hat tip: One Free Korea and Fred Fry International)

Russians are using North Korean slave labour. It shouldn't come as a surprise if it does strike one as horrendous.

"The Koreans work year round with two days off per year," he told me. "All the other days are working days no matter what the weather conditions, they always work.

In case we forget how "lucky" we are:

Residents can take their garbage to any of three transfer stations. But once they get there, some are finding it isn't easy to just dump their trash.

On Tuesday morning at the Ingram transfer station near Keele Street and Ingram Drive, in the city's west end, people were being told there's a three-bag limit.

Striking CUPE workers milling about at the entrance won't give any help, though some are directing people where to put their trash.

Some residents who were blocked from driving into the stations had to lug their refuse in on foot.

Those who left their bags at the gate were handed $380 tickets for illegal dumping.

The coup-de-grace:

Canada Day events threatened

The city's annual Pride Parade will go ahead this weekend, but deputy city manager Sue Cork said Monday that if the strike continues "all city-run Canada Day events" on July 1 will be cancelled.

All for:

City workers, even the unskilled kind, make a considerable hourly wage. Janitors make at least $19.56/hour, litter pickers $21.11/hour, garbage collectors $24.14/hour, meter readers $26.58/hour, bus and subway drivers $26.58/hour and bylaw enforcement officers $28.67/hour, to cite a few examples.

Is CUPE going to have a strike for the North Koreans who aren't paid $21 an hour and who can't add up their sick leave? I know Russia doesn't care about them but surely the people who ruined Canada Day for everyone must have a shred of decency.

Well, no, they don't.