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Arguably, the passing yesterday of Queen Elizabeth II is the biggest news item at the moment.
I am not particularly a Royalist but have no problem living in a constitutional monarchy. Seeing QE on the coins here has really no impact on how to use those coins. Provincial and the Federal governments need to get Royal Assent but that also has nothing to do with me.
In other news, Pakistan has suffered extraordinary monsoon rains and has a third of its country under water. It is a terrible situation.
To lighten this post I'll mention that today marks exactly the fourth month completed at my new job; where I am under probation until the sixth month has completed. So far so good and it doesn't look like there is any risk I would be booted out of this job ahead of probation end.
Finally, as a quadragenarian in a new group filled with mostly young vicenarians makes me feel a little like an outsider; but this will not stop me from going on Sunday.
2 comments:
the news of the queen was indeed news and is still news many days later (and likely for many days to come). I feel the same way about it as you, with the addition that it seems she lived a consistent, steadfast sort of life in the role she played and I must admire it to that extent.
I am now in my 6th month in my new role which had a probation period but none of my leaders referred to it in my 1-on-1 weekly touchpoints with them. When I enter my 7th month I will be allowed to participate in the group retirement savings plan, which is a good thing I've been missing out on since my employer will match my contributions up to a specific percentage (which they frame was "free money" but it's really part of the overall compensation package I agreed to when they hired me, much like the "bonus" I will receive next year for my contribution to the team/organization).
It is horrible what's happening to Pakistan. It seems the least wealthy nations are impacted most negatively by the excesses of the wealthiest nations (I've done research work on this topic and this is based on empirical evidence). The unfairness of it all is overwhelming and I have to remember I have no real control over it as an individual living in one of those wealthy nations responsible except to try to use my vote for people who might use their power to make meaningful changes to affect it.
Thank you for the detailed response! My company's RRSP matching is odd in that changes made to it can only happen twice a year and with respect to the time I started I can only get the matching as of January, though I could start contributing on my own immediately. If I put in 1% they put 1%, if I do 2% they do 2%, all they way up to if I do 5% they do 5% but that's where they max out; I could put 6% but they'll put 5%. I started with 5% right from the first day.
To your last paragraph, yes, wealthy nations agreed to provide 100B$ to poorer nations for climate change mitigation but though the commitments are there, none of the countries, ours included, has come close to giving the committed amount. An even more recent news release from the IPCC is saying that things are even more dire now with emissions in the last two years still rising. Here in Quebec we are having a provincial election and the only party that has an aggressive enough climate policy is the Green Party which consistently gets 2-4% of the vote but spread out across the province. I vote Green anyhow.
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