Just a reminder, in case you've got spare tasks here and there, there's today even more folks out there waking up to community un-engagement. In this latest round of "loosing the ballast", it is nearly a fifth of the Owen Sound plant -- GM may not know this, but we do: The secret of a happy and productive society is having a gainfully engaged and 100% involved membership :)

Tenneco Canada Inc. workers learned Monday the company will lay off 104 of its 524 workers in September as part of a permanent staff reduction at the plant. It says the move is a direct result of GM cuts announced last month.

The facility assembles shocks for a range of GM small pickups and SUVs. The vast majority of the layoffs are manufacturing jobs.
[ Auto supplier Tenneco Canada to lay off 104 ]

I read once somewhere of how some of the Pharoahs had commissioned the pyramids not for self-aggrandizement, but because drought had left them with a problem of mass unemployment. Smart folks them Kehmet, no wonder they lasted so many centuries. That story was known to FDR too. A happy Canada is a working Canada, and if we were smart too, we'd consider the discharging of human ballast without firm and comprehensive repurposing plans to be a civil crime.