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VOTE for Safa Shawish to win the second best job for Letsbuyit.co.uk

Safa is ready to go on an International Journey to find you Shopping Exclusivities from across the World

Safa Shawish has applied to the (second) best job in the world to be the International Shopping Consultant for www.letsbuyit.com. You may wonder what that consists of; it is mainly traveling and shopping to report the shopping journeys via blogs and exclusive footage of the diverse travel adventures. Part of the application criteria involved the creation of a video and its promotion. As a result, Safa’s perpetual motivation shines through her smile, giggles, and excitement while telling all her family, friends and strangers to watch and enjoy her video. Today, Safa is officially one of the TOP contestants! She finds herself with an internationally diverse coverage of views from across the globe as it has been viewed in California, Indonesia, Singapore, Kenya, Morocco, Germany, UK, Spain, Italy, Bahrein, Qatar, Louisiana, New York, Washington, Lebanon, UAE, Jordan, Eygpt, Palestinian Territories, France, Sweden, Tanzania, India, Hong Kong and many many more! You may tune into her Facebook group to learn more!

How can you help Safa Shawish win this competition and fulfill her childhood dream of being an International Shopping Consultant? You can go to www.youtube.com and search her by typing Safa Montreal. Voting for Safa Shawish is simple and free; please help her realize her dream of becoming an International Shopping Consultant! The deadline for voting is December 14th so don’t wait another moment and view her video on www.youtube.com. Please feel free spread the word by talking to your friends, families, colleagues and significant others.

Visit her online application at: http://job.letsbuyit.co.uk/SafaShawish
Visit her Youtube link at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ume48eiFUJQ

Her video is currently at: 1778 views, 102 ratings, 61 comments

Thanks again,
Safa

Contravention Stationnement Montreal – Constat d’infraction 37$

Stationner à Montréal n’est pas évident. Souvent on doit faire plus d’un tour avant de trouver une place et quand on en trouve une, on bloque la circulation pour quelques instants, le temps que la personne quitte et qu’on prend sa place.

Mon but ici est de dénoncer les idioties de certains agents qui émettent les contraventions. J’ai eu une contravention aujourd’hui de 37$ parceque je venais de stationner, et je terminais une conversation au téléphone. Je suis resté à peine 1 minutes dans ma voiture, le temps que je raccroche, quand un agent et venu me mettre en main propre (ma fenêtre était ouverte) un constat d’infraction pour ne pas avoir payé mon parcomètre. Je croyais que c’était une blague mais l’agent m’a expliqué qu’il est arrivé à pied par en arrière et n’a pas remarqué que j’étais dans l’auto avec ma fenêtre ouverte. Il me dit que ce n’est pas grave et que je peux essayer de le contester et il est partit en parlant sur son cellulaire. J’ai vite compris en le voyant faire qu’il était distrait sur son cellulaire et qu’il émettait des contraventions même au gens qui faisait la file devant la borne de paiement !!!

Je trouve ça exagéré que une perte de temps. La Ville de Montreal se doit d’engager des gens avec un peu de sens commun et d’arrêter d’engager des idiots. Je trouve que le stationnement sur rue est déjà très cher.. On n’a pas besoin de payer en plus des contraventions de 37$ pour des erreurs de tel sorte. On va sûrement me dire que je peux le contester et je le sais. Mais le temps et l’énergie que je dois dépenser pour défendre ma cause tout en sachant que je risque de ne pas la gagné à cause d’une erreur, me rend désespérer.

Je vous invite à partager vos expériences et vos mécontentements envers les agents qui émettent des contraventions pour des infractions de stationnements.

Pratique raciste de Western Union

Voici ce que j’ai envoyé a l’équipe de JE,
Je vous écrit pour dénoncer une pratique raciste et injuste, qui contredit toutes le valeurs et principe de notre pays.
J’ai tenté en février de transférer l’équivalent de 600 $ via western union, a une personne a Kinshasa en République Démocratique du Congo.
Le récipient de cet argent s’appellait Mohamad Salah Ferdinand.
L’argent a été débité de ma carte visa , et quelques moment plus tard le représentant de Western Union m’a informée qu’il était impossible de compléter la transaction et qu’il ne pouvait me donner plus d’explication. Quelques jours plus tard le montant a été retournée a ma carte de crédit , mais pas les frais de services.
Mon employeur Mr Perron, s’est occupe du transfert avec Western Union et la transaction a été acceptée.

Le 08 mars 2009 , j’ai essayer de transféré 250 $ a mon amie a Boston , et le même problème s’est produit. J’avais fournie au représentant mon nom , date de naissance, adresse, numéro d’assurance sociale , mais la transaction a été refusé. Après plusieurs minutes au téléphone l’agente m a dit qu’elle n’avait aucune réponse a me donner.

J’ai rappelé  une troisième fois , et une agente m’as dis que Western Union se reservait le droit de refuser de servir des clients qui porte un nom arabe, dans le cadre de leurs efforts de diminuer le financement du terrorisme.

Je suis une jeune fille d’origine arabe, qui a étudie au Québec, qui travaille au Québec, qui a une citoyenneté canadienne, et on a refusé de me servir a cause de mon nom.

J’ai fait des recherches sur la matière, et j’ai pu constater que je ne suis pas la seule.

Est ce que ce que Western Union fait est légale? Est ce que vous pourriez mettre la lumière sur cette pratique raciste ? Western Union opère dans une ville qui ne tolère aucune forme de raciste, mais comment exposer leur pratique?

Abnormal weather in Montreal – Global warming ?

According to wikipedia: “Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and the oceans since the mid-twentieth century and its projected continuation. Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the 100 years ending in 2005.”

Montreal is known for its harsh and bizarre weather. Take today for exemple: March 7th 2009, it’s 7c ! Yesterday, temperatures reached 9c.

Looking at statistics on meteomedia.com, at the same date 2 years ago, the weather was -21c. Montreal’s weather is truly unpredictable and warmer days like today are welcomed. But at what price ?

Is this due to global warming? or is it just a random case of warmer climate.

Here’s an interesting article I found : Global Warming 101: Solutions

Are we responsible for what’s happening? Sure we are !! Are we acting upon it ?? I sure hope you are

Braking car windows to steal GPS devices

You’re in Montreal, you’re parked in the old port on Queen’s street to go eat at Le Local on 700 William Street with your family at 9:00pm. You come out of the restaurant and find the passenger window broken and all your belongings on the passenger seat. All ? Not all.. You’re missing a GPS device (that you hid under your arm rest) and a pair of sun glasses (That were also hid under the arm rest).

You call the cops and all they tell you is to go home and that someone will call you tomorrow to do a police report over the phone. You go home and call your insurance company but they’re closed on the weekend so you need to wait ’til monday. Someone from the SPVM calls you the next morning and takes all the information from you and asks you to call your insurance company and to give them a reference number for the police report. Basically the police tells you that if there are no witnesses, no trace of blood or any trace of anything, they can’t do SH!T !

Monday: Insurance sends you to a garage that is about 10 km from your home. They give you a rented car and they also let you know that you will have to pay 500$. Normally you pay the first 250$ for a car repair but since items got stolen as well (GPS device 400$ and Glasses 300$) then you pay 500$ to get covered for those items as well.

The same month, you hear the same story from another friend. He got his car broken into and got his ipod and gps stolen. Another month later your wife’s sister, parked in the middle of downtown on December 23rd, gets her window broken into and someone steals a big garbage bag full of clothes that she wanted to drop to the salvation army.

You tell your friends about those stories and they tell you they know someone who had his window broken and a gps stolen. You go to the hand carwash and you hear the Taxi driver complaining about the same story that happened to him too. Chances are that if you are reading this, you’re telling yourself “Oh My god !! I know someone too”

THIS IS VERY COMMON IN MONTREAL

And what are the cops doing about it ? NOTHING. I personally asked a head cop of a district (I’m not going to give names) about those incidents and he told me that it is not a priority and that they won’t really do anything about it for now. How shameful…

What does it cost to put 5 cars in Montreal with a GPS device in them, with security cameras and wait for the bait to come.. How difficult is it to stop those criminals ?

A friend of mine told me that those GPS are being sold in bars in Montreal for about 60$. And while he was having a drink in that bar, a different man would come in every 20 mins to sell a stolen gps and there was always a buyer.

MONTREAL we need to put an end to this. We need more security and actions.

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