Corporate Greenwashing and Telus

The other day I was checking my e-mail like I normally do and received a message from Telus. Telus only sends me e-mails for two reasons, to let me know about rising costs or when I forget my password. Unfortunately this e-mail was about a price increase, and this was just to receive the bill.

Telus informed me that if I wanted to continue to receive my paper bill I would have to pay them an additional $2 a month. Fortunately for me though I'll be saving the world by giving that $2 to the Nature Conservancy of Canada. Wow! Now I'm forced to give a to an organization I already give a fair amount of money to anyways due to Telus being a bunch of greedy bastards.

I'm all for helping the environment as it is the biggest cause I support, but if Telus really did care they would print their bill on recycled paper, or hemp paper, or even paper made out of elephant feces. (yes it exists, I have some) Instead the are forcing a 'green fee', this is really just a way for them to save money by not having to print paper to save them money, and knowing customers don't want to pay more will switch to the e-bill. Some customers don't have this option, such as people without the internet and have no option but to pay it.

Telus presumably saved killed all of these animals after this photo.

I will be switching to the e-bill but Telus wont be donating anything for me saving the world by saving paper. Again if they truly cared they would make a substantial donation to the Nature Conservancy for every customer who goes paperless which they are not. Telus should not be using animals in their ads, they do no more than any other company to save the planet and they don't care, so why try to go green now?

So hats off to Telus for joining the ever growing list of companies pretending to be green by screwing the customer. As if I didn't already have enough reason to hate the company; now I will surley be switching cell cariers come August when my contract expries. Greenwashing doesn't work, customers see through it and don't like it. If you want to be green do something about it, but please don't screw the customer to save you money!

Death Don't Have No Mercy

Today was a really shitty day for me, not the usual Monday blues, no it was strep throat! Woke up this morning struggling to swallow and breathe so I realized it was time to miss my first day of school. I departed to the walk in clinic, unfortunately rather than a walk in walk out clinic it was more like a walk in and get gawked at by old people and angry babies. Bad scene yes, but finally an hour and a half later the doctor sees me, tosses me penicillin for the strep throat I knew I had, went to Shoppers and got my meds.

The thing is all that happened today wasn't that bad, I mean bad enough but at least I have more than months to live. I hopped on the Avondale expecting to hear half senile old men complaining bout all those damn kids on their lawn, but today was different. I actually got choked up on a bus; my life was put in perspective for that ride as I listened to two older fellas talk.

There was a man in his early 60's with a thick grey beard talking to an even older 70+ decrepit looking fella. The older of the two begins by asking grey beard how his day is, but it's not the usual, he tells him he just found out he has Emphysema and it's probably going to kill him. He says 40 years of smoking was bound to catch up on me, I just never thought it would be today. He casually asks the older man how he is doing, he explains how he has a check up soon and should be in perfectly fine health. He then says to grey beard, I guess you wont be making it to England for Christmas this year, the grey beard pauses, looks around then says I guess not, I'll take it as it comes and gets off the bus.

The thing that got me the most in that conversation was the fact that both of the men were seniors and have just accepted death at their door. Even a man with one foot in the grave, so calm cool and collected; I thought then and there that his life must have been exactly as he wanted because he seemed to have no regrets.

Even though I am still young now it just puts your life in perspective, the reaper can call at anytime, take life as it is and dig every minute of it because one day it will be gone. I hope when my time comes I can come to accept the fact that it's the end and as my life flashes before my eyes I'll say, fuck, I lived one good life, cuz in the end death don't have no mercy.

The War on Drugs: An American Embarrassment

June 17th 1971; the day the so called 'War on Drugs' began. Then United States President Richard Nixon had finally kick started the war that had begun in 1914 and had still made little progress since then, but deep down there was a more sinister plan involved; that consisted of blackmailing developing countries, padding the pockets of government agencies and putting the minorities in prison.

Study after study has proven that this drug war is complete and utter bullshit, one recent one among many was published by Prof. David Nutt the former UK drug czar. Nutt an intelligent man on the issue claims that alcohol is more dangerous than the "hard drugs" heroin and crack cocaine. This has been said by many before but yet as "free" citizens we have been brainwashed into believing all drugs lead to a downward spiral to anyone who uses them. It's no wonder Calafornia's Proposition 19 failed, though by a narrow margin, there are too many people still brainwashed into believing drugs are bad. This blog will examine why the drug war is retarded, why it will never end in our time, and why you should care.

How it all began:


Why The Drug War Fails:


Why People Use drugs (Risk vs. Reward):
Bullying the developing world into submission:

*This I a work in progress, being as I am currently working on some other writings, want my info to be 100% accurate, so patience and it will come!