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  • The Survivor: She walks 12 hours a day to save job (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

    01/24/2009 10:10:35 AM PST · by EveningStar · 35 replies · 465+ views
    The Ottawa Citizen ^ | January 23, 2009 | Bruce Ward
    ..."My job is in Barrhaven. I work nights. I must walk 18 kilometres to work. It takes six hours. And then I must walk six hours home after I work all night. I am nearly 60. "This strike shouldn't happen," she says. "I come home, I rest for a few hours. Can you imagine to work all night and after to walk 18 kilometres home and then, sit down for two or three hours and then walk back and work all night again?"...