My building’s AC failed when it was supposed to be started up in May about a decade ago. The condo ended up buying a portable AC unit for each apartment – some people were pissed because they had to pay the electricity to operate it. We asked them if they’d like us to take the unit back, and 100% of them said no. :)
It was an awful summer, but the A/C was replaced with a new modern unit, and not only was it better, but it used about half the power of the 30 year old unit.
I’d love to be a fly on the wall when CSIS shows him printouts of his communications or the balances of bank accounts he’s been trying to hide.
It’s a tough job, and it should be paid well. When I was a kid, my brother in law was a postie, and made a decent living. He had a house, a nice car, and could take two vacations a year. Nobody can afford that shit, even unionized.
And remember – a rising tide lifts all boats – if they get a good deal, it makes it easier for others to get a better deal.
The seaway union negotiated hard, and got a very good increase, better benefits, and management agreed to increase their workforce so there was less overtime. It cost management tens of millions in losses that it didn’t need to lose.
As much as I dislike all politicians, JT is the least-awful of the available options.
I’d actually support him if he’d delivered on the promise of electoral reform. Sacrificing the ability of liberals to have a majority in the future for the stability of our political system SHOULD have been the altruistic choice.
That, and raising the minimum wage at the federal level would have elinimated a lot of the economic problems we’re having – homelessness, poverty, people getting fucking scurvy in the year 2024.
Times are tough
If only there were someone in charge who could do things that would make things ‘not so tough’… Like increasing minimum wage, encouraging unionization, improving healthcare… and taking millionaires and billionaires to pay for it…
Gotta add “Eligible but did not note” to those pie charts to give you an idea of how tragic it really is.
Thug Ford got a 67% majority provincial government with 7% of eligible voters choosing him.
Those people don’t have any issues with trying to kill you anyway. It’s the 99.99% of people who don’t want a brick through their windshield that you’re preparing for.
Two things:
First, cyclists should start wearing large chains and locks which can be tossed at aggressive / careless drivers. Similar to how pedestrians occasionally carry (usually foam) bricks to motivate the correct behaviour from drivers.
Second, they need to bring this protest to Thug Ford’s riding – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etobicoke_North_(provincial_electoral_district) Make his constitents miserable, and you might see a change faster than any other method.
I mean, if I were an opponent of the USA, I’d be celebrating. Putin and Xi accomplished the total and complete destruction of the USA by simply amplifying the worst voices. No shots fired, no military deployment. Osama bin Laden would be spinning in his grave if he weren’t buried at sea.
A broken voting system, plus weaponized apathy. He got 66+% of the seats in Ontario’s Parliament with 17% of eligible voters choosing their local conservative candidate.
Published polls for MONTHS before the election showed he was going to win by a landslide – so people stayed home, thinking it was pointless. They’re doing it in the USA right now with slanted polls showing it’s a toss-up, even though exit polls show that the majority of early voters are women.
And when making hundreds of billions of dollars off of the ‘woke’ crowd that subscribes to the ‘building a better tomorrow’ ideal, turning into an ignorant and unrepentant fascist piece of shit is a good way to erode market share for free, if you exclude the $46 Billion USD social media site purchase, which is now worth essentially nothing.
Precisely. Not sure why their example isn’t being replicated in every city and suburban town.
Why not just build tiny homes? Built to code, 200sqft, well insulated, power, running water, and phone/internet, close to public transit. A fixed address with access to a social worker and a nurse on site, and the ability to get back up on their feet.
The idea would be to give people something between ‘tent’ and ‘apartment’ as transitional housing. Nobody freezes to death, nobody gets caught in the rain and loses everything they own. A community centre for socializing / education / laundry / showers, etc. There’s a ton of unused / underutilized lots in most cities - buildings ready for demolition, behind on taxes, and better used to deal with the housing crisis.
This isn’t rocket surgery. Someone please take this idea and run with it!
Big picture: Because the cost of living (inflation is just one component) has been increasing for 40 years, with very little increase in compensation or benefits.
Small picture: Canada Post wants to exploit delivery/logistics workers the way Amazon does, and that’s a crock of shit.