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Anyone receiving OAS shouldn't have had much of their portfolio in equities, and should hardly have to touch that principle. Incomes should be relatively unaffected. Increase in costs is minimal - I'm seeing this as a vote-buying measure from the feds, to make sure the seniors don't feel left...

May 10, 2020: Demolition of parkade structures is underway beside the building(s) and a number of pieces of equipment are on site.

May 10, 2020: Demolition appears to be well underway on the interior of the building.

Funny, I bet there would be many people happy to step into the jobs of the LCBO's employees right now - especially with those healthy pay rates.

Most of the past day the entire site, but in particularly the forum has been unusable. Either errors / unable to access altogether, or if I was able to access it, I'd be waiting 3-5 minutes for a page to open. Edit to add: this past day has made me realize how much a part of my daily routine...

I agreee - I live on the block just West of you, but we have the same issue. Almost all delivery drivers seem to think that printing a piece of paper that says "will be back in 5 minutes" is a replacement for finding an appropriate parking spot. I would also like to see more enforcement of this...

May 2, 2020 - scaffolding has nearly fully engulfed Macdonald block.

I misunderstood, apologies. Agreed that this a) likely isn't occurring on a large scale, and b) one would assume, the government will have the ability to identify those who didn't lose their job but quit voluntarily, and be able to claw back CERB payments (or maybe I'm being too optimistic)...

The CBC did run a piece last night about a business in Winnipeg that is trying to prepare to re-open, but is running into workers basically declining to come back to work because they feel collecting CERB is a better option (not more money, but a better risk-adjusted option, I suppose). They...

I completely agree, when you have a majority of owners / majority of active owners in a building renting on an STR basis, they're not going to support a Board who doesn't support allowing STRs / not enforcing restrictions on them, and so it won't be resolved. A similar issue arose in my...

I get the impression it's more the same neglect that a Board and Management show towards eliminating STRs, that would also contribute to neglect of proper maintenance of elevators. After all, it's not like STR guests are riding the elevators materially more than longer term residents.

Valid point, Admiral. I would say some fields less so than others (accountants, engineers, other business professionals, even scientists or academics probably being easiest to settle into our institutions immediately, whereas nurses, doctors, lawyers I would imagine tend to have a more difficult...

I mean, you're also missing the fact that we directly import many scientists, engineers, doctors, entrepreneurs and professionals of this generation through immigration. I think you may be confusing TFWs with actual immigrants - we're not an easy country to immigrate to, and to do so often...

I'd be curious, as well. Traffic is horrid on the stretch between Church and Yonge due to the number of condos. I'm not sure if either side of the street has much room for widening. It may help if they made it a no parking street - that way when an UberEats driver decides to park in the street...

I'm sorry, but this made no sense at all. Dividends are not a "set percent of one's holding". I can't even begin to assume what you meant, but I think you may have been referring to dividend yields, which are expressed as a percentage of the cost of a share. Dividends are a fixed dollar amount...

Agreed. The proposal that payments should be permanently waived is absurd. If this ends up being relatively temporary for a majority of mortgage holders and we eventually rebound to some semblance of before, there's no reason a mortgage holder shouldn't repay in full the amount of their...

April 10, 2019

April 10, 2020 (No workers today, presumably due to Good Friday and/or shutdowns). First two pictures are from Hayden St., behind the Asahi Sushi building.

Do you guys think the recent changes to the definition of essential businesses as it pertains to construction sites will shut this one down? I would have thought that it wouldn't meet the definitions, as I read them. Unless there is work to be done to bring it to a safe spot before shutting down.

Having to go to the pharmacist once monthly, and pay slightly higher dispensing fees, really seems like one of the least of our concerns right now. Go to a pharmacy in your grocery store, if you don't want to make additional trips - hardly requires any additional standing in line. This isn't...