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I am surprised it's that low, to be frank.

True, although if anyone is getting paid too much, it's exactly those managers and CEOs whose compensation has risen far faster than anyone else's.

And a lot of people get paid much more than they are worth...

Their base salary is quite high, and they've got a very good pension plan (which, frankly, I'm quite envious of, but then I think company pension plans are a good idea). I think the health benefit calculation, while technically correct, is meaningless because I would expect that addition for...

Wait, so garbage workers get paid $80,000 now...? Also, since this anger, in part, stems from the fact that those uneducated garbage strikers are making a pretty decent wage, I wonder what the people's position here is on the 79 seeing as how that one includes lawyers, planners, analysts, etc.?

Hudak doesn't need to be 'portrayed' as Harris 2.0 because he pretty much notes he's Harris 2.0. Dalton shouldn't have too much trouble defending the HST, either.

Indeed.

Unless there's a major scandal, or unless PC decide to field a candidate who isn't inept.

You know what I mean, consarn it! And now you're blowing my mind.

^ the Harris purge is a disaster we're still paying for, so I'm far from hoping for it. What we need is a pragmatic non-ideologue, but such people seem to be in short supply.

Yes, I'm commandeering the Colborne Lodge.

I agree with everything except that the enormous deficit was unexpected. It was a giant elephant in the room nobody wanted to touch: Conservatives for the obvious reason, and the Liberals because they knew they couldn't run a 'no new taxes' platform if the potential deficit was acknowledged...

Yup.

bwahahaha!

Yes to garbage and LCBO, __HELL NO__ to the TTC.

^ Thanks for that; Moyers is one of the rare pundits who aren't in the whitewashing business.

The point is -- they don't decide what's fair for themselves. They cannot say 'our salary is now X more,' and that's that. They can decide all they want, but it's not a go until the city agrees.

Last time I checked, they have to negotiate that with the city, hence the strike.

I have *no* idea where you get this from. Their car ownership is actually higher in Finland than many other countries in EU; and less cars is a GOOD thing, because their government seriously invests in transit infrastructure. Yeah, the GINI index in Europe is generally compressed (though...

Although I was only a minor in economics back in the day, I did quite a bit of research on this, and yeah -- the evidence points to the fact that there is a large productivity gain to be had from an extended vacation, regardless of any other factor. The reason why it makes sense should be...