Eug
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You had sympathy for them in the first place?Not charging these guys with assault is not acceptable. The more I read about their aggressive tactics, the less sympathetic I become.
You had sympathy for them in the first place?Not charging these guys with assault is not acceptable. The more I read about their aggressive tactics, the less sympathetic I become.
You had sympathy for them in the first place?
They'd never get a conviction for tossing a garbage bag full of waste, into a MOE-licensed temporary facility, on top of a pile of garbage bags. How can it be illegal dumping. Shame the good-for-nothing police actually didn't do something useful, rather than simply trying to protect their union brethren.Dropping it off near the protesters and hurling over the fence would speed things up for sure, but the managers filling in as a bylaw officers are out in full force video taping people doing such acts and handing out $380 illegal-dumping fines as well as the useless cops hanging around busting people for illegal dumping or what ever.
Well, some level of support would probably be a better description. You'd have to go back a dozen or so pages here to get my opinion but basically I believe in a fair living wage, safe working conditions and good benefits. That's not to say that I agree with everything the union is demanding here.
these strikers are manual labourers with small skillsets.
I agree with a fair living wage, but that's a legislative issue not a city/union problem. From my own experience, $15/hour would be a living wage for a single person in Toronto with no kids and these people are getting a lot more for work that in the market is paid much less.
Does that also apply to ALL the inside workers that are part of the court system?
The Paramedics?
OUCH
Does that also apply to ALL the inside workers that are part of the court system?
The Paramedics?
OUCH
paramedics have skills and are trained, licensed, and deal with life/death situations. ironically, on the first week of the strike, there was an accident around the corner where i lived, and it took the paramedics 20 minutes to get to there.
some poor kid wiped out while riding his bicycle; could have suffered a concussion; had internal bleeding, etc ... i find the delay totally unacceptable.
Do it. I know you want to, as you're the one who thought of it.
So, where do we draw the line?How does one live in this city on $34K gross a year? Take off approx. 28% for Fed. tax/CPP & EI = $25K. Factor in rent, hydro, phone, cable, insurance and that doesn't leave an awful lot to live on.
Since it went over your head...I'm not a "Toronto Sun reader type". I just like to watch yahoo schmucks making fools of themselves
How does one live in this city on $34K gross a year? Take off approx. 28% for Fed. tax/CPP & EI = $25K. Factor in rent, hydro, phone, cable, insurance and that doesn't leave an awful lot to live on.
Factor in rent, hydro, phone, cable, insurance and that doesn't leave an awful lot to live on.
How does one live in this city on $34K gross a year? Take off approx. 28% for Fed. tax/CPP & EI = $25K. Factor in rent, hydro, phone, cable, insurance and that doesn't leave an awful lot to live on.
So, where do we draw the line?
Maybe we should pay maids in Rosedale three times as much so they can rent a place in Rosedale?
Or maybe we should pay them less, because they could live on a lesser wage in some of the crappier areas of Toronto. Oh and since when is cable a necessity? I lived for several years without cable in Toronto. Even a phone isn't an absolute necessity IMO, even in 2009. At most, one could argue a pay-as-you-go cell phone is a necessity. Beyond that, it's a luxury item for many people.
Should we pay Tim Hortons coffee jockeys $40000 a year because $34000 (which is much more than they get) isn't a "living wage" by your definition?
Using the CRA website's payroll calculator, someone earning $34,000 gross will receive $27,136.72 net.
No. It doesn't leave a lot left for weekly shopping trips to Yorkville, a Carribean vacation in the winter and 3 or 4 nights a week eating out and bars on the weekend. It leaves more than enough to live comfortably though.
When I first came to Toronto, fresh out of school just over four years ago, I made $30,000. Given inflation, that works out to $32,250 in today's dollars.
I had all the things you mentioned, plus a new (as in brand new) car. I made it just fine. Just don't spend outrageously.
The biggest disconnect I find people have is on rent. Options like shared accomodation let you cut back that cost to as little as $650/month, while still living downtown and in a building that is not a total dive.