“Breaks will no longer be paid. A 9 hour shift will be paid for 8 hours and 20 minutes.”
“These changes are due to the increase of wages to $14.00 minimum wage on January 1, 2018, then $15.00 per hour on January 1, 2019, as well as the lack of assistance and financial help from our Head Office and from the Government.”
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It’s their nature: Could the Ontario government actually lose money selling pot?
Meanwhile… hahahahahaha!
Bribery
Unprecedented case could affect Liberals’ political future
The potential political consequences of a sitting premier testifying in open court on allegations her most trusted adviser and a prominent Liberal fundraiser bribed a would-be Liberal candidate cannot be overstated.
Leaving aside this trial, the Liberals have foolishly, recklessly and repeatedly treated Ontario as their own fiefdom to rule as they see fit — and the rules be damned.
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Yes, the Ontario election is ten months away, but if the PC’s are at 50% in Toronto….
However:
“If anything is going to be dangerous to affecting his base, it’s going to be that,” Maggi said. Among PC supporters, 47 per cent strongly or somewhat disapproved of Brown’s plan to implement a carbon tax. Forty per cent approved and 13 per cent didn’t know how to feel about it.
From NWC
And so it begins.
Ontariowe
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Electricity prices to soar after four years, says secret Liberal cabinet document…
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Once boasting one of the continent’s lowest electricity rates, Ontario today has some of the highest and that has many industrial companies planning to move at least some operations to the United States.
“The government treats us like bourgeois sweatshop operators who have to be stopped,” said Bamford, who has organized dozens of medium-sized companies into the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers of Ontario. “All the businesses are terrified of the government. My husband said, ‘Well, do you just want to pick up and go?’ And I said, ‘Well, I guess I gotta just stay and fight.’ I feel like I’m the Norma Rae of manufacturing.”
Automatic Coating’s electricity bill has more than doubled in the past decade. Its bill for last November was $49,209.68. The first line is for electricity: $6,577.93. The second line is much harder to explain: it is the euphemistic Global Adjustment charge: 217,165 kWh at 11.6 cents each for a total of $25,223.73.
The Global Adjustment contains many different costs, including Ontario’s payments to solar and wind energy makers at far more than the market rate, the cost to sell excess power to U.S. states at a loss, and even the cost of replacing light bulbs with LED bulbs.
These people are nuts. And so is any government that follows in their footsteps.
Happy Friday
Green pigeons coming home to roost.
I know the Ontario election is a year away and any recovery from the Liberal policies will take decades, and the Ontario PC party might as well be called the Ontario Liberal party….
Yeah, you’re right, Ontario is screwed, but at least the Liberals won’t be in charge.
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It’s deliberate;
Tricia Barry, executive director of Money School Canada and a former banker, says despite promises by the provincial education ministry in 2011 to “integrate” money management into the Grade 4-12 curriculum, students know little more about money than they did five years ago.
She was so upset with the Liberal’s “broken promises” — what she cheekily calls financial literacy gate — she produced a discussion paper last November showing how little is being done.
Because it’s essential to the success and survival of socialism.
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The 56-year-old life-long Athens resident said she doesn’t have any other choice. Last month’s hydro bill was $7,000 because of delivery and other surcharges – an anomaly, for sure – but her hydro bills average $2,000 to $3,000 or more a month.
“They kill you; they kill the little guy,” she said of the hydro rates, which cost a quarter of that only a few years ago.
On top of the hydro bill are property taxes of close to $4,000 a year and Canada Pension Plan and Employment Insurance payments of around $1,000 a month for her two full-time and one part-time employees. The government regulations and harassment by the “tobacco police,” who enforce provincial cigarette laws factor in as well.
Swan said she can’t make ends meet and is losing money every month, so she has no choice but to shut down.
These stories never receive national coverage. The narrative wouldn’t like that.
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
Hospitals laying off due to rising hydro costs https://t.co/G6AlzV56bE #onpoli
— Rebecca Thompson (@thompson) March 14, 2017
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An Ottawa greenhouse operation has hit a hydro snag in its attempt to mimic Mother Nature. SunTech Greenhouses in Manotick had installed a million dollar L-E-D lighting system to grow produce year round but after doing the math, the owner decided not to flip the switch.
Two years ago, SunTech installed row upon row of L-E-D lights in one and a half acres of its greenhouses. It was an expensive experiment trying to mimic Mother Nature. The problem is the sun is free; hydro not so much.
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What’s happening here is happening to greenhouse growers throughout Ontario. Soaring power prices was one reason why NatureFresh Farms recently expanded into Ohio.
Peter Quiring is the CEO of NatureFresh Farms, “You know what’s really crazy?” he says, “In Ohio, we’re buying power for what Ontario is paying other jurisdictions to take that power. So instead of expanding here, we’ve expanded there using our power, so to speak.”
h/t Maz2
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Not listed: any of our dogs, the cat down the street, Casey from Mr. Dress-Up.
If current polling numbers hold, party leadership might be the only stable job left in the Ontario Liberal Party.
Via, NewsHubNation
Oh, Shiny Prime Minister!
Nothing to worry about. If things get out of control, they can simply implement wage and price controls.
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It cannot have escaped the attention of many that Ontario is most unsettled these days. That its industries are anxious, its debt colossal, its citizens not in a pleasant mood. Ontario is in a lot of pain. But let me assure readers outside Ontario that it has not all been for nothing. There are rewards. They are subtle, intangible, but they are real. Let me explain….
h/t nold
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Be afraid: The brains behind Ontario’s energy disaster are now running the country
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Alleged bribery: Top Liberals face Elections Act charges in Sudbury case