Same on podcasts. I don’t even listen to anything related to sports.

It shouldn’t make a difference, and I think this would set a terrible precedent, but I have much less of an issue with special treatment for players than for “VIPs”. The only way I’d truly be ok with this is if FIFA paid to have increased capacity and/or some kind of lasting improvement to the hospital. But we all know with FIFA’s track record their more likely to demand the hospital pay them for the privilege to and publicity from treating their executives.

The small routes are already so heavily subsidized (directly by the government as well as by the the 4 profitable routes) that this won’t make a meaningful difference.

Yeah, if someone can’t afford a toy at $56, they’re not going to be able to afford it at $53.50 even one of the most expensive exempt items I can think of, a PS5 Pro ($1075.20 after tax, not including electronic eco waste fees or whatever), only goes down by $48. Not nothing, but hardly a meaningful impact. Someone on fulltime minimum wage who spent 100% of there income on newly tax exempt stuff would save about $200 over the 2 months, but that’s not even including the necessities that don’t get any cheaper like rent and other bills.

I see where you’re coming from, but that’s kind of a lazy excuse (on a wider scale, not you personally). If candidate 2 is the crappy incumbent ABC people will vote for them to keep out candidate 3 because they think they have a shot, even if they all would’ve preferred candidate 1. And then the cycle repeats and gets more entrenched.

Finally we can agree on something.

Clearly I’m not good at articulating my point so I’m going to stop trying. I don’t know what I’m saying that would benefit the Conservatives in any way. My riding is NDP with the cons playing catch up and the Greens have a better chance than the Liberals. So maybe we’re just coming from different perspectives. Voting for Liberals here is a vote for conservative.

No, I was speaking more generally. When I said center/left I meant it in the way the ABC people use it. I don’t like the Liberals, but I also do not want the Conservatives to win. Unfortunately that looks like where we’re headed. I just hope that if the Cons do win (which once again I do not want but I have just 1 vote), the Liberals lose big and take it as a wakeup call to change or be relegated to the perpetual 3rd place party. None of those other posts were trying to say what party I would like, sorry for the confusion.

They’re going to have to negotiate [with] themselves a good raise for all that hard work.

I think you may be misunderstanding my point, but it would be great if the Liberal party dropped off and the NDP (or something new) completely replaced them as the counter to the Cons. Right now they seem to keep seats because they’re not the Cons and I think the leadership confuses that with people liking them for what they do.

Not really, that’s 1 year of 9% and 3 years of 3%. Not much when (correct me if I’m wrong but I I can’t find any evidence otherwise) they’ve had a total increase of 4% over their last contract when the previous one ended in 2018. Inflation according to the BoC was 20% over that time and we all know in reality cost of living has gone up more than that. It’s just catching up.

Anything but. My comment would apply for the Conservatives too, although I wish they’d come last everywhere. It’s just so frustrating seeing the map flip back and forth between red and blue when we have other viable parties.

Once again, I do not like any conservative party, can’t overstate that enough, but look at the BC Cons. After decades of obscurity they sucked so much support from the other conservative party (BCUPs/Liberals) they just gave up and all but dissolved themselves. We need something like that for the center/left federally.

Ehhh, it probably wouldn’t actually inspire change, but it would be nice if the Liberals came in a very distant last in every riding they didn’t have a chance at winning.

I think a better idea would be removing the footprint (square footage) calculation from CAFE ( I know it’s an American standard but we also use it and their market heavily impacts what vehicles we get regardless). As it is now, it penalizes smaller more efficient cars for not being more-efficient-enough over big trucks. I don’t know about you but I’d love it if we got an influx of small hot hatches and compact pickups, they might not be as efficient as some of the small cars today, but likely better than all the boring and not-great-at-anything compact crossovers we see so many of these days.

They may also be using the term manager very loosely. At my workplace most of the supervisors are union, but they have 1 top person at each department of each worksite who’s excluded from the union (not really management, but a company representative at least).

I guess you can find anything if you search for what you want to hear.

Here’s the Ontario ESA Nothing about server or tipped wages.

Heres the page I assume you found (it was right near the top results of “server minimum wage in Ontario”) $16.55 is the old minimum wage for everyone until it went to $17.20 this October.

The problem is that from a significant portion of online and in person commentary it seems people do take corporate press releases at face value. I’m a union worker myself and even some of my own coworkers fall into that trap, although fortunately they snap out of it when I remind them of the garbage our employer has tried to feed the public.

You could argue it’s kind of a gamble. You’re just betting on people tipping you and risking being paid below minimum. But in any case, it’s not relevant here as it’s not an issue in Canada, don’t most states require the employer to top up the difference?

It’s a good thing we’re talking about Canada then.

Which province is that? The only province I can find with a tipped minimum wage is Quebec and both of their minimum wages are lower than anything you said.