Videodrome
Senior Member
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...somali-gun-violence-forum-etobicoke-1.4610355
This is why the PC's don't let him speak.
How is Wynne not a progressive?
I would argue a lot of the anger towards her is because she is too far left and is seen rightly or wrongly as massively increasing taxes on everyone who is not very poor.
I do not think the taxes would be much of an issue if the liberals did not seem so reckless or wasteful of our money or perceived to be as such.
“Dear?” Condescending, no?
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I wouldn't be surprised if Mike Harris Jr. runs in Michael Harris's old seat. They wouldn't have to replace the lawn signs.
Well Vic Fedeli would have to retire first.
I doubt it. Unfortunately, too many people don't understand that things cost money and have poor reactionary attitudes towards any taxes. Too many people think that they have a right to this and that service without thinking long enough to realise that it has to be paid for by someone. Roads, hospitals, militaries, schools, etc don't fall out of the sky, no matter how hard you pray (ok, possibly the militaries, but then that's just a bad scene).
People don't get it. They get that they are tens of thousands of dollars in debt (due to their own actions) and that they want to be able to keep as much of their incomes as possible to be able to carry said debt and, presumably "take care of themselves and their families" by buying more and larger TVs, cars, latest consumer electronics, whatever the Joneses have got going on.
A large number of people suffer from a short-sightedness caused by self-interest. *shrug* Not sure what can be done about that. Surely selling the furniture to keep the house is stupid as is buying more furniture to make the house more comfy only to have to sell the house to pay for the new furniture.
The median income in Ontario was $74,287 in 2015, up just 3.8 per cent over the last decade, the slowest growth of any province or territory during that time.
Median employment income in Ontario decreased by 2.3 percent over the same period, the only negative growth rate among all provinces
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...manufacturing-downturn-statistics-canada.htmlThe last decade has also seen a rise in low-income rates in Ontario’s urban centres, led by London (17 per cent, up from 13 per cent) and Windsor (17.5 per cent, up from 14 per cent). The Toronto region’s low-income rate rose to 15.6 per cent from 14.1 per cent a decade ago.
http://www.occ.ca/mediareleases/inp...ed-profits-fall-ontario-economic-report-2018/Some of the 2018 OER highlights on the outlook of Ontario’s economy include:
- Businesses are losing confidence in Ontario’s economy. In 2012, 47 percent of businesses reported they were confident in Ontario’s economic outlook. Today, that share has been halved, as only 23 percent of businesses are confident in the economy.
- Nearly two-thirds of businesses cite input costs for their lack of confidence, such as the price of electricity, taxes, and the increase in minimum wage. This is compared to only 31 percent who name competitive barriers such as declining consumer demand or changing client behaviour.
- One quarter of small businesses in Ontario project declining revenue in 2018, which is twice the rate of large firms (26 percent vs. 13 percent). Given that the majority of businesses in this province are small, this will likely have a net-negative impact on economic growth.
- The production of goods and services represents a shrinking contributor to business prosperity. Production activities represent only 15.3 percent of business prosperity, meaning that prosperity is increasingly becoming more dependent upon financial activities instead of productive activities. This is indicative of Ontario possessing a higher-risk operating environment.
Our historically low unemployment rate is a red herring, as more individuals remove themselves from the workforce or simply give up the search. The percentage of Ontarians not participating in the labour force is at a recent high of 35 percent, contributing to employers’ on-going struggle to attract talent.
But veteran pollster Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Global Affairs, says the Liberals are also failing at the essential task of selling Morneau’s plausible case that the economy is purring. He notes that a lot of their messaging has stressed inequality and injustice, like women still not being fairly paid compared to men, the rich raking in more than their share and the perennial, profound grievances of Indigenous communities.
“They’re running around talking about people being left out,” Bricker says. “If they believe happy days are here again on the economy, that’s certainly not what their policies are saying, not what their rhetoric is. If they think people are going to pick up on this intuitively, time has shown that is not a good communications strategy.”
Packaging all sorts of socially progressive policy as smart long-term economic strategy is an ongoing Liberal storytelling challenge.
Wynne’s Liberals, even more than their federal cousins, express frustration over what they see as a baffling failure of voter opinion to reflect good economic news. They’ve got a point. Ontario has posted enviable GDP growth for four years running, including a solid 2.7 per cent last year.
http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ott...-failing-to-turn-economic-success-into-votes/Maybe deeper factors are feeding unease. Benjamin Tal, deputy chief economist at CIBC World Markets, tracks the growth of precarious, lower-quality jobs—trends hidden beneath the widely cited unemployment and job-creation stats. “The fact that people are feeling vulnerable when the job market is at its peak tells you that it will feel much worse when the job market slows down,” Tal says.
So, I guess he's not sick...
PCs say they're removing MPP @Michaelharrispc from caucus based on 2013 complaint of intern.
Breaking: Michael Harris been turfed from@OntarioPCPartycaucus three days after he was quietly disqualified from being a candidate. Party put out notice two hours after the@TorontoStar made inquiries.
Mike Crawley
@CBCQueensPark
BREAKING: CBC News @CBCHamilton has learned of another candidate rejected by the @OntarioPCParty, this one in a riding where the nomination race is under police investigation #onpoli
Didn't a recent poll show PCs at 50%? And that looks like a significant gain for the NDP if memory serves.
Answering my own question: yes, the Mainstreet Poll showed the 50%.
The Poll Tracker is helpful at looking at the various polls that are happening. https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/onvotes/poll-tracker/