Planes in particular are germ laden metal tubes. I’m sticking with a mask when flying.
Planes in particular are germ laden metal tubes. I’m sticking with a mask when flying.
^^ It strikes me as harkening back to the day when the LCBO required you to fill out an order slip from a list of brand names (no display sample bottles) and the actual liquor bottles were hidden behind the counter and dispensed by staff into a plain brown bag.
This is an appalling decision:
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Ottawa to lift 20-hour weekly work cap for international students
Starting Nov. 15, international students in Canada will be able to work as many hours off campus as they wish during their school year as Ottawa struggles to fill jobs across the country.www.thestar.com
The Feds are going to allow foreign students to work unlimited hours during the school year, obviously in an effort to suppress wage growth.
No one is getting a good education while working more than 20 hours off-campus.
Complete garbage.
We fleece the kids/their families then have them work as cheap labour, to their disadvantage and to the disadvantage of low-income Canadians as well.
The solution is subsidized housing, for the poor and for those studying, rather than dragging down wages because Trudeau's friends want him to.I had a friend who immigrated from Colombia as an international student worked with many other Indian students. This is a good thing.
What I noticed happening was that these foreign students were living in rooming houses for $500 a month because literally that is all they could afford. They lived in absolute squalor because they could not earn a decent living.
Also, I know more than a few companies who paid international students on the books 20 hours and then off the books for more. This was because the help was needed but they could not work more than 20 hours.
My Colombian friend almost quite her studies and moved back to Bogota because she could not afford to survive here. If not for me bailing her out because I cared about her, she would have been homeless.
I think this is acknowledging that we are allowing people to immigrate here by taking some perfunctory education, working as much as is allowed (perhaps some under the table) and try to get their PR. Frankly, we should eliminate the pointless 'education', as it is frankly a waste. Quite a cottage industry for local colleges like Humber, Centennial, Sheridan, etc.This is an appalling decision:
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Ottawa to lift 20-hour weekly work cap for international students
Starting Nov. 15, international students in Canada will be able to work as many hours off campus as they wish during their school year as Ottawa struggles to fill jobs across the country.www.thestar.com
The Feds are going to allow foreign students to work unlimited hours during the school year, obviously in an effort to suppress wage growth.
No one is getting a good education while working more than 20 hours off-campus.
Complete garbage.
We fleece the kids/their families then have them work as cheap labour, to their disadvantage and to the disadvantage of low-income Canadians as well.
Frankly, we should eliminate the pointless 'education', as it is frankly a waste. Quite a cottage industry for local colleges like Humber, Centennial, Sheridan, etc.
I think this is acknowledging that we are allowing people to immigrate here by taking some perfunctory education, working as much as is allowed (perhaps some under the table) and try to get their PR. Frankly, we should eliminate the pointless 'education', as it is frankly a waste. Quite a cottage industry for local colleges like Humber, Centennial, Sheridan, etc.
Isn't it a kind of head tax?Second, we need to identify that a portion of this has been driven, particularly in Ontario, by inordinately low per student post-secondary education funding; which both Colleges and Universities are trying to offset through their recruitment of higher tuition foreign students.
So we want to be sure, insofar as we cut off some of that revenue stream that we are protecting key programs and the number of domestic student spots through direct government grants.
Isn't it a kind of head tax?
The dangerous part is not when flying as the air systems on planes are very good, it's in airports and getting on and off- when the plane's systems are not on.That is certainly your prerogative. However if I am stuck on a 10 hour flight to Europe I would rather not sit with that on at all times.