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Local residents protest against tenancy reform bill
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9For every bad tenant, there are bad land lords. This whole situation should have been fixed with Ford doing his job and hiring LTB adjudicators to get to the real solutions. They've had nearly 10 years and sat on their hands.
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600-unit housing proposal draws strong neighbourhood oposition
TBNewsWatch 17Where would the traffic go, that whole area is about outdoor recreation and has loads of people near the road already. Black bay bridge isn't getting bigger and neither is Hudson/most of Arundel. 600-1200 extra people and cars in the area is a huge change.That whole area is one of Thunde Bay's premier parks and is heavily used(One can see it on Strava heatmaps)
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'It just totally destroys me,' shop operator says after lease termination
TBNewsWatch 36The language used by the CEO is so condescending. We're listening but we choose not to care. If it was difficult, why do it. If there was a reason, just say so.
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Cumberland St. roundabout project expanded to include streetscaping and other work
TBNewsWatch 30We need more round about's. They improve average speed of traffic and reduce idling. Less gas to get to work
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Over 100 jaywalkers a day: pedestrian crossing signals going up mid-block on Red River
TBNewsWatch 9Calling them crossing illegal is just silly. Don't make people walk kilometres to go across the street. Plus, if there's no cars when they enter, it should be fine.
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Local residents protest against tenancy reform bill
TBNewsWatch 9The issue will remain until there is enough people working at the LTB to get the time back down to a month like it should be. Fix that and the issues go away. This bill explicitly gives bad land lords more leverage as maintenance issues will require paying at least 50%. In the past one just held it until it got through the LTB and/or negotiated with the land lord. So unless we see the LTB hiring the promise of quicker turn around won't happen even with this.
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Rollout of wheeled garbage carts begins in September
TBNewsWatch 10One issue with these is there are no locks to keep animals out. They're already smart enough to them over.
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Large blast shakes the city
TBNewsWatch 7They didn't notify enough people. This blast was heard at least 1/2 way across the city and felt in many parts.
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City facing $1.9-million tax-supported deficit from
TBNewsWatch 8Do you work for free? Not paying someone, cannot force them to be working and away from what they want to do. It just doesn't make sense to pay firefighters per call with the requirement of being ready when called.
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New recreation trail under construction along Oliver Road
TBNewsWatch 11Almost all cyclists pay road tax, property indirectly/directly, sales tax, and income tax. Commuting by bike is not damaging the roads and is taking less space(about 1/8th) while paying the same taxes. If you think gas taxation is the only form of income going to roads, you have a lot to learn. It's peanuts.
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Over 100 jaywalkers a day: pedestrian crossing signals going up mid-block on Red River
TBNewsWatch 6If it is to slow to stop for a flashing light, slow down. People need to take driving seriously.
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'Rent gouging' pushes residents to encampments, say advocates
TBNewsWatch 1We have the choice, housing as a right or tent cities where people find a place to live. This is such a stupid argument as everyone needs a place to live. There is too few places to live, and the places available cost too much relative to what people make. So here we are with people complaining about people living in more affordable tents and opposing doing things about it.
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Big changes proposed for structure of city council
TBNewsWatch 7Here, here for less representation because that will do wonders. The complaints that people don't get to vote for everyone are like people complaining that they didn't get to vote for Vancouver's MP. If anything, we should have more representation.
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Air Canada flights cancelled as strike begins
TBNewsWatch 8Air Canada is absolutely not essential, there are alternatives and everywhere the affected flights go has alternatives. Air Canada needs to bargain fairly as they never had, the Federal gov keeps swooping in and making it unnecessary.
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Poilievre vows ‘emergency action’ to protect mills by building homes
TBNewsWatch 9Who is going to build those homes? Also, Thunder Bay started over 500 last year and is doing much better compared to the past.
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Fort William Gardens could be getting a new name
TBNewsWatch 5I really don't agree with selling off public assets. These are ours, the names are not controversial, we already paid for them. Everything should not be for sale.
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Municipal Sunshine List membership jumps to
TBNewsWatch 7Remember folks, $100, 000 is about the same as $55,000 in 1996. So all the sunshine list serves to do these days is get people to try and pull others down instead of working to get others higher wages. With the municipality having a lot of trades and professionals who make over $100k after a few years, it's no wonder the city has to pay that much.
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Students take the lead in safer travel to school
TBNewsWatch 6This is fine and all, but the responsibility lies with the drivers to slow down and be aware. Assume that young kids will dart in front of them. Drivers are going to fast around pedestrians and the collision rates reflect that.
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Rural residents shaken by unexpected quarry blast
TBNewsWatch 2If companies can cheaply send me junk mail, they can cheaply send out unaddressed messages saying they will be doing this. At least some good can come out of the infrastructure setup to send junk.
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New petition calls for longer hours at Legion Track
TBNewsWatch 2There is a troubling trend of public spaces being locked off. The schools do it now and the parks like this started. The cities started requiring police presence to close roads for community events like races(running/cycling/...) that didn't used to need such expenses. This all leads to making fitness exclusionary.
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