Sergeant Bender
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Feds step in on postal strike: Canadians are 'fed up'
TBNewsWatch
28Called it. WestJet, CN & CP, B.C. longshore, Montreal longshore, and now Canada Post. No sector is safe, private or public. If your strike is disruptive to any Canadian you will be ordered back to work. You are too essential to be off work but not essential enough to be compensated fairly. Your employer does not need to bargin if it knows the government will step in. You will be the first to pay for the high cost of living and be the last to catch up. And no, the Conservatives aren't saving you, they asked the Liberals to step in.
26- Sergeant Bender
City to spend $42M on roadwork and other upgrades
TBNewsWatch 14It is my God given right to drive my 6000 lb truck to drop the kids off at hockey practice.
18- Sergeant Bender
Crowd rallies to demand action on housing crisis
TBNewsWatch 8I always love the comments from older people telling young people to educate themselves and cut back on amenities while a person with a grade 12 education could support a family with a mill job in their day. These are the same people who whine and moan any time industry tries to come to Thunder Bay, and their entire retirement is dependent on housing as an investment. Don't lecture young people after you yanked the ladder up behind you.
22- Sergeant Bender
Trump ends trade talks with Canada
TBNewsWatch 19Thanks Ford for giving Trump a $75 million scapegoat. We didn't need it for healthcare or education anyway. How fiscally conservative of him to subsidize the education of another nation.
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Safe consumption site closure will result in 'a lot more death,’ says harm reduction worker
TBNewsWatch 8If this government is going to pearl clutch about safe injection sites near schools then why is it wasting $225 million to expedite beer sales in convience stores that are within spitting distance of schools? Is impaired driving and public intoxication not a threat to schools as well? Every LCBO location in town has problems too yet we don't shut those down. I'd take this government more seriously if they weren't encouraging revenue generating vices like alcohol and gambling while pretending to care.
20- Sergeant Bender
It's on, Carney calls Federal election
TBNewsWatch 13Assuming any of the claims and dog whistles you say are true, if PP loses to that then doesn't that make PP just as unfit to be Prime Minster? If Carney truly doesn't have Canadian's interests at heart and it's so glaringly apparent then why the uptick in the polls, and the support for an incumbent party that was on its way out? Is it a WEF conspiracy or have people finally woken up to what PP really is in light of Trudeau's resignation and Trumps tantrums?
14- Sergeant Bender
Postal workers delivering cheques despite strike
TBNewsWatch 19So why should they care about the public, and specifically you, when you're here wishing cold and misery on them? Leverage allows the strike to resolve quicker because there's incentive on both sides to end it. Just like with AMFA striking before July 1st and CP/CN striking during fall harvest. The union isn't going to strike when it's advantageous to the company, that's nonsensical.The workers willing to slash their take home pay, lose benefits, and picket in the cold to advocate for themselves have more courage than you ever will.
6- Sergeant Bender
Doug Ford asks Ontarians to boycott Chinese EVs
TBNewsWatch 19"By opening up our country to a flood of cheap made-in-China vehicles, the federal government is asking Canadian auto workers to compete on unfair ground.” - Doug FordTranslation: "By opening our country to affordable vehicles, the Federal government is making U.S. auto makers compete in the free market."I have no sympathy for the automakers that innovate by building more expensive, non-reliable, non-repairable, inefficient lemons while collecting subsidies and running back to the U.S. when Trump throws a tantrum. Adopt the European standards and let's get more compacts and sedans instead of 100k pavement princesses.
5- Sergeant Bender
Part of Harbour Expressway to be closed for 10 days
TBNewsWatch 21Didn't read anything about synchronizing the lights so is Carrick going to continue giving advance left turns to invisible cars? After all the city said the reasoning for broken advance greens are broken sensors, so wouldn't this be the perfect time to fix it? Spent all that time to redo Memorial for synchronization but can't sync it if neighboring lights are still broken. The real cherry on top is Memorial doesn't give advance greens if there's no opposing left turn traffic, and the advance warning lights still don't work. So much for being an expressway.
3- Sergeant Bender
College sees nearly 40% drop in international enrolment
TBNewsWatch 16A reminder that domestic student tuition was reduced 10% in 2019 and has been frozen indefinitely since despite 18% inflation over that time period. This year a government commissioned panel recommended $2.5 billion in funding increases to post secondary institutions over three years. The province instead announced $1.3 billion. Per-student funding in Ontario is 57% lower than the national average. The Federal government will keep slashing study permits to save itself in the polls. The Provincial government will keep tuition frozen to save itself in the polls.I want proper institutions to succeed and diploma mills to fail, but incompetent government has rewarded the latter and is only acting now that it has been called out while still neglecting the former. Sad times ahead.
6- Sergeant Bender
City house prices up nearly 14 per cent from a year ago
TBNewsWatch 1"I talk to a lot of our aging population that look at the options and don't like those. We're seeing people stay in their houses at 80 and 90 years of age because they don't want to go into long-term care and the condos aren't appealing to them."If only there were "luxury" apartments for them to downsize into. Gotta protect those property values though so young people can pay even more.
20- Sergeant Bender
High school students taught municipal governance
TBNewsWatch 19Should offer this to adults given how many confuse municipal and provincial responsibilities with the federal government.
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Locked out railway workers want more work-life balance
TBNewsWatch 16I don't know about you but I want the person hauling hundreds of railcars of hazardous materials through the city to have a happy life at home. Suddenly everyone who was up in arms about nuclear waste on trains gets amnesia when workers get locked out over fatigue and work-life-balance concessions. Really shows how much they truly care about public safety. In regard to their wages, if someone's job is so essential that not doing it costs the economy $1 billion/day I expect them to be paid well. Continue mistreating rail workers and you won't need a lock out to shut the country down, there just won't be workers. At least until the Federal government declares a labor shortage and brings in foreign workers. Somehow people don't get that eroding other people's right to strike out of jealousy harms all workers. Corporations don't care about you.
1- Sergeant Bender
Nine-storey affordable housing project proposed for downtown core
TBNewsWatch 15Single family homes require two incomes to not be house poor despite us having lowest housing costs in the country. Young professionals, specifically single ones, need places to live that aren't their parent's. International students and seniors also put demand on apartments. The city is going broke servicing urban sprawl subdivisions and has openly stated it needs infill. Lastly, if you read the article the intention is for these apartments to be affordable housing. Because housing is now a nest egg for people's retirement and can never go down were now pricing young people out of the rental market. People have to live somewhere.
1- Sergeant Bender
Why are we feeling so much pain at the pumps?
TBNewsWatch 11I find it funny that an article about the most recent increase being due to the gas companies devolves into a discussion on the Carbon Tax as a way to deflect. No mention of the provincial gas taxes though as we wouldn't want to involve the premiers that subsidize the oil and gas industry, just the Federal party that's slowing consumption of our product. Also the Carbon Tax was imposed on those specific provinces because they either didn't create their own program or cancelled their existing programs, ie Ford killing Cap and Trade in 2018. So where's that mentioned in the article? There is a clear bias in this article that isn't addressed, and an article posted by the Managing Editor of TBnewswatch deserves more diligence than this.
4- Sergeant Bender
City missing a chance to increase housing in cores, public policy analyst says
TBNewsWatch 11And now the musical chairs game of "put X anywhere but here" starts. The proposal will bounce from committee back to administration, shovels will be delayed, funding will be lost, and a fraction of the housing we needed built yesterday will actually materialize.Bulldozing dilapidated buildings isn't cheap or fast. Accessing Housing Accelerator funds by meeting our target pays for those demolitions and provides 1,200 units. Can the city not infill the core and develop unused lands at the same time?If this goes the way of the shelter village or soccerplex, it sends the message that Thunder Bay is not serious about change or growth.
4- Sergeant Bender
New recreation trail under construction along Oliver Road
TBNewsWatch 11Europe figured out bike lanes in cold climates long ago but Thunder Bay is just learning about roundabouts.
3- Sergeant Bender
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What does it cost to rent an apartment in Thunder Bay?
TBNewsWatch 9Weird how when high rents are brought up people argue that a home is more expensive due to other costs, but when more apartments are proposed the argument is that people want to own for equity and that renting is wasting a mortgage. So which is it people?We can't have more apartments because it'll hurt your precious property values, but young people can't afford to own, and rents keep increasing because we're not building apartments to keep up with demand. What good is your nest egg if nobody can save up while renting to afford your overpriced bungalow? Should university students be taking out mortgages while working minimum wage jobs? This city is stuck in the 70s.
4- Sergeant Bender
Tribunal refuses landlord's request to evict a tenant
TBNewsWatch 7Lots of folks here calling for a de-regulated secondary rental market amidst a housing shortage. Makes me wonder how many are double dipping the equity in their rental property while also renting the mortgage out.Want reduced tenant rights? Then increase the supply and vacancy rates so evicted tenants have alternatives. Doing so would hurt what you charge for your luxury basement "apartment", so that'll never happen.Can't have your artificially inflated rents and eat it too.
6- Sergeant Bender
Groups demand broader consent for nuclear waste storage
TBNewsWatch 3So are we starting a petition for every dangerous good transported on the highway now? Imagine living in a city that built itself around being a transportation hub and then being surprised when things inevitably pass through it. Are we going to block diesel fuel shipments when the next tanker goes off the road? Thunder Bay has no business in Ignace's affairs the same way Southern Ontario can't dictate what gets shipped to NWO. Give your heads a shake people.
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