Not to mention that their napkin math is wrong by a factor of 12
see also: @smallpatatas@gotosocial.patatas.ca
Not to mention that their napkin math is wrong by a factor of 12
You may want to double-check that math ;)
Did no one in the replies happen to notice that this is a loan
I would like to hear you say it
What’s strange about defending people’s freedom to be themselves?
What’s the problem with drag queens reading to kids, exactly?
With energy companies, you mean? Like, we’ve seen federal governments of various countries cancel (or re-approve) pipelines all the time - Keystone XL comes to mind, for instance
The people stalking our neighbourhoods preying on people’s success
Interesting phrase there. Whole piece was definitely overblown, but this kinda gives away the game.
I’ll be honest, I have zero sympathy for any landlord here. Rent control is necessary to (hopefully) make sure there is housing that people can afford to live in - and acts as a kind of limit to the extraction of an ever-increasing portion of the paychecks of the working class by the landlord class.
If the renter loses the ability to pay for a home, they become homeless. If a landlord loses the ability to pay for a property, they become a renter. Economic conditions changed? How about this: these landlords should sell, and make property prices drop a little, instead of having renters getting kicked onto the street.
Thanks, yeah admittedly I hadn’t read the entire article before posting - and quickly realized the answer to my question when I did! I should really know better than to do that :)
Anyway, maybe the question I should have asked is more like, “why the heck did they give arbitrators so much latitude” - which it sounds like we agree on!
How on earth is it possible for an arbitrator to just override legislation like this?
This is horrible.
It would be reasonable to assume that the lack of LTC supply is at least partly because it’s not profitable to have extra spaces you’re not using.
That lack of supply makes it more likely that seniors would have to look at places further away.
Plus, the people profiting off LTC are folks like former Conservative Premier Mike Harris, who not only used to be chair of the board of Chartwell Retirement Residences, but has also owned millions of dollars in company shares (as of 2022, Harris no longer controls >10% of the company, so he doesn’t have to file public disclosures of his holdings).
https://burlingtongazette.ca/its-time-that-we-take-the-words-private-and-profit-out-of-how-we-care-for-our-seniors/
While premier, Harris also pushed hard to privatize the industry that he would later benefit from.
This looks like another case of Ford making sure his buddies rake in as much money as possible, even if it causes human misery.