We should be looking at (disincentivizing) plane trips, cruise ship trips, gas plants, etc - not fixating on the price at the gas pumps.

And therein lies the problem. Disincentivizing the bad vs. incentivizing the alternatives. A couple bucks here and there make a lot of difference to lower income people. A small tax adds up quick and quickly feels like a punishment for not being able to afford the alternatives (EV, moving within biking distance, taking public transportation, taking a train, owning a house where you can choose what energy to use/make efficiency improvements).

As a side note, cruise ships are the odd one out as they’re strictly a luxury and no alternative is needed, however they’re specifically exempt from both the carbon tax and regular fuel taxes. Interesting.

That’s seeming a bit iffy after whatever’s been going on in Alberta in the last year or so, but if you account for rural/city for both places then you’re probably right.

I live on Vancouver Island so I probably could ride an ebike 11-12 months a year, but I also live in a small town and work significantly further away than ebike range. So the only trips I could replace my car with an ebike would be in town, less than 10km round trip which is less than 1L of gas for even inefficient cars. Even if I went on one of those small rides every day off, best case scenario I’d save $350/yr. That would take a long time to pay off an ebike, not to mention the trailer I’d have to have for my kid and/or groceries to actually effectively replace a car trip.

I wonder how many current university students were old enough to vote nearly 20 years ago? It would be surprising if there was even 1.

Same on podcasts. I don’t even listen to anything related to sports.

It shouldn’t make a difference, and I think this would set a terrible precedent, but I have much less of an issue with special treatment for players than for “VIPs”. The only way I’d truly be ok with this is if FIFA paid to have increased capacity and/or some kind of lasting improvement to the hospital. But we all know with FIFA’s track record their more likely to demand the hospital pay them for the privilege to and publicity from treating their executives.

Yeah, if someone can’t afford a toy at $56, they’re not going to be able to afford it at $53.50 even one of the most expensive exempt items I can think of, a PS5 Pro ($1075.20 after tax, not including electronic eco waste fees or whatever), only goes down by $48. Not nothing, but hardly a meaningful impact. Someone on fulltime minimum wage who spent 100% of there income on newly tax exempt stuff would save about $200 over the 2 months, but that’s not even including the necessities that don’t get any cheaper like rent and other bills.

I see where you’re coming from, but that’s kind of a lazy excuse (on a wider scale, not you personally). If candidate 2 is the crappy incumbent ABC people will vote for them to keep out candidate 3 because they think they have a shot, even if they all would’ve preferred candidate 1. And then the cycle repeats and gets more entrenched.

Finally we can agree on something.

Clearly I’m not good at articulating my point so I’m going to stop trying. I don’t know what I’m saying that would benefit the Conservatives in any way. My riding is NDP with the cons playing catch up and the Greens have a better chance than the Liberals. So maybe we’re just coming from different perspectives. Voting for Liberals here is a vote for conservative.

No, I was speaking more generally. When I said center/left I meant it in the way the ABC people use it. I don’t like the Liberals, but I also do not want the Conservatives to win. Unfortunately that looks like where we’re headed. I just hope that if the Cons do win (which once again I do not want but I have just 1 vote), the Liberals lose big and take it as a wakeup call to change or be relegated to the perpetual 3rd place party. None of those other posts were trying to say what party I would like, sorry for the confusion.

They’re going to have to negotiate [with] themselves a good raise for all that hard work.

I think you may be misunderstanding my point, but it would be great if the Liberal party dropped off and the NDP (or something new) completely replaced them as the counter to the Cons. Right now they seem to keep seats because they’re not the Cons and I think the leadership confuses that with people liking them for what they do.

Not really, that’s 1 year of 9% and 3 years of 3%. Not much when (correct me if I’m wrong but I I can’t find any evidence otherwise) they’ve had a total increase of 4% over their last contract when the previous one ended in 2018. Inflation according to the BoC was 20% over that time and we all know in reality cost of living has gone up more than that. It’s just catching up.

Anything but. My comment would apply for the Conservatives too, although I wish they’d come last everywhere. It’s just so frustrating seeing the map flip back and forth between red and blue when we have other viable parties.

Once again, I do not like any conservative party, can’t overstate that enough, but look at the BC Cons. After decades of obscurity they sucked so much support from the other conservative party (BCUPs/Liberals) they just gave up and all but dissolved themselves. We need something like that for the center/left federally.

Ehhh, it probably wouldn’t actually inspire change, but it would be nice if the Liberals came in a very distant last in every riding they didn’t have a chance at winning.

I think a better idea would be removing the footprint (square footage) calculation from CAFE ( I know it’s an American standard but we also use it and their market heavily impacts what vehicles we get regardless). As it is now, it penalizes smaller more efficient cars for not being more-efficient-enough over big trucks. I don’t know about you but I’d love it if we got an influx of small hot hatches and compact pickups, they might not be as efficient as some of the small cars today, but likely better than all the boring and not-great-at-anything compact crossovers we see so many of these days.

I guess you can find anything if you search for what you want to hear.

Here’s the Ontario ESA Nothing about server or tipped wages.

Heres the page I assume you found (it was right near the top results of “server minimum wage in Ontario”) $16.55 is the old minimum wage for everyone until it went to $17.20 this October.

You could argue it’s kind of a gamble. You’re just betting on people tipping you and risking being paid below minimum. But in any case, it’s not relevant here as it’s not an issue in Canada, don’t most states require the employer to top up the difference?

It’s a good thing we’re talking about Canada then.