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A small store gets a $7,000 bill and closes ..... think how much traffic it would take a store that size to stay open and have money left over for paying themselves.
http://www.recorder.ca/2017/03/24/at...at-queens-park
Clark told the legislature on Tuesday that Swan’s operated for 47 years, surviving a major fire and running the business through the terms of eight premiers, but not the ninth.
“On Friday, heartbroken owner Karen Swan turned out the lights for the last time,” Clark said during Question Period. “It wasn’t the lack of customers that spelled the end for Swan’s; it was the crippling cost of hydro, culminating in last month’s outrageous $7,000 bill.”
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Just curious.
I hope by now most people have seen enough or read enough to understand that throughout Ontario, with only a couple exceptions people and business are being crushed. In some cases with crippling effects. Its one thing for a small family run to shutter its doors, it another thing when that business is relied on to support the local area. When a couple hundred people lose their jobs in an area of just a few thousand, well thats going to impact the town ( less tax revenue), its going to affect retailers ( customers without jobs stop buying things), it's going to impact waiters and waitresses ( few customers and smaller tips)...Its not like say a big city....And it starts a death spiral, that while it may be slow is inevitable. Fewer and fewer jobs, more and more leave for greener pastures, less and less tax revenue for the town/municipality.....
We all know that Hydro rates are higher in rural Ontario, we all know delivery charges are insane in those areas. And we all know why that is....Feeding the beast....And in some ways in her ( ms Wynnes ) defence she has points. Hydro has been ignored ( for lack of better words) for 30-40 years.....while the beast really started growing.
Solutions that won't cost money?
None.
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The province is up to it's eyeballs in debt.
With a list of problems, all legitimate, as long as our arms.
Sure we ( more specifically they at QP) can probably find ways to save a bunch of money each year.
Will that be enough to fix just a couple of the problems?
lol.
Increase GDP?
Yep, that will help a lot.
Try to do that by lowering corporate taxes across the board (rather than targeted "corporate wealth fare"). Might help, will. But that means less tax revenue, and there are a number of problems screaming for help...things that are going to take money....lots of it, nor will just boosting the GTA help. Thats "part" of the problem and at this point.......In other words,........
Spend billions on infrastructure in area's that have been ignored? Well they are finally starting (way too late and it's going to take years) and in order to help pay for some of that, Ms Wynne is selling off Hydro One which no-one wants to do.....understandly. So where does the money for that come from?
Last I checked healthcare is a mess, wait times in emergency rooms are nuts, people have to wait month and months to see specialist, some actually die before they get X. Many are now going to the US at their own personal expense for treatment. Because its faster and often better.
Nurses being let go as the province funnels money away from places where population growth is stagnant or dwindling to um, places where it's exploding. Just 2 weeks ago the Hospital in Sault Saint Marie announced layoffs due to mounting hydro cost. The 3 big hospitals on University avenue, (just those 3) while they haven't had to start letting people go "yet", are also reporting huge upticks in Hydro cost.........Lucky them they have enough $$ to avoid having to let Nurses go.......for now...
And theres far more than that, thats going to need money and lots of it. Doing things that have been ignored for way too long.
Take on a lot more debt?
So the curiosity in me is wondering what people are willing to do.
This admin has not only screwed so many things up, and some so badly (hydro) the cost are near catastrophic, even to the point we have a new buzzword where hundreds of thousands are having to choose between running Hydro or eating......How nice of Ms Wynne to find $100,000,00 to try and entice Nat gas companies to spend billions start laying pipe..................Nowhere near enough and 10-15 years too late.......and theres far more to be done for areas getting crushed...
Me, Im nowhere near smart enough to figure that out how we can hope to dig out of the hole we are in, when first we are backed so far into a corner (over 300 billion in debt)....................
Still waiting to see Patrick Browns solution for just the utter disaster Hydro is.
the NDPs solution while it sounds nice, it too will cost a fortune.
Funny thing about history is it tends to repeat itself.
A lot of lessons in the fall of the Roman Empire. Taxing the farmers, etc etc to the point area's outside Rome itself became ghost towns, and ultimately and eventuality the upper class, nobility to started leaving for greener pastures to ultimately it's collapse. 400 years in the making that was.
http://www.history.com/news/history-...-why-rome-fell
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I watched some of the CBC and the spin is as to be expected.... great news,lowest rates .... blah blah... yawn
http://business.financialpost.com/ne...lmost-a-decade
Canada’s wage gains fall to record lows as jobs run stalls
Canada’s unemployment rate fell to 6.5 per cent, the lowest since October 2008, but this reflects the departure of 45,500 people from the labour force. About half of those were youth, meaning many young people looking for work have stopped looking.
The nation lost 31,200 full-time jobs, and gained 34,300 part-time jobs during the month. All the job gains were self-employed and public sector. Canada lost 50,500 jobs in the private sector.
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Something is not sustainable if the jobs are public and self employed, where is the funding going to come from to pay for all the public jobs created, self employed and part time are not going to fund a hell of a lot.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa...ille-1.4129366
Procter & Gamble to close Brockville, Ont. plant
Nearly 500 employees to be laid off as company moves production to West Virginia
The city of Brockville, Ont., is losing its largest industrial employer, a "significant" part of its economy and nearly 500 well-paid manufacturing positions, said Mayor David Henderson, as Procter & Gamble announced today the closure of the plant.
Employees received the news at a meeting Wednesday morning at the plant, which manufactures Swiffer dusters, fabric softeners and Tide-to-go detergent pens.
The plant will close permanently in late 2020 or early 2021 and move production to a West Virginia mega-plant.
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mosquito
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa...ille-1.4129366
Procter & Gamble to close Brockville, Ont. plant
Nearly 500 employees to be laid off as company moves production to West Virginia
The city of Brockville, Ont., is losing its largest industrial employer, a "significant" part of its economy and nearly 500 well-paid manufacturing positions, said Mayor David Henderson, as Procter & Gamble announced today the closure of the plant.
Employees received the news at a meeting Wednesday morning at the plant, which manufactures Swiffer dusters, fabric softeners and Tide-to-go detergent pens.
The plant will close permanently in late 2020 or early 2021 and move production to a West Virginia mega-plant.
Yeah I heard that this morning on CBC2 94.1 FM. Not surprised anymore, jobs were leaving Ontario since lIbtards got the power.
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When even the windmill companies are leaving.... to me this is actually one of the companies that has had too much work... but considering the number of windmills they want to plague Ontario with ...
http://london.ctvnews.ca/siemens-pla...018-1.3507839#
More than 200 workers at Tillsonburg’s Siemens plant are out of a job as of today as the plant announced it will be closing by 2018.
More job losses will be coming as the plant gets closer to it's closing date.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy announced Tuesday morning that its turbine manufacturing plant in Tillsonburg will close by early 2018.
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The company blamed the closure on an increasingly competitive global energy market, saying the plan to build “significant larger blades” that the TIllsonburg plant can not produce at this time.
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Just how big are they going to make these stupid things, it already takes about 20 years to get to their carbon footprint for manufacturing .... are they aiming for 40?
Let's see how the billions spent on windmills are doing ...
http://live.gridwatch.ca/home-page.html
As of right now Niagara Falls (Beck 1 and Beck 2) are producing 370 and 1316 Mw ....
and ALL of Ontario's windmills are at 1.9% or 379 Mw ..... So if Beck 2 was running at capacity you could eliminate all the windmills ... Hydro power has 1,900 Mw's of unused capacity at this time.... or about double the max I have seen wind generate and 6X what the windmills are producing right now.
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Well let's see what Kalamity Kate is queen over and how it affect businesses.......
Oppressive regs...Turned me off from investing in ON. I doubt I'm alone.
High Energy...........Not conducive to profitable endeavors and not a controllable overhead item.
WSIB......................Ridiculous percentages and in some types of businesses, that % relates to the COMPLETE CONTRACT not just the labor portion.
Minimum Wage philosophy......Some jobs were never meant to be careers. Obviously Orville doesn't get it.
Rent control......What an idiot. Quit approving condo/apt construction, most people don't want to live in them instead of single family homes. She has driven up Home prices by trying to get more tax money /acre of TO with high rises and created a housing shortages which drives the new home/existing home price thru the roof, no pun intended.
Rent control freezes people in place in old (affordable) rentals and that that same rent control prevents the landlord from making a profit in order to keep up the maintenance. Seems the PC let the NDP pressure them into that crap once before.
If you're not PS you "ain't" making money easily.
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Procter & Gamble to close Brockville, Ont. plant
Nearly 500 employees to be laid off as company moves production to West Virginia
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa...ille-1.4129366
The city of Brockville, Ont., is losing its largest industrial employer, a "significant" part of its economy and nearly 500 well-paid manufacturing positions, said Mayor David Henderson, as Procter & Gamble announced today the closure of the plant.
Magna had an announcement about the recent changes threatening Ontario jobs .... How many part time jobs can be created to hide the real numbers of good paying job leaving I wonder.
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Peterborough now most unemployed city in Canada...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...nada-1.4235178
149 workers laid off from Rimowa luggage plant in Cambridge
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitche...yoff-1.4233294
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/business...lant-1.4235033
Toyota Corolla production moved from Ontario plant to Mexico now heading to yet-to-be determined location
Japanese automakers Toyota Motor Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp. said Friday they plan to spend $1.6 billion US to set up a joint-venture auto manufacturing plant in the U.S., creating up to 4,000 jobs.
The plant will have an annual production capacity of about 300,000 vehicles and produce Toyota Corollas for the North American market. Mazda will make cross-over models that it plans to introduce to that market, both sides said.
The companies will split equally the cost for the plant, scheduled to open in 2021 at a location yet to be determined.
Toyota said it changed its plan to make Corollas at a plant in Guanajuato, Mexico, now under construction, and instead will produce Tacoma pickups there.
Corolla production had been bounced out of its Ontario plant, in favour of Mexico. Toyota has made more than three million Corollas in its Cambridge, Ont., plant, rated the best quality auto plant in North America by J.D. Power.
A Toyota spokesperson said the change would not affect timing of the end of production at the Cambridge plant, set for 2019.
