Well, he did encourage the protesters as much as possible. I think it's the idea that if you pretend to be on their side then they'll treat you like they're on their side but we all know how that goes.
That being said, they do have a point because the CERB completely fucked over people who were living in downtown Toronto because their rental market was a timebomb that was waiting to go off.
If you have a one-bedroom to yourself, that's $2400 a month but if you're willing to deal with the shit that comes with having 2 roommates you can get it down to $1300 a month.
Then add internet, transportation, a cellphone and food to the mix and see where you end up and that's with zero entertainment, no weed and no booze.
CERB was never going to be enough to keep Toronto running on fumes, crazy immigration and a tight housing supply inflated the cost-of-living to obscene levels.
$1600 a month after taxes? (Not that I believe anyone is making sure to save that $400 a month for next year's taxes.) In Toronto? That's fucking nuts,
These idiots can fuck right off with attacking... the mayor's condo that he uses when visiting the city from Caledon for the sake of their fucking cause, that is bullshit but I would certainly understand a Toronto-wide rent-strike.
Just the economy?
Look at all of the protesters and what do they really have in common?
They're late-teens/early twenties and they've been cooped up since late February.
No school. No work. No pubs. No bars. No clubs. No getting ripped and having fun with friends. No late-night hookups. No coke-fueled nights where you leave some degen's apartment at 9:00 in the fucking morning, then going out in public where they're surrounded by normal people while they're stinking of booze and grimy as hell causing them to delete the numbers of everyone they just partied with from their phones, less than an hour after enthusiastically grabbing them because "these people are drug addicts and I'm better than that."
This didn't only fuck up the economy. This fucked up every reason for being young in Toronto. They can't even go to fucking Wasaga Beach or Trinity Bellwoods without being slagged in the media.
The only thing they can do is go to protests and express their frustration with unbridled rage.
This lockdown has fucked us far more than COVID. It's fucked with our society in a very deep manner.
Pogey is more money than CERB for most seasonal workers. It's quite easy to get your earning up to the point where you're making the equivalent of $55,000 a year working seasonally.
The real problem with CERB is they made it taxable income given out with no deductions so no one quite realizes just how little they're getting until next tax season.
It'll be quite interesting to see what happens when people who normally make, let's say $80,000 a year and who took 2 months off due to the shutdown realize that they're being taxed at $71,000 a year and that they owe two months worth of taxes.
I'll have my popcorn ready.
Well, he did encourage the protesters as much as possible. I think it's the idea that if you pretend to be on their side then they'll treat you like they're on their side but we all know how that goes.
That being said, they do have a point because the CERB completely fucked over people who were living in downtown Toronto because their rental market was a timebomb that was waiting to go off.
If you have a one-bedroom to yourself, that's $2400 a month but if you're willing to deal with the shit that comes with having 2 roommates you can get it down to $1300 a month.
Then add internet, transportation, a cellphone and food to the mix and see where you end up and that's with zero entertainment, no weed and no booze.
CERB was never going to be enough to keep Toronto running on fumes, crazy immigration and a tight housing supply inflated the cost-of-living to obscene levels.
$1600 a month after taxes? (Not that I believe anyone is making sure to save that $400 a month for next year's taxes.) In Toronto? That's fucking nuts,
These idiots can fuck right off with attacking... the mayor's condo that he uses when visiting the city from Caledon for the sake of their fucking cause, that is bullshit but I would certainly understand a Toronto-wide rent-strike.
Just the economy?
Look at all of the protesters and what do they really have in common?
They're late-teens/early twenties and they've been cooped up since late February.
No school. No work. No pubs. No bars. No clubs. No getting ripped and having fun with friends. No late-night hookups. No coke-fueled nights where you leave some degen's apartment at 9:00 in the fucking morning, then going out in public where they're surrounded by normal people while they're stinking of booze and grimy as hell causing them to delete the numbers of everyone they just partied with from their phones, less than an hour after enthusiastically grabbing them because "these people are drug addicts and I'm better than that."
This didn't only fuck up the economy. This fucked up every reason for being young in Toronto. They can't even go to fucking Wasaga Beach or Trinity Bellwoods without being slagged in the media.
The only thing they can do is go to protests and express their frustration with unbridled rage.
This lockdown has fucked us far more than COVID. It's fucked with our society in a very deep manner.
CERB is a joke. They should have fast-tracked EI. Don't qualify for EI? Maybe you weren't working to begin with!
Pogey is more money than CERB for most seasonal workers. It's quite easy to get your earning up to the point where you're making the equivalent of $55,000 a year working seasonally.
The real problem with CERB is they made it taxable income given out with no deductions so no one quite realizes just how little they're getting until next tax season.
It'll be quite interesting to see what happens when people who normally make, let's say $80,000 a year and who took 2 months off due to the shutdown realize that they're being taxed at $71,000 a year and that they owe two months worth of taxes.
I'll have my popcorn ready.