if you privately purchase a company you take on their debt/liabilities as part of your business strategy, forcing customers to pay your new debt when there was no alternate provider is just a horrible practise. Ontario should have force Enwin to just absorb it as part of the takeover…it left it public.
Public debts to support private profits! The canadian way!!
Next up: health care!
That said, I think Costco is clearly the lesser of these particular evils. I have no doubt that given time they’ll turn to shit, but thus far (to my understanding) they at least pay something resembling a living wage and have reasonably consumer-friendly policies.
You’re absolutely right. Give credit where credit is due.
But eventually when the line stops going up then all of those worker/customer friendly policies will go out the window.
Edit: a bunch of my post got truncated…
Mont Royal looms over downtown at an elevation of 764 feet, and is the site of multiple universities, including a campus of Universite de Montréal
Maybe i’m misinterpreting this, but it sounds a bit misleading. The university is on the slopes of the hill, nowhere near the top
In general, this article is a bit premature. The winter cycling pilot was limited to downtown and a few other boroughs and not the whole regular network… And we also benefited from a very mild winter. Not sure if we can declare a “year round cycling success story”, just yet
That being said, this is good news and i hope to be able to use the bixi in the winter next year (i live in one of the boroughs that didnt have winter coverage)
There’s something extra sad to me about newfoundlanders having to leave for work… And nobody expresses homesickness so beautifully
No change in the weather
no change in me
I dont want to leave but
You cant live for free
You cant eat the air
And you cant drink the sea
No change in the weather
And no change in me
Is it possible for the govt to bring in a pro-labour arbitrator and award a shit ton of demands to the workers?