Another broken campaign promise that will effect all small businesses.
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Another broken campaign promise that will effect all small businesses.
Parking Dick can go fuck himself. I went to pick Abbey up from school. Had my 3yr old with me. Drove since the sidewalks are about an inch think with ice and it is raining hard right now. there are about 100 cars by the school since everyone else drove to pick up their kids. I parked with the no parking sign even with the rear bumper, about a foot beyond the sign. Come back after meeting her by the school doors and he is leaving a slip under my wiper. He was just a young guy. I asked him if he had any kids. He said he didnt. If he did I bet he wouldnt have been sticking it to the parents in these fucking conditions.
Another $300 million pissed away/lie about a contract that was supposed to be "neutral" - Liz Sandals says it not compensation it's "benefits" - not sure what that definition is with the Liberals...plus this:
Ontario releases expense report for high-school teachers’ union
CAROLINE ALPHONSO - EDUCATION REPORTER
The Globe and Mail
Published Wednesday, Mar. 23, 2016 6:00AM EDT
After months of probing, Ontario’s Liberal government has released the audited expenses of a secret payment made to the public high-school teachers’ union.
The Globe and Mail revealed last fall that the province paid three teachers’ unions $2.5-million to support them with bargaining costs and get them to sign labour deals. The government handed $1-million each to the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation and the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association, plus $500,000 to the smaller Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens.
The payments to the teachers union have been controversial. After initially saying it did not see the unions’ receipts to verify bargaining expenses, the Liberals said they would seek an accounting.
The audited expenses of the OSSTF’s payment, released by the Ministry of Education, included $391,110 for hotels, $141,075 for meals and $271,168 for travel. There were also expenses filed for meeting rooms and telephone, video and Internet services for the period from August, 2014, to the end of September, 2015.
Education Minister Liz Sandals has justified the payments by saying they were necessary to compensate the unions for the increased costs of bargaining, which became longer and more complicated after the Liberals put a two-step system in place. Larger matters such as salaries were negotiated between the government and central unions, while smaller issues were settled between individual school boards and union locals.
The government reached central deals with all the education unions in the fall, but not before a tough round of negotiations during which the public high-school teachers’ union held strikes in the Toronto area and Northern Ontario, and the government legislated the teachers back to work.
There are still 240 local unions out of 473 that have not yet reached deals. The current contracts are for a three-year period, and are set to expire at the end of the August, 2017.
The government said it will release audited expenses of the payments to OECTA and the AEFO after the two unions complete local bargaining. It said the four associations representing school boards, which includes the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association, received $11.6-million over three years for bargaining and to manage activities as a result of negotiations.
The union representing public elementary school teachers did not accept a payment.
The $1-million payment to the OSSTF was made despite the union’s internal financial statements, obtained by The Globe, showed that it had substantial reserves for bargaining costs, political action and grievances. The member protection account’s total balance at the end of the 2014 fiscal year – when the union began negotiating a new collective agreement with the province – was more than $65-million.
OSSTF president Paul Elliott did not respond to an e-mail on Tuesday requesting comment.
Ontario's teachers' contracts not 'net zero' after all
$300-million extra dedicated to merging benefits
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Posted on 3/23/2016 7:09 AM by Canadian Press
- See more at: http://www.newstalk1010.com/news/201....CuB8u5E9.dpuf
Contract agreements with teachers and education workers that the Ontario Liberal government were boasted were "net zero" actually come with an additional 300-million dollars cost to set up benefit trusts.
The five health, life and dental trusts will consolidate more than one-thousand current benefit plans.
The government believes it will eventually recover the set-up costs due to "long-term efficiencies" and "improved purchasing power."
The central deals with nine education unions are being made public today, months after revelations that the government promised in the contracts to spend 2.5-million dollars covering some unions' bargaining costs.
Of that money, one-million has now been issued to the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation after it provided details of its expenses to an independent auditor.
Those details, however, are still not being made public, beyond a summary of spending by category such as nearly 400-thousand dollars for accommodation and more than 270-thousand dollars on travel.
- See more at: http://www.newstalk1010.com/news/201....CuB8u5E9.dpuf
Went back to Rogers (Ignite 100/10Unlimited) today after 2 years with Tekksavvy(I knew they were throttling me), I'm considering HF now...
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on wireless...gotto check my in house cabling lol
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If I showed you what I'm getting you'd think it was from the 90's [emoji20]
Still managed to go 43-3 in HC TDM a couple minutes ago on BO3. If I had a good connection I'd be MLG lmao!! [emoji23]
I'm throttled big time by my local companies.
I pay for 10mb/s and I'm lick to see 3
Any time I call them to complain they blame it on Netflix eating up my bandwidth. And offer to sell me over priced cable. I threaten to cancel my account and I instantly get between 8 and 10 Mb/s for a couple days then it drops back down to 3 again.
I have bell fibe, always get what we pay for and a little extra, its had some flaky days the last little while but otherwise has been solid for many years
My son is the MLG'er in the household, he's tickled about the change...
It was a constant cycle of excuses from TS, I just had enough when it affected me from doing work (employer pays a % of my internet)...
I've learned to stick to major ISP's now, don't have the patience for the flaky days...