Blade_of_tyshalle posted:

I didn't see it come up yet, but apparently these franchisees are the daughter and son-in-law of Tim himself. It's incredible.

Wirth1000 posted:

When I'm Prime Minister I will make it that the only way for anyone to purchase a pick-up truck is if they are commercially registered vehicles. All current personal pickup truck drivers will have 12 months to surrender their truck or face discipline via guillotine.

zapplez posted:

The 80s were a different time. modern cars are much lower for fuel economy reasons. A 2010 toyota corolla cannot get past 8 inches of snow, its simple ground clearance.

vyelkin posted:

Other way round, son and daughter-in-law-who-happens-to-also-be-Tim-Horton's-actual-daughter. The "Ron Joyce Jr." in "Ron Joyce Jr. Enterprises Ltd. (Tim Hortons)" is the son of billionaire Tim Hortons founder Ron Joyce.

vyelkin posted:

Other way round, son and daughter-in-law-who-happens-to-also-be-Tim-Horton's-actual-daughter. The "Ron Joyce Jr." in "Ron Joyce Jr. Enterprises Ltd. (Tim Hortons)" is the son of billionaire Tim Hortons founder Ron Joyce.

zapplez posted:

I'd be commercially registered so I dont care. Where I am 80% of families own a pickup or a pickup-frame SUV. I think most of you are way underestimating what its like driving on 6-12 inches of unplowed, yet compacted snow. Your Miata/Sentra/Corolla will 100% bottom out and get stuck before a highway

RBC posted:

a lot of people buy 2 wheel drive trucks because they're cheaper and theres pretty much nothing worse in the snow than a rear wheel drive truck with no payload lol

when i was belleville over christmas it was unreal the number of trucks i saw sliding all over the goddamn place.

1500quidporsche posted:

My parents have a cottage in a dinky little town at the feet of the mountains that never gets plowed. They got three feet of snow and I drove right up to their front door in my Corolla. I'd like to see these roads you drive on where there is a two foot hill in the middle of the road that makes it so the wheels can't hit the ground on a normal car but the road still hits the frame.

1500quidporsche posted:

My parents have a cottage in a dinky little town at the feet of the mountains that never gets plowed. They got three feet of snow and I drove right up to their front door in my Corolla. I'd like to see these roads you drive on where there is a two foot hill in the middle of the road that makes it so the wheels can't hit the ground on a normal car but the road still hits the frame.

1500quidporsche posted:

Wistful of Dollars posted:

There's gotta be a story behind that avatar.

1500quidporsche posted:

I get a new avatar bought for me like every three months. I've been saying anime is bad lately.

DariusLikewise posted:

After I got snow tires for my 2010 Ford Focus I never got stuck driving around Winnipeg/Rural Manitoba/Brandon again regardless of snow conditions.

zapplez posted:

Your Miata/Sentra/Corolla will 100% bottom out and get stuck before a highway

TheKingofSprings posted:

I got stuck once parking at the U of M last year.

It's a bizarre feeling to pull out a snow shovel so you can move your car 10 feet to park.

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Quebec to offer basic income for 84,000 people unable to work

Couillard government will spend $3B over several years in fight against poverty

Quebecers who have a severely limited capacity to work will gradually be able to access a guaranteed minimum income beginning next year, Premier Philippe Couillard's government announced Sunday.

The measure is part of a $3-billion action plan to fight poverty and promote "economic inclusion," but falls short of offering a basic income for all Quebecers, a demand of many anti-poverty groups.

An estimated 84,000 Quebecers would qualify for the minimum income measure, largely those with physical and intellectual disabilities.

Of the 84,000, the vast majority are single people, long a neglected demographic when it comes to poverty reduction programs in Quebec.

By next year, they will see their government assistance increased by at least $73 per month. That figure will reach $440 per month by 2023, bringing their annual guaranteed minimum to $18,029.

The Couillard government also plans to table a bill to amend the Social Aid Act in order to guarantee its basic income provisions.

"We cannot just support employment," said Couillard. "Employment is not the only solution to get out of poverty. It also takes measures like the ones in front of us today."

Parti Québécois Leader Jean-Francois Lisée criticized the proposed basic income measure, saying it only benefits a small portion of the population.

"We're far from the general idea of guaranteed minimum income," he said.

Focus on the job market
The government's anti-poverty plan also proposes additional funding for existing programs, including $286 million for social housing projects and $580 million for social benefits.

Single Quebecers who receive social benefits will see it increased by $180 per year by 2018. In 2021, they will receive about $540 annually.

The plan also includes $40 million to create more kindergarten classes in low-income areas and $300,000 for mental health initiatives.

Many of the measures announced Sunday either encourage low-income Quebecers to enter the job market or help them stay employed.

This includes $1.8 million in funding to improve the digital skills of those living in poverty and nearly $34 million for Quebecers who receive social assistance and want to learn more skills.

The measures also come one year after the Couillard government introduced controversial new rules that penalized social assistance recipients who failed to take steps to find a job.

The $3 billion in spending will be spread out over several years, with the goal of helping 100,000 Quebecers out of poverty by 2023.

In Quebec, an estimated 802,000 people currently live below the poverty line of $18,000 per year for a single person.

Lukewarm reception
Some anti-poverty activists claim the measures don't go far enough to help low-income Quebecers.

Serge Petitclerc, the spokesperson for the Collectif pour un Québec sans pauvreté, said that while those who have severe limitations preventing them from working will receive support, others living in poverty are expected to find employment.

"They're not tackling other categories of people in social need or people living in poverty," said Petitclerc. "It's as if they're creating a division and emphasizing that division."

Basic income should also apply to all Quebecers without conditions, he added.

"By limiting it to a single category of people in Quebec, we're missing the point," he said. "Because one of the primary characteristics of guaranteed minimum income is that it should be unconditional and it should apply to the entire population.

"That's not what's happening right now."

Jean-Paul Faniel, co-ordinator for the Table de concertation sur la faim et le développement social du Montréal métropolitain, said the government's goal "lacks ambition."

"The portrait of poverty is not numbers," he said. "Poverty is people struggling, who are coming from pain and the misery of staying afloat. Poverty is accompanied by a life of misery every day."

Dreylad posted:

Also looks like Sunset Grill is using the minimum wage to do some good old fashioned wage theft.

Arivia posted:

Link?

quote:

“We basically run the restaurant,” a server said. “At the end of the day, this is an insult. We work our asses off.”

infernal machines posted:

If you include tips, yes, that seems to be pretty common. They don't (or shouldn't) have a reduced min wage though, so their base pay is higher.

McGavin posted:

Yeah, but what the Sunset Grill is doing is charging wait staff five percent of the diner’s bill (before tax), so the wait staff has to pay even if the diner doesn't tip, which is hosed up.