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Sunshiny
sunnshiiny
If the priority were children and not publicly funded daycare to enable parents to return to work, the policy options would be obvious.Children need education and socialization. But they don’t
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Andrea Zanin
sexgeekAZ
Thread!I'm feeling grouchy about how some folks are framing their choice to continue paying for services they're not currently able to use. Cleaning, haircuts, etc. If you have a steady
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Michael Pereira
__m_pereira
The details and graphics only provide a partial view of COVID-19's impact, especially on health care in this province. For reasons that were never provided, the province hid the fact
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Andrew Koltun
KoltunAndrew
While I'm pleased to see some movement on relief for students, I'm disappointed that students are being treated as an infantilized class of workers. From my prior experience in applying
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Kevin Milligan
kevinmilligan
Let me elaborate on this point.Imagine you send out 4 months x $2K = $8K to every Canadian adult. That would cost about 30million X 8K = $240B. Many have
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Tom Quiggin
TomTSEC
Here is a funny question.How can one person in Canada have five different SIN numbers?Better yet, why is it @CanRevAgency & @rcmpgrcpolice know about tens of thousands of illegal SIN
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Randy McLin
randymclin1
At the Goodwood/Crescent Town Tenant Tenant Town Hall. Some statistics from a tenant survey:72 % lost jobs or hours50% went into debt, borrowed money to pay rent55% were not able
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Thinker of Thoughts
JPablee
As an economist by trade who worked on Bay Street for years, here’s how I view Canada’s economic reckoning: a threadDue to the massive exodus of foreign investment capital in
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Shauna (((💗)))
ShaunaB44
@Bill_Morneau @CQualtro Thread. Pls reconsider the qualif for Canada Emergency Business Account. It excludes legitimate small businesses (incl. sole-proprietor bus) built on independent contractor—subcontractor expert relationships & favors ‘payr
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Katherine Scott
ScottKatherineJ
Women are at the forefront of the crisis as numbers from @StatCan_eng labour force report reveal. Women make up just under half of all workers, but accounted for 70% of
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Brian F. Kelcey
stateofthecity
Re: the still-murky -provincial $ deal to help municipalities announced yesterday. I'll hold off on detailed comments until there are actual details to comment on. But for now, I'll note
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Armine Yalnizyan
ArmineYalnizyan
Morneau noted that the feds are the BEST borrowers in the land (lower risks/costs than for cash strapped provinces, municipalities, businesses, households, and poor people, ranked in ascending order of
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Jim Stanford
JimboStanford
It is infuriating how the false narrative that Canada faced a "debt crisis" in the 1990s has been repeated so often by fiscal conservatives, it is now reported as fact--even
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Ron Butler
ronmortgageguy
The Real Estate Gods Must be Crazy Stealing the title of a charming 1980 movie about a Coke bottle falling from the sky, I am giving some thought to nearly
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Erin Craig (they/she)
ErinCraig11
In today’s version of “tweet your unpopular opinion”, I want to talk about the call to vaccinate teachers.First, let’s lay out some givens:1.Alberta has screwed up the rollout of vaccinations,
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Amy Mason
ammason48
I don't normally speak using this kind of sweeping language, but I do want to encourage people to pay particular attention to the ways in which this crisis is revealing
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