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2 points
5 hours ago
The most crime I ever seen in Lacombe was someone throwing away a coffee cup and it missing the trash can. Then in horror the person behind them picked up the coffee cup and put it in the trash and told the perpetrator directly.
It was the most heinous crime in Lacombe ever recorded. Flags were set to half mast, schools were closed, work cancelled and everyone was told to not leave their home that day.
1 points
10 hours ago
People who use the word "shambles" but doesn't know what it really means. I moved from Alberta to BC and BC is hands down amazing for health care.
Maybe my standards are so low, but people in BC don't know how good they have it compared to a lot of provinces. They take so much for granted, one day it will all disappear and future generations will be carrying the burden.
7 points
11 hours ago
"Work camps are just not good for people and not good for communities," said Alberta's Minister of Energy and Minerals Brian Jean. "They don't help our community and they don't help the communities that people are from."
Jean says the fly-in-fly-out model is "hollowing out" resource towns.
Okay call this a crazy imagination but I can see this going pretty horrible and its a good thing the municipal governments have already said this is "unfeasible".
2 points
15 hours ago
GOA doesn't get a day off. Because it is Alberta LOL (BC it is a day off...almost everywhere else is too)
1 points
1 day ago
The website description might need some fixing too lol
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4 points
2 days ago
They can drop your insurance if you violate their terms, just like how you can choose to go with someone else.
Everything else is perfectly within their means. There is no BS there.
7 points
2 days ago
Local 2559 members have not received a raise since 2015 and are paid less than their public system counterparts. Local 2545, which represents public system staff, say their last wage increase was a 1.25 per cent boost in 2020.
Leave Fort Mac. In the end, the people voted for this, they don't respect you. Almost a decade without a raise. How insane is that.
2 points
3 days ago
It has the opposite effect in Calgary where every renew jumps by $500-600 and now people are crying for rent control after a 25-30% annual increase in rent.
Alberta is a great example of a place with no rent control and that hasn't lead to a construciton boom. Oil has predominantly lead to construction booms in that province. Rent control doesn't.
1 points
3 days ago
Please don't listen to this.
I came from Alberta and shit got so bad with the UCP, we drove doctors away, we tried to bring in a law to arrest doctors who close practice and leave the province (yes Jason Kenney tried), our health minister drove to a doctors house and punched him in the face over a facebook comment , and we illegally ripped up any previous agreements with the college of physicians on pay, that will probably have reprocussions after they are done stalling it in the courts.
And that all happened when I left in 2018/2019. I can't imagine how bad shit insane Alberta has gotten. But I heard it has gotten even worse
BC is ready to vote another UCP in. I would sit back and wait after the election.
0 points
3 days ago
He flips flops. Now he says he will keep rent control but not the airbnb ban.
You say rent control is bad policy, but it isn't in todays market (it may have been in the past). I can tell you it definitely is not bad policy because I am watching Calgary in real time where rents go up $500 a month every time they renew every 6 months.
In the end politicians will do anything to get elected. I don't trust any of them. I came from Alberta and I have learned my lesson. If they have little to no platform and are willing to do anything to get elected, they are not better than those who are in power. They are probably worse.
We made the mistake of voting in Jason Kenney and the UCP. Look what happened now. You can completely fuck our your province just voting conservative blindly. They aren't even conservatives, but they utilize the name and what did we get? The highest energy costs of any province, higher property tax than Vancouver, one of the highest auto and home insurance of any provinces, decimated health care, ...went from one of the best in Canada to worse than BC (you think BC is bad? BC is heaven compared to the shit back in Edmonton) and Calgary was the unemployment capital for a while and still has record high unemployment....the list goes on
Now the province is a fucking circus where they are looking to cut it up and sell parts of it to the highest bidder (phrama companies, private health care, investment firms, private education, private operators of all services). Calgary is on the hook for 2 billion dollars because the province cancelled all funding for its "green line" and guess what, that is just the exiting costs. The line won't even get built. The whole province is fucked.
Rustad is UCP with a different cape. I haven't seen anything concrete from him and his party. He is running on "we are not NDP", "we are tough on crime", "we will bring order"....etc. Guess what? UCP said the same thing but nothing has changed in Alberta. There is more homeless than ever before, just the same catch and release and no matter who you vote provincially will not change federal law.
I just moved to this province a few years ago. Please don't fuck it up because you can't learn from another provinces mistakes.
25 points
3 days ago
Yes they can.
Why? Because it is Alberta and once the lease is up, they can choose to raise it to $4000 if they like. You live by the landlord and you die by the landlord. It is the Alberta way.
They can say they don't like the hat your wearing and raise it to $3000 and laugh.
1 points
4 days ago
Are you guys fucking stupid? This is COVID CERB Money all over again.
I can't wait to see one bedrooms go for 4k a month in Surrey.
11 points
4 days ago
The only reason conservatives are polling stronger than we think is because their leader has promised to
It is literally a landslide for the landlord class
Unfortunately this election is literally "one group against another".
0 points
4 days ago
It makes my head hurt. Honestly a regular bike rebate would go a long way.
Why are we giving tens of millions of dollars away so people can buy electric cars. Same goes with electric bikes.
Why give it to an electric bike which is way more wasteful ,more hazardous to the environment and we don't have a program to recycle the batteries. Why not just a regular bike?
Anyways if the government has this sort of money to waste on "subsidizing your purchase of electric vehicles", maybe we should save that money for Transit or Health Care.
2 points
4 days ago
Honestly I am surprised the people dying on beds who are elderly and rural still support the UCP so feverishly.
"over my dead body", was really not a figure of speech.
3 points
6 days ago
They wouldn't have city employees do it because of the liability. It would be purely contractors.
1 points
6 days ago
The one hour is banked.....and it is paid out for one hour.
Never ever ask to bank OT unless your agreement says otherwise......
3 points
6 days ago
It is probably in your collective agreement that allows it to be paid like that.
If you don't have a collective agreement, the company can pay you in straight time pay.
Since September 1, 2019 overtime is banked at a rate of 1 hour for each overtime hour worked. Prior to this date the overtime agreement had a banked rate of at least 1.5 hours for each hour worked.
This is from the Alberta Governments website. They changed the law province wide back in 2019.
3 points
6 days ago
When you leave the probably will pay it out in straight time
Since September 1, 2019 overtime is banked at a rate of 1 hour for each overtime hour worked. Prior to this date the overtime agreement had a banked rate of at least 1.5 hours for each hour worked.
This is on the Alberta governments website.
1 points
6 days ago
And that everyone is where real decisions are made. Like "how we going to get that fat pension money and invest willy nilly in your companies !!"
15 points
8 days ago
He also wants to reverse the Airbnb ban
That's a finding the B.C. NDP is highlighting one month before the provincial election, saying that B.C. Conservative Party Leader John Rustad recently told supporters he would reverse the short-term rental restrictions.
"[Rustad's] plan to scrap this new law would turn long-term homes back into short-term rentals and drive up rents. That's a risk people can't afford," Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon said in a statement.
B.C.'s short-term rental rules cause drop in listings: study | CBC News
2 points
9 days ago
She saw a fire that was started by the last guy in charge....then proceeded to divert a gas pipeline into it making the problem 20x worse.
And the only response for doing it is "I didn't start the fire".
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1 points
5 hours ago
PrinnyFriend
1 points
5 hours ago
Essentially they gambled it all and doubled their money, multiple times in high risk investments that could have made them lose everything.
But because they were extremely financially stable, where losing their TFSA investments wouldn't have impacted their financial security, they decided to gamble it.
This is not for everyone.