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➡️Director @betterwaycan ➡️ @CommercialRentC Lead ➡️Co-owner @gotourscanada / @segwayontario ➡️Be Excellent To Each Other

Toronto, ON
Joined January 2010
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4 months
Ever wonder why your favorite restaurant or café closed? Often, it's due to a mammoth rent increase. That's why we launched the @CommercialrentC Bill of Rights: ➡ Standard Leases ➡ Affordable Dispute Resolution ➡ Predictable Rent Increases ➡ Right to Withhold Rent A
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@SydneyLWatson It's okay to like bland food without projecting.
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@cockjuring "The fact that there are 45,000 'trailblazers' here couldn't devalue the title any more"
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@teetertooters That IS the most British thing ever. Claim ownership of something that isn't theirs and laugh in the owner's face when they ask for it back. You just got colonized.
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@theashleyray If I were you I would start scheduling meetings with the boss at 4:30 like every day. And then make sure those meetings can't be finished at 5. "Shall we pick this up again at 9am tomorrow" You can beat them, they're weak.
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@jburnmurdoch I've seen this in younger friends and colleagues. Many young men wondering why women won't date them. Many young women simply not dating because of the giant disconnect. For one group, politics is reactionary. For the other, it's their healthcare and human rights.
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@Eric_Erins Tuscan-maxxing is better than being millennial grey backsplash-pilled.
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@__apf__ Team up with your neighbors and get EVERYONE to install a bench. WE ARE ALL BENCHACUS.
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@laura_nelson The French mind cannot comprehend how much we screwed ourselves with un petit travailler over lunch.
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@filipwojda Dude straight up renting out the Olympic village bed.
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@MattBinder I ask you: Who among us hasn't mistaken Jesus for a Jewish man?
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@hannahjonescool Th sleazy ad execs had their turn running the internet and made it just the worst. Time to give it back to the real nerds.
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@MorePerfectUS So America is just 4 corporate CEO's in a trench coat?
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I'm so pissed. Toronto drivers are f*cked. Just saw a black Mercedes blow a hard red light at Richmond & Church. He nailed a guy on a scooter in the Richmond bike lane who flipped over the hood & came down hard. The driver fled the scene WEAVING THROUGH ONCOMING TRAFFIC.
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@CaelanConrad My mom substituted lemon juice instead of butter in BOXED MAC N CHEESE once. I was in charge of cooking for us kids after that.
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@KishonnaGray If I were the kids I would simply stage an elaborate fundraiser to buy back the community centre from a crochety old developer that likes to gamble via dance-offs.
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@dieworkwear Dads across the continent feeling a little extra pep in their New Balance step today.
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Overheard in Toronto's Yorkville: "I just love real estate. The pay doesn't really matter as long as I make north of 500k a year." This isn't a real place.
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@TerribleMaps This isn't Canada taking over, it's the USA's northern states trying to rebrand as Canada.
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Lululemon threatened to pull out of Canada without Temporary Foreign Worker exemptions. They received exemptions allowing them to bypass advertising jobs & hiring local. This WILL encourage other corps to ask for special treatment. 🔗 @ijf -
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@dieworkwear I hope you're backsplash maxxing with this classic millennial grey number.
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@MorePerfectUS This isn't even good for business? Can someone explain how is dead workers good for business?
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@ZeeshanAleem "On one car ride, he kept looking over at me"
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Just got a call from a Conservative fundraiser. "I 100% can't support you after Erin O'Toole said he'd let Provinces determine abortion services." "Well we're all in this together, could you donate $50?" "I don't think selling out women is us being in this together." #Elxn44
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@dieworkwear That's hella swagger for the Home Depot.
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A really important part of the LCBO deal: - Converting 1,000 casual workers to permanent - Hiring 60 permanent full-time employees - Access to benefits for casual employees To improve Canada's productivity we need good, secure jobs. This is a step in the right direction.
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BREAKING: The LCBO and the union representing 10,000 of its workers reached a tentative agreement Saturday, more than two weeks after the strike began. .
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@spectatorindex The Lord Almighty has an opportunity to do the funniest thing...
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@MarlowNYC Learn from my mistakes. I'm still paying my parents off for a $14 bag of ruffles potato chips. Just 3 more instalments 🤞
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So the Ontario government has: 1) Given a sweetheart deal to a foreign company for publicly owned land 2) Forced Ontario taxpayers to pay for a 600 million dollar parking garage 3) Avoided all transparency This Ontario Place deal isn't even close to good business for Ontarians.
@ColinDMello
Colin D'Mello | Global News
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NEW: Therme, the company behind a controversial waterpark and spa that’s set to take over a major portion of Ontario Place has signed a 95-year lease with the province of Ontario, Global News has learned. #onpoli
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@Waller7J Bro just put on a girdle and called it a vest.
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@PhilipProudfoot I think you've earned the plural today. Well done Mr. Proudfeet.
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@MorePerfectUS This is the kind of stuff that should bring deeply divided families back together this Thanksgiving. It doesn't matter which side you're on, we can all enjoy a glass of whisky over a corrupt CEO drubbing.
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Cash only. You get yelled at for ordering. Still 7.50 for a hamburger combo. There is no place more iconic and welcoming than Square Boy on Toronto's Danforth Avenue. Square Boy til the day I die.
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@Johngcole Tim Walz is going to finish every stump speech with "that's it for me, let's blow this popsicle stand"
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Simply for comforting this guy and calming him down - something they were failing - the police ended up yelling at me too. My social worker friends probably know this defeated feeling. The police are supposed to de-escalate, why did that only happen when bystanders stepped in?
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Chatting with a Toronto east-end cafe owner this morning. Their rent is going up by 50% at the end of the year - they'll be closing. 2 neighbours closed months ago b/c of rent increases. The properties = still vacant. Building already paid for 2X - why the 50% rent increase?
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@zakvescera Great article Zak - it shows just how much power giant corporations have over government while the rest of us live with the consequences.
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@KiribatiGov I'm cheering for your 3 athletes & the boat captain!
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Thankfully the police did call an ambulance and within 5 minutes the guy was in the back of it. Nathaniel that works at Lee Restaurant, if you need a witness statement, here I am.
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@MorePerfectUS Libertarians everywhere just got a little turned on without knowing why.
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This whole thread should be about how f*cked Toronto drivers are so I'm going to finish there. The fact that this driver didn't even stop or slow down was gross. Running reds is something I witness multiple times a day downtown Toronto. It's become casually accepted.
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If I hadn't stepped in to calm down the guy who had just been assaulted, would he have ended up in handcuffs? The worst part of that interaction is the police told me to just move along. To leave him be and let them handle it. They ended up yelling at me too.
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@CP24 Exec: "What do people want?" Analyst: "The data shows drinkable coffee & donuts made on site - and clean washrooms." Exec: "I hear our store employees likes pizza parties instead of good wages. Let's just do that."
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@MorePerfectUS Wild that healthcare still isn't a basic human right in the States. Good on Governor Walz for at least stopping folks from dying because they have debt.
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Had a phone call with a French immigrant yesterday. She's opening a restaurant in Toronto and "can't believe there are no protections for commercial renters" She described France's system - and boy howdy, why do we keep letting wealthy landowners write the rules in Canada?
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@edzitron People are starting to realize the control they believe governments have over them is actually held by a handful of tech companies. And many apps are now absolute User Experience nightmares.
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@nolightupstairs 15 minutes at a time followed by 20 minutes of sweaty consciousness.
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@beefy_burrito I didn't know part of buying toilet paper as an adult would be having to understand the square footage of a hypothetical competitor's package of toilet paper.
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I caught up with the scooter rider who, thankfully, was standing but visibly shaking, shell-shocked and concussed. He was clearly agitated AND CONCUSSED and the police were yelling at him, it wasn't a good scene.
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@Le_Severine_Cox 100 years later: A POSITION HAS OPENED UP WITH THE VAMPIRE. PLEASE RE-SUBMIT YOUR RESUME IN WORD & PASTED INTO THESE INCONVENIENT EMBEDDED BOXES.
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@MattBinder These guys are doing everything they can to make this election about old dudes. First it was Hulk Hogan, now Kamala. Just let us under 70s youngsters have a moment!
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@dazzah @jburnmurdoch Likely. Considering men tend to have more difficulty building long-term communities and friendships, the isolation brings them to harsher, more radical environments.
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Did you hear about Sweetie Pie on Harbord St in Toronto? The building was sold & the new landlord doubled their rent from 3k to 6k a month. You know what's wild? Even if they wanted to, the landlord might not be able to offer a lower rent price. Wait, what?
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It’s time for commercial rent control to save small businesses and protect vibrant main streets- This Toronto cafe was hit with a staggering rent increase. As buildings sell and more leases come up for renewal, can local shops survive?
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@dieworkwear Next up: Gluten free water.
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@MorePerfectUS "Workers LOVE this one trick that keeps them in poverty."
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The result is that drivers will just keep driving off after hitting pedestrians, cyclists and micromobility users - they know nobody is going to stop them.
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Over 500 riders showed up in support the 24 year old woman that was killed on Bloor street while biking to work last week because of a garbage bin illegally placed in a bike lane. @TheBikingLawyer points out 3 other recent deaths at this intersection.
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I want the Toronto City Planner who designed this bike lane intersection to tell us all why. Someone (many people?) are going to get BEEFED at Adelaide and York. #biketo
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@globalnews This is totally cool. I live in Canada for the American style for-profit healthcare. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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@sewistwrites ....which actually sounds way cooler than homeschooling. "I was homeschooled" vs. "The governess taught us many subjects, including how to love our parents"
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@dieworkwear Everyone in England just got second-hand burns from this fireball of a reply.
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@tylerwatt90 @fordnation My company @segwayontario / @gotourscanada is launching our own #PaidSickDays program because the Ontario government has failed. We're taking on this expense to keep our employees and customers safe. It'd be nice to have gov't support but it's too important not to have.
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@MorePerfectUS Private equity has a habit of destroying the things people love about a business: 1) Great employees + fair wages 2) The experience that great employees bring Who does private equity benefit again?
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@KrisReports Coming soon, The Speaker. A 40 story luxury condo featuring everything you loved about MuchMusic in the form of a kitchen backsplash.
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Just a clarifying note: After getting up, the scooter rider tried to catch the driver who successfully fled (likely) down Jarvis. I caught up with the scooter guy at Jarvis and King where there were 2 off duty cops on construction duty. I don't know what words were exchanged
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@MorePerfectUS And now they'll either have to hire back - costing them way more than not laying people off in the first place. Or they'll just keep a trash product and milk it until a takeover or come to Jesus moment.
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@FearghasKelly Excellent. Just excellent.
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@Camp4 We pay quickly at my businesses as often as possible - it's a huge ROI. We save 10s of thousands every year on discounts because in b2b punctuality isn't always the norm. On top of that, we get some nice gifts around Christmas!
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@LadyDumplings I get the sense this business won't last very long. And that the owner's will blame a politician for the consequences of their own dickery.
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@abby0mal I too have arrived to offer you unsolicited advice
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Okay, I'm going in on a thread. Ubereats is a cowardly organization that abuses their gig-workers and bullies small businesses. 🧵
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@dieworkwear And at the bank of X you'll have to convert all your currency to DOGE before being able to access it.
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@dieworkwear This is why I love shopping for clothes in Detroit. They've got an emerging clothing & footwear industry with co-ops & companies paying craftspeople well. Pingree makes shoes from local upcycled car leather. US manufacturing exists but it's just a niche. We can change that.
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@CBCNews Just like Raise the Root in Toronto has shown - local grocers are often less expensive than big chains. Find your local store and save!
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The landlord for Dipped Donuts in Kensington Market just raised the rent by 100% The business is closing & laying off employees. Let's get a commercial renter bill of rights and protect local businesses from aggressive landlords. Sign the petition at
@KMCLandTrust
Kensington Market Community Land Trust
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Today we're calling out the Toronto Parking Authority (TPA/Green P) for rent increases in Kensington Market. TPA, which is owned by the City, has nearly doubled the rent for a small business in Kensington Market. We have also seen another business under TPA lands go under lately.
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@blogTO Anyone that could do basic math was able to see the oil companies gouging customers in 2021-22. Sure, the carbon tax increased but it was 3 cents compared to what - gas prices skyrocketing by a buck?
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@dieworkwear Pierce is the only man alive that can look dashing in literally anything - including a short suit.
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What's really creating congestion in Toronto? The amount of rideshare drivers has gone WAY UP compared to the amount of daily trips. This over-saturation is creating a cascade of problems. 🧵🧵🧵
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@CityNewsTO
CityNews Toronto
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#NEW : City of Toronto officials are trying once again to potentially limit the number of rideshare companies, such as Uber and Lyft, on its busy streets.
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@dchc519 Tear it down like Christopher Plumber in Sound of Music.
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@Ramsey_Kilani Ghost ride for the woman that was killed by a truck last week.
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@dieworkwear Dude looks like the first big bad boss in every RPG game who ends up becoming an over the top comic-relief character.
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@JohnLeFevre Counterpoint: 1) Wear what makes you feel good and dress for the occasion. 2) Don't listen to folks that try to fit you into their tiny box.
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@MorePerfectUS I saw one at a business: No students No lazy people Must be available on-call No other jobs Minimum wage 10-35 hours per week That sign has been up for over a year now.
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@bengrossbg So basically the plot to Rambo?
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@dhaaruni Less image, more why sounds great. A dedicated, driven and concise leadership style is exactly what the US needs.
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@JanisIrwin We need to stop calling these protests. Near any healthcare centre, it's agitation. Protests have the goal of improving people's lives, the agitators outside of hospitals today are selfish and crass.
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My small biz @gotourscanada operated Segway Tours at Ontario Place before being kicked out for spa construction. Our Tour Guides had a lot of awesome stories to tell - including the types & variety of trees on the West Island. Sad to see this destruction today.
@ONPlace4All
Ontario Place for All ©
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Unfortunately there was a large amount of trees cut down last night at Ontario Place West Island. This is what remains of Moose Hollow, once filled with trees meant to evoke the Algonquin. We’re asking supporters to come down to West Island ramp entrance to bear witness. #topoli
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@spectatorindex This Simpsons episode.
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@MoiraDonegan Nice to see her follow through on what every other employee probably dreamed of doing!
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@Chrisjjosephs Business owner here - this dude is bang on. It's not my employee's obligation to show up to a WAY TOO EARLY meeting with only 1 day notice. Company culture is super important and I want the best talent - why wouldn't I be flexible with great folks?
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@AndrewYang Low-key Andrew up here getting the Yang-gang presidential campaign back together.
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One other note from the business owner: "If I wanted to start a business now, I couldn't afford it. Rent in Toronto has gotten so high that working class people like me can't follow our dreams anymore. You have to be rich to start a business in Toronto now."
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@MikeBeauvais THE ARISTOCRATS
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Giving people the tools for success doesn't make them lazy. It creates opportunity. A Basic Income in Canada would unlock incredible potential in millions of our fellow Canadians. It's time to get everyone to the same starting line. #CERB #BasicIncome
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@DataChaz Fingers crossed, NASA is going to call me up and ask for the extra VGA monitor cables I've got kicking around 🤞🤞
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@dieworkwear Gavin McInnes is living proof that tubes exist.
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It's mind-blowing that Lululemon got a Temporary Foreign Worker exemption to hire: > Graphic Designers > Ad + Marketing Mangers > Computer Systems Managers 1 of the most educated countries on Earth & ZERO Canadians can do this work? Right. @IJFMedia :
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@CP24 Bad headline. Here's what worked: - Masks - Vaccinations - Test to stay policies What didn't/inconclusive: - Quarantining - Cohorting - Hybrid Learning
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One thing they said really stuck out: "I invested over $100,000 into this space & technically don't own the counters b/c they're attached to the ground. My landlord owns my materials, labour, and the upgrades I made to the space. I can't even take them out without being sued."
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@birdhustle How long before the king of the glass castle deletes this post?
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If you're a business owner/company complaining about #CERB , why? Canada's Employment Rate is higher than it was in Feb. 2020. People are finding jobs they like. I guess you have to ask yourself - why does nobody want your job during a labour shortage?
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