Just read a long post about many shop spaces in a shopping center in Kona, Hawaii being empty. Rents have gone up, parking has gone astronomical ($14/hr!) when it used to be free, and now tourist numbers are dropping.
Really sucks for Hawaii cause there isn't a lot of other industry besides tourism and I'm sure they'd love to go back to being a self governing sovereign country if they could.
It was definitely unacceptable language. But I have to note:
a) she was actually calling people back. Pretty gutsy considering she knew a lot of people were calling in anger.
b) when confronted, she made a sincere apology, no ducking and dodging, no PR team to 'manage' the damage.
c) the person who got the call felt the apology was sincere and forgave her
The whole thing is unusual because its an example of a politician f'ing up and then making good and actually facing up to it. Should be the end of the story.
Condensation is not "pollution" thus the quotes.
Well, that picture is a power plant and almost everything coming out of those stacks is water vapor.
If you're going to write an article about 'carbon emissions' at least get the picture right. Just because its visible doesnt mean its "pollution".
These changes are long overdue and despite the description as a "gift" to corporate landlords they will be hugely helpful to 'mom and pop' landlords and to fix the very broken Landlord Tenant Board.
The proposed law shortens the rent arrears eviction notice period from 14 days to 7 days and limits tenants’ legal defenses against eviction in these cases.
If they're not paying rent, why does a tenant need 14 days for an eviction notice? In AB, we can give notice the day after rent is due, although they still have 14 days to pay after that.
LTB adjudicators will no longer be permitted to allow tenants to raise disrepair issues at eviction hearings unless tenants have notified the LTB in advance and only if they have paid off 50 per cent of the rent monies the landlord claims they owe before the day of the hearing.
Good. Because raising "repair issues" AFTER notice for non payment of rent has just been used as a delaying tactic in ON. If they have been raised BEFORE the notice they are likely legit complaints. And paying 50% of rent owing shows they are trying to catch up. Its fair.
Another one of the new measures proposes to explicitly define the circumstances under which landlords can evict tenants for persistent late rent payments.
The article doesnt state what those circumstances are but it definitely needs clarification. Being late once or twice on rent is generally not cause for eviction, but if its constant it definitely presents a problem.
Beyond countering tenant organizing, the legislation’s most drastic proposal was to open the door to eliminating security of tenure altogether. In Ontario, tenancy agreements automatically renew at the end of their term — landlords can’t increase unit turnover rates by signing tenants to expiring leases.
That one is a bit more controversial. In AB, a fixed term lease just ends on the last day of the lease, there is no tenure. If both sides are happy with the last lease, they usually make an arrangement a month or two ahead of the end date and just sign a new lease. If either party is unhappy, the lease expires and its done, no eviction needed its just over. Tenure works fine when everything is going well, but it also locks in the lease rate to whatever the gov allows.
These changes do seem to be more in favor of landlords but that's not a bad thing when the ON Landlord Tenant Board is extremely broken - tenants in ON have dragged out evictions for months and months knowing that there are several ways to game the system and ultimately no one wants to build more rental housing if they cant at least get rents paid so it ultimately hurts tenants by decreasing supply.
"He even went as far as to deny someone looking to board with an expired bus pass," police said in the news release.
Dude was taking this gig seriously lol
Didnt really think about how much they had changed for the SAME model but here's an older 90s Chevy pickup vs a recent model: https://i.redd.it/ca1aqxonbf0c1.jpg
I agree with only allowing national and provincial flags in front of government buildings. We dont have a flag put up for every cause, not sure why the pride flag deserves more recognition than an indigenous flag or Metis flags, or the Israeli or Palestinian flag or the Human Rights flag or the Ukrainian flag or any other minority group. Its Canada. If we dont want to show prejudice for or against just fly the national or provincial flag, thats it.
Its not just casual tourists staying home. I follow real estate prices like condos in the touristy parts of Florida and the market is flooded with sellers and prices are dropping significantly. Realtors are saying they have had condos on the market for four months without a single inquiry because the market is saturated with sellers and no one's coming down to buy. Canadians are fleeing their vacation homes.
The point is focus. It is futile to point the firehose at the weeds on fire in the flower bed when the entire house is going up in flames.
And right now to put out the fire the focus should be on the countries that can actually make a difference, primarily China, the US, India and EU next.
But those also happen to be our biggest trading partners. So in a capitalist country like Canada no one, including the government, wants to damage the bottom line, so instead of having a policy with some teeth like "we will cut our trade with those countries by half until they lower their emissions" what is the message you hear? You hear, "Buy an EV, save the planet" "Get solar panels, save the planet" as if that's going to actually a dent in emissions in Canada.
It will make an imperceptible dent but the resounding message is please continue to buy buy buy more products and DONT stop spending money on our trading partners. That doesnt make sense and its why I know that our gov's are not actually serious about climate change.
That seems like a lot of words to say EV trucks suck at towing especially the Lightning.
The very nature of almost all trailers is that they dont have great aerodynamics, especially holiday trailers, a primary reason why people buy a pickup truck.
Ah, thats fair, I missed that initial duck. She loses some points. I gotta at least give her half credit for owning up and actually apologizing, in the political world thats extremely rare.