TheNewTeddy

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There's a forum I stumbled across once for Ontario Landlords. A quick google should find it for you. They spend most of their time attacking tenants.

In Alberta, AISH gives you $1,588 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assured_Income_for_the_Severely_Handicapped And, you get transit pass discounts. You could get a transit pass for Edmonton AND Calgary combined and still pay $30 less than you would for a similar pass in Toronto.

I got 599 on OW while waiting for ODSP, which is the 'standard' amount. No extras (like the food bonus) and no minuses (like living with parents) The standard minimum wage is $10.25 Payroll taxes. http://www.cra-arc.g...4032-on-12b.pdf Provincial rate of $0 Federal rate of $0 So you'd need to make $599 from wages in a month to get the same as you get on OW. Working 58.5 hours in a month gives you $599.625 That works out to a little under 15 hours a week. Put another way, if you worked 8 hours on Saturday and Sunday, you'd make the equal for OW. ODSP (Which is intended for the disabled) is a different story. I get $1,064, which is also 'standard'. If I worked 190.666* hours in a month at minimum wage, I'd get $1,954 in wages and $86.6 in ODSP. Note though that I'd also continue to get my head pills covered, which cost me $60 a month or so. Note that this does not calculate payroll deductions. If I had my old job back ($12.25, 44 hours a week) I'd get $2,335.65 but no ODSP. I'd still be ahead. I'd also be on the 'fast track' to go back on ODSP should I lose my job. My Payroll deductions would be $96.50 provincial and $146.20 federal. This leaves me with $2,092.95. http://www.paycheckcity.com/canada/coeatonca/caResults.aspx My net pay would be $1,740.98 *190.666 = 44 hours a week, calculated precisely (52 weeks a year, 12 months a year)

I also think far more effort needs to be put into literally dragging people on ODSP and OW to jobs, and literally dragging corporations to them. Physically pick the person up, drive them to the interview, sit there with them, sell them to the company and sell the company to them, and try your best to get them the job. In the long run you'll end up spending far less money on social supports.

I like chat rooms. It's far harder to insult someone when it's live real-time discussion.

LOL, I have a warning because someone posted a news story that sounded like pure BS, but then produced a link proving it was true - so I used the F word in utter shock.

Nice! I like it.

This is my comment This kind of problem was never intended.

There should be a portion that's unlimited, but beyond that, I'd support putting the rent amount as some sort of credit that can only be used for rent and nothing else. If there was a reliable way to get a "food card", that would also be a good idea, but people find crafty ways to defraud the system.

Curious if you'd agree with this statement I made to my roomate. Harper is good at governance. Sure he's not ethical, and sure he has lots of scandals, and sure on some files like the F35 there is incompetence. But when it comes to "Governance", especially related to money matters, he is doing a good job.

THIS has my full support.

I thought they were striking for improved wages?

33% of those on welfare are single parents. I'm curious how you'd solve this problem. For many, going to work if you are a single parent means you end up with less money. How would you solve this A - Take support away from the child and let him suffer as a result of his parent's bad decision? B - Take more money away from the taxpayer to support this parent and their bad decisions?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/10/05/bc-disabilitycut.html

If you want to pick on someone, pick on me.

my best friend's best friend (according to the former) has claimed ODSP stuff that he does not need. However listening to this friend and his mental state, I do think maybe he should be on ODSP as he is more screwed up than I am.

The Constitution trumps all legislation.

I actually agree with you, and wish it did not. Though in my own personal case there are other reasons too I'm not rushing back into the job market.

I can tell you about my depression: it changes the way I see things. When I have a 'flare up' I don't bathe, I don't do laundry, sometimes I don't eat. I also truly don't think I really could get a job I could hold - but I've been told that this is a symptom of the depression too. Mental Illness changes how you see things. And I take no offence.

Adjusting the way food banks work will not help people get off assistance.

Not everyone is strong enough to make every choice. If they were, we'd have no poor, they'd all be successful people. Nobody WANTS to be addicted. Addicts are people who are not strong enough to make the right choice.

Map! http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd408/TheNewTeddy/ontprov.png

The Ontario NDP has an inefficient vote distribution, and will not win a majority if they win the popular vote - or even a minority. These numbers are a bit out of date, but lets use them. http://esm.ubc.ca/ON11/forecast.php I'll teach you how to forecast elections the way I do - and the way everyone else does after seeing how well what I do works. Firstly take our poll numbers. N36 P35 L22 Now, without changing any numbers on the link, hit "forecast" This will show us that our "starting point" is L42.3 P31.6 N16.8 G8.0 O1.3 Now hit the back button. Since the Greens won't be winning any seats, and Independents can not be forecast this way, set the GRP-GRP square to 0.000 and the OTR-OTR square the 0.000 as well. (if you are lost already, you might not be able to figure all of this out sorry) Now what we need to do is figure out our "ratio". Doing that is simple. Whip out a calculator and throw in our two NDP numbers 16.8 and 36. You are going to divide them. We get 0.46666 This is our base factor. Now apply that "base factor" to our poll. It changes as so. N16.8 P16.3 L10.3 This is the exact same poll, but at lower numbers. Numbers we can work with. Now you divide the PC and Liberal numbers by the PC and Liberal numbers. Both should result in something below 0. Our PC number is 16.3 divided 31.6 which results in 0.430. This is the number we put in the PC-PC cell on that website. The Liberal number is 0.243 Now hit "show results by" and pick your fav option. I'm choosing PC descending. Hit forecast and POW The results are PC - 53 seats NDP - 44 seats Lib - 10 seats What you've done here is a projection by ratio. It is a bit "weird" because you are forced to have 1 as a maximum. What the ratio says is the Liberals are going to lose 3/4ths of their vote per riding and the PC Party about half. Reality is the NDP will pick up votes, but this website does not have a way to show that. This works far better than a "raw swing". The Liberals are down 20 points so many just lower their result in each riding by 20. What of the ridings where the Liberals took less than 20 points? Are they going to pick up negative votes? (I wish!) You can now scroll though these results to see what the riding by riding projection is. To help, I shall prepare a map!