Ontario set to increase minimum wage
Earlier this month, the Ontario government announced that it will increase the minimum wage from 1435$ per hour to 15$ per hour on Jan 1, 2022 This increase will also affect...
Effects from the minimum wage increase are slowly materializing
With the provincial election quickly approaching, current Premier of Ontario, Kathleen Wynne, has made a series of desperate attempts to win over voters – lowering hydro...
Waterloo Region increases new minimum wage for 2018
The Living Wage Waterloo Region released their most recent report on the hourly wage for 2018 last week The new living wage for the Waterloo Region sits at 16 dollars and...
The ups and downs of increasing minimum wage
I got my first job when I was 15-years-old It was at the Tim Hortons in the small town I grew up in, Virgil, Niagara-on-the-lake I worked mornings, cleaning, and serving some...
Is universal income the way of the future?
With incessant news coming from south of the border, it’s not surprising that it took something as absurd as “elbowgate” to break through Canadian politics, since Justin...