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Ontario set to increase minimum wage
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Earlier this month, the Ontario government announced that it will increase the minimum wage from 14.35$ per hour to 15$ per hour on Jan. 1, 2022. This increase will also affect those in the service industry, who are currently compensated at 12.55$ per hour, as it will increase their wage to the same 15$ an…
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Effects from the minimum wage increase are slowly materializing
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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 costs, OHIP+, improving the Ontario Student Assistance Program and majorly increasing the minimum wage. In theory, a high minimum wage that allows workers to provide for themselves and their…
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Waterloo Region increases new minimum wage for 2018
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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 10 cents per hour for 2018. The living wage is the hourly wage an employee needs to earn to cover their family’s basic expenses…
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The ups and downs of increasing minimum wage
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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 of the most interesting – and hungover – characters I have ever met. Once, when I was walking up to my workplace, having…
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‘Quantum Woman’ raises the bar at Laurier
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Wilfrid Laurier University may have a new superhero in the form of professor, Dr. Shohini Ghose. Ghose, recognized by many as Quantum Woman at the Smithsonian magazine Future is Here event, is an associate professor of physics and computer science at Laurier and the director of the Centre for Women in Science. During the event,…
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Is universal income the way of the future?
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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 Trudeau became prime minister, could be described as so sunny it hurts. Even when there are things to gripe about, he and the reigning liberals just look so…
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