What is it he’s spending, 200+ million to get out of a ONE YEAR contract? Are you kidding me? Wait the one year!

How about we spend that money on housing? Or food for the thousands and thousands of homeless people? Or on nurses and doctors?

Is there not someone higher up that has any brains that could step in?

Post a US product that you want to find a Canadian alternative of.

Or, post a solid Canadian alternative product or business to US ones.

Keep it friendly and supportive!

US private healthcare costs 4 times to run than Canada. We pay 17% in administrative healthcare costs, while the US pays 34%.

In the United States, twice as much [in comparison to Canada]— 34% — goes to the salaries, marketing budgets and computers of healthcare administrators in hospitals, nursing homes and private practices. It goes to executive pay packages which, for five major healthcare insurers, reach close to $20 million or more a year. And it goes to the rising profits demanded by shareholders. https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-01-07/u-s-health-system-costs-four-times-more-than-canadas-single-payer-system

The Conservative Party of Ontario is currently trying to privatize more sectors of public healthcare. They are actively supporting a system that costs us more money to run.

Ontario is about to raise minimum wage again. But the reality is NO one can survive living on that. It should be a LIVABLE wage. Every person has the right to put a roof over their head, feed and cloth themselves plus transportation. The cost of living in this country is out of control.

Ottawa's budget missed a big infrastructure investment opportunity: pan-Canadian high-speed rail. Canada is expecting millions of new residents in the next decade. How will all of our mobility needs be accommodated? How can Canadian cities and towns be green without rationing travel and curtailing mobility?

Instead of merely maintaining and incrementally improving our outdated diesel-based system, we should act on plans for a stretch from Windsor to Montreal. Keeping Canada together despite the greatest physical distance between its cities of any country in the world--requires high-speed rail.

High-speed electric rail is a proven solution for efficiently reducing greenhouse gas emissions and effectively connecting urban centers. It can also increase the vitality of dozens of smaller cities and towns along the line, and potentially lower living costs through greater accessibility.

Because most Canadians live in the south of the country, one line can link the vast majority of us. The amount of carbon that the train would save is remarkable. Imagine the relief for half a million people who brave the 401 every day because the fossil train is too slow. Consider too that there are over 60 flights between Toronto and Montreal each day.

We need a joint provincial and federal effort to launch a competitive bidding process for the prompt development of a high-speed rail line between Windsor and Montreal linking every city in between and then from coast to coast.

Ontario politicians are demanding a full return to office. Their reasoning isn’t about productivity or collaboration—it’s about reviving downtown economies. Fill up the office towers, sell more coffees, boost transit revenue, and keep commercial landlords afloat. That’s the playbook.

But it doesn’t match reality. Inflation and the cost of living have eroded disposable income. Groceries, rent, utilities, insurance—everything’s more expensive. Wages aren’t keeping pace. Forcing people back doesn’t magically create spending power; it just shifts what little money households already have. That “extra” $200 someone might have used for lunch or transit is already being eaten by rising food and shelter costs.

Short-term repercussion:

Downtown businesses get a temporary bump—more people buying lunches, more transit passes sold, and a bit of life back in the core.

Workers, however, take the hit. Higher commuting costs, more time wasted in traffic, and added stress. In practice, it’s a stealth pay cut.

Long-term ramifications

Household spending doesn’t increase. People already stretched by inflation will cut back elsewhere, so the net effect is flat or negative.

Employers who insist on rigid office policies risk losing talent. Younger workers—Millennials and Gen Z—expect flexibility, and they’ll switch to companies that offer it.

Downtown recovery stalls if office occupancy never returns to pre-COVID levels, leaving cities with half-empty towers and struggling small businesses.

There’s also a generational divide driving this. Many Boomers and Gen X leaders romanticize the old model of office culture, wanting to “bring back” the way things were before 2020. Millennials and Gen Z, on the other hand, have adapted quickly to remote and hybrid work. They see no reason to sacrifice time, money, and well-being just to keep outdated systems alive.

the 2 cents, Politicians are trying to rewind the clock to pre-COVID life, but with today’s costs of living, the math doesn’t add up. You can’t stimulate an economy by draining households that are already underwater. The short-term bump downtown is just a band-aid; the long-term impact is a workforce that’s frustrated, less loyal, and increasingly looking for better options elsewhere.

A regular at booster juice used to be $6:70 it’s now 10$

A foot long sub used to $5 now is $16

We have family of 6 groceries are 1300 a month.

I really don’t get how they expect us to live ?¿