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In defense of a 15 dollar minimum wage

Written on September 21, 2018. Posted in Columns.

This coming January, Ontario is set to join Alberta, New York and California in increasing its minimum wage to $15. In 2017, Maclean’s reported 8.9 per cent of Ontario’s workforce are minimum wage employees—more than any other province in the country. Despite this large proportion of minimum wage...

Solely blaming the franchise owners won’t do any good for Tim Hortons employees

Written on January 23, 2018. Posted in Editorials.

Tim Hortons employees have become a focal point for the debate surrounding the Ontario government’s minimum wage hike. While it’s tempting to look to one source of blame, the issues facing workers are the result of a complicated series of mistakes made by multiple parties. On Jan. 1, Ontario’s...

Queen’s Park catch-up: Ontario government updates

Written on November 24, 2017. Posted in News.

Last week, provincial lawmakers were busy debating legislation to end the five-week Ontario colleges strike. This week, Kathleen Wynne’s government enacted plans to raise the minimum wage to $15, as revised labour legislation passed Wednesday. Ontario Liberals legislate college faculty back to work The...

Q&A with Kingston & the Islands MPP Sophie Kiwala

Written on September 18, 2017. Posted in News.

Liberal MPP Sophie Kiwala (Kingston & the Islands) sat down with The Journal for a Q&A about the Ontario government’s many recent policy endeavours. Kiwala was elected to the Ontario Legislative Assembly in June 2014 and is an active member in Kathleen Wynne’s government, holding positions...

Raising the minimum wage isn’t a solution to student poverty

Written on January 24, 2017. Posted in Editorials.

Raising the minimum wage isn’t a solution to poverty, particularly poverty among student populations. As students who often work minimum wage jobs and struggle to make ends meet, pushing for a raise in minimum wage seemingly makes sense but we need to put more thought into its real implications. Increasing...

$15 federal minimum wage just a headline grabber

Written on September 17, 2014. Posted in Editorials.

As great as a $15 federal minimum wage sounds, it’s unclear how the NDP’s recent proposal will help relieve poverty. NDP leader Tom Mulcair said last week he’ll propose a $15-an-hour federal minimum wage for vote in Parliament. As it stands, the NDP’s plan would only apply to the one million workers...

Tipping too unstable

Written on June 22, 2014. Posted in Editorials.

It’s time the archaic practice of tipping was put to rest in favour of a more stable gratuity tax. As it stands, restaurant servers in Ontario earn wages below the provincial minimum, and are dependent on tips to supplement their income. Tipping perpetuates a power imbalance within the service industry,...

Ontario makes minimum effort

Written on February 4, 2014. Posted in Opinions.

Kelsey Leung, ArtSci ’14 Seventy-five dollars. That’s how much extra I’d make per month if I continued to work the same amount of hours per week I do with the upcoming minimum wage increase. Keep in mind, however, this is before taxes; with every little obsolete penny adding up, that figure gets even...

Issue 18: Darts & Laurels

Written on October 29, 2013. Posted in Editorials.

Darts AMS involved in multiple voting mishaps The AMS should take pause after having been involved in several voting mishaps in the span of two years. Last year, counting errors resulted in a delayed announcement of the winter election results. This past week, nearly 6,000 Fall Referendum ballot logins...

Tag: minimum wage

In defense of a 15 dollar minimum wage

Solely blaming the franchise owners won’t do any good for Tim Hortons employees

Queen’s Park catch-up: Ontario government updates

Q&A with Kingston & the Islands MPP Sophie Kiwala

Raising the minimum wage isn’t a solution to student poverty

$15 federal minimum wage just a headline grabber

Tipping too unstable

Ontario makes minimum effort

Issue 18: Darts & Laurels

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