Gravy now appears to include luxe items like heating
A bit of news from earlier this week seems almost too ridiculous to believe—and provides ample material for some pretty awful jokes. The National Post reports that a group of chilly journalists learned yesterday that in order to save money, the city hasn’t turned on the steam system that heats city hall (apparently, the temperature reached a low of 14°C in the press gallery—whining ensued). Looks like Rob Ford may not be content with simply freezing property taxes. Zing! We’re actually not sure if the decision to keep the heat off came directly from Ford, but it does sound like his kind of math. Say, a few extra weeks without heat equals a property tax freeze plus a cancelled vehicle registration tax? The city probably isn’t much closer to filling the yawning budget gap, but there’s likely a vat of gravy congealing in the cold somewhere. Read the entire story [National Post] »
This just makes me facepalm… Was $60 a year really so egregious for vehicle registration? Fact-check folks: it costs triple that in many, many first world countries. Small time suburban-interest voters, all for less than the price of a night at the movies. Now we’re all being covered in the blood from self-inflicted wounds.
On the heating issue, someone should call a ministry inspector. Pretty sure the minimum acceptable workplace temperature is 18c.
They should at least set up a heat lamp for the Toronto Sun reporters, since they’re such dedicated Rob Ford fans. If you can’t suck up to right-wing power, what’s the point of working for the Toronto Sun? Direct access to sex-worker classifieds?