Reopening Ontario

[squeezer]

I'm betting on cases being up today and daily from now on as more opening and the cases start showing up from Bellwood and from the protesting. In a few weeks, Doug will start panicking and tightening things up or postponing stage 2.

There you have it, my Tuesday COVID prediction.

 

[Jasmine Raine]

I'm betting on cases being up today and daily from now on as more opening and the cases start showing up from Bellwood and from the protesting. In a few weeks, Doug will start panicking and tightening things up or postponing stage 2.

There you have it, my Tuesday COVID prediction.

Honestly, all the province is doing, all any country is doing, is finding the balance.

The balance between stress on medical resources, and an open enough ecomony to keep things going. I think everyone has accept the death rate at this point.

So it is just finding that new case number that does topple things over and they will slowly open up until they reach close to that number and then leave whatever is open, open and keeping whatever is closed, closed.

There you have it, that is my COVID assumption. LOL

 

[SchlongConery]

B.C. bans commercial landlords who forgo federal rent relief from evicting tenants.

Very clever! Ontario should follow suit.

 

[squeezer]

Honestly, all the province is doing, all any country is doing, is finding the balance.

The balance between stress on medical resources, and an open enough ecomony to keep things going. I think everyone has accept the death rate at this point.

So it is just finding that new case number that does topple things over and they will slowly open up until they reach close to that number and then leave whatever is open, open and keeping whatever is closed, closed.

There you have it, that is my COVID assumption. LOL

Do you have an assumption on the fate of the Amigos if Ford goes rogue and decides to postpone phase 2 late into July maybe August?

 

[bebe]

Do you have an assumption on the fate of the Amigos if Ford goes rogue and decides to postpone phase 2 late into July maybe August?

I am gonna go postal LOL

Just means at some point in time I will bail on the agencies I favour and resort to the Indy world. Maybe visit a R&T since the MP's will open first.

Who knows, if the lockdown lasts too much longer the agencies won't have any girls or clients left. Everyone will go Indy. I can also see more and more Agencies starting to operate in the dark by contacting clients directly...no reviews, no advertising...I wonder how many might be doing that already...

 

[bebe]

Almost 12 weeks into the lockdown with no end in sight for Toronto. I bet Ford thinks he are only 10 weeks into the lockdown

Maybe next Summer Ford will start phase 2 as he has no plan to move forward with stage 2 anytime soon

I have a gut feeling Ford is waiting until we into the lockdown for 100 days before stage 2 is started. Another 3 weeks to go.

Who is tired of Fords statement “be patient my friends.” Ford is no friend of mine

 

[Malibuk]

Amid calls for provincial moratorium on commercial evictions, Premier Doug Ford says he doesn't understand why properties sit vacant
For two months, Premier Doug Ford has resisted calls from small business owners, politicians and industry associations to invoke a commercial evictions moratorium in Ontario.
Instead, Ford has chastised Ontario landlords who have evicted commercial tenants during the pandemic, calling them “vicious” and imploring them to “have a heart.”


B.C. bans commercial landlords who forgo federal rent relief from evicting tenants
Emergency order is meant to protect small businesses during COVID-19, finance minister says.
Landlords in B.C. who are eligible for emergency federal rent relief and choose not to apply will not be able to evict businesses that aren't able to pay rent, B.C. Finance Minister Carole James announced Monday.
The emergency order restricts lease terminations, rent-repayment lawsuits, and repossession of goods and properties, and will stay in place until the end of June, when the federal relief program is currently set to end.

Ford is still talking tough.
If you are going to force people to stay home, you need to protect them from being evicted.
If you are going to force businesses to shut down, you need to protect them from being evicted.
This is basic common sense.

'You want to play hardball, we'll play hardball:' Ford issues warning to commercial landlords but has not yet banned evictions
Premier Doug Ford had more strong words on Wednesday for commercial landlords who refuse to work with struggling small businesses but the premier has yet to commit to suspending commercial evictions in Ontario amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
In recent weeks, Ford has repeatedly called on "greedy landlords" to take part in the federal government's rent relief program, which offers eligible commercial property owners 75 per cent of what they would normally collect for rent from their tenants.
A recent report by the Globe and Mail indicates that since the program opened last week, only 16,000 landlords of the country's 1.2 million small businesses have agreed to take part in the program.
A recent poll conducted by the Canadian Federal of Independent Businesses suggests that as many as 40 per cent of Canadian small businesses meet the eligibility criteria for the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (CECRA) program.
"They opened it up last Tuesday so it's been a week right now. I've asked, I've begged the landlords to work with the tenants. These are struggling businesses. These are small family-run businesses in a lot of cases and they are hurting right now," Ford said during his daily COVID-19 update at Queen's Park on Wednesday.
"They are just refusing to do it. Well what they are doing is they are testing me and that is going to be the wrong thing to do."
Ford said his government will "give it a few more days" before taking action.
"All the landlords out there, you want to play hardball, we'll play hardball then because I'm going to protect the little guy. I'm going to protect the little businesses out there that are struggling," he said.
"They (landlords) want to keep pushing us. Well stay tuned. You'll get what you asked for. I promise you that."

 

[Malibuk]

Toronto tenants demand extension of eviction ban and rent relief
Tenants from Toronto neighbourhoods including Parkdale, Scarborough, Jane and Finch, and East York are banding together to demand a permanent ban on Ontario evictions for anyone unable to pay rent throughout the pandemic.
The tenant movement has been growing since the virus first arrived in Toronto, forcing businesses to shutter and many to lose their jobs.
This, we now know, has disproportionately affected low-income residents of the city, and many of them have taken a pledge to keep their rent month after month in order to put it toward basic necessities such as food and medicine.
On March 19, Premier Doug Ford announced that he would be halting all residential evictions in the province until further notice to prevent anyone from losing their home during the pandemic.
He also said anyone who couldn't afford to pay rent simply shouldn't —promising that no one would be evicted for doing so.
"The goal of the movement is to prevent the massive displacement of disproportionately low-income and racialized tenants that is set to occur once the eviction moratorium is lifted by the Ford government," said Alykhan Pabani, a community organizer and tenant advocate.
"If we do nothing, thousands will be cast into financial ruin, and in many cases, homelessness."
The demands of the tenant movement are simple: No evictions for rent arrears accrued during the COVID—19 crisis, and the cancellation of all rent arrears accrued throughout the crisis.
Earlier this week, hundreds of tenants marched through downtown Toronto and rallied at Queen's Park before walking to the Landlord and Tenant Board to express these demands.