Monday, January 09, 2012

On The Toronto Surplus and Quality TV

So, apparently the City of Toronto is looking at a deficit for 2012, but at least we have a surplus from 2011 that will hopefully keep daycares, homeless shelters and HIV clinics open. I can't believe these things were near the top of the list of things to cut in the first place, but I digress.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/torontos-surplus-expected-to-beat-expectations/article2292433/

Here is an interesting article from the Globe and Mail about the surplus and the 2012 budget.

Any thoughts people?


EDIT: Just saw an article on Thestar.com about Karen Stintz going undercover to work for the TTC for a few weeks. Very interesting. Here is the link:

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1112586--ttc-boss-goes-undercover?bn=1

It is for the show Undercover Boss, which is finally coming to Canada. What a great way to show the rich CEOs of companies how hard millions of underpaid, under-appreciated employees are doing to earn them that wealth.

My question for the reading public is, who else in Canada (or the world for that matter) would benefit from a few weeks in their employees' shoes?

Off the top of my head, I would vote for:

1. Stephen Harper working in the Alberta Oil Sands
2. Tea Party politicians in the States living a month in the shoes of a family living below the poverty line. That would include doing their job, trying to pay their bills and thanking the lord every day for their small fridges and basic cable TV.
3. Rob Ford working as a garbage collector and/or in a homeless shelter.
4. Nike founder Phil Knight  working a week in the sweatshops that make his company's products.
5. The Walton family and other Walmart big wigs working a few weeks in one of Walmart's production factories and/or retail stores to get a sense of how their products are made and what life is like for their |"well-treated" employees.
6. Paris Hilton managing her dad's hotel empire for a week, or really keeping ANY job for more than a few hours without throwing a temper tantrum.

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