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12-13-2024, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by pastarocket  Fixed. This is the official list of non compliant employers under the federal government`s temporary foreign worker program: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration...compliant.html
100 percent actual list. I know because I work for that federal government dept.
How do you get on this list? Well, if an employer violates TFWP rules, they can get banned for a minimum of two years from the program as well as pay fines.
There is an Integrity unit of officers who do announced and unannounced inspections of the employer's workplace premises. Make sure that they follow the rules of the program, and not do anything stupid like abuse foreign workers.
examples: Forcing workers to sleep on really gross accommodations, unhygienic conditions, not give overtime pay to workers, threaten workers verbally or physically, sexual harassment, forcing workers to give back overtime pay by driving workers to a bank machine, etc.
The list goes on and on. You won't believe the things that some Canadian employers will do to exploit foreign workers.
Oh by the way, the workers aren't forced to work at low wage. There are wages that employer must pay for the prevailing wage for jobs at each location. Twenty percent increases have been applied to job wages as wage threshholds for all jobs offered on applications so that foreign workers are treated fairly like Canadians.
-cannot make foreigners work as low paid slaves, right? | Why would I tell you? You're a govt employee 
Point of this map is that it breaks down high wage, low wage, PR and a couple of others. Each one is colour coded. Want to guess which one dominates the map? You can zoom out to fuckin Saturn and still see the dominant colour.
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12-13-2024, 08:36 PM
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#8402 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by underscore They're at least less of a detriment to society since they aren't buying up residential properties to build on. | Airbnb is so fuckin whack now too. I'm gonna stay at a hotel so I can cum on the chair or whatever instead of being charged $500 cause I left a bottle in the recycle bin even though I paid a $300 "cleaning fee"
There's no question that Airbnb has created issues with the housing market, and it's a huge contributor to our supply shortage, especially long term rentals.
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12-13-2024, 08:44 PM
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#8403 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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We used AirBnB to find the last place we stayed at on our fishing trip.
While we were there we met the actual owners and set up a direct deal with them for next year.
More money in their pocket, less money out of ours, win for everyone! Fuck AirBnB!
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12-13-2024, 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by westopher I'm gonna stay at a hotel so I can cum on the chair or whatever |  | 
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12-13-2024, 10:41 PM
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#8405 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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You do know the more rental protection there are the less rental units there will be.  | |
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12-14-2024, 12:14 AM
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#8406 | | linguistic ninja
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Originally Posted by westopher Airbnb is so fuckin whack now too. I'm gonna stay at a hotel so I can cum on the chair or whatever | JD Vance that you? Where have you been since the election?
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12-14-2024, 08:45 AM
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#8407 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by CivicBlues JD Vance that you? Where have you been since the election? | I'm not gonna bang the chair though. Just finish on it. I'm not a weirdo.
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Originally Posted by boostfever Westopher is correct. | Quote:
Originally Posted by fsy82 seems like you got a dick up your ass well..get that checked | Quote:
Originally Posted by punkwax Well.. I’d hate to be the first to say it, but Westopher is correct. | | |
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12-14-2024, 10:01 AM
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#8408 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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Originally Posted by Great68 We used AirBnB to find the last place we stayed at on our fishing trip.
While we were there we met the actual owners and set up a direct deal with them for next year.
More money in their pocket, less money out of ours, win for everyone! Fuck AirBnB! | In our travels we met a couple who manages 5-6 properties at Niagara Falls
They don’t like Airbnb because of the fees but still use VRBO for exposure. They said the #1 tip they have is to search the same title of the listing on Airbnb in google, because typically smart hosts will have a private listing with the same title that cuts out the fees etc.
Of course in those scenarios you don’t have the protection Airbnb provides but if they have a good rating on Airbnb it’s probably a safe bet to book privately
The hotel VS Airbnb argument is always one seemingly made by people who use neither though. They are two different things, used for different purposes.
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12-14-2024, 11:29 AM
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#8409 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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lol man talking about corporations fucking us then defending this one cause you like it is wild.
This is one of the biggest contributors to the housing price issues here. Not to mention how many owners are operating against local rules.
Hotel chains aren't sweet but at least they work in accordance with local zoning that isn't taking away a place to live in a district with a housing crisis.
Airbnb though was a dope idea when it was people going away for the week and subsidizing their trip offering decent accommodation for travellers, but like everything else it became a freight train fuelled by money and greed.
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Originally Posted by boostfever Westopher is correct. | Quote:
Originally Posted by fsy82 seems like you got a dick up your ass well..get that checked | Quote:
Originally Posted by punkwax Well.. I’d hate to be the first to say it, but Westopher is correct. | | |
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12-14-2024, 12:19 PM
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#8410 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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The govt. does not even have a way to quantify the legislation to ban them.
Show me what the ban has done, show me -any- stat that can prove it’s had an impact.
Oh you can’t? Crazy it must be working amazingly then. Prices haven’t dropped as they figured they would, rents have slipped slightly, but was that due to the Airbnb ban or was that the pullback on immigration and foreign students?
Oh there’s no way to quantify that either? 
Underscore simping for the Hiltons, Hyatts and cab drivers of the world while shitting on Airbnb is hilarious. It’s just another service we’ve allowed to penetrate society without anyone with half a brain assessing the impact then we have a knee-jerk reaction in a desperate attempt to save face, but then with no way to measure the outcome.
All it’s done is price people out of vacations. Oh well, less bums with kids running around the okanagan.
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12-14-2024, 04:43 PM
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#8411 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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A basement suite in the okanagan can bring in 70k annually on Airbnb with most of that in the summer months. An equivalent long term rental would bring in 30k and stuck with them 365 days a year. The unit is physically inspected/licensed by the city and fire dept yearly, taxes are collected via Airbnb. Guests get a discount at the local family owned restaurant because the owners are happy to get the business. Guests like having secure boat parking and grass for the dog to shit all over compared to a hotel. Groups of married women from Vancouver on a girls wine trip enjoy inviting guys back that aren’t their husband (shocking how common this is). The local unemployed stay at home moms are now earning minimum $35 per hour with hours flexible enough to take care of the kids and do Airbnb cleans when no typical 9-5 job would hire them.
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12-14-2024, 05:11 PM
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#8412 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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There's a huge market segment that Airbnb serves that hotels do not get in, that's the vacation home rental.
I'm not saying they don't exist outside of Airbnb but Airbnb makes it much much much much easier to find, compare, and book these stays.
When you have 3 families with kids tagging along, being able to rent a whole house just isn't the same as renting 3 hotel rooms.
Sadly the ease of these rentals also goes against the whole affordability problem in the desirable regions. I don't have any industry experience with running a hotel, but would it be that challenging to be renting out family suites that aren't luxury executive suites that costs $2500/night?
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12-14-2024, 05:35 PM
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#8413 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer Underscore simping for the Hiltons, Hyatts and cab drivers of the world while shitting on Airbnb is hilarious. It’s just another service we’ve allowed to penetrate society without anyone with half a brain assessing the impact then we have a knee-jerk reaction in a desperate attempt to save face, but then with no way to measure the outcome. | Those companies all have their own flaws but they aren't the ones pricing people our of their homes and that's slightly more important. I've spent 48 nights this year in hotels and not one of them was in a residential neighborhood.
You sit here whining about everything in Canada but when something has been proven multiple times to be a net negative to our country you just decide all on your own that it's actually fine and the real problem is some made up nonsense that magically only you know about.
Then we've got everyone in the real estate thread talking about how everyone's getting priced out of the GVRD, but then have no problem doing the same thing to people elsewhere to save a couple bucks or a couple mouse clicks on their vacation. Give me a break.
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12-14-2024, 06:02 PM
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#8414 | | RS controls my life!
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Hotels also pay additional tax MDRT for the increased amount of water and sewage use.
Tech Revolution in the past 10 years has been
Digital currency for speculation and criminal use (Bitcoin)
Illegal hotels (Airbnb)
Illegal Taxis (Uber)
Illegal rental cars (Turo)
Social Media
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12-14-2024, 07:40 PM
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#8415 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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12-14-2024, 08:11 PM
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We should start RS airBNB or RS school for retards who want to do better than "emerging" and other life skills.
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12-16-2024, 08:20 AM
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#8417 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigns from Trudeau's cabinet
wthhhhhhhhhhhhhh https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fin...inet-1.7411380 | |
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12-16-2024, 08:20 AM
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#8418 | | In RS I Trust
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and she tosses Trudeau under the bus LMAO
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12-16-2024, 08:21 AM
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#8419 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Got off the ship before it sinks. Housing minister signalled his resignation, now Freeland surprise. Don't think even Mark Carney can save this ... he'd be smart for his own future, to stay away from Trudeau.
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12-16-2024, 08:27 AM
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#8420 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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Hah hah hah hah…
Turds most loyal soldier can’t even stomach sticking around. She knew she’s gonna have to lay out a terrible budget that she’s going to take the brunt of after lieing through her teeth about managing debt previously.
Coward.
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12-16-2024, 08:28 AM
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lol she's arguably even less popular that Trudeau these days
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12-16-2024, 08:40 AM
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i knew honda would be having a great Monday after reading that news.
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12-16-2024, 08:50 AM
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#8423 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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I wonder if there will be more cabinet ministers resigning after Freeland tossed Turd under the bus with her resignation.
It's not even Christmas yet and Turd is already getting shit in his stockings hahah.
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12-16-2024, 08:51 AM
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I mean she definitely needed to go as finance minister............... but as usual for him these days he did it all fuckin wrong lol
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12-16-2024, 08:55 AM
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#8425 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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Originally Posted by pastarocket I wonder if there will be more cabinet ministers resigning after Freeland tossed Turd under the bus with her resignation.
It's not even Christmas yet and Turd is already getting shit in his stockings hahah. | Sean Fraser, the housing minister also resigned today.
And CP workers legislated back to work by the “pro-worker” coalition of Jagmeet once again.
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