NO TIPS
Back before the minimum wage went up, I would go to Montana’s to have my favourite lunch. Twenty dollars paid for my meal and a little over $5 in change came back to me. Most of the time I would leave the $5, but sometimes I would give him $3 and keep $2 for my morning coffee.
Now with wages going up, the restaurant raised the price of the meal and I now get back a little over $1.50 in change. I told the server I refuse to bring with me $25 so that I could maintain the tip part.
I said a consumer has to draw a line somewhere. I am sure Kathleen Wynne would encourage me to bring in more money, to which I would say as a senior give me a decent pension increase and maybe I would.
Most people now look for places where tips don’t have to be paid, like fast food outlets.
DAVE WATSON
NEPEAN
(Point taken.)
TERMINOLOGY
I must say I agree with Lorrie Goldstein that one of the main sources of the problem is not Indigenous people, but an incompetent government bureaucracy which keeps them under its thumb.
I do take issue with Goldstein referring us to as “Canada’s Indigenous people.” We are not Canada’s Indigenous people. We are the Indigenous people of this land and have been for centuries long before colonists and/or Canada her ever existed.
Not sure how Canada ever became to own us.
ROBERT WHITEDUCK
PIKWAKANAGAN, ONT.
(Noted)
SNEAKY NUMBERS
The recent “discovery” at city hall of a multi-million dollar surplus, and that only some of our elected leaders were privy to that information should be of great concern to the taxpayers of this city.
This fact also demonstrates that our mayor and councillors are not working as a cohesive team on our behalf.
How are councillors to do their jobs properly and efficiently if critical information is being withheld from them?
Residents should also be privy to this type of information as well.
I think the above demonstrates that there are a lot of games and politicking going on at city hall, and for anyone to use information that should be known to all, as a gotcha moment is simply disgraceful.
Ottawans deserve to know the truth on regarding this matter, and anyone who withheld information that knowingly should have been shared with all – as soon as that information was known – should be subject to some form of discipline.
KEVIN SHEA
OTTAWA
(It was an odd and sneaky situation. We want forthrightness.)
OPEN IT UP
Just about everything has been attempted to try and rejuvenate Sparks Street, and nothing has proved successful. Re-open this once great street to drivers, it will revitalize the whole area and the city can even throw in a bike lane to keep the two wheel folks happy.
STEPHEN FLANAGAN
OTTAWA
(Surely it’s being considered.)