Ontario

You asked, I delivered. Picture taken at the Tim Hortons on Pinewood Park Drive. This one’s a doozy!

Teens in Ontario will be able to sign up for Uber accounts beginning on Wednesday, the company says.

Uber said the accounts are designed with extra safety features and must be enabled by parents or guardians in order for teens to use them.

The company said teens between 13 and 17 will be eligible to set up a teen account and must be invited by their parent or legal guardian. They will then set up these accounts through their guardian’s family profile.

According to Uber, when a teen requests a trip, their parent or guardian will be notified and will be able to watch the trip in their Uber app.

The parents will also be able to contact their child or the driver.

Uber said additional safety features including audio recording, live trip tracking and PIN verification will also be mandatory on the teen accounts. Parents can also call 9-1-1 directly from the tracking screen on the app.

What’s more, the company said only highly-rate and experienced drivers can accept teen trips.

Planning on camping around mid-July and even though many areas are low forest fire risk (green) in the map all of Ontario has a total burn ban in effect.

I'm not in Ontario and just curious what peoples' thoughts are there?

I intended this to be akin to r/Waterloo, since there's a ton of value in local recommendations and discussion. I've met some really cool people from the city subreddits and hope to rebuild that here.

Link: @Waterloo [email protected]

I was really hoping we'd get one and now I'm pretty disappointed. I can probably rustle up a photo of two of Ottawa potholes, by it just won't have that same North Bay Zazzle.

Hi folks! I created a directory that I will update over time as communities get built. If you would like me to add your city/town to the directory if you have created one, post on the Lemmy and I will add you in.

The directory is on the sidebar.

https://lemmy.ca/c/ontario_index

Hi guys, I was sitting at the bar a few hours ago with a flight of ideas surrounding the whole shibam that has been happening(people leaving Reddit for Lemmy), I've noticed it's very easy to get traction around here.

I think many of us are still grasping what the whole lemmyverse is, and how it works, and how inovative it is in the sense of it being a new foundation.

As my mind wandered, I decided to create communities for each of the different towns around me, and the I proceeded to look up towns in Ontario in order of population.

I've been going through the list top down, typing in the name of the town in Lemmy to see if there is an existing community, if there isnt, I create one. Even if the town is 5000 people.

I have this hope that Lemmy, or even website in general within the fediverse, gradually replace shitty social media platforms.

I want it to be more than just an online social space, but a space where people can even use to connect in real life.

I know Reddit had some of that, but it didn't feel like a useful tool for that sort of stuff, while I feel like Lemmy has a whole new potential.

Like I said, this is a project, over the next few days once I have all the communities and links compiled, I will create a Lemmy Ontario town index.

Edit: And it's done! https://lemmy.ca/c/ontario_index

We read the Ontario laws and it said that employers should not have kids working during school hours unless they were doing alternate schooling.

I don’t believe this kid is doing alternate school because the kid said “I can’t work tomorrow because my teacher’s coming to check in on me”.

Do we ask the employer if they know they are employing a teenager who’s skipping school? Do we leave a review?

Obviously we don’t want to tarnish anyone’s reputation unnecessarily but this is a very serious matter.

On Tuesday, Arbitrator Kaplan’s Bill 124 reopener award recognized the extent to which Doug Ford’s Bill 124 unconstitutionally suppressed union member wages — particularly given the combined effects of the pandemic, the healthcare worker recruitment and retention crisis and inflation — and determined that these factors must be reflected in compensation increases for OCHU/CUPE and SEIU Healthcare members.

However, the arbitration award only partially recognizes these factors, in providing for salary increases of 3.75% in 2022 and 2.5% in 2023, together with a two-dollar boost to the predominant RPN hourly rate and long-deserved increases to shift and weekend premiums, call-back, vision and massage coverage. The wage increases are in addition to 1% increases for each year of the collective agreement awarded by another arbitrator under Bill 124.

Unfortunately, these increases still fall well short of what is needed to keep up with inflation and to respond to the serious shortage of healthcare workers in Ontario hospitals. Given the economic growth, we would have liked to see increases that surpassed inflation, or at minimum offset it.

OCHU/CUPE and SEIU Healthcare members are committed to ensuring that these critical issues are addressed in the upcoming round of negotiations and urge both the Participating Hospitals and Doug Ford’s Ontario government to come to the bargaining table with a renewed commitment to providing the compensation necessary to address ongoing inflation and the unprecedented staffing crisis in Ontario’s hospitals.

Recent negotiated settlements and arbitrated outcomes acknowledge the impact of Bill 124, realizing what the OHA themselves forecasted as “…consequences that could negatively impact hospital employees and create financial and operational disruption that would overshadow the impact of any short-term cost avoidance on compensation increases”. Accordingly, we call on the OHA to stand with us in demanding that the Ontario government abandon its costly appeal of Bill 124, which they continue to pursue.

Hey folks, wife and I are moving to Oakville soon, near Bronte Harbour. Only somewhat familiar with the area.

Wondering if any locals have any recommendations for food, stuff to check out, anything and everything really.

Appreciate it!

Probably my favourite map for all the little details it contains. Apparently Puslinch lake had good bass fishing. Old Stage Rd was considered an old road even back then. I'd love to know more of the history behind that. Dundas St was shite past Woodstock. It even mentions good and bad inns.

Every time I look at this map there's something new I discover.

Meanwhile, everyone turning right has to enter the middle lane to turn right. The vid was taken during a gap in the traffic so that the whole scene is visible. Outside of that brief window it didn't look this peaceful.

If you're wondering how you could take minutes to do this, that wasn't the final location. This was:

Welcome to lemmy.ca, glad you are here!

So I think this place could have more complaining about Doug Ford, high rent, high food prices and inadequate healthcare, talking about deals at No Frills. Also let's see pictures of flowers, animals, buildings, landmarks and other cool things there is to see in this big province.

There isn't much posted yet, so even so much as a picture of a pothole in North Bay would be good enough for now. Let's make this a community r/Ontario could be envious of! Thanks for reading.