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Insufferable dad tweeting #HamOnt community news, politics, housing & labour (💪join a union!). Sometimes music. Often smart-assery.

[Ⓜⓘⓚⓔ @BaysideBadger @BaysideBadger]

Haven’t twtd in a while but worth sharing this local launch:
https://t.co/OcxZctERkR

[David J. Doorey🇨🇦 💙 @TheLawofWork]

Multiple layers of modern capitalist precarity on display here.

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How many current and former Councillors are landlords? How many own(ed) taxi medallions? How often did they declare a conflict of interest and recuse themselves from votes?
That fishy smell is all around City Hall, including council chambers.

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The former Ward 2 Councillor gloated about the view of downtown #HamOnt from a developer's living room on the mountain brow, but sure, it's staff who operate in a "grey area".

[Hamilton Spectator @TheSpec]

Hamilton city staff and vendors operate in grey area

https://t.co/AcMiedcKw3 | Teviah Moro, Spectator Reporter | Hamilton #HamOnt @TeviahMoro @cityofhamilton

[Rob Carrick @rcarrick]

Inflation is down, except for food and shelter. Nothing important.

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Makes me wonder if the local construction cartels will cut corners on all the 1.5m new homes needed in Ontario, or just the $1000/sqft condos?

[Em Tayler @EmilyNTayler]

A condo complex in Welland partially collapsed over the weekend, investigators are still trying to figure out how it happened. No one was in the building at the time but neighbours told me the collapse could be heard blocks away @morninglive @CHCHNews

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@Songbird428 Already saved the (now empty) clear plastic bins from the garbage, they're great storage 😁

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A downside of being a long-serving employee is that when 12 bankers boxes full of some retired dude's *printed emails* are discovered in a closet at an old job-site, you end up being the guy who "reviews" them.

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@jdavey_2 Yeah, like the 2009-10 Toyotas where the NHTSA eventually concluded most of those cases looked like “pedal misapplication”. Could be a manufacturing defect or maybe Tesla owners just suck at driving their overpowered cars.

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@shaw_sandy @GrandadsDonuts @maritstiles @MTaylorNDP

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@jackhauen Ditto. Tried that Stay Classy from Bellwoods last week and it’s great.

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@karl_andrus Weird how the biggest boosters of 350sqft living will never occupy those homes, eh?

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All those glittering 40-story ghost hotels the YIMBYs shill for aren't homes: they're investments.
https://t.co/fujRWZxfLx

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@MattoMcFly I believe for political purposes he prefers Brad Brad Ford, like 007.

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“[R]esearch indicates there's more than 1,000 entire homes listed on short-term rental sites like Airbnb in #HamOnt— more than the estimated 860 vacant units currently available on the long-term market.”

Life is good when you’ve got an extra home or two!

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Another exciting #HamOnt economic development story! Tenants pushed out by black mould & poor property management see their former homes relisted as $2,400/mo AirBnBs.

But really, the landlord is a great guy!

[Bobby Hristova @bobbyhristova]

These Hamilton tenants say their units are in disrepair while Airbnb guests fill up the building | @Samantha_KB for @CBCHamilton https://t.co/ZFX7QVxkyZ #HamOnt

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“After [the landlord] Colalillo was interviewed for this story, most of the listings appeared to have been removed from the website.”

The telltale signs of a “good guy”acting with true integrity!

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@CanningBrandon I never sleep better than when I know the Sicilian Vampire is on the prowl!