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Victoria- rated #1 worst place to do business in Canada
| Message Board > Controversy and Quarantine > Victoria- rated #1 worst place to do business in Canada |
| Mace User Info... | T'is'no wonder why Victoria has the worst rated business presence in the Country. First start with bums. If you don't give them money? They threaten you. Then the addicts, if you go to 7-11 and buy a slurpee, not only do you have to worry about the drug dealers outside, who want to rip you off, that you have to worry about the Cashier giving you, the correct change from the slurpee. Finally, once you have your slurpee, and one/sixteen of the exact change siphoned through the dirty thieving hands of the 7-11 cashier, you make your way down to the welfare office, the result of being turned down by W.C.B.- while you were injured on the job, and exposed to life-threatening chemicals in which you contracted cancer of the Lymph-nodes from inadvertantly breathing too much hydrogen-sulfide (on the job). The welfare office turns you away, saying the union will get you your job back (even though union representatives have let you fall through their fail-safe cracks and the union fund), and that it's W.C.B.'s responsibility to covering your now; out-of-work expenses. Out-of-the-Blue- SOCLE' ALL OF A SUDDEN- The Union has severed their business association with you. (To which your Union Rep. refers you to- W.C.B. in which then; refers you to E.I.) but then E.I. turns you away, because you've missed out on what amounts to be a 'week less' in total yearly 'worked hours,' than E.I. requirements allows possible. (So you find out only You're not eligible for Employment Insurance because you came up 30 hrs. short that your former boss skimmed through the payroll over the last year.) You then return to your house where the eviction notice is only, to find your loaded '38 special,' below the matress in your bedroom, outlined with your packed baggage for when you have to make the big move. WHile visions of Protest Placards waiver in the back of your mind, while you make the long distance trip to the Legislature Grounds to make your Point. Meanwhile you're approached by one of those Extended Vacationing "we're only on a daily tour, to show off 'OUR' big position down at the Parliament Grounds, Please take my advice, "the Crown is the Queen of England, who holds Sovereignty over the Land of BC."... "File your court case to the Queen of England in British Parliament" All the same trying to congure the rationality of a out-of-work; working class paycheckless hobo, to paying the legal fees for.[?] A trial against the Queen of England, and her domination and abuse of it's B.C. Working Class Citizens!! Listen to your M.L.A. dammit! ___________________________________________________ - Sun, 15 Oct 2006 6:18pm | ||
| Mace User Info... | Here is the article I was reading, that inspired me to write what I was writing in my last post.. (Actually, the cancer-stricken person I'm writing about is a true story, so that it were, to be by a person who's been protesting (or was) protesting outside of the Leg. Buildings, during the last couple of weeks, on a hunger strike. ---------------------------- Victoria Slammed by business magazine City finishes last on list of best place in Canada to do business Andrea Laigne Victoria News ----------- Victoria ranked dead last in a national audit of best places to do business in Canada. Canadian Business Magazine Victoria 40th in its annual report (September 25-October8 issue) on top cities to start a new business. "This was a bit of a surprise.," admitted Andy Holloway, senior writer of the report. It was a huge slide from last year - Victoria sunk from an unimpressive 26th to unbelievable last place. The magazine rates Canada's 25 largest Cities and throws in 15 others to probide regional representation using five criteria: operating cost, costs of living, commercial building permit numbers, crime rates and the change in unemployment. The criteria has remained unchanged since the magazine started publishing the report in 2001; however the relative importance of each category has shifted. "That's in part why there's been a lot of movement on the list from last year to this year," Holloway explained. The most important category identified by readers was operating costs. The numbers are based on the cost of running a head office with 350 employees. Included in those costs are salaries, benefits, taxes, cost of utilities, cost of land and construction, and travel costs. The cost of living category hinges on an index that puts Toronto at 100. In the index, Victoria 83.1 - roughly in the same neighbourhood as Calgary. It's still welll behind our big sister - Vancouver ranks a teeth-sucking 98.3. The biggest blow to Victoria's position came from commercial building permit numbers. Compared to the previous year, Victoria pitch-poled in commercial building growth. In comparing the first six months of 2004 to the first six months of 2005, the number of building permits increased by 38 per cent. From 2005 to 2006, it dropped just over 11 per cent. "So that was quite a good run for Victoria, but the momentum didn't continue," Holloway said. Changes in unemployment were based on June 20, 2006 compared to the previous year. Readers weighted crime rates higher than in previous years, bumping it up from the least important category to fourth in importance. "Which Victoria did not do well on," Holloway said. Despite arguments that Victoria gets dinged because the rate don't take the muncipalities into account, Holloway argues most cities rate improve when the region is factored in. "So if yo add those in, Victoria's rate is much lower than it is just for the municipality of Victoria itself. We did do some number crunching just to see how that would affect the rankins and it really doesn't because everybody's rate drops as well." Since the article appeared, Holloway has received responses cities across Canada. - Sun, 15 Oct 2006 6:38pm | ||
| Mace User Info... | Cont- "If you finish on top you're extremely happy and if you finish near the bottom or if you slip you start looking for excuses and that's to be expected. You know I'd be really disappointed if those near the bottom weren't angry about it. Every city should want to be at the top of every list," he said. Victoria Coun. Geoff Young didn't dismiss the survey results. "It's certainly worth paying attention to although I don't think I would agree with some of the ways they weight their criteria." Local business leaders were skeptical of the result, as it didn't include the entire Capital Region when crunching numbers. "We are a City of 77,000 people serving 350,000 people in a very tightly confined geographic area. Therefore some of the development is spilling out of downtown and going into the peripheral are," sai Ken Kelly, general manager of the Downtown Victoria Business Association. "It points to, maybe we should be considering amalgamation," he said, adding it would mean a greater cut in federal funds and equal footing with other cities. But according to Kelly, the report doesn't tell the whole story. "I'm not denying their calculation, but I would caution people against putting a number or a ranking to something that doesn't measure well that way. "Everybody looks at our relative cost of living as being a bit of a detriment, but everyone wants to be out here," he said, adding Victoria is ranked best place to live and best place to retire. Bruce Carter, CEO of the Breater Victoria Chamber of Commerce, said Victoria's desirability is a double-edged sword. "If you look at the hard facts around three per cent unemployment, lack of commercial office space and high rents, that becomes a challenge," Carter said. "The reality is, the reason why those thing are that way is becasue it's a great place to live." The business community is concerned about the crime rate's affect on Victoria's image. "Many of them are very concerned about minor level crime, particularly street level homelessness, open drug usage and property crime," Carter said. The Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce is advocating a community court trial to address petty crimes. Whether local government and busness leader agree with the ranking moot, says Holloway. "Essentially, it's a ver sexy way to get into talking about issues to that Canadian Cities face when it comes to attracting corporate development." ___________________________________ (25 minutes to copy) So last night I'm sleeping over at my g/f's place, and at around last call, some loud-mouth, low-life is bellowing into the night- "You in your hotel room, I am a CANADIAN, you in your fancy hotel room~!! I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!" - Sun, 15 Oct 2006 6:52pm Edited: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 6:57pm | ||
| Matteus User Info... | i can agree with some of this. WCB is a joke. too many friends have been injured at work, but nothing like cancer, and gotten the shaft. EI.... oh this is pitiful. I have worked ever since I was 15. Never unemployed. Worked my ass off. WHen I needed them the most, they sent me to the welfare office so that I could wait 3 weeks for assistance under the condition that If I worked in that time, that I'd have to pay the money back. ON A POSTIVE NOTE; the employement has gotten better in the two years that I have been here in vic. I hear ya Mace. - Mon, 16 Oct 2006 3:31am | ||
| Mace User Info... | That's fortunate for you, Mattues because, it's been super tough 'for others' *wink wink, nudge, nudge* to find employment, since '2 years ago'.. (for years and years) #*@$(%*$# FED.LIBERALS! Welfare is good for those who are disabled or ...... Ah whatever.. You know, the BC Libs or NDP supporting press- say it's good when the U.S. dollar is lower against the CDN. dollar- that it brings in more tourists from the States. For as much as I've heard complaining about people who don't like 'The States' or the people, that they complain about a higher CDN. dollar? Really weird, behavioral patterns/mentalities of people who think that Tourism funding creates jobs and at the same time promotes or incites hatred against our neighbours to the south. Which is lame, but now that my personal magnetism is better with a higher CDN. dollar? (I'm happier, because now I have work coming in from out of my Yin-Yang) (And more responsibility too) People want change in government here in BC, it's remained the same stagnant entity that it has for the last ten years I've lived in this Province, only though it's the same two governments (NDP and LIVer-luvers) that have been here since, and people still complain about not being able to see a change or benefit to the Government.. Why's this you ask? Will the Green Party save uS? Well, if the system stays the same? It's great to those who already exist in power; that think that 'we as a society' generally walk around on a daily basis as zombies, that we don't care about changing the history of polictical structure to the Legislature, only though, this is what they want us to all be like.... So it's like we all stay the same... It's in my better interest that it's not the party banner who's the one that going to change things.. And it doesn't matter seemingly at this point who the party's are that represent the public in the Legislature, only though, that I think if I can find the proper candidate outside of the Greens, NDP, or Liberals to vote for- like say the right leaning- D.R.P. (Democratic Reform Party), is the only party that raises any interest, because the rest all bore the he77 out of me or that they the Green Party never wins. It's all a fixed game in this Province and especially on this Island that people don't earn as much as they should, or be provided on a business platform of recognition or benefits to their own personal job status' that the Island's nepotistic business changlings, have people chained at the neck and living in dark caves. - Wed, 18 Oct 2006 6:08pm | ||
| Indole Derivative User Info... | Buy low sell high - Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:27am | ||
| Mace User Info... | lol man, (America has a drug problem.) - Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:42am | ||
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