Well if ever there was an example of the need to tweak a bylaw this is probably it.
Keep in mind that the gambling industry is one of the more profitable of industries in the province and unless we’re privy to their books we’ll never really know if their financial challenges are locally based or of a wider scope within their chain.
At any rate, milking a bylaw till the last possible moment, while perhaps allowable under the current regime may be good business, but it’s certainly not good optics.
Thank you for the correction,Gary and his wonderful wife do amazing work for
our city,god really works through them and we are blessed to have them both.
Yes that is true , but knowing the owners as I do its not surprising. In most business that are not “CASH” per say 3 years is needed to grow your business and to raise some cash to cover your start up costs. One would think that this operation has quite the cash flow coming in.
If you are saying that the increase in people to the soup kitchen and the foodbank is because of the casino or gambling in general, get real ! It’s because the service is a freebie and that is it. There are no regulations for the foodbank, come in and get your food, no questions asked. Must be spending alot to keep that place going and the store. I think the wages are pretty good for the employees in the store too but I know that they had to lay off one person. No, it is not managed by volunteers contrary to what some think. I do feel for the fishermen though, they work hard and deserve a break but sitting on your ass all day waiting for the free goods, not too much pity there. Volunteer your time or something. Clean the streets of garbage, do something.
I said his thinking was delusional. In my opinion belief in magical beings creates a delusion which affects one’s reasoning. It affected mine in my earlier life as a believer.
If ajay can reference God, I can reference non-God.
Yes…,we can reference whom ever we want. Agreed.
Starting your thought with " In my opinion…", some how, makes me respect your belief, not necessarily agree with it.
Jungle drums have it that they (the Chances bunch) haven’t paid the taxes on the Rupert Hotel either,pretty expensive way to do business, if their plan is to pay the taxes at the eleventh hour.
Boy if they do that evey three years outher business owners will do the same,if
you look at it they take that money reinvest it and make a 20 % return or more
pay the penalty to the city and still make money,the sad thing about it is the city
has to raise taxes to make up the short fall on the backs of the little guy who also
is trying to put food on the table.
Salmon fishing has been on the decline for years. There usually some politician petitioning for more quota mid season for the fishermen, then complaining post season because of overfishing. If you took the politics out of it, there probably wouldn’t be a salmon fishery anymore, not until the stocks build up a bit more at least. And Crab fishing seams to be cyclic. I’ll take the 5 year avg of any crab fishermen’s wage over mine any day. If they made $100,000 this summer, they would be applying for EI by December, then have no money to pay their income tax next April. So hard to have sympanthy there. The ones who manage their money wisely, are doing great. The ones snorthing coke off the toilet at the Belly will probably be lining up at the food bank.
I’ve been employed steadyly for all of my adult life. Not always glamourous jobs, but jobs just the same. My one time getting layed off, I had enother job before I got my first EI check, (Might of been UI then) although there were times when I had to move for work.
As for Chances being fair, I’m guessing fairness is all in the eyes of the beholder. If I had a business where people threw money at me and I only had to give back %10, then didn’t have to pay property tax. I would think that’s fair, fair for me anyway.
Anyone who doesn’t think it’s fair, doesn’t have to go there. I’ve yet to put any money into a machine there, although I have visited the restaurant a couple of time.
Jungle Drums are all over this City, I would not believe everything that people post and/or speak about as majority of the time it is false information being fed to the dogs of the world! The “Chances Bunch” are not the same bunch that own the Rupert Hotel, just a FYI.
Just FYI, they are the same bunch, they were the bunch that bought the rupert hotel, and the two bars a few years back, so they would have a place for the visitors to their casino to stay at.
And please not to forget, the same group that bought Solly’s and closed it. It was sad to go by yesterday and it was not open. Charter fellows come here and cannot believe it is closed. Guess when they come back next year, they will be guessing what will be closed.
