Ontario will enact a law that requires employers with 250 or more employees to reveal a salary rate or range in all ads for a position. It will also prohibit an employer asking about an applicant’s previous salary and prohibit reprisals for any employee who tells another how much he/she is making. The Premier, Ms Wynne, provided this outline at a Women’s Empowerment Summit at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. The general election is in June.
HOME SALES DOWN AND PRICES TOO
The Toronto Real Estate Board says year-over-year sales in February of homes has fallen 35 percent and that prices have declined 12 percent. It reported 5,175 residential transactions through MLS last month. That’s a drop of 34.9 per cent compared to the record 7,955 sales reported in February 2017. The number of new listings entered into TREB’s MLS system in February totalled 10,520, a 7.3 per cent increase compared to the 9,801 new listings entered during the same month last year.
YUM YUM, CRICKET POWDER
No doubt South Bayview is yearning for some nice cricket flour pastries or a cricket protein spicy omelet made from good old Ontario crickets. Yum, yum. Anyway, Loblaws has decided to test the market for insect powder, sometimes (incorrectly) called cricket flour. Maybe they’ll put it with the Tide or Fantastik.
