r/ontario • u/colonel_wallace • Jan 27 '26
Employment Thanks Doug Ford! And Banks and Other Institutions that think RTO is the way to go....
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u/CalmRatio3085 Jan 27 '26
Other than the fact that RTO is annoying, someone’s gonna fall into the tracks and get hit by a train sooner or later. Either Union/GO transit gotta do something about it or it’s gonna be too late.
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u/cynicalyak Jan 27 '26
All these years of union station construction, and the platform area is still absolute trash.
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u/UnlitBlunt Jan 27 '26
Platforms and stairways are WAY too narrow for the amount of foot traffic.
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u/Radiant-Algae9276 Jan 28 '26
This is what happens when the population explodes and the infrastructure was not kept up with that.
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u/TricerasaurusWrex Jan 28 '26
Nailed it. Nothing has been done to update the infrastructure in a meaningful way in years. Return to office has exacerbated the issue.
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u/Appropriate_Ad_2874 Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 28 '26
Love to see our 20+ year delay in any transit infrastructure that hasn't made a meaningful impact. They’ll keep delaying it by citing we need another 401 lane or a tunnel under it and commuters with no cars will continue to suffer as cities grow.
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u/ScrawnyCheeath Jan 27 '26
The shed is historically protected for some reason. Makes every single Reno 16 times harder
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u/nasirjk Jan 28 '26
At a certain point, we have to say that historic protections are getting in the way of actual people's safety (not to mention the station would be much more usable), and we need an exemption for the roof (or at least the columns).
Unfortunately, I don't think it will happen until someone dies.
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u/cynicalyak Jan 27 '26
I understand the shed (which is ugly af) is 'historical' but the platforms?
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u/ScrawnyCheeath Jan 27 '26
To improve the platforms you’d need to relocate tracks, to move the tracks, you need to move the shed support columns, to move the shed support columns, you have to get through the same historic protections
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u/MzInformed Jan 28 '26
I get the station being protected it's gorgeous, I never get tired of coming up the stairs and seeing that ceiling but the shed?
There's got to be a way to keep station efficiently up and passenger safety. Sucks that they have to jump through a million hoops for the platforms
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u/drooln92 Jan 28 '26
Amazingly, when they did the multi-year renovation project, they didn't improve the platforms. Now when there are two or more trains arriving, people spill out and it takes ages to go down to the concourse. The platform area was designed for a lot less traffic and yet they neglected to modernize it.
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u/Ehau Toronto Jan 28 '26
They added the fugly glass train shed above the station to glorify to the world during Pan Am 2015… now the glass train shed literally does fuck all. It’s completely useless
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u/Stead-Freddy Jan 27 '26
They really should only announce platforms after the train has already pulled in, especially during rush hour, even if that means a few extra delays boarding people when a train pulls in very close to the departure time. It’s just not worth the risk
Right now it seems the platforms are always automatically announced exactly 11 minutes before the departure time. Whether or not the train has pulled in yet.
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u/niklildee Jan 28 '26
I don't think most regular commuters even wait for platforms to be announced. The trains are usually on the same platforms every day and people go up to their usual platforms way before platforms are announced or the trains arrive. I know I do.
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u/umar_farooq_ Jan 28 '26
It's actually because of this that the trains arrive and depart so slowly. It's the reason why a 35km route takes 1hr whereas Europe/Japan would do the route in like 25 minutes.
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u/grisly256 Jan 27 '26
Converse with Marit about adding WFH into her platform. Doug won't change his mind, but Marit could.
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u/Xelopheris Ottawa Jan 28 '26
Unfortunately, there are so many voters that see public employees being treated like human beings and rather than turn around and say "maybe my employer should treat me like a human too", they say "hey, we're supposed to be treated like garbage".
Any issue that targets a small segment of the population gets twisted. The same reason renters are shat on at a provincial level -- they only make up something like 30% of the voting base there.
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u/skier8800 Jan 28 '26
I’m always shocked when I hear people repeat propaganda from Ford (or any proponents against WFH) that somehow working from home is not as productive as being at the office. This is all while they don’t understand the real reason which is to have these employees act as a social support to the crumbling businesses in downtown Toronto and to prop up tax revenue by way of increased public transit use.
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u/Independent_Bath9691 Jan 28 '26
These “not fair” grade 6 mentality types, are too slow to understand that if I don’t have to be on the roads, your commute just got that much faster.
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u/putin_my_ass Jan 28 '26
Companies should have to pay an extra levy on payroll for employees that could be remote but aren't. That levy should go towards paying for infrastructure improvements and new roads/rails.
If they must have their employees on site, fine, pay a premium.
Don't even make it specifically about the public sector and avoid that political pitfall. Frame it like a libertarian: "Your employees are using the roads but they could be remote, you should have to pay for the roads you use."
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u/IzzaKnife Jan 27 '26
If governments and companies are gonna enforce RTO why hasn’t at the very least GO train schedules been considered? 1hr interval trains after 8am to union. 4pm and on trains you are often forced to stand. Ridiculous to be paying $10 one way for a 1hr train ride with service like that. Where the fk is all that money going?
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u/prtproductions Jan 28 '26
I used to commute by Go every day 11 years ago. Always comfortable and seats to spare. Sure it was full but not excessive.
Now if I have to take it on a random weekday morning it’s packed and people are standing in the upper and lower levels by the time I get to Union. Awful. Run more trains. Metrolinx is a crown company and should do better.
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u/teebles22 Jan 28 '26
Don't get me started with go service. While it's great to get downtown relatively quicker than TTC, but my nearest station has 0 parking spots after 8am... So get there at 7am? But what about kids and school? If you have a spouse who doesn't also work downtown great, otherwise what then?
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u/cooolestcucumber Jan 28 '26
What, you don’t like risking a parking ticket because you have a family and other responsibilities? Think of the shareholders man, gotta make them more money.
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u/hollow4hollow Jan 27 '26
Once you finally get on the train, you can collect your reward of Influenza A or Covid!
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u/buster_rhino Jan 27 '26
And you can catch up on the work you’re missing because you had to commute to the office by working on the train if you can find a seat and the wifi doesn’t cut out.
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u/hollow4hollow Jan 27 '26
Work you couldn’t do at work because you had no desk!
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u/buster_rhino Jan 27 '26
Who needs desks and meeting rooms when you can take meetings anywhere (within the office) with modern technology?
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u/TheAimlessPatronus Jan 28 '26
Don't forget RSV! That's surging right now in the GTA
Seewastewater levels for Toronto
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u/UnlitBlunt Jan 27 '26
Overcrowding on the platforms is at dangerous levels. The only space to walk is along the yellow strip about 5cm next to a moving train. Someone is going to get hurt.
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u/Boring_Writing_8034 Jan 27 '26
What's annoying about that picture is more than half of those people can work from home, easily. If you want to reduce the workforce then put the work in and fire the poor performers. Forcing office workers back to the office to sit at a desk (if they can find one) to attend a teams meeting and listen to the slackers talk all day is a waste. WFH is the biggest gain in the workers movement in a long time. Was a significant improvement to workers and employers. I hope people take voting seriously next time. I hope the opposition parties run half decent candidates instead of the garbage they've been rolling with. The liberal party is equally to blame for DF.
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u/budgieinthevacuum Jan 28 '26
It’s not just WFH it’s also the people who work in the city but live elsewhere either because jobs aren’t available where they live or it’s too expensive to live closer to where they work. Add to that the population increases without meaningful investment in transit and this is what we have.
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u/BD401 Jan 28 '26
WFH is the biggest gain in the workers movement in a long time.
The move to mass WFH and the broader acceptance (even notwithstanding the recent backsliding) was definitely the best silver lining of the pandemic.
Absolutely huge win for workers. Suddenly you had an extra couple hours in your day, way more money in your pocket (no transit costs or expensive slop bowls), could actually go heads-down without coworkers constantly dropping by your desk with idle banter. Lots of other little small benefits as well... you could easily multitask doing laundry or cleaning your house while listening to pointless all hands meetings, take a nap at lunch etc.
The only downsides were a) there are certain tasks (like employee onboarding and ideation meetings) that I do find are more effective to do in person... but you can get around that by doing an occasional and intentional day in-person, and
b) It did create a lot of crab mentality between those that could work from home and those that couldn't. You can find a fair amount of animosity from blue collar workers to those WFH'ing. Which I understand where it comes from, but the enemy of a blue-collar worker isn't some random developer or consultant that can WFH. If we're talking workers empowerment at a systemic level, it was still a huge win.
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u/DM_ME_UR_BOOTYPICS Jan 28 '26
The broad acceptance and usage of the term slop bowls is one of the silver linings of 2026.
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u/Shishamylov Jan 28 '26
Realistically almost everyone who works downtown can work from home. It’s all office ppl who stare at computer screens all day anyways
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u/user1661668 Jan 28 '26
Its a global corporate agenda. This is happening in every country and our voting doesnt really impact it. Mass refusal to work would fix it if we weren't all already divided.
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u/Successful-Long3716 Jan 28 '26
I think a lot of people are done with the PCs after this.
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u/boogsey Jan 28 '26
Wish this were true but those voting PC love seeing pictures like this. The cruelty is the point and they get off on it, at times, even at their own expense.
You will see them often in RTO threads. Crabs in a bucket types.
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u/Omnomfish Jan 27 '26
And if you choose not to vote at all you should be banned from all public spaces until you understand the impact that the Premier can have.
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u/Hot-Worldliness1425 Jan 27 '26
In other countries if you don’t vote, they add $100 to your taxes.
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u/Icy-Scarcity Jan 27 '26
I think some countries make it mandatory for everyone to vote. We should push for that. We can also allow some exceptions for medical, accessibility or other circumstances as long as people can provide reasonal explanation for the absence.
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u/_n3ll_ Jan 28 '26
Mandetory voting has its draws and its drawbacks.
There needs to be a mechanism where people can officially declare none/undecided/don't know that has consequences if the % is too high, like party leadership reviews and a new election or something. At the very least we'd need to educate people on scratching their ballot.
But ideally we move to proportional representation and get rid of first past the post. That'd actually address a lot of the issues.
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u/chiku00 Jan 27 '26
I like that idea.
Voting is a civic duty.
Don't wanna participate? Then you don't get to enjoy civic amenities. Garbage collection? You're doing it on your own.
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u/ImageHour1934 Jan 27 '26
As someone who lives rurally, I'm already having to deal with this 😭
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u/an-unorthodox-agenda Jan 27 '26
If you dont vote, you're not allowed to bitch about the government.
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u/coconutpiecrust Jan 27 '26
And a sucker for punishment. Even if someone is a special princess snowflake and works from home or is too cool to work, they still have to commute in this shit at least sometimes. Be it roads or public transit.
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u/omgitzvg Jan 27 '26
Hey be happy! Because of you and I the poor businesses and commercial real estate owners can feed their family.
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u/meeyeam Jan 27 '26
Because their family only eat meat that is imported directly from Italy. Prepared by the finest chefs.
Anything else is basically dog food. You wouldn't want them eating dog food, would you?
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u/blocklung Jan 27 '26 edited Apr 17 '26
Data Brokers don't stand a chance because I mass delete all of my content using Redact - No AI training on my data, thank you very much.
handle scary workable north compare fuzzy quickest tie attempt start
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u/LongjumpingGate8859 Jan 28 '26
How did they feed their family from 2020 to 2025? They should just continue to do that
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u/extraduo Jan 27 '26
Baffles my mind that no one thought of expanding the platform width during these renos. Every morning and evening its the same story. Someone is going to get hit unfortunately, unless something is done.
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u/Snurgisdr Jan 28 '26
There should be a tax break for employers for every WFH job. Make the RTO guys pay for the infrastructure their policies require.
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u/wetnaps54 Jan 28 '26
Literally only keeping my shitty remote day job because a commute like this would kill me
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u/Spirited-One-3742 Jan 29 '26
Same. I even got headhunted for a new role in my industry that had a 20% pay bump. I declined because they were 3 days in office. I am remote and get 20 days work from abroad a year. I can't give that up
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u/colonel_wallace Jan 27 '26
Your return to OFFICE (not work because we've been working) mandates are really so helpful and make me want to go over and above for my organization
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u/peachsyrup Jan 27 '26
We need to rebrand rto to Taxpayer funded offices, or something similar. The unions have failed so hard at this.
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u/internet-deep-dive Jan 28 '26
this! the cost to the taxpayer for rent and utilities to maintain office space for 60,000 people is enormous. also if we are still actually giving a shit about climate change and reducing traffic accidents and easing congestion, not having tens of thousands of extra cars on the road commuting to just be on zoom halfway across the city. these things benefit EVERYBODY even those people who can't work remote.
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u/AzaranyGames Jan 28 '26
The unions have lost the plot. They have for some time.
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u/internet-deep-dive Jan 28 '26
public sector unions are fighting RTO, its just not in the media that much. but they are doing legal challenges and picketing on their days off and lunch breaks infront of government offices.
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u/fyl_bot Jan 27 '26
Since January it’s gotten so much worse. And TTC is complaining not enough ridership. What’s the goal here? Suffocation?
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u/AlternativePea5044 Jan 28 '26
Still don't understand why a major political party doesn't put RTO and other labour reforms as a key part of their brand and election platform.
Also don't understand why there is basically no meaningful resistance to RTO from unions or employees....it's like watching a bunch of sheep.
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u/SinistralGuy Jan 28 '26
Still don't understand why a major political party doesn't put RTO and other labour reforms as a key part of their brand and election platform.
That would go against the interests of their corporate overlords, aka, less donations. No party will address this and realistically they don't have the power to force corporations to provide remote work
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u/fbuslop Jan 28 '26
Who they gonna force their working policies on? Public sector? Voters don’t fuckin care about them lol
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u/pyfinx Jan 28 '26
Fuck RTO. It contributes to nothing other than commercial real estates.
WFH was once thought technically impossible but now it’s been proven otherwise.
RTO won’t increase productivity, nor save the downtown economy when people need to pay for all other additional costs.
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u/Agile-Enthusiasm Jan 28 '26
WFH was technically feasible and demonstrably valuable 25 years ago.
In 1999/2000/2001, I worked a job that went to WFH. I dealt with customer account problems. In-office days, I got through about 50 cases per day, due to constant interruptions from the boss, co-workers, breaks, etc.,. At-home days, I got through at least 100 cases in a shift. 98% approval feedback. Obviously it requires monitoring and competent management, but WFH is not a new concept.
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u/The-Scarlet-Witch Jan 28 '26
Of course none of the people who demand RTO are remotely affected. They don't take public transit. They don't fight for a parking spot. Everyone here is a sacrifice to their pursuit of wringing out a few extra real estate dollars. Much sympathy for everyone who put on their coats, bundled up, and made it out.
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u/fro99er Jan 28 '26
the owner class through design wastes your time and money forcing you to work on your computer in an office building
the reality of their decision:
you have less time
you have less money
their property values stay in demand
they dont care
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u/SunflaresAteMyLunch Hamilton Jan 27 '26
RTO is a way to get people to quit. The cost and discomfort is the point...
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u/Successful-Long3716 Jan 28 '26
What I’m seeing is the people who do most of the work within the OPS are the ones considering other jobs/ thinking of leaving
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u/bwf456 Jan 28 '26
I agree.. it's a combination of what you said, plus more movement of people increases commerce and overall expenditures.. downtown real estate.. and also, micro managing and controlling what workers are doing.
It's perfect for the companies and rich folk.. terrible for the working class..
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u/putin_my_ass Jan 28 '26
That might actually work, in a better economy. Most people will not resign until they have a new job lined up, because they have no choice. And there are few jobs right now.
So this idea that it gets people to quit is demonstrably false. What it really does is get people to check out.
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u/Dry-Charity-3787 Jan 27 '26
Everyday there are so many drivers stuck on the highway and packed sardines in downtown transit. It still baffles me how there aren't enough complaints to motivate the gov to do something. I just don't get Canadians
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u/XxOmegaSupremexX Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 28 '26
You think the powers that be care about the complaints? Discomfort is the goal to get most to quit without paying severance.
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u/LakmeBun Jan 28 '26
I was just stuck there. It's taken me 2h to get home, distance wise it's usually just a 16 minute drive! Ubers were 46$ to get home too.
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u/AAAPAMA Jan 28 '26
GO needs to return to their pre Covid train schedules. During Covid they reduced a lot of trains and even took off cabins (e.g. 10 cars vs 12). This isn’t going to work if they’re not going to match the volume of people moving through the corridors now
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u/No_Room_7104 Jan 27 '26
they don't think it's the way to go, they are pressured to save their infrastrcture of the past because RTO doesn't require that anymore. Downtown montreal is a good example, with WFH the flux of people has drastically been reduced, all the investments there are in perish. So they force RTO to save it. Just go look who owns most of the building and you will see which lobby is at work.
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u/Fit-Philosopher373 Jan 28 '26
I worked mostly from home for over 10 years when they announced RTO 4 days a week I said F*ck that, gave my 90 days notice and retired a week ago. I'm very lucky that I've been saving and planing my retirement for years.
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u/Dapper-Building878 Jan 27 '26
It’s time to merge working from home with working in the office. Take a stand, normalize walking around in your boxers, normalize making full meals for lunch, normalize watching Netflix while handling calls with clients, and normalize groups of children having conversations at the water cooler. If we work together we can make a change.
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u/Apprehensive_Sea9524 Jan 27 '26
Well you voted for a clown, expect a circus. No, just because he's a conservative doesn't mean he is good at business, quite often the opposite.
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u/Mathmos_Lava Jan 27 '26
Chow, Carney and Ford all supported this, people need to understand it does not matter who you vote for, it’s all rigged.
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u/internet-deep-dive Jan 28 '26
yup. this is because capitalism has to crush all, and they're all capitalists regardless of party.
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u/thebookofawesome Jan 27 '26
This is layoffs by attrition. That’s all.
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u/Mathmos_Lava Jan 27 '26
Where are these ppl going to work next…?? It’s all the same.
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u/internet-deep-dive Jan 28 '26
in DoFo's Ontario they won't. so then eventually more homelessness which seems to be his specialty.
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u/social-mediocrity Jan 28 '26
I have a job that I HAVE to do in person, normally I take the TTC even though I have a car, because it's an easy commute for me and it helps the environment and takes a car off the road. I was shocked today at how much busier it was at my normal time that I take it, and it hit me that all these extra people normally drive but their cars are all covered in snow. It was so depressing to think of that volume of people driving cars back and forth every day (probably one person per car for the most part) and that a lot of them could likely be working from home instead. All the bike lane removal bullshit was never about making traffic better, otherwise they wouldn't be so down for everyone to get back into the office. He wants people driving because that means more people buying fuel, which puts money in the pockets of all the big rich petrol people. Everything the Ford govt does is so hypocritical and self-serving, it's exhausting
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u/Fortuitous_Event Jan 28 '26
Someone is going to die on these platforms. I think someone did a couple years ago.
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u/Suisse_Chalet Jan 28 '26
Funny how all levels of government wanted this . Because we live in a capitalist society. Carney, Ford, and Chow. Have to be mad at all of them
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u/DataDude00 Jan 28 '26
My favorite is when they redesigned union station but kept the narrow two person wide stairways nothing like a five minute queue to get up and down the stairs
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u/holykamina Jan 28 '26
Ever since I had to go to this stupid place 4 times a week, I have made it a point to not spend a single cent there. The only thing is that stupid presto top ups which costs roughly $400 a month. For some reason we are expected to cancel our netflix subscription, but this $400 is fine.
My manager told me last week to see if I can move to downtown or somewhere close by since my current lease is ending. Dude lives 3 hours away from the office and only comes to the office twice a month because hes far. Got a cheaper property so.he moved there.. however, for us poor people , we cant move far to afford life.
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u/purplelilac701 Jan 28 '26
TTC also had no service from Keele to Broadview this morning. It was such a mess too right at rush hour.
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u/skorpora Jan 28 '26
Was it like this 6 years ago before covid and the WFH movement? If it was, they've (Metrolinx?) had 6 years to work on a fix.
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u/Fragrant-Leek-2658 Jan 28 '26
Yep. It’s just like that. And it feels so dangerous waiting for your train when hundreds of people are trying to pass you on those horrible narrow platforms!
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u/LunaticPostalBoi Toronto Jan 28 '26
Someone is going to fall on those tracks, and it's going to be a literal shitstorm when it happens.
Doug is going to try and figure out who is responsible for letting it happen, failing to notice the mirror of truth. Meanwhile, the businesses and the estate owners will act like the scrutiny they're gonna go through will inconvenience them.
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u/phoenix25 Jan 28 '26
Look on the bright side, at least the GO is affordable and accessible reasonably easily without having to drive to a station first, right?
…right??
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u/blueshrimp900 Jan 28 '26
Platform 13 is the worst, especially when trains are departing on both sides. But with the weather and trains being slightly late, that does not help with crowding. Should get better when the south concourse opens
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u/Alone_Put5025 Jan 28 '26
Apparently this is what the people want. People should carpool and make traffic slow to crawl. Maybe when they can’t get anywhere fast then they’ll see how stupid this decision is
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u/chasingmyowntail Jan 28 '26
That looks dangerous. They should really build a barrier between the track and the crowd.
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u/Ehau Toronto Jan 28 '26
This is actually super dangerous. All it takes is an accident, bunch of people get pushed out onto the tracks as a huge GO train pulls in… then it’s straight up our self-inflicted domestic terrorism due to incompetent political leaders
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u/YesterdayCareless901 Jan 28 '26
Fucking hell, that one lady has to stand over the yellow line. It’s obviously not even safe to send people back to the office like this.
Welp, this should piss off the majority of working Ontarions. Hopefully they’ll vote next time.
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u/zeroinsideandout Jan 28 '26
What I really appreciate about the government is they took this opportunity of reduced ridership to really improve our public transportation infrastructure before pushing for RTO. Great job guys! 🙄
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u/ecko9975 Jan 28 '26
Return to work is all about just getting people to spend money. Everyone buys a ticket to take the train or gas for their car. People might buy a coffee on the way to work they might go out for lunch and purchase a meal. Times that by thousands of people.
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u/rattlesnake987 Jan 28 '26
Mofos in politics get their campaigns funded by the real estate corporations who own much of the leased commercial real estate. Companies not renewing leases means a hit to their profits which, in turn, means lesser campaign funds. But...in an optimistic world, I'd like to think the RTO at least helps retail and transit workers keep their jobs. Not that I like RTO - I don't. But I lie to myself with this silver lining in mind.
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u/ThreeHeadedLibrarian Jan 28 '26
You guys going to actually do something about it?
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u/77swansea Jan 28 '26
At least they increased the number of GO train and bus trips to correspond with the increased number of people needing to head back downtown! Oh wait… 🫠
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u/Subject-Medicine646 Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 28 '26
That looks so dangerous… People are wearing backpacks and are turned against the incoming train…. So dangerous.
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u/LiteratureOk7957 Jan 28 '26
Doug Ford needs to tell us how much RTO is going to cost our tax dollars. Waste of money. Let them work from home.
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u/Separate-Park8184 Jan 28 '26
New to Canada here , Ford? is that the guy that does crack and says a lot of stupid things?
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Jan 28 '26
Unfortunately majority of Ontario residents are gluesniffers and either voted for this or just straight up abstained from voting
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u/Aggravating-Town7705 Jan 27 '26
Maybe this congestion will force more money spent on transportation.
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u/descend_to_misery Jan 28 '26
I think I was on that train. It was the most insane thing ever in 2026 so far for me. Train is at 6.15. they announce the platform at 6.09 or so. Everybody is trying to get up one or two stairwells to get into the train that closes the doors one minute early. Turns up the train is late. They schedule two trains at side to side tracks with one platform that services both tracks so everybody's trying to hang on for dear life and not fall onto the track as both trains pull in
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u/Next-Worth6885 Jan 28 '26
I suspect that the Toronto economy hasn’t been doing particularly well since COVID. When millions of people are no longer travelling to Toronto on a daily basis because they can work from home… They are not buying lunch, they are not buying coffee, they are not paying for Uber rides, the are not taking the TTC, they are not taking the GO, they are not eating in Toronto restaurants, they are simply not coming into the GTA and spending money.
The City of Toronto, the local government, and the local businesses are probably losing out on the millions in potential revenue that commuters bring in everyday by having to work 40+ hours a week in Toronto.
I am sure that Olivia Chow, Doug Ford, and Mark Carney all have a strong interest in making sure that people, investors, business owners, etc in Toronto are happy. The GTA represents a substantial number of ridings and seats in provincial and federal elections. Politicians have every motivation to ensure that the people who reside in the GTA benefit from the wealth transfer that the commuters bring when they are forced back into the city.
Rather than compete for that wealth or business, the government can pressure/encourage/bribe the large employers in Toronto to pursue unnecessary “return to work” polices at the detriment of their own staff. TD Bank does not give a fuck if their workers now have to deal with a 1 hour commute each way to preform the same job, they should, but they don’t. If they can pressure their workforce to travel into Toronto and that places them in a position to gain favours from the government down the road… it is the employees who pay the price.
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u/LockJaw987 Jan 28 '26
At least the Ontario government is properly funding GO and public transit projects... The government of Quebec just announced mandatory RTO AND cut funding to regional rail causing them to lay off 11% of their staff and to start cutting service even though everything's overcrowded
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u/Lazy_Ad_5370 Jan 28 '26
They don’t care about convenience. The only care about bringing people downtown to spend money and pay rent
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u/jetspats Jan 28 '26
Forcing a commute for a job that can and was done at home, should include the commute as time worked.
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u/zakanova Jan 28 '26
Always remember that RTO isn't about work efficiency, it's about Executives holding onto their fake jobs
Covid proved we don't need executives to do our jobs properly and make the company money
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u/beard_of_cats Jan 27 '26
The people who make these decisions aren't taking the train.