Electricity is an Essential Service. The cost should be controlled as such.

How can the Ontario Hydro Crisis be fixed ?

If  Electricity is an Essential Service, or utility like water would it not be better for the Municipal Governments to take control ?

Where salaries are capped at $150k not to exceed the Salary of the Mayor ... ie, Mayor of Ottawa, = $168,102 .....

Or maybe the Federal Government should take control where Salaries would be capped at a Director General Level $150k and never to exceed the Salary of the Prime Minister of Canada at $340,800?

Otherwise we will never get the costs under control with Hydro One Salaries reaching $4 Million. Since these costs are always passed down to the customers. What is the Solution ??? 

Please leave comments below. Maybe there is an answer.

Food or Hydro: The new normal for many in rural Ontario

How the Wynnch Stole Christmas ...

Every Who’s Down in Torontoville Liked Christmas a lot...
But the Wynnch, Who lived just north of Queenspark, Did NOT!
...

The Wynnch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.

It could be her head wasn't screwed on just right.
It could be, perhaps, that the trees had too much light.

But I think that the most likely reason of all,
May have been that her heart was 10 sizes too small.

Whatever the reason, Her heart or her political greed,
She stood there on Christmas Eve, hating the Whos and their needs.

Staring down from her tower with a sour, Wynnchy frown,
At the warm lighted windows below in their town.
For she knew every Who down in Torontoville beneath,
Was busy now, hanging a mistletoe wreath.

"And they're hanging their stockings!" she snarled with a sneer,
"Tomorrow is Christmas! It's practically here!"

Then she growled, with her Wynnch fingers nervously drumming,
"I will take their power away!"
They won't see it coming!

For Tomorrow, she knew, all the Who girls and boys,
Wouldn’t be able to afford any of their toys!

~ By Michael H & Luna (Lauren) B

High Hydro costs ruining the lives of Ontario families

Welcome to Wynne's Nightmare before Christmas...

It was late one fall in Ontarioland,

And the air had quite a chill.

Against the moon Kathleen sat,

Alone upon a hill.

She was tall and thin with a Cat bow tie;

Premiere Wynne was her name.


She was tired and bored in Ontarioland,

Everything was always the same. "I'm sick of the sharing, the care, the delight.

I'm tired of giving power that lights up the night.

I'm bored with fairness and choices, And my ears hurt from all the complaining voices.

I don't like Christmas, too much happiness and joy.

So much goodness I need to destroy

I know what I'll do she shouted with glee !

I'll raise the cost and every last fee.

And so she plunged the Province into darkness and fright.

Finally she was happy, and wished all a good night.

Christmas Lights on our street thanks to Ontario Hydro

A Photo of our street in the Suburbs of Ottawa.  No Christmas lights this year thanks to the soaring cost of Hydro.  I am hoping that maybe there will be a few candles in the window for Hannukah. Otherwise it will be a bleak Holiday this year ....

Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah from our Nations Capital.

Ontario Civil Service Executives get 35 % Pay raise before Christmas

"Just in time for Christmas, 8,500 managers, executives and deputy ministers in Ontario’s civil service are getting $125 million in pay hikes ...  The payouts — to come over the next four years — average $14,705 each, although individual amounts will vary. "

"That money will arrive in pay packets starting in the next two weeks, with 5-per-cent raises retroactive to April, officials said.

Treasury Board President Liz Sandals will announce the plan Wednesday on behalf of the Liberal government, which has been criticized for not doing enough to help consumers struggling with skyrocketing hydro bills.

Managers and staff ...  will get raises of 10 per cent; about 900 executives will qualify for 20-per-cent hikes; and a number of deputy ministers will enjoy up to 35 per cent."

Excerpts from ... TheStar.com