Poor in Toronto

Are there any $10 000 dollar houses like you see on the news for sale in America in Toronto?

Has anyone thought of buying a small piece of land and installing a trailer, modular housing, or shipping containers to make a house? http://www.prefabs.com/index.htm

You'd live on your street but instead of a house you have a tralier, little garden, patio etc right beside normal homes. Or can you just buy the back of a house that goes into the alley and build a mini-house or cabin with loft.

How much money do you have to make to buy a house? What is the sub-prime mortgage that you hear about on the news? Is it a good deal?

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help!

I'm looking for a dentist in the downtown area that is hip to current dental practices and, of course, accepting new patients!

if anyone could help me out, that'd be =great=!

so i thought i lost my metropass this weekend, and then it turned up in my kid's backpack

but so i have a weekly pass that i'd like to unload TODAY, i'm currently out in the east end but i'd be willing to meet anywhere along the subway line

first come first serve

I'm really interested in going to see the Chinese Lantern Festival, but $25/person is just way too steep for my budget.
Any one know of any coupons/discounts out there?

Looking for a lift to Montreal on Thursday/Friday & back to Toronto on Sunday/Monday.
Any of the next three weekends would work!

I'm a quiet non-smoker with an iron bladder (two stops is one more than I'm used to).
I will obviously contribute toward gas.

Please comment here (comments are screened) or email me at misskitty . 79 @ gmail . com

*fingers crossed*

Crossposted to several other comms...

I lost a Toronto public library DVD. I use the library all the time and I LOVE IT. Does anyone know what happens, and how much does it cost ?

Hey everyone! First post here. I'm going to be a first-year U of T student in a few weeks, completely dependent on OSAP and UTAPS, so i'd say i probably fit in the category of "poor".

But my question's not about anything like that, really. I'm looking for a restaurant.

Preamble: I live in Stratford (Ontario). There's this restaurant here called Features, where my friends and i love to go for breakfast. It's pretty cheap, like in the 5-15 dollar range, so i figured it might help to ask here... four of us are going to be in Toronto this year and we're looking for a "New Features" that we can meet up at on weekends and stuff.

A very distinctive feature of Features (uh... excuse that) is that they have a breakfast called the Paul Bunyan (it's literally a cookie sheet PACKED with food, like 2 pancakes, 4 eggs, four pieces of toast, home fries, bacon... stuff like that) for $8. Is there a restaurant (preferably near U of T and/or Ryerson) that has anything like that?

Thanks so much!

(x-posted to utoronto)

$2000 obo for 1994 ford aerostar extended version.
gta

Please, somone help her!   Seriously!  DO SOMETHING! 

There's a very thin girl who panhandles in the Annex.   You might have seen her wearing a "Queen's" hoodie. She's pretty and smiles a lot.  Usually, she panhandle's between the Tim Horton's and Shopper's Drug Mart at Bloor and Spadina.     She's very young.   She told me that she's in grade 10.    I was talking with her tonight in front of "Bloor SuperSave" and told me she has a bladder infection and needs money for a perscription.   I know that its a lie because she's on OW and gets the Ontario Drug Benefit Plan.   

Here's the story...   She's on OW along with her boyfriend (what she told me) and live in a basement on Barton St in the Annex.     I've done some asking around, and another underemployed girl who panhandles told me that that all the money the young girl makes goes to the thin young girl's boyfriend who buys crack with the money.   Also, the boyfried pimps her out.   I asked the underaged girl what her boyfriend was doing tonight and she said he was drinking with a friend. 

Seriously, don't give this girl money.   Her 23 yr old boyfriend takes it all.   A lot of people give her money because she's really young.   Her boyfriend is living off of her avails.   She told me that her bf doesnt' take advantage of her and that he helps her but its all lies.   She needs help; you'd know if you saw her. 

Someone do somthing for her.   What, I don't know.    I would help her  but you can't just take someone off the street, feed them, hold them captive so they don't smoke crack and are rescued from someone who's placing them in peril.


 

Hello, all..

I might be moving here in August and I was wondering if anyone knew of any companies that might be hiring. I'm mainly interested in call center/data entry type work until I find something in my field. I've been looking in monster.ca and workopolis. There seems to be alot out there but sometimes the easiest way to find work is through word-of-mouth which is why I'm here.

Thanks in advance :-)

On Friday July 11th from 7am until 11pm participating 7-Eleven shops around the world will be hosting 7-11 Day by giving out free 7.11oz Slurpees...
I wonder what flavour you'll choose? :)



Note: Crossposted to poor_in_canada.

GST quarterly refunds are out for 2007. You should get your first payment soon.

Spend the disposable income! To the patios and bars y'all!

Anyone tell me where the Daily labour job places are? the ones that pay cash everyday I mean, I've been looking but haven't had much luck online. Any recommendations would be cool too.

ARTWHERK's evening event series comes to an end tonight with a free live music from Edi Cheung and Rex Baunsit!

This year has been amazing! The openig was covered by CTV and canadian press, and BlogTo (http://blogto.com/arts/2008/06/artwherk_opens_pride_week_at_hotshot_gallery/) and PDApr's blog (http://pdapr.blogspot.com/2008/06/artwherk-2008-launch-party.html) can give you a taste if you missed it. The gallery remains open until monday June 30th. We kicked off Pride week and we're closing it, too :)

www.artwherk.ca

I have friends coming in to town to visit this week/end & would like to to some touristy things with them (other than Pride events).
Specifically, I'm looking to visit the Toronto Zoo, for their Sting Ray Bay, but the price of one adult admission is $20!

Do any of you know where one could find discount coupons?

Crossposted to toronto

Hi.. I'm looking for work. Anyone have some good job search sites? Please post them! Saw the post below for www.superhireway.com going to check that one out now.

( ARTWHERK! returns to Pride week in a new location, June 23-30 in Kensington Market! Check out the best emerging queer artists and performers in a new location....flyer and press release under the cut )

This event is free free free :) Pride can be fun for those of us with no money!

Hi, 

Are you starting to get worried about what's happening downtown with more and more affulent people displacing commoners?   I'm worried that now, with gas and TTC costing even more, people are going to flood downtown and drive out:  New Canadians, the elderly,  the poor, pensioners, the disabled, working class families etc.    So many condos are going up and only the rich are able to live downtown or buy houses in Seaton Village, Trinty-Bellwoods, Parkdale, Leslieville etc.  The only poor left will be those who have no choice but to travel from the suburbs and to work in jobs at places like Tim Horton's.   Soon, it'll be like we're just all "domestic" workers being grateful to have jobs taking care of other people's children; except in our case, serving the bourgeois  who'll treat us like we just came in straight from the fields. 

I don't want my fellow commoners exiled by rootless cosmopolitans invading the city.  

Look what happened in Burlington VT how a  grocery store closed in a poor area and it became some fancy organic food place and commoners had no place to buy Wonderbread.    Soon all the poor will be exiled to the suburbs.  :(