Minimum wage set to increase

The Liberals have made the minimum wage increase official. On Feb. 1, we'll see it go to $8/hr. Certainly, much better than the $6.85 it was stuck at when the Liberals took power.

But as Cheri Di Novo NDP points out, it still keeps those working for minimum wage among the poor.

"Symbolically it's appalling and in actuality it's appalling," said DiNovo. "We have people out there at $7.75 an hour – now even when they're raised to $8 an hour they're still well below the poverty line, working 40 hours a week."

"Over two-thirds of those are women, many of them with children ... and a lot of them are immigrants," she said in an interview.

-Toronto Star

This comes just weeks after all MPPs gave themselves a 25 per cent raise.