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This is why I asked the question: What's more important, the game or the line-up at the polling station (?), because surely there will be lineups between 5 and 9:30PM. If one chooses to go vote, they can count on missing most of the sports event.
originally posted by: CranialSponge
Personally speaking, I think the Toronto newspapers are blowing a non-issue out of proportion.
If workers get off at 5PM, they have 4 hours to get to a poll. The law states that 3 hours must be available for them to get to that voting booth, so those on a day shift (9-5), the employer need not give extra time seeing how they have 4 hours after work to do their civic duty.
originally posted by: masqua
originally posted by: CranialSponge
Personally speaking, I think the Toronto newspapers are blowing a non-issue out of proportion.
I neither read print newspapers nor their online editions and prefer to get my news from elsewhere on the net. Has there been a related issue discussed on those main newspapers? When I think of national newspapers, the Toronto Star, The Sun, Globe and Mail and a few others come to mind.
I have no idea if they've covered this issue.
By law, everyone who is eligible to vote must have three consecutive hours to cast their vote on election day. If your hours of work do not allow for three consecutive hours to vote, your employer must give you time off.
For example, if you live in a riding where voting hours are 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. and you usually work from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., your hours of work will not allow three consecutive hours for voting. To give you three consecutive hours to vote, your employer could allow you to arrive late (at 12:30 p.m.), let you leave early (at 6:30 p.m.), or give you three hours off at some point during the work day.
originally posted by: Hijinx
a reply to: CranialSponge
Canadians watch baseball? What the actual #, I'm canadian and I seriously thought no body gave two #ing ass twitches about baseball.
I seriously was under the impression those who lived in Toronto didn't attend or watch that boring ass sport by that joke of a team let alone the rest of the damn country.
Baseball is for folks who can't read good, and have less teeth than brain cells.
" Hit it with the stick and try un catch it, hyuck."