I remember as a fifteen year old feeling awfully proud that I had negotiated my way up to $5 an hour. I was working at the CNE as a games booth attendant and I think minimum wage at the time was $3.85. $5 for an hours work was sweet.
Ontario's minimum wage is now climbing to $8 an hour. That's up from $7.75 in case you haven't made minimum wage in a while. The Radical Reverend, my MPP, lobbied to raise it to $10 an hour but her private member's bill stalled after a second reading at Queen's Park.
It has to be awfully tough to live in this city while earning $8 an hour. I make a little more than that and I find it tough. $10 an hour doesn't seem like too radical a jump to me, but while we slowly get there minimum wage earners will have to be satisfied with that extra quarter.
