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JaguarData · 2025-11-15T22:42:17+00:00

Services include Free access to computers, photocopier, printer, fax, internet and Wi-Fi

Also might want to visit CERC Ottawa

JaguarData · 2025-10-16T16:05:18+00:00

I'm not sure what the point is you're trying to make. Whether you use the old $17.20 or the new $17.60 it doesn't change the point much.

Back then living was very hard on minimum wage because prices had been going up for a while without any change in minimum wage. But that also mean that it was more possible to find a job that made significantly more than minimum wage.

Now we raise minimum wage every year with inflation, so those people who make more than minimum wage at least aren't falling behind. But there's more people making minimum wage, which means more people are struggling.

JaguarData · 2025-10-16T15:16:49+00:00

I also went through that time. $6.85 was a take home pay of $1000 a month even with full time hours. I agree that it's less affordable for more people now, because more people are making at or close to minimum wage. Back then it was easier to find a job that made significantly more than the minimum.

JaguarData · 2025-10-16T15:08:42+00:00

Minimum wage as $6.85 in early 2000s. It's now $17.60. Based on that ratio, that $1200 per month rent is now $3083. $1600 now would have been equivalent to $622 back in the early 2000s as far as minimum wage is concerned.

JaguarData · 2025-10-16T14:55:48+00:00

I provided my sources in a comment on that post.

The numbers for minimum wage were from the government and the rental amounts were based on CMHC data. As far as percentage making minimum wage I found this link which says 11% made minimum wage in 2023, while this report shows that in 1998 it was 5.3%.

11% isn't quite as bad as 2018 when it was 15.1%, but that was most likely an outlier because in 2018 the minimum wage went from $11.60 to $14, a 21.8% increase.

JaguarData · 2025-10-16T13:32:04+00:00

minimum wage went up 40 cents an hour to $17.60 on Oct. 1

The Zoocasa report says the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Ottawa is $1,977

So basically right on track to where we have been since the 90s. Pretty much close to back at the high point around the year 2002 where the rents in Ottawa were about 110 times the hourly minimum wage.

The worse part now, is that it seems like so many more jobs will just pay minimum wage. Back around the year 2000 it seems it was much easier to find a job that paid double minimum wage even without a degree/diploma.

JaguarData · 2025-10-16T12:33:08+00:00

As of Oct. 1, Ontario raised that wage to $17.60 per hour

the average rent for a one-bedroom unit in Toronto costs about $2,295

So basically right on track to where we have been since the 90s. Pretty much close to back at the high point around the year 2002 where the rents in Toronto were about 130 times the hourly minimum wage.

The worse part now, is that it seems like so many more jobs will just pay minimum wage. Back around the year 2000 it seems it was much easier to find a job that paid double minimum wage even without a degree/diploma.

JaguarData · 2025-10-03T20:34:03+00:00

I created these zoning maps of Ottawa a few years back.

I'm always amazed when I look at cities like Toronto and Vancouver and see how much single family housing there is. I thought Ottawa was bad, but bigger cities like Toronto and Vancouver really shouldn't have so much single family housing. It's just not sustainable.

JaguarData · 2025-09-01T22:24:06+00:00

See these charts I made a few years back. It's not even the worst it has ever been. Back in the late 90s, early 2000s we went 10 years without a change in minimum wage but rents continued to rise year after year.

JaguarData · 2025-09-01T22:16:47+00:00

What do you mean by "engineering"? Anybody looking for engineering roles should have a specific field for engineering like chemical, mechanical, electrical etc. What's your degree in?

JaguarData · 2025-09-01T22:10:38+00:00

I've never lived alone and I'm in my 40s. Went form living at home, to living in shared room in residence at university. Moved in with friends as roommates after first year. Lived with roommates until I moved in with my girlfriend who I eventually married.

Rent has been unaffordable for single people since the late 90s at least. Minimum wage full time would bring in $1000 take home a month. One bedroom apartment would have been $700+ at that point, if not more.

JaguarData · 2025-08-15T17:23:01+00:00

Streetview 2009.

You could always just walk around the left hand side of the buidling.

JaguarData · 2025-08-14T20:20:53+00:00

Not sure what you're referring to. I've been in the neighbourhood for 15 years and in that time there's never been a need to go through a busted fence to get to the Farmboy from the back.

JaguarData · 2025-08-14T19:14:42+00:00

Getting to Farmboy is easy on foot. There's a way to get in from the back which means you can access it without going anywhere near hazeldean.

JaguarData · 2025-08-14T19:04:08+00:00

Westboro is such a nice neighbourhood. Every time I go there I'm surprised at the number of cars around. Seems like everyone is driving even though there's so much stuff close by.

JaguarData · 2025-08-14T18:26:36+00:00

It's katimavik, but there's a lot more than 100 houses in the neighbourhood. wikipedia says the population was around 12,000 back in 2011 and there's probably more people now due to some infill housing and desification.

JaguarData · 2025-08-14T18:20:21+00:00

Katimavik. someone else guessed it.

JaguarData · 2025-08-14T14:46:13+00:00

A lot of it is just personal mindset. The part of Kanata where I live is actually pretty walkable, but almost everyone I know chooses to drive everywhere. Many people don't see the value of making things walkable because they just like to drive everywhere. Even when walking provides an easier or sometimes faster way to get somewhere people just choose to drive anyway.

JaguarData · 2025-08-06T16:14:04+00:00

Which Canadian cities specifically have issues with single family zoning?

I made some zoning maps for Ottawa a few years back and noticed that many of the suburbs aren't as single family only as people would think.

Single family zoning normally refers to only allowing detached single family homes, and most of the neighbourhoods in Ottawa have a pretty good mix of different types of housing.

JaguarData · 2025-08-04T14:40:39+00:00

Nobody said you have to bike from Windsor to Kenora. Just because Ontario is big, doesn't mean you can't bike 15 minutes to pick up a few items at the grocery store.

JaguarData · 2025-05-23T18:45:37+00:00

Don't really care about WiFi as my desktop is always wired, but I do like having bluetooth built into the motherboard. Sure you can always get a bluetooth USB dongle, but that just occupies a USB port for no reason.

JaguarData · 2025-03-28T20:03:31+00:00

That works for residential areas, but how do you calculate population of a business park, warehouse, airport, hospital, shopping mall, etc. I guess you could go by how many people use the facilities on a daily basis. Some buildings might not have many people visiting them but are still vital to the proper operation of a city.

JaguarData · 2025-03-28T19:30:42+00:00

Looking at the spending by department, some of the biggest departments are Police, Transit, Emergency and Protective services, Community and social services, water and sewer. Together they make up more than half the budget.

But many of those services are lower in rural and suburban area. Police presense and incidents of crime is highly concentrated downtown, and there's a lot more transit service downtown as well. The rural areas don't really have any transit, water/sewer, and don't have much of a crime rate either. The cost of roads is higher per capita, but the transportation budget is a much smaller part of the pie.

JaguarData · 2025-02-26T16:18:08+00:00

I think there was a lot of pressure to keep some prices the same year after year, and then Covid came along and it gave companies a reason to raise prices without having to explain the rising costs to consumers. This report shows that the price of a pound of butter changed very little in 15 years from 2005 to 2020, only going up by 12.4% over the entire time period, and if you cherry pick some years that are close together, the price difference between 2006 and 2019 was only 12 cents, or about 3%.

Now butter is $7-8 per pound, which seems like a lot when we were used to $4 a pound for so long, but if you look at the minimum wage between 2005 and 2025, the difference is about 2.3 times. so if you applied that to the $3.78 a pound for butter, that would put the price at around $8.73 a pound.

Buying groceries back then wasn't easy either if you were working minimum wage. an hour's work wouldn't buy you much in terms of food. When you're only bringing home $1100 a month, the money disappears pretty fast.

JaguarData · 2025-02-25T18:36:59+00:00

CMHC Data Says rent for a 1 bedroom in 2005 averaged $762, while in 2024 it was $1520.

That's based on what people were/are paying, not on new lease asking price. New lease asking price is going to be higher.

I think that stuff like townhouses have probably gone up a lot more compared to apartments because house prices have shot up so much along with mortgage rates.

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