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To get it out of the way, I don’t believe the film tax credit cut was a good idea or handled well. I do, however, think it underlines a bigger problem affecting Nova Scotia. In recent news alone we’ve seen Target, Ben’s Bakery, Future Shop and countless mom-and-pop shops around town close up shop for good. The big names can take the hit without flinching, but the local businesses are obviously suffering. Where were the social media rallies for them? Where were the discourses on supporting local cultures? Certainly not plastered all over my Facebook wall day in and day out. Thanks to the film industry being obsessively active on social media, film industry workers get to play a very well trumped-up victim card. If they cared about Nova Scotia’s economy it would have come in when or before businesses started closing up shop left right and center, and the response wouldn’t be taking your ball and moving west. —Unfollower of Posts
This article appears in Apr 30 – May 6, 2015.
It’s nothing new, they’re just switching around who gets the tax credits this run around so we can go through this again in another 10 years.
On a side note, I didn’t hear anyone give a damn about the film industry till they realized Trailer Park Boys were gonna be affected and then BOOM went the dynamite!
Well, I believe the issue with bens was just a better credit offered else where. So really not the same thing. It was the business’s decision due to changes else where, so would you protest the business itself? Don’t think that’d work.
I could be wrong about the better credit thing though
ANOTHER INCOHERENT BITCH
There is no cause-effect relationship between the film tax credit not being handled well and the closing of big name retailers as well as countless mom-and-pop stores closing up shop for good. To suppose that there is such a relationship is just being incoherent.
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Speaking of FaceBook, I’ve recently “unfollowed” most of the people who sent me Facebook friend requests over the years.
I like to keep up with my family and my real friends, however, i could no longer stand most of the crap posted by the rest of the FaceBook masses. It’s a weird combination of angry righteous indignation, sappy, insincere “I love you and you and you” drivel, and the desperately insecure who need daily reassurance of their wonderfulness.
I think a lot of people were concerned to hear about the layoffs but I don’t think there was a sense that anybody could do anything about it.
Those are private companies and they didn’t express any interest in government help to keep the outlets open. In the case of Canada Bread, they are closing the Halifax Ben’s bakery and consolidating production in NB. It sucks for local employees but is probably a good business decision in terms of profit.
The film people had the advantage that they simply needed to raise enough of a ruckus to make the government worry about losing popularity. Short of organizing a boycott I don’t think there is anything anyone could realistically have done in the Ben’s case.
Hopefully, the laid off staff of all of those businesses will find work.
I think yelp is going to organize a cash mob for Night Magic Fashions. Stay tuned.
Um, there are so many layers of irony and sarcasm there, I can’t help to explain it, I hope most people at least get some of it.
The reason stores, whether mom-n-pop or big box, go out of business here is because of the shitty wages for average jobs. The people who should have disposable income, don’t. They spend it on the highest taxes, food prices, energy costs, etc… in the country, not in stores filled with crap they can live without.