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Downtown Business Spotlight: Vietnamese Ultimate Subs & Rolls

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This week’s Business Spotlight shines on Vietnamese Subs & Rolls! This local restaurant creates mouthwatering subs, rolls and other authentic Vietnamese dishes and is located at 4911 50 Ave, Red Deer. We spoke with them to learn more about their business!

What is your business?

Vietnamese Ultimate Subs & Rolls (50th Ave.)

Vietnamese Ultimate Subs & Rolls

When did your business open?

10+ years [ago].

What makes your business unique?

There are only a few authentic Vietnamese restaurants around this area.

What are some products/services that you offer?

Authentic Vietnamese subs (banh mi), soups, salad rolls, noodle/rice bowls, spring rolls, coffee, bubble tea, etc.

Why did you choose Downtown Red Deer as the location for your business?

The customer base.

What do you think makes Downtown vibrant?

The local shops, live music and the people.

I love Downtown Red Deer because… of all the people who are regulars at the local shops.

Check out Vietnamese Ultimate Subs and Rolls in Red Deer, for pickup or delivery, through SkipTheDishes.com!

Website: https://vietnamesesubs.com/

Check back next week for another business spotlight! If you would like to see your Downtown business spotlighted, please contact us at 403-340-8696 or [email protected].

We serve approximately 500 businesses and property owners in Downtown Red Deer, Alberta. Our Mission is to build an engaged Downtown community, develop a Downtown brand and enhance the Downtown experience.

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Salary costs in Prime Minister’s Office increase under Trudeau

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From the Canadian Taxpayers Federation

By Ryan Thorpe 

Like all areas of Ottawa’s ballooning bureaucracy, the cost and size of the Prime Minister’s Office has increased under the Trudeau government.

The inflation-adjusted cost of staffing the PMO has risen by 16 per cent under the watch of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, according to access-to-information records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

Salary costs for the 103 staffers in the PMO came to $10.5 million in 2022-23. That figure does not represent overall compensation for PMO staff (including benefits), but rather base salary, according to the records.

Taxpayers are now on the hook for an additional $3.2 million in annual PMO salary costs over 2014-15, the last full year former prime minister Stephen Harper was in office.

“The cost of running the PMO has increased under Trudeau, but it’s a good bet most Canadians don’t think they’re getting any better performance from the prime minister,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director. “If Trudeau can’t find savings right under his nose, how can taxpayers trust him to cut the fat across government?”

The growth in PMO staff comes at a time when the Trudeau government has been ballooning the federal bureaucracy across the board.

Both the number and cost of the federal bureaucracy has exploded under Trudeau’s watch, according to other government records obtained by the CTF.

The number of federal bureaucrats increased by 42 per cent under Trudeau, with more than 108,000 new bureaucrats added to the government payroll.

Spending on federal bureaucrats hit a record high $67.4 billion in 2022-23, representing a 68 per cent increase since 2016.

The size of the federal c-suite has also expanded, with the number of executives increasing by 42 per cent under Trudeau.

The Trudeau government has handed out more than $1 billion in bonuses since 2015 and more than one million pay raises in the last four years.

Meanwhile, spending on consultants also reached a record high, with planned expenditures for 2023-24 sitting at $21.6 billion.

“Everywhere you look – the PMO, the federal c-suite, the bureaucracy – the cost and size of government is out of control,” Terrazzano said. “Trudeau must take air out of Ottawa’s ballooning bureaucracy and the place to start is his own office.”

PMO staff costs, government records obtained by the CTF

Fiscal year

Number of PMO staff

PMO salary costs

2014-15

94

$7,258,436

2015-16

74

$6,353,188

2016-17

84

$7,462,686

2017-18

99

$8,155,068

2018-19

100

$8,479,353

2019-20

90

$8,536,672

2020-21

99

$9,840,834

2021-22

94

$9,383,328

2022-23

103

$10,536,649

Total

$76,006,214

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Parks Canada right to back down from deer-cull boondoggle

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From the Canadian Taxpayers Federation

By Carson Binda 

Taxpayers are glad to see Parks Canada backing away from a $12-million deer cull on Sidney Island.

“Parks Canada’s plan to blow $12-million on a deer cull was ridiculous from day one,” said Carson Binda, B.C. Director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. “Parks Canada is right to cancel the project, but it’s worrying that it took them this much wasted money to figure it out.”

Parks Canada used so-called sharpshooters in helicopters, firing down on invasive fallow deer from above, during phase one of the cull which occurred last December. The so-called sharpshooters killed 84 deer, but only 63 were the correct species. The cost for phase one came in at $834,000, roughly $10,000 per deer.

Subsequently, Parks Canada erected fencing made of fish nets around the 12-square-kilometer Island to trap the deer, in anticipation for a second round of culls which were scheduled for Nov. 15.

Several animals became entangled in the netting, painfully thrashing themselves to death.

“Seeing deer thrashing to death because of bureaucratic incompetence is heartbreaking,” Binda said. “Parks Canada needs to explain how this happened and how much taxpayer cash was wasted on this project before the cancellation.”

Residents of Sidney Island and local hunters have been culling deer on the island for years, for free. Last fall 54 deer were culled by local hunters at no cost to the taxpayer.

“Local hunters filling their freezers at no cost to the taxpayer is obviously better than Parks Canada blowing millions of dollars to shoot the wrong deer from helicopters and leaving others to suffer in a net,” Binda said. “Hopefully the bureaucrats learn from their mistakes with this boondoggle.”

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