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I guess I should have said why I was a bit shocked.
1- A total stranger said we need to shoot the PM
2- As far as I know we are not and probably can't send oil to the Ukraine
3- Neither the carbon tax or our loosely promised hope to send oil to Europe to off- set the bans on Russian oil and gas are the cause of the rise in fuel prices.
4- I thought this new idiocy of not actually looking things up or thinking things through would stay south of the border.
I really dislike Trudeau. I think he is a snotty rich kid who rode his Dads name . But so what. I didn't and won't vote for him but enough people did that he was elected. That's a democracy. Lots of people on here despised Harper but the man was elected and you have to live with it. Neither are Nazis. Neither are dictators. People have to get over themselves and realise that in a democracy the desires and opinions of the individual don't matter. And in Canada we don't shoot our leaders even if they dont represent our personal opinions.Rant done lol
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19 hours ago, Stretch said:
That's brilliant marketing by the rapid test manufacturers. "Tested negative? You should probably take another one just to be sure. And another, and another..."
My wife has Covid right now and tested positive. I have tons of symptoms but keep testing negative.( 3x) Now I guess I could have coincidently picked up another bug but it's not likely. I'll likely keep testing and filling their pockets with $ .
As I have said before , my daughter's family mostly had Covid and she was symptomatic but if took 7 tests to get a positive.
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After the attempted coup, I thought America only had one last chance to pull them back from the brink dand that would be their judiciary system. But it has failed.
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10 hours ago, WildPath said:
Currently reading an interesting book - Authoritarian Nightmare about the rise of Trump and why people follow him. Very interesting stuff, especially the part about the psychology of his followers. Co-authored by Manitoba's own Bob Altemeyer, an expert on authoritarianism. Canada is at risk too.
It is getting weird/ scary. I was fuelling up a slip tank at a cardlock yesterday. A guy about my age that I didn't know pulled in to fuel his pickup and came over to talk which is normal in a small town.
Dude : Getting rready to go to the field
Me: If it ever dries up
Dude: Boy I wonder what that will cost you when you get the bill ?
Me : I don't know but it won't be cheap.
And this is where the conversation went right off the wall.
Dude : Well, I hate to say it ( looking around ) but someone should shoot that Trudeau
Me : ( after a few shocked seconds ) You mean because of the carbon tax , because that's got nothing to do with why the fuel price rocketing up. It's just whats going on in the Ukraine and that being used as an excuse to charge more money here.
Dude: Well Trudeau is sending them fuel ! ( Edit : He also said they are trying to make us drive electric cars like it was some horrible thing)
At that point I gave him a whatever and got busy strapping my tank down. But I find it unnerving that a random stranger would assume it was OK to say that to me about ANY leader. The world is collectively going off its nut.
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On 2022-05-07 at 7:46 PM, Tracker said:
This is only the latest evidence that the USA has become irredeemably contaminated with racism, hatred and fear. There are no guarantees that we in Canada will devolve into something similar and all we can do is care for each other and learn from the insanity south of us. We need to learn and live what many Americans have chosen to ignore: that which diminishes one of us diminishes all of us.
I never thought the American idiocy would gain popularity in Canada. But after watching videos of what Jagmeet Singh put up with yesterday I'm worried. Its pretty impressive how cool he remains during all that. Plus I watched a few minutes of the Con. debate and made the mistake of taking a peek at the comments section. Yikes ! While I still believe this country will not slide into the abyss that the US. has it is worrisome. I don't think it's a large movement but they sure are vocal.
- Mark F and Fred C Dobbs
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9 hours ago, Mark H. said:
But don't forget - the trucks were still hauling the grain to the local elevators, even when the trains were running. We haul our grain to Patterson on the West perimeter. From there, it gets shipped further (usually south) by train. The vast majority of Canada's exported grain is still moved by train.
The difference in my area was 3 or 5 miles trucking when we had rail which became about 75 miles when the rail was gone.
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11 hours ago, Mark H. said:
We found that the Wheat Board paid quite well, but it took longer to get your money. But, we felt we didn't need the CWB, because we were marketing the rest of our crops ourselves.
I don't know about that. Compared to the cost of planting, cultivating and harvesting, the cost of hauling your grain to a larger centre is peanuts.
One of the costs that is rarely thought about is what all that traffic does to our roads. My property borders the highway and there was a massive change in the amount of semis on the road once we lost our rail line. And we are generally not keeping up to the wear on the highways any more. On top of the damage and wear to roads you could add in the cost to the environment .100s of trucks vs one train.
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31 minutes ago, Mark F said:
Could have put it to a vote. Didnt.
It's not that simple. I was a wheat board permit holder. I hadn't grown wheat for years because I had moved to forage and cattle. It no longer effected me but I could have voted. There were many , many older farmers renting out their land who were still permit holders. It wasn't a simple thing . If you took a poll now it would be 80 or 90 percent that are happy to be able to market wheat and barley like the rest of their crops.
It came into being when wheat was king in the prairies. It no longer is. With the diversification of crops now it is very difficult for grain companies to hold farmers hostage as they just switch crops. And in a big generalisation farmers today are better educated and very savy about marketing. Yes , there was alot of ideology involved in allowing farmers to market outside the Wheat Board. But in this case it probably worked out for the better.
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2 hours ago, Mark F said:
Canadian wheat board for example.
Americans tried for decades to destroy it with trade actions, then Harper did it for them.
There were alot of farmers that wanted the Wheat Board gone. Id guess about 50/50. Lots of older farmers liked it, lots of young farmers wanted the option of marketing their wheat and barley like they did the rest of their crops. I had cattle and forage so I had no skin in the game. But did it really make sense that you could grow wheat in Ontario and market it how you liked but not in Manitoba ? Did it make sense that you could grow flax or canola and market it where and how you wanted but not your wheat or barley ? Yes, the Wheat Board served a purpose , at least at one time but it was questionable by the time it was dealt with. I had neighbors who hated the Wheat Board and neighbors who hated the market being opened up. Now I rarely hear it brought up.There seems to be very few mourners.
In my opinion the demise or perhaps the slow death of the Manitoba Hog board did far more damage to Manitoba family farms. It didn't get alot of press though. That was the provincial Pc's that changed the rules that brought about vertical integration.
Edit : I wwould add in the rail line closures and the privatization of the farmer owned grain pools as things that did way more damage to small farms and rural communities than the demise of the Wheat board
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2 minutes ago, WildPath said:
As posted above, the WEF conspiracy has entered the leadership race for the CPC. Pollievre has been engaging on dog whistle politics to appeal to those with wacky views. There's even been some that have been dumped from the party because of their ridiculous views.
With my comment a while back, I was mostly referring to those protestors/creeps during the last election that would scream and disrupt loudly during the last election campaign. Trudeau was visibly frustrated with them. The subject was originally about Trudeau dropping an f-bomb as it was insinuated by the CPC that military aircraft were flying over the freedom convoy as a means of surveillance when it clearly wasn't. To me the criticism is an appeal to the wackos that believe in the deep-state conspiracy that often includes vaccine conspiracies, world government conspiracies, etc.
Thanks for the clarification.
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1 minute ago, blue_gold_84 said:
That's not entirely accurate. He did speak at the "United We Roll" rally in Feb. 2019 at Parliament Hill, and members of the Yellow Vests were in attendance.
He even defended his decision: https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2019/02/26/scheer-defends-speech-to-yellow-vest-associated-protest.html
Yes and he spoke at one in Calgary where they were in attendance. But an open rally is an open rally. Any one can show up.What was spread around about the rally in Calgary was that the leader was speaking there. The truth was he tried and they wouldn't let him so he went across town and tried to hold his own rally. And let's be clear, I had no liking of Andrew Sheer
3 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:What's your point? It just seems like you're trying to play the "both sides"
My original point was that all parties use scare tactics and disinformation. If you want to call that playing both sides fine.
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Just now, JCon said:
Harper would literally only invite friendly journalists to release info. Duffy was one of his favs that just repeated the Harper lies. He got a nice gig out of it (until he tried to steal, of course).
And everyone ignores my point. There was no " hidden agenda " . Every politician uses friendly journalists to release or leak info. Press conferences had journalists of all stripes.
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45 minutes ago, WildPath said:
I think there is quite a big difference between pointing out the extremes of another party's political policy and outright disinformation like Trudeau is party of a WEF attempt to make people zombies through vaccine mandates. A lot of the extremely vocal anti-Trudeau crowd are that way because they believe wild things that just don't have any basis. Many citizens, regardless of where they place their vote, may be against Trudeau. The ones that disrupt campaign stops and do not allow him to speak are something else entirely.
Saying the Manitoba PCs are trying to privatize hydro at least has some basis in reality. They sold off MTS (look how that turned out) and have already sold off parts of hydro. Privatization is kind of their thing.
So have I missed that the Cons have said that in the house brecause it would indeed be idiotic. But the years of Harper has a hidden agenda fit in exactly to my point. There was no hidden agenda, he was very upfront about his policies, like them or not. And that is disinformation. Just like when Trudeau was running against Andrew Sheer ( weasel that he was ) it was widely promoted that Sheer spoke at a rally with the leader of the far right yellow vesters. It was BS. It was outright disinformation. Its done by all parties unfortunately.
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On 2022-05-05 at 11:31 AM, WildPath said:
I can only imagine how frustrating it must be to be engaged in parliamentary debates when members opposite push conspiracies and misinformation. During the last election when Trudeau was subject to some really nasty abuse on campaign stops you could tell he was extremely frustrated. I'd imagine most politicians expect to encounter resistance and policy criticisms, but when you're being criticized based on conspiracy, that's gotta be another level.
I know of nothing other than the story posted above, but his response seems to confirm that he said it. That is unfortunate as the CPC will love getting under his skin and will likely continue to resort to the same tactics in the future if that
It not uncommon. Especially if they have held power for a lengthy period. And it happens regardless of political stripe. The " very scary " and " secret agenda " campaigns against Harper aren't alot different. Neither is the Conservatives continual fear tactics that NDP government will institute massive tax hikes. I don't like it but it is pretty common.
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11 hours ago, Goalie said:
I wonder if you move Chevy to hockey ops/ gm and trotz to ops and asst gm down the line or now and fix upper management of the team.
There is talk that he wants to move out of coaching and into management .Maybe they can cook up something like that. A deal that makes him coach / management for a couple of years then shift to management after that.
He solves alot of issues here. I've moved fully into the " it's time to move Sheif " camp but if Trotz was coming here I would give him the choice if he wants Sheif here. I think the hiring of Trotz would re- inspire both the players and more importantly the fans. But there is a long list of teams lining up to hire him.
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80 to 1 odds in the Kentucky Derby. This aerial shot shows it best. Amazing !
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I just think after the last couple of years that this is not the time to play hardball and have a labour battle. Do a 1 or 2 year deal and get the league rolling again. Then worry about restructuring things.
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20 minutes ago, iHeart said:
I actually tested negative, but I have a bad feeling that might change the week goes on
If you are using the home tests they can be quite unreliable. Covid went through my daughter's household. Her eldest daughter had it , her husband had it and she had all the symptoms. BUT she kept testing negative. It took 7 tests before she got a positive result. So 6 tests that showed she was negative were wrong. (She kept testing because she was concerned about exposing people at her job.). And they are all over it without any really serious issues other than my son in law being tired for several weeks after. Wishing your Mom all the best.
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8 minutes ago, JCon said:
Right, which is why I included the 8%. Which is the total amount of renewable energy we produce.
% 65 is an extremely common number. It's everywhere. Not in pro oil propaganda , it's in many lists, it's in documentaries from out side Canada. If I have time later I'll make a list.The the problem is we are comparing apples and oranges. I think the numbers you are using include electricity, oil, gas, ........ The % 65 is our production of electricity.
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27 minutes ago, JCon said:
8% of energy production is from renewal energy, including hydro electricity.
Where do you get 65%? That would be amazing but not happening here.
• Fossil fuels made up 76% of Canada’s TPES in 2019.
• Renewable energy sources made up 16.2% of Canada’s TPES in 2019.
(TPES = PRODUCTION + IMPORTS - EXPORTS + STOCK CHANGES)
TPES isn't just energy production.
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I'm a tad busy but this is fro Wiki and every other source I read says the same.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable_electricity_production
Not a big wiki believer but it matches everything else I have read.
The info I quoted on Co2 production in my last post was from World OMeter
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11 minutes ago, Mark F said:
Source?
report i posted says otherwise.
you can calculate emissions s: "the mountain pine beetle outbreak that destroyed over 18 million hectares of B.C. forests and continues to spread into Alberta."
canada isnt even on track to make its own weak targets.
trudeau just approved new oil field off east coast.
horgan full steam ahead with lng.
canadians have very high personal emissions.
Instead of more oil drilling, where is our offshore wind project?
There are none.
cheapest energy is solar and winD. By far. We are building nuclear, and carbon capture.
nobody else following that path. Nobody.
we are laggards.
I'm not arguing for more oil. I never said we should produce more. But we arent laggards . All I said is we are ahead of the game in producing energy to countries like Germany because of our hydro- electric facilities. It's not hard to find those figures. Just look it up. They are everywhere. But yes per capita do produce alot of carbon emissions. But there is only 37 million of us. Canada produces %1.89 of the worlds CO2 emissions. We are 7th behind China- %29.18 U.S. %14.02 India %7.09 Russia %4.65 Japan %3.47 Germany %2.17
Back to forests of course they remove carbon. When a tree dies it doesn't just release it's carbon thst it has sequestered. It turns it into soil. Fires are an issue but what % of our 318 billion trees are going to burn this year ?
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7 minutes ago, Mark F said:
Where is 65 % figure from?
also....
I dont think your number includes impact of fossil produced here, and used elsewhere.
also, forests are in the process of comverting from carbon sink, to co2 source, due to,forest fires, already 71 burning in B.C. .The % 65 is real easy to find. I've heard it in multiple articles and Docs. You can also find it on Wiki. You could very well be correct on fossil fuels produced here but used elsewhere. The devils in the details . I am really sceptical on story's, numbers , etc... these days. Everyone from big oil to the Sierra Club twist numbers to suit their agenda. Our forests do remove tons of carbon. Yes when they burn they can release it but we have something like %30 ( off the top of my head ) of the world's trees.
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On 2022-04-06 at 11:12 AM, Mark F said:
Canada might regret being transition laggards:
New German transition plan, effective July 1st 2022:
"The package envisages green energy accounting for 80% of the power mix in Europe's biggest economy by 2030, up from about 40% now and a previous target of 65%.
"On the one hand, the climate crisis is coming to a head. On the other hand, Russia's invasion shows how important it is to phase out fossil fuels and promote the expansion of renewables," Habeck told reporters.
The legislation includes a new clause acknowledging that the use of renewables is in the interests of public security."
Reuters.The Pentagon has been saying for years that climate change is a security issue.Current Oil boom might be the last, short, kick at the cat. Germany has woken up. We have not.
If Germany manages to get to % 65 renewable energy ( they currently sit at around %45 ) they will be matching Canada's current number. We also have the worlds 2nd most amount of trees (318 billion) which removes more carbon than we produce. That doesn't mean we can't move to less fossil fuels but they are facts that are often ignored.
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I just tested again ( 4th) and I tested positive.