The problem with these laws (and many others to be fair) is that “right to work” sounds great at face value. If you don’t look past the name/description of the law, why would you be against people’s right to work?

If, however, they named these laws what they are, “lose you collective bargaining rights laws”, I’m pretty sure lots more people would be against them.

It’s the same thing as “pro life” legislation. Who would be against life, right? But call it what it is, “forced birth”, and suddenly it sounds a lot less appealing.

Right. So it’s less “rape her until she’s happy about climate change” and more “rape her so she shuts up and knows her place”?

Because that does make sense to me, it’s just an expression of violence against those you disagree with.

They’re not intent on “fixing” her like those weirdos who think you can “fix” LGBTQ people with rape, but good old misogyny expressed through threats of sexual violence.

Man, now that I wrote that out it’s even more depressing.

Yeah, I’d heard that bullshit before, but at least there’s at least some relationship between sex and sexual preference/orientation/expression. Not saying I’m agreeing or condoning that sort of thinking, but I can say least somewhat connect the caveman dots there.

I’m just stuck on how is raping someone going to make them be okay with a climate apocalypse. I can’t logically tie those two things together, and I’m actually kind of scared of the mental gymnastics required to get to this point.

I’m probably overthinking it to a level beyond the amount of thought the people that came up with it put into their position though.

“Rape Greta until she’s happy about climate change” what the fuck? Did someone seriously make that argument?? What the fuck is wrong with these people? How does causing additional trauma fix anything?

Yeah, I am 100% with you on the need for investment in infrastructure. The reason Norway is so successful is because they both set hard deadlines on the sale of gasoline and diesel powered vehicles and simultaneously heavily invested in infrastructure and incentives to remove older vehicles from the road.

That said, having owned multiple BEV vehicles (in what’s arguably the middle of nowhere, BC) the issues with cold and lack of charging infrastructure are largely overestimated by the buying public. To the point of feeling like an excuse rather than an actual reason. People that actually try to live with a BEV for their daily transportation will find that, by and large, charging at home and driving to where you need to be and back is perfectly doable and will cover 99% of your yearly transportation needs. Even in temperatures down to -35, your EV is going to function just fine, and your range will get you where you need to be and back.

So, unless you are going on a 300km+ trip every day (which the vast majority of Canadians don’t do on a daily basis, statistically speaking) you’ll very likely be fine with a BEV. And, just in case you are wondering, if you do need to drive those 300km+ trips often within BC you will find a charger within 300km of the previous one, pretty much regardless of where you are (see: https://pluginbc.ca/charging/finding-stations/).

I honestly feel that too many people repeat the above factors (which are real and should be addressed by both the government and car manufacturers respectively) without having actually tried to live with a BEV.

I know seperation is not popular enough to actually make it happen, but what I don;t understand is why this point gets brought up so much by the UCP if it isn’t popular enough to actually happen. If a politician/party is constantly harping about something I don’t actually support, why would I vote for them? It makes no sense.

Alberta is about to create a federal constitutional challenge, and find out that they are, despite the conservatives’ collective pipe dream, part of Canada.

I can already hear the chorus of “this is a gross overreach of federal power” and “Trudeau is a dictator” whines coming from the usual culprits. And the base gets riled up even further…

It’s starting to become ever more tempting to, at some point, actually give them that freedom they so desperately want and defederate Alberta from Canada. I give them about as long as California was actually independent for before they come begging to be let back in, after they come to the realization that they are a land-locked nation that depends on its neighbors and existing trade relationships and agreements to sell any of their precious oil to the world.

Be careful what you wish for wild roses, you just might get it.

It’s really disheartening to read that people fleeing oppression and persecution in their home countries are welcomed in, only for us to in turn let their oppressors follow them here and continue to do the exact same thing. We can’t take our role as safe haven for refugees seriously without ensuring their safety here.

And if we are really too busy with “Ukraine, Russia, and China” we should consider not offering asylum to people we can’t protect. A false sense of security is worse than no security, and it’s disingenuous of us to extend a hand only to withdraw it once they’re here.

7/11 or bust. Seriously though, 7/11s coffee has the best gas station coffee in Canada and it’s not even close.

Tim’s used to be good, but they are speed running this chain into the ground. Quality is atrocious for every food item and notably the coffee, and their menu has a new desperate “hail Mary” item / category every month.

Tim’s needs to either go bankrupt and get bought out by people that care, or just go away. It has no right to exist with so many better options on the market.

Hell, I’d prefer Starbucks over their crap by now, and Starbucks coffee tastes like burnt cigarette butt water.

While shooting themselves in the foot even worse. They are truly adapt at cutting off their own noses to spite the face.

You clearly do, seeing as you’re commenting on this article. Nobody forced you to do that, you chose to read it, engage with it, and then argue with other people about it online. So which is it? Do you care about this or don’t you? Because it sure sounds like you do to me.

Yeah, the real criminals here are the transportation company here if you ask me. Their actions amount to negligence at best and reckless endangerment at worst if you ask me.

The fact that they are getting away with a fine while the driver gets both jail time and deportation is a miscarriage of justice if you ask me.

Furthermore, it’s clear he’s remorseful for what happened and does not pose a further risk to society. At the very least we should extend him the courtesy of a second chance.

The article pretty much spells it out - OPEC controls the price of oil globally through their massive hand in the supply side of the industry. Even if you get your wish and have O&G completely deregulate here in Canada, the reality is that they aren’t going to make a dent in global oil prices regardless of output. If we produce a ton of oil, OPEC simply shuts their taps further until the prices equalize to a point that benefits the members of the cartel.

Other than a reduction in taxes on gasoline at the pump, Canada has very little effective means of changing the cost of oil globally.

Unless you’re suggesting we turn into Venezuela #2 and we turn all oil companies and wells into government property, build a crap ton of refining capacity on the tax payer’s penny and sell the resulting oil products at cost / at a loss. But frankly, that outcome is even worse as now we’d have 50 cents/L gas, but all our other taxes would go through the roof.

True, hence why evacuating the whole city is such a big deal. I don’t think it ever happened before. Oh by the way: I read they’re explicitly telling people to not try to evacuate on boat, so perhaps that’s not the best idea.

Thanks. Apparently I forgot about Winnipeg in the fifties. That said, I can’t see if that was a city-wide evacuation like this one.

Terrible news. Hope everyone gets out safe. I want to say this is unprecedented, as (to my knowledge) this is the first total evacuation of a provincial or territorial capital in history, but I am not 100% sure. Can anyone confirm?

I wholly agree with the author of this article, but implementing something like this will meet a lot of resistance. Let’s not forget that cigarettes are a relatively new phenomenon, whereas alcohol is something we’ve consumed as a species since prehistoric times. There are a lot of cultural, social, and historical ties to the use of alcohol that people won’t let go easily and will make any attempt to reduce alcohol consumption an uphill battle.

Thanks for sharing that barely coherent rant. I’m now both 3 minutes older and I probably lost some brain cells trying to process his nonsense. Who reads this and thinks “Yeah, this guy’s got a handle on reality and some good ideas.”? It’s rage bait for people who are already angry at society.

This really puts into perspective not only how ridiculous the price of this mansion is, but also the general state of complete and utter insanity that the real estate market finds itself in today. And the saddest thing is that this is not just a BC thing or even a Canada thing…real estate is being priced out of the hands of common working folks in most of the western world.