Yardy Sardley

2 things keep landlords from being an infinite money glitch: morality and stupidity. Somehow I doubt these folks are afflicted by the first one.

Time to sell the properties and get a real job, damned leaches.

EPS is civic jurisdiction, public health is supposedly provincial jurisdiction. Based on every action they’ve ever taken, it’s fair to say the Alberta government doesn’t care whatsoever about public health, and they seem especially contemptuous towards the city of edmonton.

Sending the police is absolutely not the right way to deal with this, I’m not trying to defend that. The key problem is that the city simply doesn’t have the resources to pick up the slack left by the province refusing to do their damned jobs, even though they are the ones being put under enormous pressure by business owners & suburbanites to do something.

They burn it for energy in place of burning coal

That’s a reasonable take, and I hope with all my heart it turns out that way. At the same time, I think it would be a mistake to underestimate the effectiveness of the “axe the tax” rhetoric. People are willing to overlook a lot of dubious political behaviour if they think it will make a them a couple of bucks.

Time to pull out that electoral reform idea you’ve had in your back pocket for the last 8 years.

Seriously, if there was ever a time for something like that, it’s now. The CPC seems poised to take a landslide victory in the next election. We might be able to avoid that looming disaster by making a vote against Trudeau not equate to a vote for polievre.

Or, we could simply stop extracting the massive amount of carbon that’s already nicely sequestered in Alberta in the form of bitumen.

“So what we would do is we would capture the CO2, inject nitrogen, transport it as ammonia and send it to Japan"

I’ve been struggling to find more details on the specific process she’s talking about. As far as I’m aware, you can’t sequester carbon dioxide in the form of ammonia, since ammonia doesn’t contain carbon or oxygen. So that must mean they use pre-existing ammonia (produced via natural gas) to transport the CO₂ underground. But that can be done in a closed loop, so shipping it to Japan seems like an entirely separate process, that uses a bunch of energy in both ammonia production and shipping, so that Japan can add more NO_x gases to the atmosphere.

Make it make sense.

It’s really unfortunate that we’ve spent the last 30-40 years deleting a lot of the passenger-specific rail infrastructure outside of metro Vancouver and the Toronto-Montreal corridor. At this point it would be a major breakthrough to even bring a serious passenger service into existence. There’s nothing I would like more, but it seems impossible.

I’d argue that it is for the consumers, as those are the people getting the rebate. It incentivizes a shift in consumer behavior that is meant to take revenue away from the fossil fuel industry and redirect it towards green alternatives. I agree, it’s a good policy, and one of the only ways we have of gracefully moving away from fossil fuels.

As long as you can avoid having people completely miss the point of the tax and being misled by politicians for their own personal gain, that is.

Smith said the province tried to work collaboratively with the federal government to make the province’s electricity grid net zero by 2050

“The feds didn’t capitulate to our demands so we’re taking the province of Alberta hostage”

“We will not put our operators at risk of going to jail if they do not achieve the unachievable,”

It’s unachievable, Danielle, because your ignorant ass put a moratorium on renewable energy projects. And why does she feel the need to feign sympathy for the dinosaurs at the top whose refusal to act is the reason we’re here in the first place? If they can’t conduct business in accordance with the law, they can gtfo of the way and make room for those who can.

“…he’s a maverick. He doesn’t seem to care about the law, doesn’t care about the Constitution. I do.”

Says the person who personally donated $60k to a seditious organization.

As far as I’m concerned, these excuses are nothing but selfish and asinine. They only serve to vindicate and encourage the bad behaviour of those who ought to be taking responsibility. How exactly “It’s too expensive” is a serious take when we all just spent 4 consecutive months living inside a cloud of wildfire smoke is beyond me. Fuck off.

“Alberta wins again”

Danielle Smith is fully embracing the eco-villain role. She probably cackled right after saying that.

Yup, the Cons are once again proving they have no actual principles, and are only involved in politics to empower & enrich themselves.

Pilots shouldn’t be pressured into making unsafe decisions? Then stop pressuring them to make unsafe decisions. If the plane isn’t safe to fly for any reason, then it doesn’t take off, period. It shouldn’t be a choice for anyone.

The way airlines are acting these days, I can’t shake the feeling that the business of flying people from place to place is not the primary focus. It seems more like they facilitate flights mostly for the purpose of luring people into their poorly-lit wing of the airport where their goons can extract the real profits.

strong support of a majority of Saskatchewan residents

Sure, a majority of people who are old enough to vote, anyway.

Eroding the rights of people who can’t even vote is straight up tyrannical. Doubly so when the courts say “hey maybe you shouldn’t do that” and you invoke the notwithstanding clause to do it anyway.

And if they don’t get one, they’ll use it as an excuse to raise ticket prices with impunity.

Plane tickets should go up in price as a response to climate change. If people can’t afford to take as many flights, then that’s a good thing, because flying is one of the least efficient modes of transport from a carbon perspective, and it’s twice as bad as the raw numbers would suggest because dumping the carbon into the upper atmosphere actually makes it more effective at warming the planet. Even if the industry manages to “decarbonize” its fuel sources, it’s still going be monumentally harmful and wasteful of resources that could be better used elsewhere.

If our government actually cares about consumers having transport options that are both affordable and carbon efficient, they should look at providing any passenger rail service in western canada.

I’m hoping this results in some public health oversight recommendations, and that they don’t try to say this was a one-off and pin all the blame on some poor line cook. However, given this government’s (and particularly Smith’s) track record on the matter of public health, I’m preparing to have to manage my expectations yet again.

This is totally wild to me. There is more than 1 road connecting Kelowna and Penticton, why didn’t the bus company have a contingency plan for this situation? Not to mention the massive waterway, he probably could have borrowed an inflatable raft from someone and floated down there in less time.

I definitely admire the self-sufficiency and work ethic on display here, but damn. Guy doesn’t need new running shoes, he needs a support network.

I’d love to see the privileged try to live in a city devoid of any service workers.

Costco’s business model makes way more sense than most other grocery retailers. My only complaint previously was that the sheer volume of groceries you needed to buy to make it worthwhile turned it into more of a mecca of car-dependency culture than anything.

Now that there are somewhat affordable delivery options, they are head and shoulders better than any other grocery store in my opinion.

It’s pretty accurate. Believe it or not, one of our most infamous aviation near-disasters in Canada (the Gimli Glider) happened because someone made a mistake converting fuel quantities between metric & imperial.

My favourite thing is when we get to use awful combinations of both systems, like measuring out 15g of coffee for 12oz of water. Or having 26" bike wheels inflated to 30psi but attached to the bike with a 10mm axle. I especially love kcals and mmHg.