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20% of new construction is purchased and left vacant in Vancouver. I have a hard time imagining why you would do that if not to launder/stash money. If nothing else - why not hire a property management company and rent it out?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...

How about Amerikanski news as bullshit, how about a bit more information, https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/..., specifically, "Twitter and Facebook have nine months to comply with the law by moving Russian user data onto servers in Russia". The Canadians still heavily tied into anti-Russia propaganda but still more bound to the truth than blatant US propaganda.

So this is a somewhat old story, written in a blatantly propagandistic way. So the Russian government is demanding that social media sites they allow Russian users must have that information stored on that social media companies servers inside of Russia and that ISPs should direct that traffic to social media web sites that have their servers in country.

Really sounds a whole lot different that way doesn't it. I want the Australia government to do the same, demand social media companies anywhere in the world that sign up Australian users have all that data stored in Australia, why trust what foreign fucking governments will do with that data. You all know full well, the US government will have no qualms about abusing foreign citizens data stored in the US, in all sorts of corrupt ways.

How else can any government possibly ensure corporations adhere to data privacy laws, it is inevitable that all countries do this. Not like the Amerikanski article implies on government servers, lame, seppos, really bloody lame.

Yes, this guy sure doesn't look like someone with poor hygiene who might go weeks without a shower and smear feces on a wall in protest....

From the CBC article that the summary links to https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...

According to the B.C. RCMP's traffic services, it's OK to drive with one earbud in, but wearing two can result in a $368 fine.

So it seems to come down to having 2 earplugs plugged in. And yes, I misremembered the music part.

Read it and weep:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/...

Unless something has changed, in pretty much all of the US, the husband is the "putative father", and even if paternity is later established to be someone else the court can leave child support orders in place if in the "best interests of the child" (e.g. if the neighborhood hood who was the genetic donor has a lower income )

You can even be held liable if you are a sperm donor. https://montesfamilylaw.com/ca...

And here is the bill they are workin on passing (SB 115) http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/...

In Canada, Sperm donors are not allowed anonymity, which means that a sperm donor is easy to find. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada... . And don't for a minute think that the known Sperm donor will not be sued for support. The child and th emother are the Important parties.

And some women are demanding the absolute right to find and know who donated sperm https://www.wbur.org/npr/14047...

tl;dr version - a man would have to be a fool do donate sperm, and not that smart to enter into a marriage contract these days of institutionalized cuckholdery.

Doesn't apply to TFW's just a heads up. And if a company can lie it's way through to get a TFW, you can bet your ass that they will. The best way to think of the TFW program is to think H1B's on steroids. Instead of just applying to a particular sector, or job area. A company can hire a TFW for anything, min wage to highly skilled. Out in Alberta during the big oil rush, at least one company laid off of hundreds of skilled trades(welders, mechanics, pipe fitters, etc) and then hired TFW's as replacements. It's happened at big companies like Caterpillar and TD-Canada Trust and Bank of Montreal too.

Canada has a doctor shortage, why wouldn't America suffer the same fate if we adopt a Canadian style healthcare system?

From 2019:

https://www.thetelegram.com/in...

From 2017:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...

Go ahead and explain my "naivete"

They are already using it at malls up here in the relative middle of nowhere.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...

You Americans (and Brits I might add) are already done like dinner.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/priv...

You asked for citations, here are some from CBC (Canadian equivalent to NPR or BBC):

Photo radar under review in Alberta due to widespread misuse
Municipalities go after engineer for speaking up about unsafe amber lights used to maximize red light camera revenue
Senior successfully challenges red light camera ticket after demonstrating it doesn't meet ITE guidelines

You asked for citations, here are some from CBC (Canadian equivalent to NPR or BBC):

Photo radar under review in Alberta due to widespread misuse
Municipalities go after engineer for speaking up about unsafe amber lights used to maximize red light camera revenue
Senior successfully challenges red light camera ticket after demonstrating it doesn't meet ITE guidelines

You asked for citations, here are some from CBC (Canadian equivalent to NPR or BBC):

Photo radar under review in Alberta due to widespread misuse
Municipalities go after engineer for speaking up about unsafe amber lights used to maximize red light camera revenue
Senior successfully challenges red light camera ticket after demonstrating it doesn't meet ITE guidelines

Any time you run across anti-vaxxers, show them how preventable diseases affected the life of people who did not get vaccinated.

I grew up before vaccination for polio was common, and saw many kids and colleagues who were disabled, ranging from simple limping to having totally non-functional limbs. And those are the lucky ones, who survived the disease. Others died.

Show them examples of that: how Itzhak Perlman walks on stage, because he was disabled by polio when he was a child. Tell them that when he travels he has to get assistance with having his violin and bag carried, because he cannot do so while walking with his crutches.

Go on Google images, and search for "smallpox scars" and show them how their boy or girl will look like if they ever get infected and survive the infection.

If someone makes a video from old footage of all these diseases, it may sway some who are willing to follow the evidence.

Stop and Frisk in Toronto was one of the main drivers of crime downwards. Since Toronto stopped this in high crime areas, the crime rates are screeching ever higher now.

For others who are reading this and modding it up, a bit of perspective.

The Stop and Frisk version in Toronto was known as Carding, and had problems. It targeted blacks disproportionately.

Read and watch these:

DocZone: Stop and Frisk

What You Need to Know About Carding

You also make it sound that Toronto is a kill zone. Yes, murder rate has gone up, and is the highest in Canada, but compared to cities in the USA, it is nothing.

Baltimore has 56 per 100,000, and Chicago had 23.8 per 100,000 in 2016.

Toronto's worse year in a decade (2018) is 96 murders for 2.8 million people, so 3.4 per 100,000, and that is up from around 2 previously.

Stop and Frisk in Toronto was one of the main drivers of crime downwards. Since Toronto stopped this in high crime areas, the crime rates are screeching ever higher now.

For others who are reading this and modding it up, a bit of perspective.

The Stop and Frisk version in Toronto was known as Carding, and had problems. It targeted blacks disproportionately.

Read and watch these:

DocZone: Stop and Frisk

What You Need to Know About Carding

You also make it sound that Toronto is a kill zone. Yes, murder rate has gone up, and is the highest in Canada, but compared to cities in the USA, it is nothing.

Baltimore has 56 per 100,000, and Chicago had 23.8 per 100,000 in 2016.

Toronto's worse year in a decade (2018) is 96 murders for 2.8 million people, so 3.4 per 100,000, and that is up from around 2 previously.

Stop and Frisk in Toronto was one of the main drivers of crime downwards.

Your supporting argument for this claim is that the crime rate has increased after the practice was stopped. That's... something. I don't know whether or not crime has actually gone up in Toronto, but given that the man assigned to evaluate the effectiveness of carding (Stop and Frisk) called it, "a practice that has not definitively been shown to widely reduce or solve crime," it seems as though you're jumping to conclusions. Even if it's true that crime has in fact increased since then, there doesn't seem to be any reason to believe that it's not a coincidence.

You might also consider New York's Stop and Frisk program, which had few positive results.

What you describe in your second paragraph is racial profiling, what the article is describing seems to be broader than that. Though the "negative neighborhood" comment might be interpreted as having a racial component.

Look, you can try the "but look...people funding" it's EEEEVVVVVVIIIIILLLLL. On the other hand, I can look from my own damn backyard and see the gigantic clusterfuck that "renewables" did to Ontario.

Right wing news? Sure. Centerist? That's not a problem either. How about far-left wing? Oh well what the fuck. How about the CBC? Well damn this is just great. This "unbiased assessment" from multiple media outlets here in Canada is pretty good at explaining just how much the entire thing "broke" Ontario's electrical system. This is the same bullshit now going on in multiple US states, the exact same shit. FiT(Feed in Tariff) programs, paying extremely high rates, with very specific companies who have/had an interest, causing the electricity price to go right through the roof. Oh and those "green energy jobs" that progressives, environmentalists and leftist cow on about? They don't appear. But boy oh boy do businesses flee. And of course Ontario isn't a on-off either, there's Germany, and Greece, and Spain, and Italy, and, and, and, and...

~10 years years ago, if you lived in the most populous place in Canada(between Windsor and Ottawa), you payed between 0.045 and 0.085kWh. Today you pay between 0.085 and 0.185kWh. Businesses fled. People fled. The electricity rate is so out of reach for the poor that they had to mandate under law no winter electrical disconnection just to make sure people wouldn't freeze to death. These rates for electricity hit the poor so bad, that a few years ago that charities ran out of money in December to cover heating costs. The winter period in Southern Ontario is generally late-October to as late as the end of May, you'll find that most people don't consider spring starting until the May 24 weekend, even then seeing 4C daytime highs happens often enough.

Look. Believe whatever you want about useful idiots, "because oil." Then dig your head out of your ass and then look to British Columbia. Same bullshit. Then look to Alberta under the NDP, same bullshit. Then look back to Ontario. 'Hey boys what happened to the Liberal Party of Ontario that held a majority status from 2003 to 2017?' Oh, they are no longer a recognized political party, and can fit in a 1986 Dodge Minivan? Well hot shit.

Well, here. There are plenty more from plenty of various sources. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/2...
https://www.recode.net/2019/1/...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/busine...
https://www.newsweek.com/amazo...
https://www.kare11.com/article...
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/16/...
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://www.businessinsider.co...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a...

He was asked to resign: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politi...

Canada's Prime Minister asked the ambassador to step down, because of his previous remarks on the case of the Huaweoi executive who is detained and waiting extradition hearings to the USA.

Where I live, simlocking is not allowed. Every phone you buy will be unlocked. Every. Single. One.

Here in Canada, they have to unlock it for free
https://www.cbc.ca/news/busine...

I put it in quotes because ... I am quoting the podast. Now go listen to it and tell me if it's a "crank" thing to realize that forcing emergency personnel to rule out (acute) appendicitis (there, no quotes, happy?) is a bad idea given that:
1) As the doctors themselves say, appendicitis typically presents atypically. (There, no quotes, even though I would have put them because ... again... I am quoting the doctors) Based on what omniscient insight do you rule out appendicitis? If it's so simple, give us your checklist. The discredited Alvarado Appendicitis Scoring System that's still used? Hmm? (I really had to fight the urge to put quotes there. Happy?)

2) MRIs and CTs are actually very insensitive to a range of conditions, and in any case, they are interpreted by a radiologist and presented as hard fact. Go see the case of the woman with three year's worth of "clear" (Oh no, quotes. I must be a crank and made up the lady too!) mammograms who had cancer all along.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/white...

Still think you can "rule out" conditions based on a scan? Huh? Is that a "crank" thing? This is from DOCTORS themselves. SOME of them seem to know what's cooking. Good luck finding out if your doctor does or if he's just another goldbricker. Still think doctors do no harm? That scans are 100% reliable? That everyone knows what is going on?

Good luck to you. I also thought highly of doctors until... my life changed and suddenly I realized these people are lazy buffoons.

So far in my life I had several encounters with emergency personnel and doctors. I burned my hand. I had a weird skin condition. I had a large cut on my leg. All solved properly. As long as everything is visible and unequivocal, the system seems to work fine.

You're on your own as soon as even the tiniest doubt exists or reports come back equivocal. What the hell does "an angiomyolipoma is not seen with certitude" mean if a chronically inflamed appendix has fat stranding but the stupid scan has 11mm slices but the appendix can have an 8mm lumen? Ooops, it depends on where exactly on the table you lied that day?

Or how about this: water is incompressible... at least in the human body. What's the purpose of distending the intestines with a gallon of water before a scan ... to push away and compress soft tumors to make sure you can't see them? I already know I don't have Crohn's.... you ever see someone with Crohn's with weight gain, a healthy appetite, and no diarrhea, no bloody stool, normal transit time? Hmmm? Have you?

Shortness of breath, though... Appendiceal cancer? Oh, there's a nice one, it's an "incidental" finding because again, this will never show up clearly on a scan. BTW, "incidental" usually means in the morgue. Congratulations! Another win for modern "fact-based" medicine!

Here:

https://www.wbur.org/commonhea...

Now go tell Dr Smink about *your* theories about the appendix, oh mysterious doctor.

Hey you want another example of modern medical blindness? You think mammograms are cut-and-dry settled science?

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/white...

Oops. Turns out human bodies are variable? Who knew! Certainly not the radiologists who are baffled, BAFFLED, that dense breast tissue (healthy!) is white on a mammogram, and so is cancer tissue!

This is a baffling situation. Let's just put "normal" on the report and go on with our busy day sipping lattés and misdiagnosing more people!

This woman's situation actually wouldn't have happened in Quebec, I suppose one of the rare times Quebec is ahead in something medical.

But still, you trust these clowns? Why? Just because they have computers? Or expensive x-ray machines? Or an alphabet soup after their name?

The worst part: all these stories that I can keep submitting to you... come from DOCTORS themselves!

Go argue with them!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...

The province once considered milkweed a noxious weed under the Weed Control Act. Nicoll says it was originally banned because milkweed eaten by dairy cows caused their milk to taste slightly sour.

"It's actually a really pretty plant," she said.

The province dropped milkweed from its noxious weed designation in 2014, Nicoll learned, but Burlington never followed suit. She even started hearing from friends and associates that they were allowed to have the plants in cities as nearby as neighbouring Oakville.

"Then I found out that the city of Burlington gives the plants and the seeds away for free through the parks and rec," she said. "It was confusing they were giving it out for free and telling me to rip mine out."

Where do you get your info? It seems consistently wrong to one degree or another and very slanted such as blaming environmentalists for the dairy farmers lobbying.

Spot on. Ontario did the same thing under the previous government and declared it a "noxious weed" in ~2002 or so and monarch numbers plummeted. This is and absolute man-made problem caused by removing a key plant, and in many cases like here in Ontario it was environmentalists and NIMBY's that pushed for it to be labeled as such. The factory farms then got on board because it then allowed them to use more aggressive herbicides to kill it back, especially where it liked to grow with soybeans. Further, the provincial government then pushed local(city/county) to pass bylaws with heavy financial penalties. Around here it was a fine of $500/plant, smoking in a non-smoking building is $2000 to put in perspective.

Do you mean batteries like the ones being developed at MIT? https://www.cbc.ca/news/techno...

Molten salt only lasts about 6 hours. Malta, a Google spinoff so good they didn't invest in them is doing the same thing. BTW, MSRs use the same stuff to transfer heat from the core to the turbines. Also, those "batteries" have about a 40% efficiency so any energy that goes in, comes out 2 1/2 times more expensive. Some solution. If they do improve that efficiency, we could use that tech in a nuclear reactor though. The research is good, your conclusions about the ramifications of the research, not so much...

Do you mean batteries like the ones being developed at MIT?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/techno...

In Taiwan those systems were swapped out for LTE-M a long time ago. It is 2018. Time to move on.

Funny enough, in Canada we have problems where a software update made a Samsung phone unable to call 911. It got so bad that the provider was forced to move everyone with that phone model from LTE to 3G just so they can make 911 calls reliably, until Samsung issues a fix for the problem.

Crap happens, even today.

I don't know, one particularly noxious spam call I got for a while was for air duct cleaning services (they never said the company name in the call, different number every call)

Yup, get those pretty regularly, it's a common scam.

Eventually someone would have to come out? Unless it was a scam that just collected credit card info and then did nothing I suppose...

Several years ago I saw a story about this that the CBC ran.

Basically they cleaned the ducts and put in a bunch of hidden cameras. When the company came to 'clean' the ducts, they just rattled around and made noise, but didn't do any actual real work while pretending to.

The guys doing it know full well they're just scamming, as do the assholes from "The Microsoft Service Provider" telling you they've detected you have a virus.
They can't possibly not know. As such, I just go straight to "fuck off you lying sack of shit", hang up, and add their number to my blocked calls.

That scam has been around for years.

I've had people show up at my door claiming to be from "the energy company", so they can insinuate they're from my energy company. One of them talked their way into the house by convincing the wife there was a regulatory change that required us to change the piping in our furnace, which is utterly false.

I happened to be home, thankfully, and it took me about 30 seconds to see through the bullshit and chase them out of the house with threats that I'd be calling the police and treating this as criminal trespass and removing him forcibly from my property in about 15 seconds.

He got the hell out of there pretty damned quick.

At this point, all unsolicited calls, and all door to door sales people in our house are summarily treated as scams and told to fuck off.

I have neither the time nor the patience to try to spend time trying to figure out which kind of asshole is calling me -- being an 'honest' telemarketer is no different from being a scammer in my books, not my problem.

China has already retaliated:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politi...

Of course they have. You poke the beast by arresting one of their executives on Trump-ed up charges, of course they will do the same.

China has already retaliated:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politi...

It seems like you got a little confused there, or whoever told you was confused. That provision was *removed*. It was in NAFTA 1.0, now it's gone.

Canada wanted keep it, which is weird because:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politi...

It was removed in the Trump deal except for one special case. Every so often Mexico makes efforts to nationality their oil industry, with the government taking refineries and other infrastructure from the private companies that built them. If Mexico wants to take American-owned oil facilities, the companies can get reimbursed under the chapter 11 process. It's been removed except for oil facilities in Mexico only.

Whichever source of news / comedian told you the exact opposite, I'd be suspicious of them now. Apparently they are either hard to understand, or pulling your leg.

They've come out already and told the Canadian governments and union that the plant in Canada that is mentioned in this story will be closing down next year no matter what.

Though the union thinks it's going to stop the closure.

The population density excuse is frankly bull. Australia has a lower population density than Canada or the US but pays lower rates than both.

Canada's cellphone rates rank among highest in 8-country study, report says

There will always be exceptions to almost every rule- but Australia probably isn't a good example; sure, it's what, about 18 million people spread out across an entire continent, but a large % of the country lives around the South Eastern coast and a few other population centres like Perth and Darwin. I've not used mobile data in Australia but I imagine there are vast parts of the interior without coverage- so the density is probably quite high overall where they do have coverage.

In a lot of the US outside the major population centers there are still quite a large number of small towns dotted about, so the area that needs to be covered is quite large.

With that said, I'm sure there are exceptions to the rule "higher density = lower cost" - but the relationship would trend along a scattergraph.

Canada's cellphone rates rank among highest in 8-country study, report says

Actually in a display of common sense, Toronto and region refused to offer any 'incentives' (my 10 yr old kid is confused as to why they're not called bribes, and I'll grant her that it's a fine line, but Amazon never said paying the refs to choose you was against the rules, so incentives rather then bribes)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/busine...

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The issue is that the GP selected a very disreputable source for their claims. If those claims were true then it would seem wise to select a source with a good reputation and history of accurate reporting.

Nothing in the GGP's quote from Wikipedia indicated that Rebel Media has a history of inaccurate reporting. Just because a source reports news that supports a political belief opposed to your own, does not make it inaccurate.

In the particular case, quoted by the GGGP, of a hoax hate crime involving the cutting of a Muslim girl's hijab, a few seconds of searching turns up corroborating stories from CTV news, the Toronto Sun, and CBC. None of them specifically make the link with the way several politicians condemned the crime (before it was revealed to be a hoax) and quietly ignored it afterwards: that is a particular editorial slant taken by Rebel Media. But it doesn't seem to be untrue, nor especially misleading.

If carbon capture ends up being more expensive than just producing the power with wind/solar/hydro etc, doesn't it seem like a waste to keep the coal plants running?

Saskatchewan gave up, and decided to buy Hydroelectric power from its neighbour instead. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...

No, it is damaged. It is a destroyed copy of "Girl with Balloon". The item description for the auction (eg what the buyer was bidding on) included the phrasing: "mounted on board, in artist's frame", which is clearly no longer valid.

In fact the artwork has subsequently been re-titled as "Love is in the Bin", a NEW ORIGINAL ARTWORK, that was created "live" during the auction.

The buyer CHOSE to go through with the purchase, even though it was not what they originally bid on. Meaning they were not obliged to.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entert...

In Canada, it's called a civil search warrant.
It was used last year against a Kodi addon dev
https://www.cbc.ca/news/busine...

You couldn't be more wrong.

Tell it to the 60k people in Ontario who lost their job when the minimum wage was increased by $2.40/hr. Ontario bumped it's min. wage from $11.60 to $14/hr in one year, the estimates...estimates were 60k jobs lost by 2019. The reality was so much worse, you can find the usual sites like vox, vice, huffpo all falling over themselves that min. wage hikes really don't kill jobs. The fact that Ontario accounted for 68% of all jobs lost in Canada tells a different story, speaking of which out of those 60k people who lost their jobs? Most are still unemployed 9ish months later. Round it out that job growth is flat, and companies are finding it more cost competitive to operate in the US then Canada even with the 30% difference between the CAD and USD.

Yep...just working out really well.

The "secret sauce" to Google's products is their engineers, algorithms, and more recently, AI - and of course, their vast and unparalleled collection of user data put-together helps. Not to mention collective user analysis to better predict users, their buying habits, and to ultimately influence them (e.g. filter bubble).

It wouldn't be strange if they sold portions of user data to any entity, as long as it doesn't give the complete picture about that person. e.g. they can sell all they know about your health issues to insurance companies, without exposing your risky behaviour or things you get up to in your time, such as your drinking/drug use, and looking for prostitutes every 2 days after midnight in x-radius area, etc.

Just as we know they likely sell a small subset of our data related to products we might be interested in, in the recent past, and other related data which shows your wealth and how affluent you are, to big buyers such as retailers so they can charge a different price to each individual.

We also know from Snowdon's revelations that Google is basically an arm of NSA, they work closely together, and in part, Google gives away vast sums and even user data to the government in exchange for relaxed laws that benefit themselves - i.e. Google is one of the biggest US Gov lobbyist (briber).

I am sure that the IOT'mania crowd may not like this, but the internet is worth protecting.

Why? The IoT crowd may want it too, to avoid having incidents like security cameras being available to be viewed by all.

https://www.cbc.ca/marketplace...

If a journalist on TV can view these security camera streams, imagine what a more determined person can do. In fact, they monitored the streams for several weeks until they could positively identify the house and confront the homeowner.

They then hired a pentesting company to hack someone who converted to all their high tech stuff, including being able to control their front door lock, take over their Nest cameras (and able to even get Alexa to do stuff for them).

I call bullshit.

Ice is up, not down at both poles, while the Arctic goes up and down a but the Antarctic only increases much to the amazement of the the alarmists. Total sea ice has never gone down and is increasing presently to the point the seas are falling while the media claims or sometimes hints they're rising. Sea level was actually never rising abnormally, it's been 33,3cm/century for about 15,000 years. The gasses are methane and food for the microflora of the new tundra. We are coming out of an ice age and of course you can find thawing bits, it's just that there's more freezing bits than thawing bits by a large margin.

Sea ice.
Screenshot of the US National Snow and Ice Data Center graph of aggregate sea ice.
http://rs79.vrx.palo-alto.ca.u...

South Sea Ice.
http://rs79.vrx.palo-alto.ca.u...

So, the claims the "ice could be gone as early as 2015" (Gore 2009) are utterly specious; this really devalues the Nobel prize in my mind or his half of it anyway which is when he said this.

Anyway, the ice melt doesn't show up any graph. So let's look at the sat imagery NASA has at the pole.

http://rs79.vrx.palo-alto.ca.u...

Ok so it doesn't show up in NASA sat imagery either. What about maps?
Isn't it cool how you can get the story from a piece of the url? "arctic-sea-ice-gains-can-be-seen-on-new-government-map-of-canada"

Anyway, Canada added ice to the marine navigation maps. The US doesn't have much arctic, Greenland has more I suspect, the rest Canada and Russia have. The Russians added ice to their maps too.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol...

So I dunno about this "melt" it doesn't show up maps, test instruments or sat imagery.

As I said, the sea levels are falling not rising if you believe NASA.
http://rs79.vrx.palo-alto.ca.u...

Looks like sea level was pretty constant for th last 8000 years. Now seas have been falling for about 6 years. If they were supposed to rise abnormally I can't see where.

http://rs79.vrx.palo-alto.ca.u...

Here's the article in Nature from a few years ago. They figured if all this methane was coming up there would be an increase in carbon in the soil but there wasn't and they wrote up why they found out why: it's food for the emergent fora and fungi. Which makes sense, the plans and carbon all frozen together, why WOULD you have one wuthoutthe other. You freaky, nature.

"Fungi pull carbon into northern forest soils Organisms living on tree roots do lion’s share of sequestering carbon

"But scientists have not understood where exactly trees put their carbon. The issue becomes important when researchers build computer simulations that track carbon cycling."
https://www.sciencenews.org/ar...

"Small 'hot spot' responsible for producing the largest concentration of the greenhouse gas methane seen over the United States"

"Nasa set to investigate unexplained hotspot over the 'four corners' intersection in Southwest
Small 'hot spot' responsible for producing the largest concentration of the greenhouse gas methane seen over the United States
Area near the Four Corners intersection of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah covers 2,500 square miles
Hotspot predates widespread fracking in the area "

Oh, during Hurricane Dennis (2005), the wreck of the Spiegel Grove was shifted from it's side to upright on the sea floor. That's several thousand tons of ship, at about 40m deep, being moved around.

People seem to have no idea of the forces the ocean can generate.

A couple of years back, people tried to put tidal generators in the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, which has the world's highest tides ... it basically ripped it apart.

OpenHydro -- the Irish company which installed the world's first 1-megawatt tidal turbine in the Bay of Fundy -- and its partner Nova Scotia Power deployed the 10-tonne turbine on the floor of the Minas Passage in November 2009.

Then just 20 days later, all 12 turbine rotor blades were destroyed by tidal flows that were two and a half times stronger than for what the turbine was designed.

20 days to destroy it.

Underestimate what the ocean can do to you at your own peril. I'm not at all surprised it moved that shipwreck, get enough water in motion, and it's going to eventually win.

Just wishing something to be true won't make it happen. Here is one example of this not working: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...

I hear they tried that robot in Montreal and it crashed due to memory exhaustion.

Montreal is one of the oldest city in North America and there are so many leaks in its water system that it loses 30% of its fresh water supply.

Makes you wonder what is the average water loss in other systems.

https://montrealgazette.com/ne...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...
 

Common hot water or steam systems for the neighborhood seems like a good idea. I haven't seen in North America.

In Quebec City, they have that incinerator built decades ago to burn their household garbage, it is located right downtown and at least they thought from the beginning about generating steam for the Daishowa located right across the street. I guess that counts as a start.

Incinerator:
http://www.hmiconstruction.ca/...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...
Daishowa:
https://www.lambertsomec.com/i...

I am most definitely not an expert on Canadian politics. However when I look at the website for the Liberal party of Canada, their gun policy proposal does not to me read as one that wants to take away or ban all handguns.

Well, you have to read between the lines, and be more up-to-speed on Canadian politics. Until very recently (as in three days ago) they were reluctant to come right out and say it, because they knew they'd alienate, amoung others, rural voters.

Now, though, this. I personally think this is just pandering to their base, but they won't actually do anything, but it flies directly in the face of their protestations about wanting to write policy based on evidence and data.

Unfortunately the Alberta decided against abolishing it a year or so back. They're reasoning, it would apparently too much of a burden on hockey teams.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...