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If by "years", you mean a month ago, then yes: https://globalnews.ca/news/500...

Additionally, it now appears both Transport Canada and EASA are no longer willing to accept FAA certification. Other aviation authorities have in the past accepted FAA certification without challenge. if other authorities no longer trust the FAA to do its oversight properly Boeing will be forced to carry out multiple certification assessments for each civil aviation authority, and that will carry with it a considerable delay and financial burden.

As a passenger, I'll sleep better.

Frankly, I'm surprised that the European Union doesn't do their own certification process as well instead of trusting it to one organization.

One of the bigger long-term consequences of these MAX-8 incidents will be the impact on the FAA's influence in the civil aviation world. One little commented fact is that when the MAX-8s were grounded it was the Chinese civil aviation authorities who led the world in grounding the 737 MAX. This was unprecedented, as most civil aviation authorities have tended to follow the lead certification authority of the manufacturer, the FAA in this case, before issuing a grounding. This was the case in previous grounding - the 787 dreamliner in 2013 and DC-10 groundings in 1979 were both led by the FAA.

Additionally, it now appears both Transport Canada and EASA are no longer willing to accept FAA certification. Other aviation authorities have in the past accepted FAA certification without challenge. if other authorities no longer trust the FAA to do its oversight properly Boeing will be forced to carry out multiple certification assessments for each civil aviation authority, and that will carry with it a considerable delay and financial burden.

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.

Came here to say this.

https://globalnews.ca/news/427...

Reality check: More terror suspects have entered the U.S. from Canada than from Mexico

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/01/07/us/politics/ap-us-trump-terrorism-fact-check.html

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/12/13/trumps-10-terrorists-where-are-they/

To be honest, I don't give a fuck about finding stats to satisfy your dishonest little faggot ass lol, the fact is I have all the facts on my side and you back a lying traitor everyone is watching head to prison.

Go find your own stats, but they're all going to say the vast mega-majority of illegals are coming via airports. Now run along, find a spot to grow some balls ya dishonest little cunt. You lose bitch.

Trump will die in prison long before any wall is ever built even if he did get funding. Go suck Putin's cock, run along now traitor.

Canada could ship to them... if it weren't for the Quebec government.

https://globalnews.ca/news/474...

So am I. Prior to this comment she almost certainly would have been. Now it's a whole new ballgame. I can absolutely see a judge deciding that Trumps comments indicate that the US is looking to hold her for political reasons.

Funny enough, while checking google for Canadian extradition policies just now I stumbled on this article:

https://globalnews.ca/news/475...

Looks like the Canadian government has taken his comments in the same light as I have, and they've already made a public response.

"A cold winter is proof there is no global warming". No, but why don't we acknowledge that those long, cold winters mean than by 2100 and after a worst-case prediction of a 2-5C temperature raise, we will still have long and cold winters?. Last year my major city actually set a cold winter record, over 167 days where the temperature didn't exceed 0C.

Try convincing the large population of earth living in cold climates that a gradual 2C warming is a disaster. You'll definitely get a lot of sympathy for the Al Gore millionaires and their Californian beach front mansions.

Not only is the number itself not sourced anywhere in the article

True enough, but it's easily sourced elsewhere with a quick search:

"Nearly 180 Canadians are known to have travelled overseas to join extremist groups. About 60 have returned to Canada, according to government figures released in 2016."

Because in a nation with laws, you need evidence of a crime to prosecute someone. The author seems to be suggesting that simply visiting a conflict area is enough to serve as a basis for prosecution, which it isn't.

Perhaps. On the other hand, Trudeau hasn't shown any backbone when it comes to confronting Islam -- quite the opposite.

This is not a news article of any sort, it's a blog/opinion piece by an outlet that clearly has an agenda and doesn't provide basic facts about the situation but simply throws out assertions.

I agree, it was not a good article. On the other hand, The Rebel has done plenty of in-depth reporting not covered by other outlets. And there's plenty of shit put out by the mainstream that doesn't pass muster.

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.

In the United States and Canada, the term "Eskimo" was commonly used by ethnic europeans to describe the Inuit and Alaska's Yupik and Iñupiat peoples. However, "Inuit" is not accepted as a term for the Yupik, and "Eskimo"[11] is the only term that applies to Yupik, Iñupiat and Inuit. Since the late 20th century, indigenous peoples in Canada and Greenlandic Inuit consider "Eskimo" to be a pejorative term, and they more frequently identify as "Inuit" for an autonym.

And hey, look! A whole crapload of Inuit who reject the name 'Eskimo!' The Inuit Circumpolar Council!

And here's the Alaska Native Language Center pointing out that, gasp, outside of Alaska, 'Eskimo' is considered derogatory!

And another one! Which also points out the converse; go to Alaska, and refer to a Yupik as 'Inuit,' and you're wrong too!

Maybe you'd rather listen to a First Nations head of Native Studies at the University of Mantiba, who points out that "nobody uses Eskimo in Canada anymore - at all."

Here's an article by an Inuit answering an Alaskan about why he, the Inuit fellow, isn't an Eskimo.

Look, mate, I've learned something new, which is that some tribes do indeed identify themselves as 'Eskimo.' But hopefully you've learned something too, which is that a lot more don't, and actively consider the term to be pejorative.

Considering that Canada's priorities seem to be womens issues, and payments to natives as a core component of NAFTA?

Doesn't seem that way to me. This article listed like 10 things Canada is focused on. Sure women and natives are part of those 10 things, but that's what it is: they're just parts of a larger whole.

Are you one of those SJWs who gets triggered if something isn't completely ideologically pure and align to your pet peeves 100%?

I'm perfectly fine with Trump crashing it so fucking hard that the Liberal Party of Canada won't exist by next year.

You're perfectly fine with putting your own pride and ideological bickering before the country's well being? You'd rather Canada gets bad deal so many of its poor and working people suffer, just so you can spite your ideological enemies (who probably won't suffer that much, because you know, they're ivory tower elitists with plenty of money and connections to whether the storm)?

I seem to be in the minority here.

I had a great time binge watching most of the first three seasons, despite recognizing all its faults right away. Sure, the original Penny was a vaguely slutty, nondescript door matt, and Howard was creep, and Raj was a head case, and Sheldon was a vegetarian Jeffery Dahmer, and Leonard—what the fuck was Leonard, anyway?

Extreme Doormat
Heterosexual Life-Partners
Butt-Monkey
Translator Buddy
With Friends Like These...

—but there was plenty of meta-humour and the delivery was lively and offbeat.

Before the series started shipping glue, it was Leonard that finally the series unwatchable for me.

Shipping

After my happy binge, I've never watched another episode, since (though I do know the modern characters, mainly from YouTube outtake reels).

Before Leonard, it was mainly Raj that made me frequently avert my gaze. But I knew that stupid premise (mutism) simply couldn't last much longer. (First they invented alcohol as a clumsy, but temporary off switch, in a truly kill-me-now "it was all a dream" micro reversal.)

Maybe you can argue that Leonard stayed for the girl. But it was played without the oppressive bars of captivity confining Leonard inside a crazy-making zoo full of insecure-yet-egocentric middle-schoolers with PhDs.

I managed to ignore these problems long enough to really enjoy many moments from the first three seasons, especially as Penny became less nondescript, and actually managed to worm her way inside Sheldon's grill.

All in all, it was not so different than watching The West Wing, which is not that much closer to reality than TBBT, though you have to dig further under the surface to see this.

But Leonard ... he became harder to comprehend as a real person than Trump-loving Manafort juror Paula Duncan.

Manafort Jury Holdout Blocked Guilty Verdicts on 10 of 18 Charges, Juror Says
Do not pardon Paul Manafort, says Trump-supporting juror who convicted him
'I did not want Paul Manafort to be guilty, but he was,' says juror who supports Trump

I can almost understand Paula, but ultimately not Leonard.

Small companies get security contractors to operate their cameras, cameras that film people going into many small stores in the same area. The shops will know who you are when you enter, what your credit rating is, and whether you are suspected of anything, and none of that will be government information, and none of will require some massive db operated by big, bad FAANG, or the government. FAANG are just the first to set a pattern that smaller actors can use going forward. The benefit for most people will be decent customer service, and security more focused on bad actors. Companies will have more bang/$ on security spend, and could improve their sales. Everybody wins, which is why it will happen.

Those bleating about personal information are the 21st century version of throwing clogs. It will be too cheap, and too easy to not happen. Information wants to be free, and that includes what you look like, and where you spend your money. I'm not advocating this, it's just that the economic incentives tilt the tables that way whether we want it or not. So go ahead and call yourself rabiddog43

The companies will tag rabiddog43 as the one that drives a 2013 vw jetta diesel with license place x1z 251, his credit card number, and the name on it. The malls and shops will have footage of your car, your walk, your face if you ever visit any of them. The phone company will have all your movements throughout the day, based on cell tower telemetry. if they're google, they will have lower time resolution data from routine GPS pings. This is all information that they have as the normal course of doing their legitimate business.

You want the cell phone not to track your location? Your phone needs to talk to a nearby tower. Want 911 to work, in a car accident? what about traffic congestion data? GPS& tower data is helpful... Want people to accept your credit card? (cash will die soon, too expensive to deal with.) As soon as you attempt any commercial transaction, you are toast.

In the future, everyone you deal with knows *who you are* in the sense of having some summary of your digital history, if you are making any kind of commercial transaction, just like the small villages we lived in for tens of thousands of years. Honour and reputation will again become hugely important as it was of old, because the entire world will track how you behave. Everyone will behave well, or else.

Who needs big brother if there are a thousand little brothers? If ten or fifteen little brothers have *got it wrong* about something is that actually easier to fix than having one big brother? The real question we have is not whether we will be surveilled, it's how fragmented we want that surveillance to be, and who watches the watchers.

Laws need to evolve to deal with pervasive personal information, where it is everywhere, held by companies large and small, and understand that personal information is helpful to governments in providing services, not just policing. It's a conversation we aren't having yet, with all the privacy commissioners and luddites trying to shove the genie back into the bottle. Valiant effort. won't work.

I used to enjoy them, my best was 16 minutes and screaming abuse at the end, but I got 4 in one day, so I blocked all incoming international calls. They dropped off for a while, but now they're spoofing local numbers. Sometimes I answer, sometimes I don't.

I've got some hindi swear/abuse phrases ready to go (stuff like "you're the result of a toilet cleaner fucking a goat"), but my best was asking the girl from "Windows technical department" what her mother would think of her activities. She went silent for about 10 seconds, then hung up.

Amateur. YouTube has a few people who can get scammers on the phone for at least an hour, approaching 4 and a half. Though to be honest, a good chunk of it is simply dead air - they ask the victim to go out and buy gift cards or something (which is good for a couple of hours of scammers on hold).

And scammers have an "emergency out" - if they get exposed, they immediately lock the machine and syskey it to ensure it is unbootable. Of course, it all happens in a virtual machine, so restoring the damage is trivial, but it's funny.

Some YouTube channels:
Kitboga. He's had scammers insult him, make death threats and all sorts of fun.

This guy enacts revenge on the scammers by infecting their PC. Most of the scammers are just doing a script, so their PCs are often wide open and infectable, so it's possible to get RATs and such installed on their PC.

This guy investigates scammers computers. His latest video involves a bank login scam where he manages to install a RAT on the scammer's computer. He watches as a scammer attempts to register for and log into some elderly guy's bank account (luckily, the bank actually sends something to customers when this happens, so the scammer not only had no chance. He also alerted the bank who locked the online account for fraud.

Yes, it's fun watching scammer's computers and call centers get infected. Perhaps they can call themselves for tech support.

I admit, I get a lot of those calls. It's amazing how they always use the most robotic of voices. Also, apparently retailers are alert to the scam as well - several times they've been stopped when they see people buying thousands of dollars worth of iTunes or other gift cards. Though, someone was so embarrassed they made up a whole story about being "arrested" and transported and caused the police to issue an alert.

Eh? In the UK, which is further north than the most populated part of Canada, feed in tariffs age essentially history for domestic installations (and for commercial one across a swathe of renewables), yet it still sells.

Except it's not right? Because the FIT programs are determined by the IESO, which is basically policy mandated by the government. And unlike the UK, the winters regularly hit -30C in the most populated part of Canada.

Sadly, you are not very attached to facts as you claimed that the Liberal Party was anti business despite me posting the policy (regional, but a copypasta of the national one).

Except when it's not, and there's plenty of articles proving otherwise. Don't worry, I'm sure you'll figure out the anti-business policies of the ontario liberals, when you get to the part about pushing a service economy. Just wait until you get to the federal liberal plan!

Less than month ago Sweden told its people to prepare for disasters, including possible war with Russia. One of the first thing the Ruskies will do is cyber attacks on infrastructure, which includes the financial system.

Sorry for bringing logic to a shit-flinging party, can't help myself.

Unfortunately, you didn't. You have to look at absolute numbers, and not percentages, because the subsidies have a multiplicative effect. They not only change the profitability of milk, but they encourage overproduction (because the subsidies are based on production), which drives down prices.

Indeed, according to government numbers, the US has a 5-1 price edge against Canada in dairy pricing due to subsidies. That should call for a 500% subsidy to fully correct for, and yet we only charge a 270% tariff.

You'd expect if the tariffs were completely out-of-line that nobody in Canada would import dairy form the US, and yet in 2016 alone we imported more than $631 million in dairy from the US. For a population smaller than that of California.

Again -- talk to your own government first. I'd be more than happy to see both of our countries (and the EU, which has the largest dairy subsidies in the world) drop dairy tariffs -- but the unfair subsidies have to come down first. It's the subsidies that have caused the tariffs, not the other way around. Canada is hardly in some power position where we can drop our tariffs and hope for some form of "general goodwill" that the US will stop unfair subsidies and attempts at dumping. The Canadian Government has been clear in the past that if the subsidies go away, we won't need the tariffs anymore.

Yaz

https://globalnews.ca/news/381...

No hyperbole, it is people crossing the border illegally. I have no problem with people legally immigrating to Canada, the neighborhood I live in is 40% immigrants. But when both US and Canadian governments allow it to happen it is an affront to the people who are legally immigrating, IMHO.

"Roughly 75 per cent of the 25,000 asylum seekers who crossed into Quebec last year did so illegally and the government is anticipating a surge in migrants arriving again this year."

https://globalnews.ca/news/415...

"Officials said Monday it is expecting about 400 people to cross the border through forests and wooded areas every day this summer — up from 250 each day last year."

https://globalnews.ca/news/414...

No hyperbole, it is people crossing the border illegally. I have no problem with people legally immigrating to Canada, the neighborhood I live in is 40% immigrants. But when both US and Canadian governments allow it to happen it is an affront to the people who are legally immigrating, IMHO.

"Roughly 75 per cent of the 25,000 asylum seekers who crossed into Quebec last year did so illegally and the government is anticipating a surge in migrants arriving again this year."

https://globalnews.ca/news/415...

"Officials said Monday it is expecting about 400 people to cross the border through forests and wooded areas every day this summer — up from 250 each day last year."

https://globalnews.ca/news/414...

https://www.google.com/url?sa=...

Patients also experience significant waiting times for various diagnostic technologies across the provinces. This year, Canadians could expect to wait 3.7 weeks for a computed tomography (CT) scan, 11.1 weeks for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, and 4.0 weeks for an ultrasound.Nov 23, 2016

https://globalnews.ca/news/308...

https://www.fraserinstitute.or...

However, Canadian's lifespans exceed that of both U.K. and the U.S. significantly at 82.14 years.

Wind and Solar require that you place them in either exactly right area, or have high-uptime year round. Hell you can look in California and Texas over the last 40 years and find millions of dead solar farms and wind farms. They don't survive here because we already have cheap energy. In most cases they require massive subsidies in order to operate as well. North America is resource rich, very resource rich. It is cheaper to build a dam, and flood thousands of KM of land then it is to build windmills in mountain passes. Use the coal in the ground, build nuclear power plants well anywhere, lots of places to do that even in Western Canada.

Keep this in mind, because I'll now explain what drives people against green energy. In Ontario(again very resource rich), the government believed that handing huge tax breaks and giving massive payouts to get these things off the ground was a great idea. So to be viable, you could see rates where they were paid by the IESO upwards of $1.50kWh, most were in the $0.70-0.90kWh range. It broke the market. The price for electricity before they started paying these companies and microfits money hand over fist was around $0.09kWh at peak, off-peak $0.035-0.068kWh. 10 years later the peak because the entire province(mainly non-businesses) now pay $0.185kWh. The price that is still paid to these green energy boondongles is still in the $0.30-0.76kWh range.

This is what happened: Electricity rates are so high, that the government had to put into law that winter disconnection wasn't allowed. It does get down to -35C here most winters. Then there's the stories like this: The system is so broken because of green energy that people are making the "roof vs heat" choice. This is what happens when extreme poverty and high electricity prices collide(2016/2017) and the charities which pay for heating ran out of money in December of 2016. Most charities got more money this year, but again most will run out of funding by February. That still leaves, March and April, and possibly May(it can get as cold as -10C even here in Southern Ontario as late as May 24th - which most people consider the actual end of winter, it can also be 27C enjoy Canada yet?).

Ontario is interesting, because the government is very anti-industrial anything. Their entire economic policy was based on driving businesses out of the province and pushing 'service' jobs. So now you have people working 2-3 sometimes 4 PT-jobs to make ends meet, in a family that that's both parents working 3PT jobs and barely making ends meet in most of the province. Now, toss in those 30k illegals from the US? This is where it gets fun, because those people who couldn't even work or afford housing were being thrown out of low-income housing to put illegals up in them. FYI the average wait-time in most of Ontario for low-income housing is between 4 and 8 years.

And I'm sure someone is going to go, hur-dur it's all them conservatives fault. Sorry guys, this is 100% right on the Liberal Party of Ontario which has been in power since the early 00's.

Wind and Solar require that you place them in either exactly right area, or have high-uptime year round. Hell you can look in California and Texas over the last 40 years and find millions of dead solar farms and wind farms. They don't survive here because we already have cheap energy. In most cases they require massive subsidies in order to operate as well. North America is resource rich, very resource rich. It is cheaper to build a dam, and flood thousands of KM of land then it is to build windmills in mountain passes. Use the coal in the ground, build nuclear power plants well anywhere, lots of places to do that even in Western Canada.

Keep this in mind, because I'll now explain what drives people against green energy. In Ontario(again very resource rich), the government believed that handing huge tax breaks and giving massive payouts to get these things off the ground was a great idea. So to be viable, you could see rates where they were paid by the IESO upwards of $1.50kWh, most were in the $0.70-0.90kWh range. It broke the market. The price for electricity before they started paying these companies and microfits money hand over fist was around $0.09kWh at peak, off-peak $0.035-0.068kWh. 10 years later the peak because the entire province(mainly non-businesses) now pay $0.185kWh. The price that is still paid to these green energy boondongles is still in the $0.30-0.76kWh range.

This is what happened: Electricity rates are so high, that the government had to put into law that winter disconnection wasn't allowed. It does get down to -35C here most winters. Then there's the stories like this: The system is so broken because of green energy that people are making the "roof vs heat" choice. This is what happens when extreme poverty and high electricity prices collide(2016/2017) and the charities which pay for heating ran out of money in December of 2016. Most charities got more money this year, but again most will run out of funding by February. That still leaves, March and April, and possibly May(it can get as cold as -10C even here in Southern Ontario as late as May 24th - which most people consider the actual end of winter, it can also be 27C enjoy Canada yet?).

Ontario is interesting, because the government is very anti-industrial anything. Their entire economic policy was based on driving businesses out of the province and pushing 'service' jobs. So now you have people working 2-3 sometimes 4 PT-jobs to make ends meet, in a family that that's both parents working 3PT jobs and barely making ends meet in most of the province. Now, toss in those 30k illegals from the US? This is where it gets fun, because those people who couldn't even work or afford housing were being thrown out of low-income housing to put illegals up in them. FYI the average wait-time in most of Ontario for low-income housing is between 4 and 8 years.

And I'm sure someone is going to go, hur-dur it's all them conservatives fault. Sorry guys, this is 100% right on the Liberal Party of Ontario which has been in power since the early 00's.

Wind and Solar require that you place them in either exactly right area, or have high-uptime year round. Hell you can look in California and Texas over the last 40 years and find millions of dead solar farms and wind farms. They don't survive here because we already have cheap energy. In most cases they require massive subsidies in order to operate as well. North America is resource rich, very resource rich. It is cheaper to build a dam, and flood thousands of KM of land then it is to build windmills in mountain passes. Use the coal in the ground, build nuclear power plants well anywhere, lots of places to do that even in Western Canada.

Keep this in mind, because I'll now explain what drives people against green energy. In Ontario(again very resource rich), the government believed that handing huge tax breaks and giving massive payouts to get these things off the ground was a great idea. So to be viable, you could see rates where they were paid by the IESO upwards of $1.50kWh, most were in the $0.70-0.90kWh range. It broke the market. The price for electricity before they started paying these companies and microfits money hand over fist was around $0.09kWh at peak, off-peak $0.035-0.068kWh. 10 years later the peak because the entire province(mainly non-businesses) now pay $0.185kWh. The price that is still paid to these green energy boondongles is still in the $0.30-0.76kWh range.

This is what happened: Electricity rates are so high, that the government had to put into law that winter disconnection wasn't allowed. It does get down to -35C here most winters. Then there's the stories like this: The system is so broken because of green energy that people are making the "roof vs heat" choice. This is what happens when extreme poverty and high electricity prices collide(2016/2017) and the charities which pay for heating ran out of money in December of 2016. Most charities got more money this year, but again most will run out of funding by February. That still leaves, March and April, and possibly May(it can get as cold as -10C even here in Southern Ontario as late as May 24th - which most people consider the actual end of winter, it can also be 27C enjoy Canada yet?).

Ontario is interesting, because the government is very anti-industrial anything. Their entire economic policy was based on driving businesses out of the province and pushing 'service' jobs. So now you have people working 2-3 sometimes 4 PT-jobs to make ends meet, in a family that that's both parents working 3PT jobs and barely making ends meet in most of the province. Now, toss in those 30k illegals from the US? This is where it gets fun, because those people who couldn't even work or afford housing were being thrown out of low-income housing to put illegals up in them. FYI the average wait-time in most of Ontario for low-income housing is between 4 and 8 years.

And I'm sure someone is going to go, hur-dur it's all them conservatives fault. Sorry guys, this is 100% right on the Liberal Party of Ontario which has been in power since the early 00's.

Hair Dryer - https://globalnews.ca/news/400...

Talk about zombies!

A girl walked in between subway cars while hypnotized by her cell phone because she thought she was actually walking through the subway car door.

Sadly , she got crushed and died.

View surveillance cam video here:
https://globalnews.ca/news/514...

The sentence is also partially misleading. In Canada the contactless Tap & Go method for purchases under $100 has been growing for years. You just tap your debit or credit card on the handset rather than inserting the chip. Not sure if mastercard owns this tech but I have it in both my mastercard and my bank's debit card. For $100+ you still have to do chip & PIN, but otherwise it's just super fucking fast. Most businesses with third-party card-scanners support them, whereas some larger retailers with their own POS infrastructure don't (e.g. Home Depot).

So the US can enjoy their super slow adoption of the crap pay methods we're already moving beyond.

You can't put technology "back in the box" and drones are here to stay. This type of weaponry has been in a popular viral video. Swarms of small drones can be quite dangerous, though we are maybe 20ish years behind on the on board processing shown in the linked video and it's uncertain how you would design a power source light yet powerful yet stores tons of power to give them enough run time. Unfortunately, drone weapons like these don't suffer from needing overly complex processing nor mission run time and can tide us all over 'till true Armageddon arrives.

It looks as if the AI is concentrating on the area with the most detail, even though it is not really relevant. I've seen similar, ummmm, distractions confuse AI. For example, disguising a stop sign so that a self-driving car is confused.

Where I live sharing accounts isn't illegal. South of here is another story.

No wonder you're unable to admit it though, you're committed to the lie. Ferociously so. It's like your inability to admit that the Iraq War was started by Bush the First, who wanted a reason to make the Middle Eastern Oil States beg for American help.

Says the person who can't even read? Sure glad you can't read at all. Much like the rest of your post, which can't be coherent let alone respond in context.

Ontario did that. Electricity prices are now unaffordable, and the government just finished passing a law that stops the utilities from disconnecting people in the winter. Your entire idea hurts the poor.

This is actually one of the few good points, the poor are hurt most by people leaving the grid. It's precisely this reason that we should be fully subsidizing solar+battery installations for people below the poverty line. Subsidies should be a gradient so that people just above the poverty line aren't hit the hardest.

The massive number of solar installations that would start occurring would be a boon for the unemployed who could then get jobs as installers.

Ontario did that. Electricity prices are now unaffordable, and the government just finished passing a law that stops the utilities from disconnecting people in the winter. Your entire idea hurts the poor.

This is actually one of the few good points, the poor are hurt most by people leaving the grid. It's precisely this reason that we should be fully subsidizing solar+battery installations for people below the poverty line. Subsidies should be a gradient so that people just above the poverty line aren't hit the hardest.

The massive number of solar installations that would start occurring would be a boon for the unemployed who could then get jobs as installers.

Ontario did that. Electricity prices are now unaffordable, and the government just finished passing a law that stops the utilities from disconnecting people in the winter. Your entire idea hurts the poor.

So now I want you to tell me: How many days will you survive while it's -14C outside(in Southern Ontario), and you have no electricity, no other forms of heating.

Ontario did that. Electricity prices are now unaffordable, and the government just finished passing a law that stops the utilities from disconnecting people in the winter. Your entire idea hurts the poor.

So now I want you to tell me: How many days will you survive while it's -14C outside(in Southern Ontario), and you have no electricity, no other forms of heating.

You sound like the scam artists that pushed the same crap back a decade ago here in Ontario. It *did* push the cost of electricity though the roof here. The situation here is now so dire that they've mandated by law that they can't cut off power in the winter, for fear of people freezing to death. This, along with what happened in Ontario is gigantic clusterfuck. Nothing more, nothing less and in both cases one would have led to higher energy prices much higher, and in the other case did lead to much higher energy prices. So much so that the government is backtracking because by june of next year it will likely cease to be an actual political party.

You sound like the scam artists that pushed the same crap back a decade ago here in Ontario. It *did* push the cost of electricity though the roof here. The situation here is now so dire that they've mandated by law that they can't cut off power in the winter, for fear of people freezing to death. This, along with what happened in Ontario is gigantic clusterfuck. Nothing more, nothing less and in both cases one would have led to higher energy prices much higher, and in the other case did lead to much higher energy prices. So much so that the government is backtracking because by june of next year it will likely cease to be an actual political party.

Think of it as another way to subsidize new technology that may improve our future lives. Currently, there's not enough drivers using the free charging stations to create a taxing imbalance. When tax revenue is ultimately an issue for highway maintenance, one thing you can count on your local, state, and federal governors to do is figure out a way to tax electric vehicle usage.

Nope. Because this has already been subsidized, this is people getting a free ride because of environmental feelgoodism. The same way that same policy drove electrical prices through the roof in Ontario from 0.08kWh@peak to 0.185kWh@peak in less then a decade. The money from building those charging stations(between $20m-80m at current estimates) could mean dozens of new MRI machines, massive improvements in healthcare, shorter wait-times for healthcare, cheaper forms of power like more hydroelectric or natural gas, and on and on and on. Or short term more programs for people in dire need to pay for heating in the winter. The tax imbalance is already here. The costs for the consumer are already breaking people. It's so bad here that Ontario had to ban electrical disconnection in the winter this year because so many customers are facing disconnection. AKA they're afraid people are going to freeze to death. It gets damn cold here. -35C(-31F) is common for weeks on end as far south as London, Ontario.

Tax revenue is already an issue in Canada. Very much so in Ontario, where the province "offloaded" roads directly to towns and cities which caused a large bump in property taxes. On top of this, in north america we have no real "national grid" the countries are too large. Rather they're split into specific regional grids.

As it stands now, it takes more energy and more waste to throw up windmills and solar panels, then it does to flood km's of land and build a hydroelectric dam in north america. On top of that, in Ontario ~60% of our electricity is generated by nuclear, around 10% by wind/solar but that 10% is the primary driver of the "consumer cost." Green energy has been a gigantic mess. So much so that it will likely take 2 generations to fix it. Unlike other parts of the world, Ontario has zero reason to dive into expensive technologies like wind and solar. If anything, the policies and actions of the governments in Canada, especially at the provincial level have put people against green energy, electric vehicles and so on.

Think of it as another way to subsidize new technology that may improve our future lives. Currently, there's not enough drivers using the free charging stations to create a taxing imbalance. When tax revenue is ultimately an issue for highway maintenance, one thing you can count on your local, state, and federal governors to do is figure out a way to tax electric vehicle usage.

Nope. Because this has already been subsidized, this is people getting a free ride because of environmental feelgoodism. The same way that same policy drove electrical prices through the roof in Ontario from 0.08kWh@peak to 0.185kWh@peak in less then a decade. The money from building those charging stations(between $20m-80m at current estimates) could mean dozens of new MRI machines, massive improvements in healthcare, shorter wait-times for healthcare, cheaper forms of power like more hydroelectric or natural gas, and on and on and on. Or short term more programs for people in dire need to pay for heating in the winter. The tax imbalance is already here. The costs for the consumer are already breaking people. It's so bad here that Ontario had to ban electrical disconnection in the winter this year because so many customers are facing disconnection. AKA they're afraid people are going to freeze to death. It gets damn cold here. -35C(-31F) is common for weeks on end as far south as London, Ontario.

Tax revenue is already an issue in Canada. Very much so in Ontario, where the province "offloaded" roads directly to towns and cities which caused a large bump in property taxes. On top of this, in north america we have no real "national grid" the countries are too large. Rather they're split into specific regional grids.

As it stands now, it takes more energy and more waste to throw up windmills and solar panels, then it does to flood km's of land and build a hydroelectric dam in north america. On top of that, in Ontario ~60% of our electricity is generated by nuclear, around 10% by wind/solar but that 10% is the primary driver of the "consumer cost." Green energy has been a gigantic mess. So much so that it will likely take 2 generations to fix it. Unlike other parts of the world, Ontario has zero reason to dive into expensive technologies like wind and solar. If anything, the policies and actions of the governments in Canada, especially at the provincial level have put people against green energy, electric vehicles and so on.

A tattoo is not a legal document.

In Canadian law, which has a similar tradition to US law, a tractor fender has been considered a legal document.

If a fender passes, why not a signed tat?

Sadly, my 39-year-old wife. I've asked her, gently pleaded with her, etc., to put down her phone when she's driving and quit playing Pokemon. But it never fails. Any time she's driving, her phone is in her lap with Pokemon running. I've decided any time I'm in the car with her, I'm driving, or if I'm not, I'll point-blank tell her "please put that down so we don't crash." I haven't (yet) physically taken the phone out of her hands but have definitely been tempted to.

I wish phone use while driving was a primary offense in Nebraska, but unfortunately it is not. One of these days she WILL smash up her car. Again. I'm convinced it's only a matter of time.

It is. Distracted driving is so bad, it's actually the #1 cause of death in most places now - previously it was DUIs. MADD would have to change the meaning of one of the D's to properly reflect what the new problem is.

Heck, we have some of the harshest distracted driving laws around - even *touching* or *holding* an electronic device is verboten, event at a traffic light - at best it can be mounted but you cannot be interacting with it. And it's an instant penalty too - the cops can issue the fine immediately on the spot (as the person below was spotted using their tablet...).

https://globalnews.ca/news/385...

The rules are apparently undergoing revision too - after imposing some of the highest fines in the country, a year later they're being made even tougher. Basically get caught twice and your insurance goes up from the demerits alone (there's a demerit surcharge) and possibly even lose your license temporarily.

"The bill adds “gender identity or expression” to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act

But it doesn't contain anything "relating to compelled speech or pronoun usage," does it?

The issue here is that Wilfrid Laurier was " misapplying the law in the very same way that the alt-right and even some mainstream conservatives have been framing the debate, asserting that the addition of gender identity and expression would lead to the criminalization of everyday speech. This is untrue ... "

The problem is not the law. The problem is people like you deliberately misrepresenting it to the point that the misrepresentation is taken to be the law acted upon.

Why? Canada is doing a fine job of undermining the principles of freedom and liberty.
https://globalnews.ca/news/387...
https://globalnews.ca/news/387...

Why? Canada is doing a fine job of undermining the principles of freedom and liberty.
https://globalnews.ca/news/387...
https://globalnews.ca/news/387...

Depends on the legal jurisdiction, but in 1948, a Saskatchewan farmer became trapped under his tractor, and scratched a short will into the bumper of his tractor. This survived court challenges, and that bumper is now on display of the library at the law courts. More info can be found here.

* Transit fares have gone up continuously; e.g. https://globalnews.ca/news/235... And pennies have been withdrawn from circulation in Canada

*A new 1974 Ford Maverick, V8, automatic transmission cost under $4,000 in Canada, and probably around $3,000 US. Try getting a 2018 Ford Focus for under $20,000 today.

* Food prices have kept rising continuously

* Rents and housing getting unaffordable here in Toronto

* Cable bills keep shooting upwards, which is why "cord-cutting" is now a thing

* A new 50 inch plasma TV was $3,500 in 2007 dollars. Today a 50 inch LED TV can be had for $300

* A basic IBM PC with 640 KILObytes of ram, 10 MEGAbyte disk drive, and 320x200 siaplay CRT came in at around $5,000 in 1983 dollars. Today's $1,000 machines walk all over it.

Problem... you can't live in a PC or TV; you can't eat a PC or TV; you can't ride to work in a PC or TV. The upper or upper-middle class are better off today (what's left of the middle class, but that's another story).

Meanwhile. a lot of ordinary people, especially those in minimum wage jobs, have extreme difficulty paying for basic necessities. Is there an inflation index for necessities, i.e. food/shelter/clothing and transportation? And by transportation, I mean local stuff. A flight to Hawaii might cost less today, but the average person is more worried about commuting to work, and getting around town.

That is essentially what is going on in Toronto where a house recently sold for more than a milliion over asking.

People all over the world are moving to where the jobs are and some of those places, for geological or political reasons, are restricted on how they can expand to meet the demand.

For businesses this really makes hiring new workers difficult -- they can't find anywhere to live if they are moving to the area.

This is also what probably protected Canada from this breach. According to my Canadian bank, Equifax Canada was not affected by this breach

Well, it doesn't appear that your bank knows if you are affected or not. According to this article, "Credit reporting giant Equifax has yet to reveal how many Canadians had their personal information hacked over the spring and summer when the company’s database was breached." and "The breach exposed the information of an 'unknown' number of people living in Canada and the United Kingdom." It sounds to me like Canadians are affected, they just haven't said how many yet.