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I wonder if the new system will still have the "Turn Off Transponder" switch. Everyone likes options.

If this was about busting people for texting and driving, a cop could stand by the side of the road while his partner is two blocks up in the cruiser and they'd probably get somebody every five minutes.

They routinely do stings like that here. Cops riding buses looking down on drivers and radioing to the marked cars ahead is one method. Cops dressed as homeless people begging on the boulevard is another. We call them HoboCops, and they catch a lot of people.

https://nationalpost.com/news/...

there is a cognitive disconnect between the autopilot and the 'backup driver' that is supposed to suddenly become situationally aware in a split second

Bull fucking shit. It's about as disconnected as using cruise control and asking people to keep tabs on how fast or slow traffic is going. Just keep your goddamn eyes on the fucking road, it's not brain surgery.

Nice try but we know that if operators are relieved of too much work, their attention will start to drift. And there are other examples of catastrophic consequences of automation.

These "automation surprises" where nobody knows who's in control are like the old quote, "A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."

Ah, the old "He's not a moron, he's just doing a really good job of pretending to be one for strategic reasons" argument. Well if he's pretending, he's really doing an amazing job:

https://www.apnews.com/a3309c4...

Although I don't see any positive results from doing so. He may have come close to bringing NK to the table but instead he snatched defeat from the jaws of victory:

https://nationalpost.com/opini...

If you think that North Korea has changed course at all since Trump took power, then they've pulled the wool over your eyes just like Trump's:

https://www.theatlantic.com/in...

Also while pulling out of Syria was not a bad idea, the way he chose to announce it, as a surprise to everyone except himself, was idiotic:

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

I call BS on your post and your attitude. You're demonstrating exactly why people refuse to associate with Democrats even if it means siding with Trump.

No reasonably intelligent reason eh? This is because you refuse to look and/or understand. Try reading an intelligent author for a change and not WaPo or CNN clickbait: America's resurgence is reshaping the world.. As a Canadian, I've seen our competitiveness erode massively since Trump and Trudeau came into office around the same time. Foreign investment has plunged, mostly due to Trump's support of business and ease of regulation, and Trudeau doing the opposite. The result isn't going to be a destroyed environment (you won't notice the difference from old policy in either country), it's simply going to be a more wealthy America. He's (rightfully) using his leverage to unilaterally renegotiate agreements, and if my leader had that power, I'd damn well expect him to use it. And for all those foaming mouth Americans who fawn over having a TRUE dumbass like Trudeau running the ship, you'll be interested to know his approval rating is far below Trump's.

Well you can drink while curling, however it seems to be frowned upon: Too drunk to curl

That's a crock of shit. Doctors are so afraid of prescribing opiates, that the pain clinic I goto is now shutting down. The wait for a new pain clinic another 85km away(the one I went to was 30km away), the waiting list for the 1st appointment is now 17 months. That left me in one hell of a spot, because my neurologist handed my pain treatment off to them while she continued to monitor my spine damage(broke my back in two spots about a decade back now). Let me make it clear, testicular torsion rated at a 7 out of 10 on the pain scale in my book when I was a teen. That's when my nut swelled up to the size of an apple. The two shattered vertebra that sliced into my spine, is a 9 or 10 out of 10 nearly all the time. The damage is bad enough I have a baclofen pump to reduce the muscle spasms, cramps, and loss of motor control. Luckily my neurologist had no problems picking up the prescriptions I was on, or replacing the ampules every 2-3 months.

I'm not alone in this. It's absolutely rife in Canada and the US over junkies causing those of us with long-term pain control use problems. The whole "opioid epidemic" is hurting those of us the most, who need pain management. The ONLY way I function is by having something that will suppress the pain enough that I can work(even then I take a long term pill, and a short-term pill for breakthrough pain), and I'd rather work then not even being able to get out of bed, being on welfare/disability and other forms of social assistance. Read this article. Chronic pain patients are the ones being most fucked over by all the hand wringing of habitual drug abusers popping themselves off with illicit drugs, laced with heavier drugs.

The people I know who have serious chronic pain? The ones that are using opiates so they can just function day-to-day? There's an awful lot of "well if they cut me off, what's the easiest way to commit suicide" going around. Those are people who suffer from chronic migraines(I have those too), to the people who've had serious spine injuries, or other issues related to diseases or complications like diabetics that have severe nerve damage to their feet/hands due to poor blood circulation. Again, read that article. The people who are saying "you don't need those drugs" are the ones who don't know what constant, unbearable pain is like. They simply think "you'll get over it."

Data sources vary depending on the methodology. I grabbed mine from

I grabbed mine from stats canada.

Way off means 1% oh no.

The foreign aliens working their asses off in poultry processing factories in Arkansas? Or picking lettuce in California? Running small gardening/handyman/home fix-up services out of pick-up truck at Lowe's? Slaving away in restaurants and hotels and not getting paid fair wages because their employers threaten them?

You mean the people who are paid under-wage, and in turn because of that depresses the actual wage so people won't want to work those jobs? I mean how does the poor and let's be realistic, they are poor americans who'd do those jobs, how do they compete against someone when a company can import the labor for 1/2 the going rate. Or illegally pay under the table 1/4 the wage. They can't.

Even at that, those service jobs in restaurants and hotels were never meant to be a long-term job, but a stepping stone to a better one. Problem of course is when someone can be imported, then the people who are poor get a depressed wage and find it even harder to climb up.

Time to grow up, stop the new version of slavery and that's what it is. TFWs, H2B's, and all the flavors it's all wage depression. Hell I can remember the crash in wages being paid in the 1980's because I was a kid working ON a farm, picking rocks, strawberries, tobacco, blueberries, lettuce and so on. Where it went from hourly, to half-hourly plus weight, then by bushel(weight) only. And guess what happened? People stopped working on those farms when they were only being paid by weight. Them guess what happened? "OH WOE IS US..." we can't find ANY workers, we need to import them says the large corporate farms, this created a race to the bottom for the lowest wages as small farms followed suit, or simply went under because of the undercutting.

Oh and if you don't think those illegals aren't abusing your welfare services? Well dear boy, look north to Canada where those illegals with a mere "36,000" of them broke the welfare systems of Ontario and Quebec in a matter of months. Just a FYI of course, those are the people who were supposed be deported back to their home countries by your government a decade and change ago and the powers that be said "well...it's okay that there here."

But hey, those poor folks up here? They're the ones that have been on a waiting list for 4-8 years for low income housing and now being kicked out and directly onto the street for the illegals that YOU FUCKS didn't deport.

Yes, I couldn't read their site. Here is another article (or, for all I know, the same one).

Important points from that article: That the ship was carrying so much gold is debated. Allegedly there are some oddities about the company that says it found the ship.

Another article. This one says they intend to raise the ship, which seems decidedly odd, compared to just trying to raise the gold. I'm wondering if there was a translation error.

Is this true, or something you heard or made up? Citation, please.

Just the fact and remember it was the Ontario Liberals who wanted to ban natural gas for heating and force everyone onto electricity.

The dumbest thing about it is that the EU cheered on Erdogan's attempt to curtail the power of the military because of 'freedom and democracy'.

http://www.washingtoninstitute...

On August 8, 2003, the seventh European Union (EU) reform package went into effect in Turkey, significantly curbing the role of the military in politics. This legislation, passed by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government on August 4, follows six previous packages adopted since February 2002. Collectively, these reform measures have vastly liberalized the country's political system, facilitating Kurdish broadcasting and education, abolishing the death penalty, and subjecting Turkish courts to the European Court of Human Rights. Turkey now has laws guaranteeing freedom of speech, and the military is no longer the kingmaker in Ankara. As a result, AKP -- a self-styled "conservative democratic" party with an identifiable "Islamist pedigree" -- anticipates that Turkey will pass muster when Brussels reviews its candidacy for EU membership in June 2004. Ankara hopes that the EU will establish an accession calendar, opening the way for Turkey's eventual entry into the union, perhaps within the next decade. These developments are crucial to Turkey's future. Which path will the country take now that the military is stripped of its role as a decision making body? Will the EU open its doors to Turkey?

Of course the EU turned down Turkey's membership.

Then the coup happened and the EU condemned it

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Erdogan used the excuse of the coup for a full on crackdown of critics of his regime, and even convinced EU countries to arrest EU citizens

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ger...

And then threatened to unleash a wave of refugees on the EU unless Turks get free movement

http://nationalpost.com/news/w...

And big pile of cash.

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

The basic problem is that the EU and the West push freedom and democracy and do things like push Turkey to curb the power of the military. But the government curbing the military in Turkey won't lead to a democratic government in charge because Turkey is fundamentally different from EU countries. Traditionally the main counter balance to Islamism has been the military having a coup every few years.

The EU have removed what was essentially an authoritarian check on the political aspirations of the Islamists and not replaced it with a more democratically correct one.

And of course the EU screwed Turkey - it forced a bunch of reforms on Turkey as part of the price of EU membership. Turkey made the reforms and then the EU welched on the membership. And Turkey knows the EU is dependent on it to stop another wave of refugees

Oh by the way, I'm sure you also believe the story out of Canada where the muslim girl claimed someone "cut her hijab" and were salivating all over it as proof that those "evil right wingers" were out there. I'll also bet you didn't watch the press conference, let me give you a hint. Pay attention to her mothers eyes, always down and left, look, down and left. That's a known sign of remembering a fabrication. Oh, and of course, we can't forget that it didn't actually happen...but it sure didn't stop the left-wing media from really-really-really hoping it did. Then going on and on, about how it really doesn't matter that it didn't happen. Our moral progressive overlords are telling us that we're still bad people because of that fake hate-crime. Or our clusterfuck of a PM from really-really-really being stupid. Just like our Premier in Ontario, Kathlynn Wynne being shown just how progressive and modern Islam is, and how very accommodating of women it is. While she's made to sit in the back of the room, and also not allowed into the mosque proper.

So brave, so progressive. Just remember, menstruating girls go behind the rest of the girls because they're doubly unclean.

A 25% increase in pay would bankrupt the restaurant. Food prices are *set* by the corporate office, not the franchisee. This is the reason why here in Ontario when the min. wage jumped to $14/hr businesses started laying off employees and cutting back on previously "good will gestures" such as bonus pay. The restaurant industry is cut-throat and operates on a profitability margin of 3-6%. That's far more then even a small gas bar, which has a profitability margin of 1-3%, they don't make their money from selling gas(which is also sold at a preset price, most stations make 0.02%-0.038% profit on fuel). They make their money on drinks/food/snacks/etc.

Why didn't all of the affected businesses raise prices?

If gas stations (even those immediately next to one another) are able to raise prices anytime their costs go up, any other business should be able to do so also.

A 25% increase in pay would bankrupt the restaurant. Food prices are *set* by the corporate office, not the franchisee. This is the reason why here in Ontario when the min. wage jumped to $14/hr businesses started laying off employees and cutting back on previously "good will gestures" such as bonus pay. The restaurant industry is cut-throat and operates on a profitability margin of 3-6%. That's far more then even a small gas bar, which has a profitability margin of 1-3%, they don't make their money from selling gas(which is also sold at a preset price, most stations make 0.02%-0.038% profit on fuel). They make their money on drinks/food/snacks/etc.

Why the fuck did this get (+1)? Is "jew hating" the new blood libel?

Ask academia. There's plenty of jew hating and antisemitism coming from left-wing groups on university campuses. I mean this is from a university in my own province and it's coming directly out of the leftwing halls in those universities. And it's sure not limited to Canada, but EU universities and US universities. So much so that the difference between a far-right extremist and a far-left extremist simply boils down to who's got more power at the moment and how they can wield it. Right now? That's the left, and in many countries they've had institutional power in universities for over a generation.

>but using pejoratives like "SJW"

Historically the term was not pejorative. BUT then the people discovered the ones calling themselves SJW: mostly people shooting insults, very aggressive whatever the reason - or no reason at all -- and leading public inquisitions. What a surprise the term is used now to describe irrational dogmatic aggressive behavior pretending having a moral high ground. 100% with me or you are against me.

Some recent examples:
- Laurier University Inquisition
- Bret Weinstein

I find the term SJW quite gentle to characterize this kind of behavior: url url

What happened to: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."?

Stepford students. Children being taught that they need to have a safe space and be protected. Institutions of higher learning pushing only one view point, instead of challenging multiple viewpoints. Professors pushing and punishing students for having the "wrong view point" and so on as to not offend people. The big push for political correctness and not hurting feelings, microagressions and all the other associated bullshit. That disagreement is harassment. That facts are racist. Take your pick.

Remember 2 years back with that professor who told students to grow up over Halloween costumes? Then was yelled at on the quad by an insane student who screeched that "university wasn't about an intellectual space, but about 'building a home.'" Or the professor that screeched "she needs some muscle over here" to get rid of that nosy student reporter and on and on and on and on... Yeah. There's an entire generation out there who've been taught this. There's that same generation that will go out of their way to hound, harass, you and your family if you dare to step out of line. They're today's young budding fascists who believe that the state should determine what's right, and they'll use the power of the state or their group to make sure it happens.

Someone wants to post content on the internet. Someone else doesn't want to host said content because they find it repugnant. There is no solution that doesn't involve disappointing someone.

That's where you're wrong. There doesn't require a balance, rather all that's required is the host to be "treated as a dumb pipe." See how easy that is?

There are people who are quite happy to host that content, until someone with an axe to grind decides that they're going to dox, harass, and threaten that person and their family for allowing them to host it. Just remember that there are plenty of groups out there that are more then happy to try and shut you up for having the wrong view point, plenty more that are willing to lie to try and ruin you. The fact that currently this is the standard go-to tactic of the progressive left, feminists, and so on should be telling you just how much of a chilling effect their actions are having on society. Of course those same people are now getting a taste of the same rules and actions they pushed in the first place, and are being silenced. So suddenly it's a very "real problem" for them.

And before you try the "but the left/feminism/etc really isn't doing that..." yeah you can stop with the bullshit, because they are. Whether it's feminists pulling fire alarms at a MRA meeting, doxing people to get funds pulled from a male domestic abuse shelter, what's happening in the dark and dirty underside of "feminist" culture in tech(like with google, ada initiative, and so on), or what happened at Wilfred Laurier, the left has a very big pro-censorship problem. And a very big problem with identity politics if someone dares to walk off their plantation.

There is no simple, consistent solution. It depends on the nature of the content, and the context in which it exists (the Daily Stormer stuff was immediately after a literal Nazi used his car to murder and injure people in broad daylight, apparently convinced that the war had started).

Well the guy wasn't a literal nazi, he was an ethno-natioanlist which isn't the same thing(remember it's okay to be white). Reminder that the case still hasn't gone to court either. And that whole "free speech" thing still applies to them, unless it falls directly into "fighting words" aka actionable threat. Which wasn't the case. But if you want to roll that way, it would mean that you're a literal fascist, with your statist goose-stepping to stifle speech you don't like.

Someone wants to post content on the internet. Someone else doesn't want to host said content because they find it repugnant. There is no solution that doesn't involve disappointing someone.

That's where you're wrong. There doesn't require a balance, rather all that's required is the host to be "treated as a dumb pipe." See how easy that is?

There are people who are quite happy to host that content, until someone with an axe to grind decides that they're going to dox, harass, and threaten that person and their family for allowing them to host it. Just remember that there are plenty of groups out there that are more then happy to try and shut you up for having the wrong view point, plenty more that are willing to lie to try and ruin you. The fact that currently this is the standard go-to tactic of the progressive left, feminists, and so on should be telling you just how much of a chilling effect their actions are having on society. Of course those same people are now getting a taste of the same rules and actions they pushed in the first place, and are being silenced. So suddenly it's a very "real problem" for them.

And before you try the "but the left/feminism/etc really isn't doing that..." yeah you can stop with the bullshit, because they are. Whether it's feminists pulling fire alarms at a MRA meeting, doxing people to get funds pulled from a male domestic abuse shelter, what's happening in the dark and dirty underside of "feminist" culture in tech(like with google, ada initiative, and so on), or what happened at Wilfred Laurier, the left has a very big pro-censorship problem. And a very big problem with identity politics if someone dares to walk off their plantation.

There is no simple, consistent solution. It depends on the nature of the content, and the context in which it exists (the Daily Stormer stuff was immediately after a literal Nazi used his car to murder and injure people in broad daylight, apparently convinced that the war had started).

Well the guy wasn't a literal nazi, he was an ethno-natioanlist which isn't the same thing(remember it's okay to be white). Reminder that the case still hasn't gone to court either. And that whole "free speech" thing still applies to them, unless it falls directly into "fighting words" aka actionable threat. Which wasn't the case. But if you want to roll that way, it would mean that you're a literal fascist, with your statist goose-stepping to stifle speech you don't like.

Yes, and the push towards it is coming from the Left wing and Academia. Trump is a push back against it.

You have to explain this to progressives. Trump was elected for two things: Gutting the piss out of the republican party(aka neocons and RINO's out), by people on the left, center and right. And pushing back against the bullshit they've been pushing for 35 years, which has grown far worse in the last 20 years. Democrats on the other hand just voted in a new leader who's pushing more of the same(Obama/Clinton) identity politics rationals. I'll also remind democrats/progressives that during the lead-up for the race, you had open racists proclaiming that their job was to "shut white people down" as part of their reasoning to be elected for leadership.

And if you are a progressive and think that you guys aren't causing problems in society or academia? You only need to look to Canada, where a TA was put through circus because she dared to show neutrality and both sides of an argument in class. That's the bullshit academia is pushing and it's that same post-modernist garbage that's used to label someone a "nazi" or "literally hitler" for wrong-think. You can listen to the entire circus here if you want. It's very much worth the listen to.

Yes, and the push towards it is coming from the Left wing and Academia. Trump is a push back against it.

You have to explain this to progressives. Trump was elected for two things: Gutting the piss out of the republican party(aka neocons and RINO's out), by people on the left, center and right. And pushing back against the bullshit they've been pushing for 35 years, which has grown far worse in the last 20 years. Democrats on the other hand just voted in a new leader who's pushing more of the same(Obama/Clinton) identity politics rationals. I'll also remind democrats/progressives that during the lead-up for the race, you had open racists proclaiming that their job was to "shut white people down" as part of their reasoning to be elected for leadership.

And if you are a progressive and think that you guys aren't causing problems in society or academia? You only need to look to Canada, where a TA was put through circus because she dared to show neutrality and both sides of an argument in class. That's the bullshit academia is pushing and it's that same post-modernist garbage that's used to label someone a "nazi" or "literally hitler" for wrong-think. You can listen to the entire circus here if you want. It's very much worth the listen to.

Given that Canada doesn't track racial statistics as they relate to crime very well (or at all in many cases), I'm going to have to see a citation for that.

Canada does, it's just suppressed by organizations because of political correctness. That's why we have things like the Gladue report, if you want the reports for Toronto you have to call them up and ask for the non-annualized statistics. Or you can simply pay attention to the media, which paint a picture of what's happening too.

It seems that intensity does matter, even in the elderly.

http://nationalpost.com/health/short-intense-bursts-of-exercise-may-benefit-seniors-health-fend-off-loss-of-muscle

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060920192536.htm

But of course, if starting out, then the intensity should be increased slowly so as to avoid injury.

That's nothing. This Indian man survived 70 years without food, water or going to the bathroom.

http://nationalpost.com/g00/ne...

I was talking about a friendly contest where police isn't involved.

If the prime minister of Canada can do it, why couldn't we?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

http://nationalpost.com/news/c...

You can thank the absolute bullshit like common core for screwing things up as well. The ye olde by rote system we learned oddly ~30 years ago worked just fine, then they decided to start fucking around with it. And...scores dropped, then they screwed around more, and more. Welcome to the present. The US isn't the only case either, this is what's happening in Canada as well. Though we're only ~15 years behind the US in following this.

It actually get's a bit worse up here because they've also pushed the entire curriculum to be "female friendly" and those changes over the last 12 years have dropped male scores between 1.40pts and 3.80pts(ratings are on a 10pts scale the provincial average is 6.1/10 - some districts have seen male students as low as 2.20pts while female in the same school are 7.18pts) depending on the school district. You can read about the absolute shitshow going on here if you want. And it is a shitshow, one so bad that a province once known for having some of the top students in north america for math have lost it in a decade.

Sure. You go ahead and read the story on it, you'll have to read the full case for all the details. You can go find it over on canlii.org now you go have fun with that. You should also go read back through Barbra Kay's columns because she covers these type of stuff often.

Oops. Guess that thing called reality just comes crashing down for you again. You can also dig back through Barbara Kay's column pieces on fake claims and find them too. You likely don't know who she is either.

You are right that the burden to prove guilty is too great. One woman did contest it in court. While she was initially successful, the ruling was rescinded by a higher court.

I find myself needing to look at the screen while texting (of course, not behind the wheel). There is bound to be many other people like me who do need to look at the screen, but not realize they are not capable of texting and driving at the same time. Sprinkle in a little entitlement and that is a very potent mixture of accidents waiting to happen. So while some people think it is a "socialist nanny-state", it is a small price to pay.

Please list any democratic country where it's illegal to pay a ransom. Paying a ransom is not equated with supporting a illegal organisation or as fencing in any jurisdiction that I'm aware of. Any attempt to make such payments would only yield one end result; the victims would be extremely less motivated to involve the police.

Here's one; Canada.

http://nationalpost.com/news/c...

Either you're a liar or an idiot. I'm not sure which, but there's a reason why The FIRE exists and there have been multiple court cases on this across the US. Here's an example from my own back yard. And the "micro aggression" crowd going after people for "cultural appropriation" and yoga mats. Now we can get into the UK the US, and some more of the US. And one can really keep going. FYI west coast universities, and universities in Southern Ontario are the worst in North America right now for this garbage.

Bonus article, about students in favor of banning free speech in the UK to protect feelings.

This isn't really a big thing. Legalized marijuana isn't likely going to happen, and that's the realm of federal government. And the Trudeau government keeps pushing it back, then changing their mind, then walking away from it and so on. Likely nothing will happen despite I believe the 4th or 5th time in the last year and half they've promised something on it.

The UBI test program is the realm of the province of Ontario, and is only being tested in one area. That one area is in the asshole of nowhere, that already gets a "northern living allowance($1k/mo)" on top of the UBI(in Canada, living in the "far north" you get suplemented income because it costs $8/gal of milk, $5/loaf of the $1.29 bread in the south, $25 for a 12 pack of pop and so on). The area also has high unemployment, though not as high as some other parts of southern ontario that haven't recovered from this current government driving businesses out of the province. Especially with the belief that "Ontario doesn't need industry" "extremely high energy prices are a-okay." Because right now, people are already making the "roof over head, food, or electricity" choice and the costs haven't even really hit. And now it's a case of how the fuck are we gonna pay for this. Unless the provincial liberals scrap all the other programs, UBI won't survive. Meaning, unemployment, workmans comp-basic coverage, welfare and so on will all have to go away.

Keep in mind that this is also likely an attempt to bolster their voting power, because they're in such poor shape that if an election was held today in Ontario, the Liberal Party would lose official party status and the Progressive Conservative Party(PC's) with any leader--anyone at all would gain super-majority status. People like to pretend that "green energy" is the salve that will fix all ills, and make cheap, limitless energy and so on. In Ontario? That's not the case. Energy is expensive, people who are middle class are struggling to make ends meet. The poor who were hard pressed before that? They're not making ends meet. The waiting list for subsidized housing is between 4-6 years in most of Ontario. Food banks run dry all the time now, charities that help the poor for fuel/electricity/NG(for heating), run out of funds before 1/3 of the winter season is over.

If Trudeau's carbon plan goes through? I won't be surprised if you see riots over energy costs start up here, people can't afford it.

Deere is trying to make themselves into a "one-stop" company where you're forced to get everything from them. Auto companies tried the same thing in the late 90's and laws were enacted over it because JP, SK, EU and NA automakers all tried to do it. They're trying again with the new versions of OBD's, luckily they're mainly running up against the law and can't. No such real coverage for farmers, but there is good competition. There was a lot of yelling over this last year at the Canada's Outdoor Farm Show(held in Woodstock, Ontario as part of the University of Guelph's research farm), but it's not until something happens that it makes the news. Lot of people don't understand how this stuff would impact their lives either.

That's not even touching on the giant fuckups that have happened in the farming industry in the last year in this province. Like when millions of dollars of tomato's rotted on the vine because the processor decided to fuck up, or when the wheat board was still in power and rye and wheat were rotting out in the fields because there was no storage. Why? Because the wheat board decided to rent off the storage to other companies who then sub-leased to other companies. So when harvest came, storage was full and surprise!

Don't say this won't happen! In Nova Scotia, there was outrage when a teenage girl, Rehtaeh Parsons, took her own life because of intimate photos that were shared on the Internet without her permission. These poor girls needed to be protected from the Evil Intarwebs! So the politicians reacted and came up with a Anti-Cyberbullying law ("Cyber-Safety Act").

Guess what poor little teenager's case was the first tried in court...

...are you still there? Right. It wasn't a teenage girl but some native band leader (counts as a politician) that complained someone had posted "abusive, obscene and defamatory comments about her and her family" on facebook.

Later on, it was decided the law was -in US terms- "unconstitutional" and was struck down. So yeah, expect specialized firms working on behalf of politicians, executives, celebrities, and the like to scour the internet for anything unflattering and using bills like these to get them removed and, more importantly and frightingly, erased from history.

none of your citations show clear, institutionalized incentives to harvest prior to death, and the Caulk website is completely biased, site of a grieving mom. no indication that this "anesthetics" discussion occurred. i call fake.

Oh You are fake news, everything is fake news, the fake is a fake.

Now it you wish to sit at the big boy table, instead of contributing to the smelly shithole you and your ilk are trying to fester, allow me to give you a little more.

http://news.nationalpost.com/n...

http://www.organfacts.net/news... https://www.lifesitenews.com/n...

Now you silly fake news child

Prove

Me

Wrong.

All those folks in California so scared about the earth getting warmer (they seem overly scared about everything these days), don't realize just how cold our planet is. Where I live, it's been below freezing for months and largely will be until next May.

In fact, last week, it was colder here than on Mars and parts of an asteroid belt.

We have a long, long way to go to being a warm planet.

AKA you're not paying +42% of wages directly into taxes. Then pay another 13% on top of that with "sales tax" and that's also not counting property taxes. Once all totaled up we're pushing 60-70%

47.9 cents/kWh? That's insane

It's 0.50-1.50kWh here in Ontario. This is what Feed in Tariff programs do, drive the price of electricity through the roof. It is now so bad in Ontario, that people are going broke trying to pay for electricity bills. The federal Liberals, are now looking at this *exact* policy. If it passes, you can be assured that you'll likely see mass protests and riots in the streets here in Canada. People can't afford 0.18/kWH(which is the peak price in Ontario) already. Top this off with the provincial Liberals in Ontario, the federal Liberals in Ottawa and the NDP in Alberta wanting to push a carbon tax? Not a chance that there won't be huge problems, especially when the most conservative estimate is that it will raise the cost of goods across all sectors by 20%

You want to know what the kicker is? In Ontario "green energy" accounts for under 1% of total generation and over 55% of the total price sold to consumers.

Ditto for Australia:

Electricity prices across most of the country are tipped to jump - hurting the poor and costing blue-collar workers their jobs.

And the worst of it? These policies will actually make no known difference to any warming, which is probably good for us anyway. It's all for nothing:

        Electricity prices across most of the country are set to surge during the next two years, largely driven by the closures of coal-fired power stations in South Australia and Victoria and ongoing investment in wind generation, a national energy market regulator says.

        The Australian Energy Market Commission’s annual report into residential electricity price trends shows average price increases for each of the next two years of between 2.4 and 9.3 per cent are expected in all states and territories except Tasmania and Queensland, where the average cost is forecast to dip annually by 0.6 per cent and 1.5 per cent respectively.

        This comes as businesses face higher costs in South Australia, already hit by two major blackouts in little more than two months. Australian Stock Exchange data shows ... that for companies to purchase a megawatt of electricity for March, it would cost South Australian buyers $145, those in Victoria $54.70, Queensland $98.25 and NSW $61.50. The national electricity market average is $89.86.

47.9 cents/kWh? That's insane

It's 0.50-1.50kWh here in Ontario. This is what Feed in Tariff programs do, drive the price of electricity through the roof. It is now so bad in Ontario, that people are going broke trying to pay for electricity bills. The federal Liberals, are now looking at this *exact* policy. If it passes, you can be assured that you'll likely see mass protests and riots in the streets here in Canada. People can't afford 0.18/kWH(which is the peak price in Ontario) already. Top this off with the provincial Liberals in Ontario, the federal Liberals in Ottawa and the NDP in Alberta wanting to push a carbon tax? Not a chance that there won't be huge problems, especially when the most conservative estimate is that it will raise the cost of goods across all sectors by 20%

You want to know what the kicker is? In Ontario "green energy" accounts for under 1% of total generation and over 55% of the total price sold to consumers.

Ditto for Australia:

Electricity prices across most of the country are tipped to jump - hurting the poor and costing blue-collar workers their jobs.

And the worst of it? These policies will actually make no known difference to any warming, which is probably good for us anyway. It's all for nothing:

        Electricity prices across most of the country are set to surge during the next two years, largely driven by the closures of coal-fired power stations in South Australia and Victoria and ongoing investment in wind generation, a national energy market regulator says.

        The Australian Energy Market Commission’s annual report into residential electricity price trends shows average price increases for each of the next two years of between 2.4 and 9.3 per cent are expected in all states and territories except Tasmania and Queensland, where the average cost is forecast to dip annually by 0.6 per cent and 1.5 per cent respectively.

        This comes as businesses face higher costs in South Australia, already hit by two major blackouts in little more than two months. Australian Stock Exchange data shows ... that for companies to purchase a megawatt of electricity for March, it would cost South Australian buyers $145, those in Victoria $54.70, Queensland $98.25 and NSW $61.50. The national electricity market average is $89.86.

47.9 cents/kWh? That's insane

It's 0.50-1.50kWh here in Ontario. This is what Feed in Tariff programs do, drive the price of electricity through the roof. It is now so bad in Ontario, that people are going broke trying to pay for electricity bills. The federal Liberals, are now looking at this *exact* policy. If it passes, you can be assured that you'll likely see mass protests and riots in the streets here in Canada. People can't afford 0.18/kWH(which is the peak price in Ontario) already. Top this off with the provincial Liberals in Ontario, the federal Liberals in Ottawa and the NDP in Alberta wanting to push a carbon tax? Not a chance that there won't be huge problems, especially when the most conservative estimate is that it will raise the cost of goods across all sectors by 20%

You want to know what the kicker is? In Ontario "green energy" accounts for under 1% of total generation and over 55% of the total price sold to consumers.

Ditto for Australia:

Electricity prices across most of the country are tipped to jump - hurting the poor and costing blue-collar workers their jobs.

And the worst of it? These policies will actually make no known difference to any warming, which is probably good for us anyway. It's all for nothing:

        Electricity prices across most of the country are set to surge during the next two years, largely driven by the closures of coal-fired power stations in South Australia and Victoria and ongoing investment in wind generation, a national energy market regulator says.

        The Australian Energy Market Commission’s annual report into residential electricity price trends shows average price increases for each of the next two years of between 2.4 and 9.3 per cent are expected in all states and territories except Tasmania and Queensland, where the average cost is forecast to dip annually by 0.6 per cent and 1.5 per cent respectively.

        This comes as businesses face higher costs in South Australia, already hit by two major blackouts in little more than two months. Australian Stock Exchange data shows ... that for companies to purchase a megawatt of electricity for March, it would cost South Australian buyers $145, those in Victoria $54.70, Queensland $98.25 and NSW $61.50. The national electricity market average is $89.86.

47.9 cents/kWh? That's insane

It's 0.50-1.50kWh here in Ontario. This is what Feed in Tariff programs do, drive the price of electricity through the roof. It is now so bad in Ontario, that people are going broke trying to pay for electricity bills. The federal Liberals, are now looking at this *exact* policy. If it passes, you can be assured that you'll likely see mass protests and riots in the streets here in Canada. People can't afford 0.18/kWH(which is the peak price in Ontario) already. Top this off with the provincial Liberals in Ontario, the federal Liberals in Ottawa and the NDP in Alberta wanting to push a carbon tax? Not a chance that there won't be huge problems, especially when the most conservative estimate is that it will raise the cost of goods across all sectors by 20%

You want to know what the kicker is? In Ontario "green energy" accounts for under 1% of total generation and over 55% of the total price sold to consumers.

47.9 cents/kWh? That's insane

It's 0.50-1.50kWh here in Ontario. This is what Feed in Tariff programs do, drive the price of electricity through the roof. It is now so bad in Ontario, that people are going broke trying to pay for electricity bills. The federal Liberals, are now looking at this *exact* policy. If it passes, you can be assured that you'll likely see mass protests and riots in the streets here in Canada. People can't afford 0.18/kWH(which is the peak price in Ontario) already. Top this off with the provincial Liberals in Ontario, the federal Liberals in Ottawa and the NDP in Alberta wanting to push a carbon tax? Not a chance that there won't be huge problems, especially when the most conservative estimate is that it will raise the cost of goods across all sectors by 20%

You want to know what the kicker is? In Ontario "green energy" accounts for under 1% of total generation and over 55% of the total price sold to consumers.

47.9 cents/kWh? That's insane

It's 0.50-1.50kWh here in Ontario. This is what Feed in Tariff programs do, drive the price of electricity through the roof. It is now so bad in Ontario, that people are going broke trying to pay for electricity bills. The federal Liberals, are now looking at this *exact* policy. If it passes, you can be assured that you'll likely see mass protests and riots in the streets here in Canada. People can't afford 0.18/kWH(which is the peak price in Ontario) already. Top this off with the provincial Liberals in Ontario, the federal Liberals in Ottawa and the NDP in Alberta wanting to push a carbon tax? Not a chance that there won't be huge problems, especially when the most conservative estimate is that it will raise the cost of goods across all sectors by 20%

You want to know what the kicker is? In Ontario "green energy" accounts for under 1% of total generation and over 55% of the total price sold to consumers.

In her first appearance as the House leader, Chagger seemed excited, repeating her commitments to open government and transparency but offering few answers on what she would specifically bring to the role.

And let's not forget that all the junior positions went to women. Tokenism is the exact opposite of equality.

Sure. And it also was one of the contributing factors to drive the price of electricity from $0.07kWh at peak to the current price of $0.18kWh at peak in less than a decade. Though the main culprit behind that is the "green energy" program here, which as paid at rates as high as $0.92kWh for generation. How it's effectively fucked us. How it's putting farmers out of business. How the government knew it was a bad idea from the start. And it's shit like this that causes populist revolts. It is now so bad here in Ontario, that 700k hydro customers are 4 months or more in arrears. And 70k people have had their electricity cut because of non-payment. The largest hydro company in Ontario is Hydro One with 1.3m customers to give you some scope of how these policies are completely fucking things up. And if you American's don't pay attention to this, you're going to see the same thing. If you want to see it in action? Look at Alberta. Yep they use coal. They use coal because the population is so spread out that transmission lines don't exist. Now, they're having to build new transmission lines as well.

Short sighted, shitty policies and all it does is hurt everyone. Top that out with the proposed "carbon taxes" Canada will likely hit a recession within 3mo of them being implemented, and if we don't hit a depression when the cost of goods jumps at a minimum of 20% which is the conservative estimate from some of the most liberal think tanks in the country. I'll be surprised.

Yes, Saskatchewan has the last pseudo-skeptic Premier in the country. Of course, the pseudo-skeptics like Postmedia (the Canadian oil industry's advertising branch masquerading as a newspaper chain) is cheering for Trump to kill the US's involvement in the Paris agreement, and naturally insisting "Well, there's no point to Canada fighting climate change, because the US won't".

Meanwhile, the very same newspaper chain is reporting that the Arctic is 20 degrees warmer than normal for this time of year.

I keep thinking that some point really soon the mounting evidence of serious climate shifts will override even the hardest critics, but then again, AGW pseudoskepticism has become a sort of a cult of its own, which follows the same bizarre and idiotic credo of the Creationists, both groups declaring almost every other day "Any day now, that nasty scientific theory I hate is going to be disproven."

You'll feel that way until a series of drought condition summers lead to massive wild fires. Look at what happened up in Northern Alberta and Saskatchewan last summer. For chrissake, the fire is still burning!

Trump can simply build a wall around China.

If Trump really believes climate change isn't real, then why is he building walls around his golf courses? (to be correct, he wants it around Ireland).

He should put his money where his mouth is and not do it. Hell, Ireland should say since it's not real, he doesn't need the wall. It's either real, and it's in his economic best interest to protect his properties, or it's not real as he claims, in which case he doesn't need the walls.

Is it saying things they disagree with?

That's exactly what it is. You'll find quite a few of the 3rd wave feminists and TERFs using this as a means to shutdown discussion, or launch harassment against people, even going as far as trying to get them criminally charged. Also facts are hate speech, and if they happen to be threatening you? That's not hate speech. Also if you quote their statements or rhetoric, that's hate speech too. This shouldn't be a surprise though, Twitter decided to create the Orwell sounding "Trust and Safety Council" which is chalk full of left-wing groups, some of them are so radical that they'd be right at home in european antifa movements. Some of the groups have also been directly engaged in harassment, doxing and so on too.

So just remember, if you're of the right political ideology. It's fine, but if you're not..they're coming for you.