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It doesn't matter where the smoke appeared to come from. Abundance of caution.

It has nothing to do with "psychopathic private corporations"...

I live in Alberta too. You seem to have forgotten about this. An excerpt:

In 2014, the province’s Market Surveillance Administrator alleged that TransAlta engaged in “anti-competitive conduct” in 2010 and 2011 by taking three coal-fired power plants off line on four cold days, during high-demand hours and in periods when other players in Alberta’s competitive power market were the least likely to be able to pick up the slack. This, the administrator said, drove up electricity prices and allowed TransAlta to reap millions in additional profits.

LOL.
Are you talking about this?
Even here, it was 1 person that suggested that and apparently shot down.
Probably the best line in this is to move as quickly as possible to level 4 autonomy, which is what Telsa is doing.
And the fact that with some 50,000 ppl driving this daily, and only having 1 fatality in 7 months of testing this shows that it is already safer than average and that obviously their training is doing the job.

Good lord, partisan much? There were two lines in that comment, both of which were jokes, one making fun of a Democrat and one a Republican.

Also, your 100% on no invasion of Iraq under Gore is questionable at best.

Oh FFS, don't blame Jimmy Carter. He was a nuclear engineer in the navy, and actually did some work INSIDE a running nuclear reactor undergoing a meltdown. When Three Mile Island popped he was one of the experts on site.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/s...

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Depends, do you live in Canada? If so, then protecting you from real estate investors is actually a strong possibility. Very likely at that. I can't really say for the US, but right now here in Canada with housing prices that have broken US bubble levels in quite a few big cities, when the crash comes it's going to be spectacular.

Depends, do you live in Canada? If so, then protecting you from real estate investors is actually a strong possibility. Very likely at that. I can't really say for the US, but right now here in Canada with housing prices that have broken US bubble levels in quite a few big cities, when the crash comes it's going to be spectacular.

Australia? British Columbia? Ontario for "green energy." As someone else mentioned, you can move a company from Ontario to Michigan and buy Ontario electricity cheaper then it's being sold for in the province.

This is a good example. I am not to blame for rapists. Rapists are to blame for rapists. I have no influence over the behaviour of people I don't know. I am not some asshole frat boy or rape apologist and I have zero influence over those who are. Those are the kind of people who used to bully me at school and equating me with them is incredibly insulting.

Here's another one. I'm not a murderer or a rapist. I don't harass women on the internet. I have no interest in Gamergate. But because I share the same genitalia with bad people it's my fault too.

Dismissal of male suicide. A small amount of men are rich and powerful so those of us who aren't and that suffer from mental illnesses don't deserve any sympathy. Four times as many men as women kill themselves every year but meh it's their fault for not embracing feminism and not a lot more complicated than that.

More white men have all the power. No I don't. I'm not even a manager, never mind a CEO.

There's plenty more bollocks like this about and this isn't the rantings of Twitter trolls but mainstream media journalists.

If your plan is to rebut me by trotting out some shit from the Daily Mail, then I'm not interested. Just because they're a bunch of tossers doesn't mean Jessica Valenti et al get a free pass to be sexist and racist towards people that have done nothing wrong and actually would rather be supporters and an allies. Telling us that our problems are irrelevant and that everything that's wrong in the world is our fault is a good way to get us to stick two fingers up and walk away.

I don't know, what such "biological basis" can possibly mean.

Well, here's some reading for you: Transgender: Evidence on the biological nature of gender identity. And Science in transition: Understanding the biology behind gender identity. And Structural Connectivity Networks of Transgender People

Any male body is much closer to Napoleon's, than it is to a female body.

Wow, you know nothing about genetics or biology, do you? Two unrelated people are much more dissimilar than fraternal twins, one of whom happens to be male and one female. Secondly, false analogy again: Someone who isn't Napoleon but claims he is has no biological basis for that claim. I am not claiming to be someone that I'm not. Quite the opposite: I am expressing my true gender identity as it is forged in my brain.

I contend, that "his own life" and "pushed onto others" are inseparable, if formulating and/or executing public policy is the person's very job.

You can contend that all you want, but it's false. Our former Prime Minister Stephen Harper was a religious Christian personally very opposed to abortion, but he did not force his views on the electorate, mostly because he knew he'd lose, but partly because Canada in recent years ironically has more of a tradition of keeping religion out of political discourse than the US. In the US, the Religious Right has been extremely successful in pushing policy changes that implement its religious views.

Likewise, your claim of facing high risk visiting a wrong bathroom because of Evangelicals remains unsubstantiated.

It was Evangelical pressure that got the North Carolina anti-LGBT bill passed, and there are bills pending in several states that are both explicitly anti-LGBT and claiming to be in support of "freedom of religion", just so long as your religion happens to be Christianity.

You can contend that all you want, but it's false. Our former Prime Minister Stephen Harper was quite religious and was personally opposed to abortion. However, he refused to reopen the abortion debate in Canada because most Canadians are pro-choice and he knew he could not force his religious beliefs on others. In the US, unfortunately, the religious right has been much more successful in forcing its beliefs on others.

BTW, you are yet to explain, why you single out Evangelicals so fervently?

We're talking about Donald Trump. If you want to see me to write nasty things about Islam, try looking at some postings I've made on Slashdot where Islam is a relevant part of the discussion. I assure you that I am an equal-opportunity religion-basher and think that Islam is one of the worst out there. But that's not the issue in the USA; evangelical Christianity is the issue there.

And if you must know, I'd certainly take Donald Trump over Ted Cruz, who is a poster-child for the dangerous religious extremist politician.

Apparently it costs $2,350, plus several years back taxes (and accountant fees), plus an 'exit tax' on assets over two million dollars. And it can take a year to process renunciations due to a growing backlog.

I'm a U.S. citizen. I worked in Canada for a few years. U.S. tax law is crazy. The IRS taxes everything you make regardless of where you make it. Canada tax law is somewhat sane and taxes based on (1) where you earn it, and (2) where you reside (which is why all the Canadians working in the U.S. have to be careful not to spend more than half their time in Canada, lest they become Canadian residents and owe Canadian taxes on their U.S. income).

The net result is double taxation. Canada taxes you because you made the money in Canada and (for the purposes of this story) you're living in Canada. The U.S. taxes you because you're a U.S. citizen. Now, there is a tax treaty between the two countries which lets you take the taxes paid in one country and use it as a tax credit in the other. Since Canadian taxes are higher, you basically pay the Canadian taxes and don't owe U.S. taxes. But the treaty only covers earned income (wages). It doesn't cover unearned income (interest, capital gains, etc). Have an interest-bearing bank account? Double taxed. Sell some of your stock portfolio at a profit? Double taxed. Buy a house, then sell it a few years later at a profit? Double taxed. Get married and have kids who are dual citizens by birth and one of them decides to move back to the U.S. when he's an adult? He'll be double taxed (have to pay U.S.back taxes) on all the unearned income he made while living in Canada from when he was 18 til when he decided to move.

On top of that, you'll experience the joy of having to pay a specialist CPA who is licensed in both countries, because you sure as hell aren't going to be able to figure out how to file your taxes correctly by yourself. I was fortunate to find one who was willing to do it for "only" $500, but my taxes were simple. It's not uncommon for this to cost $1000 or more. (Note: the better employers will help you out with this - either providing a CPA or directing you to one and they'll cover the filing expenses.)

If you're gonna flee to Canada on principle, you're gonna have to go all the way. Apply for Canadian citizenship and renounce your U.S. citizenship.

There are lots of comments, some by BlackBerry insiders, that shed light on why BB went under.

But here is an expose by a reporter (who later turned this into a book).

Inside the fall of BlackBerry: How the smartphone inventor failed to adapt

Basically, BB refused to see Apple's iPhone as a threat. They were too arrogant. They failed to see the concept of having a store where apps are uploaded by developers. Not once! But twice! First with Apple iPhone in 2007, then with Android in 2008, and for years after that.

Look at the comments of Lazarides: all he thought of is "no keyboard", "bad battery life" and "it is too complex"! He and Balsillie failed to see the concept of a phone as an application platform with an entire ecosystem.

and this one:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com...

and this one:

http://www.vancouversun.com/bu...

I mean, I could keep going, but I feel like I've made my point.

Gee I wonder how I got this wrong?

http://www.itworldcanada.com/a...

https://www.thestar.com/busine...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (and the section below about LTE)

Bundling does NOT reduce prices. The extra income from bundling is used to subsidize channels that nobody watches, creating make-work jobs for friends and family. And no, it's NOT the same all over the world. Change is coming.

And who is still watching Animal Planet?

Lets be clear that its not Mickey Mouse that is being extended, that is a trademark and does not expire as long as its used.

It's an old black and white cartoon called Steam Boat Willy, in which Mickey appeared. ...

Not necessarily the full story. Haven't done a full analysis, but, Steam Boat Willy arguably contained other copyrightable elements (Mickey Mouse for instance). Here's an interesting article regarding what happens when a character falls into the public domain: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/copyright-change-leaves-james-bond-up-for-grabs-in-canada/article22606770/

South Korea has asked the US to deploy strategic weapons in South Korea

http://www.theglobeandmail.com...

So it will be nukes AND propaganda

And rabbits
And cane toads
And pigs
And cats (okay, to be fair, they haven't necessarily lost this one yet, but feral cats are pretty goddamn good at surviving).

Australia: The world's favorite destination for invasive species.

I'm a Canadian and I call BS.

First off, Canada doesn't have an H1-B program. We have the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

If you had watched the news, you would have known about RBC bringing in workers to replace Canadian IT workers under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. They only backed down - this time - because of all the negative publicity exposing the illegal practice in this one instance.

Dozens of employees at Canada’s largest bank are losing their jobs to temporary foreign workers, who are in Canada to take over the work of their department.

"They are being brought in from India, and I am wondering how they got work visas," said Dave Moreau, one of the employees affected by the move. "The new people are in our offices and we are training them to do our jobs. That adds insult to injury."

When you write: "WHERE in the hell are all the unemployed, competent, software developers this would create? Their absence is suspicious - they just don't seem to be out there", maybe it's because after decades of BS working for smug, self-satisfied people who don't even know what's going on around them, who can't even tell the difference between Canada and the US, we get completely out of the field. Change career paths. Retire. Whatever. Any way we can to give a big F*CK YOU to the people "managing" the industry, because what goes around eventually comes around, and it's their turn.

This problem has been going on for years in Canada.

And if you're getting people who think that knowing Dreamweaver and Photoshop makes them qualified, then you (or your HR department) obviously have a problem spelling out minimum requirements, or the recruiting companies you deal with are just sh*t monkeys throwing sh*t at the wall and hoping some of it sticks. Either way, the problem is on your end of the line.

It's people like you fucking this country over. Harper was simply amazing. He was leading us out of debt and into growth for 8 bloody years and to thank him you guys oust him??? It's incredibly frustrating how people like you poInt out flaws that don't exist. Focus on how a well a country did, not random shit. The liberals have just as many bad points. Also fuck you.

What "flaws that don't exist"? The comment was about scientist's being muzzled, how did that not exist??

As for the economy part of the reason Canada was doing better is we weren't hit as hard by the '08 meltdown because our banking sector was more restricted. The Conservatives were in the process of eliminating those restrictions before '08 happened and everyone saw what a cataclysmically bad idea it was. Recently the Conservatives bet on oil and failed to diversify the economy, now that prices are down the economy is suffering.

Moreover the "balanced budget" was a bit of subterfuge based on things like selling off the GM shares from '09 for a huge loss:

"The share sale by Ottawa will help federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver balance the federal budget."

Exactly. the canadian financial industry is much more the province (get it) of a few giant banks than the us; but the government regulations on them saved the country from the same kind of bubble that the us experienced, Canada still got blasted, on the grounds that when the us catches cold Canada sneezes.

Blame about 3 Prime Ministers back who decided Canada will no longer build refineries in Canada and rely on sending our oil south.
With the lower cost of oil now it is pretty much approaching too expensive to suck it out of the oilsands in Canada.

Irving Oil was going to expand the refinery in New Brunswick. What stopped the plans wasn't the government, it was economics (i.e. economic slowdown, more efficient vehicles, etc.). I haven't been following what has been going on in the Western Canadian provinces, though.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com...

It's people like you fucking this country over. Harper was simply amazing. He was leading us out of debt and into growth for 8 bloody years and to thank him you guys oust him??? It's incredibly frustrating how people like you poInt out flaws that don't exist. Focus on how a well a country did, not random shit. The liberals have just as many bad points. Also fuck you.

What "flaws that don't exist"? The comment was about scientist's being muzzled, how did that not exist??

As for the economy part of the reason Canada was doing better is we weren't hit as hard by the '08 meltdown because our banking sector was more restricted. The Conservatives were in the process of eliminating those restrictions before '08 happened and everyone saw what a cataclysmically bad idea it was. Recently the Conservatives bet on oil and failed to diversify the economy, now that prices are down the economy is suffering.

Moreover the "balanced budget" was a bit of subterfuge based on things like selling off the GM shares from '09 for a huge loss:

"The share sale by Ottawa will help federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver balance the federal budget."

That sounds suspiciously like the beginnings of a totalitarian regime. Probably why the liberals got a 'surprise' win

Actually, in the previous election, Harper Regime told the national media that they were limited to five (5!) questions per day.

In that election, the media barely squawked about it, and the Globe and Mail ("Canada's National Newspaper") even endorsed the party that told them that!

Worse, Canadians gave them a majority win putting them into a far, far stronger position than they'd been in prior to them being found in Contempt of Parliament - which triggered that election.

I guess my point is that not only should it have been a definitive win (it was), but it should have happened 4 full years earlier.

That it wasn't clear from the writ dropping that the Harper Regime was going to be wiped out (and the fact that it wasn't actually wiped out) is still pretty discouraging and shows that Canadians' apathy runs pretty damned deep.

I think Conservatives assume all other people are as stupid as they are.

I think it's worse - they know how to get the stupid vote but they aren't stupid themselves (well, not all of them). It's pure Machiavellian manipulation.

I'll never vote for another one as long as I live.

While I agree mostly, it's entirely possible that a GOP of reasonable conservatives arises from the ashes of self destruction that the current lot seem intent on inflicting on themselves.

Get rid of Gerrymandering & get campaign finance reformed, in a couple decades there might well be a conservative party worthy of consideration.

America pushed this on the rest of the world, not the other way around.

That is BS. Japan's Abe and Canada's Trudeau are out there pushing it. Japan needs TPP because it is is another weapon to beat up their entrenched special business interests. Canada wants to expand exports to Asia.

1) So you haven't told your Congressman that you want him to do these things, none of your neighbors have told him, and you're surprised he has not gotten off his ass to do those things?

That kinda sums up the problem with both the geek community, and the American people on these issues. We have a government that is designed to be highly user unfriendly. It is designed to be a whole lot of fucking work. It is the command-line of governments. We have two houses that matter, an independent executive, hundreds of powerful and totally autonomous Congressman (Canadian MPs, for example, boast of their defiance of leadership if they vote against it 1% of the time), of course it's fucking complicated, complex, and stupidly inefficient.

Yet we want to sit on our asses, eating popcorn, throw some money at lawyers, and assume that there's some evil conspiracy when nothing we want to happen happens.

Hell let me put it to you this way:
Obama is the President we will have until January of '17. He started the investigation of Snowden. What strategy is more likely to work: getting Obama to pardon Snowden, or getting Congress to change the law?

Neither would be easy short-term, but if somebody had spent $50k on an organizer to lobby for a change to the Espionage Act, instead of several times that on a lawyer to parse the Constitution before being thrown out due to a lack of standing, you;d probably have gotten a bill through committee by now.

At this point we're almost best off firing all the lawyers, and just showing up aty every Presidential candidates events and asking Snowden pardon questions until they're all on fucking record.

But, of course, to make sure everybody got hit you'd need an organization, which means you'd need an organizer. And Americans hate paying organizers.

2) I didn't say you couldn't use the Courts to fight bad laws, I said that isn't part of the trial process. And it isn't. It's allowed several places, but they are completely different steps in the process. Why? because the trial is what happens in front of the Jury, and the Jury is there to decide the Facts, Questions of Law are left to the Judge and not addressed at trial lest they influence the Jury.

This is the law. It is pedantic even by internet commentator standards. In this case the problem with your use of the term is that it's virtually impossible for him to not get convicted at a fair trial. Documents he seems to be the only person who could access leaked, he flew to honk Kong on very short notice, the media started talking about a leaker in Hong Kong, they later publicly identified Snowden as said leaker, etc. Fair trial means he can offer a bunch of alternative explanations, not that he can ask the Jury to nullify the law.

BTW, if the Judge thinks that his lawyer is offering a case that would encourage nullification, "Fair trial" actually means he has to fuck Snowden over. The Jury is not supposed to decide whether the law is good, so the Judge is supposed to order a mistrial due to defense misconduct if he thinks the Jury is getting a "this law is evil and you should let Ed off" message. Why? Because both sides have to be able to present their case to the Jury, and if the Defense's case is "this law is shit," then the Prosecution either has to be allowed to defend the law (which would probably mean a lot of witnesses saying "if only Ed hadn;t broken the law my buddy wouldn't be dead," which biases the Jury against Ed, so the mistrial is by far the more likely option), or the entire case has to be thrown out.

There's always a non-zero chance of nullification, but since nullification is indistinguishable from the Jury simply not believing the Prosecutions's case it's both virtually impossible to measure, and considered much more important by pop culture then it is in real life.

3) He coulda snitched to Wyden. then Wyden can ask questions about program

The needs of the teacher leads to the needs of the student. Not the other way around.

No, the needs of the profession lead to the needs of the student. The profession needs to attract competent teachers and ensure that incompetent ones are removed. It needs to ensure that academic standards are high and that there are adequate resources.

The needs of teachers are that they remain employed with the highest salary and best benefits they can get. There is some overlap between the two sets of needs but they are not the same. Worse even the needs of the teachers are not the top priority for the unions the needs of the union are./

Renewable power is quite competitive these days, and there's huge potential for it in Canada, but it's an illusion to think that it isn't big business these days..

At any rate, General Fusion is a start-up, and very much not big business.

No, they won't all bow down to banks and corporate interests. This isn't Republicans vs Democrats in the US.

The Conservatives support the TPP, that's obvious. The NDP does NOT - not sure where you get the idea they're bought by corporations. In the recent provincial election in Alberta, the top 70 corporate donations went to one of the two right wing parties (PC, Wildrose). NDP was the only party to claim they'd raise corporate taxes. Granted, that's at the provincial level but the party ideology doesn't differ that much at the federal level.

It's unlikely that the Conservatives or NDP will win a majority government at the federal level, so the TPP being enforced will mostly depend on the stance the liberal party takes. Right now, Trudeau's not giving a solid answer on the TPP, just stating "will need to evaluate it". The pessimist in me thinks they're probably going to support it (but they don't want to publicly take a stance yet - and to be fair the dealings are highly secretive so that's a fair statement to make). But it's really up in the air as to whether it'll be passed.

It's no bloody use right now!

* We can't maintain one-boat-at-sea at all times, because they're falling to bits - they can't even complete readiness drills reliably

* We can't use it anyway : From the House of Commons Defence Select Committee (in 2006) : "the only way that Britain is ever likely to use Trident is to give legitimacy to a US nuclear attack by participating in it"

In short, it's just a way to siphon money into the pockets of defence contractors.

Jeremy's heresy is that he wants to use those resources to build infrastructure to better all our lives instead of just a few rich warmongers.

canadian naval maintenance guys are buying repair parts on ebay http://www.theglobeandmail.com...
but as the saying went, http://www.northernsun.com/ima...

Don't knock it, it worked for the other ostensibly American automakers, producing many of their cars and parts in Canada

True, and to keep it that way they got a as well and they are not even Canadian companies!

Personally I would much rather have my tax money bail out a company like Tesla than GM/Ford/Chrysler. If Tesla can get their technology and business model to work then society will benefit in the long term from less pollution and less hassle purchasing cars. I'm not really sure what, if any, the long term benefits are of propping up a company like GM is. It might save job losses in the short term but given their reluctance to change and modernize I expect it is just postponing the inevitable.

Or it is because reality has a well-known liberal bias.

If it did, maybe all those honeybees that were being killed by global warming would still be dying. Yet, once again, reality failed to conform to the environmentalist agenda.

Time to backtrack on yet another failed prediction for you "reality" types, huh?

They have an interesting take on it.
The Globe and Mail's angle is quite a bit different: How Uber is ending the dirty dealings behind Toronto's cab business

This is one of the more insightful bits of investigative journalism I've read in a long time:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com...

Some quotes:

[...] one of the most compelling investigative projects ... in the Toronto taxicabs that I rode in so often on my way to assignments. I discovered that almost none of Torontoâ(TM)s city-issued taxi licenses â" known as âoeplatesâ â" were in the hands of working cab drivers. Instead, they were held by people who made others pay to use them.

[Taxi] plate holders included an airline pilot, a dentist, investors who lived in Florida and Israel, and estates that had inherited the licenses after the holder died. The problems created by the plate system were mind-boggling. At least 30 per cent of the industryâ(TM)s revenues went to people who did nothing but milk income from their licenses.

So the Toronto Taxi system is a cesspool of entitled leeches, and Uber â" which nonetheless seems to have a shady side to it â" seems to be doing some overdue jostling. Hence the ridiculous class action.

They wont say because if they do they will all have mysterious 'accidents'....just like happened to Putin's enemies in the past.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/03/...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

He graduated from a KGB school, if anything he probably still works for them. Also, Russia isn't the only country that has these "accidents".

They wont say because if they do they will all have mysterious 'accidents'....just like happened to Putin's enemies in the past. http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/03/... http://www.theglobeandmail.com... http://www.businessinsider.com...

It's the primary technique that teachers are encouraged to use (again, in Canada).

Yes, and IMHO, it's been working terribly. Teachers don't understand the process, children get confused as to expectations and the "answers" are typically only vague representations of the actual knowledge that is supposed to be communicated.

I agree that inquiry based learning should be included as part of the curriculum, but a heck of a lot of learning should also be done using traditional methods. Little Johnny doesn't really need to know that these are the 6 different ways we can visualize the problem of 8 groups of 4 items. He really just needs to know that 8x4=32.

Specifically in math, we've been seeing very bad results due to inquiry-based learning, and it's starting to make parents fed up

Many lawyers disagree with you (see the section headed "But is faking a U.S. IP address illegal?")

Specifically:
"Prof. Fewer said he doubts that the use of a VPN qualified as the breaking of a digital lock on a device designed to prohibit unauthorized copying, since it merely cloaks a user’s IP address."

From TFA, it is a design patent - aka Trade Dress.

From http://www.theglobeandmail.com... , the actual complain seems with merit. The frets (metal lines), key shape (rounded corners) and space bar seem to be pulled entirely from the Blackberry Q10. It's as blatant as the typical Chinese typo-based (Sony vs Somy) ripoffs.

If you saw a phone with a the Typo keyboard, it would be reasonable to assume that its an extra tall Q10. That's what Blackberry has sued about.

Many Arctic communities have high murder and suicide rates. Also very high rates of depression and alcoholism.

They have a strict limit set to their ``pay slope'':

http://www.theglobeandmail.com...

They're a great company and I'm always pleased to buy stuff from them.

I wish more companies would pay attention to the studies which note that greater than 22--1 creates a lousy corporate culture.

I didn't find anything offhand about WWII-era procedures, but your information is out of date.

Notable quote from the link:

Among other things, retinal transplants are routine, and the eye tolerates grafts of new tissue better than other parts of the body. Retinal cells grow very efficiently too, reducing the chance that the transplant might include any leftover stem cells that could keep growing and cause cancer.

Bell Canada has lost its way some time ago. It started with the idea of a 'vertically integrated market' ( https://openmedia.ca/blog/fina... ) , then it got a spanking from the CRTC about download exemptions (see http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2... ) quickly followed by not being allowed to keep the plan in place during the trial ( http://www.theglobeandmail.com... ). Slip in a CRTC decision to unbundle TV channels, aka “pick-and-pay”, and Bell Media President puts his foot in it, by 'Meddling' in News Coverage ( http://www.theglobeandmail.com... ). Now it's a 'Privacy' problem for all those vertically integrated customers. Draw your own conclusions about who is to blame, but my money is on an entirely clueless Management Team.

Bell Canada has lost its way some time ago. It started with the idea of a 'vertically integrated market' ( https://openmedia.ca/blog/fina... ) , then it got a spanking from the CRTC about download exemptions (see http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2... ) quickly followed by not being allowed to keep the plan in place during the trial ( http://www.theglobeandmail.com... ). Slip in a CRTC decision to unbundle TV channels, aka “pick-and-pay”, and Bell Media President puts his foot in it, by 'Meddling' in News Coverage ( http://www.theglobeandmail.com... ). Now it's a 'Privacy' problem for all those vertically integrated customers. Draw your own conclusions about who is to blame, but my money is on an entirely clueless Management Team.

Some quick links I found covering the issue.

Americans Living Abroad Becoming Trapped by Citizenship Based Tax Rules
Mayor Of London Boris Johnson Announces He'll Renounce U.S. Citizenship
When American Expats Donâ(TM)t Want Their Kids to Have U.S. Citizenship
Meet the 'accidental American' with a big tax bill
PwC suggests a check to see if you're an 'accidental American'
âAccidentalâ(TM) Americans Still Owe Income Tax

> Whoa cowboy. With net metering we have an additional source of resources for
> the monopoly that controls electricity in a given region. And its generated at
> the point of use, reducing distribution cost. If they're too stupid to figure out
> how to use new technology and load balance, they should be obligated to
> figure it out or rescind their monopoly.
>
> "Its well known" that you make shit up. There are many different scenarios and
> some are not conducive to solar. However in my state (high coal usage), my
> rooftop solar panels are currently cheaper today than coal generated
> electricity. They'll generate back the power that it took to make them within
> a year or two and over 20 years I'm looking at an 8-10% ROI. How is eliminating
> coal power to a house for less money not cost effective?

Is that "less expensive" with or without massive subsidies? Gee it must be a nice racket;

1) produce 15% of the power you need
2) sell it to the utility for 8 times the market rate
3) buy back 100% of you power needs at market rate
4) Profit

In Ontario... http://www.theglobeandmail.com...

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By the end of 2013, Ontario household power rates will be the second-highest in North America (after PEI), and they will continue to accelerate while they level off in most other jurisdictions. Even more alarming for Ontario's economic competitiveness, businesses and industrial customers will be hit by almost $12-billion in additional costs over the same period.

Such is the legacy of the provincial government's 2009 decision to establish feed-in rates, ranging from 44.5 cents to 80.2 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for solar power, and 13.5 cents/kWh for wind power. These solar feed-in rates average 11 times the 5.6 cents/kWh paid for nuclear-generated power, and 18 times the 3.5 cents/kWh for hydro-generated power. The wind-power rates are more than twice as high as nuclear, and four times those of hydro.
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Don't be too optimistic, the drums are beating:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com...

"The RCMP has labelled the “anti-petroleum” movement as a growing and violent threat to Canada’s security, raising fears among environmentalists that they face increased surveillance, and possibly worse, under the Harper government’s new terrorism legislation." http://www.theglobeandmail.com...

Equally scary. The public approves. In the end citizens deserve what they get.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com...

“They’ll line up around the block.” http://www.theglobeandmail.com... There are schools in the wealthiest parts of Los Angeles where the vaccination rate is on a par with that of South Sudan – fashionable tinder boxes of measles waiting to go up. Pertussis (the far-less-fun-than-it-sounds “whooping cough”) is making a dramatic comeback.