what we didn't hear about is the other student that changed all his grades up by one point. He's passing now, and no one bats an eye because it doesn't stand out.
That's because clever criminals usually don't get caught until they over-reach. Look at your local police force/service and you'll see how happy they are over social media. In my small community, clearences are up 30% because stupid criminals brag, get caught and sometimes will even claim to have done more. Which is good. There's a two fold effect to this though, the smarter criminals will cool it for a bit because they think they're more likely to get caught. And that actually does lower crime.
On both sides no less. Oh I know, it's so hard when someone makes that comment about there being good people on both sides. Or shall we just say that since ABC, NBC, CBS and so on came out asking "is it okay to punch a nazi" and several commentators argued in favor for it, that they're actually all neo-fascist organizations bent on overthrowing capitalist society and you're the bulwark in their defense.
"Antifa" has no ideology except hatred of Nazis and those espousing similar ideologies (general white supremecists). It is not a "group". It has no "leaders".
Hmm...that doesn't seem to be the case, hell the original antifa which they'll claim they're based off of had leaders and even openly supported communism. You find an antifa in the street and you can bet that they'll be hoping for a commie revolution along the way. The difference between a nazi and antifa are the side of the coin they're on, that's it. They both had leaders, they both have an ideology.
Antifa just happens to be engaging in the tactics that caused the same problem as last time. Namely violently assaulting anyone who doesn't bow and scrape to them.
I will agree that the vast majority of antifa accounts are there to troll. But what I find interesting is the number of communist LARPers that openly support them as well, and have a long history of supporting these tactics to "overthrow western society" and so on.
The vast majority of Republicans considered McCain a Republican in 2008 when they tried to elect him President
Yeah they actually didn't. Rather most considered him a political insider, and there were huge pushes to stop him from winning the primary which the RNC pushed against hard. Gee, the establishment party turning around and trying to make sure that "their guy" won. Where have we seen that in the last 2 years? OH RIGHT it was with Hillary Clinton.
You realize that the reason Trump won, and won so hard was because he wasn't RNC establishment, he wasn't political establishment either. The warning signs were there when the Tea Party shit was kicking into gear. The DNC on the other hand still hasn't figured this out and are currently stuck in "it's 1999 and things are still great!"
You mean the people who champion DRM-free policies, but attach DRM to their own Witcher games for the initial launch?
You mean the people who champion DRM free policies and held to them, while the publishers of The Witcher and The Witcher 2 required that they put them on the games, which were not their decisions but forced? And removed them, even taking a breach-of-contract hit on the Witcher 2 over it?
Well that's not really true. Denovo really held out for a while there like starforce did, think it was right up around a year when it was first released(same with starforce) before the first cracks started showing up. With denuvo v4 there were multiple vulnerabilities because they used someone elses vmware kit, v5 is apparently in-house and several of the latest titles use it. Those games were cracked in under 10 hours no less, they had a good run but CDProjekt showed how wrong the whole DRM scheme is. If you make a good game people will buy it, if you make shit people won't. Ask CliffyB just how well his latest shit game is working out if you need an example though.
You're talking about the bribe paid to get the Uranium One deal, right?
You gotta get those talking points right man. That was pro-quid legit business for the Clintons, and that massive bribery and kickback scheme that the FBI were investigating before the Obama admin stomped all over it. It's not that she and the DNC were actually doing this shit, and this was all projection or something. They're totes good peoples!
It's like all those directors, actors, reporters, gamejurno's and other "male feminist allies" who screeched that they're really, really, really good people, and never evar sexually harassed anyone! Before it all came out that really, they sexually harassed multiple people and even raped several(with a toss-mix of bomb threats). There's no projection going on here, none at all!
Maybe most of the companies in question did test, and designed around the materials they were actually getting rather than the specs... so it may not matter in some (most?) cases.
Doubtful, likely they'd simply refuse the batch or use it in something else that didn't require the same standard. It's pretty much common place to do materials batch testing in the first few shipments, then take random samples from future finished batches. Some companies test all batches, one of the companies I previously worked for made blades and bands for industrial saws and high-tensile lathe heads(mainly for machining medium-carbon(automotive) high carbon steel(large block diesel engines) or aluminum(aircraft) parts). Every single batch of material before it was sent to the sub-contracted manufacturer was tested, then random sampling of the finished products. Random samples were taken from the finished product to determine the failure rate.
This could be really bad, or not bad at all. It all depends on where the batches ended up and in what application. Or we could be seeing the start of the "mexician train wheel" problem or "mexican tractor wheel hub" problem. There's millions on millions of shit-steel train wheels out there with a very high failure rate, they all came out of mexico. Every rail way in north america has thousands on thousands of train cars of all types with these wheels on them. The tractor wheel hub, was a big problem back in the 1990's, and led governments to require mandatory inspections on all wheels and outright ban on some types from particular companies. Those would sheer off at the bolt points of the wheel hub and send them down the freeway for example. Several people in Ontario were killed by those.
Maybe you missed the "global" part of "global warming"...
You mean like the "sub tropical low depressions" that we get here in Canada? Or the part where you don't get how far north malaria carrying mosquito's used to range across north america. Well I guess that does make it global doesn't it?
No, the part where we had far warmer weather in the north and malaria causing mosquito's were pushed back south to warmer climates as cold weather pushed their livable zones south. This isn't rocket surgery.
I'm surprised that you don't understand climate change either.
So, yes, we can tell that the rate of climate change is unprecedented.
Sure is! Because people froze to death where Washington, DC is now, from temperatures they'd never experienced even in the heart of European winters. They've also died from "bad air" or as it's known today as malaria as far south as central Quebec -- it wasn't the draining of swamps that changed things, it was several decades of cold weather that pushed malaria carrying mosquito's further south. That was all in the span of 150 years too, and it wasn't cold to warm.
Just keep in mind that there's plenty of "adjustments" to that data, while claiming that the olde gold standard silver-mercury thermometers weren't reliable or anything too. So all those temperature readings have to be adjusted.
You know, considering the winters we used to have here in Southern Ontario I don't mind this cold weather at all. Houses where having a second door on the second floor was mandatory? 5m lake-driven snowfalls because the lakes froze over late? Yeah it's pretty good. Well wait, that's still happening more or less. Minus the doors on the second floor so you could get out of your house. Pretty much any house that's 2 story and was built before 1950 had that little feature around here. I think it was 2010 though we got 18-20ft of snow over a 28hr period, nothing really huge. Luckily people don't die quite as often freezing to death in their cars, though teams of people are still out there pulling idiots out of their cars from a snowstorm and taking them to police stations or hospitals.
Remember those winters so cold that you could wander into the forest in June and there's still be piles of snow on the ground? Yeah don't miss them a single bit, especially with how humid the winters were. Then again, you live in a temperate zone just like I do. We can go 70-80 years without weather that only people over 100 years old would remember, then have decades of really good weather with a green christmas to boot. The winter and summers of the 1940's were so warm that people were wondering if they were going to have any snow at all around here. Positive upside, bumper crops especially with WWII going on and all that.
Then again, I remember driving through Ohio two winters ago and you had 3' of snow on the ground 1-2" of freezing rain on top of it and it was still there when I drove back through 3 months later from central Florida and people were worried that there was too much snow.
So when someone climbs a crossing, walks along a set of tracks, gets on a bridge and jumps onto the ground below it's because of a lack of guard rails? Brilliant. Fences everywhere then right? You'll be taking up collection along the grand canyon first I'm guessing.
So if the data is suppressed (and your article confirms it is not collected at all in some jurisdictions), how do you know there is a trend of gun violence specifically in poor black neighbourhoods
Bullshit they can't. If cable companies can do it in Canada with 10% of the population of the US, then companies in the US can do the same. They don't want to, the cable-co's in Canada didn't want to either until they were forced into it with regulations but they seem to be profiting just fine regardless.
What's really killing these companies are what's being provided on the channels. It's nothing but wall-to-wall reality TV, out of my group of friends and co-workers that I know reasonably well(roughly 200 people) the only people who have cable now are the ones who either have some slick bundle with a heavy discount on internet+cable and maybe phone service, or they're the sole-breadwinner and their S/O is a stay-at-home parent and they have it on "for noise" not even watching it. Even at that more move to simply streaming music, or flipping on a local radio station.
Except when it doesn't right? Keep in mind that you can "fix" crime statistics into different categories if you change the race of the offender. Something that's very popular in Chicago and Philly right now.
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.
Deaths from suicide are usually included in that figure because people who attempt suicide using guns are much more often successful than those who use other means (like sleeping pills). So easy access to guns results in more deaths from suicide.
It's a shit way to make it look like guns are an actual cause of death. Suicide is suicide, it doesn't matter how it happens. It would be like blaming gravity for people who jump off a bridge/building. But look at the stats for how that breaks down under sex. It's mainly men who will use guns, or really any method to commit suicide via any violent/excessive method because they want a method that's successful. It's also one of the reasons why male suicide makes 70-80% of all figures, they're choosing a method that's final. Women on the other hand are most likely to use things like sleeping pills because there is a far higher purchase put on 'how they look' even after they're dead, that reduces the chance of a successful suicide.
A person determined to commit suicide though it really doesn't matter, they'll use anything at hand.
I think they changed their name to shareblue or something along those lines after they managed to help tank the democrat party under the Correct The Record label. But don't worry, they'll get it right this time! It'll only cost you $12,000,000
The number of Americans killed by guns in that "factoid" also includes suicide. Never mind that the mass shootings that are listed are primarily in poor black neighborhoods or anything. Obviously we need drug control too, so many people die from the wrong medication dosages and drug induced suicide every day that the opoid crisis is certainly to blame. 400,000 people die every year in the US from it. The opoid crisis is obviously the cause of all those deaths.
Speaking of which, we're seeing exactly that same type of problem with gun violence in black neighborhoods here in Canada. But we don't see the same level of problem in say poor chinese, indian, or vietmanese neighborhoods. We don't even see this problem in native communities, and despite the money handed over via treaties(and it's a lot -- which many never see due to their own corruption). It's almost...almost like there's more going on here.
More then huge. This also means that unless something weird happens in the next few years, people who suffer from specific forms of red-green colour blindness will be able to be treated as well.
~100 years worth? That's massive? The town my sister lives in out in Alberta has enough coal around it for 600-800 years of current usage(US, Canada and China). That's one area of northern alberta not even close to the area of the oils sands(that's 500km away), or one of the dozen other mines in just Alberta alone. There's multiple mines in eastern canada that have more. That's not even counting one of the largest sour gas(bitter natural gas) concentrations in the world. Yeah, you've got next to zero natural resources, Canada has so much in terms of raw resources it's stupid. Hell we've got so many trees we're trying to get rid of from pine beetle destruction that multiple EU countries are bidding on contracts for exclusive clear-cutting and replanting to be used in wood-pellet power plants. Not to forget heavy water, Canada which holds upwards of 70% of the worlds supply.
That's not even touching on stuff like nickle, iron, lime, radioactives, gold, platinum, diamonds, rare earths, and so on. If you can think of it, we've probably either got it in the ground or can make it. One of the few things we lack is aluminum(bauxite rather) You really have no idea how 'big' this country is or how much raw resources are available to pull out of the ground here.
umm except that the ash in the upper atmosphere would cause a ice age in Canada.
Not an issue either. Believe it or not, Canada has already planned to use retired mines as underground food production facilities using geothermal for heating and lighting.
No problem, we're not even using the farmland here in Canada to capacity for food grains. We're actually using less every year because of increasing yields on existing farmland. And unless something very screwy happens with the jetstream the prairies in central canada and the great lakes region wouldn't have any issues either.
Maybe you should be asking why it's gone so badly wrong in Ontario when other places have benefited hugely. Also less important but still worth pointing out, I said "now" and your article is about things that started happening in 2003.
Keep in mind that the only reason that it can go subsidy free in the UK is because you're an island with next to zero natural resources, or resources you want to exploit. On the otherhand, canada(like the US) has an over abundance of natural resources that are easy to exploit on top of things like rivers and natural valley's which make dam construction easy.
Maybe you should ask why it's such a failure all over north america except in specific places. Oh, the green energy bit didn't happen until 2009. And there's the reason why it's a failure all over north america, because other forms of energy are vastly cheaper then windmills and solar panels.
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what we didn't hear about is the other student that changed all his grades up by one point. He's passing now, and no one bats an eye because it doesn't stand out.
That's because clever criminals usually don't get caught until they over-reach. Look at your local police force/service and you'll see how happy they are over social media. In my small community, clearences are up 30% because stupid criminals brag, get caught and sometimes will even claim to have done more. Which is good. There's a two fold effect to this though, the smarter criminals will cool it for a bit because they think they're more likely to get caught. And that actually does lower crime.
Trump said some were good people.
On both sides no less. Oh I know, it's so hard when someone makes that comment about there being good people on both sides. Or shall we just say that since ABC, NBC, CBS and so on came out asking "is it okay to punch a nazi" and several commentators argued in favor for it, that they're actually all neo-fascist organizations bent on overthrowing capitalist society and you're the bulwark in their defense.
See how easy it is?
"Antifa" has no ideology except hatred of Nazis and those espousing similar ideologies (general white supremecists). It is not a "group". It has no "leaders".
Hmm...that doesn't seem to be the case, hell the original antifa which they'll claim they're based off of had leaders and even openly supported communism. You find an antifa in the street and you can bet that they'll be hoping for a commie revolution along the way. The difference between a nazi and antifa are the side of the coin they're on, that's it. They both had leaders, they both have an ideology.
Antifa just happens to be engaging in the tactics that caused the same problem as last time. Namely violently assaulting anyone who doesn't bow and scrape to them.
I will agree that the vast majority of antifa accounts are there to troll. But what I find interesting is the number of communist LARPers that openly support them as well, and have a long history of supporting these tactics to "overthrow western society" and so on.
The vast majority of Republicans considered McCain a Republican in 2008 when they tried to elect him President
Yeah they actually didn't. Rather most considered him a political insider, and there were huge pushes to stop him from winning the primary which the RNC pushed against hard. Gee, the establishment party turning around and trying to make sure that "their guy" won. Where have we seen that in the last 2 years? OH RIGHT it was with Hillary Clinton.
You realize that the reason Trump won, and won so hard was because he wasn't RNC establishment, he wasn't political establishment either. The warning signs were there when the Tea Party shit was kicking into gear. The DNC on the other hand still hasn't figured this out and are currently stuck in "it's 1999 and things are still great!"
You mean the people who champion DRM-free policies, but attach DRM to their own Witcher games for the initial launch?
You mean the people who champion DRM free policies and held to them, while the publishers of The Witcher and The Witcher 2 required that they put them on the games, which were not their decisions but forced? And removed them, even taking a breach-of-contract hit on the Witcher 2 over it?
Well that's not really true. Denovo really held out for a while there like starforce did, think it was right up around a year when it was first released(same with starforce) before the first cracks started showing up. With denuvo v4 there were multiple vulnerabilities because they used someone elses vmware kit, v5 is apparently in-house and several of the latest titles use it. Those games were cracked in under 10 hours no less, they had a good run but CDProjekt showed how wrong the whole DRM scheme is. If you make a good game people will buy it, if you make shit people won't. Ask CliffyB just how well his latest shit game is working out if you need an example though.
You're talking about the bribe paid to get the Uranium One deal, right?
You gotta get those talking points right man. That was pro-quid legit business for the Clintons, and that massive bribery and kickback scheme that the FBI were investigating before the Obama admin stomped all over it. It's not that she and the DNC were actually doing this shit, and this was all projection or something. They're totes good peoples!
It's like all those directors, actors, reporters, gamejurno's and other "male feminist allies" who screeched that they're really, really, really good people, and never evar sexually harassed anyone! Before it all came out that really, they sexually harassed multiple people and even raped several(with a toss-mix of bomb threats). There's no projection going on here, none at all!
Maybe most of the companies in question did test, and designed around the materials they were actually getting rather than the specs... so it may not matter in some (most?) cases.
Doubtful, likely they'd simply refuse the batch or use it in something else that didn't require the same standard. It's pretty much common place to do materials batch testing in the first few shipments, then take random samples from future finished batches. Some companies test all batches, one of the companies I previously worked for made blades and bands for industrial saws and high-tensile lathe heads(mainly for machining medium-carbon(automotive) high carbon steel(large block diesel engines) or aluminum(aircraft) parts). Every single batch of material before it was sent to the sub-contracted manufacturer was tested, then random sampling of the finished products. Random samples were taken from the finished product to determine the failure rate.
This could be really bad, or not bad at all. It all depends on where the batches ended up and in what application. Or we could be seeing the start of the "mexician train wheel" problem or "mexican tractor wheel hub" problem. There's millions on millions of shit-steel train wheels out there with a very high failure rate, they all came out of mexico. Every rail way in north america has thousands on thousands of train cars of all types with these wheels on them. The tractor wheel hub, was a big problem back in the 1990's, and led governments to require mandatory inspections on all wheels and outright ban on some types from particular companies. Those would sheer off at the bolt points of the wheel hub and send them down the freeway for example. Several people in Ontario were killed by those.
Maybe you missed the "global" part of "global warming"...
You mean like the "sub tropical low depressions" that we get here in Canada? Or the part where you don't get how far north malaria carrying mosquito's used to range across north america. Well I guess that does make it global doesn't it?
So let me see if I understand you here...
No, the part where we had far warmer weather in the north and malaria causing mosquito's were pushed back south to warmer climates as cold weather pushed their livable zones south. This isn't rocket surgery.
I'm surprised that you don't understand climate change either.
So, yes, we can tell that the rate of climate change is unprecedented.
Sure is! Because people froze to death where Washington, DC is now, from temperatures they'd never experienced even in the heart of European winters. They've also died from "bad air" or as it's known today as malaria as far south as central Quebec -- it wasn't the draining of swamps that changed things, it was several decades of cold weather that pushed malaria carrying mosquito's further south. That was all in the span of 150 years too, and it wasn't cold to warm.
Just keep in mind that there's plenty of "adjustments" to that data, while claiming that the olde gold standard silver-mercury thermometers weren't reliable or anything too. So all those temperature readings have to be adjusted.
You know, considering the winters we used to have here in Southern Ontario I don't mind this cold weather at all. Houses where having a second door on the second floor was mandatory? 5m lake-driven snowfalls because the lakes froze over late? Yeah it's pretty good. Well wait, that's still happening more or less. Minus the doors on the second floor so you could get out of your house. Pretty much any house that's 2 story and was built before 1950 had that little feature around here. I think it was 2010 though we got 18-20ft of snow over a 28hr period, nothing really huge. Luckily people don't die quite as often freezing to death in their cars, though teams of people are still out there pulling idiots out of their cars from a snowstorm and taking them to police stations or hospitals.
Remember those winters so cold that you could wander into the forest in June and there's still be piles of snow on the ground? Yeah don't miss them a single bit, especially with how humid the winters were. Then again, you live in a temperate zone just like I do. We can go 70-80 years without weather that only people over 100 years old would remember, then have decades of really good weather with a green christmas to boot. The winter and summers of the 1940's were so warm that people were wondering if they were going to have any snow at all around here. Positive upside, bumper crops especially with WWII going on and all that.
Then again, I remember driving through Ohio two winters ago and you had 3' of snow on the ground 1-2" of freezing rain on top of it and it was still there when I drove back through 3 months later from central Florida and people were worried that there was too much snow.
More like blaming a lack of guard rails.
So when someone climbs a crossing, walks along a set of tracks, gets on a bridge and jumps onto the ground below it's because of a lack of guard rails? Brilliant. Fences everywhere then right? You'll be taking up collection along the grand canyon first I'm guessing.
So if the data is suppressed (and your article confirms it is not collected at all in some jurisdictions), how do you know there is a trend of gun violence specifically in poor black neighbourhoods
By paying attention. Something that most people don't do now. When the CBC is saying the same thing, there might, maybe, possibly, maybe, be something there.
Or you can ignore it all, along with people saying the same thing. Take your pick.
Bullshit they can't. If cable companies can do it in Canada with 10% of the population of the US, then companies in the US can do the same. They don't want to, the cable-co's in Canada didn't want to either until they were forced into it with regulations but they seem to be profiting just fine regardless.
What's really killing these companies are what's being provided on the channels. It's nothing but wall-to-wall reality TV, out of my group of friends and co-workers that I know reasonably well(roughly 200 people) the only people who have cable now are the ones who either have some slick bundle with a heavy discount on internet+cable and maybe phone service, or they're the sole-breadwinner and their S/O is a stay-at-home parent and they have it on "for noise" not even watching it. Even at that more move to simply streaming music, or flipping on a local radio station.
Except when it doesn't right? Keep in mind that you can "fix" crime statistics into different categories if you change the race of the offender. Something that's very popular in Chicago and Philly right now.
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.
Deaths from suicide are usually included in that figure because people who attempt suicide using guns are much more often successful than those who use other means (like sleeping pills). So easy access to guns results in more deaths from suicide.
It's a shit way to make it look like guns are an actual cause of death. Suicide is suicide, it doesn't matter how it happens. It would be like blaming gravity for people who jump off a bridge/building. But look at the stats for how that breaks down under sex. It's mainly men who will use guns, or really any method to commit suicide via any violent/excessive method because they want a method that's successful. It's also one of the reasons why male suicide makes 70-80% of all figures, they're choosing a method that's final. Women on the other hand are most likely to use things like sleeping pills because there is a far higher purchase put on 'how they look' even after they're dead, that reduces the chance of a successful suicide.
A person determined to commit suicide though it really doesn't matter, they'll use anything at hand.
I think they changed their name to shareblue or something along those lines after they managed to help tank the democrat party under the Correct The Record label. But don't worry, they'll get it right this time! It'll only cost you $12,000,000
The number of Americans killed by guns in that "factoid" also includes suicide. Never mind that the mass shootings that are listed are primarily in poor black neighborhoods or anything. Obviously we need drug control too, so many people die from the wrong medication dosages and drug induced suicide every day that the opoid crisis is certainly to blame. 400,000 people die every year in the US from it. The opoid crisis is obviously the cause of all those deaths.
Speaking of which, we're seeing exactly that same type of problem with gun violence in black neighborhoods here in Canada. But we don't see the same level of problem in say poor chinese, indian, or vietmanese neighborhoods. We don't even see this problem in native communities, and despite the money handed over via treaties(and it's a lot -- which many never see due to their own corruption). It's almost...almost like there's more going on here.
More then huge. This also means that unless something weird happens in the next few years, people who suffer from specific forms of red-green colour blindness will be able to be treated as well.
~100 years worth? That's massive? The town my sister lives in out in Alberta has enough coal around it for 600-800 years of current usage(US, Canada and China). That's one area of northern alberta not even close to the area of the oils sands(that's 500km away), or one of the dozen other mines in just Alberta alone. There's multiple mines in eastern canada that have more. That's not even counting one of the largest sour gas(bitter natural gas) concentrations in the world. Yeah, you've got next to zero natural resources, Canada has so much in terms of raw resources it's stupid. Hell we've got so many trees we're trying to get rid of from pine beetle destruction that multiple EU countries are bidding on contracts for exclusive clear-cutting and replanting to be used in wood-pellet power plants. Not to forget heavy water, Canada which holds upwards of 70% of the worlds supply.
That's not even touching on stuff like nickle, iron, lime, radioactives, gold, platinum, diamonds, rare earths, and so on. If you can think of it, we've probably either got it in the ground or can make it. One of the few things we lack is aluminum(bauxite rather) You really have no idea how 'big' this country is or how much raw resources are available to pull out of the ground here.
umm except that the ash in the upper atmosphere would cause a ice age in Canada.
Not an issue either. Believe it or not, Canada has already planned to use retired mines as underground food production facilities using geothermal for heating and lighting.
No problem, we're not even using the farmland here in Canada to capacity for food grains. We're actually using less every year because of increasing yields on existing farmland. And unless something very screwy happens with the jetstream the prairies in central canada and the great lakes region wouldn't have any issues either.
Maybe you should be asking why it's gone so badly wrong in Ontario when other places have benefited hugely. Also less important but still worth pointing out, I said "now" and your article is about things that started happening in 2003.
Keep in mind that the only reason that it can go subsidy free in the UK is because you're an island with next to zero natural resources, or resources you want to exploit. On the otherhand, canada(like the US) has an over abundance of natural resources that are easy to exploit on top of things like rivers and natural valley's which make dam construction easy.
Maybe you should ask why it's such a failure all over north america except in specific places. Oh, the green energy bit didn't happen until 2009. And there's the reason why it's a failure all over north america, because other forms of energy are vastly cheaper then windmills and solar panels.