Thing is, electricity doesn't work well in countries like Canada where the distances are vast The grid can't handle it, it's also more expensive then any other method for heating. It's why charities that exist to pay for heating ran out of money last winter a few months into the winter season, and the people who primarily use them are the ones who use electricity for heating. At 0.185kWh @peak those charities were out of cash by December last year. The winter season in most of Canada runs from mid or late october until april or may. Charities that supply wood on the other hand barely squeaked by. On top of that this was a mild winter, it was also a mild Nov-December period this year.
It's the same reason why my sister's electricity bill went from $80/mo to $260/mo with the same usage, when the Alberta NDP shut down all the coal power plants. Gee that's a brilliant idea, we're literally swimming in coal, it produces cheap energy but fuck you! You're gonna get screwed over to boot. Now the kicker, when they have those randomly high winds and storms which knock out power for days on end. Their little shithole of a town which had electricity no longer does. They truck in diesel fuel to keep the government offices, fire hall, and mall open and heated so people don't freeze to death when it hit's -42C.
It's the same in Ontario, where the liberals blow $1B on two ridding seats to shut down a natural gas power plant, pay producers to not produce electricity, sell it for pennies to the US, and on top of that implement a "green energy" act that drives the price through the roof. Yeah the top two concerns in Ontario for the last few years are "high electricity prices" and jobs. Great combination.
That's pretty much expected in the no-name stores here. And the proliferation of no-name stores which sell things cheaper is a direct result of policies by the government where wages have remained stagnant, and costs have increased. If you live in the middle of a nice neighborhood in Toronto, you're likely not bagging your stuff. If you live in the middle of South-Western Ontario you likely are, and barely making ends meet to boot.
No, Ontario doesn't. You're paying out of pocket for a lot of stuff. If you're not carrying supplemental insurance like blue shield/green shield etc., you're probably going to go bankrupt if you're seriously injured. You are paying for your drugs and medications.
Strange that in the US they're required to cover the cost for people who aren't able to afford it though. And it's only been like that since the 1980's. Hey, fun thing. Did you know that 40% of people in Ontario who required medical care have gone to the US for treatment? Welcome to reality. It can be a very long wait when it's 90 days before seeing a specialist and another 180 days before you even start treatment for something. And you might wait as long as 300 days for cancer treatment or a bypass.
They sure are required to pay the new minimum wage in Ontario. Wait for the shit to hit the fan in a year and change and get back to me when businesses are shutting up shop.
You're right, they don't pay minimum wage. They usually pay $2-4/hr more then the minimum wage, it's the small business owners like mom n' pop restaurants, gas bars, small hobbyist stores, convenience stores that pay right at the minimum wage because their monthly profits are just enough for the owner to make ends meet if they're lucky(and providing they're not the ones who are there for 15hrs/day anyway). Strange thing though, every time these bumps in the min. wage happen those big name stores also stop hiring full-time workers, and rely more heavily on part-time. That's the case going on here in Ontario as well, which has had 2 big bumps in the min. wage and the same government just pushed through a $15/hr min. wage.
People who would have worked their way through the layers from PT to FT to management will never get there now, and there's far greater chance that their job will simply be automated out of existence. That's what the Mc'D's in Ontario are planning, and Wendy's and Burger King and Tim Horton's are now looking to do. Places that are unionized like Zeher's are also increasing self-checkouts, more automation, the bottom of the barrel stores like Food Basics or NoFrills are pushing more automation more self-checkouts as well. All those people are going to end up jobless, and the best estimation is talking 25-43% unemployment for this province. How the fuck is that not going to cause mass social unrest?
That reminds me of the people who make the claim that stuff by clinical law professors(legalinsurection for example) on their own sites have no idea on what they're talking about. Nice try on that though, if you clicked the link you would have found that it's a blog written by a professor of economics at Harvard, explaining in very simple econ101 why "raising the minimum wage" like that is bad.
Maas is as much a conservative as I'm a Liberal. Neither is true. If you're writing a new law, isn't enforcing a law that's been on the books since the beginning of the FDR. You're either rewriting an existing law, or you're using an old law to give in-force an old law to modern times by creating a new law based off an old one.
There's no such thing as radical centerism, if there was, more people would be protesting overt censorship of media and communication. That's not the case here, take your pick this is either left-authoritarian censorship under the guise of centerism or right-authoritarian censorship.
Considering you've got antifa groups and other groups violently assaulting people...again...and the only people willing to protect people are right-wing nationalists or neo-nazi's, you're digging your own fucking hole again.
In the world of the Trump supporter, how import might you gauge, say, causality? Does it exist?
Well let's go with causality. When unemployment was trending up on the basis that Clinton was going to win, and suddenly revered when Trump won? That's a pretty good correlation isn't it.
Yeah he's such an idiot that the moment after he was elected that businesses basically opened the doors to hire people. The unemployment U3 and more importantly the U6(which has dropped nearly 2% since mid-november) are lower then when Obama was in office in the middle of his 'recovery' and he managed to reduce government centralization leaving states to make their own decisions. Oh, and wages are increasing for the first time in 6 years in quite a few places in the US, that's after they decreased repeated or remained stagnant.
Keep going with the "unemployed, ignorant and uneducated people" bit. At the rate the democrats are going they won't be a party by 2020, especially after they elected Mr. Moreofthesame and threw the "why the fuck did we lose" reviews out the window. Along with the "muh russia" narrative.
Keep in mind that's also the POTUS that if you dared speak out against, the first response from the progressives was that: "you're a racist." But hey, they can keep digging that hole, sure going to be interesting with Rice testifying now, especially after all that backtracking and that it appears that the previous administration illegally unmasked people for political reasons(or that her story has changed and that she actually did unmask names illegally). And that those records were sent to the Obama library(which hasn't been built yet) and will take an act of congress to actually uncover, unless after that testimony that they subpoena them which is likely going to be the case.
inb4 someone claims legal insurrection is a partisan site, and not operated by one of the top law blogs run by a clinical law processor at Cornell.
FYI that comment is now illegal in Germany, since they just passed a gay marriage law with a internet censorship rider attached to it. Hope you enjoy your jail cell.
If the Trudeau government actually does something on this I'll be surprised and laud them for doing it. But as it stands right now? So far the AG has been the only person in this current government that stands up for freedom of speech and judicial overreach while the government itself is up for eroding it. At this point the only way this gets fixed is if a law gets passed.
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.
Politicians are elected. An appointee is an official. Cabinet members like in this case can be both, since in some countries a cabinet member may have to be an elected member of the government to gain that position. And in other countries members of the inner circle can be an appointee which isn't elected.
He has a point -- you did not provide a link or any other evidence
No he really doesn't. I did say "if I remember right." Because when evidence comes his way, like what I provided. They deserve nothing other then to be flamed because past instances show that irregardless of proof, whether it's statistics from a government agency, legal cases, the person on their own openly stating something, actual quotes, actual criminal law files, discussion cases that absolve groups or well anything else? They refuse to believe it, or call it fake. Or make some other claim because they were proven wrong.
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.
Here's one for you to think on. How long do you think a law that's meant for domestic violence will last if it's based on "emotional abuse." I'll give you a moment to think on that. Now that you have, I'm sure you've already realized which gender is the primary user of that type of abuse. I'm going to bet that off the top of your head you can now think of a dozen women who would be classified as domestic abusers if such a law was passed.
Now, I want to you to think on this one. Why is it in domestic abuse cases that roughly 70% of the time, women will be the instigator of abuse. But the man will take the blame for it even if he attempts to flee. Why is it that women are given a free pass in the legal system for the same acts that would land a man in jail. Why is there a push among feminists to stop women from going to jail, or pay at all in any form for domestic abuse or even the rape of minors. Oh and now that you've read all that? Now you can get to the wonderful sources. Let me know when you read the paper about how women are the primary actors of abuse in cases of divorce.
For added fun: You can now rationalize the following. A 30yr old women has sex with a 13yr old and receives no jail time, no fine, no punishment at all. A 30yr old man has sex with a 13yr old and receives a 10yr jail sentence. When you're finished rationalizing it, you can now rationalize why a women can make a false rape claim, destroy a persons life so badly that they commit suicide because of it and never receive any punishment or even be admonished under law. Except in the rarest of cases(usually requiring multiple cases where the women has filed false rape claims).
Now explain why this double standard is acceptable, and why 4th wave feminism supports this and not equality under the law. Or you can simply say that maybe, that "men's rights crap" is correct in there being a double standard that's unacceptable.
Pull the other one, Mashiki. No one except the most dyed in the wool women-haters will believe you.
Your story didn't happen anywhere except inside your head. Please prove me right with one of your trademark irrelevant links.
Nice projection. Gonna just point out that no matter how hard you white knight, it's not gonna get you laid.
But it's pretty pathetic that you consider things like legal cases, actual accounts of people which are archived, news articles, actual statistics to be irrelevant. It's always made me wonder, just what is classified as "fact" in your world? Maybe it's whatever groups like shareblue tell you, which would explain a lot.
How long will it be now until merely saying hello or making any other polite acknowledgement of a lady's existence with anything but a totally emotionless inflection of the voice and totally neutral expression on the face will be considered an unwanted advance?
Already there, and it's happened up here in Canada. I'll have to dig up the article but if I remember right, it boiled down to the guy nodding to the secretary as he entered the building. It later came out he rejected her advances, but he still lost his job. But, the kicker is if you're a man and wonder into a women heavy office and they don't know you're there? Oh boy are you in for some interesting times. That's not even touching on the amount of sexual harassment from those women. The same type of bullshit that would get a guy a reprimand or fired from his job.
There's an incredible double standard between men and women in office environments. Hell anyone who's in IT and works with women likely either leave their door open, or have someone else in the room simply to cover any possible "but he *insert sexual harassment claim here*" because it's so rampant. Hell you can look at the absolute bullshit that Torvalds went through in the last 2 years if you need examples.
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Like Obama's Mus^H^H^H travel ban
Fixed that for you. It was Obama's list.
Yeah, better to fuck the rest of the world just so you can have cheap energy. Fuck YOU!!!!
You'd better off yourself first, bitter little malthusian.
Thing is, electricity doesn't work well in countries like Canada where the distances are vast The grid can't handle it, it's also more expensive then any other method for heating. It's why charities that exist to pay for heating ran out of money last winter a few months into the winter season, and the people who primarily use them are the ones who use electricity for heating. At 0.185kWh @peak those charities were out of cash by December last year. The winter season in most of Canada runs from mid or late october until april or may. Charities that supply wood on the other hand barely squeaked by. On top of that this was a mild winter, it was also a mild Nov-December period this year.
It's the same reason why my sister's electricity bill went from $80/mo to $260/mo with the same usage, when the Alberta NDP shut down all the coal power plants. Gee that's a brilliant idea, we're literally swimming in coal, it produces cheap energy but fuck you! You're gonna get screwed over to boot. Now the kicker, when they have those randomly high winds and storms which knock out power for days on end. Their little shithole of a town which had electricity no longer does. They truck in diesel fuel to keep the government offices, fire hall, and mall open and heated so people don't freeze to death when it hit's -42C.
It's the same in Ontario, where the liberals blow $1B on two ridding seats to shut down a natural gas power plant, pay producers to not produce electricity, sell it for pennies to the US, and on top of that implement a "green energy" act that drives the price through the roof. Yeah the top two concerns in Ontario for the last few years are "high electricity prices" and jobs. Great combination.
That's pretty much expected in the no-name stores here. And the proliferation of no-name stores which sell things cheaper is a direct result of policies by the government where wages have remained stagnant, and costs have increased. If you live in the middle of a nice neighborhood in Toronto, you're likely not bagging your stuff. If you live in the middle of South-Western Ontario you likely are, and barely making ends meet to boot.
No, Ontario doesn't. You're paying out of pocket for a lot of stuff. If you're not carrying supplemental insurance like blue shield/green shield etc., you're probably going to go bankrupt if you're seriously injured. You are paying for your drugs and medications.
Strange that in the US they're required to cover the cost for people who aren't able to afford it though. And it's only been like that since the 1980's. Hey, fun thing. Did you know that 40% of people in Ontario who required medical care have gone to the US for treatment? Welcome to reality. It can be a very long wait when it's 90 days before seeing a specialist and another 180 days before you even start treatment for something. And you might wait as long as 300 days for cancer treatment or a bypass.
They sure are required to pay the new minimum wage in Ontario. Wait for the shit to hit the fan in a year and change and get back to me when businesses are shutting up shop.
You're right, they don't pay minimum wage. They usually pay $2-4/hr more then the minimum wage, it's the small business owners like mom n' pop restaurants, gas bars, small hobbyist stores, convenience stores that pay right at the minimum wage because their monthly profits are just enough for the owner to make ends meet if they're lucky(and providing they're not the ones who are there for 15hrs/day anyway). Strange thing though, every time these bumps in the min. wage happen those big name stores also stop hiring full-time workers, and rely more heavily on part-time. That's the case going on here in Ontario as well, which has had 2 big bumps in the min. wage and the same government just pushed through a $15/hr min. wage.
People who would have worked their way through the layers from PT to FT to management will never get there now, and there's far greater chance that their job will simply be automated out of existence. That's what the Mc'D's in Ontario are planning, and Wendy's and Burger King and Tim Horton's are now looking to do. Places that are unionized like Zeher's are also increasing self-checkouts, more automation, the bottom of the barrel stores like Food Basics or NoFrills are pushing more automation more self-checkouts as well. All those people are going to end up jobless, and the best estimation is talking 25-43% unemployment for this province. How the fuck is that not going to cause mass social unrest?
That reminds me of the people who make the claim that stuff by clinical law professors(legalinsurection for example) on their own sites have no idea on what they're talking about. Nice try on that though, if you clicked the link you would have found that it's a blog written by a professor of economics at Harvard, explaining in very simple econ101 why "raising the minimum wage" like that is bad.
It's a breach in the Immaterium. Prepare for the warp storms, pray that the god-emperor will see us through safely.
Maas is as much a conservative as I'm a Liberal. Neither is true. If you're writing a new law, isn't enforcing a law that's been on the books since the beginning of the FDR. You're either rewriting an existing law, or you're using an old law to give in-force an old law to modern times by creating a new law based off an old one.
There's no such thing as radical centerism, if there was, more people would be protesting overt censorship of media and communication. That's not the case here, take your pick this is either left-authoritarian censorship under the guise of centerism or right-authoritarian censorship.
Considering you've got antifa groups and other groups violently assaulting people...again...and the only people willing to protect people are right-wing nationalists or neo-nazi's, you're digging your own fucking hole again.
In the world of the Trump supporter, how import might you gauge, say, causality? Does it exist?
Well let's go with causality. When unemployment was trending up on the basis that Clinton was going to win, and suddenly revered when Trump won? That's a pretty good correlation isn't it.
Yeah he's such an idiot that the moment after he was elected that businesses basically opened the doors to hire people. The unemployment U3 and more importantly the U6(which has dropped nearly 2% since mid-november) are lower then when Obama was in office in the middle of his 'recovery' and he managed to reduce government centralization leaving states to make their own decisions. Oh, and wages are increasing for the first time in 6 years in quite a few places in the US, that's after they decreased repeated or remained stagnant.
Keep going with the "unemployed, ignorant and uneducated people" bit. At the rate the democrats are going they won't be a party by 2020, especially after they elected Mr. Moreofthesame and threw the "why the fuck did we lose" reviews out the window. Along with the "muh russia" narrative.
"Hate speech" -- whatever the majority can turn around and define. Nothing more. That's why hate speech laws need to burn in fire.
Keep in mind that's also the POTUS that if you dared speak out against, the first response from the progressives was that: "you're a racist." But hey, they can keep digging that hole, sure going to be interesting with Rice testifying now, especially after all that backtracking and that it appears that the previous administration illegally unmasked people for political reasons(or that her story has changed and that she actually did unmask names illegally). And that those records were sent to the Obama library(which hasn't been built yet) and will take an act of congress to actually uncover, unless after that testimony that they subpoena them which is likely going to be the case.
inb4 someone claims legal insurrection is a partisan site, and not operated by one of the top law blogs run by a clinical law processor at Cornell.
FYI that comment is now illegal in Germany, since they just passed a gay marriage law with a internet censorship rider attached to it. Hope you enjoy your jail cell.
If the Trudeau government actually does something on this I'll be surprised and laud them for doing it. But as it stands right now? So far the AG has been the only person in this current government that stands up for freedom of speech and judicial overreach while the government itself is up for eroding it. At this point the only way this gets fixed is if a law gets passed.
Hasn't the US decided the same way on variations of this case multiple times?
Yep. Mega, Torrent Freak, KAT, just to name a few.
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.
Politicians are elected. An appointee is an official. Cabinet members like in this case can be both, since in some countries a cabinet member may have to be an elected member of the government to gain that position. And in other countries members of the inner circle can be an appointee which isn't elected.
He has a point -- you did not provide a link or any other evidence
No he really doesn't. I did say "if I remember right." Because when evidence comes his way, like what I provided. They deserve nothing other then to be flamed because past instances show that irregardless of proof, whether it's statistics from a government agency, legal cases, the person on their own openly stating something, actual quotes, actual criminal law files, discussion cases that absolve groups or well anything else? They refuse to believe it, or call it fake. Or make some other claim because they were proven wrong.
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.
Here's one for you to think on. How long do you think a law that's meant for domestic violence will last if it's based on "emotional abuse." I'll give you a moment to think on that. Now that you have, I'm sure you've already realized which gender is the primary user of that type of abuse. I'm going to bet that off the top of your head you can now think of a dozen women who would be classified as domestic abusers if such a law was passed.
Now, I want to you to think on this one. Why is it in domestic abuse cases that roughly 70% of the time, women will be the instigator of abuse. But the man will take the blame for it even if he attempts to flee. Why is it that women are given a free pass in the legal system for the same acts that would land a man in jail. Why is there a push among feminists to stop women from going to jail, or pay at all in any form for domestic abuse or even the rape of minors. Oh and now that you've read all that? Now you can get to the wonderful sources. Let me know when you read the paper about how women are the primary actors of abuse in cases of divorce.
For added fun: You can now rationalize the following. A 30yr old women has sex with a 13yr old and receives no jail time, no fine, no punishment at all. A 30yr old man has sex with a 13yr old and receives a 10yr jail sentence. When you're finished rationalizing it, you can now rationalize why a women can make a false rape claim, destroy a persons life so badly that they commit suicide because of it and never receive any punishment or even be admonished under law. Except in the rarest of cases(usually requiring multiple cases where the women has filed false rape claims).
Now explain why this double standard is acceptable, and why 4th wave feminism supports this and not equality under the law. Or you can simply say that maybe, that "men's rights crap" is correct in there being a double standard that's unacceptable.
Pull the other one, Mashiki. No one except the most dyed in the wool women-haters will believe you.
Your story didn't happen anywhere except inside your head. Please prove me right with one of your trademark irrelevant links.
Nice projection. Gonna just point out that no matter how hard you white knight, it's not gonna get you laid.
But it's pretty pathetic that you consider things like legal cases, actual accounts of people which are archived, news articles, actual statistics to be irrelevant. It's always made me wonder, just what is classified as "fact" in your world? Maybe it's whatever groups like shareblue tell you, which would explain a lot.
How long will it be now until merely saying hello or making any other polite acknowledgement of a lady's existence with anything but a totally emotionless inflection of the voice and totally neutral expression on the face will be considered an unwanted advance?
Already there, and it's happened up here in Canada. I'll have to dig up the article but if I remember right, it boiled down to the guy nodding to the secretary as he entered the building. It later came out he rejected her advances, but he still lost his job. But, the kicker is if you're a man and wonder into a women heavy office and they don't know you're there? Oh boy are you in for some interesting times. That's not even touching on the amount of sexual harassment from those women. The same type of bullshit that would get a guy a reprimand or fired from his job.
There's an incredible double standard between men and women in office environments. Hell anyone who's in IT and works with women likely either leave their door open, or have someone else in the room simply to cover any possible "but he *insert sexual harassment claim here*" because it's so rampant. Hell you can look at the absolute bullshit that Torvalds went through in the last 2 years if you need examples.