As others have posted, this isnt an accurate picture of Canada. I live on Ontario, we have very high rates and there are a number of mostly political reasons for this. One provice over (Quebec) has insanely cheap rates (massive sources of cheap hydro sources while Ontario has costly nuclear and a disasterous entrance into "green" power).
Up in northern Quebec they hav eboth freezing temperatures and a massive power plant (Robert-Bourassa 5,616MW ). Newfoundland has the equally massive Churchill Falls (5,428MW).
These are hydro plants with outputs that put them in the same range as a decent nuclear plant. For reference, Ontario's "big boy" nuclear plant, Bruce nuclear is number two in the world and puts out 6,384 MW.
i bough into the "we are different" mantra from tomtom as well.. sucked big time. Now i just buy whatever GPS is on sale at costco every year or two and dont worry about the "free map updates".
(which in turn is dwarfed by US/Canada/Australia).
Pretty much our entire nation is in a cold weather alert (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/extreme-cold-national-1.4468792) so pardon us for heating our homes.
London +8C brussels +6C Toronto -13C Resolute - 26C
By the end of the week, Toronto will be as cold as Resolute is.
thought the exact same thing, and stopped reading at the same point. Not sure what "projecting military power" means but i dont think a few coast guard cuters trying to rescue stranded fishermen does that?
Suggest you research why the taxi system was built in the first place. Prior to that, it was "uber" style, you call someone and they came to get you. There were a lot of issues with that system and the current system came out of those problems.
The taxi laws probably need to be revised, but violating them istn the answr.
I was a canadian citizen living in the US for years. I'd cross back into the US 4-6 times a month and hand a canadian passport while driving my connecticut plated car and using a connecticut drivers license becaues i needed it to buy my car and i let my Ontario license expire.
Never once had them ask me about the TWO US phones i had on me.
I still go back and forth often. in the last 10 years of crossing dozens of times i have only had one DHS guy ask about a phone. He found it odd i didnt have one and mentioned that everyone does and when people say they dont it sets off red flags that they are hiding the phones.
Never once was i asked who was the phones service provider.
They havent yet activated the final part of their "strategy". You know, when "working families" (https://workingfamilies.ca/ ) which is really just a thin union coating spend millions on attack ads for the liberals. This lets them strategically use their own funds for positive messsages, while letting "someone else" do the dirty work.
Might be different this time as they finally took on some of the "third party spending" laws they should have addopted decades ago.
They were also able to get use taxpayer money to fund their own party. Like how they got the "ontario electric benefit" broken down on the electric bill, so you can clearly see what the libs are doing for you (all in the name of transparency) yet they were never able to spell out what the "debt retirement fee" or the "global adjustments" were. Odd how they were not interested in transparancy and outline how their disasterous "green energy" fixed rate contracts is what caused electricity prices to skyrocket.
They will just "buy" a win, as they have for the last several years.. What is the current plan? Remortgage electric prices for a 25% reduction to get the election win, and in return we pay $25 billion in interest.
Most of U.S. electricity is generated using fossil fuels In 2016, natural gas was the largest energy source for the 4 trillion kilowatthours of electricity generated in the United States.
Sources of U.S. electricity generation, 2016: Renewables 15%, Petroleum 1%, Nuclear 20%, Coal 30%, Natural Gas 34% Click to enlarge More data
Natural gas was the source of about 34% of U.S. electricity generation in 2016. In addition to burning natural gas to heat water for steam, it is also burned to produce hot combustion gases that pass through a gas turbine, spinning the turbine's blades to generate electricity.
Coal was the second-largest energy source for U.S. electricity generation in 2016—about 30%. Nearly all coal-fired power plants use steam turbines. A few coal-fired power plants convert coal to a gas for use in a gas turbine to generate electricity.
Petroleum can be burned to produce hot combustion gases to turn a turbine or to make steam that turns a turbine. Residual fuel oil and petroleum coke, products from refining crude oil, are the main petroleum fuels used in steam turbines. Distillate (or diesel) fuel oil is used in diesel-engine generators. Petroleum was the source of less than 1% of U.S. electricity generation in 2016.
Exactly! Either it is property or it isnt.. While in Connecticut i had to pay property taxes on my car even, yet billion dollar "patent portfolios" are property but tax exempt?
The worst part is exactly what you hit upon. Offshore all the profits to avoid paying taxes but sure love the legal system when it is time to sue for patent money..
Know what i love about the GO train.. their "service guarantee" with so many exemptions it is difficult to collect. Often they simply cancel the entire train and then dont issue refunds because cancelled trains cant be late???
A week or so ago someone jumped in front of the GO train near guildwood. I left the train at my home statoins because they were communicating outright incorrect information on the train and figured it would be hours before it started moving again.
I asked for a refund since i never took the train.. They gave a big song and dance about "one time good will".. If i never took the train and can prove it.. what would i be paying for?
My train is late at least twice a month causing me to miss my bus and wait 30 mins for the next one.
20 seconds early... The only thing "on time" with GO Transit is the annual fare increases.
What an odd post. So, this article is about "Scalpers in Canada".. Yet you quote 17 U.S.C. 109 which is a US law? Did you know that reselling tickets use to be against the law in Most of Canada (my home provice of Ontario for sure).
Did you know that the "right of first sale" is under constant attack in the US as well (see Omega vs Costco).
Ontario allowed reseling to try to let people sell their tickets for valid reasons (cant make teh event for example). But this encouraged electronic scalping with bots and Ontario is working on plans to fight this.
cant you find a "tool" that tricks the installer into doing its job and updating the OS anyhow? This is an artificial limit apple puts in and i thought easily defeated?
I was just about to post the same thing. Those cycle computers are crazy expensive and any old phone is capable of so much more. I use my old phone to play my music, keep offline maps in case i get lost, and track my stats for Strava (Heartrate, cadance, speed, distance...).
Second this post. you can get coverplates to "hide" them and even paint over them so they are less visible.
unless this is your final home, you dont want to do things like rip it out and then leave a mess for the next owner to try to get it back in. it isnt harming anything having it there is it?
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Want to buy some Bitcoins.. Opps i mean Tulips https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... totally not a repeat...
As others have posted, this isnt an accurate picture of Canada. I live on Ontario, we have very high rates and there are a number of mostly political reasons for this. One provice over (Quebec) has insanely cheap rates (massive sources of cheap hydro sources while Ontario has costly nuclear and a disasterous entrance into "green" power).
Up in northern Quebec they hav eboth freezing temperatures and a massive power plant (Robert-Bourassa 5,616MW ). Newfoundland has the equally massive Churchill Falls (5,428MW).
These are hydro plants with outputs that put them in the same range as a decent nuclear plant. For reference, Ontario's "big boy" nuclear plant, Bruce nuclear is number two in the world and puts out 6,384 MW.
You can find Hydro Quebec's rate card here: http://www.hydroquebec.com/res...
i think they were referrng to this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
i bough into the "we are different" mantra from tomtom as well.. sucked big time. Now i just buy whatever GPS is on sale at costco every year or two and dont worry about the "free map updates".
this was great.. If i had mod points, +1 for your use of one of the most misused words in business "Fungable".
(which in turn is dwarfed by US/Canada/Australia).
Pretty much our entire nation is in a cold weather alert (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/extreme-cold-national-1.4468792) so pardon us for heating our homes.
London +8C
brussels +6C
Toronto -13C
Resolute - 26C
By the end of the week, Toronto will be as cold as Resolute is.
thought the exact same thing, and stopped reading at the same point. Not sure what "projecting military power" means but i dont think a few coast guard cuters trying to rescue stranded fishermen does that?
I cant upvote as i commented here.. but this is spot on!
Suggest you research why the taxi system was built in the first place. Prior to that, it was "uber" style, you call someone and they came to get you. There were a lot of issues with that system and the current system came out of those problems.
The taxi laws probably need to be revised, but violating them istn the answr.
Really, can you provide a source?
I was a canadian citizen living in the US for years. I'd cross back into the US 4-6 times a month and hand a canadian passport while driving my connecticut plated car and using a connecticut drivers license becaues i needed it to buy my car and i let my Ontario license expire.
Never once had them ask me about the TWO US phones i had on me.
I still go back and forth often. in the last 10 years of crossing dozens of times i have only had one DHS guy ask about a phone. He found it odd i didnt have one and mentioned that everyone does and when people say they dont it sets off red flags that they are hiding the phones.
Never once was i asked who was the phones service provider.
They havent yet activated the final part of their "strategy". You know, when "working families" (https://workingfamilies.ca/ ) which is really just a thin union coating spend millions on attack ads for the liberals. This lets them strategically use their own funds for positive messsages, while letting "someone else" do the dirty work.
Might be different this time as they finally took on some of the "third party spending" laws they should have addopted decades ago.
They were also able to get use taxpayer money to fund their own party. Like how they got the "ontario electric benefit" broken down on the electric bill, so you can clearly see what the libs are doing for you (all in the name of transparency) yet they were never able to spell out what the "debt retirement fee" or the "global adjustments" were. Odd how they were not interested in transparancy and outline how their disasterous "green energy" fixed rate contracts is what caused electricity prices to skyrocket.
Hide the negative, oversell the positive.
They will just "buy" a win, as they have for the last several years.. What is the current plan? Remortgage electric prices for a 25% reduction to get the election win, and in return we pay $25 billion in interest.
I seriously hope you are either trolling or playing some sort of prank.
walmart, bestbuy and others carry them. (in the stores, not just online).
https://www.walmart.com/search...
No, i am saying that if you want to have a "Green car".. Push for clean energy.
When your car is powered by a coal plant you are really just moving the polution somewhere else.
Thankfully those Tesla's are connected to "clean" energy?
Oh wait, they are connected to fossil fuel plants? Well that doesnt have any carcinogenic exhaust does it?
https://www.eia.gov/energyexpl...
Most of U.S. electricity is generated using fossil fuels
In 2016, natural gas was the largest energy source for the 4 trillion kilowatthours of electricity generated in the United States.
Sources of U.S. electricity generation, 2016: Renewables 15%, Petroleum 1%, Nuclear 20%, Coal 30%, Natural Gas 34%
Click to enlarge
More data
Natural gas was the source of about 34% of U.S. electricity generation in 2016. In addition to burning natural gas to heat water for steam, it is also burned to produce hot combustion gases that pass through a gas turbine, spinning the turbine's blades to generate electricity.
Coal was the second-largest energy source for U.S. electricity generation in 2016—about 30%. Nearly all coal-fired power plants use steam turbines. A few coal-fired power plants convert coal to a gas for use in a gas turbine to generate electricity.
Petroleum can be burned to produce hot combustion gases to turn a turbine or to make steam that turns a turbine. Residual fuel oil and petroleum coke, products from refining crude oil, are the main petroleum fuels used in steam turbines. Distillate (or diesel) fuel oil is used in diesel-engine generators. Petroleum was the source of less than 1% of U.S. electricity generation in 2016.
Exactly! Either it is property or it isnt.. While in Connecticut i had to pay property taxes on my car even, yet billion dollar "patent portfolios" are property but tax exempt?
The worst part is exactly what you hit upon. Offshore all the profits to avoid paying taxes but sure love the legal system when it is time to sue for patent money..
which one? My Apple SE seems to have rapid-fire upgraded the last few weeks..
Apple Releases iOS 11.1.2 With Fix for Unresponsive iPhone X
Know what i love about the GO train.. their "service guarantee" with so many exemptions it is difficult to collect.
Often they simply cancel the entire train and then dont issue refunds because cancelled trains cant be late???
A week or so ago someone jumped in front of the GO train near guildwood. I left the train at my home statoins because they were communicating outright incorrect information on the train and figured it would be hours before it started moving again.
I asked for a refund since i never took the train.. They gave a big song and dance about "one time good will".. If i never took the train and can prove it.. what would i be paying for?
My train is late at least twice a month causing me to miss my bus and wait 30 mins for the next one.
20 seconds early... The only thing "on time" with GO Transit is the annual fare increases.
Ever take the Connecticut/New York trains?
They are dual power, and antiques on wheels.. Complete with original bathrooms :(
What an odd post. So, this article is about "Scalpers in Canada".. Yet you quote 17 U.S.C. 109 which is a US law?
Did you know that reselling tickets use to be against the law in Most of Canada (my home provice of Ontario for sure).
Did you know that the "right of first sale" is under constant attack in the US as well (see Omega vs Costco).
Ontario allowed reseling to try to let people sell their tickets for valid reasons (cant make teh event for example). But this encouraged electronic scalping with bots and Ontario is working on plans to fight this.
https://www.thestar.com/news/q...
cant you find a "tool" that tricks the installer into doing its job and updating the OS anyhow? This is an artificial limit apple puts in and i thought easily defeated?
This!
I was just about to post the same thing. Those cycle computers are crazy expensive and any old phone is capable of so much more.
I use my old phone to play my music, keep offline maps in case i get lost, and track my stats for Strava (Heartrate, cadance, speed, distance...).
you are aware that a large amount of "free" software is based exclusivly on invading your privacy right? where do they get their funding from?
Second this post. you can get coverplates to "hide" them and even paint over them so they are less visible.
unless this is your final home, you dont want to do things like rip it out and then leave a mess for the next owner to try to get it back in. it isnt harming anything having it there is it?