First!
Nothing to complain about though.
Life is good. Enjoy!

Working the night shift and running on barely any sleep because, despite the sign on my door stating that there are shift workers sleeping so no knocking/doorbell, someone has decided for the past two days to ring the doorbell at about 1 in the afternoon. The equivalent to a normal person’s 1 in the morning.
Please people, if you’re soliciting for whatever reason, and there is a sign on the door, it’s there for a reason. And teach your kids what those signs mean – I understand they might be selling something but I really need my sleep.
Interrupted sleep while working night shifts are a lot harder to deal with than interrupted sleep on a day shift. Especially when they happen to be 12 hour night shifts.

But other than that, nothing else to complain about here!

Yes, many that work days forget there are those that work nights.
Please be considerate of your neighbours. I know that concept is very difficult for many.

Oh and when driving at night dim your bloody high beams before you blind the oncoming driver. So many times I will see an approaching vehicle and dim my lights only to be blinded by you idiots that wait until you see my headlights. Brains are a rare commodity these days. If you don’t have one, stay home.

My corn flakes were good this morning. Just thinking I am sure glad I live here and not a lot of other places in the world today. What a mess everywhere.

With all the Buzz down town this week I received an e-mail
52 cows were stolen overnightfrom an Alberta ranch (seriously)
Sherri Green is a suspect …..seems she wants to turn PG into the land of milk and honey .

Anyone else ever notice Esso is always the highest price for gas?

Can you disconnect your doorbell? Probably easier then expecting anything resembling courtesy in this day and age.

Keep Right Except To Pass.

I’d don’t understand Esso’s logic either. 5 cents a liter more then the station across the street up by my place. I haven’t seen a car at the pumps there in months.

And I can’t spell very well at 6:16 in the morning. :)

Good morning everyone. I hope its a good day for you too. I can sure sympathise with peegee and dragonmaster. I don’t know why police don’t take action on their own with some of these ridiculous headlights. I’ve only heard of one case where police charged someone for failing to dim their headlights. There must be others though and yes interrupted sleep in the daytime is very hard to overcome.
I can only hope it gets better for you.

I don’t mind you smoking in your vehicle, but I detest that you flick your cigarette but out the window. Use the ashtray smoking folks and you will be looked at in a kinder light by the non-smokers.

“cigarette butt”

Am I the only one who skips past the Legebokoff trial daily updates?

I worked night-shift (graveyards) for many years. For me, he trick to getting a good sleep was unplugging or turning off all phones, wearing earplugs while I slept and putting tinfoil over the window to make the room as dark as night. The ONLY thing that ever disturbed me was the neighbors barking dog but after I spoke with them it stopped. I would take the face plate off the doorbell and disconnect it… it can’t be that hard.

Washington State is taking care of those Left Lane Hogs.

http://www.theprovince.com/news/bc/Washington+state+cracking+down+dawdling+left+lane+hogs+Should/9933234/story.html

When is the realty industry going to get with the times? They are still using a standard 7/3 commission charge from decades ago. Those kind of rates might have been justified when the average home in a major centre cost $200K and there was no internet for people to do their own searching. So you would earn $8000 for actually getting off your ass and finding homes for prospective buyers, or buyers for listed homes.

Now a home in Vancouver, Calgary or Toronto can run $600-700K easily for nothing too fancy, and every prospective buyer does their own research through realtor.ca. So how the hell do realtors justify charging $25,000 commission just for sticking a sign on the lawn and waiting for showing requests to come in via MLS? It’s insane but I would love to hear some value justifications from any realtors on here!

ExPat, Add to that the land transfer cost and moving into a new house in PG will cost $15k-20k. It will take a few years just to break even on the transaction.

Changing the topic, I haven’t seen any signs of the road make-over that is supposed to happen this year, is there a projects plan and have there priorities been set?

ExPat.. I have always thought real estate charges were a scam… they do the exact same work no matter if the house is worth $100,000 of $500,000 ( except a few more pictures )and yet charge more for selling the more expensive house.. what a joke..

Then when property guys and other cheaper ways to sell your home shows up the real estate board puts out all these commercials about trusting who you are letting into your house etc.. what makes them so trust worthy over others ?

Thanks Pylot for posting that link! There are a lot of people who hog the left lane on a four lane highway – going the speed limit. Some have a good reason to be there because they are preparing to enter an upcoming left turn lane and they know from previous episodes that if they keep driving in the rightmost lane and then indicate with their turn signal that they intend to go into the fast lane for the above reason – nobody in the left lane will let them enter into the lane!

But those who drive obstructively (for no reason) in the fast lane should be getting a ticket not for doing that but for failing to return to the right lane after passing, because that is the law or at least it ought to be!

Hope our last rain storm helps green up the grounds of the new Cancer Clinic…all the nice shrubs and stuff planted last year are just about dead. Not sure if even the rain will help….Shame..it was looking so nice when planted.

I have always called the For Sale signs the most expensive piece of cardboard you’ll ever find. I have had a few experiences with real estate agents, nice people but once they get their sign in your yard they seem to go AWOL. Next time around, I’m going with one of the for sale by owner companys and get on the MLS site, one agent actually told me 80% of buyers find their home there anyway.

Every morning I drive drive down 2nd ave and make a right on to Victoria to get over to 1st. Every morning there is some doofus who parks his or her Dodge pickup in the turn lane on 2nd. Not at the edge of the turn lane but smack dab in the middle of the 2 large painted arrows. Are people really that lazy?

Speaking of driving, why do some people signal left when they’re about to enter the traffic circle? You can’t actually make a left turn there. Signalling right when you approach your exit is nice but I’ve never understood the left signalling.

Axman: “I’d don’t understand Esso’s logic either. 5 cents a liter more then the station across the street up by my place. I haven’t seen a car at the pumps there in months.”

If you’re talking about the Esso at Domano and O’Grady, I see cars constantly filling up there even though the price is at least 5 cents cheaper right across the street. It seems that people don’t check the signs, or don’t care.

“Every morning I drive drive down 2nd ave and make a right on to Victoria to get over to 1st. Every morning there is some doofus who parks his or her Dodge pickup in the turn lane on 2nd. Not at the edge of the turn lane but smack dab in the middle of the 2 large painted arrows. Are people really that lazy?”

Yes. People will find all kinds of inventive ways to park in places they shouldn’t to avoid walking or any physical activity whatosoever.

Just like when you see cars cruising the parking lots for long periods of time scoping for a close spot, when they could have parked a little farther away and walked in.

So yes, some people are that lazy.

Good luck on trying to sell a house on your own. Tried that twice, hardly any response from buyers. Buyers are scared to go it alone.

Axman – Heres a sign to print. Just hold it up to your side window as you pass people on the right. It either gets a shocked look or a finger but they get the point…
http://static.lowensign.com/vcImages/items/600/TS-R4-16_18X24.jpg

Ontario, liberal majority, amazing considering the scandals and debt. Hi energy prices from fairy dust so called green generation chasing industry away. The vote divided between rural and urban. Amazing downfall of a province. Voters what where you thinking.

axman

The left signal is actually the proper way to let people know that you plan to go around the intersection (to the 3rd or 4th exit). So, you want to turn right…right signal. Going straight through, no signal before the intersection then a right signal before you exit.

So, for example, if I’m coming from the pulp mill but I want to go across the bridge,I’d put on the left signal so people know I’m going to use the whole roundabout. Just as you are about to exit the roundabout onto the bridge you change to a right.

It probably seems a bit silly on a tiny intersection, but when you do some of the big ones with multi-lanes like they have in Britian, it makes a lot of sense.

Great read on the left lane slow drivers. I believe that the driving schools are training young drivers to drive in that lane at whatever speed they want to. Look at the vast majority of drivers in the left lane going slow. Most times they are new drivers.

On the real estate commissions front, I sold real estate in the early 90’s. At that time a house was under 100 grand so the big commission was on the first 100 grand.

They don’ t train you to go whatever speed you want; they train you to drive according to the speed limit and road conditions. In a highway scenario I keep to the right, but around town I sometimes have to turn left. I can’t go more than the speed limit with an L on my bumper, no matter how close you get to me. And I do have to come to a full stop every time I get to a stop sign or what have you. I do apologize for obeying the rules of the road seasoned drivers. I’m just doing what I have to do.

Posted by: TrishC on June 13 2014 8:48 AM
axman

The left signal is actually the proper way to let people know that you plan to go around the intersection (to the 3rd or 4th exit). So, you want to turn right…right signal. Going straight through, no signal before the intersection then a right signal before you exit.

So, for example, if I’m coming from the pulp mill but I want to go across the bridge,I’d put on the left signal so people know I’m going to use the whole roundabout. Just as you are about to exit the roundabout onto the bridge you change to a right.

It probably seems a bit silly on a tiny intersection, but when you do some of the big ones with multi-lanes like they have in Britian, it makes a lot of sense.

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Thanks!

I did not know that; it’s been many years since I had to deal with two lane traffic circles!

A long time ago I read a letter in Penthouse magazine about a lady who sold real estate. I didn’t believe it. I predict another election in Ontario in about eighteen months. Gullible trusting sheep. Unions, wind turbines, very expensive power, corruption, double Californees debt, and last but not least Toronto. Can you say exodus? Just wait and watch. Maybe Detroit is contagious.

Agreed seamutt. The Ontario election outcome is off the charts bizaar. Wow.

Better get some pipelines built. Someone needs to contribute to the “have nots”.

Yeah, Ontarians are clearly not that interested in pulling their own weight.

Thank goodness we have the West to drive the country’s economy.

I was expecting either another Liberal minority or a Conservative minority. A Liberal majority was indeed strange.

Now that said, when you have Hudak using “I’m going to cut 100,000 jobs” as his primary platform line, one has to wonder if he has a functioning brain. He ran a horrific campaign and the general consensus is that the PC’s pretty much blew it.

I wouldn’t say that the vote was divided between urban and rural though. If you look at the results, the Libs grabbed 20 seats outside of the GTA, the NDP grabbed 17 and the PC’s grabbed 26. I think that shows that each party has appeal outside of the GTA.

Where the BIG issue lies is looking at the GTA results. There, the Libs grabbed 39 seats, the PC’s 1 and the NDP 4. That’s a disturbing trend if you are a PC, especially when major urban centres are slowly becoming the place where most people reside in the country.

The PC’s need to figure out how to start appealing to people living in major urban centres if they want to make any progress.

There has also been allot of talk around here about the perception that the PC’s have moved further right than where they were in the past, with their policy, their meetings with Tea Party representatives in the States, etc. In short, many people don’t believe they are “progressive”, despite the name. Combine that with an unpopular leader, and their inability to attract NEW conservative voters and we have the result from yesterday.

I have sold a number of our homes including one condo.The Prince George Citizen has always worked for me. The first priority is the right price. Craigslist also works. Most of the Homes for sale by owners are priced to high. You have to research the market and get the right price

And I have to agree the realtors are scum bags and the fees they get are out of this world. We had one realtor who wanted to price our home at $20,000.00 below market price. I insisted that the price was to low. It sold in two days with two offers at my price.

All is good in Abby and my regard’s to you all
Cheers

Posted by: NMG on June 13 2014 10:16 AM

Now that said, when you have Hudak using “I’m going to cut 100,000 jobs” as his primary platform line, one has to wonder if he has a functioning brain. He ran a horrific campaign and the general consensus is that the PC’s pretty much blew it.

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I figured he was pretty much done at that point. When you consider the sheer number of people in that province that are on the public payroll his statement was political suicide from the moment he uttered it.

When you go through the process with a real estate agent, you’ll hear jargon like “Feature” and “benefit” etc. There is only one thing that will sell your house. The PRICE. If your house sells in a week, you may have been a little low on the price. If your house is sitting on the market for months and months with no activity then it is priced wrong. The market is neutral. It doesn’t care who you are or what you do.

http://www.enbridge21.ca/
Write your MLA about opposing Northern Gateway using the above link.

@Axman
I too refuse to read the trial garbage.

@TrishC
That is right out of the drivers handbook! Good job. The driver handbook is online and should be mandatory reading before every license renewal.

“Yeah, Ontarians are clearly not that interested in pulling their own weight.

Thank goodness we have the West to drive the country’s economy”

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I guess it comes down to how you define “drive”. As a percentage of national GDP in 2012, here is how each area contributes:

BC: 12%
AB: 18%
ON: 37%
PQ: 19%

It looks to me like Ontario is still pretty important to the fortunes of the country.

Did anyone seriously think that the current Conservative party was actually “Progressive”? Surely everyone knows that they’re really the Reform Party and bought the name “Progressive Conservatives” in the political equivalent of a bankrupty sale.

The numbers can be spun in many ways. Basically axman nailed it. When you have a province full of government workers, it’s tough to run on a platform of government austerity.

There’s something else that people frustrated with the speed of the driver ahead of them should consider: if the person ahead of you is driving slower than you like because he doesn’t like the road conditions, the more you press him, the LESS likely he is to pull over to let you by. He needs time to locate a good place to pull off and to slow down to do it safely. If you tailgate him and push him to drive faster, he’s going to have a problem pulling over.

Re rezl Estate…..

Th great thing about democracy is the right to choose. And that includes choosing to use a Realtor of going it yourself. OR choosing to choose a Realtor that charges you less commissions. Or choosing to negotiate the commission with the Realtor of your choice.

You DO have all these choices….

Or I guess you can just choose to bitch about things and never try to do something about it to help yourself…

Ontario is very important to the national economy, Which makes this election result all the more baffeling. Here come the credit rating downgrades.

Posted by: billposer on June 13 2014 10:57 AM
There’s something else that people frustrated with the speed of the driver ahead of them should consider: if the person ahead of you is driving slower than you like because he doesn’t like the road conditions, the more you press him, the LESS likely he is to pull over to let you by. He needs time to locate a good place to pull off and to slow down to do it safely. If you tailgate him and push him to drive faster, he’s going to have a problem pulling over.

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A person that scared shouldn’t be in the left lane to start with. Heck, they shouldn’t be driving at all; they should still be home in bed or sitting on a bus.

Ontario’s ‘have not’ status will continue for the forseeable future unless they can reign in their debts and deficits. What the Conservatives was proposing was a little scary for those riding the gravy train.

gimmeabreak, your living in fantasy world. Democracy is dead.
Cheers

The Finance Minister Joe Oliver made a lot of sense with his comments about Ontario and Quebec. Is anyone listening?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/joe-oliver-lectures-ontario-quebec-on-debt-deficits-1.2669648

With increasing instability in Iraq gas prices will be heading up.

Why?
Cheers

Comment Posted by: interceptor on June 13 2014 8:40 AM
Axman – Heres a sign to print. Just hold it up to your side window as you pass people on the right. It either gets a shocked look or a finger but they get the point…
http://static.lowensign.com/vcImages/items/600/TS-R4-16_18X24.jpg
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It only makes sense of course where the rule is “keep right except to pass”. That rule isn’t in effect on every road.

Hey Dow Dum, you realize it’s very unsafe to tailgate heavy trucks and straddle the centerline at the same time right?

NoWay, thanks for the link to the MP’s

I sent a great email supporting Enbridge!

Speaking of questions, I have one.

How the heck is it possible for Alberta to be running a deficit? Couldn’t a gorilla generate a sizeable surplus in that Province given their situation?

You’re right NMG, they shouldn’t. Here’s a link for you.

http://globalnews.ca/news/1192585/alberta-government-unveils-balanced-2014-budget/

You guys are funny with the oil and gas prices . Looks like reading the IMF story at The Tyee today would be a good idea . Good thing our oil gas and coal sectors are GE tting $34 billion dollars every year out of all of our pockets . Lowest royalties and free money . We don’t have democracy .we have idiotocracy .

So Ataloss how do you feel about getting fleeced with the carbon tax and rising energy costs to pay off the IPP’s.

SM I feel we are getting screwed . We are the largest single suppliers of energy to the biggest energy pig in the world . And yet . our population is less than ten percent and yet we pay higher price for everything . Yes we have higher taxes on energy but that’s the red herring that’s always used . A red herring that is always being swallowed .

Define IPPs
Individual pension plans ? If so . Who’s ?

No problem He Spoke, everyone has a voice. I think in the end they will just total up the actual emails as against and not actually read all of them. So thanks for sending one out!

IPP money sucking independent power producers.

Ataloss do you use less energy than the average energy pig to the south? What’s your thoughts on China being an energy pig?

yeah, a lot of people have quick shots on a blog site in a make believe anonymity.

Not too many people really go out there and are willing to put their names on to a belief.

http://www.cleanenergybc.org/media/Cost%20of%20IPP%20Energy%20BACKGROUNDER%201106060%20DA%20FINAL.pdf

How much does FortisBC pay for power?

In most cases, the power produced by a small IPP can be intermittent, relying on sun, wind, or stream flow, and the majority of it likely enters the FortisBC system when it is least-needed. As a result, this power is not highly valued. FortisBC does not pay a premium for such power, and would therefore pay the same rate that we would pay for the lowest cost alternate source. Currently, this rate is determined by our purchases from BC Hydro. (At time of writing, 2.852 cents /kwh)

However, each case will be looked at on an individual basis and, depending on the attributes of the electrical power generated, priced accordingly.

Hey Duhragon, Driving tips? really? Huff glue much?

Find it very interesting that two provinces have elected Liberal governments. That’s a huge population between the two.
And two women Premiers. That’s the majority in two provinces wanting good solid government. And we here in B.C. are getting good government, without scandals, which is really nice for a change. And then there’s the minority population who complain and keep on complaining.
Quite happy with the way it’s all turned out.

Comment Posted by: Ataloss on June 13 2014 1:39 PM

Yes we have higher taxes on energy but that’s the red herring that’s always used . A red herring that is always being swallowed .

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Does red herring taste any thing like a regular herring?

This Iraq situation is not that surprising, but it looks as though once again Obama is caught off guard looking very naive and ineffective. For all the fortune spent on propping up the police state NSA system they really have no idea what is going on in the real world.

IMO Obama is hesitant about another war for good reason. Israel is the puppet master pulling the strings in Egypt and Saudi Arabian foreign policy, but this power is thin and limited to those in elite positions of power. We see Israeli power in the US on the wain with ultra zionist Eric Cantor the #2 republican getting humiliated in his primary, and the State Department bringing in visa rules for Israeli travel to the US to try and cut down on all the espionage Israel conducts on the American political system. The zionist power structure has peaked and will have a much harder time orchestrating wars like they have in the last decade unless they use terrorist proxies to create such instability that the world is dragged into another war unwilling.

What we are seeing in the Middle east today is a resurgence of the United Arab Republic that once included Egypt, Syria, and Iraq. Its a Sunni world war on Shiites and the outside world. The ISIS terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is in all likelihood getting state sponsorship from Egypt’s new President General Al-Sisi who is a big supporter of the United Arab Republic concept… and its common knowledge that Saudi Arabia has been funding this group in Syria before it crossed over into Iraq and seized half the country in less then a week of fighting.

The zionist world order and their minion puppets want war with the Shiites and Iran. Once the ISIS terrorists enter Baghdad the war with Iran will be on… and by extension the war with Syria will also be on. Israel just doesn’t have the world support to bomb Iran directly without risking isolation, yet long before ISIS entered Iraq Israel moved 2-nuclear weapons capable submarines into the Persian Gulf a couple of weeks back pre-staged for war on Iran.

Obama has few good choices left now as events have overtaken America’s ability to control events on the ground.

Does he bomb the ISIS terrorists and risk huge collateral damage with civilians… after all ISIS was an ally of America’s allies in the Syrian conflict?

Does Obama let Baghdad get over run and risk Iraqi collapse and the split up of the country and consolidation of control over oil by the Saudi’s and Iranians?

Reports already have Iranian tanks entering Iraq to back up the Malaki government, so this is sure to intensify the civil war on all fronts. Its ugly now and going to get more ugly, the price of oil will only be going up from here. Israel will have its war on Iran and in all likelihood Syria too, it just remains to be seen how it all ends.

Probably the best of all solutions left at this point is to get Turkey involved as an American and NATO proxi In Northern Iraq and Syria. Let them do the fighting in their back yard. Turkey has the historical links, regional respect, and ability to change things on the ground.

Harper has given a war guarantee to Israel saying an attack on Israel is an attack on Canada… how far he is willing to back this up should be of great concern to Canadians.

I think the Ontario election is a product of the Thomas Piketty effect on the way people view economics. Its a pendulum swing from the far right of Harper federally, yet played out at the provincial level. The Harper government attack on the provincial liberals did more than anything to get the Ontario liberals elected.

Canada has become a petro state and Ontario is a province with out a petro industry. The high dollar and free trade with sub standard slave trade nations has killed off the manufacturing sector in Ontario and driven up their debt levels… and the hurting people of Ontario I don’t think really voted for the liberals, but rather against neo-con policy (trending in America right now as well) and for the lesser of three evils that will do the least damage to a fragile economy.

The liberals in Ontario most likely won because they had a plan to increase future provincial revenue with infrastructure focused on the hinterlands in building access to their resource industry… which is their future in a petro state. Even the voters in Toronto realize they can not use austerity to get out of the debt and the mess they are in now… only growth will bring hope.

I think we will see Ontario move against the conservatives federally in the next election and in doing so Canadian policy will move towards policy that supports the Ontario manufacturing base (lower dollar and import tariffs), and away from petro state policies (high dollar resource exports). I think the trend will move towards a progressive middle class support base and those who favor bankster GDP policies will be on the out.

Time Will Tell

Did you people know that realtors are refer to as Realtards and in PG that is a for sure , I have sold several houses but PG runs the race on bad agents, yes they are overpaid and there is one here in this small city who is so high on herself she has difficulties selling anything .Always keep in mind that you can cancel a contract it dosen’t take brains so if you don’t like the Realtard fire them .

Smokers who throw their cigarette butts out the window are not only littering but they stand a high chance of starting a fire.

Do vehicles have ash trays for cigs anymore??? Mine doesn’t!
But–don’t throw them out the window!!
Smoking is bad for your health anyway.

All our gas comes from Canadian wells in the west, why would our price per litre be as high as a province that imports their oil overseas? Why are our prices one west consistently higher than the prices back east?

Looks like we will be paying at the pumps for the chaos that Iraq has descended into, a situation far more chaotic than before it was invaded. Too bad we aren’t masters of our own destiny when it comes to ownership of our fossil fuel resources, extraction, pricing and refining.

“Good luck on trying to sell a house on your own. Tried that twice, hardly any response from buyers. Buyers are scared to go it alone.” .. done it twice and there was not a problem either time. Don’t know why anyone would be scared to go it alone, you still need a lawyer or notary to draw up the papers, property transfer, checks, etc. I got way more response out of kijiji in 3 months than I got through a realtor for over a year. They basically just list on the internet anyways. They basically do nothing for their money.

Eagle..take a puck size valium. That rant sounded like some f??cking suicide bomber.

Well I got very little response on my own and price was not the issue. Did all the advertising thing also. Some sort of a fix, I don’t know?

Eagleone New taxes in Ontario and rising energy costs. People and businesses will walk. Another election less than two years.

SM I think that the IPPs you speak of are way too rich . If the people of bc could get the same deal you’d likely see a solar power system on every roof top . In my opinion it’s criminal to keep the little guy with a few hundred square feet of roof top out of the game.

axman wrote:

A person that scared shouldn’t be in the left lane to start with. Heck, they shouldn’t be driving at all; they should still be home in bed or sitting on a bus.

Who said I was talking about someone in the left lane? And since when is prudent driving in bad conditions, perhaps in a vehicle less capable than yours, or just not as crazy as you are, not someone who should be on the road? It’s this kind of aggressive attitude that causes accidents.

Was nice to see a Liberal win in Ontario yesterday. This is a prologue to a Harper Conservative lose in next year’s federal election.

Canadians are sick of the extreme right wing ideologue / tea party crap. Good riddance to the worst Slime Minister and Governing party to every have set foot in our House of Commons.

Bye bye Steve, don’t let the door hit you in the a$$ on your way out… you freak!

Ataloss you can put up solar anytime. Check the price first. Not so great in northern latitudes in winter with long nights and keep the snow off. Costing Germany huge money in subsidies for unit of energy produced. Still need backup for when the sun don’t shine and buried in snow.

Liberals will be into another election before two years are up. I guess peeps you just ignore the scandals, and huge debt. Where is all the money going to come from? With their rising energy costs and increase in taxes industry is leaving.

Ontarios feed in tariff is .42 cents .BCs ppi is well over a dollar .

Don’t forget the subsidies.

Hit a sore spot Dow7500. A little hysterical when your ISIS patrons get called out.