Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 12:23 AM by P Val with a score of 0
Have a fun and safe weekend everyone
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 12:51 AM by Hart Guy with a score of 0
It’s Friday the 13th! Be extra careful today everyone!
Keep right except to pass, yada yada yada, haha!
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 5:15 AM by Give more with a score of 0
Looks like we are going to have a beautiful weekend. Please, be careful with fires.
Nice to see the land use permit passed. Now these two companies can get down to business again.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 10:57 AM by Islandbound with a score of 0
Were they not doing business prior to this decision?
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 5:53 AM by Charles T with a score of 0
“I’ve been a member (of Parliament) for quite a long time and I’ve got as many calls on this issue as I have on any other,” said Liberal MP Wayne Easter, first elected in 1993. “I think Canadians are quite frustrated that they believe … that there is unfairness in terms of how people who can afford accountants and the wealthy are treated under our tax system versus those that are doing it on their own.”
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 5:58 AM by Charles T with a score of 0
The Liberal MPs on the committee bought into KPMG’s bogus “confidentiality” argument; they amended an NDP motion to compel KPMG to provide the names of Isle of Man clients by replacing the word “compel” with “request” and deleting “names of clients”. But Parliament and parliamentary committees have the right to demand this information, and accountant/client privilege is not recognized in Canada — or in the U.K. for that matter. (U.K. law actually requires accountants to report clients they suspect of committing tax evasion; failure to do so is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.)
MPs have the right to know who took part in tax scheme
And Stephanie Henderson, CRA’s offshore compliance manager, simply refused to answer questions, citing her obligation to protect privacy. (Never mind that it was the CRA itself that asked KPMG’s clients to keep the settlement offer secret; it just wouldn’t do for the hoi-polloi to realize that some people get to negotiate, rather than obediently follow cookie-cutter rules).
In fact, she wouldn’t deign to confirm that the signature on the offer was even hers: “Although the signature appears to be my signature … I cannot confirm … whether it would be mine or not,” she said, waving away any right of elected members of Parliament to such information.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 7:48 AM by socredible with a score of 0
“I’ve been a member (of Parliament) for quite a long time and I’ve got as many calls on this issue as I have on any other,” said Liberal MP Wayne Easter, first elected in 1993.
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And just how many calls are that? Probably not very many, but nothing like giving an interview that makes out like he’s being swamped with letters, phone calls and e-mails on what is essentially a “smoke and mirrors” non-issue invented by a government that doesn’t ever want to deal with REAL financial problems.
So they play the old “misery likes company” card ~ you hate paying the amount of taxes you’re dinged with, as we all do, and hate even more what your governments seem to waste those taxes on. But instead of demanding your MP do anything about that, he’s going to hope you’ll hate the fact that some people SEEM like they’re illegally avoiding taxes even MORE again. When what they’re doing might be completely legal under the tax rules Parliament itself has enacted.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 8:24 AM by JGalt with a score of 0
A good topic to start off the Friday Free-For-All Charles, the Panama Papers data leak is huge and would take a person many years to search through its 2.6 Terabytes of information.
Here is a link to the searchable database for people and companies using Panama, and the majority of other off-shore tax havens around the world. For the best results leave the country you are searching at “all countries” and simply type in the names of individuals and companies you are interested in. If you find anyone, or company, interesting in that database please share it with us. To get you started type in Encana, which should get you some results, also type in Enbridge or Donald Trump which should also get you some results… of course they have already publicaly denied it’s them.
Please note, just because you do not find a certain individual or company listed under their real names, does NOT mean they are not using a tax shelter, they could be using a numbered company which would appear in the database, but would be very difficult to trace back to the real owner of the off-shore tax account. *When you are a filthy stinking rich corporation, or person, you can afford the best counsel to avoid detection and of course paying taxes* Happy hunting!
ht tps://offshoreleaks.icij.org/
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 8:30 AM by Dirtman with a score of 0
This is for Ataloss. I figure he’d want to know.
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SolarCity is struggling. Tesla is struggling. Elon Musk is not the King Midas of making companies perfect. Musk’s magic can’t do everything anymore. –Ryan McQueeney, Nasdaq, 10 May 2016
Shares of SolarCity nose-dived on Tuesday after disclosing earnings results that cast gloom over the provider of solar systems. The big problems for the solar company: The quarterly report disclosed a loss that was bigger than expected, and management followed that up with a dismal outlook for future results. So far in 2016, SolarCity shares have plummeted 65 percent. –George Avalon, Silicon Beat, 10 May 2016
The real problem with Tesla cars is that no one actually buys them. Well, not directly. Their manufacture is heavily subsidized — and their sale is heavily subsidized. Tesla does not make money by selling cars, either. It makes money by selling “carbon credits” to real car companies that make functionally and economically viable vehicles that can and do sell on the merits — but which are not “zero emissions” vehicles. It is estimated that Musk’s various ventures — including his new SolarCity solar panel operation and SpaceX — have cost taxpayers at least $4.9 billion, with Tesla accounting for about half of that dole. –Eric Peters, The Detroit News, 9 May 2016
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More at ht tps://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/05/11/newsbytes-elon-musks-solarcity-crashes/
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 9:05 AM by Ataloss with a score of 0
Eric peters is an oil shill . There are only two American auto manufacturers in North America that have Not gone bankrupt . Tesla is one , Ford is the other . The subsidies that tesla gets are dwarfed by the 6 trillion per year that the fossils get .
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 9:32 AM by Ataloss with a score of 0
The six trillion dollar per year figure the fossils get from the governments under their influence , including ours , is from the IMF .
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 9:37 AM by Ataloss with a score of 0
Search this . Several European countries to follow Norways lead to ban the sale of gas and diesel cars by 2025 .
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 9:44 AM by seamutt with a score of 0
Ah Ataloss is that all you got to refute the facts? Hey you have never described your unicorn energy system.
how much money did you loose on solarcity stocks. The smart buy right now would be coal stocks and hold them.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 10:01 AM by Ataloss with a score of 0
The smart buy right now would be coal stocks and hold them. ???? That’s funny . You’re widening into selling coal there salesmutt . Which tickers do you suggest? Why do you think Peabody energy the largest privately held coal company in the world and eleven other American coal miners went bankrupt last month ? And what qualifies you to be a finacial advisor ?
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 10:10 AM by Digitus Impudicus with a score of 0
seamutt must be a good financial advisor. The word “LOSE” doesn’t seem to be in his vocabulary.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 10:26 AM by Ataloss with a score of 0
If he were an advisor or even remotely knew what he was talking about , he would have mentioned energy ETFs with at least 75% foreign exposure. What can one expect from a used car salesmutt ? Quotes from car and driver at best .
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 11:02 AM by nuffsnuff1 with a score of 0
Hey Ataloss – Re Norway: Just checked with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ottawa – ain’t gonna happen!
So, where do you get your BS from?
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 11:11 AM by Ataloss with a score of 0
Globe & mail April 11 . Reddit , insideevs.com and many other sites . Just because nothing is happening in canada doesn’t mean that nothing is happening .
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 12:47 PM by gopg2015 with a score of 0
Norway’s Goal: All New Cars Will Be Emission-Free By 2025 To Cut Carbon
“The Dutch parliament recently passed a motion that would end sales of new cars powered solely by gasoline or diesel after 2025.”
So, is that a wrong reporting about the Netherlands? And note that they are talking about hybrids , which itself requires some explanation about how the electricity is generated, by the wasted energy when a car is idling, etc. or by plugging into the electric grid when parked at a source?
As far as embassy workers go … they are government clerks and are not necessarily up on plans. They deal with the here and now which keeps them busy enough.
Call Norway. They speak English there.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 12:58 PM by gopg2015 with a score of 0
Norway Aiming For 100-Percent Zero Emission Vehicle Sales By 2025
“The country already buys nearly one plug-in electrified vehicle (PEV) out of every four sold, has over 3 percent PEVs on the roads now, and its plans far excel even California’s which is considered radical for mandating one-in-seven zero-emission cars by 2025.”
“In Norway, plans are by 2025 to have seven out of seven – 100 percent – of new passenger cars, buses and light commercial vehicles be the zero emission variety and comprised primarily of battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.”
“The overarching plan that’s subject to parliamentary approval was released Feb. 29 and touches every aspect of transportation including rail, trucks, ships, airplanes, and … bicycles. ”
Further to that…..
“Regarding zero-emission vehicles that one pedals, Norway plans to spend close to $1 billion constructing bicycle highways for safe commuting – and despite mountainous terrain between cities, and cold and dark much of the year.”
So … did you actually call the embassy and ask them about the directions and policies and where this is at in parliament? … I doubt it…..
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 10:59 PM by Dirtman with a score of 0
Posted by Ataloss
Eric peters is an oil shill . There are only two American auto manufacturers in North America that have Not gone bankrupt . Tesla is one , Ford is the other . The subsidies that tesla gets are dwarfed by the 6 trillion per year that the fossils get .
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6 trillion per year that fossils get??? Bwaahahaha! Wow, what delusion! Best up the meds.
GM was falling into bankruptcy when the government bailed them out. The only reason Tesla didn’t fall into bankruptcy is because they got ongoing bailouts from the get-go.
Oh, and Eric Peters is an oil shill? That’s it? An ad hominem is all you have? That leads me to think that you can’t dispute what he says. In other words, you’re agreeing with him.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 8:42 AM by ntkr14 with a score of 0
Sure would like to see line painting on Massey Drive, etc (near Pine Centre) Nearly got side swiped the other day- Grampa couldn’t see where his lane was.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 11:03 AM by Askum with a score of 0
But the good news is they put down fresh lines up on boundry road last night so the Moose will know where they are going . The street lights and side walks help also .
I do use an extra degree of caution thru the pine centter with the school kids and the pick any lane drivers
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 8:57 AM by Dearth with a score of 0
I love how the older a person gets the more stuck they become in the past. I make it a point to stay current with as much as I can from news to tech to regional needs but I find myself guilty of being stuck in the past occasionally however I appear to be a minority in this regard of being current.
People are endlessly entertaining for me as there are a good many from my generation that still don’t understand smart tech and wearable tech and I find myself constantly explaining it to them. I’m in my mid 40’s and I would expect that a good portion of my generation would have a decent grasp on new tech but many struggle because it may not interest them or use dated tech that has served them well but now most new tech won’t recognize it anymore and they struggle to catch up.
This also goes for local, regional and international news and interest stories I get news from several sources most get theirs from one or 2 sources who may get their stories from another news service I would rather get the full story but in today’s world many people will use the excuse I don’t have the time which I call BS on for many reasons.
I don’t expect this ramble to change anyone’s opinion but I do fully expect the posters here to find a way to show I’m wrong or that I’m full of it but it might make some of you think as well
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 1:14 PM by gopg2015 with a score of 0
My 91 year old mother who lives in Eastern Canada send me news clippings from Germany newspapers every night.
The topics vary from the crazy US politics to shopping, refugees, the mood of the country, Cannes Film Festival, diet, train tickets, Margot Honecker’s death in Chile (former wife of East Germany’s leader), Fort McMurray fire (in German News), commuting to the city center not by car but by public transport and/or public loan bicycles, etc. etc.
It provides us all with a view away from the parochial small town atmosphere of such places as small town (Prince George) Canada.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 5:42 PM by NMG with a score of 0
“People are endlessly entertaining for me as there are a good many from my generation that still don’t understand smart tech and wearable tech and I find myself constantly explaining it to them. I’m in my mid 40’s and I would expect that a good portion of my generation would have a decent grasp on new tech but many struggle because it may not interest them or use dated tech that has served them well but now most new tech won’t recognize it anymore and they struggle to catch up.”
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I’m 40 and I honestly couldn’t care less about all of the new tech out there. I have a 3 year old iPhone that I use for texting and listening to music. I think I’ve made 10 calls on the thing since I bought it. I also used to use it to surf the net while I was on the bus, but I went to pay and talk with a very low monthly data plan because the money I was wasting each month on a device was just silly.
I don’t have a Fit Bit to track my daily activity, but I am active. I don’t tweet because I’d rather communicate with people in sentences. I don’t have a hands free phone in my truck because quite frankly, I’d rather just drive or talk to the person beside me. I do have two fish finders in my boat (one with GPS mapping), but I don’t have side scanning because I don’t want to re-wire a bunch of stuff.
I can figure out pretty much anything I want to, I just don’t see the need for allot of the new stuff that is out there. It doesn’t add any value to my life and the things that I value, so why bother?
I do, however, really like the digital music streamer I recently purchased. That was money well spent.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 9:28 AM by nowiser with a score of 0
Well packing ones IPad to local fast food resteraunts or the food court in the mall doesn’t make an expert in technology. I guess fabricating stories up and looking for pity because one had a heart attack makes them a scholar. Here’s a tip, maybe spend some time exercising and eat properly. Technology makes you fat and out of shape, excerise doesnt.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 1:20 PM by gopg2015 with a score of 0
Put key words such as “exercise life span” into a search engine and see what exercise can do.
Remember the word “balance” when planning your lifestyle.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 1:22 PM by gopg2015 with a score of 0
Light Jogging Extends Lifespan, While Heavy Jogging Rivals Risks Of ‘No Exercise At All’
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 1:51 PM by bcracer with a score of 0
you don’t have to be fat and out of shape to have a heart attack….
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 6:28 PM by Ataloss with a score of 0
No, but it sure helps .
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 9:53 AM by seamutt with a score of 0
Well our dear leader is heading for Ft. Mac, all will be well.
Wonder if he will acknowledge the heroic efforts of the oil sand companies.
As 60,000 people emptied a burning city as fast they could, oil sands operations all along the northern end of Highway 63 opened their doors to as many as 25,000 evacuees. Normally rigid security procedures were cast aside as anyone who came was given free shelter and food.
When road access was cut off from the south, these camps took on the task of resupplying neighbouring communities. Brion Energy, for one, started sending daily shipments of perishables to nearby Fort McKay First Nation.
Imperial Oil donated 20,000 liters of gasoline to the RCMP. Trucks from Canadian National Resources were mustered to ferry around supplies brought in by C-130 Hercules airlifts.
The oil patch’s private airfields, meanwhile, swept into high gear. Shell Albian Aerodrome orchestrated a military-style airlift that rounded up evacuees on buses and dispatched more 7,000 south on a regular stream of company-chartered WestJet flights. Suncor’s Firebag Aerodrome did the same.
Oil sands operations also scrambled pumpers, crews and heavy-duty firefighting rigs into a burning Fort McMurray. At times, as much as 25 per cent of the manpower on the ground was private. Syncrude, for one, owns at least two massive $1 million aircraft firefighting vehicles. As evacuees moved north, they would have seen these fire-battling beasts speeding in the other direction.
Alberta’s oil producers effectively turned themselves into multi-million dollar humanitarian organizations at the drop of a hat. All told, the reason so much of Fort McMurray was saved — and the reason no full-scale military relief deployment was ever required — was due in no small part to the lightning response of the region’s major employers.
Where was Neil Young, DiCaprio, Suzuki, Andrew Weaver, Tides Foundation, Sierra Club Green peace, all notable for their absence.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 10:14 AM by Brother Gecko with a score of 0
Indeed. Perhaps Neil Young can follow James Taylor’s lead and donate concert proceeds to Fort McMurray. Nah, didn’t think so.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 11:11 AM by ski51 with a score of 0
I find it interesting Seamutt that people down voted you. Why? What you said is just true. The much maligned oil companies showed up to the fight whereas the much sainted environmentalists seemed to be in short supply.
Did people down vote because they just don’t like oil companies whether they do good or bad. Well, I got bad news for some of you people. Sometimes that doctor you go see, isn’t a very nice person, not even a generous person, often a self absorbed person – and yet, you still utilize their services.
You don’t have to like the service deliverer to appreciate the service.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 6:17 PM by Hahaha with a score of 0
Not everyone is going to agree with his rabid pro-oil, anti-Trudeau ramblings. That is why he is being down voted. Dislike is probably somewhere in that mix too.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 11:56 AM by Dearth with a score of 0
Yup the oil sands companies provided their trained ERC teams to help save the City and were on the front lines of the forest fires and many of their staff who themselves were stuck at the camps volenteered their time when not working to help the evacuees providing their rooms, food and water and helping direct the plane traffic and the loading and unloading of people and supplies with some of them working 24 hours straight they like the front line first responders are just as much of heroes as the first responders
And just were are all the environmentalists and eco terrorists they have been unusually silent through the whole process
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 12:37 PM by Mercenary with a score of 0
Don’t you think that maybe those oil companies might have had….oh I don’t know…a VESTED interest in NOT seeing Ft Mac burn down? I guarantee self preservation was first and foremost on the oil companies executive board minds when they launched their firefighting operations.
Oil companies are very far from altruistic.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 6:22 PM by Hahaha with a score of 0
Yes, I’m pretty sure their first concern was making sure their operations didn’t burn to the ground. The pleasant side-effect was that their fire fighting efforts also benefited non-company interests.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 1:32 PM by gopg2015 with a score of 0
“Wonder if he will acknowledge the heroic efforts of the oil sand companies.”
Remember, it is the people who work at the oil companies who have been evacuated and, at worst, lost their homes. The oil companies cannot do the little work they still do there without the people in town. The only reason why some of the townsfolk were able to be housed in the worker camps was because they were already empty for the most part because those who were commuting from other communities were laid off first.
Wood Buffalo is a disaster from many points of view. The fire made it very much worse. It did not need to have happened. It was known that the forests were tinder dry and that the region gets Chinook type winds similar to Calgary. When all things line up at the same time, the consequence is relatively predictable as a climbing risk
In addition, there are those who are starting to write about how the fires started. There are opinions which include the notion that the city was not properly protected by those companies responsible for managing the forested lands. That, of course, was found to be the problem in Kelowna. The aftermath
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 2:12 PM by BCGrog with a score of 0
Well Prime Minister Zoolander just has to give that big ol’ nasty fire the Blue Steel look and it will just wither away to nothing …
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 6:24 PM by Hahaha with a score of 0
Really. You bitter Cons should give it a rest already.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 11:30 AM by Retired 02 with a score of 0
Well it’s a lovely sunny day here in Abby. Temperature is going up to 30c. The landscape people cut our lawns yesterday and I’ve watered my area so I can just sit back and have a couple of cool ones Guess my neigbours will not approve of my sinning but so what. Its nice and hot where I’m going. It will be a contrast with the cold winters that I also enjoyed in Prince George.
Lots of great ideas this morning on 250. I see seamut has the usual sarcasm and I wish to remind him before he/she starts with the blather about the nasty air quality in Abbotsford that his smell buds were burnt many years ago with three pulpmills a refinery and a toxic BCR industrial sight next door. The air here in Abby is prestine. Didn’t mean to offend my friends that still live in PG but seamut needs the info.
What a tragedy in Ft Mac. Maybe our friends big oil will realize that they can’t keep pumping their poison int our air space. I have herd that Alberta only gets 7% from oil for their budget. Can one of you knowledgeable posters help me on this. Well I’ll leave it at that. Have a nice weekend. Hope my grammar is OK.
Cheers
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 11:40 AM by ski51 with a score of 0
Commonsense would dictate that number has to be wrong. Why such a big negative impact on Alberta’s budget from such a small number? 7% is probably just the royalty number. Then there’s the corporate taxes, the taxes on employee wages, taxes on support industries, taxes on support industry wages.
And then there’s the spin off effect on the Maritimes and B.C., because many people resident in those provinces, paid their personal income tax to those provinces. Newfoundland just bumped their HST to 15% – part of it because worker’s who use to pay taxes from their jobs on the oil fields to Newfoundland, are now collecting EI.
Actually, the oil companies aren’t pumping the poison in the air, we are every time we turn the ignition key, or use an oil based product,or have fresh produce from California trucked up.
It’s like drugs, if no one bought them, no one would make them.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 6:28 PM by Hahaha with a score of 0
When you say that it is nice and hot where you are going is that code for you are going to Hell? Quite a few people here probably think you are already there by living in Abbotsford. lol
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 11:44 AM by ski51 with a score of 0
I want to continue my rant on evil oil. Every Friday night they’ve been holding drag races out at Chief Lake. If the world is on the brink of global warming collapse,how can government allow such a frivolous release of carbon into the air? Why are motor sports allowed at all, since we’re so close to the edge? You’d think with such imminent global disaster, all unnecessary carbon release would be outright banned. So what is it? There is a problem, but government hasn’t got the guts, or, it’s politically correct to say there’s a problem, but no one in government actually believes it.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 11:52 AM by Ataloss with a score of 0
Try a little Nedra.com
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 12:11 PM by seamutt with a score of 0
don’t forget all the climate researchers, environmentalists, so called celebrity activists jetting all over the world for their parties, lifestyle or what ever. What a bunch of doublespeak morons.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 12:19 PM by seamutt with a score of 0
Size of Ft. McMurray fire, 850 sq k, size of fire in 1919 before suv’s
Interesting article by Stephen Hume today, puts things in perspective, with examples such as the following:
In 1919, the biggest forest fire in recorded Canadian history swept through Alberta’s boreal forest just south of where Fort McMurray now suffers. That fire burned through 30,000-square-kilometres of timber and razed Lac La Biche, the town now providing safe haven for evacuees from the north.
The fire began near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. It blackened an area the size of Belgium. Like the fires of 2016, it began in early May following a dry winter. Constable Fred Moses of the Alberta Provincial Police, out on a murder investigation, reported a Dante’s Inferno. Smoke was so dense it was dark in the afternoon, the horizon pulsed with fire-generated lightning and new blazes ignited everywhere down the fire front.
Telegraph cables melted, molten copper ran down scorched poles. In Lac La Biche, people rushed into the lake, stood neck deep in the water and covered their heads with wet blankets while their town burned.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 12:28 PM by Mercenary with a score of 0
Holy Hanna. What is up with Cycle North and their prices? Talk about out to lunch. I can’t afford to pay PDI and freight charges on everything you bring in there.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 1:33 PM by Islandbound with a score of 0
How else do you think they will pay for that empire and all the toys they play with on their days off.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 12:30 PM by Brother Gecko with a score of 0
This week’s “Are Your Serious?” award goes to Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau.
The whining she made stating she needs more help (paid by taxpayers of course) because she’s overwhelmed with the duties of being the Prime Minister’s wife. Oh the horror.
Laureen Harper seemed to function just fine for 12 years with only one aide.
I can hear all the tiny violins being played by all working mothers in Canada.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 1:25 PM by Stillsmokin with a score of 0
Harper did not have three lil ones that needed a constant eye, also Harper’s wife was more a stay at home mom. Good for Justin seeing him packing the lil tyke around
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 12:37 PM by seamutt with a score of 0
Wonder if the RCMP bust into houses in Ft. Mac looking for guns as in the High Prairie flood?
I wonder if it was the same ERT team that were involved with the Greg Matters shooting, the very quietened up shooting in Granisle and the shooting outside of Valemount where the RCMP statement of facts may not be true.
Be careful out there folks.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 12:43 PM by Ataloss with a score of 0
Do you know what a ticker IS ?
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 12:48 PM by Brother Gecko with a score of 0
I read a story that scalpers are now onto the hot commodity of reserved provincial camp sites. They book & pay for them online, then stand at the entrance of the popular campsites on long weekends, and sell the spots up to 10X the actual value of the stay.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 1:29 PM by Islandbound with a score of 0
Easy fix on that one. If you reserve a spot your name must be registered to it when you reserve it. You then must show ID to actually get the spot.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 1:45 PM by navigator11 with a score of 0
Seamutt…High River , not High Prairie
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 2:47 PM by seamutt with a score of 0
Thanks, got to pay more attention to editing my comments.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 3:40 PM by Ataloss with a score of 0
Or were you talking about a coal futures contract ? Or were you talking out of you ass again .
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 2:53 PM by frank2 with a score of 0
555-MNN that the plate number of the blue Nissan that blew throughout the red light at the old northland dodge intersection driving at full 50 or 60 KMs Didn’t even put the brake lights on. Young female driver.Had the potential to be a killer accident. I was stopped on the red. She just passed me and drove right through like it wasn’t there. Be careful out there and watch out for the crazies.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 3:51 PM by Give more with a score of 0
Oh, you mean sort of like the T-bone at 18th and Ospika this morning?
That one puzzled me. I didn’t see it happen but I don’t know who was running a red, maybe both?
Anyway just a little blue car wrote off a big pickup.
I hope no one was seriously injured.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 3:43 PM by NyteHawwk with a score of 0
When a young female driver blows through a red light, it is inexcusable and probably due to inattention rather than malice…on the other hand last night in the space of 1 hour I saw two so called PROFESSIONAL drivers, one hauling chips and the other looked like general freight intentionally blow through red lights.
One was at 16 and Domano, and the other was at 5th and bypass. Chances are the results would be much more deadly if these so called PROFESSIONALS hit someone than if the nissan does the same. One is inexcusable, the other is CRIMINAL.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 6:46 PM by Islandbound with a score of 0
Have you ever driven a heavy truck and come to the point of “do I or don’t I” at a changing light? I know by your rant that you haven’t.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 6:52 PM by Hahaha with a score of 0
Of course, in your anti-trucker tirade, you fail to identify where they were in relation to the red lights that they “intentionally” blew through. Stopping an 80,000 pound truck takes a lot more distance than a 3000 pound car or truck. If the truck drivers were almost on top of the light then there was no way that they are going to be able to stop, even if they wanted to.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 10:22 PM by Dumbfounded with a score of 0
Ever hear of defensive driving?
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 4:23 PM by frank2 with a score of 0
Which is the worst-a driver come to a light thats turning yellow but goes red before he is through-a driver continues through just as the light turns red-a driver drives through a red with all others stopped.And how many look both ways when entering an intersection. She didn’t look.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 6:48 PM by Islandbound with a score of 0
Everyone should be required to take a defensive driving course. That would end most crashes where people are hit by others that have run lights that have just turned red.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 6:50 PM by Islandbound with a score of 0
This is why some people shouldn’t reproduce.
ht tp://www.250news.com/canadian-press/?loc=2&id=39c34cf9-0342-4f0c-b988-a7b426cc77a9
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 7:24 PM by poor gold miner with a score of 0
Not to change the subjects but just recently I sent an email to Loblaws requesting a reason as to why they are closing the only grocery store we have in our community of Fraser Lake.I do not have a reply yet,but you know what I do not expect one.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 9:29 PM by peegee with a score of 0
What?!?! #$@$/*# we camp at Francois for up to 2 weeks at a time and run into Fraser Lake every few days for groceries. We might have to rethink where we go now for longer trips….
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 8:20 PM by seamutt with a score of 0
Gotta feel sorry for those that live along Domano having to put up with the very loud motorcycles driven by pea brained, physically lacking, inconsiderate motorcyclists. It has been said Cro-Magnon civilization was extinct, but I wonder.
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 10:18 PM by Dumbfounded with a score of 0
The same pea brains ride like that up and down Malaspina. The worst one lives on Latrobe and has been reported a number of times. I guess because Steinhauser is also a rider with loud pipes they do nothing. Pretty sure they let the guy on Latrobe know who was calling to complain as every time he gets near where the complainant lives he gets especially loud. Won’t be long and there will be a war out there. What ever happened to respect for your neighbours?
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2016 @ 9:01 PM by seamutt with a score of 0
Interesting piece in the local newspaper. Something about how will the snow leopard respond to climate change. I am guessing the reader is referring to CAGW or just AGW, not sure which, he does not make that clear on purpose or what. Not sure if the writer realizes climate change is not something new.
I wonder how the snow leopard survived the Holocene maximum? Oh wait that might be covered by stated fact the climate is changing more rapidly now thus the poor leopard may not have time to adapt but no references are available.
So the whole article seems to, sort of imply AGW but never quite states that, interesting play on words.
Something like 99% of all life that has existed on earth is extinct.
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Have a fun and safe weekend everyone
It’s Friday the 13th! Be extra careful today everyone!
Keep right except to pass, yada yada yada, haha!
Looks like we are going to have a beautiful weekend. Please, be careful with fires.
Nice to see the land use permit passed. Now these two companies can get down to business again.
Were they not doing business prior to this decision?
“I’ve been a member (of Parliament) for quite a long time and I’ve got as many calls on this issue as I have on any other,” said Liberal MP Wayne Easter, first elected in 1993. “I think Canadians are quite frustrated that they believe … that there is unfairness in terms of how people who can afford accountants and the wealthy are treated under our tax system versus those that are doing it on their own.”
MPs angry about ‘unfair’ offshore tax schemes
ht tp://www.torontosun.com/2016/05/06/mps-angry-about-unfair-offshore-tax-schemes
The Liberal MPs on the committee bought into KPMG’s bogus “confidentiality” argument; they amended an NDP motion to compel KPMG to provide the names of Isle of Man clients by replacing the word “compel” with “request” and deleting “names of clients”. But Parliament and parliamentary committees have the right to demand this information, and accountant/client privilege is not recognized in Canada — or in the U.K. for that matter. (U.K. law actually requires accountants to report clients they suspect of committing tax evasion; failure to do so is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.)
MPs have the right to know who took part in tax scheme
ht tps://ipolitics.ca/2016/05/09/mps-have-the-right-to-know-who-took-part-in-tax-scheme/
And Stephanie Henderson, CRA’s offshore compliance manager, simply refused to answer questions, citing her obligation to protect privacy. (Never mind that it was the CRA itself that asked KPMG’s clients to keep the settlement offer secret; it just wouldn’t do for the hoi-polloi to realize that some people get to negotiate, rather than obediently follow cookie-cutter rules).
In fact, she wouldn’t deign to confirm that the signature on the offer was even hers: “Although the signature appears to be my signature … I cannot confirm … whether it would be mine or not,” she said, waving away any right of elected members of Parliament to such information.
Chasing the fiction of the fair shake
ht tp://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fair-shake-neil-macdonald-1.3574375?cmp=rss
“I’ve been a member (of Parliament) for quite a long time and I’ve got as many calls on this issue as I have on any other,” said Liberal MP Wayne Easter, first elected in 1993.
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And just how many calls are that? Probably not very many, but nothing like giving an interview that makes out like he’s being swamped with letters, phone calls and e-mails on what is essentially a “smoke and mirrors” non-issue invented by a government that doesn’t ever want to deal with REAL financial problems.
So they play the old “misery likes company” card ~ you hate paying the amount of taxes you’re dinged with, as we all do, and hate even more what your governments seem to waste those taxes on. But instead of demanding your MP do anything about that, he’s going to hope you’ll hate the fact that some people SEEM like they’re illegally avoiding taxes even MORE again. When what they’re doing might be completely legal under the tax rules Parliament itself has enacted.
A good topic to start off the Friday Free-For-All Charles, the Panama Papers data leak is huge and would take a person many years to search through its 2.6 Terabytes of information.
Here is a link to the searchable database for people and companies using Panama, and the majority of other off-shore tax havens around the world. For the best results leave the country you are searching at “all countries” and simply type in the names of individuals and companies you are interested in. If you find anyone, or company, interesting in that database please share it with us. To get you started type in Encana, which should get you some results, also type in Enbridge or Donald Trump which should also get you some results… of course they have already publicaly denied it’s them.
Please note, just because you do not find a certain individual or company listed under their real names, does NOT mean they are not using a tax shelter, they could be using a numbered company which would appear in the database, but would be very difficult to trace back to the real owner of the off-shore tax account. *When you are a filthy stinking rich corporation, or person, you can afford the best counsel to avoid detection and of course paying taxes* Happy hunting!
ht tps://offshoreleaks.icij.org/
This is for Ataloss. I figure he’d want to know.
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SolarCity is struggling. Tesla is struggling. Elon Musk is not the King Midas of making companies perfect. Musk’s magic can’t do everything anymore. –Ryan McQueeney, Nasdaq, 10 May 2016
Shares of SolarCity nose-dived on Tuesday after disclosing earnings results that cast gloom over the provider of solar systems. The big problems for the solar company: The quarterly report disclosed a loss that was bigger than expected, and management followed that up with a dismal outlook for future results. So far in 2016, SolarCity shares have plummeted 65 percent. –George Avalon, Silicon Beat, 10 May 2016
The real problem with Tesla cars is that no one actually buys them. Well, not directly. Their manufacture is heavily subsidized — and their sale is heavily subsidized. Tesla does not make money by selling cars, either. It makes money by selling “carbon credits” to real car companies that make functionally and economically viable vehicles that can and do sell on the merits — but which are not “zero emissions” vehicles. It is estimated that Musk’s various ventures — including his new SolarCity solar panel operation and SpaceX — have cost taxpayers at least $4.9 billion, with Tesla accounting for about half of that dole. –Eric Peters, The Detroit News, 9 May 2016
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More at ht tps://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/05/11/newsbytes-elon-musks-solarcity-crashes/
Eric peters is an oil shill . There are only two American auto manufacturers in North America that have Not gone bankrupt . Tesla is one , Ford is the other . The subsidies that tesla gets are dwarfed by the 6 trillion per year that the fossils get .
The six trillion dollar per year figure the fossils get from the governments under their influence , including ours , is from the IMF .
Search this . Several European countries to follow Norways lead to ban the sale of gas and diesel cars by 2025 .
Ah Ataloss is that all you got to refute the facts? Hey you have never described your unicorn energy system.
how much money did you loose on solarcity stocks. The smart buy right now would be coal stocks and hold them.
The smart buy right now would be coal stocks and hold them. ???? That’s funny . You’re widening into selling coal there salesmutt . Which tickers do you suggest? Why do you think Peabody energy the largest privately held coal company in the world and eleven other American coal miners went bankrupt last month ? And what qualifies you to be a finacial advisor ?
seamutt must be a good financial advisor. The word “LOSE” doesn’t seem to be in his vocabulary.
If he were an advisor or even remotely knew what he was talking about , he would have mentioned energy ETFs with at least 75% foreign exposure. What can one expect from a used car salesmutt ? Quotes from car and driver at best .
Hey Ataloss – Re Norway: Just checked with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ottawa – ain’t gonna happen!
So, where do you get your BS from?
Globe & mail April 11 . Reddit , insideevs.com and many other sites . Just because nothing is happening in canada doesn’t mean that nothing is happening .
Norway’s Goal: All New Cars Will Be Emission-Free By 2025 To Cut Carbon
greencarreports.com/news/1099324_norways-goal-all-new-cars-will-be-electric-by-2025-to-cut-carbon
Netherlands joins Norway in plans to end new gas, diesel car sales by 2025
greencarreports.com/news/1103507_netherlands-joins-norway-in-plans-to-end-new-gas-diesel-car-sales-by-2025
“The Dutch parliament recently passed a motion that would end sales of new cars powered solely by gasoline or diesel after 2025.”
So, is that a wrong reporting about the Netherlands? And note that they are talking about hybrids , which itself requires some explanation about how the electricity is generated, by the wasted energy when a car is idling, etc. or by plugging into the electric grid when parked at a source?
As far as embassy workers go … they are government clerks and are not necessarily up on plans. They deal with the here and now which keeps them busy enough.
Call Norway. They speak English there.
hybridcars.com/norway-aiming-for-100-percent-zero-emission-vehicle-sales-by-2025
Norway Aiming For 100-Percent Zero Emission Vehicle Sales By 2025
“The country already buys nearly one plug-in electrified vehicle (PEV) out of every four sold, has over 3 percent PEVs on the roads now, and its plans far excel even California’s which is considered radical for mandating one-in-seven zero-emission cars by 2025.”
“In Norway, plans are by 2025 to have seven out of seven – 100 percent – of new passenger cars, buses and light commercial vehicles be the zero emission variety and comprised primarily of battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.”
“The overarching plan that’s subject to parliamentary approval was released Feb. 29 and touches every aspect of transportation including rail, trucks, ships, airplanes, and … bicycles. ”
Further to that…..
“Regarding zero-emission vehicles that one pedals, Norway plans to spend close to $1 billion constructing bicycle highways for safe commuting – and despite mountainous terrain between cities, and cold and dark much of the year.”
So … did you actually call the embassy and ask them about the directions and policies and where this is at in parliament? … I doubt it…..
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Eric peters is an oil shill . There are only two American auto manufacturers in North America that have Not gone bankrupt . Tesla is one , Ford is the other . The subsidies that tesla gets are dwarfed by the 6 trillion per year that the fossils get .
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6 trillion per year that fossils get??? Bwaahahaha! Wow, what delusion! Best up the meds.
GM was falling into bankruptcy when the government bailed them out. The only reason Tesla didn’t fall into bankruptcy is because they got ongoing bailouts from the get-go.
Oh, and Eric Peters is an oil shill? That’s it? An ad hominem is all you have? That leads me to think that you can’t dispute what he says. In other words, you’re agreeing with him.
Sure would like to see line painting on Massey Drive, etc (near Pine Centre) Nearly got side swiped the other day- Grampa couldn’t see where his lane was.
But the good news is they put down fresh lines up on boundry road last night so the Moose will know where they are going . The street lights and side walks help also .
I do use an extra degree of caution thru the pine centter with the school kids and the pick any lane drivers
I love how the older a person gets the more stuck they become in the past. I make it a point to stay current with as much as I can from news to tech to regional needs but I find myself guilty of being stuck in the past occasionally however I appear to be a minority in this regard of being current.
People are endlessly entertaining for me as there are a good many from my generation that still don’t understand smart tech and wearable tech and I find myself constantly explaining it to them. I’m in my mid 40’s and I would expect that a good portion of my generation would have a decent grasp on new tech but many struggle because it may not interest them or use dated tech that has served them well but now most new tech won’t recognize it anymore and they struggle to catch up.
This also goes for local, regional and international news and interest stories I get news from several sources most get theirs from one or 2 sources who may get their stories from another news service I would rather get the full story but in today’s world many people will use the excuse I don’t have the time which I call BS on for many reasons.
I don’t expect this ramble to change anyone’s opinion but I do fully expect the posters here to find a way to show I’m wrong or that I’m full of it but it might make some of you think as well
My 91 year old mother who lives in Eastern Canada send me news clippings from Germany newspapers every night.
The topics vary from the crazy US politics to shopping, refugees, the mood of the country, Cannes Film Festival, diet, train tickets, Margot Honecker’s death in Chile (former wife of East Germany’s leader), Fort McMurray fire (in German News), commuting to the city center not by car but by public transport and/or public loan bicycles, etc. etc.
It provides us all with a view away from the parochial small town atmosphere of such places as small town (Prince George) Canada.
“People are endlessly entertaining for me as there are a good many from my generation that still don’t understand smart tech and wearable tech and I find myself constantly explaining it to them. I’m in my mid 40’s and I would expect that a good portion of my generation would have a decent grasp on new tech but many struggle because it may not interest them or use dated tech that has served them well but now most new tech won’t recognize it anymore and they struggle to catch up.”
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I’m 40 and I honestly couldn’t care less about all of the new tech out there. I have a 3 year old iPhone that I use for texting and listening to music. I think I’ve made 10 calls on the thing since I bought it. I also used to use it to surf the net while I was on the bus, but I went to pay and talk with a very low monthly data plan because the money I was wasting each month on a device was just silly.
I don’t have a Fit Bit to track my daily activity, but I am active. I don’t tweet because I’d rather communicate with people in sentences. I don’t have a hands free phone in my truck because quite frankly, I’d rather just drive or talk to the person beside me. I do have two fish finders in my boat (one with GPS mapping), but I don’t have side scanning because I don’t want to re-wire a bunch of stuff.
I can figure out pretty much anything I want to, I just don’t see the need for allot of the new stuff that is out there. It doesn’t add any value to my life and the things that I value, so why bother?
I do, however, really like the digital music streamer I recently purchased. That was money well spent.
Well packing ones IPad to local fast food resteraunts or the food court in the mall doesn’t make an expert in technology. I guess fabricating stories up and looking for pity because one had a heart attack makes them a scholar. Here’s a tip, maybe spend some time exercising and eat properly. Technology makes you fat and out of shape, excerise doesnt.
Put key words such as “exercise life span” into a search engine and see what exercise can do.
Remember the word “balance” when planning your lifestyle.
Light Jogging Extends Lifespan, While Heavy Jogging Rivals Risks Of ‘No Exercise At All’
medicaldaily.com/light-jogging-extends-lifespan-while-heavy-jogging-rivals-risks-no-exercise-all-320570
you don’t have to be fat and out of shape to have a heart attack….
No, but it sure helps .
Well our dear leader is heading for Ft. Mac, all will be well.
Wonder if he will acknowledge the heroic efforts of the oil sand companies.
As 60,000 people emptied a burning city as fast they could, oil sands operations all along the northern end of Highway 63 opened their doors to as many as 25,000 evacuees. Normally rigid security procedures were cast aside as anyone who came was given free shelter and food.
When road access was cut off from the south, these camps took on the task of resupplying neighbouring communities. Brion Energy, for one, started sending daily shipments of perishables to nearby Fort McKay First Nation.
Imperial Oil donated 20,000 liters of gasoline to the RCMP. Trucks from Canadian National Resources were mustered to ferry around supplies brought in by C-130 Hercules airlifts.
The oil patch’s private airfields, meanwhile, swept into high gear. Shell Albian Aerodrome orchestrated a military-style airlift that rounded up evacuees on buses and dispatched more 7,000 south on a regular stream of company-chartered WestJet flights. Suncor’s Firebag Aerodrome did the same.
Oil sands operations also scrambled pumpers, crews and heavy-duty firefighting rigs into a burning Fort McMurray. At times, as much as 25 per cent of the manpower on the ground was private. Syncrude, for one, owns at least two massive $1 million aircraft firefighting vehicles. As evacuees moved north, they would have seen these fire-battling beasts speeding in the other direction.
Alberta’s oil producers effectively turned themselves into multi-million dollar humanitarian organizations at the drop of a hat. All told, the reason so much of Fort McMurray was saved — and the reason no full-scale military relief deployment was ever required — was due in no small part to the lightning response of the region’s major employers.
Where was Neil Young, DiCaprio, Suzuki, Andrew Weaver, Tides Foundation, Sierra Club Green peace, all notable for their absence.
Indeed. Perhaps Neil Young can follow James Taylor’s lead and donate concert proceeds to Fort McMurray. Nah, didn’t think so.
I find it interesting Seamutt that people down voted you. Why? What you said is just true. The much maligned oil companies showed up to the fight whereas the much sainted environmentalists seemed to be in short supply.
Did people down vote because they just don’t like oil companies whether they do good or bad. Well, I got bad news for some of you people. Sometimes that doctor you go see, isn’t a very nice person, not even a generous person, often a self absorbed person – and yet, you still utilize their services.
You don’t have to like the service deliverer to appreciate the service.
Not everyone is going to agree with his rabid pro-oil, anti-Trudeau ramblings. That is why he is being down voted. Dislike is probably somewhere in that mix too.
Yup the oil sands companies provided their trained ERC teams to help save the City and were on the front lines of the forest fires and many of their staff who themselves were stuck at the camps volenteered their time when not working to help the evacuees providing their rooms, food and water and helping direct the plane traffic and the loading and unloading of people and supplies with some of them working 24 hours straight they like the front line first responders are just as much of heroes as the first responders
And just were are all the environmentalists and eco terrorists they have been unusually silent through the whole process
Don’t you think that maybe those oil companies might have had….oh I don’t know…a VESTED interest in NOT seeing Ft Mac burn down? I guarantee self preservation was first and foremost on the oil companies executive board minds when they launched their firefighting operations.
Oil companies are very far from altruistic.
Yes, I’m pretty sure their first concern was making sure their operations didn’t burn to the ground. The pleasant side-effect was that their fire fighting efforts also benefited non-company interests.
“Wonder if he will acknowledge the heroic efforts of the oil sand companies.”
Remember, it is the people who work at the oil companies who have been evacuated and, at worst, lost their homes. The oil companies cannot do the little work they still do there without the people in town. The only reason why some of the townsfolk were able to be housed in the worker camps was because they were already empty for the most part because those who were commuting from other communities were laid off first.
Wood Buffalo is a disaster from many points of view. The fire made it very much worse. It did not need to have happened. It was known that the forests were tinder dry and that the region gets Chinook type winds similar to Calgary. When all things line up at the same time, the consequence is relatively predictable as a climbing risk
In addition, there are those who are starting to write about how the fires started. There are opinions which include the notion that the city was not properly protected by those companies responsible for managing the forested lands. That, of course, was found to be the problem in Kelowna. The aftermath
Well Prime Minister Zoolander just has to give that big ol’ nasty fire the Blue Steel look and it will just wither away to nothing …
Really. You bitter Cons should give it a rest already.
Well it’s a lovely sunny day here in Abby. Temperature is going up to 30c. The landscape people cut our lawns yesterday and I’ve watered my area so I can just sit back and have a couple of cool ones Guess my neigbours will not approve of my sinning but so what. Its nice and hot where I’m going. It will be a contrast with the cold winters that I also enjoyed in Prince George.
Lots of great ideas this morning on 250. I see seamut has the usual sarcasm and I wish to remind him before he/she starts with the blather about the nasty air quality in Abbotsford that his smell buds were burnt many years ago with three pulpmills a refinery and a toxic BCR industrial sight next door. The air here in Abby is prestine. Didn’t mean to offend my friends that still live in PG but seamut needs the info.
What a tragedy in Ft Mac. Maybe our friends big oil will realize that they can’t keep pumping their poison int our air space. I have herd that Alberta only gets 7% from oil for their budget. Can one of you knowledgeable posters help me on this. Well I’ll leave it at that. Have a nice weekend. Hope my grammar is OK.
Cheers
Commonsense would dictate that number has to be wrong. Why such a big negative impact on Alberta’s budget from such a small number? 7% is probably just the royalty number. Then there’s the corporate taxes, the taxes on employee wages, taxes on support industries, taxes on support industry wages.
And then there’s the spin off effect on the Maritimes and B.C., because many people resident in those provinces, paid their personal income tax to those provinces. Newfoundland just bumped their HST to 15% – part of it because worker’s who use to pay taxes from their jobs on the oil fields to Newfoundland, are now collecting EI.
Actually, the oil companies aren’t pumping the poison in the air, we are every time we turn the ignition key, or use an oil based product,or have fresh produce from California trucked up.
It’s like drugs, if no one bought them, no one would make them.
When you say that it is nice and hot where you are going is that code for you are going to Hell? Quite a few people here probably think you are already there by living in Abbotsford. lol
I want to continue my rant on evil oil. Every Friday night they’ve been holding drag races out at Chief Lake. If the world is on the brink of global warming collapse,how can government allow such a frivolous release of carbon into the air? Why are motor sports allowed at all, since we’re so close to the edge? You’d think with such imminent global disaster, all unnecessary carbon release would be outright banned. So what is it? There is a problem, but government hasn’t got the guts, or, it’s politically correct to say there’s a problem, but no one in government actually believes it.
Try a little Nedra.com
don’t forget all the climate researchers, environmentalists, so called celebrity activists jetting all over the world for their parties, lifestyle or what ever. What a bunch of doublespeak morons.
Size of Ft. McMurray fire, 850 sq k, size of fire in 1919 before suv’s
Interesting article by Stephen Hume today, puts things in perspective, with examples such as the following:
In 1919, the biggest forest fire in recorded Canadian history swept through Alberta’s boreal forest just south of where Fort McMurray now suffers. That fire burned through 30,000-square-kilometres of timber and razed Lac La Biche, the town now providing safe haven for evacuees from the north.
The fire began near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. It blackened an area the size of Belgium. Like the fires of 2016, it began in early May following a dry winter. Constable Fred Moses of the Alberta Provincial Police, out on a murder investigation, reported a Dante’s Inferno. Smoke was so dense it was dark in the afternoon, the horizon pulsed with fire-generated lightning and new blazes ignited everywhere down the fire front.
Telegraph cables melted, molten copper ran down scorched poles. In Lac La Biche, people rushed into the lake, stood neck deep in the water and covered their heads with wet blankets while their town burned.
Holy Hanna. What is up with Cycle North and their prices? Talk about out to lunch. I can’t afford to pay PDI and freight charges on everything you bring in there.
How else do you think they will pay for that empire and all the toys they play with on their days off.
This week’s “Are Your Serious?” award goes to Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau.
The whining she made stating she needs more help (paid by taxpayers of course) because she’s overwhelmed with the duties of being the Prime Minister’s wife. Oh the horror.
Laureen Harper seemed to function just fine for 12 years with only one aide.
I can hear all the tiny violins being played by all working mothers in Canada.
Harper did not have three lil ones that needed a constant eye, also Harper’s wife was more a stay at home mom. Good for Justin seeing him packing the lil tyke around
Wonder if the RCMP bust into houses in Ft. Mac looking for guns as in the High Prairie flood?
I wonder if it was the same ERT team that were involved with the Greg Matters shooting, the very quietened up shooting in Granisle and the shooting outside of Valemount where the RCMP statement of facts may not be true.
Be careful out there folks.
Do you know what a ticker IS ?
I read a story that scalpers are now onto the hot commodity of reserved provincial camp sites. They book & pay for them online, then stand at the entrance of the popular campsites on long weekends, and sell the spots up to 10X the actual value of the stay.
Easy fix on that one. If you reserve a spot your name must be registered to it when you reserve it. You then must show ID to actually get the spot.
Seamutt…High River , not High Prairie
Thanks, got to pay more attention to editing my comments.
Or were you talking about a coal futures contract ? Or were you talking out of you ass again .
555-MNN that the plate number of the blue Nissan that blew throughout the red light at the old northland dodge intersection driving at full 50 or 60 KMs Didn’t even put the brake lights on. Young female driver.Had the potential to be a killer accident. I was stopped on the red. She just passed me and drove right through like it wasn’t there. Be careful out there and watch out for the crazies.
Oh, you mean sort of like the T-bone at 18th and Ospika this morning?
That one puzzled me. I didn’t see it happen but I don’t know who was running a red, maybe both?
Anyway just a little blue car wrote off a big pickup.
I hope no one was seriously injured.
When a young female driver blows through a red light, it is inexcusable and probably due to inattention rather than malice…on the other hand last night in the space of 1 hour I saw two so called PROFESSIONAL drivers, one hauling chips and the other looked like general freight intentionally blow through red lights.
One was at 16 and Domano, and the other was at 5th and bypass. Chances are the results would be much more deadly if these so called PROFESSIONALS hit someone than if the nissan does the same. One is inexcusable, the other is CRIMINAL.
Have you ever driven a heavy truck and come to the point of “do I or don’t I” at a changing light? I know by your rant that you haven’t.
Of course, in your anti-trucker tirade, you fail to identify where they were in relation to the red lights that they “intentionally” blew through. Stopping an 80,000 pound truck takes a lot more distance than a 3000 pound car or truck. If the truck drivers were almost on top of the light then there was no way that they are going to be able to stop, even if they wanted to.
Ever hear of defensive driving?
Which is the worst-a driver come to a light thats turning yellow but goes red before he is through-a driver continues through just as the light turns red-a driver drives through a red with all others stopped.And how many look both ways when entering an intersection. She didn’t look.
Everyone should be required to take a defensive driving course. That would end most crashes where people are hit by others that have run lights that have just turned red.
This is why some people shouldn’t reproduce.
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Not to change the subjects but just recently I sent an email to Loblaws requesting a reason as to why they are closing the only grocery store we have in our community of Fraser Lake.I do not have a reply yet,but you know what I do not expect one.
What?!?! #$@$/*# we camp at Francois for up to 2 weeks at a time and run into Fraser Lake every few days for groceries. We might have to rethink where we go now for longer trips….
Gotta feel sorry for those that live along Domano having to put up with the very loud motorcycles driven by pea brained, physically lacking, inconsiderate motorcyclists. It has been said Cro-Magnon civilization was extinct, but I wonder.
The same pea brains ride like that up and down Malaspina. The worst one lives on Latrobe and has been reported a number of times. I guess because Steinhauser is also a rider with loud pipes they do nothing. Pretty sure they let the guy on Latrobe know who was calling to complain as every time he gets near where the complainant lives he gets especially loud. Won’t be long and there will be a war out there. What ever happened to respect for your neighbours?
Interesting piece in the local newspaper. Something about how will the snow leopard respond to climate change. I am guessing the reader is referring to CAGW or just AGW, not sure which, he does not make that clear on purpose or what. Not sure if the writer realizes climate change is not something new.
I wonder how the snow leopard survived the Holocene maximum? Oh wait that might be covered by stated fact the climate is changing more rapidly now thus the poor leopard may not have time to adapt but no references are available.
So the whole article seems to, sort of imply AGW but never quite states that, interesting play on words.
Something like 99% of all life that has existed on earth is extinct.
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