Saturday, February 29, 2020
Friday, February 28, 2020
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
So the shit for brains Andrew Scheer and Jason Kenney blame the LPC for pulling out of Alberta
Since 2011, Teck has implemented projects and initiatives to reduce GHG emissions at its operations by 289,000 tonnes – the equivalent to taking over 88,000 combustion engine cars off the road – and 81% of Teck’s total electricity consumption is from renewable energy sources.
The sale amount is approximately $2 million, equal to the City of Kimberley’s outstanding debt obligation for SunMine.
To learn more about Teck’s approach to climate action, click here.
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Monday, February 24, 2020
Happening now in Canada
Liberals "negotiate"
Conservatives "enforce the rule of law"
Conservatives "enforce the rule of law"
Liberals "enforce the rule of law"
Conservatives "they should have negotiated"
Conservatives "they should have negotiated"
Yes Canada THAT is how the conservatives disinformation highway works. No matter what another party does or says they are damned to the disinformation highway of the "Doom and Gloom Party"
Sunday, February 23, 2020
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Stay Strong
Stay Strong! Stand up for yourself! Your story and your voice matters! #ptsdisreal #thereishope #thereishelp #code9
Friday, February 21, 2020
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Wake up Aberta
Post by Norlaine Thomas
So, for all those Albertans who voted UCP because they are fiscal conservatives... These are the 19 positions on Kenney's political staff who make over $100,000 a year. The lowest paid among them, Kenney's tour manager, makes $114,556.
He has a full-time tour manager. Maybe someone should remind him that he's not Elton John.
To put it in context, AISH recipients (Albertans with severe handicaps) just had their incomes frozen at $20,220 per year. But then, Jason Kenney considers them to have "lower human capital".
So, for all those Albertans who voted UCP because they are fiscal conservatives... These are the 19 positions on Kenney's political staff who make over $100,000 a year. The lowest paid among them, Kenney's tour manager, makes $114,556.
He has a full-time tour manager. Maybe someone should remind him that he's not Elton John.
To put it in context, AISH recipients (Albertans with severe handicaps) just had their incomes frozen at $20,220 per year. But then, Jason Kenney considers them to have "lower human capital".
Monday, February 10, 2020
Sunday, February 9, 2020
Saturday, February 8, 2020
Once again Alberta is moving to lower their carbon footprint and reliance on fossil fuel to spite the UCP as Kenney trumpets the benefit of oil through his 30,000,000 dollar "War Room"
Construction of what will be Canada's largest solar farm will soon start in southern Alberta after the project secured a major funding partner.
Greengate Power announced Monday that the Travers Solar project in Vulcan County will receive $500 million in funding from Denmark-based Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.
Construction is set to start midway through this year and will finish in 2021.
Greengate Power president and CEO Dan Balaban said the investment demonstrates investor confidence in Alberta's renewable energy market.
"It's a $500-million foreign investment in Alberta, and at a time where we're talking about the flight of capital from Alberta … this is an example that demonstrates Alberta is still a very attractive place to invest.
"It'll create more than 500 jobs during construction, provide an ongoing income stream for landowners that are participating in the project, and a really substantial form of annual municipal taxes that'll be realized for Vulcan County," he said.
$500M investment means construction to start on Canada's largest solar farm this yearhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/travers-solar-investment-1.5450846?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&fbclid=IwAR0tHm2ePxlEQFSddV0sVs1j3uZmO8rf8G2JfP-6gk14CH_zuBl7EXk0Gc4
Adopt a pet
There are lots of wonderful pets at your local animal shelter just waiting to be adopted into a loving FOREVER HOME. Please consider giving them a second chance. You won't regret it, I promise!
Friday, February 7, 2020
My uncle Gordon once told me "Bob, you're never too old to learn"
Well Pat and I were at the mall the other day when, while stalking a young lady, I noticed something written on the back of her jacket, "DUCATI".... I thought "WOW a biker and she has eclectic taste in what she rides"
Now those of you who suffer vision impairment will understand what I am about to say... her jacket was a dark shade of grey and the letters were black and all in uppercase. On closer inspection I noticed there were two letters after DUCATI they were ON. OK so Ducati Ontario I thought.... then I notice a letter at the beginning that I had not seen before "E".
The light came on and I learned that DUCATI is a big pat of EDUCATION.
With trumps acquital we can expect an escalation of abuse of power
The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President
How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
One day last fall, I sat down to create a new Facebook account. I picked a forgettable name, snapped a profile pic with my face obscured, and clicked “Like” on the official pages of Donald Trump and his reelection campaign. Facebook’s algorithm prodded me to follow Ann Coulter, Fox Business, and a variety of fan pages with names like “In Trump We Trust.” I complied. I also gave my cellphone number to the Trump campaign, and joined a handful of private Facebook groups for MAGA diehards, one of which required an application that seemed designed to screen out interlopers.
The president’s reelection campaign was then in the midst of a multimillion-dollar ad blitz aimed at shaping Americans’ understanding of the recently launched impeachment proceedings. Thousands of micro-targeted ads had flooded the internet, portraying Trump as a heroic reformer cracking down on foreign corruption while Democrats plotted a coup. That this narrative bore little resemblance to reality seemed only to accelerate its spread. Right-wing websites amplified every claim. Pro-Trump forums teemed with conspiracy theories. An alternate information ecosystem was taking shape around the biggest news story in the country, and I wanted to see it from the inside.
Thursday, February 6, 2020
R2000 homes
We've all heard about R2000 homes, some of you even own or live in one. They are energy efficient designed homes intended to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels lowering heating bills while reducing the carbon footprint of the home.
What I'll bet you didn't know is that the concept and design of the R2000 home initiative was a collaboration of Canada's home builders lead by Alberta builders and CMHC.
Yes folks for decades Albertan's were concerned about their carbon footprint and the high cost of heating homes. Then came the Harper regime and their twisted views on energy and Alberta's need to be a one trick pony. They filled the heads of Albertan's with propaganda conceived in the boardrooms of oil magnates.
You have to go back to the '80's, a time before the Reform party and Preston Manning, to a time before the Alliance party and Stephen Harper to find those in Western Canada who took the lead in reducing fossil fuel consumption.
Today we see Albertan's once again leading the way in passive systems to reduce fossil fuel consumption.... until the rise of the UCP a subsidiary of the oil industry and purveyor of falsehoods to the people. Alberta is, once again, a one trck pony as Kenney cancels incentive programs claiming, falsely, that they are too costly.
Today's Conservative Parties, from the federal CPC to the PC and UCP, are nothing more than offshoots of the GOP in the US, why do you think that every time they need or want to disrupt politics in Canada we hear how their leader or a shadow minister has run to America and either speaks to GOP representatives or goes on FOX News.... they're selling out Canadians for their own personal gain.
What I'll bet you didn't know is that the concept and design of the R2000 home initiative was a collaboration of Canada's home builders lead by Alberta builders and CMHC.
Yes folks for decades Albertan's were concerned about their carbon footprint and the high cost of heating homes. Then came the Harper regime and their twisted views on energy and Alberta's need to be a one trick pony. They filled the heads of Albertan's with propaganda conceived in the boardrooms of oil magnates.
You have to go back to the '80's, a time before the Reform party and Preston Manning, to a time before the Alliance party and Stephen Harper to find those in Western Canada who took the lead in reducing fossil fuel consumption.
Today we see Albertan's once again leading the way in passive systems to reduce fossil fuel consumption.... until the rise of the UCP a subsidiary of the oil industry and purveyor of falsehoods to the people. Alberta is, once again, a one trck pony as Kenney cancels incentive programs claiming, falsely, that they are too costly.
Today's Conservative Parties, from the federal CPC to the PC and UCP, are nothing more than offshoots of the GOP in the US, why do you think that every time they need or want to disrupt politics in Canada we hear how their leader or a shadow minister has run to America and either speaks to GOP representatives or goes on FOX News.... they're selling out Canadians for their own personal gain.
NRC standards
R-2000 standard for builders
The standard for energy efficiency in new construction
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Alberta can no longer afford Jason Kenney's bullshit blame shifting
Teck is a huge mining company. Its key priorities are expanding the Quebrada Blanca copper mine in Chile, upgrading the supply chain for its steelmaking coal business, improving its innovation program and cutting costs. The Frontier project is not a key priority, it is merely one of many “future options”.
This is not surprising given that energy is Teck’s least profitable business unit. Gross profit by business unit in 2018 was: 62% coal, 22% copper, 18% zinc and minus 2% energy.
So when the Teck CEO says if Frontier is approved that’s no guarantee it’s moving ahead, he means it.
But that’s not how Mr Kenney will paint the picture. Even if the feds approve Teck, Mr Kenney will find a way to blame them if Teck decides to forgo Frontier in favour of more profitable ventures elsewhere.
Mr Kenney has painted himself into a corner. He’s convinced Albertans that our economy will be driven by nothing but energy for a long time to come and that energy investment is driven by government policy and not global markets. Therefore, when his energy-centric government policies fail to produce the desired result because multi-national players would rather invest elsewhere, Kenney needs someone (other than himself) to blame for Alberta’s faltering economy.
Trot out Trudeau (again). And just in case Albertans are starting to understand that an economy that puts all its eggs in one basket is not sustainable in the 21st century, Mr Kenney will amp up the emotion but accusing Trudeau of sticking it to Alberta just for the fun of it.
The longer Albertans continue to believe Mr Kenney’s rhetoric, the harder it will be for us to move ahead.
Why Is It Always Someone Else's Fault?
Monday, February 3, 2020
Sunday, February 2, 2020
The NDP's lack of experience and willingness to prove it
Roundup: Ginned up outrage over accounting rules
My tolerance for ginned-up outrage is mighty thin, and it was exceeded yesterday as a certain media outlet ran a completely bullshit story about how in the last fiscal year, $105 million of Veterans Affairs’ budget went unspent and was returned to the consolidated revenue fund rather than simply kept in the department for the following year as the government “promised” to do following a completely inane NDP Supply Day motion a year previous. The story is one hundred percent not worth anyone’s time, and we have a media outlet who has decided to waste precious resources into putting a disingenuous framing mechanism around an NDP press release and calling it accountability.
To be clear: the whole premise of this “outrage” is the fact that the NDP have deliberately ignored how accounting and budgeting rules work in order to dial up a fake controversy for the sake of scoring outrage points in the media. The unspent money from Veterans Affairs is because they’re a demand-based department – they estimate how much they’ll need to deliver services to veterans every year, and if the funds don’t all get spent, then the law states that money goes back to general revenue, and reallocated in the following year’s budget. This does not mean there is deliberate under-spending – it means that they overestimated what the demand for services would be in an abundance of caution. And yes, there are backlogs in the department, but when you have capacity issues because they can’t hire enough qualified staff at the drop of a hat (after the previous government let hundreds of them go), you can’t just throw that “leftover” money at that problem. Pretending that it works otherwise is frankly dishonest
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