SamuelRJankis 2d ago • 75%
I've made exponential profits on CNQ and fully understand how much money is generated from O&G. I'm also fully aware that many people lives will have a substantial negative trajectory due to current climate change conditions.
You can't keep going to this big profits small costs argument without details of how much benefits and burdens is allocated to the parties involved.
Also to be upfront about it. I find your grammar thing to be rather annoying so this will be the end of the conversation for me.
SamuelRJankis 2d ago • 100%
There's a distinction between believing something exists and ignoring it's long term ramifications vs "celebrating carbon".
If people want to run things into the ground I can't imagine someone be called anything other than a idiot if you don't have a exit strategy. Also something to be said about the division of profits .
SamuelRJankis 2d ago • 100%
Fair assesment for the politicians and lobbiest.
What about their supporters, is defunding of education plus the governments doing nothing against misinformation enough to justify their actions?
SamuelRJankis 2w ago • 50%
Is there something wrong with these people. Why are they pretending our Prime Minister didn't clearly state he WILL NOT BRING DOWN HOUSING PRICES FOR OWNERS.
Any solution that costs home owners equity is not a acceptable solution for the current government or essentially anyone else you can currently vote for. That conversation is over, if people want affordable housing they'll have to wait till the majority of Canadians are willing to vote for something that involves housing prices going down and probably proper representation.
This is not the type of conversation that'll do anything for the housing problem. People need to move from fantasy to realistic approach to solving problems.
SamuelRJankis 4w ago • 100%
The significance to Alberta being the story in this case is context. NB and every other province worse than Alberta clearly has a problem they need to deal with, however Alberta has a substantially larger compatibility of doing something about it but none of the desire or competence.
SamuelRJankis 4w ago • 100%
The study suggests that work-life balance is a big contributing factor. Some of the biggest concerns from nurses include lack of control over their work schedules, mandatory overtime and a lack of shift flexibility.
Wittevrongel said the situation in Alberta is worse than the national average. Nationwide, for every 100 Canadian nurses who started in the field in 2022, 40 below the age of 35 left the profession, according to the MEI report. That number is up 25 per cent from 2013. Click to play video: 'Fears of health-care collapse from delay in pay deal for Alberta doctors' 2:00 Fears of health-care collapse from delay in pay deal for Alberta doctors
In comparison with other provinces, Alberta ranks fourth when it comes to the proportion of young nurses leaving the profession, sitting behind New Brunswick (80.2 per cent), Nova scotia (60.4 per cent) and Newfoundland and Labrador (50.3 per cent).
SamuelRJankis 1mo ago • 100%
The Bloc Québécois is ruling out the possibility that Canadians will be plunged into an early election next week, signalling Wednesday their intention to vote against a Conservative motion of non-confidence in the government.
With the Bloc declaring they won't support a motion for a election plus the NDP and Green unlikely supporting Pierre. It appears no one outside of Conservatives want Conservatives to run the country.
SamuelRJankis 1mo ago • 100%
A calculation of Poilievre's House of Commons pension indicates that he could draw more than $230,000 annually once he turns 65. That figure could grow considerably if Poilievre becomes prime minister following the next federal election.
If Singh qualifies for his pension, he could draw more than $66,000 annually starting at age 65, the same estimates suggest.
He estimated the current lifetime value of Poilievre's pension at $1.75 million, assuming he leaves politics after this year, starts collecting his pension at 65 and lives until 82 — the average life expectancy in Canada. According to Trivedi's math, Singh's lifetime pension is worth an estimated present-day value of $502,000.
SamuelRJankis 1mo ago • 100%
It's about the money.
B.C. United MLA Karin Kirkpatrick told CBC News the party has expenses and financial commitments to pay. She pointed out that by running some candidates and winning a certain percentage of the votes, the party could be eligible for the $1.81 per vote subsidy from Elections B.C.
"It seems ridiculous but in some ways it would be irresponsible — because of their financial obligations — not to run candidates and risk not getting that money back from Elections B.C.," she said.
SamuelRJankis 1mo ago • 100%
The social media accounts of two of Canada's most vocal far-right pundits have fallen unusually silent after U.S. officials accused them of being collaborators of a covert Russian propaganda campaign.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department unsealed an indictment against two Russian nationals, accusing them of setting up a conservative media outlet as a front for pro-Kremlin propaganda.
The media outlet was unnamed in the indictment, but it was clear from details within that the charges referred to Tenet Media, founded in 2023 by the Canadian influencer known as Lauren Chen and her husband, Liam Donavan.
Among the people they hired last year was Chen's longtime friend and occasional collaborator Lauren Southern, another Canadian far-right influencer with a massive social media following.
SamuelRJankis 2mo ago • 100%
Public vote counts should help a lot towards catching manipulation on the fediverse. Any action that can affect visibility (upvotes and comments) can be pulled by researchers through federation to study/catch inorganic behavior.
I'd love to see some type of Adblock like crowd sourced block lists. If the growth of other platforms is any indication there will probably be a day where it would be nice to block out a large amounts of accounts. I'd even pay for it.
SamuelRJankis 2mo ago • 90%
People shit on Jagmeet as being a poor leader, but I think he's done surprisingly good job getting policies out of the Liberals with 25 seats.
On the side of winning extra seats for his party he's getting into Kevin Falcon(BC United) level of competency where he's close to folding up his party. As a NDP Voting Reform person I hope this gamble works out.
Parliament in back in session Sept 16th.
SamuelRJankis 2mo ago • 100%
They're essentially going for broke with a finger in on the trigger for a election. This could get the Liberals to yield on some extra things which would win NDP some votes or a very early election which would be a big loss to the NDP and Liberals.
Liberals could also technically call their bluff and just keep on with what they're doing in which case could win them some NDP voters.
SamuelRJankis 2mo ago • 100%
In case anyone is wondering this does not mean there will be a election soon just more political turbulence.
The end of the confidence-and-supply agreement doesn't necessarily mean an immediate election. The Liberals could seek the support of the Bloc Québécois or try to continue negotiating with the NDP on a case-by-case basis.
SamuelRJankis 2mo ago • 100%
They care about the oil/gas industry enough to avoid going nuclear.
Since the moratorium announcement, 53 projects have been cancelled. This is more than five times higher than the normal project cancellation rate in the last few years. Calculated very conservatively, these projects represent an annual loss of $91 million per year in tax revenues to communities. This is revenue that would have been stable and sustainable. Wind and sun don’t run out, and when equipment wears out it can simply be replaced.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-renewables-pause-moratorium-aeso-foip-1.7196943
The internal documents now show the opposite chain of events: rather than the AESO asking the government for the pause, it was the government that asked the AESO to write a letter in support of the policy.
SamuelRJankis 2mo ago • 100%
Funny enough a random thing Peterson kept repeating. how progressives think from 1960s that we have finite resources on the planet.
SamuelRJankis 2mo ago • 100%
That is the general nuance that somehow entirely missed even though they spend a good half hour on the topic of how progressives are "anti-human" for somewhat factoring environmental concerns into policies.
Also one of the things the proceeded the nuclear thing was how BC is now electrical importer because of progressive policies.
A sustained period of drought in the province, particularly in the northeast, left both the Columbia Region and Peace River dams at historic lows and with a resulting reduced capacity for power generation.
“This year has been an extraordinary one and has made Hydro a net importer,” Energy Minister Josie Osborne told Global News.
On an annual basis, B.C. is typically a net exporter of electricity. B.C. often has a positive trade revenue balance, even in years when it imports more electricity than it exports, because of its ability to buy electricity from the U.S. when prices are lower and sell to the U.S. when prices are higher.
Literally the entire 33 minute portion I could make through was two people talking entirely out of their ass. Sprinkling some out of context facts for credibility.
SamuelRJankis 2mo ago • 100%
The party leader also says it was “crazy” for the former B.C. Liberal party to have banned nuclear power, saying the province needs to have a “conversation” about reconsidering its position, tying high energy costs to lower living standards.
The "ban" on Nuclear refers to the Clean Energy Act from 2010
Section 2 - British Columbia's energy objectives
(o)to achieve British Columbia's energy objectives without the use of nuclear power.
https://lims.leg.bc.ca/pdms/file/ldp/39th2nd/votes/progress-of-bills.htm
Bill No. | Title | Member | First Reading | Second Reading | Com- mittee | Report | amended | Third Reading | Royal Assent | S.B.C. Chap. No. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
17 | Clean Energy Act | Hon. B. Lekstrom | Apr. 28 | Jun. 3 | Jun. 3 | Jun. 3 | Jun. 3 | Jun. 3 | Jun. 3 | 22 |
People who voted for it which coincidentally includes the guy complaining about it: https://www.leg.bc.ca/parliamentary-business/overview/39th-parliament/2nd-session/votes-and-proceedings/v100428.htm
As someone who made it about 33m through the 1:50 podcast that essentially how everything goes if you fact check it.
SamuelRJankis 2mo ago • 100%
With the current system the only reason parties shift like that is because they have to. The Erin O'Toole 2020-22 Conservatives experimented with shifting left a bit lost the election before going PP and the far right.
Biden and Trump were fairly close in the polls for the 2024 election with Trump being the favorite. Then Kamala replaced Biden and the campaigned policy certainly moved further left. I'm also going to drop in why the current NDP is such a failure because they randomly started shifting right when they were providing with so much opportunity for success on the other side.
SamuelRJankis 2mo ago • 83%
Given the North American systems and current political climate we're not only seeing more party consolidation but also parties shifting to further ends of the political spectrum.
Will be interesting to see if the Federal Liberal survive without shifting dramatically.
For anyone not keeping up, BC is about to have a election in 2 months. The current opposition party/previous incumbent party is currently polled to be almost completely wiped out in the election by the BC Cons. so this seems like a go for broke maneuver. >A B.C. United government would eliminate the provincial income tax on the first **$50,000** earned by every British Columbian, Leader Kevin Falcon announced Tuesday. > >The move would save British Columbians an average of **$2,050** a year each at a time when people are struggling to afford the rising cost of living, Falcon said. > >The tax cut would cost the province **$5.4 billion** in tax revenue, B.C. United says.
TLDR: BC NDP gets 68 rental housing built in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Canada for 10 [Christy Clark(Previous BC United leader) yoga events](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/christy-clark-tweet-calls-out-yoga-haters-over-burrard-bridge-backlash-1.3109668) i.e ~1.5m and people are not happy. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ndp-housing-hub-program-under-fire-over-claim-of-affordable-rentals-1.7288112 >The NDP government provided a $31.8 million low-interest loan to Vancouver developer Jameson Development Corp. for the 68-unit rental building through the HousingHub program > His ministry said in a statement that the financing used to build the project at 1807 Larch St. will be fully paid back to the province, plus interest --------- The problem starts here where CBC did a segment that just interviewed a bunch of people to see what bad things they had to say about the project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfpEXRjpybk Deranged person A) > B.C. Green party leader Sonia Furstenau said that's "infuriating." > > "People who need housing are not the people who can afford $4,200 a month in rent," she told CBC News Deranged person B) > Andy Yan, an urban planner and director of Simon Fraser University's City Program, asked what the public interest was in subsidizing developers who are still charging rents that are out of reach for 75 per cent of Vancouver renters. > "It's an issue of what you're paying for versus what you're getting," Yan said. The BC Conservative that used to be a Vancouver councilor: I genuinely can't make sense of whatever this person was trying to say. It was pretty much a human equivalent of someone slamming their keyboard a few times. --------- https://news.bchousing.org/new-affordable-rental-homes-on-the-way-in-kitsilano/ > 80% of units, totaling 54, will target at- or below-market level rents restricted to middle- income households within the provincial middle-income limits. [Floor plans and prices.](https://www.l2rentals.ca/floorplans) > 20% of units, totaling 14, will be tenanted at moderate-income rent levels and to households earning less than $80,000 per year. ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Ff99dc8d0-efca-448c-b85b-5af813118616.png) I haven't been able to find the exact figures but I've largely seen numbers like 2-3% better than market rates. I'm going to just be generous and round it up 5% accounting for some level defaults, that's 1.6m to produce 54 market rate rentals plus 14 below market rentals. People spend more than that on a single duplex. If we scale that out to the original 2B program that would be 3,780 market rentals and 980 below market for only 5% opportunity cost of 2B. As someone who's gone over how hard it would be to build truly low cost housing that about as close as it gets. $2,000,000,000 * 5% = $100,000,000 $100,000,000 /4,760 = 21k per unit
>his July, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) expanded its SimpleFile services (phone, digital, and paper) to invite more than 500,000 eligible lower-income individuals to file their return and potentially gain access to important benefit and credit payments. > >This automatic tax filing national pilot targets individuals who have never filed a tax return or who have a gap in their filing history, and builds upon the success of small-scale SimpleFile pilots previously undertaken by the CRA. > >In early 2024, the CRA invited more than 1.5 million individuals with a lower income or a fixed income and who are in a simple tax situation that remains unchanged from year to year to use SimpleFile by Phone, double the number from the previous year. To date, more than 90% of the invitees have filed their tax return using a variety of filing methods the CRA offers. > >SimpleFile is a key Budget 2024 commitment and the CRA is on track to further increase the number of invitations to two million for tax season 2025.