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2 hours ago, Alflives said:
It should be mandatory that all young Canadians have to work in the real world for one year before getting out if school and (being old enough) voting.
I’m up for something like this. You need to have paid at least X amount of taxes in the last Y amount of years before you are eligible to vote.
Prove your contributions to society before you get to vote on actions that affect society.-
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3 minutes ago, spur1 said:
No shortage of industrial farms there. Not many workers there just a lot of large machines. Very few small family farms and that is why the small towns are dying out.
You said foreign owned which is false. Alberta has the agricultural and recreational land ownership act and foreign ownership of land regulations in places that prevents this from happens.
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26 minutes ago, spur1 said:
The problem is that the majority of these hard working farmers you are talking about are minimum wage earners working on a foreign owned industrial farm. That leaves a whole lot of exploited workers not getting a fair share of what they produce. I sure don’t want my tax dollars going to them.
In Alberta? Nope
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10 minutes ago, NeilColville said:
This is why I hate the left. Few missing chromosomes in these people.
I don’t know if you can label all left into that group.
I think you see a shift of both left and the right breaking off into more extremes, and while they aren’t the majority they are the most vocal and get the most attention.
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3 minutes ago, NeilColville said:
most protesters don’t have a job. They provide little, or if anything useful to society. They are the ones that just want to bitch about something.
Some of them aren’t even Canadians.
https://globalnews.ca/news/6601384/who-are-the-wetsuweten-protesters/amp/3 minutes ago, NeilColville said:They care so strongly about the environment yet will burn a pile of &^@#ing tires on the rail tracks.
and here’s the kicker. The costal gaslink is going to improve global carbon emissions and help China get off coal. This pipeline is a win/ win/win for the global environment, Canada, and First Nations and yet you got clueless people opposing this. It’s sad because these clueless people have no desire to becomes more informed on the matter.
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20 minutes ago, Alflives said:
Maybe the Sabres would be better if Dahlin was as good at controlling the game as Quinn?
The idea that you don't think Dahlin is as good as controlling the game is purely based on the fact that you don't watch him at all. The kid is so slick and see's the ice so well. and guess what he's still only 19 years old. Dahlin does this type of stuff on a daily basis.
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15 minutes ago, Violator said:
RCMP is managed by psp. PSP has invested in TC who has funds in natural gas. Some of those funds were costal gas link. In December TC sold 65% of its natural gas stake to Alberta, us and Korea.
any conclusion stating that the RCMP has a conflict of interest is really trying to pull at straws on that claim.
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Ever since the Calgary game where they were on him all the time, Petey has been far less noticeable. It’s beginning to be crunch time and a much more of a playoff like atmosphere, the game is getting tighter and teams are focusing in on our top guys.
If we want to have playoff success petey needs to figure out a way to elevate his game during these meaningful games like the true superstars are able to do.
The good news is our captain Bo has shown true leadership and is going to do what ever it takes to drag us into the post season.
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3 minutes ago, Pure961089 said:
Dahlin < Hughes
Miscellaneous stats < Actual Points
Nobody Cares that Dahlin has more Penalty Mins.
Where did I mention anything about penalty minutes?
There’s more to playing “defense“ than putting up points. If there wasn’t, the Norris trophy would simply just go to the highest producing defensemen.
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9 minutes ago, Warhippy said:
YOU made the statement not me. Now you're walking it back.
wth are you blabbering about. I made a statement that rural communities get screwed because technologies don’t exist. You in a triggered rage reply with complete nonsense, like you typically do.
And you say I’m walking it back? Others were smart enough to comprehend my statement as it was quite simple but for some reason you are the only that gets confused and goes off on a tangent.
9 minutes ago, Warhippy said:That's you in a nutshell.
As for Makar, you're taking some liberties there too.
No other alternatives. Nobody is using alternatives. Except....
Learn how to read beyond a 5th grade level and life will be much easier on you. Not my fault you can’t read. Your stupidity bores me.
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1 minute ago, Warhippy said:
Uh huh. Tell me more there.
https://www.renewableresourcescoalition.org/alternative-energy-sources/
https://www.wri.org/blog/2019/01/us-underwent-quiet-clean-energy-revolution-last-year
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/energy/reference/renewable-energy/
But do tell me more how people and companies won't switch to alternatives or that those alternatives don't exist some more. I'm literally moist with anticipation.
Sweet moving of the goalposts, since your exact statement is/was the idea that people will switch to alternatives is such a joke, Especially when the alternatives don’t exist.
What the heck does any of that have to do with what I said. Man, you lack any ability to comprehend simple conversation. Read the bolded again, read it slowly, maybe one word at a time. when an alternative doesn’t exist, which for most farm equipment doesn’t for example like grain drying. But please keep posting your nonsense haha. It’s why the average farmer income is expected to fall by 12% by 2022.
1 minute ago, Warhippy said:As for sustainable equipment. I'd suggest checking out Amity. If you know you know but then...obviously you don't. Just like opening up and making bold statements, jumping in head first and then leaving on a sly dig. Adorable.
Like I said. Tonka trucks is the closest you’ve been to any farm equipment. Clearly you have never been to a farm Haha. Thanks for making yourself look even dumber. I get a kick of watching you constantly look foolish, which happens at least 2 times a day here. Lol.
1 minute ago, Warhippy said:Meanwhile, let me know how Makar will be nothing in the league because you played in the AJHL.
Makar is a stud D. I never said he wouldn’t be anything, I said I wouldn’t pick him in the top 5 over the other options. I was wrong he is worthy of a top 5 pick. Still happy we have Petey over him though. Nothing wrong with admitting when you are wrong. Something you struggle so mightily with even though it applies to you 99.99% of the time.
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1 minute ago, Warhippy said:
Funny. The growing industry and record movement away from fossil fuels and in to alternatives seems to dispute you.
But whatever
Ah so you’re saying there are realistic alternatives today for replacing farm equipment. Oh wait you wouldn’t have the slightest clue to what farmers have for equipment because lets be real, the closest thing you ever came to anything resembling farm equipment is a tonka truck.
People like you are so out to lunch, it’s like you think your food just magically appears in the grocery store. There’s a reason why the flipping Green Party is calling for a break on the carbon tax for the farmers. But hip is the expert
. Oh wait you’re not., you’re just a pathological liar.
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5 hours ago, RUPERTKBD said:
I know the Carbon Tax is unpopular in certain areas of the country, but the idea that it isn't (or wouldn't) be effective doesn't seem to be supported:
The carbon tax cost the company I’m involved with a million a year. the idea that people will switch to alternatives is such a joke, Especially when the alternatives don’t exist.
Too many narrow minded city folk that don’t have a clue who ends up getting the short end of the stick on this. I’ll let you a hint it’s the rural communities, the people who don’t have city transit options, who don’t have any realistic options for hybrid equipment. The rural communities get screwed.
the reason why big companies like Exxon are for it is the same reason why Walmart is for raising min wage. It’s because they can insulate themselves while the small companies can’t, leaving them bigger control.
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1 hour ago, Dats hockey said:
Hughes made us close to top of our conference.
First of all it’s a team game, not an individual game. Marky has been extremely important to canucks run this year, as is miller and Petty.
Second of all there only a 6 point difference between the two teams. That’s winning more 3 games. Its not like canucks are some power house. We are in a weak division, if we were in the East, we wouldn’t even be in a wildcard spot.-
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11 hours ago, MoneypuckOverlord said:
I wouldn't either. Advanced Stats Hughes destroys Dhalin, and he is actually rather overrated.
What advanced stats are you using. Last time I checked they were next to identical.
corsi 51.1 vs 52.7fenwick 49.2 vs 52.7
SAT 50.3 vs 53.0
isat/60 9.16 vs 9.47
ozone start 58.3 vs 61.5
quinn averages more TOI including pp TOI
dahlin average 50 seconds more SH TOI/game
Dahlin leads his D draft class with 62 hits. Quinn has a total of 6.
Dahlin averages 2.43 blocked shots per game, Hughes only 1.65.
give aways Dahlin averages 2.13/game, Hughes is 2.58/gametake aways Dahlin is .79/game, Hughes is 1.42
Dahlin has .71 p/gp, Hughes has 0.82p/gp.
1 hour ago, Dats hockey said:Idk, Dahlin doesn’t have the potential Hughes does. I guess if you want to play it safe
yeah Dahlin just doesn’t have the same potential..... he’s making nhl history but just doesn’t have the same potential.
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26 minutes ago, kingofsurrey said:
You crack me up....
Booming LNG industry could be as bad for climate as coal ...
Natural gas is at times described as a transition fuel in the response to the climate crisis as it has about half the carbon dioxide emissions of black coal when burned to generate electricity. That argument has been rejected by the head of the International Energy Agency and science bodies warning the world needs to rapidly move to clean energy and industries.
Nace said it was difficult to compare emissions from coal and gas given their different nature. Gas has lower CO2 emissions than black coal when burned for electricity, but LNG developments also leak methane, which is a relatively short-lived gas that lasts in the atmosphere about 12 years but still has a warming power about 28 times greater than the same amount of CO2 when calculated over a century.
Yeah fake news
https://www.jwnenergy.com/article/2019/7/no-natural-gas-not-bad-coal-iea/
QuoteA new special report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on natural gas is poking a hole in the argument that natural gas and LNG is just as bad, or even worse than coal, in terms of its global warming potential.
It also finds that LNG exported to China from Canada would have lower emissions than pipeline gas.
Anti-fossil fuel advocates point to a couple of studies that suggest that natural gas and LNG is no better – and potentially even worse – than coal due to fugitive methane leaks.
Other life-cycles analyses have found that methane emissions from natural gas production is well below the threshold that would be needed to put it on the same footing as coal, fin terms of global warming potential.
A life-cycle analysis by the IEA now refutes those studies that suggest natural gas is as bad as coal.
“Gas is nearly always better than coal on a lifecycle basis,” the new 110-page report concludes.
The IEA examined four scenarios – Europe, the U.S., China and India – and concludes that there can be a “quick win,” in GHG reductions by utilizing existing natural gas plants to supplant coal power.
It notes that in the U.S., nearly one-fifth of total emissions reductions since 2010 (18%) was from switching from coal power to natural gas.
The report does warn, however, of the danger of locking in natural gas, and the need to eventually lower its emissions intensity even more through carbon capture and storage or utilization.
Here are some of the IEA’s conclusions on the GHG intensity of gas, compared to coal:
- “Our detailed assessment of today’s lifecycle emissions of gas and coal supply finds that switching to natural gas yields significant emissions reductions in nearly all cases”;
- “In 2018, gas on average resulted in 33% fewer emissions than coal per unit of heat used in industry and buildings, and 50% fewer emissions than coal per unit of electricity generated”;
- “We estimate that up to 1.2 gigatonnes of CO2 could be abated in the short term by switching from coal to existing gas-fired plants, if relative prices and regulation are supportive”;
- “While there is a wide variation across different sources of coal and gas, we estimate that over 98% of gas consumed today has a lower lifecycle emissions intensity than coal when used for power or heat.”
China and India account for more than 60% of the coal burned in the world. One might therefore assume it is the biggest potential market for switching from coal to natural gas.
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1 hour ago, thedestroyerofworlds said:
Here's the thing, scientists don't abandon theories until the evidence and/or the new theory does a better job than the previous theory. They abandon the old theories when the new one has been verified. Scientists dont just abandon theories under the promise that at some time in the future the current theory will be falsified. That is not how this works.
So if you have a cache of evidence that refutes the current theories, produce it. Let us see it. Let us try to replicate your findings. That is how it works.
Here's some evidence that maybe you could explain to KOS.
Selling natural gas to china helps them obtain a cleaner energy source than there current Coal-fired power generation. China currently accounts for half of the worlds coal consumption and if Canada could sell China LNG, it would reduce GLOBAL GHG emissions by 60 to 90 million tonnes annually, equivalent to all of B.C.’s GHG emissions in a year and 10 per cent of Canada’s.
The fact that people say they are concerned for climate change yet then oppose a natural gas pipeline that will give a heavy emitting country a cleaner solution is mind boggling. I mean how stupid can some people be.
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21 hours ago, kingofsurrey said:Used to do the Edson and Hinton stops in my youth when i was frequently doing the Vancouver to Edmonton drive......
Both places were good for gas up , fast food visit.... and bathroom visit.
So Edson is the meth capital of Canada......and it’s also a place you frequented quite often......
......it all starts to make sense now....
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2 minutes ago, Darius said:
There is a lot of risk here.
There are several scenarios where they lose this trade - one of them is no playoffs and Toffoli walks. The trade looks fair if they make it in and Toffoli ends up signing here.
The question I have is if BB doesnt go down for a significant period of time (as it looks like he will) do they make this trade? With a healthy top 6 they could have used those assets to shore up the bottom 6 on D or to add some much needed toughness.
Yep there is a ton of risk on the move. We all know that JB values playoffs hockey for the young cores development and he's willing to bet some futures on hoping to achieve that. He values this development at the same cost that contending teams value getting that piece to put them over the top for a playoff round. Whether this is a smart investment or not is another debate.
If things go south and we miss playoffs, it could turn very ugly. We could essentially be not picking till the 80's at the 2020 draft and have no playoff growth to show for it. That's not a good look for a team who hasn't made the playoffs since 2015. If things go well, players like Petey, Hughes, Jake and Bo learn to see what it take to be successful in the playoffs
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20 minutes ago, kingofsurrey said:
I feel like i am watching 2 accountants at a pub..... arguing whether there tip on a 5 dollar pint should be based on the cost of the pint before OR after taxes are included.....
Bottom line - Alberta conservative party ruined Alberta legacy fund and the alberta boom and bust economy in general.....
Funny every time you post I feel like.
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1 hour ago, thedestroyerofworlds said:
Gross and net debt. Learn. Yup,
Yes please do learn. You are the one using net debt for some reason which really isn’t the best as it would imply Alberta could simply sell off all there assets in order to pay off total debt which is a very unrealistic approach outside of declaring bankruptcy.
Remember net debt is calculated by total liabilities minus financial assets. Those financial assets include the 16 billion heritage fund which has nothing to do with any current political party and it’s not going to be cashed out anytime soon. So you can drop the idea that net debt should be discussed at all, it has no relevance in this discussion and wasn’t even part of the initial claim.
Quote33.1 is 40 in your math.
Second of all. Again we both agreed on that my report used numbers that calculated the debt from mid 2018, those numbers rose quite substantially by the time the UPC took over in March. In fact.
QuoteAs of March 31, 2019, Alberta's total outstanding debt was $85.9 billion. This includes $62.7 billion in taxpayer supported debt.
(just to page 168)
So the fact that your arguing over with @Ryan Strome about the 33.1 billion (2018 numbers) is funny considering actual March 2019 numbers show it is closer to an added 50.8 billion In debt.
but like rupt said.
Quote....what's a few billion dollars among friends....amirite?
So now that it’s clear as day and there’s no more to debate, will you admit strome was right? Or will you say he’s wrong because he was about 10 billion “short” in his estimate? Moment of truth time.....-
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41 minutes ago, thedestroyerofworlds said:
So we're pointing to different debt numbers that are actually in the budget documents net debt versus overall debt. So how much of that $45 you trot out to defend Strome is the NDP'S debt. This debt mess started by him pondering the thought that the NDP added $40 billion. I pointed out the current net debt levels don't show this. He then said the debt was $45 or $50 billion. Your number is from 2018 and also shows current levels are no where near $45 or $50 in overall debt he said. So it really doesn't prove anything.
Edit: so the Fraser Institute and RBC are also wrong the. Because that is where I got the $36.6 billion number and that number also appears in the RBC link that Hip posted.
@Ryan Strome never mentioned anything to do with net debt. That’s something you mistakenly through in there yourself.
he clearly said “Was it the NDP that added 40 billion in debt?“
The link I posted
“When the NDP took over in 2015, Alberta’s debt totalled$11.9-billion. It currently sits at $45-billion“
Do the math. Might not be exactly 40 billion but as you pointed out those we 2018 numbers, debt had went up since that report. And even if it didn’t 33.1 billion isn’t chump change.-
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23 minutes ago, thedestroyerofworlds said:
What am I supposed to do with that? What is that link supposed to prove?
The source I posted and Hip posted had a net debt of $27.5 billion for 2018/19 and a projected net debt of $36.6 billion in 2019/2020. If you actually dig through what you posted in the 2018/19 documents you will eventually find that $27.5 billion number. If anything, you think the overall debt quoted proves your point, but even that number isn't 40, 45, or 50.
At best I'm right, you're wrong.. At worst, we are both wrong. You're wrong either way.
QuoteWhen the NDP took over in 2015, Alberta’s debt totalled $11.9-billion. It currently sits at $45-billion and is forecast to hit $71-billion by 2019-20. As a percentage of the total economy, the current debt level isn’t outrageous – 13.8 per cent of GDP, the lowest in the country. The government has said it hopes to balance the books in 2023-24. But that remains an aspirational goal.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-rachel-notleys-other-big-nemesis-albertas-debt/
And here's a fun one.....
QuoteAlberta's debt soars to $45B, but budget has no big cuts, no new taxes
Despite being debt free in 2004, Alberta's debt is now forecast to hit $71.1 billion by 2019-20. Political critics say the governing New Democrats are spending recklessly. The NDP says it's all part of a plan, and it has promised to balance the budget by 2023/24.
But the Canadian Taxpayers' Federation, in fact, continues to run an online petition calling on the province to cut spending, stressing that it's not fair to "young Albertans who will inherit the province's ballooning debt."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/road-ahead-brooks-alberta-debt-deficit-politics-1.4574465
So Kenney makes some needed tax cuts and that even hips CBC was calling for and now UPC is the devil. Funny how times change.
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1 hour ago, Lockout Casualty said:
IT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THIS! ALBERTA SHEDS JOBS WHILE THE REST OF THE COUNTRY CREATES THEM
...Canada’s job market blew past the forecasts for the month. Unemployment also fell.
In Alberta, not so much.
Indeed, Alberta was the only province in Canada to see jobs disappearing — and in significant numbers, with 19,000 lost in January, the second month of the past three the province has experienced big job losses.
Canada, meanwhile, added 34,000 jobs nationwide in January, Statistics Canada said, which was pretty good considering the expectation the country would be up only 17,500 jobs by the end of the month. Unemployment nationwide edged downward to 5.5 per cent — not a record low, but within shouting distance.
In Alberta, by contrast, unemployment is now at 7.3 per cent, similar to the rates being experienced in the Maritimes — that part of Canada former Calgary MP Stephen Harper in the days he was leader of the Canadian Alliance Party famously and arrogantly dismissed as having a “culture of defeatism.”
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Maybe we should let them go before all the unemployed Albertan refugees scatter to the rest of Canada to take our jobs, brass balls and chewing tobacco in tow.
#closetheborder
This is how clueless some of your are.
Albertas unemployment is a 7.3%. This time last year it was 7.2%. in 2017 it was 8.9%. Funny none of you posted anything a few years ago in regards to those numbers, gee I wonder why????...But but upc is killing jobs......nope they’ve maintained job losses while at the same time started grappling high expenses.
Alberta lost 19k jobs, most of which were part time. Meanwhile Alberta also added 6600 high paying oil and gas jobs in the same month as a result of the “tax cut” that apparently never works. Albertas employment rate is the highest in the country at 65.2%
Reporters are just getting lazy and you few are lapping it up. but don’t let me ruin you ignorant bashing.
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. Oh wait you’re not., you’re just a pathological liar. 
The DumbBrexit / #Wexit thread
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Sure but I never said reward the people who pay the most, they already get taxed the most and the top 10% already contributes over 70% of all taxes.
What I said Is there should be a minimum bar that people need to pass before they get to vote. If you want to have a say where the tax dollars are used you need to have contributed to that fund.