northmaple1984

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northmaple1984,

Because we live in Canada and our design day heating energy requirement is typically far greater than our design day cooling energy requirement. Add in the fact that best pump efficiency falls way off at design day heating (to half or less of design day cooling) and you end up with equipment that may be able to do heating and cooling but is way oversized for cooling, so lots of people opt to save capital (and potentially maintenance) money by relying on gas heat for the coldest days.

Because water heating with heat pumps is currently garbage on the residential scale… the heat pump capacity on residential water heaters is quit low, which is fine for keeping the tank warm but not for dealing with a half decent draw, so they all include full electric capacity which means you need the service size and associated operating costs to go along with it. Commercial heat pump water heating isn’t much better, it may get better once CO2 or propane take off as a refrigerant here.

Because more and more buildings are putting in emergency generators, which require either natural gas, propane or fuel oil. One of those is significantly easisr to install and maintain than the other two.

With Trudeau on the ropes, Liberals contemplate the next election with hope and anxiety (www.cbc.ca)

The polls are not good for the Liberals — in fact, they’re struggling to overcome the 15 to 20-point gap that separates them from the Conservatives. But those close to the prime minister like to point out that their leader is used to being underestimated and performs well under pressure....

northmaple1984,

This is a stupid take, why on earth would they give up majority rule, which they regularly get, in favour of a forever minority in which the partners in the coalition would have far more power than they ever do under FPTP?

Singh 'more alarmed' after reading report, but won't break from Liberal-NDP agreement (www.ctvnews.ca)

And this is exactly why the security clearances don’t matter. May says it’s basically a nothingburger involving former politicians while Singh is suggesting in involves current policitians and acts as if he’s quite upset, but apparently is not upset enough to actually hold the government accountable....

northmaple1984,

You could not vote for the person if the parties don’t have enough sense to dump them.

northmaple1984,

What’s thr point of him reading it though? Unless he’s allowed to give us actual specific details about it, nothing changes for us voters whether he reads it or not, just like nothing has changed for us voters just because Singh and May read it.

I’ll tell you what will happen if he reads it: he’ll spout off some vague bullshit just like May and Singh did and people will accuse him of lying for the purpose of stirring up political dissent for his own advantage.

northmaple1984,

There is no credible source that “most of them had no idea”, you are speculating from vague statements other people have made. This is exactly why the report needs to be public.

northmaple1984,

Yeah, sorry, but I don’t trust May, Trudeau, Poilievre, Singh or Blanchet. There’s no point in any of the party leaders seeing the list or report unless they are able to actually tell us the people who are involved.

northmaple1984,

She is a politician, that’s enough reason to distrust her.

northmaple1984,

Hahahahaha, because Hamas/Palestians and basically every Muslim country treats LGBTQ people so well…

I challenge these Pride organisations to go run a Pride Parade pretty kuch anywhere in the Middle East except Israel and see what happens.

northmaple1984,

Some genocide, where the supposed aggressor takes care to try their best to move the target population out of harms way despite the fact that their actual militarised enemies deeply embed within the population, and the population grows enormously over the course of the decades of the supposed genocide.

If it is a genocide, someone needs to tell Israel they are doing it wrong.

northmaple1984,

Sorry, I actually have respect for the word genocide and only use it when appropriate.

What’s happening in Gaza isn’t it.

northmaple1984,

Yes, because never in the course of any war throughout history have innocent bystanders been hit by accident.

Israel has enough firepower that if they were committing a genocide Gaza would have been a literal pile of rubble decades ago.

northmaple1984,

What you’re missing is that the minister that can make sharing the names legal via changing the required clearance is part of the government that refuses to do just that.

northmaple1984,

And I really don’t trust the CBC yet I still post thoss articles and don’t complain about other people posting them.

northmaple1984,

Because it’s literallt the government’s media wing. Didn’t trust it during the Chrétien, Martin or Harper years, don’t trust it now, won’t trust it when the CPC is back in.

I don’t trust sources like Global or the Toronto Star either but at least they’re an arm’s length away from the government which makes them more credible than the CBC.

northmaple1984,

No, the list being released has been a huge point of contention.

northmaple1984,

I’d be surprised if the NDP and Greens weren’t involved either to be honest.

northmaple1984,

Nah I’m pretty sure there was plenty of Islamists, neonazis and other groups from all sorts of countries targeting Jews long before Netanyahu was around and there will be long after he’s gone. This is just the latest chapter in the several thousand year old world history of antisemitism.

northmaple1984,

Don’t plan on making it past 40?

northmaple1984,

Hang on, your solution is to raise the retirement age at a time when wages are actively being suppressed across multiple sectors because there are too many people competing for the same jobs?

Let’s revisit that when applicants for near-minimum wage unskilled labour jobs aren’t lining up around the block (virtually and sometimes physically) for a single opening.

northmaple1984,
  1. There are tons of immigrant truckers here who shouldn’t be on the road, so yes it wasn’t intentional but it still might make people think about the situation (and potential liability) they are putting themselves in.
  2. Who gives a fuck if it benefits the country or not, there’s literally no reason for us to keep a convicted criminal (of any crime) if we don’t have to. The real question should be “Why should a criminal non-citizen be allowed the privilege of staying?”
northmaple1984,

At the end of the day it’s not “the industry” driving trucks, is individual people.

northmaple1984,

Is it pretty widely known that the trucking industry is taking advantage of foreign worker programs and setting low expectations (ex. shitty training, not punishing drivers for substandard practices) to increases profits.

Also, yes, he was picked ahead of others for a reason… perhaps a bad reason, or perhaps, given the current state of the economy, there was no real need for him to begin with. He’s not a citizen so he has no right to stay, you’ve offered no compelling reasons of why he should be allowed.

northmaple1984,

Lol, “most documented genocide” where the civilian:combatant death ratio is on the low end compared to other wars and the population supposedly being genocided for the last 50-60 years has more than doubled.

northmaple1984,

Try millennia-old war, the last 50-60 years is only the most recent flare-up

northmaple1984,

Per capita GDP is far better than what the government is using, which is total GDP that is technically slowly rising but not faster than our population growth rate.

CPI doesn’t give near a good picture as per capita GDP does. CPI increases can be at or below target levels but if per capita GDP growth is negative it’s still very bad. Having good per capita GDP data and bad CPI data and way, way less common, I’m even actually sure it’s ever happened in modern times.

northmaple1984,

In theory wealth inequality can be getting worse as GDP per capita gets better, for sure.

But conversely, if wealth inequality is getting better while the GDP per capita is going down, most people will still be worse off which definitely isn’t good.

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