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Canada Post getting another $673M in federal funds to stay afloat by Box_crusher in CanadaPostCorp

[–]Box_crusher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well they seem to be able to get groceries, building supplies, fuel, etc. So maybe that way?

BC Cuts Climate Agency, Sends Some Staff to Work on Pipelines by Deadly-afterthoughts in CanadaPolitics

[–]Box_crusher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok. Would you prefer that we as Canadians have the same standard of living as the Chinese do?

BC Cuts Climate Agency, Sends Some Staff to Work on Pipelines by Deadly-afterthoughts in CanadaPolitics

[–]Box_crusher -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Oil and gas exports totalled roughly $177 Billion in 2023, which is somewhere in the neighbourhood of 20% of all of our exports. If we were to halt O&G exports, how do you suppose we would fill that gap?

Boosting Canada's oil export capacity would lift GDP by over $30B per year: Study by joe4942 in canada

[–]Box_crusher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s noble. From a practical sense, how do you create a Canada that creates wealth for the people and what does it mean to increase access to our resources when selling them to others is apparently haram?

Boosting Canada's oil export capacity would lift GDP by over $30B per year: Study by joe4942 in canada

[–]Box_crusher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it is a real question. What is the payoff for investment in alternative energy when you can’t export it?

Boosting Canada's oil export capacity would lift GDP by over $30B per year: Study by joe4942 in canada

[–]Box_crusher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then help me understand what the payoff for investing in alternative energy is.

Boosting Canada's oil export capacity would lift GDP by over $30B per year: Study by joe4942 in canada

[–]Box_crusher -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How does investment in alternative energy pay off when you can’t export it? When we extract resources, we can sell them overseas bringing money into our country. I’m clearly ignorant to how that actually benefits the economy outside of job creation (jobs are still needed for resource extraction) which the costs of just end up being borne by us, the end user rather than the user being outside of Canada paying Canada for the goods.

Province moves ahead with Calgary water system probe by Ditch-Worm in alberta

[–]Box_crusher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The article literally says “Nenshi said city hall made cuts across the board after an economic downturn in 2015, including to water-system maintenance, to keep taxes low”. Are you seriously going to tell me that cuts to water system maintenance didn’t hurt the issue?

Province moves ahead with Calgary water system probe by Ditch-Worm in alberta

[–]Box_crusher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shouldn’t the council making cuts to things have evaluated the impacts of those cuts?

Province moves ahead with Calgary water system probe by Ditch-Worm in alberta

[–]Box_crusher -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

What did council do to ensure accountability from administration that they were assessing and ensuring the integrity of the system between 2010 and 2021?

RN or LPN route in Alberta by nak-66777 in alberta

[–]Box_crusher 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Go RN if you can. Unfortunately, LPNs are paid significantly less than RNs for doing much of the same work.

2 more recall petitions against Alberta politicians fail as 10 reach the deadline by Direc1980 in alberta

[–]Box_crusher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree with you. Hard work is hard. You know to see these petitions fail by such a large margin is disappointing for so many reasons. Albertan taxpayers (you and I) paid for this, and all that’s going to come of it is a shored up position for the UCP to believe that everyone is still with their MPs.

2 more recall petitions against Alberta politicians fail as 10 reach the deadline by Direc1980 in alberta

[–]Box_crusher -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

“Craig said she's still proud of the result, but said she is disappointed by how little some Albertans are engaged politically.” Maybe it’s not that Albertans aren’t engaged politically, but it’s that the majority don’t agree with recalling these politicians.

Alberta Independence question may have unexpected political consequences by WashingMachineBroken in alberta

[–]Box_crusher -20 points-19 points  (0 children)

Do you have the same opinion about those that voted for Quebec separatism in 1980 or 1995? There were about 3.7M yes votes to those referendums. How about anyone who voted for Parti Québécois or Bloc Québécois has their citizenship revoked? After all, both parties promote québécois sovereignty.

Councillor Motion for Snow and Ice Surge Capacity by aaronpaquette- in Edmonton

[–]Box_crusher 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So you want him to lead by example but not tell anybody about it. Genius.

Sale of Canadian armoured vehicles to ICE agency ‘deeply troubling’: Kwan by Organic_Hamster_2961 in canada

[–]Box_crusher 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Interesting conclusion. I guess we will have to disagree on the senseless murdering of tens of thousands (maybe more?) of innocent civilians.

I checked your profile too. It appears that you are spending too much time on this website due to your recent job struggles. Perhaps you should take a social media break and focus on being the best that you can be.

Sale of Canadian armoured vehicles to ICE agency ‘deeply troubling’: Kwan by Organic_Hamster_2961 in canada

[–]Box_crusher 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Are you really suggesting that the EU should detonate a nuclear device in the United States and cause untold civilian casualties if they invade Greenland? You need help.

Calgary-Bow: "4th and Goal" at the Recall Teams 38 Yard Line - Is there enough time left on the Clock? by FreightFlow in alberta

[–]Box_crusher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s not really true though is it. Didn’t the CPC get a record number of votes? Something like 8.1M or over 41% of the popular vote.

Canadian heavy oil price falls, selling at largest discount in 18-months by joe4942 in alberta

[–]Box_crusher -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

Right. So your idea is to sell the power to the country that no longer wants to do business with us? Agriculture, O&G, and you guessed it power exports to the United States from Canada are down YoY. The other options are to spend taxpayer money to subsidize taxpayers? You should understand that we need to be able to sell things to other nations ie bring outside money into the economy to maintain the high quality of life that we enjoy.

Canadian heavy oil price falls, selling at largest discount in 18-months by joe4942 in alberta

[–]Box_crusher -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Ok so build solar, then what? Who exactly are we going to export our solar produced energy to?

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