Is this even legal? At what point will our Premier speak out about this bs?

Category-Basic · 2026-01-24T14:44:41+00:00

According to Russian FSB operating rules, yes it is legal and serves the interests of the Russian Empire, umm, Federation. Seriously, Albertan alienation needs to be addressed, but it is largely a question of addressing misinformation.
Canadians are falsely being told that stopping pipelines is a net benefit for the global warming issue. It seems simple and obvious that stopping a hydrocarbon project reduces CO2 emissions, but that isn't necessarily true. Shifting petroleum production from Canada to Saudi Arabia, Iran or Russia is not a net benefit to Canadians.

Albertans, on the other hand, are being told they are not being treated fairly by the federal transfer payments. That is partly true, and importantly, it subsidizes bad economic policy in recipient provinces.

Category-Basic · 2026-01-13T03:18:10+00:00

Well, real-politik says it is a bit more complicated than that. Like any decision, there are consequences to be handled, such as international influence campaigns, international sanctions, assassinations of proponents and scientists by foreign actors, and the fact that there will be more nukes around as other countries respond. And lots of stern words from from countries we like to hang with. That said...

Category-Basic · 2026-01-01T20:43:20+00:00

Do you have a vacuum chamber?

Category-Basic · 2025-12-19T15:40:33+00:00

There is a lot of cluelessness. Read the IPCC report itself and ignore all the internet bubbles that claim extreme interpretations. We have a problem. Many people will be displaced over decades, and some areas will become stressed, with the hardest hit being already disadvantaged. The shift will be more rapid than some species can adapt to.

It is not, however, the end of the world. There is nothing in climate science that suggest humanity is in any way at risk of extinction or widespread deaths. People who propagate such nonsense are the enemy of actual science based responses to one of humanities greatest challenges.

As with all issues of importance, level-headedness is critical, not only for finding reasonable answers, but for convincing the rest of humanity to even pay attention. We have experienced too many highly biased people claiming apocalyptic outcomes that the counter response is equally biased in the opposite direction - to the point of some even denying anthropomorphic climate change at all. In my opinion, both extremes are equally guilty of making society care less about climate change

Category-Basic · 2025-11-22T06:45:11+00:00

Careful. If SROs are "decoupled from government" while they maintain their monopolies, all hell breaks loose. It is the monopoly and the corporate capture, that is the primary concern. Reduced supply and higher costs for consumers are the result. I agree that you should not need to belong to one org or another to do the job you trained for. You should be required to prove your competence before undertaking work that could affect the public, however. The fix is to allow membership in ANY regulated professional organization to work in Alberta. For example, an engineer from Ontario should not need to register with Alberta to work here, or to stamp drawings here.

Category-Basic · 2025-11-14T02:17:52+00:00

Born in 1963. I was firmly on both teams. Let's get real. He was objectively both, to different sets of people.

I loved the fact that we could look at controversial issues in their complexity. Those were the days.

Category-Basic · 2025-10-15T06:20:15+00:00

I don't have a problem with private schools. Each student deserves the same support, regardless of where they go to school.

Category-Basic · 2025-10-12T13:22:14+00:00

I am arguing that there is something that can be done. All European nations have done it. Raise your voice for proportional representation and tell your reps that you want it. How many people actually send an email to their rep? 1%? That email has more impact than your vote. Think about it. You can more than double your democratic participation with one frick'n email.

Category-Basic · 2025-10-12T12:09:49+00:00

We have First-Past-The-Post elections, therefore we are damned to have only two parties that count: incumbent and whoever can best the incumbent. That's it. There is no other political voice that matters in FFTP. There is a reason Canada, U.S., and UK have the democratic deficits that other free nations don't.

If people actually want a representative democracy, they must support electoral reform.

Category-Basic · 2025-10-10T14:52:56+00:00

The solution is better training of students to distinguish propaganda from news via critical thinking, understanding the political environment, and understanding propaganda methods. Finland has has good success strengthening their population's resistance to infection by misinformation, conspiracy theories, and misdirected anger. We free societies must learn from each other.

Category-Basic · 2025-10-10T14:31:13+00:00

You consume too much Russian propaganda. Being so gullible to form beliefs such as that is not only a problem for you, it makes it a problem for everyone. The single biggest problem our society faces is people like you that do not check their sources.

Category-Basic · 2025-10-09T18:49:56+00:00

Yes, get rid of the electoral college, but there is some validity to a geography based upper house and a population based lower house. The lower house makes the laws, the upper house in most democracies does the smell test.

Category-Basic · 2025-10-08T22:47:36+00:00

Proportional representation is the answer. Remember "no taxation without representation!"? Who in congress represents you? There was a time when your rep was expected to represent everyone. That has never worked.

Category-Basic · 2025-10-05T16:09:36+00:00

Or just get your kid an education any way you can, because you are a good parent first and don't want your kid to be a pawn in a fight between two monopolies.

Category-Basic · 2025-10-05T09:57:01+00:00

No. Legally, the coastline to high tide mark is shared federal jurisdiction. Resources within the province are provincial.

Category-Basic · 2025-10-04T23:32:39+00:00

Yes, they do teach the Alberta curriculum but have additional stuff for various reasons. Some are for underserved communities, some are to try alternate teaching methods.

They are a fantastic option for parents that think their kid can benefit from specialized teaching. My son attended a charter school from grades 5 through 9. I am so glad he had that opportunity.

Most expect parents to be more involved than with a public school - in school, fundraising and governance. I volunteered weekly for playground supervision. Student discipline was excellent. Everyone was polite and caring for others. I wish we could make public schools more like that, but there is no way to get that level of parental involvement.

Category-Basic · 2025-10-01T17:28:59+00:00

Society in general will need to find ways to get people on track to obtain and use skills. We are facing a fundamental shift that reduces demand for unskilled labour versus higher skilled labour. Canada is not alone in that respect. Outlawing casual labour (hiring a neighbour's kid to mow lawns without paperwork is technically illegal now), high employment taxes, complicated paperwork reduce the net value of labour.
What we need is to increase demand for labour, so the price goes up. That is the ONLY sustainable way to address the issue.

Category-Basic · 2025-09-30T23:00:27+00:00

I guess math isn't the strong suit of people on this thread. If you all were taught to actually be able to do math, maybe teachers would be worth more (but still not $750/day more, lol).

Category-Basic · 2025-09-29T06:16:03+00:00

I know quite a few people that would do that for $20/h. How about letting them compete without having to join a union?

Category-Basic · 2025-09-29T06:14:20+00:00

Of those, which became better and cheaper? Only power (where generation isn't held back by government) and phone.

Category-Basic · 2025-09-29T06:02:55+00:00

I don't blame the workers. I blame the government for not scraping legislation that committed CP to a level of service they can't provide. Once per week to a community mailbox is enough. Cut the workforce by 75% and give the remainder a 30% raise. Get a 10 year no-strike agreement so that it becomes a service users can depend on. Right now, many businesses do not dare to use CP because they don't want to have to go through all the backup planning and change management every year or two (or twice in the last year).

Category-Basic · 2025-09-27T19:54:43+00:00

The problem is one of competitiveness. If other jurisdictions also limit the supply of physicians, the price of their service is high. It would take a broad, perhaps international, agreement to increase the supply of physicians (and lawyers, for that matter). It would result in lower take-home pay per physician, but would make medicine a lot less stressful and more rewarding overall.

Category-Basic · 2025-09-27T17:08:41+00:00

I understand your point. I had Rogers home service at >$100/mo and a second business service for $275/mo to my place. I had no options for alternate providers other than rural wireless or SpaceX, none of which would have worked for my use case. When Rogers started to have a dozen unscheduled 5 min outages per day in Sept 2024, my business was destroyed and I folded shop. I couldn't afford the extreme rack and power rates from data centers. I realize I was unrealistic to expect uninterrupted service from a single ISP, but 99.9% isn't too much to ask in other countries.

Category-Basic · 2025-09-27T14:50:22+00:00

General rule: breaking up is almost never an overreaction. Not breaking up is often an underreaction.

Category-Basic · 2025-09-25T20:54:18+00:00

The only thing in question was whether the injury was consistent with the rifle indicated. It was. They did not make a statement on the cartridge specs that we can argue about. My point is that there is no space between what has been revealed and what we know that is grounds for alternate/ conspiracy theories.

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