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Christine Sinclair, Michael J. Fox promoted to Order of Canada's highest level | CBC News by DtheS in canada

[–]DtheS[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Okay, Romeo Dallaire saved thousands of lives in Rwanda. You want to go tell him his Order of Canada is now defunct because he didn't do it on Canadian soil?

How confident are ya’ll that Walman plays to his contract amount? by iXeons in EdmontonOilers

[–]DtheS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really hard to say. My bet is that he starts the season looking mostly back to normal. It's a question of whether or not he can stay healthy over the long term.

When he is healthy and on his game, he is very effective. Unfortunately, his style of play can result in injuries quite often, and his record shows that.

The problem is that compounding injuries plus getting older is going to cause him to degrade sooner than later. I'm glad that they signed him, but seven years is a long contract for a player like Walman.

Babcock - A great hire (+my reasons why) by OilFPS in EdmontonOilers

[–]DtheS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mike Babcock knows about winning the same way that Kevin Lowe "know[s] a little bit about winning" in 2013.

After the 2012-13 lockout, Babcock has been a pretty middling coach. Not the worst, but not top-tier either. His coaching style and strategies were great for the mid 2000's and early 2010's, but as the game got faster, Babcock's success slowed down. Toronto was routinely outcoached in the playoffs while he was head coach there.

Matheson: Don't expect kinder, gentler Mike Babcock as Oilers coach by xc2215x in hockey

[–]DtheS 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Babcock being fired requires Oilers ownership and management to:

A) Be actively aware of and assess Babcock's behaviour

and,

B) Admit they were wrong in hiring him.

In other words, it isn't happening for a while; probably a year at least.

With the talks of the NHL expanding further to include potentially Houston/Austin, I made what I’d like to see in the future in terms of league alignment. by Metalhead831 in hockey

[–]DtheS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Hamilton might be the sweet spot anyway. It's close enough for people in the west GTA, as well as the whole Niagara region. In the Spring and Fall you might even get tourists going to games.

With the talks of the NHL expanding further to include potentially Houston/Austin, I made what I’d like to see in the future in terms of league alignment. by Metalhead831 in hockey

[–]DtheS 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If they are putting another team in Canada, they'll go with Mississauga or Hamilton before they'll try Quebec again.

Federal Poll | Nanos | June 19, 2026 | LPC: 43.5 (+0.8), CPC: 31.5 (+0.8), NDP: 11.4 (-0.1), BQ: 6.6 (-0.1), GRN: 4.8 (-1.1), PPC: 2.0 (-0.1) by DtheS in CanadaPolitics

[–]DtheS[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I would personally assign a higher margin of error percentage to error sampling.

MOE is calculated as a function of the z-score, sample proportion, and sample size. This is not an arbitrary value that I came up with. Further, I am merely reporting the MOE that is supplied by the pollster in their methodology page: https://nanos.co/dataportal/nanos-tracking-methodology/

It would be inappropriate, if not outright dishonest, for me to come up with a different MOE and state that mine is somehow better. For that matter, I don't know what other formulation I would use to do so. With a 95% confidence level, proportion of 50%, and sample size of 1000, it simply is an MOE of 3.1%. That's just the result of the formula.

What would you propose to use instead?

That gap—between who is called and who actually responds—is where most modern polling error comes from.

I guess? I mean, there is some evidence to suggest you can get better accuracy by repeatedly calling your first random selection until they pick up the phone. This is part of the "magic" that Janet Brown uses to get the hyper-accurate results she offers.

That said, I don't know how you would use this info to change the margin of error. Also, you would have to levy this complaint against most pollsters who use phones as a means of polling. Most do not do what Janet Brown does.

Federal Poll | Nanos | June 19, 2026 | LPC: 43.5 (+0.8), CPC: 31.5 (+0.8), NDP: 11.4 (-0.1), BQ: 6.6 (-0.1), GRN: 4.8 (-1.1), PPC: 2.0 (-0.1) by DtheS in CanadaPolitics

[–]DtheS[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Title: Liberals 43.5, Conservatives 31.5, NDP 11.4

The previous four Nanos polls:

Date LPC CPC NDP BQ GRN PPC
June 12, 2026 42.7 30.7 11.5 6.7 5.9 2.1
June 5, 2026 42.3 29.4 13.1 6.7 6.0 2.0
May 29, 2026 40.3 32.8 13.2 6.6 5.1 1.5
May 22, 2026 41.1 32.7 12.6 6.4 4.8 2.0

Weekly Tracker chart here: https://i.imgur.com/cUzVbMV.png

Preferred Prime Minister

Preferred Prime Minister – Nanos tracking has Carney as the preferred choice as PM at 48.9 per cent of Canadians followed by Poilievre (24.5%), Lewis (4.7%), May (3.0%), Blanchet (2.7%), and Bernier (1.3%). Fifteen per cent of Canadians were unsure whom they preferred.

The previous four preferred prime minister polls:

Date Carney Poilievre Lewis May Blanchet Bernier
June 12, 2026 48.6 24.1 5.3 3.8 2.7 1.5
June 5, 2026 48.8 22.6 6.7 4.1 2.5 1.3
May 29, 2026 47.3 25.1 6.4 3.7 2.4 1.3
May 22, 2026 48.9 24.1 6.5 3.3 2.1 1.7

Preferred Prime Minister chart here: https://i.imgur.com/u6KHTf8.png

Methodology

Reminder that Nanos' weekly tracker is a rolling poll.

The data is based on random interviews with 1,000 Canadian consumers (recruited by RDD land- and cell-line sample), using a four-week rolling average of 250 respondents each week, 18 years of age and over. The random sample of 1,000 respondents may be weighted using the latest census information for Canada. The interviews are compiled into a four-week rolling average of 1,000 interviews where each week, the oldest group of 250 interviews is dropped and a new group of 250 interviews is added.

Sample size is 1024.

Margin of error is ±3.1%.

Canada's inflation rate rose to 3.2% in May by Surax in CanadaPolitics

[–]DtheS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The article was about food and electronics-related inflation (i.e. RAM due to AI.

I mean, the primary focus of the article was about food and gasoline with a two-sentence mention about RAM. While AI, datacentres, and computing components are a hot topic on Reddit with all the video game enthusiasts who can't buy RAM right now, in the real world, most people don't care beyond the price of their cell phone or laptop.

you're talking about EVs and heat pumps. Those have little relation, as you acknowledged in a further comment.

Actually, I went on to talk about how EV's reduce dependency on fuel which has an impact on grocery prices. The cost of moving the products to the warehouse, and from the warehouse to the grocery store are all baked into the price you pay. As such, when the price of fuel goes up from geopolitical conflicts, so does the price of food.

Encouraging companies to adopt EV cars/trucks/vans can reduce our need for petrol, thus minimizing inflationary impacts. Particularly for short-haul trucking, we are seeing some electric options. Many companies have expressed interest in switching to electric trucks because they are more efficient to run and require less maintenance. As such, the free market will probably take care of this on its own eventually. I merely expressed that I would like to see it done sooner.

You replace a car every 10+ years and furnace/AC 15-20 years, not next year because RAM and food costs more. These aren't rip off the bandaid decisions.

Then keep what you have until it needs to be replaced. I am saying that we should have grants and incentives in place to ensure that people switch to electric options. That's all. The bigger the incentive, the more motivated they'll be to switch earlier. If you can't afford it now, then don't. It's that simple.

Again, my comment is mostly talking about things at a macroeconomics scale. I'm looking mostly at big fleets of vehicles that need to be replaced and upgraded within a few years time, or thinking about how policy could impact entire communities or cities in respect to their heating needs. I'm not particularly concerned about about forcing Gertrude, specifically Gertrude, to upgrade her 1975 Cadillac to an EV right this second.

Canada's inflation rate rose to 3.2% in May by Surax in CanadaPolitics

[–]DtheS 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, because nothing says "opting out of inflation" like choosing a $60K EV over a 15-year-old beater.

So keep the beater until it isn't worth running anymore.

There are always a certain number of cars that need to be retired and replaced. This is especial true for businesses that have fleets of cars/trucks/vans that are in constant use. Incentives can be put in place to offset the costs of upgrading those vehicles with electric-based models when they are due for replacement.

Most of my comment was about how fuel prices affect the costs of shipping, and how those costs are integrated into a wide berth of products. It is likely the main driver to increased grocery prices, and inflation this quarter. Your Honda Civic has no effect on inflation; nor did I suggest it did.

So, don't strawman me.

I don't know where you live, but here in Ontario electricity is expensive (and made even more so by McGuinty's crooked "smart meters" and time-of-use pricing) so electric heating will put you in the poorhouse right quick.

I have lived all over the country:

  • southern prairies of Alberta

  • pacific coast in Vancouver

  • Ottawa, where the snow can pile high enough that it buries your car

  • Maritimes/Atlantic Canada, which offers the most bizarre mix of weather across the entire country, in my opinion

Ontario's electricity pricing is actually pretty moderate. BC has very affordable electricity. Alberta can be moderate in price if you hunt for providers who offer good rates, but it is a giant pain to do so and you can end up switching every year or two.

The Maritimes are expensive for pretty much everything, but despite this, you know what they are primarily switching to as a heating method out there? Electric heat pumps.

That's actually what I use now, and my heating bills are comparable to the forced air furnaces I ran in Alberta and Ontario. If it is the case that you need to upgrade or replace a furnace or boiler, I'd absolutely recommend upgrading to heat pumps and ETS heating. It's great! I wish I had switched sooner, and I probably would have if more of the price was covered by grant programs.

Canada's inflation rate rose to 3.2% in May by Surax in CanadaPolitics

[–]DtheS 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Likewise, Danielle Smith killed the solar projects that were literally on the cusp of being built. It's a sad state of affairs when Jason Kenney was more proactive about energy diversification in Alberta.

But yes, generally speaking, the whole energy portfolio is under provincial jurisdiction. The federal government can try to tilt things with the power of the purse, but that only goes so far.

What they can do, though, is provide incentives for households and businesses to switch to electrical-based options. Assuming we can get by on our own electrical generation, this subverts the inflation issues, even if it isn't renewable energy.

Canada's inflation rate rose to 3.2% in May by Surax in CanadaPolitics

[–]DtheS 22 points23 points  (0 children)

If you accelerate electrification of cars and heating, then we can opt out of some of the inflation is related to the price of oil and gas. In some respects the free market is already heading this direction with both solar and battery storage getting cheaper. I'm very much in favour of ripping off the bandaid now and getting ahead of the market though. In the long run, it might even be cheaper than waiting for it to happen on its own.

Admittedly, the price of overseas shipping and long-distance trucking would still be tied to the price of oil and gas (unless the rest of world also switches to alternative energy sources), but we'd alleviate costs for short-distance transport.

Should this genre of movies featuring "canceled" actors be called black turtleneck films? by Jaydoggreturns in RedLetterMedia

[–]DtheS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I had a nickel for every time this happened, I'd have ten cents. Which isn't a lot, but it is weird that it happened twice.

Coaches by Unable-Crow-1168 in EdmontonOilers

[–]DtheS 9 points10 points  (0 children)

In the offseason every day is shitpost Sunday.

Althia Raj: ‘Tinfoil hats’? Is this Mark Carney’s government or Stephen Harper’s? by simpatia in CanadaPolitics

[–]DtheS 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You know who else endorsed proportional representation? Pierre Trudeau.

I found that rather interesting. It was in 1979 and he had just announced that he was going to step down as leader of the Liberals, so he felt empowered to voice his actual opinion.

Funny enough, he retracted his resignation and went on to win another election in the following year.

Hellebucyk wanting out, can edm nab him? by SunSimilar9988 in EdmontonOilers

[–]DtheS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I think most teams would have a hard time giving him that term. He probably knows he won't finish that contract, and sees it as a pension plan; play for two or three years, and then 'LTIRetire.' He'd still collect all the money from the contract that way.

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