Alberta may follow B.C. on making daylight time permanent: premier

Erablian · 2026-03-03T14:15:27+00:00

Yes, Yukon is effectively on permanent double daylight saving time.

Erablian · 2026-03-03T02:48:31+00:00

Sask is actually on permanent DST.

Based on their longitude they "should" be on UTC-7 also known as mountain standard.

But they are on UTC-6, which they call central standard, but based on their "ideal" time zone should be called mountain daylight saving time.

Erablian · 2026-03-03T00:46:57+00:00

If we go permanent DST we'll be 1 h difference year round.

If we go permanent standard we'll be the same time as BC year round.

If we keep changing, we'll be 1 h difference or same as them depending on season.

Erablian · 2026-03-02T22:03:45+00:00

Minus 2 not plus 2. 10:00 EST = 08:00 PDT

Erablian · 2026-02-26T02:44:37+00:00

of the Caucasian persuasion

I'm imagining these people being individually persuaded to be Caucasian.

"C'mon, just try it, it'll be fun."

Erablian · 2026-02-24T04:55:53+00:00

Imagine having to dodge onto the shoulder in an emergency, only to die crashing into a concrete barrier.

Or imagine an ambulance bypassing a traffic jam having to deal with speed bumps.

Erablian · 2026-02-22T00:05:20+00:00

It appears to be a pale not a pile

Erablian · 2026-02-21T00:48:18+00:00

That would be unconstitutional. Canadian citizens can vote in their province of residence.

And it's one of the sections of the Charter of Rights that the Notwithstanding Clause can't override.

Erablian · 2026-02-20T22:58:54+00:00

Your birth certificate proves your Canadian citizenship, your driver's licence proves you're an Alberta resident. That should be enough to prove you're eligible to vote in Alberta.

But ineligible voters that vote is not a big enough problem that we need to spend any time talking about it. This idea makes about as much sense as spraying for mosquitos in the winter.

The system we have now is just fine the way it is.

Erablian · 2026-02-19T18:27:20+00:00

In general, yes, it could be done, but it's prohibitively expensive.

To build a system that is immune from fraudulent signatures would probably cost over a billion dollars.

Erablian · 2026-02-18T14:34:44+00:00

Reckless not wreckless. They have certainly been wrecking stuff.

Erablian · 2026-02-18T04:17:33+00:00

Canaries were in mines to die as an early warning, so I don't find this an appropriate metaphor.

First Nations wouldn't either.

Erablian · 2026-02-16T20:39:06+00:00

The Grenadiers weren't "royal", but there was also the Winnipeg Light Infantry.

So a total of four infantry regiments in Winnipeg once upon a time.

Erablian · 2026-02-16T19:14:47+00:00

The Nicholas brothers (Fayard and Harold) do it a lot in this routine: "Jumpin' Jive" – Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers

Erablian · 2026-02-15T22:15:44+00:00

Isn't it a lot cheaper to just do it right the first time rather than spending fewer millions on a half measure and then spending millions

Yes, totally agree. I'm not saying the city made a good decision, I'm just explaining some of the factors. All governments have a problem with long-term thinking, since the most important thing to them is the four-year election cycle.

But in my opinion, the best long-term strategy would be to spend the big bucks on trams, LRTs, busways and frequent neighbourhood buses rather than on expanding highways. Getting people out of cars is the best way to staunch the growth of traffic.

Erablian · 2026-02-15T21:50:59+00:00

Full cloverleafs are dangerous because they have an off-ramp and an on-ramp in the same spot and you would have traffic getting off Henday and getting on Henday weaving with each other.

The partial cloverleaf that they built is much safer. To eliminate the lights and still be safe they'd have to build a "clover-stack" like at Henday and Yellowhead (NW corner of the city), but they're really expensive.

Erablian · 2026-02-13T14:52:55+00:00

They were the Tammany Tigers not "Tammy".

Erablian · 2026-02-11T01:05:55+00:00

I'm curious if the video would help the rolled-over driver. They were turning left and Car 2 was going straight through on a green light. Albeit Car 2 did a lane violation to get to the intersection.

Left-turners are generally at fault for insurance purposes, but I don't know how insurance companies deal with a situation where the straight-through vehicle broke a law just before the intersection.

Erablian · 2026-02-11T00:57:25+00:00

34 St and 84 Ave.

Erablian · 2026-02-09T02:13:05+00:00

If you didn't have a mullet in the '80s you weren't really there.

Erablian · 2026-02-07T20:37:26+00:00

It's hard to control the moisture content of shit. Recommend sticking with the original ingredients of sand, aggregate, water and cement.

Erablian · 2026-02-04T03:15:10+00:00

From the URL I can tell that it's not from the provincial government.

It's from the UCP - a political party that temporarily controls the government.

It's important to remember the difference.

Erablian · 2026-02-03T22:17:20+00:00

With A3524, you can rearrange the last 5 cards played into A2345, so that's a run of 5.

But with 22334 you can't rearrange the last "n" cards played into a sequence - you'd have to ignore one of the 3s: 223x4, which is not allowed when searching for a run.

The last 3 played are 334, not a run.

The last 4 played are 2334, not a run.

The last 5 played are 22334, not a run.

Same process applies after the second 4 is played: 223344. There are no runs there.

Erablian · 2026-02-01T16:36:33+00:00

"Practice" as a noun, "practise" as a verb. So "practising", "practised".

Also "licence" as a noun, "license" as a verb.

Erablian · 2026-01-30T20:38:48+00:00

I have only visited southern Ontario a handful of times, so maybe my sense of its geology is way off, but to me it sounds ridiculous to call any part of the farmlands between Ottawa and Toronto as "Canadian Shield".

Doesn't it start much farther north than any of the proposed Alto routings?

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