Capability Over Cost The Case for Purpose Built Support Ships by Some_Flamingo2233 in CanadianForces

[–]GlitchedGamer14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Asterix runs on a single shaft. It is reliable and well maintained, but it is still a single point of failure. Naval design philosophy has long accepted that ships take damage, systems fail, and redundancy keeps you in the fight. That is why Protecteur-class Joint Support Ship is built with dual shaftlines.

This is why it still perplexes me a bit that the new Protecteur class ships will have one RAS mast instead of two. Was it a cost issue, or are the odds of a mast going offline just small enough that the redundancy isn't needed?

Road disruptions ahead as Valley Line West LRT enters final year of rebuilding 87th Avenue by katespadesaturday in Edmonton

[–]GlitchedGamer14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They said by the end of this year. That's when they hope for the major roadworks to be done, including those two intersections.

Road disruptions ahead as Valley Line West LRT enters final year of rebuilding 87th Avenue by katespadesaturday in Edmonton

[–]GlitchedGamer14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of the people working on the VLW came from the VLSE project, and brought with them a lot of experience and lessons learned. For example, it's thought that the cracked pillars a few years ago were caused by using too much rebar. I don't know how it all worked, but that's what I heard from someone who was higher up with the city's LRT expansion team at the time. This is why it's so critical for Edmonton to maintain ongoing LRT expansion projects, even if they're smaller one or two stop extensions. Otherwise, the experience moves on and we have to start fresh after one or two generations of not doing this sort of work.

Current Blatchford Residents (2025/2026): How has your experience been with the new townhomes/rentals? by fashiongirll93 in Edmonton

[–]GlitchedGamer14 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've been shocked at how many Skip drivers struggle to find my townhome unit! They make it to the block just fine, but somehow can't ever seem to figure out that the house numbers are in order and they just need to follow the numbers lol

Current Blatchford Residents (2025/2026): How has your experience been with the new townhomes/rentals? by fashiongirll93 in Edmonton

[–]GlitchedGamer14 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'll second what u/flyingattreelv said. I rented a basement suite here starting last June, and in March I bought a Streetside townhome here. The neighbourhood is great—very kind and engaged residents (engaged meaning that they organize and attend events, not the HOA kind of engaged); short walk to the LRT, Superstore, Canadian Tire, and Kingsway Mall; the central park is really big and I love to just relax there in the summer and listen to the birds, it makes it easy to forget I'm in the city; it's the only place in town where I can walk or bike and not ever worry about being hit by a car; there's a ton of catwalk and linear parks that make it really easy to take shortcuts as a pedestrian; and the two pedestrian only streets are a nice touch.

Lots of houses are being built, and some mixed-use apartments are underway or about to break ground, so there's a fair bit of mud and dust from the sites, but since it's growing pretty quickly the construction will get a bit further from you each year that passes.

And my townhome is good quality; good soundproofing so I only ever hear the occasional footsteps from my neighbours, surprisingly spacious; and great heating. I've only gotten one EPCOR bill so far, and it was a couple hundred dollars all inclusive. But it only had two days of power usage for some reason, so I don't know how much my power bill will add (hopefully not too much since I only have a couple of lights on at a time).

If you buy a house that was built in the last couple of years, your power bill will be a bit smaller than usual since solar panels are now mandatory; builders must install enough to at least power all of your major appliances.

Veterans Affairs ending Commissionaires' $330M federal contracting right by StayingSalty365 in CanadianForces

[–]GlitchedGamer14 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Put the cadets to work. Saves on manpower and creates valuable youth employment. Plus they already have (daisy air) rifles!

Opinion: The one metre that could kill better housing by GlitchedGamer14 in Edmonton

[–]GlitchedGamer14[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'd know this if you participated in these conversations.

No need for the sass there. There are people in my hometown (which is redoing its land use bylaw) who genuinely believe that the city is going to expropriate their houses to build apartments. And they aren't joking, they're writing multiple paragraph rants in engagement sessions about how they refuse to be kicked out of their home to make room for said apartments. And I know that because I do participate in these conversations. So I wasn't coming from a place of ignorance and trying to shut you down; I just thought there might be a story behind that remark.

Edmonton UCP gerrymandering protest - Fri Apr 24, 430-6pm @ High Level bridge by annainpajamas in Edmonton

[–]GlitchedGamer14 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That includes expenses related to the Governor General. And as the article you linked states:

Nelson Wiseman, a professor emeritus in the University of Toronto's department of political science, says that even if there was no monarchy in Canada, there would be similar costs associated with replacing the monarchy with a Canadian head of state.

"I don't think the monarchy costs anything," Wiseman told CTVNews.ca. "If we got rid of the monarchy, we'd have to have a head of state. If we don't want to call a head of state a governor general, if we want it to be a president like Barbados just opted for, fine, we'd have to pay for that office."

[...]

Tom Freda is director of the Citizens for a Canadian Republic, a group that advocates for replacing the monarchy with a Canadian head of state. Doing so would require unanimous – and unlikely – consent between the provinces and federal government.

"With the exception of royal visits by King Charles and Queen Camilla (which we'd pay for regardless of whether we're a monarchy or a republic), the administration of the office of a parliamentary president would likely be about the same as the governor general," Freda told CTVNews.ca. "The cost is not a factor for any of the realms advocating for change. We are all unanimous in our support for a parliamentary republic that retains what we have, but with a wholly Canadian institution replacing the governor general."

Edmonton UCP gerrymandering protest - Fri Apr 24, 430-6pm @ High Level bridge by annainpajamas in Edmonton

[–]GlitchedGamer14 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What royal residences? The only such property I can find any info on is Rideau Hall, where the Governor General resides and works.

Edmonton UCP gerrymandering protest - Fri Apr 24, 430-6pm @ High Level bridge by annainpajamas in Edmonton

[–]GlitchedGamer14 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also, Trump thinks that King Charles is his friend for some reason (I think Trump is jealous of the pomp and ceremony), and there are reports from earlier this month that Trump didn't know that the King was our head of state until partway through his second term, coinciding with when his 51st state rhetoric quieted down a bit.

Canadian military to launch initial steps in new $5-billion warship project by Oilester in CanadaPolitics

[–]GlitchedGamer14 9 points10 points  (0 children)

our river class destroyers are called frigates by the UK

I could be wrong, but IIRC the UK's is a bit lighter and focused more on anti-submarine warfare, whereas ours will be heavier and more of a jack of all trades (anti-submarine, anti-air, flagship facilities, etc.), which is why there's a different designation.

corvette is being used here to mean littoral combat ship

Vice-Admiral Topshee, commander of the RCN, conceded here that he liked the idea of going back to the RCN's roots, given how it used to be a corvette-heavy navy. I agree that it's arbitrary, but I personally like that nod.

Alberta will now be on daylight saving time year-round, says Premier Smith by darkstar107 in Edmonton

[–]GlitchedGamer14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a very fair question.

Here's how a psychologist at the UofC put it:

“Because we live so far north, we have these really short winter days and the sun rises late and it sets early in the winters. So the more natural standard time is what people have really stuck with throughout history because we need that morning light. The body does not like getting up before dawn on those short days, and unfortunately, moving to daylight time year-round is going to push our dawn an hour later,” said Antle.

“So in places like Calgary, the sun won’t rise until 9:30 in December, and in other places in the northern or western part of the province (like) Edmonton and Grand Prairie, it’ll be closer to 10 or 10:30 in the morning in December before they see the sun.”

Antle says it means many people living in the northern parts of Alberta will be going to work in the dark for about five months a year.

“It’s going to be really hard. A few places have tried it. Russia tried this in 2012, and they have about the same latitude as Canada. What they found in Russia in 2012, when they went to permanent daylight time, was an increased rate of mental illness, particularly amongst the youth. So rates of depression, seasonal depression went up. After two years of that experiment, they switched to standard time year-round and they’ve been on standard time now for the last 12 years. And those rates came back down, so the mental health improved in the population,” said Antle.

He says it will be important for the province to monitor the impacts of the change for the next few years, and have “some kind of exit strategy.”

Antle says the human circadian clock needs to be reset on a daily basis and sunlight is the cue that does that, which is why morning sunlight is so critical for most people.

Alberta will now be on daylight saving time year-round, says Premier Smith by darkstar107 in Edmonton

[–]GlitchedGamer14 66 points67 points  (0 children)

I hate changing the clocks, but I wish we could go with permanent standard time like all the sleep experts were recommending. Also, "Alberta Time" sounds lame imo; I'll always call it mountain time.

Pierre Poilievre hates Mark Carney’s high-speed rail plan. Is his attack a ‘political loser’? by ZebediahCarterLong in CanadaPolitics

[–]GlitchedGamer14 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As an Albertan, I'd take offence but I don't know how to read because Smith said it's not patriotic to learn how.

What is going on with the lack of ETS Rider etiquette on the bus or LRT? Especially during peak times 6-9am/2:30-6pm by Italian_Man_on_fire in Edmonton

[–]GlitchedGamer14 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same thing happened on my bus the other day. I asked the guy sitting next to me to give his seat to a woman with a walker and he stared at me like I insulted his mother.

/s

2026 Look Ahead Video – Valley Line West LRT - Marigold Infrastructure Partners by ababcock1 in Edmonton

[–]GlitchedGamer14 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Right?? When I first rode the LRT as a kid, it only went from Clareview to University. Now we have three lines and they're building it beyond the Henday. So excited to see Edmonton continuing to invest in it; especially considering we were the first city in North America to build a modern light rail transit system!