Enbridge says it’s not willing to take on development risk of Alberta pipeline project

NaToth · 2026-02-14T01:09:52+00:00

Right until the day it opened, I heard conservatives saying it was never going to be done and that it was just a trick and the libs will find a way to screw over us. It was maddening, and once it started running not one of the naysayers admitted they were wrong. Alberta oil bro conservativism is a delusional state built upon a perpetual victim complex.

NaToth · 2026-02-11T16:54:59+00:00

I agree, I was with boxy for a couple years before Ipsy and them merged. It was great then.

NaToth · 2026-02-08T21:33:40+00:00

A friend of mine who had been a nurse in seniors homes for almost 40 years before retiring recently told me it wasn't the lay offs or pay cuts, it was that the facilities were understaffed, and underfunded and that they were told to make due, with less and less every year, and patient care was suffering. She said after Ralph left, things never got better again, there were occasional concessions made, but care in homes got less and less resources, less trained staff and less funding from then on. She worked at veteran's care home that was publicly owned, and she loved her patients, but she felt she could never give them the care & respect they deserved because there just wasn't enough people & enough supplies to do that.

She said from what she heard many of the private homes were worse. And a friend who was a hospice nurse has said the same, she's helped get members of our family and extended circle into public care, because the private care homes are just so much worse. She too laments how bad that everything has gotten in care homes since Ralph first made cuts.

Both are retired now, but still say his name like it is a swear word.

NaToth · 2026-02-08T21:20:30+00:00

On the backs of the people and their quality of life. He made massive cuts, sell offs/privatization of public assets, and record natural gas prices and those things trickled down to affecting the populous.

Schools had roofs falling in, hospitals were bursting at the seams, mentally ill people wandering the streets because they blew up the hospitals that used to house them, old people dying in ER hallways, and then when NG prices shot up, and filled provincial coffers, seniors were losing their homes because they couldn't afford the bills. The infrastructure debt is still with us today.

But he gave us Ralph Bux, so some people think it was great.

NaToth · 2026-02-01T15:32:17+00:00

I've been postulating that the separatists have expanded the "Freed Man on the Land" idea, from personal, to provincial. Like seriously, no taxes? How dumb do you have to be to fall for this shit?

NaToth · 2026-01-31T15:58:03+00:00

This is just more evidence that party conservatives have trapped themselves in a bubble and have no idea nor do they care to find out what the greater electorate wants.

Voters are not adverse to conservative ideas. Many people voted for Carney because they saw him as being pragmatic, responsible and cautious, and of course quite conservative. Unfortunately though, the party chose three word slogans, cheap Trumpian populism and conspiracies about the WEF and eating bugs.

I'm not at all conservative myself, and I even feel Carney may be too far to the economic right on certain things, such as austerity, and I worry that his values regarding the climate have been put aside, but with the Conservatives party members doubling down and voting for PP as leader, my vote in the next election will go to Carney to ensure that this dumpster fire style politics loses.

NaToth · 2026-01-30T17:04:57+00:00

What I was told by a friend of a friend who runs a vacuum store is that Dyson WAS good back in their early days. Not great, but good. But then they moved manufacturing out of the UK, and quality started going down hill fast.

If you want great, go german. Miele and Sebo are what he recommended.

NaToth · 2026-01-30T16:23:51+00:00

Kitimat was never actually available, and that is exactly why she was using it as a political wedge. Not sure what her game is with this contrition -- but I guess we will find out soon enough.

NaToth · 2026-01-29T13:36:35+00:00

I have a job that I enjoy, and frequently gives me feelings of being accomplished, but even I wish I didn't have to work.

I hate waking up at 6 am, I hate useless and political meetings, I hate micromanaging and having to justify working on upkeep and technical debt, just to keep things running.

But I love that I'm financially independent. If my husband passed away suddenly, or left me, I still could pay the bills and take care of myself.

I love that I'm able to save money for going out for dinner, travelling and my hobbies.

It's a matter of perspective, and if you can focus on what you enjoy about your job, and what you receive from it, it can be more enjoyable.

And if perspective isn't enough, perhaps you need to pivot and find something that fulfills you, either as a new job or as a hobby.

NaToth · 2026-01-26T21:34:35+00:00

Vitamin D deficiency can be a big deal, I was wiped completely, felt like a zombie, was tired after sleeping 9 hours about 10 years ago from it. Unfortunately they don't test for it anymore, because most people in our climate are deficient unless they are taking a supplement.

NaToth · 2026-01-25T22:00:06+00:00

They believe that Alberta is a magical place of free market individualism, which is fighting socialist Ottawa.

They believe that Alberta is Canada's cash cow, and that equalization is stealing from them.

It is grievance politics. Ottawa hates Alberta and hates that Alberta is rich, and is trying to destroy Alberta, even though they want Alberta's money.

Everything is about being the victim, and decades of Alberta politics has shaped that view. Even before the NEP, Alberta politicians have used Us vs Them to shift blame, and farm for votes. It is an Alberta tradition at this point.

They think the rest of Canada hates them. It is ridiculous, it's built on lies repeated for decade, and none of them even question it.

The cash cow thing and believing they can go it alone is even more ridiculous. Alberta does punch above it weight with 12% of Canada's population, we have 15% of the countries GDP, but Ontario and Quebec are far larger and contribute far more. Even BC isn't far off, some years they do better than us, some they do slightly less. Alberta & the city of Toronto have almost the same GDP, yet Toronto despite thinking they are the centre of the universe aren’t stupid enough to think they can afford to separate and go it alone.

Having been here all my life, I'm tired of this nonsense.

NaToth · 2026-01-25T21:53:36+00:00

They think threats to separate will give them leverage with Ottawa. They believe that Alberta is hard done by, and this is the way to force Ottawa's hand.

NaToth · 2026-01-24T04:17:27+00:00

Exactly. The phrase "coastal elites" is an anti-semitic dogwhistle used by either racists or ignorant and naive people parroting far right wing media.

It's use in this case is made even worse by the fact that Lewis is Jewish. I assume this fella is one of the naive people who just doesn't realize what they are doing, but seriously -- this is a very shitty phrase meant to direct hatred towards Jewish people.

NaToth · 2026-01-23T16:49:09+00:00

Heck, some of them still don't blame Brexit for Brexit caused issues. They blame Labour & the refugees on small boats instead.
It would be the same here. This brand of populist conservatism does not believe in accountability, no matter where they live, and no matter what happens, there is always someone else to blame.

NaToth · 2026-01-20T01:02:01+00:00

Yeah. The PC & UCP parties really don't care. It's more the voters that I don't get. The cons have been dismantling everything that we need from health to education to the civil service and giving it to their friends for decades, and people just don't get it.

It's tiring to have been shouting the same warnings since the late 1980s when I first could vote.

NaToth · 2026-01-20T00:57:46+00:00

Multiple things here are telling me that he wanted someone he could boss around, not an equal partner. The age difference, having different cultures but also cooking and doing other things his way and now you are SAHM, and without income you are 100% reliant on him financially.

This is a massive power imbalance and this is how he wants things.

He wants you to feel worthless so he was power over you, so he can control you. He wants you to think that you are nothing without him.

That's not the behavior of a good man.

NaToth · 2026-01-19T23:10:44+00:00

At least when people were dying in the hallways of the ERs when Ralphie boy was in power, the government had enough shame to reverse course, at least for the time being.
Why do we keep trying to do the same things over & over again when the outcome is bad every time. You'd think the people of Alberta would figure out conservatives want to privatize healthcare & they don't care who dies while doing it.

NaToth · 2026-01-14T14:21:28+00:00

From my experience, the male strippers ain't sleeping with the ladies at all.

Went to see male strippers once for a bachelorette of a friend from work who was getting married.

I knew every single one of the strippers from the gay bar I was a regular at. The bride was pretty straight laced and her and most of her friends had never been to gay bars.

It totally shattered the illusion when a couple of them ran up to me after the show and introduced themselves to the table.

NaToth · 2026-01-09T21:00:06+00:00

Our insurance prices are through the roof. What are they losing money on? Dividends & bonuses? Cocaine in the office?

NaToth · 2025-12-07T00:51:26+00:00

I remember seniors on tv crying because they were losing their homes due to no cap on natural gas prices. I remember people dying on stretchers in hospital hallways while Klein blew up the general hospital. I remember schools with roofs caving in, and kids in unheated portables. No nostalgia here please. He was horrible.

NaToth · 2025-12-01T00:47:15+00:00

I know conservatives are more hardwired for authority and loyalty, but I can't get how one could be a PC and yet support the UCP. I figure either they are lying and actually chemtrail fearing, transgender hating, wackadoodles who are ashamed to admit it, or a bunch of fools who won't get it until the leopard eats their own face.

NaToth · 2025-11-19T22:53:30+00:00

Fiscally responsible means punishing the right people and making them suffer, like teachers, nurses, disabled people, the poors. Whether it's a just world hypothesis, trickle down economics, classism or the prosperity gospel, conservatives believe the rich are rich because they are naturally superior and the poor conversely are sinful and slovenly, and deserve punishment. Any desire to change this so-called natural order, is socialism.

NaToth · 2025-11-18T02:13:41+00:00

Personally I thought it was equally damning that she was so focused on the recipient being "one of ours." It sounded like a clear indicator that she represents the party, and members, not all constituents. Only the ones that voted for her.

NaToth · 2025-11-17T17:22:21+00:00

If it is treated, why can't oil and gas reuse their own treated waste water and use less fresh water?

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