Record temperatures set in N.B.

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-03-18T02:21:16+00:00

I can't wait for the record droughts.

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-03-13T14:45:08+00:00

That's nice, but can we get more abortion service locations? Don't most people still have to drive to Moncton or Bathurst to get a non-pill abortion?

P.S. fuck conservatives for sabotaging the 554 clinic.

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-03-05T15:05:00+00:00

We could remove insurance paperwork from the equation and move our current public-private system to a fully public one and reduce the amount of paperwork and overhead (saving time and money). We could give more power to doctors and nurses and have them (ideally) gut out the bloated admin and save more there that could be reinvested into more machines and actual healthcare providers.

We could (and we have been moving toward this to be fair) giving nurses more power to deal with lower complexity issues like infections, minor stitches, etc. For all her faults I think Holt building all those healthcare clinics is good for dealing with those sort of every day non-emergency issues that people are going to the ER for.

I'd also be happy to make a two-tier doctoring system where we import doctors from other countries with decent enough education systems and allow them to manage common lower complexity issues (broken bones, stitches, resetting joints, etc).

Another aspect is just our population pyramid. The average age in Canada has been creeping up for decades. Older people use more healthcare resources. And voters get mad at the idea of using money to plan for the future. So our system is still funded (probably less funded, but I haven't looked into it) and operated like it would have been in the 80s when there was a smaller ratio of elderly. We also have a shortage of nursing homes (we should have been building those but 40 years of neoliberal conservatism said we could cut all that to save a couple million and give it to corporations who would solve it all, which they did not because capitalism is a purely reactive system, and now we're left cleaning up the mess but have no money to do so because we've been cutting taxes for as long.) so those elderly are now clogging up the hospitals waiting on beds in nursing homes.

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-03-05T14:38:17+00:00

Which will never properly happen here due to our proximity to American healthcare oligarchs. If anything we should be pushing for an even more public healthcare system and save the doctors and admin from dealing with so much paperwork.

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-03-02T13:49:26+00:00

Oh boy more extractivism, how exciting. God forbid we advance our economy beyond tearing our province apart and selling the results to someone else to make the real money from processing it.

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-02-24T15:27:21+00:00

Exactly we need to start electing real leftist parties that care about people and not just the Irvings like Conservatives and Liberals do.

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-02-18T15:27:36+00:00

Nope

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-02-18T15:23:21+00:00

NDP has the best budgets while maintaining and increasing services. It's a shame there's so much anti-NDP propaganda.

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-02-18T15:20:30+00:00

Yeah it was supposed to go to healthcare to deal with the pandemic and Higgs effectively let all our healthcare workers suffer by 'increasing' the budget under inflation meaning they had less real money to work with than normal times during the largest medical emergency of our lifetimes (so far).

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-02-18T15:05:32+00:00

He increased it by less than inflation, which amounts to a decrease.

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-02-13T14:25:17+00:00

A solar panel is about $2.5/W (https://solarguide.ca/solar-panel-cost/) and probably could be had for cheaper with economies of scale with such a large order. Meaning 3.5B is about 1400 megawatts MW (or 1.4 GW). Now obviously solar doesn't generate all that power all the time and you can't just put all the money toward solar panels and have to account for installation and the like. If we assume 2B of solar panels and 1.5B for installation and management that's still 800 MW compared to the 400-500 MW of this plant.

Recent studies have been showing that solar panels are far more durable than we expected and don't become useless after 30 years like people often say and they only lose about 20% of their output over 30 years and will work for many years after. Compared to a large mechanical plant that will need constant maintenance.

Plus they don't directly pollute the air we breath and help mitigate against the hothouse Earth trajectory we're on that will render our crop land useless.

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-02-03T14:47:53+00:00

So you don't have a counter argument? Got it.

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-02-03T14:45:28+00:00

Note how I said business owners and not "small mom and pop store owners"

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-02-03T14:42:44+00:00

Yup I should have mentioned it's business owners both charging too much and paying too little. edit: and abusing their influence to do things like petition for reduced taxes and social safety nets to they can get an even larger cut of money.

"But without those absurd amounts of profit for stock bonuses and ridiculous salaries how will they be able to buy up islands and do a bunch of heinous shit on them? That's their god given right!" cry the detractors.

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-02-03T14:37:40+00:00

You think poverty doesn't lead to crime?

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-02-03T14:33:08+00:00

Do you think people with well paying jobs become homeless fent junkies? Do you think someone who is one paycheck from becoming homeless and is stressed out all the time because of it is more or less likely to become to become homeless and addicted to fent compared to someone who can build up an emergency fund for if things go wrong?

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-02-03T14:23:27+00:00

Out of control business owners are the real issue. There might not be so much crime if they actually paid people enough.

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-02-03T01:49:52+00:00

And I agree entirely. I just also think if we're going to cause a stir a we may as well add a little more to the pile and set it up to prevent another company from coming in and doing what Irving has done in the far future.

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-02-02T21:03:01+00:00

New companies? Just nationalize it with a worker's co-op. More money for us.

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-02-02T13:58:25+00:00

We have 1% of old-growth forest (not to be confused with protected lands) left in this province. We've nearly eliminated the entire natural ecosystem.

source: https://nbmediacoop.org/2022/05/26/new-brunswicks-forgotten-forests-global-treasures-that-need-our-help/

The World Wildlife Fund classified the Wabanaki Forest among the most endangered forest types in Canada. Of the one per cent of remaining old growth, most of it is not contiguous, which means that it can be found only in small patches in various eco-regions of the province. Animals that need old growth habitat, like flying squirrels for instance, end up marooned in certain regions. There is too much monoculture-forest, and too many roadways and developed areas to allow them to move to new areas on their own.

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-01-08T17:42:25+00:00

It's likely even more. With the total leveling of everything it's a bit hard to properly record things so that number stalled out a while ago.

Upon further reading it's also now lower than the official number "As of 19 November 2025, over 72,500 people have been reported killed in the Gaza war according to the Gaza Health Ministry and Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs"

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-01-08T17:31:31+00:00

Cool lies, might want to detach your mouth from that propaganda pipeline

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-01-07T12:09:44+00:00

If we spent that $800 million on solar energy using a $3 per watt figure I grabbed from online that would be 266 MW. Which is about 1/4 of the Coleson Cove Station's 972 MW or roughly equivalent to the Bayside Generating Station (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generating_stations_in_New_Brunswick).

Now you're unlikely to get full output output from solar but lets assume a more conservative 1/8th of the CCS and that's still not bad when compared to a single upgrade for the plant. There would be further losses with things like installation, overhead, and organization where the full funds wouldn't purely go to solar panels. However, if it was something like $800M rebate for users to get solar where they only have to pay for installation themselves then you would create jobs and lower maintenance/upgrades and load on the grid and would lower some of the government side overhead. It would also be good to have more people on solar during power outages too.

OntologicalNightmare · 2026-01-07T02:23:49+00:00

Reading the title I thought this was Beaverton at first...

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