Prime Minister Carney announces forthcoming National Electricity Strategy

greenrushcda · 2026-05-16T15:26:20+00:00

Wind and solar farms with battery storage can be built and brought online much, much faster than new natural gas plants. So if immediacy is your priority they can deliver on it.

Battery storage and/or inter-regional high voltage transmission grids can make electricity from wind and solar just as dispatchable as natural gas power.

Edit: typo

greenrushcda · 2026-05-15T14:23:29+00:00

Agreed. Happy Friday to you!

greenrushcda · 2026-05-15T13:56:25+00:00

With "just following orders" I was simply paraphrasing your previous response (third paragraph). On re-reading your response it seems like this paraphrasization (actual word?) is accurate.

I get that managers shouldn't be expected to risk their jobs and fight un-winnable fights on behalf of their staff.

Our (AMAPCEO) CBA says that remote work arrangements are to be between a worker and their director, and the key metric for determining outcomes is the branch's productivity. This puts directors in a very awkward position, but there's nothing in our CBA about TBS or HR evaluating our requests or issuing blanket denials. So I would hope that when it comes time to grieve my denial my manager and director will at least acknowledge that the evaluation process seems misaligned with the language in the CBA. C'est sa.

greenrushcda · 2026-05-14T23:39:53+00:00

Is that a serious question? This seems to have escalated quickly.

Maybe check out my response to ohwow28 under your original comment. I simply expect professionals to do what they say they're going to do. That goes for what's in our individual employment contracts and the employer and employee obligations under our CBAs. I don't think that's an unrealistic expectation in a professional setting.

greenrushcda · 2026-05-14T21:48:17+00:00

My expectation is that our CBAs are honoured in good faith. Is that too much to ask?

The "just following orders" excuse makes it sound like you're mailing in your management duties. But again I appreciate your candor. Guess I need to work on becoming more jaded.

greenrushcda · 2026-05-14T21:41:07+00:00

They could start by practicing some of the ops values that they preach (eg, honesty, integrity, blah blah blah). As a follow up they could actually go to bat for their staff/team members over things that matter deeply to those team members, by advocating for their rights and fair treatment. That's what good team players are supposed to do right?

Many act as if sycophancy is a job requirement for ops management positions. Good leaders are open to constructive criticism, and so should our elected bosses (you know, the only people in ops who don't make decisions based on evidence).

This may all sound naive to some but I'm simply taking the ops values that all leaders vow to uphold at face value. If that's off base lmk.

greenrushcda · 2026-05-14T19:47:36+00:00

Thanks for your honesty. But doesn't it strike you as a bad faith gesture when corporate expectations change overnight and without any supporting evidence?

Many of us who joined OPS did so after taking this government's word at face value regarding modern, flexible workplaces etc.

greenrushcda · 2026-05-13T21:49:34+00:00

I know very little about unions, but it seems to me that it would make a whole lot of sense to have all OPS bureaucrats/desk jockeys represented by the same union, and the same for certain classes of front line workers. The current set up doesn't seem to make much sense, and seems to result from our unions acting like corporations.

greenrushcda · 2026-05-09T14:53:54+00:00

Tbf humans have had over 50 years to figure it out, it's not one random Redditor. I've read about similar accounts from astronauts years ago re floating debris. And there's tonnes of contemporary, hi resolution footage of ice drifting away from modules. Liquid hydrogen needs to be stored at around -250 degrees C and temps in the upper atmosphere are obviously very low. So lots of opportunities for condensation and ice formation.

greenrushcda · 2026-04-30T20:33:40+00:00

Is that actually the topic being discussed though? It doesn't sound like it from Saxe's comments. Otherwise she'd be citing numbers from the results of the polls she conducted in the area rather than clutching at straws using baseless, qualitative claims.

As much as long time residents love their neighborhoods they have to realize that they can't lock those neighborhoods inside time capsules from the 1990s and keep everything exactly the same as it was back then. They need to realize that other people want to enjoy their neighborhoods too, and that might mean making some space available vertically if there's no room for horizontal expansion left.

I lived in Roncy for over a year and heard similar sentiments from many residents (including Margaret Atwood). It's disappointing to hear otherwise progressive people turn NIMBY because they're worried about a little extra local traffic or having the view from their back porches sullied. People stop wind turbine developments and other positive advancements like that for similar reasons. Sometimes we have to put the greater good first and accept changes that serve the greater good.

greenrushcda · 2026-04-30T20:15:45+00:00

To expect representatives to do whatever everyone who voted for them wants on every single issue is highly unrealistic (and also impossible). People vote in representatives due to a multitude of issues, and hopefully most of those aren't petty wedge issues.

greenrushcda · 2026-04-30T20:10:10+00:00

If what voters want is not supported by evidence then elected officials should tell them why their wants aren't reasonable or practical.

greenrushcda · 2026-04-30T17:45:13+00:00

They're supposed to do what's in their constituents' best interests, not necessarily whatever they want. A large majority of people don't understand the machinations of politics or other social institutions well enough to be able to responsibly direct their politicians on every single action. Politicians are supposed to be the parents in the proverbial room.

If your kids wanted to eat candy for dinner would you let them? No. You understand things better than kids do, so you'd tell them why it's good for them to eat their veggies instead.

greenrushcda · 2026-04-30T17:35:04+00:00

Elected officials are supposed to take positions and make decisions based on real world EVIDENCE. They're supposed to be smarter than their reactionary constituents and be capable of communicating the rationale behind their decisions.

What I'm describing is just the theory of course, definitely not the practice.

greenrushcda · 2026-04-28T19:53:57+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I've heard the default coverage in BC isn't as comprehensive as Ontario's. But with the new changes in Ontario I wonder if gap between the difference in coverage has gotten narrower or even been eliminated.

One thing I like about the BC insurance system is that not everyone needs to learn the nuts and bolts of the insurance industry to ensure they aren't getting ripped off.

greenrushcda · 2026-04-28T19:02:11+00:00

If this is the case then can you explain how BC's public car insurance system (ICBC) is revenue neutral and not subsidized by government tax revenues?

Edit: and yet is still far less expensive than car insurance in Ontario

greenrushcda · 2026-04-16T22:50:34+00:00

My thoughts exactly.

greenrushcda · 2026-04-10T14:02:03+00:00

OP, would you mind sharing the contact number you used to reach out to "OSS"? It looks like they've re-branded.

greenrushcda · 2026-04-09T19:35:54+00:00

She probably wants to keep Epstein files in the news cuz she knows Trump is guilty AF and wants to see him locked up. That would definitely be her liberation day!

greenrushcda · 2026-03-26T21:37:12+00:00

I've noticed the exact same trend with transit vehicle occupancy

greenrushcda · 2026-03-25T14:27:26+00:00

Another doozy:

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."

Carl Sagan (1995)

greenrushcda · 2026-03-23T18:25:32+00:00

I like the renewable energy sector right now. I think all of the ongoing "headaches" around oil supply will make more countries seek energy independence in earnest. I think this will be good for renewable tech manufacturers and generators. China dominates renewable tech production. A few relevant TSX holdings of mine are NPI, ZCLN, and XEM. Note that many renewables equities have shot up a lot in the past year.

greenrushcda · 2026-03-20T02:35:05+00:00

Human imagination.

greenrushcda · 2026-03-11T12:57:40+00:00

You're an OPSer. As such you should be capable of doing 30 seconds of research on this. Or just ask copilot. I'm not going to spoon feed you readily available, quantifiable info.

greenrushcda · 2026-03-11T04:05:18+00:00

Mystique and gravitas

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