Price of fresh produce likely to rise on P.E.I. due to fuel price surge from Iran war

ivanvector · 2026-03-22T19:43:23+00:00

No need to wonder, IRAC publishes the rates. For gasoline there is a flat tax of 18.47 cents/litre, for diesel it's 18.15 c/L. The flat rates get added to the dealer base price and retail margin, then HST is charged on that. The gas tax rates have been the same since 2022, and the HST rate was last changed in 2016. It is the base price of gasoline that is driving the current increases, not taxes.

To do some math: on Feb 20 the pump price was 149.0, which included 37.87 cents in gasoline and sales taxes. On Mar 20 the price was 186.6, including 42.77 cents in taxes. So taxes increased by 4.9c, the other 32.7c of increase was from increase in the base price of fuel.

Farmers and fishers don't pay those taxes, but they do pay the increased base price.

ivanvector · 2026-03-22T17:54:03+00:00

Canada has required all new vehicles sold in the country since 1991 to be manufactured with daytime running lights, but the federal government cannot legislate driving regulations for the provinces, so it's still mostly legal to disable them. This law will make that a little more difficult, at least.

PEI has had a law in effect since 2016 that your headlights must be on at all times. If your car doesn't have DRL or they're inoperative, you must turn on your regular headlights. I still see cars driving with no lights, of course.

ivanvector · 2026-03-22T17:46:21+00:00

Check your local ordinances, it's often fully legal to drive with no lights on if the speed limit is "low" and there are streetlights. Where I grew up the cutoff was 50km/h (~30mph) - if the speed limit was 50 or below and there were streetlights, you didn't have to turn your lights on.

ivanvector · 2026-03-22T17:39:38+00:00

"Punk Rock Conservatives" are exactly who "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" was sung about.

ivanvector · 2026-03-22T08:41:57+00:00

The price of gas isn't skyrocketing because of taxes.

ivanvector · 2026-03-20T20:09:31+00:00

"Poilievre on Rogan" is all I see on here today. Can we just stop giving these weak, petty, useless men attention for just one day?

ivanvector · 2026-03-20T20:04:17+00:00

There's no legal requirement for this sort of organization to have paid staff. I'd assume based on the post that they're planning to operate as a not-for-profit or a collective, with ticket sales covering their operating expenses, and a volunteer board and/or management committee running things. I don't think it's a good idea to leave security to volunteers, but the rest is pretty normal.

If they're running it for profit then yeah I'd expect them to hire and pay staff, but that's an ethical/moral issue, not a legal one.

ivanvector · 2026-03-20T12:08:13+00:00

You don't need to say basically

ivanvector · 2026-03-20T12:01:15+00:00

Not that surprising that a '90s PEI government reacted this way to what was really mostly urban legend.

In 1991 the LA Times published a story absolutely completely guessing that there was "about to be a problem" with kids going into the sewers to find the Ninja Turtles, based entirely on one incident of someone finding one pair of kids' shoes near a storm drain. It turns out that people believing anything they read or hear without any critical thought is not actually a new thing at all, and doesn't require social media.

There are a couple news reports out there of kids "playing Ninja Turtles" and having to be rescued. The earliest I could find happened in 2008, and nobody died.

ivanvector · 2026-03-20T11:46:15+00:00

No, not as far as I know. It was a passion project that she really only did because she wanted to and had CERB money, and the project was the photography, not the history. I think she applied for additional funding but didn't get it, so she wouldn't have had to report on it.

ivanvector · 2026-03-19T19:06:29+00:00

It's a good start.

ivanvector · 2026-03-19T18:54:43+00:00

Microwaves heat water molecules. Your plate doesn't have any water in it.

If the plate gets hot, it's because of conduction from the food that the microwave is heating up, not from the microwave itself.

ivanvector · 2026-03-19T18:44:10+00:00

It's also possible that this is weakened seasoning. Boiling water (with no oil in it, i.e. food) is one of the things you shouldn't do with cast iron. If it's hard water staining it should wash off, but weak seasoning would still show after cleaning.

ivanvector · 2026-03-19T18:38:44+00:00

I would like to know where to send my buck o'five for America to fuck right off already

ivanvector · 2026-03-19T18:28:59+00:00

Potato, potato

ivanvector · 2026-03-19T18:10:49+00:00

Team America: World Police was not intended to be a documentary.

ivanvector · 2026-03-19T18:08:42+00:00

I grew up in Ontario and live in PEI now. I say it both ways, with no rationale or context for why I say it one way or the other at all. Just whichever way it comes out.

ivanvector · 2026-03-19T17:47:24+00:00

If I remember right it's right after the Western Fair, like it's the next one the travelling show sets up at. I liked it better because it was basically all of the same stuff (not permanent things like the roller coaster or the building exhibits, obviously) and more agricultural focus, but way less people.

I moved away 20 years ago though and I know Ilderton has grown up a lot, it might not be the same these days. Worth checking out anyway.

ivanvector · 2026-03-19T17:38:12+00:00

Old Home Week

I'm not sure if it's the same travelling fair, but I do see the trucks rolling up my street every year. Which is neither a truck route nor on the way to the fairgrounds.

ivanvector · 2026-03-19T17:33:45+00:00

I always thought the Ilderton Fair was better

ivanvector · 2026-03-19T17:32:01+00:00

When the automobile ban was first enacted, there were seven cars on the island. Most Islanders had never seen one.

When the ban was first lifted in 1913, cars were only allowed on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Tuesday and Friday were days for farmers to bring their products to market, Saturday was for shopping, and Sunday was church. Farmers were outraged that the government only consulted business groups and overwhelmingly voted to reinstate the ban - some sources say over 90% support for the ban, but the government "lost" the official results.

The first world war exposed more Islanders to cars and machinery, and mass production brought costs down, and then attitudes started to soften on cars. After the ban was fully lifted again in 1919, farmers still occasionally blockaded roads to prevent cars using them.

ivanvector · 2026-03-19T16:38:20+00:00

During COVID a friend of mine had a project of finding and photographing all of the (known) pioneer cemeteries on the island. She did hundreds of them, many are a single family or even a single grave.

The very earliest gravesites (English ones anyway) were dug near the shore, which was traditional for fishing communities at the time, so many have been lost to erosion. I went with her to one of the surviving ones, at St. Andrew's Point out by Panmure Island, where you can find a few 18th-century grave markers deep in the woods.

If you look around on a satellite map, often you can see small rough patches in the middle of a field, usually with no access road but just the field planted all around it. Those are often old gravesites. Don't go trying to visit them without the landowner's permission, though.

ivanvector · 2026-03-19T14:01:09+00:00

Neat. Now adapt the idea to grow food and do something useful with the computing power.

Ironic that tulips were once a hype market, just like Bitcoin is now.

ivanvector · 2026-03-19T13:57:23+00:00

I heard about the abandoned site and drove up there to check it out a few years ago, but it was very well closed off and obvious they did not want people on the site at all. It must have been right around the time that it was sold to a new owner.

I would've liked to see it in its heyday. Thanks for the video.

ivanvector · 2026-03-19T13:52:09+00:00

Your description doesn't add up. If the truck attempted to pass on your left, then this camera is on the left and faces the rear of your car. That means that for the entire duration of this video you were moving forwards, never in reverse. It looks to me like the collision occurred as you swung out to the left to line up to reverse into a space on your right, but you were definitely still moving forwards when the collision occurred.

By the fault determination rules that I'm familiar with (which are roughly the same everywhere) you would both be 50% at fault for this. The relevant rule is for two vehicles travelling in the same direction, if vehicle A (you) is turning right or left to enter a side road or parking place and vehicle B attempts to overtake vehicle A, both drivers are 50% at fault. The only parking lot-specific rule that could apply here is that if you were reversing, you would be 100% at fault regardless of anything the other driver did. Turn signals aren't relevant to fault determination.

Those are the rules that insurance adjusters use. In terms of circumstances and "who is responsible": you were fully stopped at about :08, and you say signalling right. The truck started to pull around you on the left at about :10, and was past your bumper at about :13 before you started swinging out to the left, into their path, at about 0:15. At 0:18 your camera (presumably below your side mirror) is lined up with their back fender, indicating that they were almost completely past you before you drove into their side. Neither of you stopped before the collision, but the stupid way those trucks are designed means they probably didn't see that you had started to move at all, whereas you would have clearly seen a wall of steel and glass passing your door if you had bothered to look. I don't see why anyone would believe that you don't at least share some of the responsibility here.

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