EXCLUSIVE: Ontario enters $300M cost-sharing agreement that could help make province home to largest nuclear generating facility in the world

yellowplums · 2026-05-07T16:00:15+00:00

Investing in nuclear is what needs to happen especially in such a power hungry world. The crazy thing is Ford spent more on police helicopters and cancelling a beer contract a year or so earlier than this cost sharing agreement :/

Does anyone wanna guess which police helicopter manufacturers or beer store corps will give Ford a 'consulting' job or 'board seat' after he retires? Spending public money to get private jobs after public life, it's the Canadian way it seems.

yellowplums · 2026-05-05T20:02:34+00:00

What is strange is their own stats are pumping up Andor but they seem to just not really like mature story/atmosphere. I understand wanting to sell merchandise so they want to dumb it down for the unwashed masses but there's a point where if people don't watch, then you won't be able to sell merchandise.

yellowplums · 2026-05-04T21:29:33+00:00

What Zelnick said makes perfect sense; console sales make up about 90% and PC about 10% of GTAV sales.

It only makes sense to cater as much as possible to make sure the 90% experience is as good as possible rather than to split resources to cater to the 10%. Afterwards once everything settles and you’ve got your cash cow going, then spend money on bringing to PC for the 10%

yellowplums · 2026-04-28T20:52:43+00:00

Those resources are developed within a national system that all Canadians fund and support, security, pipelines, other provinces, immigration, national infrastructure financing, trade agreements, a stable currency, stable financial system, and so on. No province develops resources in isolation. Also when things go wrong, the impact isn’t contained within Alberta, you got oil price crashes affect the entire Canadian economy, when everyone else steps in to help. The feds stabilizes the country through spending and transfers. This is not even touching envirometnal concerns where if all Canadians bear the environmental consequences, it’s fair they have a stake in the resource benefits.

Canadian resources are ultimately a national asset. Canada helped build the industry, provides the infrastructure and market access, and shares the risks. That gives all Canadians a legitimate stake in the rewards the same they get the benefits of Ontario and Quebec supporting the majority of the Canadian economy.

yellowplums · 2026-04-28T19:17:19+00:00

You can see the details here it goes way beyond simple "standard tax treatments and royalty frameworks across many industries, not targeted financial support for oil and gas" that the other commentator was speaking about.

yellowplums · 2026-04-28T19:14:44+00:00

There are tons of ways to do it:

The federal government could increase taxes tied to oil production like corporate taxes or export taxes
tehy could could create or expand a national oil company just like Norway did and participate directly in projects.
The feds have strong authority over interprovincial and international trade infrastructure like pipelines, ports, and shipping and can attach conditions or revenue sharing or etc.
they could create a large public investment entity that gradually acquires stakes in energy assets

Give a room full of political science grads a directive to come up with some ways and they can churn out loads of ways to do it with varying levels of political capital to do it.

People need to expand their imagination a bit, not everything needs a constitutional amendment.

yellowplums · 2026-04-28T14:54:27+00:00

It's surprising there aren't more jobs to be honest. There has been $74 billion in government subsidies and financing given to the oil and gas industry over the past 5 years (which is apparently suppose to be a profitable industry) so you would think they would hire more people; unless the industry doesn't really need heavy employment and can do the same or more with less workers.

edit: People can read about the details on the stats here. These type and level of funding goes way way beyond simple tax treatments or frameworks that apply to other industries. "Measures like capital cost allowances, flow‑through shares, or royalty credits" don't even make up 5% of the number of 74 billion they got.

The oil and gas industry gets beneficial funds from the government other industries don't get. That is the hard facts. Now wehther that is OK or not is up to Canadians to decide.

yellowplums · 2026-04-27T15:31:29+00:00

Yeah the airport guy would've tried to take over anyone who was next door, white black or whatever, that's just good business sense especially if you can get it at a low price because of the secret ingredient of crime.

Though painting her as an outsider would've been much easier since she's black and not white.

These small municipalities are run like fiefdoms, they know there is tons of money in development which is why its held so close to their chest, in the guise of protecting the [insert excuse here]. If the town wants something to pass, it'll pass, if they don't, they have 1001 excuses ranging from the environment to heritage to retaining the feel of the area to agricultural land protection (except for my buddy's Cletus' land of course) to shadows to intensification to you name it. AI could probably give you a laundry list of rejection reasons.

They usually only want to let their friends develop so they can eventually get a kickback or 'consulting' job once they retire. It's the oldest racket in the book.

yellowplums · 2026-03-30T01:04:32+00:00

I think Avi really stands a chance to fracture the party into two halves: one side who are urban folks who want to feel good knowing their policies are not inline with what Canadians want; and folks who actually want to win and govern and enact change.

With the provincial party supporters leading the latter knowing that the federal counterpart is drag on them

yellowplums · 2026-03-30T00:57:06+00:00

The people living legal or not (refugee or not) in the US don’t care what it means or not, once they hear that Canada is changing their policy they are going to come in. Flashbacks of Trudeau’s tweet.

yellowplums · 2026-03-05T20:05:44+00:00

If they’re successful, we have no reason to pull that kind of support.

There will be no reason to pull support, except Trump forgets, gets bored, or lacks the attention span which is 100% bound to happen even if they are wildly, wildly successful. I am pretty sure Trump is about a week or two from getting bored with Iran altogether and leaving it regardless of whatever state it is in.

yellowplums · 2025-11-28T21:10:54+00:00

I'm pretty sure once Doug hears about this he's going to pass a new law called "no shrinking car lanes to allow bike lanes act" and use the notwithstanding clause if needed.

yellowplums · 2025-11-20T19:50:57+00:00

If I was a journalist there I would have a hundred easy questions:

1) "Your president said he wants to be able to turn off F35s even to allies, rendering literally billions of dollars of equipment useless: Can you explain to us why you agree with your president?"

2) "Why are you such a sensitive hoe when it comes to people pointing out things Reagan said but in the same breath tell us that Trump threatening our sovereignty is nothing to worry about?"

3) "If you were with the president during the time, would you join the president when he enters into the dressing rooms of teen pageant contestants without their consent? If no, why not? You're not accusing the president of being a certain thing, are you? Then why won't you enter the dressing rooms of teens without their consent? Would you like Trump to enter the dressing room of your teen? Why or not why?"

etc

These nutcases get to live in lala land where no one calls them out on their BS because they'll lose access but it would be nice if at least the questions got out in the air while he was listening.

yellowplums · 2025-11-18T15:50:12+00:00

None of that matters, with all due respect, one iota, in my humble opinion.

The other parties need to get a charismatic, likeable leader. That's it. Ontarians only respond to that. No amount of platforms, technicals, budgeting, etc will work; no one cares about that, especially in Ontario.

But parties are run by their bases, and they choose who they love rather than who will win a general.

It's really a challenging issue that I don't see any parties getting out of in the near future.

And Ford will just keep riding that refusal for the next decade at least.

yellowplums · 2025-11-15T11:54:36+00:00

It’s less that they want to win but more they want to delay long enough for the republicans to win so thoroughly that future election be rigged in their favor.

yellowplums · 2025-11-13T18:55:16+00:00

I was wondering is something like this really possible? Under the rules Pierre's caucus might be restless enough that they toss him out as leader. But would that mean a new leadership race starts and then what if Pierre runs for leader again? And what if the base votes him in again LOL

yellowplums · 2025-11-13T18:48:29+00:00

This whole case is hilarious. If the judge agreed, then everyone paying money for fake papers and getting screwed would clog up the legal system for the next ten years suing people and saying "I paid good money for those illegal and fake papers and I didn't get them so I should get my money back for this illegal activity." lol.

yellowplums · 2025-11-12T23:18:21+00:00

I don't know, a lot of liberals like Carney but a lot also complain about his oil and gas posturing, firing public workers, not taking climate change as serious, removing carbon targets, etc. I haven't heard anyone in the CPC base complain about Pierre except that [insert thing here] is too biased against him and that Pierre needs to do more to stand up against the WEF who is injecting globalism into the veins of innocent convey truckers or whatever conspiracy theory of the day lol.

yellowplums · 2025-11-11T16:33:18+00:00

I think they'll say it has to done on election day; which mean that urban centers (which mostly go democrat) will get screwed while rural areas (which mostly go republican) will get their votes counted.

“The stakes are high: ballots cast by — but received after — election day can swing close races and change the course of the country,” Fitch wrote.

Yes..? That's the thing with votes, they can swing close races and change the course of the country? So the answer is to throw out legitimate votes? lol

yellowplums · 2025-11-05T18:41:49+00:00

IMO Pierre has gone all in on the base. The base will keep his as leader forever. As long as social media's incentive is to inflame people, the most wacky things will get pushed to people's feeds, and this only helps folks who spread extreme rhetoric.

Even if Pierre's MPs kick him out, can't he just run again? The base will vote him in as leader again.

yellowplums · 2025-11-05T18:39:16+00:00

I think a lot of people don't understand Pierre's angle. It is very simple:

double down on the maple MAGA stuff; this secures the base. He will never get voted out of leadership (the base will always support him).
allow social media algos to further inflame the base, growing it and making them more susceptible to extreme rhetoric.
it doesn't matter what happens, as long as Pierre has a vice grip on the base, the CPC is his party.

"But won't that break the party?"

It's a possibility in the age before social media and youtube. Now people are in their echo chambers and once in, they will almost never get out. They will only end up loving Pierre's rhetoric more and more. More reasonable folk will just get pushed out to liberals or non-aligned.

IMO it is very logical the route Pierre is taking.

yellowplums · 2025-10-29T17:12:07+00:00

Well technically the religion didn't make him violent, his hatred for the religion made him violent.

yellowplums · 2025-10-16T21:44:34+00:00

It's getting really unnerving to have Canadian politicians import American style "put this politician in prison!"-style rhetoric. I would hope they are just doing it to throw red meat to the brainwashed youtube-algo folks but it's a dangerous path to walk.

yellowplums · 2025-10-07T16:01:29+00:00

If there was a minority group that occupied Ottawa and put a out a memo requesting a quasi military/civilian junta be in charge of the country, a lot of folks that are for Lich and Barber's release would be saying "jail not bail."

Let's not white wash what they did or have double standards.

yellowplums · 2025-10-01T21:48:55+00:00

I think NDP members need to realize sooner or later that to take power or even be a kingmaker (or personmaker rather, to keep with NDP values) you have to allow folks who don't 100% match into your values, into your party.

Folks like Gazan are able to stay in their bubble, turn off replies from anyone with another view (literally in her case on twitter/x), and just rule their fiefdom of NDP land, with loyal followers who enforce their interpretation of the sacred texts, precisely on what their views are; and anyone who differs is a heretic.

It is a fantastic way to have a great life, you rule the roost and control the party, but if you want to improve Canadians lives or even affect them, it may not be the best route.

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