[T]wenty-nine states (and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) have required utility companies to deliver specified minimum amounts of electricity from “renewable” sources, including wind and solar power. California recently adopted the most stringent of these so-called renewable portfolio standards (RPS), requiring 33 percent of its electricity to be renewable by 2020. […]

In 2010, the average price of residential electricity in RPS states was 31.9 percent higher than it was in non-RPS states. Commercial electricity rates were 27.4 percent higher, and industrial rates were 30.7 percent higher.

Forward this to your own provincial MLA. Let them know we're watching them - and their ridiculous, wasteful political eye candy projects.

But consumers who have less money for groceries and gasoline because they are spending more on electricity tend to blame the power companies, not the government. That is why politicians love mandates.

Not when they're "Crown Corporations", they don't.

Related - Only global poverty can save the planet...

OWS was never mighty. It was always a bubble full of media hot air, and it collapsed when its actual behavior damaged it to the point that even the media’s best efforts couldn’t keep it inflated, at which point the press started pretending it had never existed. . .

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(h/t James)

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Meanwhile, as local humane societies struggle to make ends meet and keep sheltering pets, HSUS has $32 million stuffed away in hedge funds and has about 50 lawyers on staff.

1) Violence pays off

2) Greece announces snap elections after blazing protests

Will some of us soon be living in Ontareece?

Enjoy.

Citizen of France, Thomas Mulcair;

"We know that it is impossible to maintain the current manner of tarsands development without seriously affecting the health of human beings - and without destroying important ecosystems forever. He (Harper) is currently placing the largest ecological and economic debt imaginable in the backpacks of our children and grandchildren,"

News from France; AFP;

Huge mining giants from Europe, China and India are pumping billions of dollars into virgin territories in far northern Quebec in a race to satisfy a growing global appetite for iron ore.

Hmmm...I think our glorious Ministry of Education may have missed something important in their assessment of Sask's math curriculum. (CBC)

"The government said the concerns, and a petition from a group called the Western Initiative for Strengthening Education in Math, led to an assignment for MLAs Russ Marchuk and Gene Makowsky to host eight consultation meetings with teachers and school administrators".

What about meeting with parents and the math profs who expressed concern? Is it really any wonder that the teachers and administrators who implemented Math Makes Sense support their own decision.

There is one mention of parents.

"The announcement on Friday afternoon added that some work will be done to help parents understand the new math curriculum, before it is introduced in more school divisions."

No, thanks. I've skimmed one of the textbooks and helping parents understand is not the problem. The problem is that the curriculum is fuzzy and not rigorous enough. I'll stick with teaching my kids real math after school and on holidays.

Update from a long time reader - I urge everybody seeking to assist their kids with their MATH education to please, PLEASE do you and them a life-changing favor by checking online the KHAN ACADEMY. It's an astoundingly successful math education site, covering ALL levels from primary school right up to advanced theoretical calculus, it's ONLY online, and it's FREE, funded by generous donations from Bill Gates, whose kids get their math education there online!

He seems to be taking it okay.

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