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  1. A natural gas ban is coming for the city of Vancouver. Your city could be next.
    http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/a-ban-on-natural-gas-could-be-coming-to-gastown-and-your-city-is-next
    Heating with electricity are we?? Average costs of electric heat compared to natural gas is easy to calculate. Multiply the cost of gas by 2.2. (Saskatchewan rates.)
    A lot of web sites that answer the question: ”Is it cheaper to heat with natural gas or electricity??” overlook one important detail.
    To convert from gas heat to electrical in most residential structures, you require a 200 Amp. electrical service. That means a new service and new wiring from the street to your panel.
    Make sure you include that factor. The Greens always seem to leave that out!!

  3. Russia is sending weapons to Taliban, top U.S. general confirms, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/04/24/russia-is-sending-weapons-to-taliban-top-u-s-general-confirms/?utm_term=.bc2bacf4a527
    But but but Pootin is the good guy…
    But but but Pootin is fighting koranimals…
    Right? Right?
    “Some analysts of Christianity say Orthodoxy is in many respects closer to Islam than to the Catholics,” ~ Vova Pootin
    “Islam is an outstanding element of Russia’s cultural makeup, an integral, organic part of our history,” ~ Vova Pootin
    Truer words were never spoken.

  4. Good grief. We have just converted from electricity to natural gas — also not cheap, but it brings down heating costs considerably. Wynne was making noises about penalizing natural gas, but quickly backed off. I am worried it may come back. These politicians are insane.

  7. I’m not a Putin fanboy but neither am I ready to believe all of the evil Putin stories being touted on the MSM….. almost all of them a political spin.
    The Washington Post is no longer a credible source for political news. And there was no actual “confirmation” either. Read closely.

  8. If the government would add that, before implementing the ban on natural gas, they fully support and will actively advocate for the construction of a nuclear power plant nearby to supply cheap electricity, I would be fully on board. That should go over big with the voters.

  9. “Wynne was making noises about penalizing natural gas, but quickly backed off […] These politicians are insane.”
    Indeed.
    We live in a country of long, deep cold winters. There’s a reason why most of our population hugs our southern border with the US. Without a relatively abundant and inexpensive supply of energy for heat during those winters, Canada can only go in one direction: further depopulation as Canadians abandon the country to seek warmer climes – largely by crossing over that southern border.

  10. Tru-d’oh is punching above his weight.
    Ganging up with Mexico just proofs Trumps point.

  11. AGW RIP.
    Smart is so dumb it smarts.
    …-
    “Millions of smart meters may need replacing due to IT blunder”
    “Millions of smart meters installed in British households under the Government’s flagship scheme may need to be replaced due to an IT bungle.
    For the first time major energy suppliers have admitted that some of the 8 million “first generation” smart meters fitted in households are incompatible with a new nation al communications network, which links their systems to the devices.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/05/millions-smart-meters-may-need-replacing-due-blunder/

  13. “To convert from gas heat to electrical in most residential structures, you require a 200 Amp. electrical service.”
    In Vancouver 100 Amp. service should be adequate. My rural Alberta 50 Amp. breaker is adequate until you cook Christmas dinner with the oven and multiple elements and dry clothes at the same time.
    It’s interesting that my father’s service started in 1956 at 30 Amp. Years later, without any changes, they put in a 50 Amp. breaker. My service is 100 Amp. but the breaker is 50 Amp. unless I pay something like $20 per month extra because it would be unfair to those with a 50 Amp. service.

  14. Sunday morning and it’s a relief to hear that the Army has started to secure and stabilize the flooded areas of Quebec. This should mean that the RCMP can begin their gun grab first thing Monday morning thus saving Canadians thousands of dollars in lost weekend overtime pay, unless they start this afternoon, but they wouldn’t do that! Would they?

  15. AGW RIP.
    North to south: Lex Kentucky and more…
    …-
    “Frost advisory issued for Hamilton area”
    “”An unseasonably cold arctic air mass has become entrenched over Southern Ontario,”…”
    http://www.thespec.com/news-story/7291573-frost-advisory-issued-for-hamilton-area/
    …-
    “Frost Advisory Sunday Night”
    “The National Weather Service has issued a Frost Advisory for areas east of Lexington late Sunday night through 8 AM Monday.”
    http://www.lex18.com/story/35362396/frost-advisory-sunday-night

  18. In SW Sask, I don’t think the Sask Power inspector would let us get away with a 100 amp if we had baseboard heaters and an electric water heater. Definitely not on new construction.
    I have a 100 amp service in town, with gas heat and hot water, however I’m maxed out and I don’t have air conditioning. The new high efficiency furnace is OK, but where the old one warmed the house up from 15° to 22° in 20 minutes, the new one takes an hour.
    I miss my 220,000 BTU Simpson Sears furnace that was built in 1966, and provided reliable service for over 50 years. And I could fix it myself with Crescent wrench and pliers.
    As for promoting electric heat in homes, go buy a jar of Vaseline when the government gets into that. A policy that’s all about payola from corrupt wind power projects.

  19. Thank you for that post.
    The people who keep voting in Left-wing activists are apartment dwellers in Vancouver who haven’t a clue about how expensive it can be to heat a dwelling outside the Lower Mainland,and probably wouldn’t care if they did.
    Here in Kelowna,with a moderate climate nowhere near as severe as in the North, my cost for heating with natural gas in a 1150 sf house with full basement, is about $500 per year.
    My Son’s electrically heated apartment of about 750 sf is about $1400 per year.
    Maybe house owners in Vancouver can offset their new heating costs by planting a bigger wheat crop on their front lawns, or raising their chickens in the back yard to sell,through the Marketing Board of course.

  22. France will be a Nuclear armed muslim country
    Nah. It’s simply the justice of Allah now that France is well on its way to joining the caliphate.

  23. Wrong quote from a different thread. Post should have read:
    “‘Climate Change’ Clobbers French Wine Crop”
    Nah. It’s simply the justice of Allah now that France is well on its way to joining the caliphate.

  24. Rex Murphy: “Hillary and Obama, incurably obsessed with themselves, should take a lesson from Stephen Harper.”
    “After two such drubbings, the normal politician would call it a day. Leave the stage to the victor, pen the dull memoirs, and enjoy the serenity of a politics-free retirement. Not this candidate. Hillary has “come out of the woods” and announced just this week that she is forming a new fundraising PAC and “will soon launch a political organization aimed at funding ‘resistance’ groups that are standing up to President Donald Trump.” I’m not sure what is stranger in this move: The idea that Hillary Clinton needs to extend one of the longest political careers of the modern era; or that — on the analogy of France during the Second World War — that America is in need of a resistance, and that she is the “La Pasionaria” to lead it.”
    Yes, except in this case the Hillary PAC, like the Clinton Foundation will only muster 10 cents on the dollar for the “resistance.” More Rex:
    “Is there never a time to quit? Never a time, having twice been given the opportunity to run for the presidency, simply to say “goodbye to all that”?”
    Apparently not. The same insularity of mind that accounts for both her losses is at work here: America needs Hillary whether America knows it or not. Nor is this a singular or unique experience. For within a day or two of Hillary’s eerie pledge to fight on, Barack Obama — also eerily — taped a campaign video for the run-off election in … France! He is, no surprise, backing Emmanuel Macron.”
    The video is not much, the usual soup of puerile clichés (Macron is “appealing to peoples’ hopes, not fears”—a formulation not just dead but severely decomposed). It ends with a bizarre chant—a Charles de Gaulle moment from an American ex-president — of “Vive la France!” The Republic will live on.”
    If the Russians did “interfere” in the American elections, at least Putin didn’t cut campaign commercials from the Kremlin or stump for Trump.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/rex-murphy-hillary-and-obama-incurably-obsessed-with-themselves-should-take-a-lesson-from-stephen-harper

  25. AGW RIP: Update.
    H/T “May chill”.
    …-
    “Frost and flurries as May chill enters Ontario” (wnetk)
    …-
    “Squaw Valley Will Stay Open Past July 4th”
    “First time in the resort’s history.
    According to The Tahoe Weekly, Squaw Valley will keep running its Shirley lift for skiers and riders past July 4th for the first time in the resort’s 68 year-long history. As of today, Squaw Valley has seen 714″ of snow and their base is a whopping 232″ DEEP.”
    https://www.iceagenow.info/squaw-valley-will-stay-open-past-july-4th/#more-21371

  27. Love the comment about marketing boards. If you want to see the max in dreaming in technicolor, spend a few days in Vancouver. So far out of touch with reality!! The result of existing in a society where the apex of their day is smoking pot, biking on an asphalt trail or smelling flowers in Stanley Park.
    The ”big quake” can’t come soon enough.

  29. Tonight the CBC was airing a heart felt doc on Omar Ahmed Sayid Khadr, your friendly next door peaceful Muslim.

  30. Of “quadripolarization”.
    …-
    “Emmanuel Macron wins French presidency, to sighs of relief in Europe” (G-M)
    …-
    “Paris — Special to The Globe and Mail”
    “THOMAS GUÉNOLÉ
    After Macron’s win, France is divided in four”
    “It is not one idea against another, but rather four opposing ideas. In France, just like in Britain and the United States, there is no such bipolarization. What we have is, in fact, quadripolarization of the political landscape.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/after-macrons-win-france-is-divided-in-four/article34915063/

  32. Have we apologized to poor little Omar for imprisoning him for his killing that American soldier?

  33. @Rat: “Have we apologized to poor little Omar…..)
    I don’t know what the official line is but with Trudeau at the helm, I would not be surprised if an abject apology will be offered along with a million bucks.

  34. That wouldn’t surprise me. Daddy quietly let the FLQ terrorists back into the country a few years after they were allowed to go to Cuba. (What is it about the Trudeaus and the Castros?)

  36. I remember seeing an interview with some members of dear little Omar’s family. Mommy was a real prize. She went on a “We deserve to be in Canada! Death to Canada!” rant.
    Presumably, that was intended to make viewers grab their hankies about the poor boy being imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay for his youthful “indiscretion”.

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