38 Replies to “November 19, 2018: Reader Tips”

    1. I still can’t tell whether the female comedian I punking us all with her Radical Cram School series. It’s just to ok over the top to be believable.

    1. This assumes that Libranos are actually planning to replace the Victorias in the first place.

    2. When they say they have no desire for subs with under ice capability, I’m pretty sure they mean they have no desire for subs. This is a navy that built the first unarmed warships in history. Our new arctic patrol ships are unarmed.

      1. It has a 25 mm machine gun but it’s 340 feet long? Lose a steward or two and put in one or two 105 or 155 mm guns in case you want to play the big boys or a few missiles or both. Sad when the Ecuador navy could take out your fleet.

        1. 25mm machine gun is virtually unarmed in the arctic waters.

          From Wikipedia:
          Designed primarily as a close-range defensive measure, it provides protection against patrol boats, floating mines, and various shore-based targets.
          …
          The APDS-T penetrates lightly armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery, and aerial targets such as helicopters and various slow-moving, fixed-wing aircraft.

          These all sound much thinner than the hull required for arctic vessels. If it can stand up to ice, it can probably stand up to the 25mm. Woe unto the rogue Inuit kayakers though.

    3. Probably pondering a “land sale” to interested third parties, while reducing our costs & responsibilities operationally & admiring the buyer’s basic dictatorship in getting things done, we can’t possibly do better on after 150 years of “occupation”, according to indigeniouses who do, at least in their minds. Hope they like work camps & indoctrination schools for their kids while under “New Management”.

      Think of the management costs saved. Make North of 60 not our responsibility. Nobody important lives there & we are to dial down our industrial production south of 60 & reduce our carbon foot print (ie people living & breathing & “wasting resources”, useless eaters all in “The New Carbon Short Kanaduh” and you get Gerald Butt’s drift on this?).

      1. Well they do like that plan right up to the point where it suddenly dawns on them that it means someone else planting their flag on it. Which also means that other entity does whats in their interest not Canada’s or for that matter in the interest of the voting demographic of the MTV. Thats the moment the parties and particularly those parties that have a myopic self perception of having the Laurentian divine right to rule, that the arctic is “what makes us Canadian”(tm).
        Oddly and somewhat related the space cadet over at Transport Canada has discovered there is a shortage of transportation routes to and around the north.
        Ya don’t say.
        Would that have anything to do with the price and availability of food and goods anywhere north of Sudbury?
        But I digress.
        Out sourcing National defence by default has been a staple of official Ottawa ever since the early 50’s, now the chickens are coming home to roost. We are too far gone both in equipment, manpower and bureaucratic philosophy to be taken seriously when we claim sovereignty over the north.
        Harper was our last chance, and Trump is pulling back the curtain. Now its just a matter time until we make a land deal to buy off our creditors. The only variant is whether the buy out is in greenbacks, rubles, or rembini.

  5. Do the Federal Liberals know there’s a postal strike? If they do they’re not doing their job. legislating them back to work, it’s gone on long enough to do damage.

    1. They don’t need to legislate them back to work. They just need to remove their monopoly on the first class letter. We do like our monopolies in Canada.

    2. A postal strike is far less important today than it was a generation ago. I get my bills over the internet.

    1. Sajjan, another dullard on team Trudeau. Do any of them know what’s going on anywhere here or abroad?

    2. When he says interference by Russia does he mean that they want an outcome that is good for Russia?
      I’m going to parse that a bit more by saying that the best outcome for Russia would be Trudeau getting another mandate.
      So what are the liberals really worried about?

    3. “Sajjan claims Russians will interfere with Canada’s 2019 Federal election.”

      We can only hope so. Ha ha!

      (By the way, to what end would they interfere? Seen in terms of Russian national interests, the current government in Ottawa is working out just perfectly, thanks.)

      1. No doubt Sajjin will announce some silly counter-interference measures just before the next election and then claim the Conservatives have done nothing to prevent interference from the Russians. Plus the Conservatives love Trump so vote Liberal.

        1. And he, no doubt, will have come up with the idea all by himself, he will draw up all the plans for it. After all, he’s such a military genius like he showed during Operation Medusa in Afghanistan, right?

    4. Why not? They might as well, as everyone else does with the Liberal blessings. Including in Sajjin’s riding that he waon with the help of Tides. They are just countering the interference by George Soros and his Tides and other so-called charitable foundations.

    5. Why would Russia interfere with a country that is imploding and has nutless wonders as political leaders? The man is not only a liar, but an idiot.

        1. Stop and frisk gang members. It would work like a damn but all the people you catch tend to be whiny minorities who play the victim card. Toronto’s problem – a disarmed population combined with no attempt to punish the guilty.

  9. For those interested in green house gas emissions the link has some nice summary graphs.

    https://media.assets.eco.on.ca/web/2016/11/2016-Annual-GHG-Report_Chapter-2.pdf

    Two things stand out for me.

    1. In 2014 the two largest CO2 emitters were road (passenger) at 33.1 (Mt CO2) and residential housing (21.8 Mt). Combined these two categories represent (54.9 Mt) about 1/3 of all CO2 emissions.

    2. A dramatic drop in CO2 emissions from electricity from 25.8 Mt in 1991 to 6.2 Mt in 2014 (76% reduction). This staggering reduction is due mostly to the shutting of Ontario’s coal-fired generating stations. This is a one-time drop. Any future reductions will require shutting down the much lower emitting natural gas plants.

    Also of note is the fact that the increase in the number of passenger cars has offset the improvement in fuel efficiency and introduction of ZEV autos. In other words, passenger cars are adding to total CO2 emission regardless of technology improvements.

    Final note is in regard to the large emissions from residential housing. It is almost all natural gas which makes us cozy in the winter. How do we in Ontario transition from natural gas to a zero emissions form of energy without going bankrupt? The only answer is nuclear.

  10. For those of you who want to stay warm in the winter (burning natural gas) and/or like low electricity prices the following link is a bit scary.

    https://www.opg.com/darlington-refurbishment/Documents/IntrinsikReport_GHG_OntarioPower.pdf

    The report was prepared for Ontario Power Generation Inc. in 2016. The basic problem is this:

    Right now CO2 emissions are very low (6.2 Mt) for our electricity provider in Ontario. But they are set to rise over the coming 2 decades to about 25 Mt, which would make it the 2nd largest emitter of CO2. To make matters worse the Darlington and Bruce nuclear power plants are set to be shut down for several years for maintenance AND the only meaningful reduction in CO2 emissions is to shut down natural gas facilities.

    The final paragraph from the executive summary:

    “Given that nuclear represents a large source of energy production in Ontario and the operational stage produces a low rate of GHG emissions, the loss of energy-generating capacity due to the closure of nuclear facilities would result in a significant increase in annual GHG emissions in order for Ontario to meet its future energy requirements.”

    If you add passenger (road) CO2 emissions, plus residential housing, plus electricity you will find by 2025 that of all CO2 emissions, about 50% are generated by or attributable to residents. Wonder how this will affect our carbon taxes?

    One final quote from their conclusions:

    “The loss of nuclear capacity […] after 2024 is anticipated to result in a significant increase in annual GHG emissions to the Ontario environment even under an optimal scenario in which renewable resources such as wind, solar and hydro increase their contribution to meet energy demand beyond the forecasted increase in production rather than shifting greater dependency on natural gas facilities.”

    Note the phrase “optimal scenario”. This is French for “not happening”.

    1. This doesn’t even consider the increase resulting from the Librano plan to import 65 million new voters to prop up their racket.

  11. Quebec could sell Ontario some of that cheap Labrador hydro-electricity. Bourassa rolling in grave?

    Quebec/BC don’t want Alberta pipeline(s).

  13. Regarding the feature film in this thread:

    Filmed in black and white, this documentary from 1961 about Waterloo Station, London is very charming. The music is well done in jazzy style. The people featured have no idea someone is filming them and this is part of the film’s charm. In 1961 people still dressed well for work and travel.

    I particularly loved how small stories about people popped up in mini dramas…the little boy who got lost, the woman who lost her umbrella, the couples kissing hello and the couples kissing farewell, etc.

    I enjoyed it. Hope you do too.

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