21 Replies to “Tell me about the air quality in an 1989 curling rink”

  1. Good rant. Since COVID I’ve learned ‘health authorities’ don’t care about your health, are not authorities and are not your friends.

  2. Bronwyn is wise to C-5. Leaving the regulatory quagmire in place betrays ideological intransigence. Assigning regal powers to subvert the quagmire betrays nothing but blind faith in the Carney. Canada is now a banana republic.

  4. I’m so old, when I was a kid in a bowling league, all the scoring was done by parents – no computers. And smoking was allowed pretty much everywhere. Most bowling alleys have a pretty low ceiling too. Talk about air quality.

    2. Greg, sounds much like the viewing area/or lounge at a curling rink, all those “Export A’s” getting puffed on, and others left to burn in the ashtrays, like incense.
      Indeed, the air was blue.

      1. Yes smoking and sweeping with a corn broom is a lost art.
        Not to mention the strategic placement of one’s ashes could slow down a rock to the desired speed.

  5. C-5 is a farce and a fraud. The feds have always had the authority to determine what was in the national interest….the gutless Justin Trudeau “government” essentially gave up that authority because it aligned with their stupid “climate change” rubbish.

    1. Exactly. They could have pushed through Energy East or Northern Gateway, or indeed any pipeline project. They chose to specifically not do so.

  6. So construction workers can work all day, shovelling, lifting, hammering, roofing, but football players can’t play football. Maybe construction workers should just stop working? Oh right, that’ll never happen.

  7. This is part of the climate scare agenda.
    I agree the underlying “problem” is higher CO2 levels. However, only in that our forests are more efficient and can grow more rapidly. This is creating more fuel for fires (causes unknown).

    1. Rising CO2 also means higher crop yields, bigger vegetables, sooner harvests to escape the frost. More CO2 means more food for every animal including carnivores that eat animals that eat vegetation.

      Why else would greenhouse operators jack up their CO2 levels to 1000 or 2000 ppm, far above ambient levels? And the greenhouse doesn’t get super hot, either. It even has to be heated in cooler weather. Some greenhouses heat with natural gas, and the exhaust, which is CO2 and water vapour, is exhausted into the greenhouse. Cheapest way to increase crop yields.

    2. CO2 levels are self correcting. The higher the level of CO2 the higher the level of plant growth. Remember that all the carbon in fossil fuels and limestone was once in the air. The CO2 level was thousands of times what it is today yet the climate was moderate. Also the air pressure was likely tens if not hundreds of atmospheres.

    3. I still recall that Chretien (of all people for me to have something good to say about) asked for Canada to be exempted from the original CO2 reduction treaties because our trees absorb more CO2 than we emit. The Euro trash told him to FO and he caved.

  8. “Hard times create strong men,
    strong men create good times,
    good times create weak men, We are somewhere between here.
    weak men create hard times” and here.

  10. Speaking of smoky environments … the very first REAL full time career employment I had was working in the office of an old Japanese man who had his own professional business. Three of us worked in a small 500 sq.ft. office. The old man rolled his own Bull Durham cigarette with zigzag papers and chain smoked em all day long. Yeah … I was hotboxed for 4-years of my young life.

    I should have been dead of “secondhand smoke” decades ago. Or at least crippled and carrying an oxygen tank with me 24-7. Oh well … I guess I just have good genetics.

  11. Regarding bill C-5, I have a suggestion. If one entity is preventing another entity from profiting from a natural resource, the obstructionist pays the owner the money they would have made from that resource. It’s a win-win.

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