Ontario’s Green Energy Act offered so-called “feed-in rates” almost four times existing electricity rates for wind and more than 10 times for solar power. Like bees to honey, wind and solar companies rushed in. By the time the government realized that these subsidies were driving Ontario from one of the lowest to one of the highest power cost jurisdictions in North America, the province had signed myriad 20-year-locked-in-rate-guaranteed contracts that will drive power rates up a further 40 per cent to 50 per cent in coming years. Adding salt to this self-inflicted wound is the reality that much of the green power comes on stream when it isn’t needed. This unneeded electricity is dumped into the United States at bargain-basement prices that Ontario’s Auditor-General found has already cost Ontario power consumers billions of dollars, with much bigger losses yet to come before those 20-year contracts expire.
Investors have reason to become bullish on the oil patch but one observer cautions that some companies may be adopting a dividend-paying structure simply to pump up their stock price.
It’s time to admit that energy stocks are terrible long-term investments
Given these disastrous results, one would think that Ms. Wynne and her cabinet colleagues would have carefully studied experience in other jurisdictions before implementing green policy two.
Sorry, what?
Bill’s wife’s emails are a big thing.
Do you think combat troops, err, trainers in the Ukraine are a big enough story to back-burner it?
It’s like they’ve never read the history of the Cold War. Do they even know what a proxy is? The US won’t send arms, but they’ll send troops? That makes no sense.
#ResetButton
Good question
Why Are Feminists Ignoring The Violent Gang Rape Of Porn Star Cytherea? http://t.co/Z59LjVT3js @rsmccain
— totenhenchen (@czed75) February 25, 2015
Maybe Rolling Stone should get on that.
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Women in the public service go on disability leave at almost twice the rate of men, a problem some experts say should be addressed as part of the government’s new disability management scheme.
The federal disability insurance plan, managed by Sun Life Financial, is the biggest in Canada. A Sun Life report obtained by the Citizen shows women have ended up on long-term disability at rates vastly disproportionate to their numbers in the public service for more than a decade, especially for mental health conditions.
(h/t Kevin B.)
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Women Driving Fail compilation of 2013. h/t Gordon
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Rex Murphy: The year in activist feminism
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The true insanity is not that there are crazy people in this world — there always are (I can tell some stories after 45 years in church) — but that modern feminism actually strives to elevate the crazy, the stupid, and the just plain hysterical into the realm of actually relevant cultural and political commentary.
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The Tolerant Left
Comet scientist offers tearful apology after the Internet is offended by his shirt.
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Alison Grimes, Democratic candidate for the US Senate;
“Obviously, Israel is one of our strongest allies in the Middle East, and she has the right to defend herself,” Grimes said. “But the loss of life, especially the innocent civilians in Gaza, is a tragedy. The Iron Dome has been a big reason why Israel has been able to withstand the terrorists that have tried to tunnel their way in.
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I Amuse Myself
If you "oppose gender stereotypes" while condemning women who hunt – you might be a Liberal. https://t.co/GuF88GypnW cc @FaithGoldy
— Katewerk (@katewerk) July 4, 2014
An Open Letter
To Leah McLaren.
Update: Nazanin Afshin-Jam MacKay responds.
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m converting a bear trap into a giant chastity belt.
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The science is settled: we are the weaker sex.
The Tolerant Left
I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar
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Danielle Smith, call your office: Attacks on Redford all about gender
If You Can’t Stand The Heat, Go Back To The Kitchen
My attitude toward this “bullying” is more in line with Julie Burchill’s, who responded to Charlotte Dawson’s death by celebrating the “joy of online hatred.”