A silence fell over the convention floor at Edmonton’s Shaw Conference Centre as delegates realized that not only had Mulcair not attained a respectable level of support, he hadn’t even reached the 50-per-cent threshold
Related! After a warm embrace, NDP delegates stab Rachel Notley in the back
Germany plans to stop building new wind farms by 2019, gradually turning away from its $1.1 trillion wind power program, according to a Thursday report in Berliner Zeitung.
The government plans to cap the total amount of wind energy at 40 to 45 percent of national capacity, according to the report. By 2019, this policy would cause a massive reduction of 6,000 megawatts of wind power capacity compared to the end of 2015’s capacity.
“The domestic market for many [wind turbine] manufacturers collapses completely,” Julia Verlinden, a spokesperson for the German Green Party, told Berliner Zeitung. “With their plan, the federal government is killing the wind companies.” Verlinden goes on to blame the political influence of “old, fossil fuel power plants.”
h/t TimR
What could possibly go wrong in Craik?
The 6,000 square foot building featured straw bale insulation, wood from local elevators, solar power, recycled water and waste composting. When it opened in 2004 just across the highway from the Craik townsite, it was promoted as a sustainable way to revitalize rural Saskatchewan. Scores of tourists, researchers and permanent residents were expected to flock to the region.
By most measures, that hasn’t happened.
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The Eco-Centre opened with great fanfare in July 2004. It was the brainchild of several members of Saskatchewan’s environmental community.
Following a series of meetings, the town agreed to finance and operate the $600,000 facility. Locals and newcomers together supplied thousands of hours of free labour. The rural municipality donated the land, complete with a stunning view of the Arm River valley. Cheap lots were pledged for the expected wave of new residents moving into the adjacent Eco-Village. Officials said a Vancouver company would soon build a $5-million hemp processing plant there.
That’s right. The town financed it. It burned to the ground a couple of weeks ago.
The Eco-Villagers’ reputation was also hurt by some strident newcomers from Toronto and other places. During trips into Craik, they would turn off other peoples’ pickup trucks that had been left idling on Main Street, Kreuger said.
The cause of last month’s fire remains a mystery, but Craik RCMP have opened a file on the case.
Regrettably, most of the remaining roadside eyesore still survives.
This August will mark seven years since Craik was placed under a boil-water advisory.
“It seems like it’s been forever,” said deputy mayor Char Edwards.
The $1-million environmentally-friendly water filtration system recommended by Eco-Village experts never worked.
But as a metaphor for the promise of the environmental movement – the project was a resounding success. Read the whole thing.
Five of the creepiest things ever found in the woods. My tip is don’t watch it. It sounds scary.
Thread open.
h/t Jean
Missy said her daughter, who is in Grade 3, was choked on Monday and Thursday last week by two refugee boys. A chain was used on both occasions, but she cannot confirm the size or strength of the chain. She said one boy yelled “Muslims rule the world” while choking her daughter. School staff intervened, but to her knowledge, the students were not disciplined further.
Just kidding! Halifax.
Update!
Chronicle Herald deletes “Muslims Rule The World” School Attack Story vows to do better job hiding truth in future https://t.co/adn7HZJpBi
— Blazing CatFur (@Blazingcatfur) April 10, 2016
Massachusetts – When a couple has a baby, there are no inspections and no questions asked unless there are reports of child abuse and/or neglect. But, according to Montigny, if that same couple is going to breed their dog or cat and have a litter of puppies or kittens (or even intends to), he wants them to get a $100 license, put it on public display and have their home inspected.
The paper, “Ontology, Neutrality and the Strive for (non-)Being-Queer,” attributed to Benedetta Tripodi of the Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza in Romania, is apparently the work of two academics, who submitted the absurd article to Badiou Studies to expose its lack of rigor in accepting papers.
Just a quick look at some of the text of the fake paper exposes its peculiarities.
Via Powerline.
Tonight we celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Austrian organist and composer Johann Georg Zechner, with Organ Concerto in F major. (It’s an instrumental piece, so non-speakers of Austrian ought not feel intimidated.)
Your tips are welcome.
Trudeau blasted. Media Party hardest hit.
Some victims are more equal than others.
A Quebec aboriginal man who repeatedly burned a five-year-old girl with a cigarette, leaving permanent scars on her face, arms, legs and genitalia, has been given a lenient sentence after a judge determined he is a “collateral victim” of residential school abuse.
Alain Bellemare, an Atikamekw from Wemotaci, Que., about 270 kilometres north of Montreal, was convicted of aggravated assault last June, and Crown prosecutor Éric Thériault sought a four-year prison term on the grounds that serious crimes against children have to be forcefully denounced. He noted that the 2011 assaults caused 27 third-degree burns — 25 from a cigarette and two from a lighter. The victim, who cannot be identified, was left to suffer without medical treatment.
But in sentencing Bellemare to 15 months on April 1, Quebec Court Judge Guy Lambert said the lingering effect of residential schools had to be taken into account under federal sentencing guidelines.
Two tier penalties create two tier justice. As aboriginal crime is most often perpetrated against other aboriginals, the net effect is lighter sentences for crimes against aboriginals. Good work, Gladue.
Another hard freeze for PA, NJ & NY will cause farmers problems. Peaches, apples & blueberries will be most impacted pic.twitter.com/LdXFbjn16Z
— WeatherBELL (@weatherbell) April 8, 2016
Cough, cough. #ableg pic.twitter.com/HijfylJCSB
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 8, 2016
Armor-piercing bullets meet their match.
Ben Shapiro’s talk, video of which is here, was on what happens when “diversity” ideology and leftist censoriousness stifle free speech and intellectual pluralism. An irony that may have escaped the protesting students, who were busy feeling pleased with themselves while threatening violence if the talk didn’t stop and drawing swastikas on the face of a Jewish visitor.
If, as seems increasingly likely, the nutritional advice on which we have relied for 40 years was profoundly flawed, this is not a mistake that can be laid at the door of corporate ogres. Nor can it be passed off as innocuous scientific error. What happened to John Yudkin belies that interpretation. It suggests instead that this is something the scientists did to themselves – and, consequently, to us.
We tend to think of heretics as contrarians, individuals with a compulsion to flout conventional wisdom. But sometimes a heretic is simply a mainstream thinker who stays facing the same way while everyone around him turns 180 degrees.
Yesterday saw the passing of Ogden Mills (Dinny) Phipps, a giant of the Thoroughbred breeding industry and ultimate loser of the most famous coin toss in its history.
In 2013, the Phipps bred and owned colt Orb carried the silks of Ruffian across the finish line of the Kentucky Derby.
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Jonathan Kay was a colleague of mine at The National Post for many years, and we have shared a stage and, on one occasion, a synagogue podium together. So I’m reluctant to go full shagged-sheep on an old friend. I will, however, observe that the great liberal virtue of “empathy” appears to be all but entirely absent among a certain type of Toronto male. Perhaps I’ve spent more time in Continental cities than Jonathan has, but the reality of what happened in Germany that night is very vivid to me. To translate it into local terms, given that Toronto is roughly two-and-a-half times the size of Cologne, it’s the equivalent of about 1,200 women being sexually assaulted on New Year’s Eve in front of Union Station or Queen’s Park.
Would that not be …unusual? And worthy of note?
From some crackpot Big Oil funded denier website;
The scientists found that over the last 40 years, stream temperatures warmed at the average rate of 0.10 degrees Celsius (0.18 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade. This translates to thermal habitats shifting upstream at a rate of only 300-500 meters (0.18-0.31 miles) per decade in headwater mountain streams where many sensitive cold-water species currently live. The authors are quick to point out that climate change is still detrimentally affecting the habitats of those species, but at a much slower rate than dozens of previous studies forecast. The results of this study indicate that many populations of cold-water species will continue to persist this century and mountain landscapes will play an increasingly important role in that preservation.
Wait. There exist species capable of life in an environment with temperature deviations of .1 Celsius per decade? Charles Darwin, call your office.
Related: Climate model predictions on rain and drought wrong, says study
h/t Imethisguy