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Canada PoliERA |OT 2| Time Is a Flat Circle
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The surgery I did wasn't even essential haha. It was elective :D
If I had to guess:
- 35% North American Infrastructure Tax
- 35% in Materials
- 20% Labour
- 4% Baked in cost overruns
- 3% Land Aquisition
- 3% Scimmed off the top
Anyhow, its generally understood that infrastructure projects in North America is way more expensive than it should be. For the most part you can blame corruption in the industrial construction industry being left unchecked and allowed to fester. Europe tends to crack down on their massive construction firms much more than we do here. And even in Canada pretty much only Quebec has opened up investigations into corruption in their construction industry... investigations that ended up being so widespead that they don't even know what to do with all the names they collected.
And thats just construction. Not add ontop the fact that this is a Mine (another generally corrupt industry) and Energy (Oil). You've basically got a trifecta of corruption just waiting to skim money off the top.
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I'd say so yes.
The other (more general problem) is that oil is getting more and more expensive to extract.
Government Agency Warns Global Oil Industry Is on the Brink of a Meltdown
We are not running out of oil, but it's becoming uneconomical to exploit it—another reason we need to move to renewables as quickly as possible.
www.vice.com
My fear is if this thing is approved and somehow gets built, the conservatives are going grovel for even more taxpayer money to subsidize this thing (or do it themselves if they win). That's on top of the carbon emissions, which are probably higher than they claim.
SNC-Lavalin subsidiaries barred from public contracts in Quebec for five years
Guess whose not going to be bidding on the new Gatineau LRT and Montreal extension projects
Guess whose not going to be bidding on the new Gatineau LRT and Montreal extension projects
How awful. I work in healthcare and I see people with abdominal hernias many times a week. It's very bad for your self esteem and often painful. Carpal Tunnel syndrome can be extremely painful and debilitating. Same for hemorrhoids as by the time you need to operate they are probably constantly bleeding and unbearable. "Benign skin lesion" is also quite the wild card and kind of require some details as 1- They often only analyze them after they remove it in the operating room, 2- Some can also turn into cancerous lesion which is why dermatologist will often burn them with nitrogen before anything else happen.
I'm not really surprised though as this discussion will eventually happen in every province. Healthcare is close to 40% of BC budget and also 50% of QC budget. With an aging population and the advance of medicine and pharmacy it will keep getting more expensive to give care to citizens.
I promise not a single African cares, especially those in Africa
Lol this is just Baird politicking. We have a decent shot at getting the seat, that him and His CPC failed to deliver
It's an odd list of procedures to consider "non-essential".
Then again I remember Doug Ford wanted to remove coverage for general anaesthesia during colonoscopy.
Better to ignore and let it get life threatening before considering it essential.
What a fucking tool. How about when you couldn't even get near the seat because of your constant Israeli dick sucking?
Since I was talking about healhtcare challenges a few post above with AB being a cheapskate and cutting everywhere here's another prophetic sign of doom from Rad-Can.
NB will be closing the ER of 6 of its hospitals during the night (22 PM to 8 AM) every single day very soon with the announcement being made on Tuesday.
#brokecountry
NB will be closing the ER of 6 of its hospitals during the night (22 PM to 8 AM) every single day very soon with the announcement being made on Tuesday.
#brokecountry
I really don't know. I'm also surprised every time the media thinks it's also a big deal.
It's a "fuck you" to the CPC. The only time Canada didn't win a security council seat when they ran for one was under Harper.
The whole "Canada is back" trope? Trudeau being more about sitting in circle with people and discussing rather than actually doing something?
Also, isn't it like the Olympics and the World Cup where the winning country is one who gave the most scholarships to the children of the world's despots?
The method of extraction and refining is much more expensive in most of the projects in Alberta.
Basically your convention oil well (which is just tapped into a well and extracted using a pump jack) has a break even point at roughlt ~10-15$ per gallon. A majority of the reserves in Saudi Arabia use this method which is why they own the market.
The Mineable oilsands in peticular are incredibly expensive... The oil is mixed into the sand and has to be seperated. For mineable oil sands they use massive trucks and some heavy machinery to basically dig the sand out of the ground and seperate the oil and the sand. In the past 15-20 years they've developed a different method though that involves pumping steam into the ground where the oil is which pushes the oil to the surface.
Both of these have huge upfront construction costs + capital costs meaning the break even point for companies is ~30-40$/barrel for SAGD up to 50$/barrel for the mineable sites (which is what tek is proposing). Lots of factors play into these costs though.
In the US, they already extracted most of the cheap easy wells to extract but thanks to fracking technology they have been able to extract more from these existing wells, (which is how the US went from large importer of oil to now energy independent again) however that also is a cost intensive process and the break even point is ~30-40$. The boom in construction here is basically what has depressed oil prices for the past 5-6 years.
I remeber watching a documentary in ~2007 about peak oil that basically predicted the world would run out of conventional by 2012 and it would send the world into a massive recession and start wars and stuff. Funny in hindsight.
Anyways Tek is what we would consider mineable meaning it has an incredibley high break even point which means even if approved the economics of the project means its highly unlikely it gets built.
There are tons of "approved" projects that have been shelved due to economics.
Its really just politics at this point because at least as far as I can see this thing will never get built.
Either:
Approve the project to score some cheap political points in Alberta and maybe send the message they are open for business well fully understanding it is unlikely to get built
Or
Don't approve the project and ensure it never gets built regardless of market conditions we'll earning you some cheap political points from environmental activists.
TDLR: the project has expensive upkeep due to the extraction process and economically makes zero sense.
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To be fair, most people that report on Peak Oil misinterpret what Peak Oil actually means. Right now, we're definitely living in a post-Peak Oil society that has been exacerbated by conventional oil overproduction as well as cheap credit to keep unconventional sources alive.
It's one of the (many) reasons why QE in the states has gone on for as long as it has.
Cons are in full isolationist mode
Thank God the US is in an election year to drown out Canadian politics news.
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I was for Harris at first, then she quit, then I went Biden in hopes he would pick Harris as a running mate but now I am convinced that in Post-Trump era that maybe Bernie could be best to take on Trump to win over the poor-whites that Trump won in PA, MI and WI
Sadly Florida will have to be sacrificed because there is no chance that Cuban-Americans and Venezuelan-Americans in Florida will vote for Sanders.
I predict a Trump re-election though, even if I think present day Sanders is the best in the field this current selection.
Thank God the US is in an election year to drown out Canadian politics news.
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I was for Harris at first, then she quit, then I went Biden in hopes he would pick Harris as a running mate but now I am convinced that in Post-Trump era that maybe Bernie could be best to take on Trump to win over the poor-whites that Trump won in PA, MI and WI
Sadly Florida will have to be sacrificed because there is no chance that Cuban-Americans and Venezuelan-Americans in Florida will vote for Sanders.
I predict a Trump re-election though, even if I think present day Sanders is the best in the field this current selection.
Same, I was on the Warren train but she's fallen off. Bernie looks to be the best bet because for some reason the US loves its populists. So why not and go for the one on the opposite end of the political spectrum, and who better to take on the hippopotamus in chief.
Warren is a terrible candidate,
She may be a good Senator but her head to head instincts on campaign mode are terrible in a Trump reality
easy slogans, 3 word catch phrases is what it takes to get the dumb mind on board.
Bernie has hammered the ''Medicare For All'' phrase and it sticks
Nuanced debate is loser's game. Gotta use simple language, simple lines, simple slogans to get inside voter`s brains
Right Wingers are good at this. Left Wingers are usually bad at that
Bernie going simple mode with easy to remember stances is a winner strategy
She may be a good Senator but her head to head instincts on campaign mode are terrible in a Trump reality
easy slogans, 3 word catch phrases is what it takes to get the dumb mind on board.
Bernie has hammered the ''Medicare For All'' phrase and it sticks
Nuanced debate is loser's game. Gotta use simple language, simple lines, simple slogans to get inside voter`s brains
Right Wingers are good at this. Left Wingers are usually bad at that
Bernie going simple mode with easy to remember stances is a winner strategy
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The world is going to shit.
Canada would be one of the sanest, most progressive countries on the Council if we get in.
It's about maximizing what little global influence we have, considering the US is now a dictatorship and may very well stay one for the foreseeable future.
Federal numbers dispute Kenney’s oil sands emissions projections
Ottawa’s looming decision on whether to approve the massive new oil sands development depends partly on whether the province’s emission cap is credible
www.theglobeandmail.com
The way to hit our emission target will be to underreport and lie about them if Cons have any say in it.
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The party of dinosaurs keeps pushing for more oil.
Mmmmmkay.
Also conscience rights!
The CPC greatest hits collection, they're all here.
Mmmmmkay.
Also conscience rights!
The CPC greatest hits collection, they're all here.
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He's to the right of Wynne. I guess a middle-of-the-road type like McGuinty is a good comparison.
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Remember when the cons changed who qualified as "status-Indian/Metis" so they would have to pay less money in the long-term?
Or how they cut healthcare coverage for refugees in what the courts ruled was cruel and unusual?
Or how they muzzled scientists for, among other matters, speaking up about how Canada's policies were negatively impacting the climate so that petroleum companies wouldn't have to change their activities?
Fuck you got mine Conscience rights!
Remember when the cons changed who qualified as "status-Indian/Metis" so they would have to pay less money in the long-term?
Or how they cut healthcare coverage for refugees in what the courts ruled was cruel and unusual?
Or how they muzzled scientists for, among other matters, speaking up about how Canada's policies were negatively impacting the climate so that petroleum companies wouldn't have to change their activities?
Am I the only one who didn't know that a black woman is officially running for leader of the CPC? Refreshing you say? Well her twitter account is pretty much a bingo card of conservative tropes: oil, deficit, illegal migrants, oil, Toronto Sun, oil, Rebel, free speech on campus, oil, birth tourim, oil, oil, oil...
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Dr. Leslyn Lewis (@LeslynLewis) | Twitter
The latest Tweets from Dr. Leslyn Lewis (@LeslynLewis). Lawyer, B.A., M.E.S., J.D., PhD, @CPC_HQ Leadership Candidate [email protected]. Toronto, Ontario
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I follow Canadian politics pretty closely and I've literally never heard of his person. However, her latest tweet is a triple whammy of calling herself a nationalist who has free speech to call others globalists, so...Am I the only one who didn't know that a black woman is officially running for leader of the CPC? Refreshing you say? Well her twitter account is pretty much a bingo card of conservative tropes: oil, deficit, illegal migrants, oil, Toronto Sun, oil, Rebel, free speech on campus, oil, birth tourim, oil, oil, oil...
Dr. Leslyn Lewis (@LeslynLewis) | Twitter
The latest Tweets from Dr. Leslyn Lewis (@LeslynLewis). Lawyer, B.A., M.E.S., J.D., PhD, @CPC_HQ Leadership Candidate [email protected]. Toronto, Ontario
There must be some online store or school where these right wing politicians get all their talking points.
And to think Kellie Leitch was once the worst conservative candidate. They've surpassed that now.
Uh oh, the OPC is going to blame all those on the higher minimum wage and labour costs
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Steven Del Duca wins lead in Liberal delegate tally after weekend voting
“I am truly humbled by the vote of confidence I have received from our party membership,” Del Duca said in a statement Sunday night.
Seems likely we are getting a skinner, balder slightly more progressive version of Doug Ford next election.
I'm so ready for the next Liberal Government to do nothing to rollback the stupid Fordian policies until about 6 months before the election! Should be an amazing time while we watch Education and Healthcare basically fall apart under the policies that are allowed to liveSteven Del Duca wins lead in Liberal delegate tally after weekend voting
“I am truly humbled by the vote of confidence I have received from our party membership,” Del Duca said in a statement Sunday night.www.thestar.com
Seems likely we are getting a skinner, balder slightly more progressive version of Doug Ford next election.
No more buck a beer and dogs on patios? :(
Education and Healthcare will definitely be a shell of it's former self.
I hope some of the Greenbelt and forests in Ontario will still be around.
Big things that grow out of the ground and get in the way of building overpriced houses and Walmarts.
I'd love to know the sales figures on selling beer in grocery stores. Every time I've been in a store those shelves are 100% stocked and no one seems to be buying anything.
I have, but there is also an LCBO a few doors down anyway
Here in Nepean, I'd say a significant portion of the people checking out have some beer in their groceries. Sometimes I look around and it's like 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 (plus my own beer purchases). The shelves are always stocked, but people are definitely buying.
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