Not the NSA.

https://www.torproject.org/about/history/

All levels of government should be offering this – cities/municipalities should be offering loans that are repaid through property taxes. Provinces should be upgrading building codes to require them, and offering rebates paid for through fuel taxes. The federal government should be using the carbon tax to ensure their buildings are using the latest heat pump tech, and funding research to make them more efficient and reliable, and incentivising manufacturers to meet our domestic supply needs by building factories here.

New ones are good to -30C and lower. My electric bill dropped 55% after replacing my furnace ahead of schedule.

If you’re taking the Trans Canada up over Algonquin park, there’s the site of Canada’s first nuclear reaction, there’s a turnoff that overlooks the site with an informational plaque. I’ve stopped there a few times on the way to visit family and friends in North Bay.

Imagine how much wind and solar and new Hydro you could install across the province for the 3-4 billion in refurb costs?

There’s so much that could be done with that money…

• Tuition reimbursement for students in trades that benefit the green power industry.
• Research and development for power storage - ‘second life batteries’, etc.
• Rebates and incentives to have homes install solar / wind / battery.
• Modernization / optimization projects like switching to heat pumps, variable speed pumps, etc.
• Efficiency projects like offsetting the costs of improving insulation in existing homes - with new windows/doors/etc.

The faces of the execs when ‘shrinkage’ goes up: :O

Some Canadians

“A vanishingly small number of Canadians”

FTFY.

The numbers are still in favour of getting vaccinated. Complications from the vaccine are as close to zero as any medical procedure could be. The complications from raw-dogging COVID are far greater, regardless of your cohort. Turning a life-threatening infection into an inconvenience is what the vaccines do. If your concern is minimizing total risk, getting a COVID booster each year with your flu vaccine is the way to go.

SMS messages are crammed into the messages your phone exchanges during ‘pings’ to register with the local cell tower. It literally costs the telco nothing to exchange texts between subscribers on the same network, and as far as I know, telcos don’t charge each other for exchanging SMS messages, because the cost of tracking it all exceeds the practically zero cost of just forwarding the message.

These people are literally a herd of cats in a room with a laser pointer pointed at a disco globe.

My mother is a conspiracy theory sucker. Being isolated during the pandemic with her idiot boyfriend literally spun her around from being a compassionate intelligent woman who ran her own successful business for over a decade to literally being afraid of everything and everyone.

Maybe 100 in total? Doesn’t matter… It used to be a factory, and it’s now mixed use. They did a few modernization projects (lighting, replaced old power-hungry equipment), and reduced their average power draw by 1MW. And there aren’t that many electric cars, and they’re not all there are the same time. When I need to charge, I plug it in, but schedule the charge to start at 1am when demand drops off.

It should be taxed at all three levels…

Is this property your primary residence? No? Pay more municipal tax.

Is this an income property? Pay more tax to the province to be earmarked for low income housing.

Did you earn a profit on your income property this year? Tax that income at the highest income tax rate.

Is the property owned by a provincially incorporated company? Profits are taxed at the highest corporate rate.

Is the corporation owned by someone who cannot be proven to be a citizen of Canada? Pay federal tax.

I’m just some idiot on the internet, and I can solve this problem by taxing the shit out of behaviour that hurts citizens. Why can’t people in positions of authority do this? Because it’s counter to their interests. Go look at CPC’s PP – where did his double-digit millions of net worth come from?

pay capital gains on the full sale price

Then it’s just a flat rate tax, not a tax on the ‘gain’ of the ‘capital’.

For what it’s worth, a friend of mine that used to work in a chain of high-end hotels had the Trudeaus as guests, and she said that Sophie treated everyone like trash.

So, a few things…

Most homes that I’ve been in have electricity. If you have a wall socket, you have a car charger. You might not be doing 500km every day, but you’ll be charging.

Second, most underground parking spots can have a 15A, 20A, or 50A plugs installed. My office has underground parking, and every stall has a 120V 15A plug, included in the monthly cost of parking… PLUS it has 10 L2 chargers available, which aren’t available to the general public. This article probably only includes public infrastructure, but there is a metric fuckload of private infrastructure as well.

Last, I’ve done trips from Montreal to Havre St Pierre (via Lac St. Jean!) and on a different trip, to Gaspé. The charging network is already very, very good. Even places without cell coverage have MULTIPLE public overnight chargers – I was astounded that Saint Michael du Squatec had three publicly available chargers, plus a campground that will let you plug into a 50A socket for free. On both trips (which lasted a month each) I had to wait for a fast charger just two times. Once for 10 minutes, and another for about 30. I realize this will change as more electric cars hit the roads – but every company (The Electric Circuit, Chargepoint, Flo, major gas station brands) are all installing new infrastructure weekly.

You’ve got a typo there. https://PlugShare.com/

A buddy of mine is working with provincial electricity authorities to create a ‘second use lifeline’ for car batteries. Even if a battery pack only has 70% of its capacity left, it can be stacked in a steel box with a dozen others, and used to balance demand on the grid - absorbing excess capacity minute-to-minute, and putting it back on the grid when demand is highest. They would continue to use the pack until it was down to about 45-50% of its capacity, then send it off for recycling. The only reason it hasn’t been rolled out anywhere is that the competition for used car batteries is fierce.

Then you’ve been lied to. My heat pump keeps the house cool when it’s 40C, and warm when it’s -40C.

My new heat pump works perfectly fine down to -30C, but it’s a very new model. And for the few times a year it gets that bad, use a space heater.

Monterey still gets security updates. :)