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Time for Canada to commit to nuclear power

It’s been a rollercoaster ride for the energy industry lately. Volatile fossil fuel prices and supply chain disruptions have forced governments to take a hard look at domestic energy security – something that has been taken for granted for many years with ever-increasing globalization. These difficulties come as countries are taking steps to tackle the climate crisis. This opens the debate on how to balance concerns over emissions, fuel costs and geopolitics.

Canada is not immune to these worldwide problems. Although we are lucky to have an electricity system that is more than 80 per cent low-carbon and generated from domestic resources, including uranium mined in Canada, our energy system overall is still heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Transportation, buildings and industry are still mostly powered and heated by oil and natural gas, a significant portion of which is imported.

Countries have been forced to publicly reconsider their positions on nuclear power, which in many cases has been based on politics rather than economic and climate policy. Governments that once suggested they were finished with nuclear power are now admitting that such statements were premature.

by Sarcasticat•May 19, 2022May 18, 2022•0•Canada, Energy shortages, Nuclear Plant Risk

How to cope with the coming recession in Canada

Life in Canada is more expensive than ever – inflation is at a 31-year high, gas prices are out of control and the cost of goods and services continues to increase. As it looks more likely Canada is heading into a recession, it doesn’t seem like our politicians care as they continue to spend on frivolous and expensive programs and refuse to reduce spending or taxes.

by Sarcasticat•May 19, 2022May 18, 2022•0•Canada, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, Economy

Vast swath of U.S. at risk of summer blackouts, regulator warns

A vast swath of North America from the Great Lakes to the West Coast is at risk of blackouts this summer as heat, drought, shuttered power plants and supply-chain woes strain the electric grid.

Power supplies in much of the US and part of Canada will be stretched, with demand growing again after two years of pandemic disruptions, according to an annual report. It’s among the most dire assessments yet from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, a regulatory body that oversees grid stability.

by Sarcasticat•May 19, 2022May 18, 2022•0•Canada, Energy shortages, USA

Jason Kenney steps down after 51.4 per cent approval in leadership review

Jason Kenney quit as leader of his party, and premier of Alberta, Wednesday night after receiving a slight majority of support in his United Conservative Party leadership review.

“While 51 per cent of the vote passes the constitutional threshold of a majority, it clearly is not adequate support to continue on as leader,” Kenney told a crowd gathered at Spruce Meadows in Calgary.

by Blazingcatfur•May 19, 2022May 19, 2022•0•Alberta, Canada

Poilievre says vaccine mandates are based on ‘political science’ not medical science in conversation with Jordan Peterson

Conservative Party of Canada leadership frontrunner1 Pierre Poilievre joined Dr. Jordan Peterson2 on the Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, released Monday, to discuss his candidacy and a number of issues animating the campaign, including housing and inflation, defunding the CBC, and the Freedom Convoy protests that paralyzed Ottawa for several weeks this past winter.

by Sarcasticat•May 19, 2022May 19, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Comply!", Canada, Conservative Party, vaccine controversy

Rupa Subramanya: Liberals slow to realize vaccine mandates are past their best by date

At a press conference on Oct. 6, 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced mandatory vaccination in federally regulated workplaces and sectors, including for passengers boarding a plane or a train. Trudeau said his government’s two-dose vaccine mandates for travellers and for federal government employees, who continued to work from home, were amongst the “strongest in the world.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada

Alberta Premier Mocks Biden for Refusing Canadian Oil: ‘You Don’t Need the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet to Patrol the Great Lakes’

One of the most frustrating aspects of the Biden administration — and Lord knows there are a lot of things that infuriate people about them — is the way the U.S. went from a net energy exporter to record high gas prices and a reliance on oil imported from other countries.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•"Energy Matters", Canada, USA

Ontario NDP, Liberals would bring in law to fight Islamophobia as Islamists badger Western University to remove LGBTQ Poster

KINGSTON, Ont. — Ontario’s New Democrats and Liberals say they would bring in a law to fight Islamophobia and other sorts of hate if elected to form government on June 2.

Speaking to reporters in Kingston, Ont. on Wednesday, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said addressing racism and hate is a priority for people who have experienced hateful attacks based on their race, faith or any other part of their identities.

She said she is proud of her party’s work with the National Council of Canadian Muslims to bring forward legislation earlier this year to help address Islamophobia in Ontario.

Well this certainly will be a game changer. What will Andrea do about this?

Western University cows to Islamists and deletes LGBTQ poster showing hijab wearing women about to kiss

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

First 2022 U.S. Case of Monkeypox Confirmed In Massachusetts, Health Officials Say

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) today confirmed a single case of monkeypox virus infection in an adult male with recent travel to Canada. Initial testing was completed late Tuesday at the State Public Health Laboratory in Jamaica Plain and confirmatory testing was completed today at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). DPH is working closely with the CDC, relevant local boards of health, and the patient’s health care providers to identify individuals who may have been in contact with the patient while he was infectious. This contact tracing approach is the most appropriate given the nature and transmission of the virus. The case poses no risk to the public, and the individual is hospitalized and in good condition.

by Sarcasticat•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•Canada, CDC, Disease, Fearmongering, Health care, USA

Crown wants Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich returned to jail to await trial over alleged bail breach

Crown prosecutors want Ottawa protest organizer Tamara Lich sent back to jail to await trial, claiming she breached her bail conditions by agreeing to participate in an event next month where she will receive a “Freedom Award.”

In an application filed in advance of Lich’s bail review hearing, the Crown claims she violated the court-imposed condition that she not express support for anything related to the Freedom Convoy movement she led in Ottawa earlier this year.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•Canada

Canada’s inflation rate reaches 31-year high of 6.8% … and CBC gleefully reports Happy Go Lucky Canucks will pay for gas no matter how high the price

The cost of living continues to rise at the fastest pace in decades, with Canada’s official inflation rate rising at a 6.8 per cent annual pace in April, a new 31-year high.

Statistics Canada reported Wednesday that the cost of living crept higher mostly because of increases in the cost of food and shelter. Food prices have increased by 9.7 per cent in the past year, while shelter costs are up by 7.4 per cent.

Canadians love their cars so much that high fuel prices won’t make most of us change our ways

If you are expecting clear sailing on the highways this coming long weekend because soaring gas prices have forced all the other drivers — except you, of course — to leave their cars at home, you might want to think again.

Some motorists insist that $2-a-litre gasoline means they’ll drive a lot less, but people who study Canadians’ love affair with their cars are skeptical — and they have the research to back them up.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•Canada

The Liberal Government Lies Constantly. Why Should They Be Allowed To Define The Truth?

Trusting the Trudeau Liberals – or any political party – to define the truth for an entire nation would be a massive mistake.

Failing upwards.

It seems to be the hallmark of government as of late.

The worse the government does at something, the more they demand even more money and power.

They fail, and use that failure to ‘justify’ gaining more control over your life.

by Sarcasticat•May 18, 2022May 17, 2022•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Justin Trudeau - Pissant, Liberal Party Of Canada

Baby Formula Shortage: Canadian tax payers subsidize ChiCom Baby Formula maker in Kingston which only sells its product in China

As U.S. baby formula shortage spills into Canada, questions arise over why our biggest producer doesn’t sell to Canadians

… Canada Royal Milk is a Kingston-based plant owned by a Chinese multinational company, which has received government funding through Ontario’s jobs and prosperity fund for the food and beverage sector. The plant, construction for which began in 2017, makes formula with Canadian cow and goat milk, and ships its products to China, said Charlebois.

Canadians essentially subsidize the dairy industry through the supply-management system, argued Charlebois. He thinks that if the company isn’t making products to be sold in Canada, it should have to buy its milk from outside the supply-management chain.

“That would be acceptable because it would no longer be supply-managed, it would no longer be subsidized,” he said.

A spokesperson for the Canadian Dairy Commission said it is very common for processing companies in Canada to buy Canadian supply-managed dairy and use it for products that are then exported.

Our China class at work.

HMA

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Leslyn Lewis petitions feds to back out of WHO pandemic treaty

Conservative MP and leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis has launched a petition calling on the Trudeau government to decline signing the World Health Organization (WHO)’s pandemic treaty.

The International Treaty on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response was proposed by the WHO in 2021 as an “international pandemic instrument” to increase collaboration between governments at all levels.

Lewis warns that the treaty, which includes 190 countries, “would be legally binding.”

“It defines and classifies what is considered a pandemic and would give the W.H.O. legal power over Canada’s pandemic response, including the ability to force lockdowns and dictate which drugs or vaccines can be used,” her campaign website reads.

by Sarcasticat•May 18, 2022May 17, 2022•0•Canada, New World Order, WHO

Will Trudeau cancel soccer match with Iran scheduled for Vancouver?

Trudeau says inviting Iran to Vancouver soccer friendly is not ‘a very good idea’

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a soccer friendly between Canada and Iran next month in Vancouver is ill-advised.

“This was a choice by Soccer Canada,” Trudeau said Tuesday in St. John’s, when asked about the match. “I think it wasn’t a very good idea to invite the Iranian soccer team here to Canada. But that’s something that the organizers are going to have to explain.”

Whole lotta of stupid goin on.

by Blazingcatfur•May 17, 2022May 17, 2022•0•Canada, Iran, WTF?