I'm adding #AxeTheTax to all the natural disaster posts I can find. :)
Only when people start to associate increasingly destructive 'natural' disasters with emissions, will they understand that carbon taxes are a big part of the solution.
AnotherDirtyAnglo
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FYI, almost every single item you find in a retail store is marked up 50% or more, with the only exceptions being commodities like gas and diesel, or electronics, where the manufacturers make the majority of the profits.
CRTC, your Provincial and Federal MPs, as well as Industry Canada, since they regulate Telcos.
Yup, bought a townhouse, and paid a premium because the finishes were very nice, and everything looked good, even passed a pre-purchase inspection by someone with a lot of industry experience.
The tub leaked three times and ruined the ceiling in the dining room each time. The shower wasn't properly waterproofed, so that was a $35k rip-repair-replace. None of the furnaces had proper condensation drains, so my upstairs neighbour's A/C unit dripped condensation into my hallway for 4 days while we were on vacation, ruining the walls, causing mould. Our unit's A/C was mismatched - the outside unit didn't match the inside unit, and for 4 years we were constantly repairing it, until I spent $12k to replace it. There was a bunch of other small shit, but if I ever lay eyes on the builder, I'll punch him in the face.
The real problem is that all alerts are sent at the highest priority 'presidential alert' or 'disaster warning'. Missing persons / Amber alerts should obey volume settings and do-no-disturb, but we don't appear to have the technology to do that.
There was an incident in Ontario where an elderly grandparent was missing for 12 hours -- so they sent the alert to a 1200km radius... at 2am. Then again a few minutes later. Then again 30 minutes later. Then again at 3am, then again at 4am. The OPP woke up several million people, several times, for an entire night. The result? A police officer saw them on Lakeshore Blvd. in Toronto, less than 60km from their home. There was zero benefit to waking up every household with a cell phone across most of the province -- and I'm willing to bet there was a HUGE increase in traffic accidents the next day (because losing just ONE hour of sleep to daylight savings time has this effect).
You're right to be mad, but you're fixing it the wrong way.
Downtown Toronto's been red/orange for most if not all of my life... So no surprise he wouldn't spend any time there. People with a functioning common sense would heckle him and show what a power hungry idiot he is.
I don't know what Loblaw's market share is. Let's say it's 30%. That makes it MUCH worse... Neatly $150 for every man woman and child that shops at Loblaws, JUST THIS YEAR.
If you think about it the other way around, it's pretty fucking scary though. Loblaws is extracting the equivalent of $47 in raw profits from every man, woman, and child in the entire country.
And they want permission to store intermediate-level nuclear waste there.
Yeah, we're not managing our impact on the environment, so our environment is going to manage us. It's already happening in Asia.
I'm not a gamer, but I remember their drivers for even their high-end cards were a fucking nightmare on Linux.
It's not that hard to give the open source community what they need in order to build their own drivers, or enough source for them to get things working properly. This was one of their dumbest moves among many dumb moves.
Free advice: Order a case of furnace filters, replace them frequently to keep your indoor air quality relatively high.