Elizabeth May: "I just read in The Guardian that the big oil and gas companies are making $30m [*an hour] because of the wars. So why are we deciding to get rid of the excise tax on gas instead of an excess profit tax on the companies that are raking in the dough due to war?"
Uggh.
It's as if cruelty is the point.
Tell me you are an American paper without saying you are an American paper.
Yeah, redistributing wealth from the filthy rich is likely to be broadly popular....
Yukon NDP was instrumental in obtaining our moratorium on fracking.
I'm no political pundit, but I am a voter and have future voters in my house. If so-called left-leaning parties think riding the pipeline train is the way to win progressive voters they're deranged.
Young people and anyone with a shred of hope need something to vote FOR, not just against.
I see that regulations were just brought in to keep boats at least a km away from orcas....but that only applies to whale watching boats, tankers, freighters, ferries etc seem to be exempt.
Like, WTF?
Exhibit #1 being the Yukon Government yesterday repealing our Clean Energy Act because it says our emissions are rising and it is unrealistic to think they will fall. While we are massively expanding our diesel generation, Yukon has made it illegal to install solar panels.
ASHPs are the best choice almost everywhere.
Yes, in the coldest parts of Canada, like here, winter temperatures are often too cold for efficient ASHP operation, but GSHPs don't work that great in permafrost either...
I don't see much benefit from this half-assed action.
The whale watching industry says it already does not watch southern residents, and the rules won't affect any of the really big disrupters such as container ships, ferries and tankers.
linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url
Hard to believe anyone would think it is normal, acceptable and anything other than horrific for someone to get Covid 8 times over a winter.
But here we are.
I have...so many questions.
Some of us fought for this in Yukon a couple of years ago.
We are so much further north and so much further west than BC, that in mid-winter, sunrise here is after 12 Noon.
I wish you luck.
This is what Avi Lewis understands.
Most Canadians are not super rich, we are quite happy with making the rich buck up.
And this is a real problem with programs designed to encourage people to do the right thing : "A B.C. Hydro spokesperson said a July 2024 rebate program for solar panels in Indigenous communities was so popular the utility paused it by December that year."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Once we can buy plug and play panels from Costco, their prices will fall still further.
It's the realization of the promise of democratization of generation.
And yes, utilities hate it.
Their super profitable and stable business model is disintegrating; they need a new one.
Almost as if being obnoxious and mean is not a winning strategy.
Who'd have thunk it?
Those are good starts!
The ideal form of storage, of course, being batteries and pumped hydro....
Few really believe that there were really 600,000 Forty Mile Caribou in the 1920s, but we still use that figure.
(the herd currently cycles between 30,000 and 80,000)
Well, he guessed wrong for Rubio....
Both the CAF and the RCMP are wringing their metaphorical hands over their difficulty attracting excellent recruits....male or female.
This is why.
That plus the likelihood of being assaulted if you're female or a minority.
Great idea to focus on drones, but the way to do it is to go to Ukraine and support and augment the Ukrainian army's drone corps- the field is evolving so fast that being in the field there is the only way to keep up.
Also, Ukraine needs our support.
Yukon's utility (Yukon Energy Corporation) has definitely not grokked that storage is a thing.
It has slow walked an 8MW battery to the point it has taken a stunning TEN YEARS to install (so far, it's still not operating), and has convinced the government to make installing grid tied solar illegal.
Few folks here were happy to awaken to minus 35 again this morning....
It's really hard to convince myself that it's time to start seeds!
Fortunately the Canadian public still owns the CBC.
I hope we can keep it!
Sorry. My mistake.
That's pretty wild.
Also, pretty much anything can be faked these days.
Also, sorry you get stuff like that!
Did you compose this?
Or grab it from somewhere?
It's kinda funny, but poking fun at PP fans by writing fake letters like this is kinda juvenile too.
This is, despite the headline, a really promising result.
Thinking of how Polanski has galvanised the UK Greens, and how Avi Lewis looks set to green the NDP in Canada, I'm feeling more optimistic than I have in some time that the far right has peaked.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
When I do that I find myself running out of space to hang it out to dry (in winter, of course!), so there are wet sheets and clothes draped over furniture!
