My comment was just about Ontario. I have no idea what silliness the BC government and Hydro were able to concoct.

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My understanding is previous participants were grandfathered in (for now).

We needed some structural work done to support the panels so by the time we were ready the terms changed.

Still better than Ontario. If you want a rebate now net metering has been axed. They won’t even take the surplus production as a donation to the grid. Our small-ish 3.5 kW system is routinely sitting mostly idle when it could be helping the neighbours :(

Given recruitment difficulties and losses from disease, George Washington literally mandated smallpox inoculation for all troops in 1777

Like, obviously, someone from BC would have this wrong ;)

See also, “The West wants in”:

Signs with new slogan installed on city streets A new slogan to rebrand the city was decided on a few years ago and road signs with the new motto are being rolled out on city’s streets this week.

The History of Western Canada course I took in my undergrad disagrees ;) The prof explicitly excluded BC, he called it the west coast or pacific.

The West isn’t as well defined as Central, but I’m an Albertan and we’re definitely the West.

Calgary’s slogan used to be “Heart of the New West”

Manitoba and west is the West. Central is Quebec and Ontario.

If it looks like a motorcycle and it doesn’t have pedals (or they can’t use them) it’s a pretty easy call.

That said, modified e-bikes that exceed speed limits are harder to enforce. The Dutch have started to test e-bikes with portable treadmill style test stands.

There are already rules on the books, they just need to put enforcement on the paths and impound the electric motorcycles.

It costs $1 to mail a postcard across the country. Of course it's not profitable! That's not the damn point! The point is keeping people connected and this is especially true in rural, remote and Northern communities where for-profit courier services will *never* fill the gap.

Do these folks know who runs the levees around New Orlean, a whole whack of hydro electric dams, and some ports (plus lots of other stuff)? Are those legitimate military targets for Iran?

It’d be close to $10k and that’s if we could get an exemption from the Ontario electric code (our basement is too short).

Instead, in Canada, we’re resistant to change and passing up great climate friendly initiatives that work!

Households could get free electricity for doing washing on sunny weekends Providers can encourage people to use energy when "weather conditions result in excess supply".

Other parts of the developed world have far less onerous permitting. Both Australia and the UK have so much excess solar production at times that they’ll have some level of free residential consumption for all consumers. www.bbc.com/news/article...

We could potentially have a large battery installed, but all in it’d be close to $10k and that’s if the ESA would exempt our non-standard basement height from the electric code (our house is 100+years old).

If I’d plugged our EV in earlier it’d soak that production up (grey is grid import, blue is solar production, orange is consumption). But the car doesn’t always need a charge, nor is it always at home, or plugged in.

Yes, that means the potential free electricity I’d gladly give my neighbours is wasted. I’d estimate it was something just over a third of our potential production was wasted.

Perfectly clear sunny day yesterday. We had a modest 3.5 kW solar array installed last fall and under the current Ontario rebate structure you can’t do net metering or even simple donation of excess production. Instead the array throttles down (space under the red curve).

i wish all the farmer reps coming out to say no to high speed rail realize they're saying yes to more car-dependent urban sprawl, new highways, and greenfield airports that eat even more farmland *and* cause ridiculous amounts of pollution and ecological damage.

y'know, the primary threat to farms.

One of the busiest parks in Toronto and as usual, it looks like trash. Staff destroying the landscapes they’re supposed to care for by driving full-size pickups through them. Incoherent design. Poor construction. Ugly fixtures. Somebody should lose their job over this.

Would you look at that, Doug Ford removing the speed cameras resulted in more speeding. Who would have guessed?

Doug Ford owns the death and injury that has already come of this and will continue to get worse.

In my Ward 9 Newsletter: Ottawa loves to say it has “low taxes.” But while low taxes are easy to measure, the costs of low taxes are harder to measure, until they’re impossible to ignore: unreliable transit, crumbling roads, eroding services, unsafe streets. 1/ www.seandevine.ca/april_14_202...

Many of these laws are there to weaponize NIMBY concerns and to otherwise entrench vested interests.

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented.

They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed.

That energy is all around us.

And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

MPs are not voting machines.

When they cross the floor, or resign from cabinet, or vote against party lines, they are representing constituents and providing a vital check on leadership.

Party leaders are powerful enough as it is. Taking such tools away reduces accountability between elections.

If the special constables spent more time on foot in the stations and less time sitting in their idling SUVs maybe this would be less of an issue…

It's been over 4 days since I reported more than a dozen needles in Chamberlain Park, and they're still there.

Thank you for managing my tax dollars responsibly. /s

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