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by JamisonM 5y ago
I thank you for the reply and I don't dispute the deterioration of of local journalism and its negative effects. I thank you for the links and I will read them. (Some of this research I am familiar with is pretty iffy, the civic engage
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I am constantly baffled at the sweeping statements that get made about modern journalism. In the "days of yore" the quality of journalism was higher? Journalists regularly omitted things from reporting that was widely known to sup
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I think this is a bit of a mischaracterization of my position but I do think you are arguing in good faith. I don't have a low view of the public or democratic processes, I have a high view of it! I look at the American political syste
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The non-use of the powers of the GG is an essential part of the structure of the governments of Canada & Australia and of course it is a political act, the bias towards the parliament is intentional, the parliament is supreme. I feel it
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But you are also experiencing the best commodity prices of your lifetime, right? For me personally up in the Canadian prairies if wheat stays at $12 a bushel it is just not a big deal if urea is $1100/mt, even at 8 or 9 dollars a bushe
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I would say that characterizing the supply/demand mismatch caused by a once in a century pandemic as a showcase of why activism is often bad is not a very well considered perspective. 6 months from now if fertilizer prices are essentia
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It would be an absolutely negligible quantity compared to agricultural use. There is nothing mysterious going on here, natural gas ramped down and is ramping up too late to meet the demand and as it is challenging to store it is very vulner
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If you gave an elected official outside of parliament the power to veto legislation they would have a lot more power than the governor general now wields in practice. While royal assent is technically a power held by a GG they don't ac
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Telling someone that they are confused about what a web browser is looks pretty clearly like an insult to me.
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Do I misunderstand this issue when if say: "The loss of 8GW of nuclear electricity generation created new renewables projects immediately that would not have been constructed if that generation capacity was not lost." To me, regar
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> Long gone are days where people / governments make decisions based on any objective facts and pragmatic cost/ benefit/ risk analysis. There are governments choosing to build nuclear right now, despite its general unpopul
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I see this from the Canadian context and Canada is in the process of buying/building a new SMR and has more in the pipeline with funding lined up. Canada still has some coal to phase out, and the lure of the idea of small reactors for
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by JamisonM 5y ago
Here is a recent article rather than the linked statement by a lobby group: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/nuclear-power-s-awkward-role-in-... This provides a lot more information and context about what is actually happening a
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Seems wild to me to assert that a settlement is not a contract. What is the basis for this?
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"Pathological scapegoating" of the guy that has literally said "No, that’s okay. That’s all right. You got your freedoms".
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As a hockey fan what I see is that at least 4 NHL players have had their careers badly harmed or ended by COVID-19, that's not a very big pool of people, of which only some small proportion have been infected - that has changed my perc
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by JamisonM 5y ago
I think the evidence available today contradicts this position. Vaccine immunity is much better than naturally acquired immunity, and natural immunity plus vaccine immunity is much better still.
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I mean, there was never an intervention in the USA comparable to the lockdown in China - right? Is there an instance where 50 million Americans couldn't travel to a neighbouring city without suffering criminal penalties?
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Thanks!
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Isn't using J1939 just an example of them embracing an industry standard? That stuff is everywhere now, right?
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> ..modern pesticides, designed to kill everything by contact (including predators) instead of to deter the plant eaters.. This is not an accurate statement, obviously modern pesticides are not as targeted as would be optimal but they ar
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I wouldn't assume they have a good legal team, its a penny stock with a market cap that is almost eclipsed by the fines they are facing from Alberta regulators.
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I believe the reference here is to the same loan guarantee that became famous when Solyndra went bankrupt. It secured Tesla's early days, without it the company most certainly wouldn't exist.
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"For example, when inflation has been low in the recent past, workers might not demand raises as they would in a world where inflation was high; after all, their existing paychecks go pretty much as far as they used to. You don’t need
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by JamisonM 5y ago
If other countries want to subsidize export products take the free money and devote your resources to other things is, I think, an excellent vision. Being romantic about particular industries is not a good vision I think.
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(Also the argument that applied pesticides are on the surface of plants/produce only is incorrect as a blanket statement. There are many systemic insecticides on the market and they are usually preferable due to duration of protection.
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This is the first time I have heard this endogenous pesticide argument and I gotta say, it seems extraordinary! Is there some solid evidence for this?
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My understanding is that the fuel efficiency was the feature that made them an attractive design for a race-to-the-bottom travel market.
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Getting out of the heavily subsidized airline industry is an unalloyed good, if Canada simply doesn't participate in the production and reaps the benefits of heavily subsidized international products the country wins.
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I have no love for the RCMP, but I don't understand what this has to do with entrapment related to the FLQ crisis. Sorry I asked.

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