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I like fossil fuels and think they have brought a fair amount of good life to billions of people on earth. Natural gas is a valuable natural resource and fairly clean too. I think Canada has lots of it in the earth. Northern Canada has a huge supply of gas underground that hasn't even been tapped yet. We need to resist the enviro wackos who want to destroy the oil and gas industry. If they want to try to live off solar and wind, they can go for it. But they should stop trying to wreck everyone else's life and stop telling us what to do. Canadians standard of living has been going down steadily under the Liberals with their carbon tax and anti-energy industry regulations. This is driving up the price of living and making life more costly for everyone except the elite who are not effected by it.

I have electric baseboard heaters. It is a small house of two bedrooms and a small utility room. There are no ducts. The heating or electricity bill in the winter is expensive, at around $300 per month or more. That includes all lighting, heat, stove, fridge, washer and dryer. I am not sure changing to a heat pump would save money. There is just a crawl space and ducts would have to be installed to every room. But if a heat pump provides air conditioning in the summer that would be a good thing. I am not sure about solar panels, batteries and an electrical system to accommodate all that. Would be a big job. You sound like you have a huge propane tank... 350 lbs. Never knew they had such things. Must have cost a lot for the 12 KW generator, etc. I guess I am paying around $2500 or $3000 per year for electricity, including heat. Would have to find the hydro bills and add them up. Getting older now so may not be worth the hassle trying to change everything.

I guess you don't heat your home with electricity. My home is heated by electric baseboard heaters. I don't know what their wattage is but assuming they are 2,000 watts each, that would mean about 8,000 watts running intermittently. One solar panel produces 250 to 400 watts. I would need a vast array of solar panels that size to heat the home and there would be no power at night unless you had a vast bank of batteries. I doubt batteries could provide even 5000 watts of power to run electric heaters. The roof would not be large enough to hold all the panels. Also, in a home that is totally dependent on electricity from the electric company, when the electricity goes off during a storm for example, the home would have no heating or cooking facilities. Totally dependent on hydro power. I assume you have a natural gas furnace, which is a good thing and quite an efficient form of energy. Nanaimo has banned natural gas on all new homes. Crazy. Now every new home will require electric baseboard heating or an electric furnace. It will make absolutely no difference to climate change. That is what happens when you have woke, radical people elected to town councils.

Yes, even politicians of major cities are gullible and have swallowed the climate change alarmism lie. The U.N. globalists are shouting with glee.

Seems like Canada, particularly Parliament and the Canadian government is being drawn into a dispute in India between Sikh separatists and the country of India. While I condemn the assassination of a Sikh leader in Canada, I don't know all the facts about what is going on. As a Canadian I kind of resent being drawn into a struggle between Sikhs and non-Sikhs in India. Yet Trudeau got up on his stage and proclaims the right of Sikh separatists to speak their "truth" and promote it in Canada. They are in fact promoting civil unrest in India and Trudeau defends that. I believe when these people immigrate to Canada, they should leave their beliefs about such things behind them. They should not be demonstrating in Canada for a separate state of Khalistan and holding referendums in Canada. Now Canada has been drawn into this mess. We have also seen violent confrontations lately in Canada between another group of immigrants from a different country. We also now have serious foreign interference in Canada because of our immigration policies and deep foreign relations involvement with Communist China. The CCP does not think the same ways as western people and governments. They believe in authoritarianism and oppose human rights and are working on domination or hegemony over western countries. Liberals and left have adopted the immigration policy of bringing in vast numbers of immigrants from these third world countries. The government does not discriminate on who they bring into Canada. This results in all kinds of unsavoury characters being in this country. These people are bringing their disputes and ideologies with them. This is leading to serious trouble for Canada.

Quite true. A battle between God and the Devil and his minions. Of course the Devil doesn't have much power but he still exists along with his evil spirits (Demons). He appears to have the power to deceive which leads to lots of trouble. Deception is his weapon. Only believers can resist this power if they are spiritual and not prisoners of this world system and they believe and follow the word of God, which in English is the King James Bible (1611). One must be set free by being born again by faith in Jesus Christ. Otherwise, one is still just a pawn of the Devil. Being born again means becoming a child of God by faith in Jesus Christ. Many are not and so they are manipulated and used. Some Christians even are being used by Satan because of their ignorance of God's word. They have succumbed to false ideology and teachings and unwittingly are serving the Devil more than God. This is happening in many churches today to varying degrees. For example, there are church leaders who actually believe in the LGBTQ and trans ideology and same-sex marriage. The also believe in MAID, medical assistance in dying, on the basis of the false idea that MAID is love if a person is suffering. Humans are not pets or animals and do not fall under that reasoning. We were created by God in His image and He owns our bodies. We have no right to play God and take human life except in very special circumstances. Pity or what we believe is love is not one of the circumstances.

It's not a scientific fact that man is the cause of it. It could be caused by radiation from the sun or from space which varies over time. You are assuming man is the cause. It has never been proven. That is not science.

I don't like to see my fellow man, grown children, grandchildren, and great grand children have to go through this phony war on climate change which is costing everyone a lot. But all the catastrophes, natural disasters like the flood in Libya, earthquake in Morroco, hurricanes, war in Ukraine, and endless troubles some say point to mankind being in the end times before Christ returns. Jesus Christ may be returning soon. I intend to study that aspect more. All I can say is people should be ready. That's the message. All these natural disasters, etc. mean tough times for a lot of people. Who knows what will happen with China, Russia, N. Korea, Iran, etc. Some of them unpredictable. I think the North Korean leader is unpredictable. He may have made a deal with Putin which might make him bolder yet.

So if those things are happening because of climate change, what has been the point of carbon taxes in B.C. the last 15 years? Since it has done nothing for the climate, wouldn't it be better to stop the carbon tax scam?

This is nonsense. Many Canadians have major concerns about such things as the phony climate change agenda, the carbon tax attack on Canadians, and the endless divisiveness caused by Trudeau. Then there is the U.N.'s attempts to control the world and form a one-world-government. These are not conspiracies. They are facts. To complain about the insane government policies that have caused outrageous costs of homes, high costs of food, and other things is not hyperbole or hysteria. Teaching little kids perversion in schools is a reality. It is plain facts.

"If the Bible proves itself as divine, then why do most people still not believe it? The problem arises from the condition that Jesus explained in John 7:17, only the person who desires to do God’s will can see that the teaching of Christ is from God. The foundational problem is that sinful humans do not want to do God’s will because they are blinded by the darkness of sin and the devil (2 Cor 4:4). Therefore, they cannot see the self-authenticating glory of the Scriptures. The person who has their will set on doing what is evil will not submit to God’s authority, since they think of it as foolishness (Rom 8:7). They love the darkness, instead of turning to the light of the Word, which would expose their evil deeds (John 3:19-20)." How Can We Know That the Bible is from God? (tms.edu)

Jesus saves. " 4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? 5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. {again: or, from above} 8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. " John 3:4-8 KJV " 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. {reproved: or, discovered} 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. " John 3:16-21 KJV

Trudeau and his government are planning to meet with the major food chain representatives next week and pressure them to reduce or hold prices with the threat of taxes or other actions. This completely ignores that the food prices are determined by many factor in the supply chain such as the farmers, wholesalers, transportation companies, etc. It is not as simple as the Liberals seem to be trying to make it out to be. I am concerned that their meddling with the major retail chains could trigger serious damage to the whole food supply system. " If the five largest grocery chains — Loblaw, Metro, Empire, Walmart and Costco — don’t come up with a plan to get prices under control by Thanksgiving, the government “will take further action,” Trudeau threatened. “We are not ruling anything out, including tax measures.” It is notable that these threats are not being levied at businesses further down the supply chain, such as truck drivers, food processors and farmers, all of which are experiencing higher costs of doing business, and in turn passing those costs on down the line. The grocery stores are obviously the most visible. Singling them out as the cause of inflation is performative in the typical Liberal way." Carson Jerema: Here come the Trudeau food shortages (msn.com) Liberals have cozied with the Socialist NDP which of course are all in favour of controlling big companies. This may be affecting their thinking. Yet it is government policies, taxation, carbon taxes, etc. that have helped drive the price of food up. They are starting to think like Communists within a Capitalist system. Government cannot mix Communism or state control of food prices within a Capitalist system without dangerous consequences that are presently unforeseen such as food shortages on the shelves. Major grocery chains hold a lot of power and may not take kindly to government intervention in how they run their business which is very complicated and involves many other companies within the supply chain. I think we should be very concerned when politicians start serious meddling with the Capitalist system that brought the west its prosperity to begin with. We could end up like Cuba with serious shortages of all kinds of things.

I don't have much faith in municipal and regional district governments. They can't even seem to manage the recycling facility properly. I went to the recycling depot on a Tuesday with a trailer load of flattened cardboard boxes and their cardboard container was full to the brim and the guy told me I would have to travel to the landfill site many kilometers away outside of town because the cardboard bin would not be empty until Thursday morning. I also tried to drop off a small 1 lb. propane bottle at the recycling depot and they said they don't take them and didn't know where to take it. I tried several places like the Co-op gas station and they wouldn't take it, although I think they took the larger propane bottles (probably because there was some money in those ones). For municipal or regional governments to try to fight climate change is a joke. Man cannot control the climate. The regional government started making everyone put organics in a bin and said this will keep it out of the landfill site and lower CO2 emissions. This is a lie. Doesn't matter where you place organics; it will still emit the same amount of CO2 into the atmosphere. This just proves their absolute ignorance. They don't know what they are doing. I am not sure about that. It is a very complicated subject. But Trudeau just doesn't get it and is doing next to nothing. I would be willing to give a different party and leader a chance to see what they can do because the Liberals and NDP have had eight years and the problem has just gotten a lot worse. I think drastic actions will have to be taken at all levels of government. But basically we depend on private construction companies to do the job. They will have to be given the keys, resources, and the gate keepers will have to be dragged out of the way, kicking and shouting. That means local governments will have to be legislated out of way and environmentalists subdued and ignored. I am not sure PP's financial incentives for municipalities will be enough to do the job. It may take far more intervention by the federal government and provincial governments.

Oh yes, spread the blame around and let the government off the hook. The truth is nine out of ten young people will never be able to afford a home, no matter what, because the prices are far out of their ability to afford. If you are a young person and you must pay $2,000 or $3000 or more per month for rent, buy groceries, pay for gas for your car, etc., you will never be able to save up 5% or $50,000 to buy a home for a million dollars. Many young people do not make $40 or $50 an hour either and their monthly income is just not enough to save much money.

PP raised a good question. Why are apartment buildings not being built on a massive scale close to rapid transit stations? This would make sense for students, seniors, and everyone. It would reduce the need for a motor vehicle for many people as well. Also PP plans to take 15% of federal land and sell it to developers to build housing and apartments. That is a great idea. He also promises to withhold funding from municipalities that do not approve a minimum number of building permit applications and reward municipalities that do meet or exceed the requirement. Again he hits the target. He will also go after the CMHC and fire executives or withhold bonuses if they are not speeding up the building of homes and force them to do so. Apparently the CMHC has put up roadblocks to getting homes built. Why have the liberals not done these things the past eight years?

In the present climate there are countless NIMBY groups opposing home construction or apartment construction in towns and cities across Canada. A company where I live was planning to build a billion dollar housing development on the edge of town. All the NIMBYs got together and made big protests to the town council. This project would have created homes for many people and created thousands of construction jobs for years. I have not heard what happened to this project the past couple of years. This is one of the problems. It takes years for projects to be approved or they are destroyed by environmentalists, NIMBYs, and foot dragging politicians and red tape. The BC building code is a frightening mass of regulations that would fill many books. As example of excessive government over reach and authoritarianism is in 2014, Vancouver banned the round door knob in new homes and required levers to be install instead. Ban the doorknob? Building code change removes choice for renovations contractors | Canadian Contractor

The thing is this. Canada is short about 3-1/2 million homes. Nine out of ten young people cannot afford to buy a home because the cost of owning a home has doubled or tripled since Trudeau took over eight years ago. The situation is dire and the Liberals/NDP have no solution. Another two years of Liberal/NDP rule will mean that things just get progressively worse for millions of Canadians. They are not capable or willing to do anything to solve the crisis. They are like a natural disaster happening. They need to go NOW. If people think things will be rectified under the NDP/Liberal coalition in the next two years, they are only fooling themselves. Things need to turn around now so the millions of Canadians will have a chance.

I don't know where you get your facts. I think most parents when asked if they have a right to know what their kids are doing and what decisions they make, they will say parents have a right to know what is going on. Seems to me polls show the great majority of parents feel they have the right to know what is going on with their kids in schools. Seems to me you claimed to be a Christian, but now argue in favour of the LGBTQ agenda, teaching little kids that all that is normal, and allowing kids to "come out" as being gay or trans and keeping it secret from the parents. You can't have it both ways.

How could it hurt anyone? You don't think teaching little kids in school they can be whatever gender they choose and transition is not harmful? Parents have had enough. They demand to know what is going on.

Just came across another article which says Jordan Peterson was targeted by the College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO) for his views on climate change podcast, among other things, which had nothing to do with the psychology profession. "The CPO reprimanded Peterson for, among other things, remarks he made on a Joe Rogan podcast concerning climate-change policy , a subject that bears no relationship to his clinical practice as a psychologist." Opinion: Climate censorship is worse than you think (msn.com)

This is the result of psychiatrists and "professionals" in charge and making decisions about giving day passes to dangerous offenders in a psychiatric institution. There is going to be a "review" of this event. I would not be surprised if the authorities learn that the so-called professionals had decided he was making progress and was now safe to be given a day pass. Anyone should see through this whole thing and realize the system is a farce and needs to scrapped. It only proves no professional can predict with certainty what these kind offenders will do and such people should never be let out under any conditions. Nobody should be given the authority to let them out.

" How Can We Know That the Bible is from God? Miska Wilhelmsson | March 13, 2018 When Jesus walked the earth about 2000 years ago, He was faced with a very similar question when the people who heard Him teach wondered if His teaching was truly from God. Jesus answered them by giving this simple, yet profound answer, “...My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me. If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself.” (John 7:16-17) We can apply this same principle to knowing that the Bible is truly from God. All those who desire to obey God will know by the very words of the Bible that it is indeed from God himself. This is an astonishing argument, since most people would claim that simply hearing Jesus’ teaching could never be enough. They would have to see miracles before they could believe Him to be from God. Jesus even challenged his hearers to believe because of the miracles He had performed (John 14:11). Yet, did everyone believe in Jesus when they saw these undeniable miracles? No, even when faced with miraculous proof, many remained in their unbelief. The reason for this is found in Jesus’ original answer—­only those who truly want to do God’s will shall know the truthfulness of Christ’s message (John 7:17). The Bible itself is sufficient proof for all who desire to know if it is from God. This can be clearly seen in a story that Jesus told about a rich man and Lazarus, found in Luke 16:19-31. As Jesus concludes the parable, He explains that if they will not believe the message of the Word of God based on its inherent authority, neither will they believe that message if an undeniable miracle was performed. The Bible itself is all the proof that is needed; it is self-authenticating. There is no need for additional proofs or miracles to establish the authority of God’s Word. It stands on its own." How Can We Know That the Bible is from God? (tms.edu) As for the King James Bible itself, the proof has been well established. It is the only version based on the majority text or Received Text. The King James Bible is the Perfect Word of God - Her High Calling

Oh, why is there no law in the justice system to prevent people found NCR who committed serious crimes like murder from being released on day passes?

Apparently the federal law does not require someone who has been found not guilty of murder by reason of "not criminally responsible", although they committed the crime, does not require such a person to be kept in a mental institution under guard. They can be released on a day pass and go out to stab other people. Again, a total failure of the Trudeau liberals. Even the B.C. NDP leader, Premier Eby came out today and condemned what has happened. He should put his words into action and do whatever he can to change the system. Public safety comes first.