herbie

Anything but an ideologue, dude. I just want to see the USA return to sanity and preserve democracy in spite of it's weird interpretation of it. I was raised to be a proud friend of the USA in the days when it was educated, desegregated, could fight a war all by itself (even if for the wrong reason) and put man on the Moon and could openly question itself all at the same time. That was MAGA not the Andy Griffith, Eugene McCarthy fake Christian marshmallow opium pipe dream marketed by a malignant narcissist con man. The guy ripped you off, kissed your enemy's asses, denied democratic results and attempted a beer hall putsch in front of your very eyes and you insist it was your eyes that were lying.

Trying to create a "Tainted Timber Scandal" are you? See those lines, they are the roads into the cuts, the roads are like 10 ft wide. So the clearings are not very big, they're in umpteen stages of regrowth and replanting and the shot was framed to make it look worse. Fly over the province you'll see lots of scarring - all in various shades of green. The typical anti-logging clear cut photo always shows somewhere freshly logged and lacks scale so it seems worse than it is. And if only if you completely ignore the areas of standing timber can you consider it a 'clear cut' at all. Get off your butt and look and you'd see how it used to be - huge areas all logged at once now in stages of regrowth. I've already pointed out that burning standing wood is not green, but burning waste without producing anything from it is a total loss. Forestry practices in BC are evolving and improving but there's quite away to go yet involving improved sustainability, biodiversity, native involvement and appurtenance, land stability etc. Do you have a clue about how fast the forest regrows? Like how every year after the melt, when I mow my lawn for the first time I cut hundreds of saplings popping out of my city lot's lawn? How those replanted cuts had to be cut back as they threaten the power lines after only 25 years? That the 1,000 tear old trees are few and they're protected?

Or another Russian troll.... sure as hell not a sane American

CBC Marketplace just aired a story on the Drax controversy tonight. Now I'm not going to get into a BS 'leftist bias' about CBC as every single rep from the BC gov't did duck, hide and refuse interviews on the subject. That only left info from the activists, the Green party and a couple disgruntled politicians. They too failed to differentiate the difference between a cutblock and 'the forest'. Or point out the cut sections seen from the air as regrowing cuts from God knows when over the last 75 years. Only the "clear cut" by a Drax subcontractor that looks big through a camera lens. They did acknowledge a couple things that piss me off. One, they'd left a huge burn pile of wood, the very thinh they purport to 'only' use to make pellets. And spoke that this was done "last year" as if that was a long time. Replanting isn't done three minutes after cutting the trees, the piles were probably just made this summer. Second, although burning the slash and scrap wood here to make electricity is undoubtedly better than just burning it and getting nothing but CO2 is greener, but.... I completely fail to see just how cutting down trees here, shipping pellets halfway around the world to keep CO2 emitting plants running is green in any way. It reminds me of the Carbon Credits and capture BS that only creates a new marketable product or sweeps carbon under the rug and does nothing in real results. The entire thing is a way to scam the British (and others) gov't out of subsidies just like I explained happened here. Tax money gobbled up, electricity made, but all for greenwashing local mills and a handful of temporary jobs. We should impose more regulations like take that scrap away even if it is unprofitable etc. before we even think of expanding the pellet industry. And local wood to local plants only (APPURTENANCE) imposed first. Pellet stoves are quite popular here in that they're cleaner and easier to use than wood stoves (lots of those about), cheaper to insure but far more expensive to run. And not one bit cleaner or greener than the old sawdust furnace that ran our home in Vancouver in 1958. Wood heat is banned in most cities as it the smoke is a health hazard.

Various central banks? Inflation is happening all over? You mean it's not all Justin's fault? Still trying to get an explanation for why bananas from Nicaragua are 1/3 the price of apples from Kamloops just down the road....

Ah, the usual no neurons need fire, just hand it off to the private sector response? It already is... for $115 a month off my pension to cover almost as much as they collect! Again, 6 million Canadians can't afford that. I barely can.

You have a strange idea about bad press is. They just did their job and reported what he did on his day off. But I'm sure if your mind is set and stone that if he took his son to Sobeys to get milk on his day off you'd interpret that as bad too.

found an error in the translation of the Bible. It should have read "the meek shall inherit what's left of the Earth" Right?

More like so many Americans were so enraged at the the very thought of a woman President, they elected and actual c*nt instead.

Never listen to the radio do you? And you're bullshit about being banned from the air is called out here & now.

Most "poor" people are not on Welfare so they don't get dick shit. Many more are low income and don't get dick shit. Many are self employed and don't get dick shit. As got pointed out in another thread 6 million Canadians don't have dental coverage, so if you want to pretend 6 million us an insignificant number feel free to join the League of Arseholes. As far as the "too many gov't benefits" BS, a reminder that the only job of government is to deliver benefits to its citizens even if you don't recognize them as such or because specific ones don't apply to you.

There seems to be this Constitution and Charter of Rights thing in the way. The one that says "the BC NDP and the BC Liberals" don't get to tell the Judges what to do, so it makes their rant a little pointless, doesn't it? The Crown Prosecutors are already asking for more severe penalties and God knows if we'll every hear any of the times they get their way. We only hear about ones like the loonie that was pinned by bystanders, they asked to be remanded and the Jusge let him out on OR. This is just Law & Order grandstanding by the BC Liberals, copying the Harper Conservative law& order Bill every 24 hours of their entire term dog and pony show. Hell they should just change their name to BC Conservative as that's what it should've been since the day the Socreds took over the old Liberal Party.

You mean there WAS balance on the radio and now there isn't going to be? Nothing but rightwing pundits and cranky old geezers on the air like usual?

Good God, you can't prove forests are replanted just by saying so on paper - says the person who's never been in a room full of stinky unwashed tree planters waiting to use the showers.... Give up your tirade of bullshit about 99.9% destroyed and your Winnie The Pooh notion that 100 acres even is a 'forest'... you can drive for hours through nothing but; no towns, no farms, no gas stations. You can't even drive to most of the coastal forest in BC! SIMPLE economics for simple people: why the hell would you sell a log to a pellet plant if a sawmill would pay double or more? EDIT I went to my niece's wedding in Newfoundland in 2014 and the wife and I walked to where people were smoking - one of them pointed and said "I know you you ran the Internet cafe in...". The other end of the damn country FFS. Half a dozen young people who'd tree planted here.

1 - no, but they better not be running about armed. That would be reportable news in itself 2 - I admit, I only glanced over 'the article' as it is typical NP editorial comment not news. I did read actual news on the subject. On more reputable sources. I do read NP every morning but as anti-Trudeau anti-Liberal editorial comment with such inflammatory headlines seems to cater to their preferred audience I skip 90% of them and look for actual news, not propaganda. Having a human turd like Conrad Black on the front page every day marks the paper as little more than a print edition of FOX news.

I forgot to add illiterate

This started out as a Canadian forum, so it should not shock you that only the most insanely ignorant and traitorous of Canadians support Trump. Along with the odd ultra-nationalist America hater that enjoyed him turn your country into a laughing stock for 4 years.

Myata has no idea about how forestry things work. I ran the Internet Cafe in town for over 20 years and from late April to July there were lineups of tree planters, 90% of the place's yearly revenue. I even had posters of Mr Peanut around town with "Planters Welcome" and directions. There's even signs posted telling you when cuts were replanted, the ones along the highway marked 1992 were recently cut back further from the road to protect the fibre lines and create firebreaks so we don't get more forest fires the size of Belgium...

Just to add - I looked at the dental premiums on my pension stub. Over $100 a month and good for $850 payouts. Yay private insurance... guaranteed minimum 50% profits. That's why we booted them out of health care years ago and why 3 provinces booted them out of auto insurance...

I don't think he really thinks Democrats would.... we know Americans loathe taxation at any level by anyone so for either party it would be political suicide. Best chance to have done it was during Reagan, it was more in fashion at the time. Missed the boat on a good gov't revenue stream. I don't think a 5% tax would hurt anyone in the US if they brought it in as soon as inflation's corralled, everyone would be numbed to higher prices. It would hurt everyone else, as the value of the USD would go up.

So the PM should go to conferences in Paris on the bus? Or went to PEI and N&L by rowboat to inspect the damage? Or would you rather see him sit in his office mandating what you can have for breakfast and how you tie your shoes like you seem to think he does? Getting real tired of defending a PM I'd never vote for from petty idiots.

Not gonna say the specific region, but ask around your area of BC. And I'm not gonna say ALL these projects are bad, one finger joint mill here sustained itself for 15 years and made a shitload of difference for hundreds of local native and non-native employees. A pellet plant down the road has been running quite a while and more are around. But there's an entire industry of finding grant money in rural BC and no thought given to sustainability in any it seems. We'll just get another grant for something else and milk that until it runs out... seems to be the attitude. I'll also point out that the old gyppo mills were ones that declared bankruptcy and left an absolute mess for the public to clean up. Not grant scammers but 'real smart business guys' like Trump...

Does it have permission for agents to run around armed and shoot people like on TV? Surely not. The whole point is we don't even know what they exactly mean by police stations. They can't "arrest" people in Canada and if they harass Cdns they should be declared persona non grata and expelled. That seems to be the accusation, but with no evidence given.

I get it ArmyGuy, you don't think adding dental to the main healthcare is a good idea, but I and the vast majority of voters do. Most employers do too as it would reduce the 'extended benefits' cost from their pocket. We're not likely to change each other's minds. But I will put to you that it's a (not fully) done deal and eliminating it would not look too good on anyone's election platform. So the actual problem is how to deal with its cost going forward.

Myata does not comprehend that logs is just a generic word. There aren't any Old Growth Ancient Holy poplars or tree limbs or sawdust. Maybe volunteer to come put out the fires we get here when the leftover sawdust from the gyppo mill that closed 30 years ago spontaneously ignites every so often. Understand the biomass plant they built took much longer clearing it all and went way over budget to get the foundation on actual ground at the other one closed 25 years ago. But she did point out one thing: that biomass used up shitloads of grant money, supplied power only to the mills -they never even considered backfeeding to the town itself - , 99% of the original workers were from Spain, when it did startup hired only a few locals and shut down after a year when the feed supply (read that as grant money) ran out. Eventually sold to a conglomerate with the local Band's grant money and no one doubts will shut down again the minute that runs out. You can drive 1 mile out of town and for the next 50 past piles of wood scrap, stumps, broken trees bulldozed into piles and set on fire every winter and that fuel fully wasted. Not turned into pellets, not burned at the bio-mass plant.