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Had a friend managing a townhouse complex back around 1990. Representatives from a local Band Office demanded to know why he refused to rent to a family even after they'd made him go and get references as required. The reference from a previous landlord stated not to rent to these people under any circumstances, they'd lit a fire on the lino when the gas was cut off, punched holes in the wall and plugged the sinks and toilet with plaster when he served the eviction notice. One Band rep tried the line "you said they needed a reference, you didn't say good or bad one...." Was once a slobby 20 something that rented a place with 3 other guys... had to rent for a while and know the damage raising 12-16 yr olds do. Two units w young families on our street with mountains of empties on the porch and diapers spread all over the neighbourhood by bears, both landlords needed to go to court to get them out. One lived there 4 years and never cut the lawn. I could easily buy the vacant house next door and rent it out but even the seller won't ever do that again. I do have a friend in Prince George who built a unit in her basement, but she'll only do short term AirBNB. No market here for that or a quick flip, so house next door stays vacant.

Syrprised he hasn't been charged with Jury Tampering yet.

DISC channel will have a new show, guys buying $25,000 Dodge Neons and restoring them. Flogging them for $75,000 which will be half the price of new subcompacts by then. FB listings for 2025 F150s for twice the price they were bought for....

Obviously... or there will be a hell of a lot of old vehicles on the road. Already tickes me off at how many pre-DRL vehicles I see on the highways.

In 2021, B.C. exported 11.4 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity and imported 7.5 TWh. Site C is not online yet and will produce up to 6.1 TW per year. There's barely any solar & wind here, it hasn't been needed, tidal is being tried with minimal effort and geothermal is laughable here in the most active part of Canada. We saw that research paper, but the 'demand for EV charging' is overly speculative at best. You obviously can;t run only BEVs the huge distances here, so the supposed 'growth' in vehicle use is a wild pessimistic guess. This is not half a billion people in Europe with hundreds of years of rail transit. You gotta realize this 2035 'no ICE' vehicles ban is to make you get an EV or transit to go to work and back, not to go grocery shopping in Fort St John only on the day the supply train gets in or make the residents of Stewart pay to get bread and milk dropped from planes. When most people have PHEVs w 100km battery range, fuel cell vehicles, and they actually improve the mileage of ICE engines the rules will change. Like i said in another thread, ten years later the rating on a Jeep like mine has improved only 0.1L/100km. That's utter bullshit. And the kids here "needs" and F350 4x4 with the biggest honking engine they make. costs more than a house and lives in Mom's basement. Slow learners all of us.

It costs to separate the H2 any way you do it. Electricity is one of the cheapest and easiest ways. Same way as rhe fake panic over charging EVs, at night when peak use is down. And behind dams where the water already is. Or with wind that also blows at night,, tidal and geothermal and solar on sunny days. Only a couple years ago green electrical production also was 'too expensive', it sure isn't now. We use what we have, we solve the problems that come up. We don't bow to vested interests to influence what must be done. Just think, a fuel cell that delivers tha power in your car eliminates any range anxiety about going CO2 free, But it then will face the ire of battery companies too. Take the water. Electrolyse the water. release the oxygen into the air. Burn the hydrogen ebacki as water vapor, it rains back down, fills the dam to start it again. Perfect renewable and sustainable cycle.

Aw gee. now that she plead guilty and will testify against The Orange Overlord I guess the Dem controlled CIA must've waterboarded her until she came around.

It's time to take some actual steps to addressing water problems in that area. Even in British Columbia that makes Seattle seem like Sunny City experience water problems the last few summers. The replanting and greenery coverage are a couple ideas people are promoting here where room temperature is considered a hot day and evaporation is the least of our problems.

The doors are closing in on The Donald. Soon one of them will have bars on it!

Of course it does, the oil companies OWN natural gas. Just like ethanol ONLY comes from corn.... no human has ever made alcohol from anything else! Where else does hydrogen come from? What's 70% ov the planet made of?

I's argue for hydrogen but they've already convinced everyone that the most abundant element in the universe is too expensive to obtain.

I asked for reasoned argument against. Not more "I know you are but what am i?". Seems like only the children are talking in this thread as I so bluntly pointed out.

Of course there will be. They'll figure out there's money to be made from oil besides by burning it. ie Plastic. Plastics are made from oil, people also gripe about plastic pollution because it doesn't degrade. So make things that need to last a long long time out of it, and you 'capture' the carbon in the oil instead of burning it. You'll see a hell of an increase in plastic based building materials soon. Just one of the uses for oil where demand will increase.

It's socialism because I said so. Socialism bad because I said so. The fall of the USSR proves UBI won't work. Some of my money might go to lazy people, they should just die. The feds will run it and the feds are bad because I said so. Whatever the feds study must be bad, cuz I said so. Has anyone got an actual reasoned argument against it?

Far and away the most racist pig on the Board. You must be proud., Spelling's atrocious too. Diesel powered desalinization plants what clever idea... in 1949 maybe.

It is 100% accurate if you look it up and are remotely capable of distinguishing the facts from my what is more than obvious opinion.

Lose the Protestant Work Ethic and think with your wallet. There's always been a handful of people who don't want to work and always will be. Pretending they're a significant portion is just scapegoating and doesn't benefit anyone at all. Every single one of them needs to eat, be housed, clothed, schooled, use medical treatment so whatever they get, they spend. In your business, place of work or for your services. So it comes back. The economy is not how much money you have in your poclket, the economy is how much money is changing hands. So if you want to benefit no one at all, just so some won't benefit.... that's on you.

You said it dumbass and said it again claiming one bureaucracy costs more than a dozen. Pointing out once again, read it, let it sink into brain before instantly replying with a jerk of a knee claiming black is white simply to make an instant response.

For both of you: there were BC Liberals and Conservatives into the 1990s. The Social Credit Party held BC from 1952 until 1991 except for a short NDP govt 1972-5. It was a "Fee Enterprise" party with enough brains to do things modern "Conservatives" would resist and keep the ones the short NDP govt did because they made sense. They staled out, just like their Alberta counterparts. In 1991 the NDP won again and the Liberal Party made significant gains in popularity and sears also at Socred expense. Unfortunately there was a major scandal when their leader dumped his wife for a fellow Liberal MLA which enraged the Puritans on the right. Seizing the opportunity the remaining Liberals, Socreds, Conservatives and the Fart in a Windstorm of BC Reform ousted the leader and took over the BC Liberals as the "Free Enterprise" coalition. They ousted the NDP in 2001. Today there are still remnants of the old Social Credit, including the current leader of the Opposition. They remain intelligent enough not to squander cash cows like ICBC and the Carbon Tax or necessary rules like the Agricultural Land Reserve just to surrender to populism. That's the job of the new Conservative Party. And contrary to the thread's headline, as the NDP has done a decent job so far, and short of a future major scandal, the Cons will split the Opposition and ensure we will win again, a third term for the first time ever.

Repeat: How does reducing the cost of delivering services increase the debt? Spare us the rightwing buzzwords and cliches and address the question. FFS it seems some of you think a UBI is an extra service, it replaces existing ones. CPP, OAS, EI, welfare, GST rebates, childcare subsidies and the like. You get a monthly payment, it is added to your income and it is clawed back from what income you earn. Income taxes are adjusted so you don't get less than what you formerly did and you don't get more for not working. The feds have one agency instead of a dozen, provinces and cities aren't on the hook for welfare anymore. Poverty is greatly reduced at the same time. Unless you make a lot, your taxes could go down! Use your brains instead instantly responding with knee-jerk reaction , cliches and jargon.

People need to adopt new strategies. Like massive replanting to prevent fast runoffs in storms. Planting fruit trees along and over canals & ditches to shade and slow evaporation, bury some, Improve on those Roman era aqueducts. Maybe the Colorado would once again reach the ocean.

So if the cost for the govt to deliver services goes down, the debt must go up?

I have no idea what your complaint is about. Other countries pay for the US feed they rebroadcast, but they're subject to each country's law too. Ratings may be different and local ads substituted but so what? All in all American broadcast TV is much tamer and lamer than most other countries and believe me those viewer content warnings pop up on the dumbest shows even if there is no adult, violence or sexual content at all. But I do get a kick out of seeing local US ads for BigJohnny's Bailiff Services pop up on Jerry Springer and those five bucks, five bucks, five bucks pizzas when here it's like $15, $15, $15. As I do the semi-fraudulent ads where a Canadian Station is OTA to the US border where they state "X miles per gallon". Gallons aren't even legal tender in Canada, and when they were they were 20% bigger than in the USA.... On our dish we get all the US stations east & west feeds. Hardly ever watch any besides PBS. Everything worth watching on the other stations is on a Canadian network too, with Cdn ads switched in.

What gets me about Rustad is that he represented a huge chunk of BCs forestry areas through the Bug kill and knows the bugs happened because it no longer got as cold for as long as it did historically. The 3+ weeks of -35 just got less and less since the 1990s and has been only a couple days in the last few years. He knows that. And denies climate change.

Maybe the paper was made from Lebanese cypress and supply chain issues made it too costly? Like I said, there's a cost to paper bags so bring your own like everywhere else. Or charge 50c for one at the store and turn a profit on them. Local grocers charge 35c per paper bag here already.