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I would agree it's not a dictatorship. It's technically one vastly underqualified Prime Minister signing a pact with a vastly underperforming leader of a fourth place party. This from True North : Last fall, the Conservative Opposition and then-leader Erin O’Toole claimed there was a brewing Liberal-NDP government agreement that would secure Trudeau’s hold on power for a full term despite his minority government status. The Conservatives were ridiculed and mocked by the media. Toronto Star columnist Althia Raj called the Liberal-NDP alliance “imaginary” and a ploy by O’Toole to cover up his own problems. Commentator Randy Boswell wrote in Global News that O’Toole was “scaremongering about the unholy alliance” of a radical Liberal-NDP deal. CBC’s Aaron Wherry stated that a Liberal-NDP deal was just “rumours” and that “no negotiations” were happening to reach a confidence and supply agreement. Lo and behold – earlier this week, the Conservatives were vindicated after it was reported that an official pact had been reached between Justin Trudeau and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh to prop up the Liberals for the next three years.

But you have to admit that any black conservative, man or woman, will get treated like an outcast by most other blacks because they feel that only the Democratic party stands up for them(false).

I had a "lame" 2003 Corolla that gave me 532,000km before it went to the Kidney Car Foundation and the engine was still running great. I suspect there aren't too many EV's around that have lasted that long with the same batteries. I'm talking about pure EV's and not hybrids which I believe most are pretty durable. I recall reading about Tesla reliability in a Consumer Reports issue and they're not rated that great although the owners apparently love them, perhaps mostly for the virtue signaling value. Who knows? I'll probably have no choice but to get an EV eventually. I don't know whether I'll retire this year or not but I would feel pretty safe if I only have to go short distances a few times a week.

$350 for a face cord?? I think it's around 110-120$ here. I do plan to get a new wood stove this year, an EPA certified model which should be better than my old one. I do plan to burn more wood as propane will certainly keep going up. Governments told people back in the 70s to heat with electric baseboards and of course the cost kept going up. I had an older house with baseboard heating and in 1997 I was on equal billing to the amount of 300$ per month. It's likely wishful thinking but I hope our leaders will do something sensible to address the coming electricity needs.(Go nuclear!)

Maybe this thread should have been titled "Ontario needs to invest in sensible energy sources". Avoid the German option - Climate Discussion Nexus A cold time in the old house tonight - Climate Discussion Nexus

reports.ieso.ca/public/GenOutputCapability/PUB_GenOutputCapability.xml# These are the various energy sources for Ontario now. Is Boges admitting there will never be electric cars brand new in the low 20k range? A Corolla starts at just over 21k for a base model and I would wager a cheap Corolla will run for more years than most EV's and without major repairs. If I were in the market now I might look at the hybrid Corolla which is around 27k. A Corolla is no luxury car but it's head and shoulders better than a pisspot car like a Nissan Leaf. Speaking of the Nissan Leaf: According to Driving, one man named Clayton Brander is struggling to replace the battery in his 2013 Nissan Leaf. He got the Leaf as a used option in 2017, finding it very well priced. At the time, the dealership said if you need to replace the battery in the next few years, it should be about $5,000. But flash forward to 2020, and the man is having tons of trouble finding a battery that can be installed. The dealership is now quoting Clayton $15,000 for a new battery, which is an outrageous price to keep a vehicle from 2013 ticking.

I suppose another heat source that will be on the environmentalist hit list will be wood. 10 million: Total number of electric vehicles on the road worldwide in 2020. 230 million: Total number of electric vehicles the International Energy Agency says must be on the road by 2030 to stay on track for meeting climate change goal.

I cut a grand total of 3 face cords last fall, it's the first wood I've cut from it in many years. I heat primarily with propane and wood is only a backup.

Since subsidies play a huge part in the production/buying of electric cars, maybe landowners with lot's of trees can get in on this scam.? How Many Trees Does It Take To Offset A Ton Of CO2? – Uniaobahia How much CO2 does a tree remove? Pollution Reduction A mature tree absorbs carbon dioxide at a rate of 48 pounds per year. In one year, an acre of forest can absorb twice the CO2 produced by the average car's annual mileage. I've got 20+ acres of bush so where's my subsidy? ?

Depending on who you believe , she may have a record of giving lenient sentences for child porn cases. I just searched it on Bing and no surprise, there are a lot of the "fact check" sites that say it's not the case. Hawley says sentences in 10 child porn cases raise red flags on Supreme Court pick | TheHill She does tick off all the boxes that Biden wanted for his nominee however, she's black and female.

Won't most of the rare earth minerals be coming from China? Back when McGuinty and Wynne were running Ontario, they chose to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels which did not work out well for the people of Ontario. You haven't forgotten the drastic rise in the price of hydro bills have you? I am strongly in favour of resource extraction in Canada but we can't forget the huge hurdles(very lengthy environmental reviews) standing in the way. My car(Mazda 3) was in the low20k range. As far as I know there are no electric cars in that price range that can go 750km as my car can on one tank. Granted I worry a lot about the price of fuel now. Yes the oil industry does get subsidies but the return on those subsidies has always been much greater. All of Canada has benefitted from our oil and gas industry, some provinces unfairly so. I don't like the subsidies for electric cars primarily because many of the models sold are very pricey and the people buying them surely don't need to be subsidized. Finally, a study for the Montreal Economic Institute pegged the cost of emission reductions from electric vehicles at an estimated $523 per tonne of averted GHGs — an absurd number, when carbon offsets in North America were selling for about $18 per tonne. Ontario should kill and bury electric car subsidies | Fraser Institute For the sake of comparison, if it should really cost at least $50 to charge an electric car with 400km of range that works out to a cost of $94 to get the same range as I currently get with my compact car. I admit that may change soon if things don't cool down in Russia/Ukraine and China doesn't invade Taiwan .

And I would urge you to keep an open mind for the first time in your life. All of these things are very unusual but you don't recognize anything. The down ballot support didn't continue for Biden, very strange. In 2005, a report by former President Jimmy Carter stated, “Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” In the 2020 election, we have seen a large volume of votes from deceased people and people who moved out of state, record number of ballots adjudicated and altered in the adjudication process, minimal or no signature verification, and postmark backdating. In Michigan, Republicans led Democrats 41% to 39% in returned mail-in ballots, yet Biden led Trump 69.3% to 29.6% in mail-in votes.

Statistical anomalies in the 2020 Presidential Election | Kiwiblog EXPLOSIVE New Surveillance Footage of Ballot Drop Boxes (rumble.com) The second link shows ballot mules dropping off ballots then taking selfies to prove they were dropped off. Why? And why did this activity occur in the very critical swing states? Nobody has ever how the 2016 election was supposedly stolen by tens of thousands of dollars in Facebook ads paid for by the Russians while a mere four years later the 2020 election was 100% beyond reproach. Despite all of these anomalies I agree that Biden is president until 2024. After one year of Biden as leader of the free world what do we have? Record levels of inflation for Americans, the Taliban are in total control of Afghanistan and better armed than they have ever been, and war has broken out with Russia and Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is acting more aggressively now than he ever has before.

You say there is ZERO evidence of cheating or unusual anomalies and that isn't the case. There are a number of anomalies but you just are adamant that there is not a single one. You also totally dismiss any and all examples mentioned from any source that you don't like. Joe Biden’s lead in the 2020 presidential election tally has come as a result of highly unusual voting patterns. Biden lost 18 of 19 bellwether counties, which predicted the winner of the presidential race every time since 1980. Biden got nearly 12 million more votes than President Obama did in 2008, yet he had fewer votes than Obama in 70.7% of counties (2,228 out of 3,152). Republican House candidates won 27 out of the 27 races that were considered “toss-ups” by the New York Times, and it is extremely rare for an incumbent president to win seats in the house and lose re-election. No presidential incumbent in the past 100 years has increased his vote and lost re-election. No incumbent that has won over 75% of the primary vote (Trump received 94%) has ever lost re-election. Also, sudden increases in votes in the middle of the night in key swing states were found to favor Biden at extraordinarily improbable rates. Some states have more votes than people who voted. This series of highly unusual events raises the possibility — in our view, the probability — that it was not all just a series of coincidences but can instead be explained by fraud that must at least be thoroughly investigated.

Terence Corcoran: The myth of the $10 EV recharge (msn.com) Today’s $10 EV charge claim is obviously a fiction that buries the real cost through government spending and subsidies. What’s the real cost? My starting guesstimate is around $50 per charge. What would that do to popular conception about the competitiveness of electric vehicles, especially if consumers also had to give up other subsidies? The fake EV cost numbers don’t stop there. There is constant pressure to increase the EV buyer “incentives,” which now range between $5,000 and $13,000 per vehicle depending on the province, to $15,000 nationally. Ottawa is expected to announce an incentive policy in the next budget. Behind the retail façade is an even greater cost-fixing process under constant expansion. Every day brings new subsidies. In Ontario, where Premier Doug Ford has installed himself as CEO of the auto industry, Honda announced a $1.3-billion plant conversion to build hybrid EVs, with $260 million in federal and provincial subsidies. Germany’s BASF and General Motors each announced new electric battery component plants to be built in Bécancour, Que., with a combined value of close to $1 billion. Subsidy deals were not disclosed.

Hey what's your explanation of #2, Biden vastly outperforming Obama in the number of ballots? That's not bullshit, it's a fact. Joe Biden doesn't have an ounce of charisma, he has difficulty speaking coherently all the time, his memory is faulty at best, he has little to show for 50 years in politics except for the accumulation of wealth. How do you explain this shell of a candidate garnering so many millions of ballots more than the silver tongued Obama?

But that wasn't man made climate change then was it? Or was it just natural climate change?

Once again, I completely agree with you on the use of nuclear energy. But do you really think Canada will ever build more nuclear reactors with Trudeau as PM? I thought sea levels were rising now, hence people like Al Gore and Obama buy mansions ...next to the sea! Oil and gas won't last forever but where would we be today without them? Would we be living like all the other 3rd world countries?

It depends on what you mean by being weak on NATO. I understand he may have had questions about the purpose of NATO since the collapse of the Soviet Union but while he was president the US more than lived up to it's funding commitments. Other countries have not, including Canada. That includes Trudeau and Harper too. My opinion counts for nothing but I would disagree with Trump if he felt NATO was obsolete.

Barbecued? Kind of an exaggeration wouldn't you say? Fossil fuel-driven economic growth over the past 30 years has pushed us to the brink of a global climate catastrophe. If the small amount of warming we have experienced were such a catastrophe, why has everything gotten so much better? Fossil fuel-driven prosperity has cut extreme poverty around the world by nearly two-thirds, allowed us to dramatically increase food production and cut hunger and malnutrition around the world, spread access to electricity to billions of people on every continent, cut child mortality in half, and added 7 years to average life expectancy. If you could have prevented the fossil fuel use at the cost of never having experienced all this progress, would you have done so? “The burning of fossil fuels is destabilizing the very foundations of life on the planet.” (An actual quotation from a recent Canadian newspaper opinion piece.) No, actually the burning of fossil fuels has radically improved the foundations of life on this planet. It has given us safe and inexpensive lighting, heating, cooling, refrigeration, transportation, electricity generation, construction, food production, and just about everything else we depend on for our standard of living. To the extent it has also caused a slight warming of the atmosphere due to CO2, that clearly has not turned the whole thing into a net loss. Weighing the costs and benefits together there is simply no question fossil fuel use has served to benefit humanity greatly.

Doesn't John Bolton have a reputation as a warmonger? I didn't know much about him before his appointment by Trump , and then just about everything I did hear was negative. He and Trump have an axe to grind against one another apparently. Whether or not he wanted to withdraw from NATO I can't say. But during his four years as president he had the opportunity and he didn't act. At the end of the day I think the fact that he pressed NATO allies to pick up the slack was a positive thing for the alliance.

I think it's more accurate that if you want to win, you have to tell people what they want to hear. That means different speeches for different audiences. It's a pity that most politicians have this same strategy, say whatever it takes to win and to hell with the people after that.

I think Trump's stance on NATO was reasonable in that he wanted other member nations to live up to the funding commitments. And I think it's also fair to say that the US did carry more than their fair share of the overall burden.

I think when Putin was planning this invasion one of the biggest things to consider was, how is the sitting president going to react? Virtually everyone will agree that Biden is very different from Trump. World leaders both past and present have always sized up and assessed other leaders. It seems pretty naive to suggest Putin didn't consider how Biden, or Trump(if he were still president) was going to react. There are strong leaders and weak leaders. This invasion was not planned overnight and Putin chose his timing very carefully.

You keep claiming that it's the Republicans that are firmly on Team Russia. I have yet to hear an answer to this question but I'll try again. Why is it that Putin chose to attack Ukraine now? Why did he choose this timing when Joe Biden is president? Does that not clearly suggest he felt much more comfortable with Biden than Trump? Again, why did Putin do it now?