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Around $04.7/kwh in Alberta at present. Locked in contract rates are about $0 8.5/kwh I suspect that paying assembly line workers $70K plus benefits plus pensions may have has a small influence too. Don't worry, it will be universal soon in ON if it is not already. The greatest scam ever run by ON HYdro was conning everrybody into thinking residential smart meters/TOU billing was ever about anything except long term protection of the corporate bottom line. Hydro simply cannot lose with this arrangement! But residential consumers certainly can, will and do. It is not a business, it is simply a relentless fleecing. Renting an apartment won't provide any relief from whacking great electricity bills, the landlords of course just pass the cost on with increased rents.

Because the basis of the withdrawal was that he had not filed a grievance, as required by the collective agreement. With And who says that his sexual affairs on his own time are a cause for dismissal? If for example it became public that somebody privately enjoyed anal adventures involving gerbils wielded by troupes of male midgets could that be grounds for dismissal? Well, no. Not in 2016. Not long ago, simply being gay and making that public was grounds for dismissal. Simply having a moral turpitude clause ain't nearly enough. You have to explain why that damages your brand enough that you choose to terminate a contract and extinguish a career. So far, Ghomeshi has acknowledged that he enjoys rough sex. There is nothing illegal about rough sex, if consenting adults participate. So, far, nobody has proven in a court that an illegal act occurred. Proving that rough sex occurred is not grounds for conviction- or dismissal. And that is the problem with 'morality' clauses in contracts, the interpretation has nothing to do with the moral repugnance that On Guard For Thee feels for Ghomeshis -so far- legal actions. Why would it be unwise to pursue a lawsuit after an acquittal? He would have to prove that his career was damaged by the actions of the Crown, his employer, and the complainants. At least two out of those three have very considerable assets. That is an excellent start for any plaintiff, much better than usual.

I am enjoying Billions so far.

He will sue everybody: the women, the Crown, the CBC. Having withdrawn from a previous suit has no bearing on another one.

With a couple of different place names substituted, that sounds nearly exactly like an interview Neville Chamberlain once gave.

THat is not cause for dismissal unless his contract has reference. I could show employers a picture of a woman I hurt, my mother. Childbirth hurts. And wasn't it our once Dear Leader Pierre Trudeau who established long ago that the state has no place in our bedrooms? Neither does the CBC or any employee. He loses only unless and only of his contract is a) legal in its morality clause and expressly forbids his actual conduct. If I showed, for example, my employer the photo of some sexual activity that many would find repugnant but is not illegal could I be fired? Sure, but it would cost them. The only difference between Ghomeshi and anybody is the nature of his contract. And CBC better hope that the morality clause therein is both constitutional and airtight, or they will pay. Do you think that the sharktank lawyers he has working for him now are going to be satisfied with a million or two from Ghomeshi in fees for his criminal case, when 30% to 50% of a fat civil suit from a company with endlessly deep pockets can be litigated or negotiated?

Given up? Says you. He withdrew his previous suit, which is entirely a different thing than 'giving up'. Northig prevents him from suing again, particularly if his grievance has not gone as he wished. I would characterize pleading guilty to the charges as 'giving up'.

Get the pipleines underway. Now. At no cost to taxpayers. Support the economy that exists in reality, not the one he hopes to create by speaking of diverse and resourceful people. Then there would be no need for Trudeau to offer the pathetic crumb of tossing us a few dollars of the taxes we already gave him, back to us. We don't need Daddy to give us part of our allowance back. Please sir, may I have more???

No, he wouldn't and won't do any of that in either case. He has already rejected Energy East. Did you miss that? Oh, and thank you for the belly laugh regarding thread drift.... how many posts have you made already about the Greater Montreal Deuce Dump??

The Super Bowl is basically unwatchable TV. The ratio of football to commercials makes it so. And is there any way at all to get the talking heads to STF up, just for a few seconds per hour, hour after hour?

Yes, our allies are very deeply interested in how well we relate and talk, our style, not what we actually do. That is how military alliances have always worked.

If there is no basis for dismissal, and there is not if he is acquitted, why would he not be entitled to compensation for being unjustly terminated?

No, that is simply not true. They cannot abandon their contract when they feel like it. Neither can he. They can bail if he has violated a specific term of their contract, but we do not know that he has done that, or that he is guilty of anything. And yes, the outcome of the criminal case may mean a great deal financially to CBC. From where do you pluck these notions that an employer can simply walk away from their signed deals?

Try as you might ,and work as hard as you will- set that strawman of Western alienation up over and over and knock it down over and over.... still doesn't make it true. So sorry to not be your willing punching bag. Try again. Harder.

No, because by that time his grievance process will have exhausted itself. Being a union member does not disallow a suit, it does affect when and how. And you are wrong about 'unwanted focus'. since the CBC like all media organizations works extremely hard to get people to focus on them. What will determine his success or failure is a suit is the conditions of his actual contract with the CBC. It will have language or should have language that makes reference to both his special conditions of employment if any other big paycheque, and wheterh the contract takes precedent over the collective agreement. You don't know that either his contract of the collective agreement has any kind of moral conduct clause or how it applies or where. Isn't it a heartfelt Liberal and Canadian belief that your private life has no bearing on public life, that the government has to butt out of our bedrooms? If they cannot convict Ghomeshi in a court of criminal behaviour, it does not automatically follow that the same would happen in a civil suit. And it is wrong to assume he abandoned the suit because he thought he was going to lose.

His older stuff is among the best of the best. That song, Into The Mystic, has been requested by my wife as a funeral song for her. I doubt I'll be around to pick her music, she'll have to nominate somebody else.. The song is from the album Moondance, which is one of those very rare albums that has no weak tracks at all, every song is at the least very good. I checked Van the Man off my concert bucket list a few years ago. True to form and reputation, he played a short, contractually agreed set, said almost nothing else, and did not do an encore. Still, worth the money at the time. A friend who has seen him several times said she saw him once in the UK a decade or more ago. He got lost in one of his long verbal dododododo things, extending the song much longer than the album version. She saw him sneak a peek at his watch and he must have realized he was a few minutes beyond the contract length of 75 minutes or whatever, and left the stage right in the middle of the song, just walked off. The band soldiered on to finish the song with a bit of grace. Classic Van Morrison, a guy who walks his own walk.

I wonder how Denis Coderre would feel if another municipality dumped a few billion liters of fresh nasty upstream from Montreal?

Culture change? Every team in the league does new jerseys or new logos or both fairly often, the motive is to make money. It has no influence on mediocrity. Actually, I think the Leafs, Oilers and a couple other Canadian teams would be delighted to improve their game to 'medioccre'.

Sorry, but Fury Road is not remotely in the same league as Lawrence of Arabia in any way.

I am entirely willing to let a court of law decide his guilt or innocence based on the evidence presented. So far, his defence has been that the acts were consensual, and the very recent disclosures from the first two complainants have not helped the prosecution at all. It may have damaged it severely. Apparently the prosecutuion has now been obliged to produce some last minute disclosure from the third complainant as well, which does not bode well for them overall. The civil suit was canned because it was premature, it was not withdrawn on its merits or failures. Ghomeshi is or was a union member and as such is first expected/required to follow the process set out in the collective bargaining agreement. That means a grievance procedure is in place, and last I heard his union had filed a grievance for wrongful dismissal on his behalf. That does not preclude him from filing suit, and I expect he will do so if he is not convicted. Actually he may still file suit and win if convicted..

I have seen all eight, and to be fair would not vote for any of them. My vote would likely be for Sicario or perhaps The Diary of A Teenage Girl. Bridge of Spies is not Oscar worthy as Best Picture, though it was not bad. It did have one oustanding performancve though: Mark Rylance whoi is nominated for Supporting Actor. Just a great, subtle, quiet performance by a very fine actor.

Gateway is clearly deceased, Trudeau disconnected the last shreds of life support as one of his very first acts as PM. Or have you forgotten that? Energy East is more incremental, harder to make go away. And I have provided examples of how and why he is doing that, right now. Any questions? More worrisome is how we will survive Trudeau for the next 15 or 20 years following the certainty of the results of his 'electoral reform. Most Dear Leaders For Life have to kill some people or at least strongarm them into changing the constitution, He has found an easy way with just a haircut and sunny ways, the actual paperwork is minimal. .

Both of them are dead, clearly. But killing Energy East will piss off far more people than did killing Gateway, so the strategy is Chretienesque: do nothing overt and let the corpse rot slowly. Eventually the oil companies and pipeline companies will just give up, pack their bankrolls and leave. It gives Trudeau an excuse to be surprised and pretend he had nothing to do with their decision. It's the Long Con that is politically safest.

He has done two things already to delay and ultimately kill the pipleine, and of course the end game is to eliminate oil from the economy in the enar future. He'll stick with gas for a while because he has friends in BC to appease, although it appears Canada has now missed that opportunity to due to lack of political will/action. The first was to sandbag the companies by introducing new and utterly vague requirements, which pushes back the decision deadline. The second was just done by his folks at the NEB, who told Trans Canada to effectively rewrite their proposal, a massive undertaking. This comes after they have had the document in hand for over a year already. It is clear that Trudeau is taking the cowards way out, inflicting the death of a thousand small cuts instead of simply stating what is becoming obvious: no export pipelines. And without that capacity, the business is DOA. The repercussions will be felt far, far beyond a few unemployed people in AB and SK.

The Crown has a specific duty assigned to it in the adminstartion of justice. One of those things is to bring charges against those they think are guilty of crimes, so yes they do care about guilt and innocence. The burden of proof is no less or greater in sexual assault cases than in any others. The Crown has to present evidence that proves guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. With the first witness, it sounds lie the police failed to interview the accuser in any depth, and the Crown went to trial ill prepared on that weak interview.. So yes, we the people have been poorly represented.