Microsoft; Really?

 If you are in the market for a new computer #Microsoft O/S might look attractive but, it's not.

MS has taken the view they are the morality champions of the world.  All under the name of security or safety, they block different apps in the name as a favour to you,

The point in fact, "torrent" or variations of "torrent" are blocked by the operating system. The thing is they can and will block anything they don't approve of.

I'm already vested in #MS or, I would switch to just about anything else!.

Sadly it demonstrates how MS can change any aspect of their OS without notice or consultation.  It is a dictatorship, not a choice.

New figures out on COVID shows Kenny is still hard on the "Beast Immunization" strategy for this province.

 Alberta's figures are sky-high, way beyond the numbers of other provinces.  Even Ontario who is in Shit-shape is lower than Alberta's numbers!

Kenny's hiring of antimask protesters would account for some of the burst in infected numbers, however, not all.   The no isolation for oil workers in the tar sands, now classified as essential workers, don't have to isolate when returning from the infected US.

Considering that Kenny's first public announcement was "I'm not going to lie anymore" and it turned out to be the first lie.  At least Doug Ford in Ontario is trying.  We cannot say that about Kenny and the UCP who we can't trust even for the simplest stats.

We should have had a lockdown in travel months ago!

World's best kept secret!

 China has embarked on building the world's first fusion reactor!   This will be the holy grail of the nuclear industry.  Fusion is the same process the sun works on.    A fusion reactor should only leave water as a by-product!  And, yes, it will be a game-changer.

Yes, Canada and the rest of the world have adopted a cautionary tone in their position on China.

Just a thought,  perhaps China will share the elusive technology?

Further proof you cannot trust the Globe and Mail (Bell Media)

 The Globe and Mail are promoting Jagmeet Singh who is playing both ends against the middle.  He backed the Conservatives on the Huawei buying into the Conservative Bell Media BS.   This man would not do his own research, went for the easy bag and it will come back to bite him in the ass.

He even failed to note Huawei has been building and running the G5 network in BC for over 10 years with no complaints.

 Look south of the border with their Foreign Hackers.   All of these departments would be on Bell Media G5 Networks!  Speaks so highly of the Company yet, not a whisper of this from #CNN.

Still betting on Herd Immunization!

 

Kenny is trying for Herd Immunization while banking pandemic money from Ottawa.

Kenny and the UCP are trying for Herd Immunization, let the bodies fall where they will. Following the Republican failed plan in the US. In all his "plans" he leaves one end open to allow the virus to continue.

He is allowing workers at the tar sands to commute between the US and Alberta without the necessary isolation. The airport tests on arrival are a blink in time while the COVID 19 is said to take up to 5 days to present its self and, remains contagious during this period.

As for the protesters. There are no adjacent protests going on Alberta is the only place! It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out who is in charge of the protests, Kenny!

The CBC was discussing how Kenny did not pay out billions of dollars to front end workers, rather just sat on the money paying his extravagant staff and protesters instead.

BC and Saskatchewan should close their borders, seriously restrict trave with Alberta and the US due to the unsafe conditions in Alberta at this time!

Kenny pays anti-mask protesters.

 This post needs a little background.

On Kenny:

He's not that stupid. He's ultra-ambitious politically and will do whatever it takes to push his agenda. He always has. I watched while he lied repeatedly and sucked up to whichever ethnic group of the week was on his schedule. He is outstanding in his willingness to be duplicitous. He runs his mouth and his agenda. He will do anything to win.

I put up a post saying I had written Ottawa asking that no more money be sent to Alberta as Kenny was using it as a slush fund and was forcing the COVID onto the population of this province, would not put mask regulation nor enforcement for masks on the books. Because this no more cash should come to Alberta, it always works against us

When Kenny read this he busted out his new lies and dammed the protesters who, magically disappeared.

A different crew has shown up in Calgary, just as vocal and unruly. Who got this crew fired up  Kenny or the Mormon Church?  All this carried bigger than life on CTV (who else} Bell Media who have left journalism far behind them and are presently complaining about Social Media and not being able to compete with them.

We do not see any protest in the surrounding provinces nor any place else in Canada!.

Well, Folks, it is now apparent Kenny hired the protesters, risking their very lives to make an Anti-Mask protest. He used the promise of an immediate vaccine where there is none available for perhaps another 4 months. This prompts me to tell the luckless protesters to contact a lawyer if you test positive. I see a case here for lawers to start a class action law suite on behalf of these exposed, paid, protesters.

The last time he pulled a trick like this was the hiring of people to man a rail crossing in the middle of the night. He picked a crossing on which there was no traffic for weeks before the performance.

I won't get off his case until there are provincial laws governing the mandatory wearing of masks and a set of fines for not doing so. Public health and safety demand this! And, you should contact your MLA too. And the CRTC if you have the will.

Conservative pressure on Vaccine timing.

 The Conservative Governments across the country are pushing the Federal Government for answers that just are not available. It’s called harassments!

First off the Vaccinations are using our RNA, something that has never been done before. Because this is a new technology, new plants had to be built to manufacture. The old established plant’s, designed to mass-produce dead viruses can’t be used.

How far along are these new facilities?

The RNA is in every cell in our body. It is primitive and, its job is to repair our DNA. It’s also referred to as the messenger bit.

Now we have a brand new technology the US under incredible pressure wants to run it out early. The whole science community is watching this to see if something backfires or not. Or does our RNA treat our bodies more differently than the short tests indicate?

I for one am very happy the initial inoculations are starting down south and further I hope we don’t hurry before mutations on this new technology work its way through the first populations. 

On the other hand, some companies are going with our present technology, that of killing the virus and injecting us with the dead virus so our immune systems can build up a response.  When the time comes, you will have to know what type you received so you can get the proper follow-up dose.

Meanwhile, just ignore the Conservatives empty complaints.

Kenny ingratiates himself - this time with COVID Emergency Notice.

 On November 25th the Federal Government put out an Emergency notice regarding the actions we need to follow to curb COVID.  This was not broadcast in Alberta!

On November 26th, Kenny put out an Emergency Notice along the same lines but, no mention of Ottawa, all only to the greater glory of Kenny!

The UCP and Kenny are a danger to this province!  A Government that will block emergency notices from our Central Government is certainly ahead of the separation movement in Alberta!

$1,000 Health Protection Act ticket issued after Halifax house party Friday night

 A house party on Edward Street with about 60 people in attendance was broken up by Halifax police on Friday night, and a $1,000 ticket was issued under the Health Protection Act.

Halifax Regional Police confirmed the party was on Edward Street.

On Twitter, Halifax councillor Waye Mason said the person who reported the party "did the right thing" but more must be done to discourage large gatherings.

"I've spoke to both provincial folks and health folks asking that steps be taken to increase fines - should be every participant gets ticketed, in Howe Hall, at a house party, at a dinner party in the South End. 1 ticket is insufficient," Mason said in a tweet on Saturday.

The party happened the same day Premier Stephen McNeil announced that residents in the Halifax Regional Municipality will be limited to only five people gathering in a close social group without physical distancing, starting on Monday. Before, 10 people could gather without physical distancing.

This is one of several new COVID-19 protection measures announced in Nova Scotia on Friday, as the premier and chief medical officer of health expressed concern about 18- to 35-year-olds in the province.

"They are going out when they are feeling sick. They are going out in large groups and frankly different groups and are not distancing," Stephen McNeil said on Friday afternoon.

"They are living as if COVID doesn't exist.

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G5, Huawei and Bell Media

 G5 network is so named because it works on the 1MM wavelength.  Has an ability to go through most things but can only cover distances by repeaters.   It hooks up your cell phone to your desktop, your thermostat and your camera. Plus your vehicle.  It doesn't matter which system you choose as far as technology is concerned.  

Bell Media is in charge of post media and our IP providers.  Brought into
Canada by Stephen Harper on his promise to "change Canada so we would never recognize it" 

This vertical arrangement of Media ensures the Conservatives get favourable coverage and the Liberals get a bent version of whatever is going on.  However, I can tell you this, If you have a secret, keep it in a notebook, not on your phone or computer. Too late, I settled on Burning DVDs.

High-band 5G, or millimetre-wave, is the really new stuff. So far, this is mostly airwaves in the         20-100 GHz range. These airwaves haven't been used for consumer applications before. They're very short range; our tests have shown about 800-foot distances from towers. But there are vast amounts of unused spectrum up there, which means very fast speeds using up to 800MHz at a time. 

O'Tool, is a Conservative, put into office by the far-Right, (Harper's crew and the US Republicans)  He is presently telling the Government to get rid of  G5, Huawei in his move to protect US industry which, is his first choice in any case, why Canada always looses when dealing with the Conservatives. 

Bottom line is Bell Media engineered Conservative sweeps provincially.  Huawei, however, has been working in BC for 10 years and, no record of any problems anywhere and they enjoy the same service we do!

This will demonstrate why we have BC as the only province without a Conservative Government.

  

Is Kenny trying to infect us all?

 Kenny is doing nothing about stemming the continuing outbreak of COVID19.  What we need is a full 3-week lockdown.  What we get is a virus to take a time off at 10 PM!  And the flu season hasn't kicked in yet!.

Sending the Peace River to the USA!

 

Weatherford Project detailed.

First Published SUNDAY, APRIL 01, 2012  

Weatherford Project the start of a gigantic transfer of water to the US. The whole program is adequately explained here: NAWAPA  (Credit to Richard Weatherhill)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERq86OlS-_k  This video is a US concept shown in its best light bought into whole heartedly by the Harper and Prentice Conservatives. (This is the US view of what they want)

The *Conservative Government has a fully mechanically engineered project sitting on their shelf from the 1980s.  It is as valid today as when it was paid for. Harper has removed the Navigable water protection from the River making it all possible.  It's in play now!  Trudeau killed the move.

This is the Weatherford project, the design being to move up to 2/3rds of the flow of the Peace River into the USA! 

#The project has 8 large electrical lift stations in it, each one using the power of a large city.  This is immense and under a Conservative Government taxpayers will pay for the infrastructure and private companies will take home the profits.

Under a "good" Liberal Government the price of construction would be carried by those who need the water, not those who supply it.  Think here of our present electricity debacle!

Government's direction will be handled by private industry and paid for by the Alberta Taxpayers.

For those of you in southern Alberta; the St. Mary's system and involved in the Western Irrigation District; Did you sign up for this?  Many of you were kicked off the board while others with cash were able to buy rock pile so they could claim adjoining property thereby being put on the board.

Mike Cardinal reworked the Western Irrigation board while he was selling off Crown Grazing Lands on the East Slope of the Rockies to the Agra Food Industry.  Rules of water ownership run First in Line, First in Time and these properties are where all of our groundwater used for drinking originates!  

When a River drops to 1/3 of its flow it goes stagnant, the river dies.  Kenny is okay with this as is a long list of Conservatives before him.

The US has announced it will build a rail from our North Coast to the US to move oil.  Why would they do this when they are oil self-sufficient.   I think rail is to move The Peace River by rail into the US!

Conservatives plans to change our Constitution.

 It was front and Centre at the time of the last #provincial elections! Carried mostly on the Conservative Facebook page, the ideas of what to change in our constitution. Upfront was privatizing the CPP and changing the numbers to adjust the Constitution. As it stands now, it takes six provinces with 50% of the population plus the Federal Chair to make changes. They are more than halfway there! They need only the Federal Chair.

Most of the changes as I recall you won’t like. There was talk of making Canada self-sufficient, Let Quebec export Electricity west and Quebec would take Alberta oil. The thing is, Alberta’s power is owned by cities and they would have to give up that income. Quebec? It had just lost it’s market in the US and still had a surplus, still charging way too much.

At this point in time, we should collectively change Conservative Governments in office provincially.

Off subject, but the same time frame Australia elected a Conservative Government in a major upset, no one could see it coming. Australia had just installed Bell into their country.

Consider, most were not put there honestly, Quebec, and Alberta are only two such provinces. They were put into office with the help of Bell Media and their 200 post newspapers. How it worked:

Scheer would make some wild statement in the house where he could not be attached legally. In most cases, he never received any acknowledgement. The Globe and Mail would pick up on whatever was said and publish it as fact when it was not. Then the other Post Media newspapers would spread it around the country and it would finally end up on our six PM news broadcast.

Only one example of such predatory action. Scheer accused Trudeau of misappropriation for charging 7000 dollars to the Government for his kid's playground. At the same time accused him of taking foreign gifts and not declaring them. The Globe made headlines of this and it was spun out as outlined above.

What actually happened was Trudeau paid 7000 from his own pocket for a playground set for his kids. The Government would not let him install the same and did so themselves at a cost to the taxpayer of 300.00 and change.

The Gift received was the Aga Kahn, a personal friend of the Trudeau family had given Trudeau a pair of sunglasses, value $300.

This managed a weeks time on the Globe and several days on your local news.

It was a steady diet like this that got the Conservatives across Canada elected. And, they are still doing it where possible.

Alberta's push on separation is a Kenny Sideshow.

 Did we have a rush of separation publicity before the Conservatives took office?  NO!

Where do the calls for separation emanate from?  Southern Alberta, those people who go shopping cross border on a daily basis.   Do calls for separation come from Southern Ontario?   NO!

This means the problem lays with the Mormon congregation in Southern Alberta!  And, as founders of the Conservative movement in Canada, they continue to push their agenda.

The last elections when the Conservatives were assured a windfall election with the help of Bell Media and Post media intervention the Con Facebook place had a long list of wish lists regarding changing our Constitution.  One item was to make it easier to succeed from Canada!  Others dealt with power regulations which would have us buying our electricity from Quebec at advanced prices.  There were forages into the US system of Health care and the ability to dissolve the CPP!

To change the Constitution it takes 6 provinces having 50% of the population and the Conservatives are better than halfway there!   All they need now is the Federal Chair!

I say to  you if  you want to keep Canada as a state serving the people rather then a Republican State like you see malfunctioning south of the border then, get over your "I voted because I didn't like" and change your mindset to "I vote because our country is at risk"  Do whatever you can to unseat the provincial Governments who were put into office by Bell Media and their 200 newspapers (Post Media)

In the meantime protect yourself and Tune out the Globe and Mail and the Montreal Gazette!

Kenny claims Feds are stepping into Provincial Jurisdiction= BS!

 Kenny's latest rant about the Federal Government stepping into Provincial Jurisdiction is plainly BS but it has a reason.

Conservatives don't run a set of books.  They run out of one account "General Revenues"  All the money taken in by the province from any source goes into General Revenues.  Using this account is how the Conservatives managed to strip 760 billion dollars from the Heritage  Trust Fund.  

All profits above 5% were taken from the Heritage fund and dropped into General revenues where they were used to reduce taxes for the oil companies.  This in turn ended up in companies on the Gulf Coast. 

The Feds are pouring billions of dollars into Alberta to fight COVID 19.  They demanded accountability for where the money was being spent.

Back in our history, Ralph Klein actually refused Health Care transfers from Ottawa rather than explain where they were going to spend it in their privatization rush.

Climate Change and the imminent future!

 John Clark We are 66 years beyond the perfect circle around the sun. We have 34000 years to go until we reach the point furthest away. In these 66 years we should have been cooling off but, we are heating up.

Then, we have another 34000 years to move back to the perfect circle. The way we are going, animal life, will not exist for the journey. The oceans are presently absorbing much of our excess carbon dioxide turning the oceans into carbolic acid. As the oceans turn acidic, the fish quit spawning males and the species die. There goes a major food source and probably trade wars as fishermen can't understand the loss of catch other than overfishing.

In this citreous journey, the earth will see a dozen ice ages or more. These things are just too large for a conservative mind to get around and it allows their constant state of denial to rule. Because of this, I see earth turning into another Venus somewhere in our trip forward and all life as we know it will end.

Considering the majority of our provincial premiers were not elected to office but achieved office though the manipulations of Bell Media and their 200 newspapers there will come a point of total abandon or absolute uprising.

And, from millions of years ago an update:

Nuclear Power SMR and others, larger.

 Lots of misconception about Nuclear Power and Climate change.  

• Robin Chat

Author #Power generation in ON is a fiasco shared by both parties. Each has done their share of damage over three governments. 

Nuclear generation with construction faults in cooling. This happened all over the US too. Global warming fouled up their cooling abilities therefor their outputs. You see the same scenarios in Europe where rivers are too warm to provide the design cooling.
 

John Clark When faced with overheating because of a lack of cooling mechanisms (water lake river etc) the power operator will cut back the output. This brings on brown-outs,black-outs etc. This, in turn, means less profitability for the Generator and possibly subsidies from the government depending on which markets they are hooked up to the purpose being to cover the shortfall in their own generation. Once up and operating the power generation is a resource more than an industry.

 

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A Flash from the Past!

 

Contrary to common Knowledge, PET joined with Peter Lougheed of Alberta to create The National Energy Program. The purpose of which was to increase Canadian Ownership in the Tar Sands which it did from 15% to 25% .

US oil owned our newspapers. the people with the bucks made the news! There was no internet nor was there a Facebook nor a Twitter. e-mailing copies of PDF was the extent of mass communication.

In this ancient climate, PET was leaving Alberta after meetings with Peter Lougheed. He was pursued down the train platform by a hoard of reporters asking impossible questions. One made a crude remark and PET wheeled around and flipped him the bird. This action was caught on camera and run in the local media as flipping the West the bird.

Then a world recession hit. Albertans have been encouraged to invest heavily in the Tar Sands. They mortgaged homes, businesses machinery, you name it to get capital to invest. And, they lost it all in the world recession. The Conservatives blamed the reduced price on oil and the financial climate as being the fault of the NEP! This resulted in the NEP to be shut down and hundreds of Suicides’ took place across the province and to some extent Canada. This latter took place under Ralph Klein who moved away from Lougheed’s moderate policies to the Republican hard line which has permeated our politics since.

 

From <https://cyberclark.me/2020/09/07/a-flash-from-our-past/

Globe and Mail writing fantasy to support the sagging Bell Media in Canada.

 #Globe and Mail, all the Post-Media they are undependable news, are undependable news.  in this case they are fronting for Bell Media, their principal owner.  You can't depend on this post-medIa for any fact!

Comments were open on the Globe when I wrote this.  In their comment section, I wrote

"Diefenbaker shut down the Avro Arrow site, destroyed all the flying prototypes and gave the technology to the US, free,   The reason we cannot have nice things in Canada is because of the Conservatives, China has nothing to do with it"

Since that post went up, the Globe has closed all the comment section, it is no more.  Complete Conservative bias!

Erin O'Toole - The two sided leader.

 

 

Another snake in the grass Conservative! On the evening of his "win" and a few days after it was reported he had won over the "hard right-wing" of the Conservatives. According to the Jargon of the day, it was this extreme right-wing that elected him!

#The Conservatives viewed Kim Campbell as being a "Red" Tory. Now, we have a hard right-wing presenting himself as a "Red" tory as the leader of the group. He probably won't be the wing job that his predecessor was, but he is on Trump wavelength though and through.

How many times have Governments Prorogned Parlement ?

 

Defund the WT0 - Con Leadership speeches.

 I tuned into the Conservative Leadership tonight and, it scares the hell out of me.  

Up, front and Center, a page out of Trump's play south.  Defund the WTO!. (World Trade Organization)

This will lead us back to one country to deal with, the US, and in between run interference with other nations for the US.

There is no up-side to this!.

Conservatives flirtation with Nuclear Power.

 On the new Conservative exploration into Nuclear power; the SMR 'smaller' units... China is the world's largest exporter of SMR units, the USA is second. The USA started them out with a 500MW unit (The kind's you see being dropped into place from the bed of a truck.)

China came out at the same time with 1000 MW units at about the same price as the US's 500 unit. The swept the market by offering very favourable finance terms for their units. Westinghouse who builds the US units offered no such incentive but rumoured to offer perks where the Chinese did not.
India, next door to China went with Westinghouse.

Size matters! Alberta has 16,300 MWH of output between all the Companies involved.

Being Conservatives they will not be building their own SMR's they will be buying US: Westinghouse.

This is the time for full disclosure on any deals they are researchings!. There is no advantage to us using SMR,s

They are usually used to shorten power transmission in territories where transmission is not straight forward. A Westinghouse purchase would put our electricity in the pockets of the US as our oil presently is.

If the Conservative Wildest Dreams come true.

 If the #Conservatives make their dream of becoming the Government, what will happen? Well, they ill turn loose Bell Media and their 200 newspapers to make sure nobody but a conservative will be voted in again. Cut staff and install their own managers into their offices. (That's what Kenny did in Alberta)

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WE Committee II the phoney committee

#The @Conservatives and @NDP after finding out they had nothing to argue about, turned the whole meeting into a propaganda display.  Repeating questions up to 5 times about numbers which had previously been proven false.

Pierre Povair even invoked the RCMP asking if the Government had taken calls from them recently.  This is a play on some kind of letter written to the RCMP by someone in the committee (probably Pierre).

Point is anyone can write a letter to the RCMP on anything they want.   It doesn't mean the letter has merit!

The Conservatives and NDP have turned this committee into a propaganda circus supplying globe media with a series of one Liners they can run with, not having to explain anything.

These same video cuts will be played back during the next election.  

Finance Committee on WE

• Debra Pain Mallon Considering the amount of money that is involved for the students I feel that The PM & the finance minister should be allowed to sit in on those discussions & asked for their professional input when needed. All parties have ties with the WE organization. Maybe the ethics regulations need to be changed for situations like this, after all, we have never gone through a pandemic & the liberals were only trying to find a way so our kids could continue their education. As far as the NDP wanting an election that is a joke & it shows you that Singh as a leader should step down. NDP is broke & they can not afford another election. The Bloc & the NDP have no chance of even becoming the opposition so why are they siding with the Cons? As far as the Cons go their #'s have gone down because they have stopped our kids from getting the education they need all because they falsely accuse JT & the liberals of being corrupt when all JT & the finance minister did wrong according to the ethics regulations was not accuse themselves because of their families having ties with WE. How much money & time is going to be wasted on this matter just so Dion will say that the ethic rules were broken but not in intent & no laws were broken & no crime has been committed. The Liberal government has done an excellent job & that alone just bugs Scheer. This is a personal grudge that Scheer has towards JT & why do the taxpayers have to pay for Scheer's jealousy? Scheer wants to go out with a bang & instead he will go down with egg on his face & cause his party to lose more votes which makes me very happy. Bye-bye Scheer-loser!!

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  John Clark It was entertaining to note the NDP trying to shout their questions after their time run out as if say loud is best in making a point. They had a lot laying on this having initialized the complaint on Mo in Saskatchewan. When the facts started to roll out they got pretty noisy but, it didn't help. I would imagine Mo is feeling a sense of relief. What really surprised me was the RBC weighing in after the Brothers had adequately explained everything. Remember we are dealing with a bunch of MPs who did not win the election, they stole it with the help of Bell Media and their post media cohorts.

Is the 2.1 billion dollars missing from AIMCO sitting in General Revenues?

AIMCO is not arm's length from the government.  Under the last Conservative Government, Jim Prentice, they stole 7 million dollars from the Government pension funds, then, denied doing so for 6 weeks.  At that point the union threatened to take AIMCO to court and the Government capitulated and put the money back into the pensions.  The loss of AIMCO was explained as poor performance in the market, just like the present loss of 2.1 billion dollars.

Kenny made the moves of building a pipeline to North Dakota, going nowhere, not targeting any market then, it was cancelled by US Republican intervention. 

It is my opinion, Kenny lifted the 2.1 billion dollars from AIMCO and dropped it into general revenues.  If we had a securities commission that was worth anything, this could be verified.   Another good reason to give the Federal Securities authority in Alberta.

Scott Moe, Saskatchwean Premier has 250,000 invested in WE!

His family have invested in WE for years!  Come on Conservatives, equal attention!

WE if we had a Conservative Government.

How would a Conservative Government handle WE? 

First off, they would fire all the teachers.  Then, they would look at how much money was just laying there and move it into the pockets of their friends.  The Students?  They would see nothing, the Conservatives prefer to hire degrees out of the US than support University Education In Canada.

Extreme?  Not at all; this is their history.

The search for the Virus and PPE

The notion that one country should horde anything in a Pandemic is insane! It is the same b.s. that happens with people fleeing their countries because of war and many saying they need to stay home.  One of the reasons stock was sent to China was because the best before date was coming up very fast and Canada had stock in the hospitals but not that much in cases. Other countries did the same, and that was because they wanted the virus eliminated at the source, not wait and see what happens. The virus spread quickly and Science was trying to get a handle on it not entirely trusting what China was saying. Asian countries that had experience SARS went into action asap, like South Korea.  In Europe Germany got on it with suppression and testing, while countries like Italy seemed to be going to wait it out until they found out how bad that was. Meanwhile, Canada was looking for supplies and down south was buying up everything they could get their hands on including interfering in shipments to our country.  Companies came forward and said they could produce and the Gov't listened and got a dollar amount together to support those companies selected to make different kinds of masks, ventilators, hand sanitizer, and they put money behind research for a cure. Once ramped up supplies were moving across the country and more and more lab-confirmed information was coming about the virus.  Seems pretty easy to sit back and quarterback, but it is a waste of money and time if you run to put what you think is a fire because there is smoke only to find out there is no fire.  Canada is a large, vast, country and we have witnessed how great we are when an unknown enemy, the virus, attacks. Now just wait and see what we can do when we know the enemy!

Eyes on Canadian Democracy

Eyes on Canadian Democracy located on Facebook is an excellent site to keep up to facts while the post media are still on the side with the Conservatives.

Kenny abandons Energy East ops instead for XL expansion.

Albert's Energy east is by the board, now it should be called the Keystone XL extension.   None of this manipulation helps Alberta or Canada.


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As far as his statement of making North America self-sufficient, the  US is already self-sufficient without Canadian oil but, you can see where Kenny's sentiments lay.

This will result in billions spent and no more than 500 Canadian jobs.

Kenny's wonder plan- simply not so!

Pipeline XL-East is to revamp an existing natural gas pipeline to move oil to Nova Scotia.  Irving oil will receive it and ship it by the ocean to supply Cushing Ill.  Same as the rail cars are now doing.

I haven't heard of any of the other provinces allowing it to cross!  Notably, Quebec who continues to refuse it.

The money to finance this will come from AIMCo again which shows how irresponsible the UCP actually are.

Why? So they can short shipments through the Transmountain pipeline as the US does not want us shipping off our west coast and there are no markets other than Cushing Ill. available to us on our east coast.

The thousands of jobs he is talking about will probably not be Alberta and will be in the hundreds.

The US is self-sufficient in oil supplies now!  This will simply be an exercise to drain pension funds.

Like his first two tries, this one has the political feature of pitting the Government CPP (Trans Mountain Pipeline) with the Alberta Government pension funds in Aimco (Energy East)

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Kenny trying once again to Kill Trans Mountain expansion!

The new, proposed pipeline to the Dakota Border is another direct assault on the Trans-Mountain expansion.  The move burns up pension funds with no market insight!  Think of the future arguments, the Canada Pension Fund (Trans-Mountain Expansion) and the Alberta public Pension funds (AIMCo) going head to head on a limited resource.  The UCP will argue it is the Fed who are putting the public pensions at risk, not the Conservatives.   It is advertised to the Dakota Border, not across it. This is to avoid crossing a border giving the Feds authority. A US company will pick it up on the south side of the border.

More important, there is no mention of the diameter of the pipe or the product it is to move.  This brings forward the Spectre of the Weatherford Project, named after the company that designed it.  The purpose is to move 2/3 the flow of the Peace River to the  US Dakota border.  With 1/3 left the river will die. 

The US is self-sufficient in oil! Obama built 12000 miles of a new pipeline to make this happen.  https://albertathedetails.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-pipeline-conundrum.html

https://albertathedetails.blogspot.com/2008/03/bitumen-and-plenty-of-jobs-heading.html

https://albertathedetails.blogspot.com/2013/02/bubble-warnings-ignored.html

AS well, Kenny's move to sell the campgrounds strip mine coal is not new, a page out of Klein's history https://albertathedetails.blogspot.com/2009/08/alberta-history-3-camp-grounds-and.html

Nursing Home Horror story.

This post is directed to the multitude of irate #commenters I see on any number of public media outlets.  I ask you, how could you not know?


I ask, how can you even pretend to be irate?  You and a generation before you allowed for organizations to warehouse people in their declining years.  Gone from sight, gone from mind.

When on an occasional visit you seen your #ancient parent or grandparent in her bed with a black eye,  did you think to take her out of the home?  Probably not.  The reason she has a black eye is because the old person in the bed three feet away from her gets up every night and beats the crap out of her.

And, the caregivers?  Why is there not a register for them to sign onto and get an approval to sign off like a marine book?   I recall seeing an old lady, early 90s, being taken by her arms and thrown roughly into a chair where she floundered trying to get upright in the chair.   The guy left the room laughing at the old woman's struggle.   The video was viral, the caregiver was terminated but there is no record of where he went onto work.

Some families mounted their own video units in the rooms and have caught massive brutality of the senior.  These have been put on the net and circulated for years.

I remember 20 years ago talking to a colleague about ideas of investing in old age, there is a wave coming at us.  Must be a way to make a buck.  (This was in the US)  A for-profit nursing home has their first responsibility to their shareholders!

What is missing in the ageing process is a support mechanism to look after these people by their families which, is very difficult.  More so if there is dementia involved.

I say again to those irate posters, how could you not know what was going on?  The information has been out for you to access for a long time!   This is not totally a government problem.   It starts with you making up your mind your mom, dad or grandparents are going to get more than "warehouse" treatments and care!

This is a pandemic of its own.  Same practices are throughout the USA.  Most Canadian private companies are  US owned and operated.

Kenny pays staff more than he "saved" cutting jobs!

@.jkenney has 19 staffers, each earning between $100,000 to $224,000 annually, working directly for Kenney in the Premier’s Office. 10 of these positions (highlighted) never existed before. It’s a partisan political red tape machine paid for by taxpayers.   This should make everyone in Canada upset.  Ontario, with more than 3 times the population of Alberta, has 22 people who earned more than $100,000 in the Office of the Premier in 2019.

   Who else is running the Government?  Stakeholders? #

Canadian-Political-History

 

As a one time Conservative Riding secretary and of an age greater than 95% of Canadians I offer this glimpse into our past.

 

The Liberals built Canada with little interruption to their base until 1909 to 1937 in which case the American Republicans working through the Mormon Church, helped them establish "The United Farmers of Alberta"  This party morphed itself into the Veterans and Active force, 1944 to 1948, again the US Republicans were fully involved.  They then went Federal as the Conservative Party.

 

This morphed into the Conservatives which found a hard landing after Diefenbaker and the Avro-Arrow. (You now know the reason Diefenbaker scrapped the Arrow in Canada allowing the US to take up the design and ordered the only prototype of the Aero destroyed.) and, Harper sold off the Canadian Wheat Board to US interest in leaving office.  Additional record of Avro Aero

They again morphed into the Progressive Conservatives. This party was started by Peter Lougheed and company.  Peter broke away from the Republicans, in fact, took on US oil interests in Alberta in the much-maligned NATIONAL ENERGY PROGRAM.  Peter became the most popular Premier not only of Alberta but, all of Canada.   A world recession stepped in and interest rates went to 25%.  Families invested in oil lost homes and there were a number of suicides  With no internet, those with the money ruled the press!  This was all blamed onto The NEP which was destroyed!

When Klein took over he doubled down with the US Republicans.  All this happening while the Wild Rose Party kept the original foundation going with the Church.  Now we had two political parties which could appear as opposition, one extreme and one tame by comparison.  Doing what they do best, playing both ends against the middle.

 

Notably, Klein started the bleed on the Heritage Savings and Trust by freezing the fund at 5% profit taking all above into General Revenue to support his 10% flat tax.  The loss to Albertans 760 billion dollars most of which went directly back to US parent companies.  Norway over the same period banked over 1 trillion dollars with just half the production of Alberta!

 

Klein also ushered in the Energy East plan.  At one point he was going to continue with Lougheed's plan of building a Refinery in Edmonton,  Then, Shell oil suggested it would be better for everyone if they built pipelines to the Gulf Coast to their refineries.   West pipelines were never considered as Shell's gulf refineries already had the market captured.

 

In a final analysis, I see the US is in a position to take over our country!  By putting in a Conservative Government again will facilitate the end of our Dairy Marketing board and any other institutions that may hinder this process.  Kenny is working to eliminate us from the CPP for no other reason than the division of Alberta from Canada.

 

For the record: Kenny and Harper were thrown out of every trade meeting they attended throwing the advantage to the US.  No one could be this unlucky!

 

More recently,  

#Bill  C69  It allowed Harper to become a dictator in his own mind. Any conflict with a native group could be set aside by the Minister in charge. In action, it caused endless delays in the West coast pipeline.  C69 did away with two pieces of Harper/Kenny legislation National Energy Board Act: Replaced. S shipping off the west coast it will cut deeply into their markets in Indochina and China and, they will not be able to use their oil supply on or off as a bargaining chip!

 

Secondly: Canadian Navigable Waters Act; was changed by Harper/Kenny to a free-for-all. One outstanding item is the BC dam on the Peace River. A navigable river the dam was built and was criticized for not being able to produce enough electricity to pay for itself. It was however built to create a sump in the Peace River is suitable for drawing large amounts of water out of. 2/3 of the flow of the Peace River!!

 

This brings me to the #Weatherford Project. So named after the company who designed and specked it.

Weatherford is immensely designed to move 2/3rds of the flow of the Peace River to the US border. If Conservatives build this Canadian's will pay for the build so the US can get cheap water.

 

The design calls for 4 large diameter pipelines and 6 pumping stations. Each pumping station to use the electrical power of a city!

The Conservatives again looking after US interests, not Canada's!

Orphan wells a bust in Alberta.

Report ‘buried’ by Alberta government reveals ‘mounting evidence’ that oil and gas wells aren’t reclaimed in the long run

A previously unreleased report obtained by The Narwhal shows a government division — soon to be scrapped by premier Jason Kenney — raised red flags about the province’s failing system for wellsite cleanup

The Narwhal has obtained a previously unreleased report commissioned by the Alberta government that raises red flags about whether the government’s own program to ensure oil and gas sites are cleaned up is actually working in the long term. 

The 55-page report, obtained through a freedom of information request, cites “mounting evidence” that Alberta’s land reclamation program is not ensuring former oil and gas sites meet regulatory requirements in the long run, and instead confirms that, of the sites studied so far by an internal government pilot project, all but one failed to meet the government’s standards.

A former senior government official (who asked to remain anonymous) with knowledge of the report told The Narwhal that releasing the report was “seen as an extreme risk to the department” and that there was “extreme pushback” against it being made public. 

The former official described the report as a “valuable piece of science” and one “that needed to be publicly reported.”

But “politically inconvenient” reports, the official said, were often “buried” within the department, regardless of the government in power.

The province’s United Conservative Party (UCP) government has indicated that the office that has been working on this research — the environmental monitoring and science department — will soon be eliminated, and its staff “integrated” into other government departments.

‘The public needs to know that this land is being degraded’

There are nearly half a million oil and gas well sites in Alberta, covering an estimated 400,000 hectares — an area approximately five times the size of Calgary. 

For the last century, oil and gas companies have made a promise to Albertans — that the wells they’ve drilled across the province would one day be cleaned up. Companies promised that land would be returned to just as good as before drilling, sometimes even boldly claiming it would end up even better.

The Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act, the legislation that governs how companies must act to protect the environment, requires that operators — like those drilling oil and gas wells — fulfill “the objective of protecting the essential physical, chemical and biological characteristics of the environment against degradation.”

But the report finds that the government’s reclamation certificate program is unable to ensure this is happening in the long run.

The government updated its reclamation criteria in 2010, requiring cleaned-up well sites to achieve a sort of equivalence with nearby land. The government issues certificates to sites to mark them as officially cleaned up, called reclamation certificates. 

However, many reclaimed sites are not actually reclaimed at all, according to the report. 

In farmer’s fields, the exact outlines of well pads may be clearly visible through crop degradation.