johnhansenca.bsky.social
Eco-pragmatist, engineer, politically a centrist, gardner & cook. Love technology from trains to computers. Resident of Kanara(Ottawa) for 40+ yrs.
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The golden age was when computers were expensive, rare and 64kilobytes was a massive amount of memory. In that age, if you had any computer experience or aptitude you were extremely well rewarded.
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Trump is about to destroy Boeing. Between tarrifs and $80billion worth of inventory waiting for FAA certification(layoffs don't help) Boeing is in deep trouble.
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Research is not the problem. It's monetizing that research where Canada epically fails. We just can't figure out how to keep the virtuous cycle of research, new products, jobs, then more money and more research going. For example, Connaught labs, Nortel, Bombardier C series.
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Peter Navarvo, a once promising, if not brilliant economist has fallen down into the MAGA ganster sewer pledging fealty to Trump. Now, acting like a schoolyard bully, giving Trump's worst inclinations a modicum of intellectual respectibility.
unherd.com/2023/09/pete...
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I'm not a big fan of how the Canadian dairy industry works. I'm all for supply management. Sadly the dairy quotes have been managed by literally creating a separate currency(priced at $25,000-$40k per cow) that greatly impacts Canadian dairy costs and retail price. It needs to be unwound.
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I'd say the US is becoming a gangster state.
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Countries don't freely join other countries in the 21st century. That's 19 century thinking. If anything they fragment like Czechoslovakia. They do seek closer ties through entries such as the EU. Thanks to Trump, Canada may join the EU in some way or CANZUK may finally get off the ground.
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Here's an idea. Why don't we just give the US a large tariif free quota. Oh, wait NAFTA/USMCA, signed by Trump, already supports a large tarrif free quota. One so large the US has never exceeded it. In fact US-Canadian dairy trade is 3-1 in favour of the US.
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As a Canadian all I can do is shake my head. We are not without our own anti-vaxers who would literally die or lose their jobs rather than take a vaccine. Fortunately that anti vax position is not supported or tolerated in any of our governments or institutions.
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I have a long list of issues with the CBC, but they are still my number one news source for local, regional and national news.
They absolutely suck when covering science & technology using reporters that are literally inumerate. For business and financial reporting/analysis they are weak at best.
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It is clearly in the interest of Canadian national security to have CBC News, even if it is slightly flawed. Shame on the Conservatives who have repeatedly stated their intention to defund it into oblivion.
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You mean like run for office. Been there, done that, 3 times. How's your record?
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Well, the progressive Americans were not happy Kamala, so they chose not vote. Now here we are.
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Who do you suggest we vote for instead?
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Not a very good way to do wealth redistribution as it also taxes municipal governments and NGOs, like food banks, among others. Also the wealth redistribution aspects of the program would erode as the programs more insidious aspects take hold, like converting for food crops into energy.
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The carbon taxes was/is simply political sophistry. There is no proof that it works. The key to reducing GHG emissions is to aggressively and pragmatically electrify everything.
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Independent media coverage.
youtu.be/NPvSZ6bTdIQ?...
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The bittersweet story of Gord Moran, the writer of the song's lyrics. Song lyrics included in the story.
www.quintenews.com/2025/03/05/r...
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The song was sung by Sonya Zaback.
More songs by her here.
soundcloud.com/sonya-zaback
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The song's back story.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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The US us in the find out phase now.
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One could say Occam's razor explains Trump's razor.
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There are lots of problems with our Canadian democracy. This just one of many. The almost absolute power of the leader's office, be it the prime minister or the opposition leaders, greatly reduces our representation democracy to more of the American executive model than the Westminster model.
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Spending rules only kick in when the writ is dropped. Until then it's the wild west. This all about Americanization of the Canadian poltical system. Look how well it's working for them and the world.
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This thesis, expressed slightly differently, has been postulated recently by political blogger David Pakman.
youtu.be/J2PzetMexMw?...
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Trump is Captain Chaos. His super power is creating a massive amount of chaos and destruction. Then enriching himself, and the useful idiots around him, by finding some gems in all the waste.
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Ah yes. A quick search says there are at least 3 different 'Baxter' companies in Canada, namely Baxters (Alymer Soup), Baxter.ca, and Baxtermilk.ca owned by Saputo.
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Sure. Sorry for being pedantic.
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They are owned by Baxters, a Scottish company. So 100% Canadian like Ford or McDonald's.
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It's Alymer soup for me. Their website says they are Canadian(somewhat true) with soups made in Saint Hyacinthe, Quebec (apparently true).
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Trump is Captain Chaos. His super power is creating a massive amount of chaos and destruction. Then enriching himself and the useful idiots around him by finding some gems in all the waste.
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Trump is Captain Chaos. His super power is creating a massive amount of chaos and destruction. Then enriching himself and the useful idiots around him by finding some gems in all the waste.
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There is no evidence that carbon taxes work in real life. Lots of evidence based on carbon taxes and other similar taxes, leaded gas for example, that they have little, if any affect on emissions.
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I have no love of PP, but carbon taxes don't work. They are nothing more than political sphositry.
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You do realize that Quebec does not have excess capacity to export and relies on Ontario nat gas electricity during winter cold snaps and for some time after to refill their resovoirs.
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You probably appose the 6,000 MW of new nuclear capacity being built at Darlington and Bruce.
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I'm not sure you can trust paper. I think animal skin parchment or even clay tablets would be better since they have withstood the test of time.