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Justin's news conference was weird. He's talking about all these things that are apparently important, but he's been in power since 2015 and has done nothing about them. Reconciliation with indigenous people? What about the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Woman and Girls report you have in your drawer?
 
Videodrome said:
The NDP will back the Liberals. No fall election as expected.

globalnews.ca

NDP will back Liberal throne speech, preventing fall election - National | Globalnews.ca

An NDP source said the party has struck a deal with the Liberals to expand the number of people who are able to access paid sick days amid the coronavirus pandemic.
globalnews.ca globalnews.ca
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This is probably the best option.

Canadians don't want an election during covid. Nobody wants to cram into a polling station with a million other people.

This will likely reflect better on the NDP than it will the conservatives who will no doubt be branded as reckless and opportunist.
 
Richard White said:
This is probably the best option.

Canadians don't want an election during covid. Nobody wants to cram into a polling station with a million other people.

This will likely reflect better on the NDP than it will the conservatives who will no doubt be branded as reckless and opportunist.
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Yes, the Tories are still working with the mind-set that "we are the Opposition so we must oppose EVERYTHING the government proposes". Most reasonable people have moved on from this (and not only because we are clearly in a crisis situation) and welcome those (like NDPi n this case) who try to negotiate improvements and compromises. Nobody gets 100% of their initial position but, overall, policies are usually better/fairer.
 
Richard White said:
This is probably the best option.

Canadians don't want an election during covid. Nobody wants to cram into a polling station with a million other people.

This will likely reflect better on the NDP than it will the conservatives who will no doubt be branded as reckless and opportunist.
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Tell that to the NDP in BC.
 
This story may cause some issues, especially in Alberta, but nationally as well.

It appears as though even a conservative scenario on clean-up costs for the oil sands is largely unfunded. 1.6B in securities against a 50B+ tab.

Oil miners were allowed to count as yet unmined Bitumen as security against the cost of the cleanup.

Also, leaked documents from the Alberta Energy Regulator suggest the tab for cleans up may be well over double the original number.

thetyee.ca

Alberta’s Oilsands Owe Canadians Far More than They Can Pay | The Tyee

Why 50 years of bitumen mining will add up to a money loser for taxpayers.
thetyee.ca thetyee.ca

Honestly, no matter one's take on the oil sands, allowing unmined bitumen to be pledged as collateral.........is scandalously stupid.

Trump-worthy stupid.
 
Perhaps an Alaskan solution for getting Alberta crude to tidewater. Only $22Bn.

www.ctvnews.ca

Proposed railroad between Alberta and Alaska gets thumbs-up from Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump says he will issue a permit approving the U.S. portion of a proposed railway to carry goods between Alaska and Alberta.
www.ctvnews.ca

I don't know if this is new or a re-work or proposals I have seen before.
 
Northern Light said:
This story may cause some issues, especially in Alberta, but nationally as well.

It appears as though even a conservative scenario on clean-up costs for the oil sands is largely unfunded. 1.6B in securities against a 50B+ tab.

Oil miners were allowed to count as yet unmined Bitumen as security against the cost of the cleanup.

Also, leaked documents from the Alberta Energy Regulator suggest the tab for cleans up may be well over double the original number.

thetyee.ca

Alberta’s Oilsands Owe Canadians Far More than They Can Pay | The Tyee

Why 50 years of bitumen mining will add up to a money loser for taxpayers.
thetyee.ca thetyee.ca

Honestly, no matter one's take on the oil sands, allowing unmined bitumen to be pledged as collateral.........is scandalously stupid.

Trump-worthy stupid.
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It would basically works just like a replay of the abandoned oil-wells.

AoD
 
Announcement this morning from the PM that the Canadian Infrastructure Bank (CIB) will be handing out 10B for assorted projects.

No detailed list as yet, just broad categories and amounts.


From said report:

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Also a claim this will support 60,000 new jobs.

This appears to be an outright spend, as opposed to a loan.............which seems odd to me, for a 'Bank'.

The zero-emission bus program will almost certainly impact TTC.
 
It would seem Canada has accepted its first 2 'convention refugees' from Hong Kong.

www.theglobeandmail.com

Canada begins accepting Hong Kong pro-democracy activists as refugees

In a letter from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, a Hong Kong couple was told they have been determined as ‘Convention refugees’ and their claims for asylum have been accepted
www.theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com

This could be the first of very many (TBD).

Interesting to note from the article, that Conservative Michael Chong is leading the charge for Canada to take in a large number from HK, as opposed to perhaps 50 who appear to be in process at this time.
 
Some details on the ban of single-use plastics set to go into effect late next year or early 2022:

The single-use plastics that will be banned are:

  • Grocery checkout bags
  • Straws
  • Stir sticks
  • Six-pack rings
  • Plastic cutlery
  • Food takeout containers made from hard-to-recycle plastics (like black plastic packaging)
 
Northern Light said:
Some details on the ban of single-use plastics set to go into effect late next year or early 2022:

The single-use plastics that will be banned are:

  • Grocery checkout bags
  • Straws
  • Stir sticks
  • Six-pack rings
  • Plastic cutlery
  • Food takeout containers made from hard-to-recycle plastics (like black plastic packaging)
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Remember, back in 2012. When Mayor Rob Ford and Councillor Doug Ford reverses the plastic bag fees?

Toronto City Council kills plastic bag ban

See link.

Bet Doug Ford hates what the feds just did!!
 
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