The comment from the utube poster is priceless.
Pierre’s creepy wish.com “It’s Morning in America” ad because he’s a creepy weirdo. Saving this for when he eventually deletes it off twitter.
CN leadership 2022 - Hey, the feds have these new rules on fatigue and we need time to figure out how to bypass them. Let’s defer contract negotiations for a year.
CN leadership 2024 - Hey Trudeau, we need you to intervene in contract negotiations to force workers to keep making us money. For the good of the country, ofc.
It seems CN hierarchy is chock full of arrogant dumbfucks.
Tbf Trudeau gave the provinces $46.2 billion over 10 years for healthcare. Ontario alone received $3.1 billion in Feb 2024. The problem is the provinces refused to sign agreements locking that money into healthcare spending alone … so they can essentially spend it however they want. source
If you wanna point fingers at anyone, it’s each and ever premier who needs to answer the question of where all that money went.
Or who would want to buy it if it’s a loss?
If it doesn’t sell, fine. Then maybe people will stop buying up housing to have rental income. And while I understand why people do it, I in no way agree with it … because it’s only wealthier people who can afford to do it. The average person is priced out.
So let those who bought at low-now high interest rates lose their shirts, as it seems that’s the only way prices will come down … because every level of gov’t hasn’t done sweet fuck all to stop (or even hinder) the practice.
Firefighting is in the province’s purview, so they would have to sign on to the fed’s taking control … which will never happen.
Edit to add … On a good note DeHavilland is building a manufactuting plant in Calgary to pump out the “DHC-515 Firefighter … to build on the history of the Canadair CL-215 and CL-415 aircraft” source. That’s good news for the whole world as the 215 and 415 continue to be the workhorses of forest fire fighting.
Government-controlled protectionism is supposed to be good - and in a functioning democracy should benefit the people over businesses all of the time. The problem we have is far-(self)-righteous parties whose members only care about themselves and those who pad their pockets with bribes and “donations”.
We do have access to the Chinese market based on the FIPA Harper locked us into in 2014.
Canadian companies just haven’t taken advantage of it.
As far as locking out China, according to the FIPA we can’t.
This is gonna be a long, drawn-out battle we will lose … all because of that scumbag Harper.
That’s fair. But I do have to wonder why she went and picked him up on the 401 instead of making him pay for an Uber/taxi to get home. Unless ofc he’s under 18 at which point he shouldn’t be racing a fancy car down a King’s highway.
Strike 2 likely means he loses his license for a while. Maybe mom needs to stop rescuing him from himself now.
Area limits …
By using helicopters the kill rate is high (not limited by elevation, snow pack, etc) and the fur is not harvested.
Where does the 3wolves/1000km^2 come from.
From a Freedom of Information (FOI) request sent by the CBC to BC’s Ministry of Water, Land, and Resource Stewardship.
“Documents obtained by CBC News through a freedom of information request provide a glimpse into how the wolf cull has been operating.” Source
Is this in certain areas or nationally surly in cities u would want this number a lot closer to 0wolves/1000km^2.
Wolves live in packs so do not enter cities. Coyotes do, but not wolves.
Attributing this purly to hunting being big business seems a little extreme.
Ok. Please show your data that supports that.
Here’s my data.
I will amend my assumption that hunting income is a prime reason for the wolf cull as BC does not publish income data specific to the wolf cull (except for costs of the heli cull) here. The primary reasons are that mountain caribou populations are severly impacted by the harvesting of old growth forests. In 2021 logging (in BC) brought in $1.8 billion in stumpage fees (fee paid when timber is harvested from Crown land) (Source) and construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline (which will destroy vital caribou old-growth habitat). Source
Wolf control, often presented as a ‘solution’ to stabilize caribou populations, ultimately allows continued approval by governments of resource exploitation, including logging in habitats deemed “critical” to caribou. That’s the central message of a new letter in Science, published by Raincoast scientists. Source
Deep-Snow Mountain caribou are obligately bound to forests old enough to support accessible arboreal hair lichens in quantities sufficient to offset the costs of locomotion and other physiological processes (Antifeau 1987), a habitat requirement incompatible with large-scale clearcut forestry (Stevenson et al. 2001). PDF source
A government-sponsored wolf kill in Western Canada has had “no detectable effect” on reversing the decline of endangered caribou populations, a study says. Source
For Van Tighem, the winter cull is a symptom of an ecosystem out of balance, a natural world so disturbed by human activity that we are forced into playing an ecological version of whack a mole (or, in this case, shoot a wolf). All the while, we clear-cut the old-growth forests on which southern mountain caribou depend, seeding their habitat with oil and gas operations and splintering it with roads. Source
Intensifying resource extraction poses an existential threat to the world’s biodiversity. This threat is exemplified in the case of British Columbia’s (BC) endangered woodland caribou herds (Rangifer tarandus), which are facing extirpation due to extraction-driven habitat destruction, primarily from oil & gas development and forest harvest. Source
The acceptance of triage (allowing the smallest herds of mountain/woodland caribou to die off) could even provide perverse incentives for this outcome, as exemplified by the disturbingly common frequency with which decisions to approve major industrial projects have used the rationale that caribou habitat in the project area was already degraded or caribou were extirpated (Collard et al., 2020). Source
would assume Canada follow a scheme where the number of animals that can be killed
Only non-residents have to pay for a wolf hunting license. Canadian residents can kill as many as they want.
The province also has a wolf cull that uses helicopters to hunt.
is limited to to keep populations at correct levels
"The province sets a goal of reducing the wolf population in targeted areas by 80 per cent, documents read. This includes the elimination of entire packs so that population density is below three wolves per 1,000 square kilometres." Source
The province isn’t looking to keep the wolf population in check. It’s looking to decimate it because hunting is BIG business in BC and brings in millions per year.
Scott Moe, asshole of the Prairies, proving yet again who he really serves.