James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

@PatrickoftheG

Shooting someone who it trying to steal your TV is considered "self-defense".

But if you replace "TV" with "breathable air" and "drinkable water" you'll become a dangerous criminal trying to subvert the state.

American life expectancy is lower than that of Cuba, Lebanon, and Chechnya.

https://alaskapublic.org/2023/03/27/live-free-and-die-the-sad-state-of-u-s-life-expectancy/

turtlecat is on the prowl

#Caturday

Don't believe all the stories about retail stores "closing due to organized retail theft." It always turns out to be bullshit. https://theappeal.org/retail-theft-ben-dugan-cvs-walgreens-shoplifting/

Supermarket clock. 😂​

People who walk and roll are always an afterthought.

People driving would get angry if we took away their parking or blocked a lane for garbage but without question we are fine with blocking half of the already narrow sidewalk on busy Bank St every week for garbage day.

#Ottawa #OttWalk

Remember all of the hubbub about the #CarbonTax raising gas prices and Alberta conservatives were freaking out, taking photoshoots at gas pumps, making platitudes everywhere?

Where are those same conservatives now when ALBERTA'S ELECTRICITY PRICES MORE THAN DOUBLED due to lack of regulation. You heard that right. But nothing from these so-called "leaders" that we have. #alberta #calgary

@sibrosan @mhmck

If #Putin had any friends, they’d tell him to cut his losses, declare victory, bring the Russian troops home, throw them a parade, hold a frikkin’ HUGE national holiday, and spin his entire #Ukraine misadventure as a great triumph.

Premier #DougFord: “This province is 1000 times better than it was five years ago”

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"I just finished an emergency shift in rural #Ontario today.
Saw an elderly patient who didn’t have a family doctor. I asked the nurses if there’s a clinic accepting patients.

RN: No, but they can put their name on the wait list.

Me: How long is that?

RN: About 4 years.

What??"

Andrew Petrosoniak, EM & Trauma Physician

#Bill60 #SylviaJones #onpoli

"The basic dynamic of Canadian politics right now is the Liberals celebrated a Nazi through incredible incompetence, seven months after some Conservatives celebrated a Nazi completely on purpose."

#cdnpoli #canada #poilievre cc @bruce_arthur

There are a lot of rural mayors who secretly vote NDP, but know that nothing will change because their constituents will always hold their noses and vote blue because no matter how incompetent the government is, they don't want socialism.

Bro, everything you're asking for is literally socialism. #ableg

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-wildfires-rapattack-aerial-teams-1.6838626

"If you're wondering why #DougFord won't back down on the private mega-spa for #OntarioPlace..

It's simple: it's about the money and favours

Money that Ford-friendly construction companies will get

Money from #Therme-linked investors who purchased Ford's family business for an undisclosed price

Money that PC MPPs will make as "advisors" post-politics

Who's benefiting? Who's going to get supremely wealthy? Who are the people connected to those making the decisions?

#onpoli #toronto

@lloydalter

I worked on the study and design phase of the Boundary Dam CCS that SaskPower implemented in Estevan.

It was a boondoggle. They spent $1.5B to clean up the CO2 from a single 160MW unit, while adding ~25MW of parasitic load.

The thing never worked properly, and resulted in the doubling of the cost of electricity from that unit.

At the time, $1.5B could have bought something like 300MW (nameplate) of wind turbines.

The Pathways Alliance is at it again, running full-page newspaper ads touting carbon capture and storage and never mentioning that the vast majority of the emissions from their product come from our tailpipes, not their production. This should be considered false advertising and banned. I wrote earlier about it: https://lloydalter.substack.com/p/no-the-canadian-oil-sands-are-not

The fog this morning matches my mood.
The light and color is still there, just with slightly subdued hues.

#photography #Calgary

Mastodon is for people, who when they are called Weird, say Thank you.

"Lazy" is such an ugly word. I prefer "selective participation".