The Liberals are centrist, not left. They're right smack-dab in the middle of the Canadian political spectrum. The NDP and Greens are left.
nyan
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Growing oranges in a greenhouse in Canada is not impossible . . . but you're not going to do it on the scale or at the price you'd need to make store-brand orange juice from them. Selling the actual oranges as premium produce in select Canadian markets would be possible, although not many people would be able to afford them.
The problem is that the standards for "Made in [country]" labels are pretty lax. We need different ones for "Packaged in Canada", "Processed in Canada (but with some foreign ingredients)", "Made in Canada by a foreign-owned company", and "Actually 100% Made in Canada from domestic ingredients by a Canadian company".
Or maybe what we really need is a, "The US had a hand in producing this" label. I don't think most of us have much problem with buying something from, say, Belgium or Ecuador.
Oh, dear, she insulted his frog. Now they'll never be able to have a proper relationship. 🤣
(Somehow I knew that she was going to figure out that he was an intact male in that or a very similar way, even before these two episodes. It's just so . . . Maomao.)
Appliances have potentially serious failure modes that don't involve battery fires. (We had one here a couple of weeks ago, which would have flooded out our basement if I hadn't been able to cut power to the pump involved.) Being able to cut the power completely and instantly is not negotiable for a lot of appliances. I wasn't even taking battery fires into consideration when I wrote about failure modes—I was talking about things that already happen to plug-in appliances right now.
Yes, the added weight and complexity are likely not all that significant here, but they're sufficient that, even without the power-cutting issues, they outweigh any benefit of attaching a battery to the appliance directly. It's just not a particularly useful idea when you get pretty much the same benefits with none of the downsides by incorporating the batteries into the building's power system separately.
Adding batteries to a device has one advantage: portability. It also has mutiple disadvantages: batteries add weight, add design complexity, and make it more difficult to fully shut off power in an emergency.
Major household appliances aren't portable, and are subject to failure modes where you really do want to cut all the power right now and make sure it stays that way. Thus, the disadvantages of adding batteries directly to an appliance outweigh the advantages.
A power wall using this new battery tech would be great, though.
I'm surprised he didn't request a corner office that didn't have plumbing that might leak on his head. (Also: nice tie.)
Well, that's one hell of an unresolved implication about Anna's and Grace's mothers to end with. I'm catching a whiff of Unfinished Manga Syndrome here.
Clarity is not normally something headlines are all that concerned with (some are intentionally opaque, but this one is just joking around). Anyway, I think the "[foo], [bar]ed" structure was a lot more common some decades before the Internet—I had no trouble parsing it, but this marks the first time in a while that I've seen it, and I can see how it might be unfamiliar to some audiences.
The most unserious thing about this is that the author appears not to realize that Carney's job as a candidate is to, duh, campaign. That means emphasizing planned policies that will appeal to voters. Unfortunately, the carbon tax has become political poison and scrapping it is the only sensible thing he could do in the context of appealing to the public.
I'd think I was reading the Beaverton instead of the Globe, except that this piece, while unserious, isn't funny enough.
Shame perhaps isn't quite the right concept, but you're going to have a hard time using nonviolent tactics against an opponent whose response to them is lethal violence—that is, they kill anyone who refuses to comply until people either start to comply or they run out of people, and they are quite willing to run out of people. Nonviolent tactics worked in India against the British because they wanted the labour of the Indian people, and therefore wiping them out wasn't in the cards. (Executing people, even those they considered "lesser", effectively at random also didn't fit in with their concept of moral superiority.) The same tactics would not have worked against Hitler.
In this case . . . I don't know. Trump has demonstrated depraved indifference to the survival of everyone including his countrymen, so it would come down to the beliefs and behaviour of people at the lower levels, who are not going to be consistent. They don't believe they need our labour, so that excuse is out.
I expect it'll drop down further on its own, since some things that were set up before the US election are still trickling through the system. By next year, there won't be much of that left.
Silly awards time!