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Coal accounted for 80 per cent of Alberta’s electricity grid in the early 2000s and it still amounted to 60 per cent just 10 years ago. When phasing out coal was just an idea being batted around, many said it couldn’t be done. This is not dissimilar to the rhetoric today around decarbonizing the grid. But Alberta’s experience phasing out coal shows environmental progress of this magnitude is possible.

Hey Lemmy! Now that summer’s in full swing, how are you enjoying the warm weather? Have you made plans to get outdoors and explore our massive and beautiful country?

Interesting insights into how controlled the narrative is in /r/canada on Reddit. One of the things that struck me was that there’s no self posts in /r/canada unlike many other countries’ and provinces’ subreddits. It would be nice if we differentiated ourselves here on Lemmy with more self posts

At issue is the NATO two per cent doctrine. That calls for NATO nations to spend two per cent of their GDP on defence.

American politicians, along with retired Canadian generals and Ottawa think tanks who receive funding from the arms industry, have used that to hammer Canada as a failure on defence.

Defence Minister Bill Blair has recounted how hard it is to try to convince cabinet as well as Canadians about the need to meet the two per cent commitment because “nobody knows what that means.”

Add to that mix the current fiscal environment and ongoing concerns from Canadians who have been struggling financially. Directing tens of billions of tax dollars into more tanks, submarines and fighter jets isn’t a top priority among Canadian families.

The 2022 Rogers outage that left 12 million people without wireless and hard-wired services was caused by human error and made worse by management and system "deficiencies," says an independent review conducted for Canada's telecommunications regulator.

The 26-hour outage started early in the early morning of July 8 and left individuals and businesses without access to their mobile, home phone, internet and 911 services.

Staff at Rogers caused the shutdown, the report says, by removing a control filter that directed information to its appropriate destination.

Without the filter in place, a flood of information was sent into Rogers' core network, overloading and crashing the system within minutes of the control filter being removed.

Designating risks in phase six as "low" meant Rogers' staff could avoid additional levels of scrutiny and approvals as the upgrade proceeded, even though doing so "contravenes industry norms," the report says.

This is nothing to worry about. The only schools likely to choose as a result of this problem are ones where Doug Ford's wealthy family, friends, and donors own adjacent properties (like they do at the Ontario Science Center.)

Billions and billions of dollars of graft but buck a beer and lower gas taxes.

Saskatchewan's Ministry of Justice is taking the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) to court for what it says is an attempt by the federal agency to "garnish" $28 million from the province's bank account.

The provincial government announced the news in a video posted to social media Thursday that features Justice Minister Bronwyn Eyre leaning heavily on political rhetoric and providing few specifics.

Saskatchewan's Ministry of Justice would not provide copies of the application and the federal court has yet to make the documents available online.

The move is an escalation in the dispute between the two levels of government over the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act (GGPPA), a federal law that requires provinces to collect the federal carbon tax.

Premier Scott Moe announced last year that SaskEnergy, the provincial natural gas utility, would stop collecting the tax starting Jan. 1, 2024.

The Yukon government says "elevated" levels of cyanide have been found in a creek downstream from the Victoria Gold's Eagle gold mine, following a heap leach failure and landslide at the facility.

Streicker said levels in Haggart Creek were 0.04 milligrams per litre, while testing in Dublin Gulch showed 0.001 milligrams per litre. "This level of cyanide in Haggart Creek could affect fish," he said. "Fish toxicity testing is underway."

Testing from the mine site itself showed high levels of cyanide, including 8.58 milligrams per litre at the bottom of the slide, he said.

Kelly Constable, the Yukon government's director of mineral resources, said about four million tonnes of material were released in the slide, about two million of which escaped containment.

Thursday's briefing comes a day after Na-Cho Nyäk Dun First Nation called for a halt to all mining activities on their land.

I like the wirecutter when researching some kind of consumer product.

Problem is that the available models and their pricing is often radically different compared to Canada. If they recommend a certain item as US$20 on amazon.com, the identical item on amazon.ca could be $100, or completely unavailable.

Any alternative websites?

A Canadian prime minister who has outstayed his welcome, persistent inflation, a government bumped and bruised by scandal and a fired-up opposition leader itching for a public showdown.

It was against this backdrop, four decades ago, that Pierre Trudeau took his apocryphal “walk in the snow” and decided not to contest the next federal election.

After a shocking upset in a “safe” electoral district and with a looming possibility of a blowout in the next federal election, Justin Trudeau’s predicament closely mirrors that of his father.

But the incumbent prime minister says he has no intention of stepping down, despite mounting evidence the public is growing increasingly weary of both his tenure – and of his Liberal party.

In late June, Trudeau’s party lost a by-election for a seat the party had held for nearly three decades, foreshadowing what pundits say could portend the collapse of the party’s stronghold in Canada’s most populous city.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24393660

https://youtu.be/mFaz4LocyK0?si=lkSWFYACOieBWyce

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24368090

The seat make up would look more like the left if we had a more fair and accountable proportional representation over the obsolete first past the post.

https://youtu.be/iFh-kT6EMaU?si=xx0HyalM7Gn2bqfj