Bell: Danielle Smith’s UCP on rent controls — Forget about it!: Alberta UCP government of Premier Danielle Smith says rent control not happening. Jason Nixon, the minister for housing, calls it socialism.
Ya’ it ain’t happening. The UCP campaigned with making life more affordable – and that’s UCP speak for lying. They have no intention of making Alberta more affordable. Just look at insurance, groceries and energy costs…
NASA mapping data shows extent of wildfires across Canada: The Fire Information for Resource Management System U.S./Canada (FIRMS)
created by NASA and the USDA Forest Service shows real-time updates of
where wildfires are in Canada and the U.S. and how intensely they’re
burning.
Satellite imagery shows most of the West and Northwest
central regions of Canada in a sea of orange flames icons, locating the
active wildfires outside Yellowknife, N.W.T. and Okanagan, B.C.
Would You Buy a Used Energy Strategy from This Guy?: It’s 2023. Huge swaths of Canada are on fire. Much of the world is baking, burning, drowning, or starving. And the new CEO of Calgary-based Suncor Energy wants his company to go all-in on its oil sands operations after it sold off all its wind and solar projects.
“We have a bit of a disproportionate emphasis on the longer-term energy transition,” Rich Kruger told analysts earlier this week. “Today, we win by creating value through our large integrated asset base underpinned by oil sands.”
If you live downstream or downwind of Suncor’s operations, or if you’re like all of us and depend on the atmospheric systems the company is doing its best to broil—what could possibly go wrong?
And if you’re an investor who expects this company to survive its own business strategy as governments tackle the climate emergency and the wider investment picture shifts—or even if you expect your other investments to deliver as advertised despite mounting climate chaos—what in the world are you thinking?
At least the new Suncor CEO is performing as expected, however unpalatable and dangerous that performance might be.
Housing crisis to take centre stage at Liberal cabinet retreat in Charlottetown:
Recent polls are showing the Conservatives have enough support that
they are flirting on the edge of majority government territory, though
an election is not imminent.
The Liberals have an agreement with the NDP to try to keep the
minority Parliament working until 2025. While it may not last that long,
there is no suggestion it will collapse in the next few months.
Particularly worrisome for the Liberals is their slip in support among younger Canadians.
What would nuclear power look like for the Prairies?:
Spent fuel — radioactive waste — must be stored securely for thousands of years.
Numerous radioactive particles have been detected in milk, water and air tests nationwide since the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami struck the power plant on March 11, but agency officials said Friday the levels were so minuscule they were not harmful to public health.