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Offline wilber

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Re: No llores por mí Alberta
« Reply #840 on: July 27, 2021, 06:54:18 pm »
Utes are cool but they are really only two seaters and don't cary a lot.
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Re: No llores por mí Alberta
« Reply #841 on: July 27, 2021, 07:16:50 pm »
Utes are cool but they are really only two seaters and don't cary a lot.

I know….   

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Re: No llores por mí Alberta
« Reply #842 on: July 27, 2021, 07:40:00 pm »
The VW Rabbit pickup and Dodge Rampage of the 80's were very similar to Utes but didn't take off in North America.



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Re: No llores por mí Alberta
« Reply #843 on: July 27, 2021, 07:49:42 pm »
I wish we had ‘utes’ in Canada like they do in Australia. 


I need a little more 'freeboard' for launching my dinghy into the chuck. I like the size of my Ford Ranger. It's also not as intimidating when I thinking about filling it up with firewood.  I had an old 1 ton 4x4 with dual tires and a dump for that back in the day.

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Re: No llores por mí Alberta
« Reply #844 on: July 27, 2021, 09:48:42 pm »
I need a little more 'freeboard' for launching my dinghy into the chuck. I like the size of my Ford Ranger. It's also not as intimidating when I thinking about filling it up with firewood.  I had an old 1 ton 4x4 with dual tires and a dump for that back in the day.

Also need 4wd on slippery boat ramps at low tide.
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Re: No llores por mí Alberta
« Reply #845 on: July 27, 2021, 11:01:03 pm »
Also need 4wd on slippery boat ramps at low tide.

I had to winch an old 2WD Suburban up a few boat ramps….  Ugh…. That was the pits.

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« Reply #846 on: July 28, 2021, 12:38:27 am »
Like it or not, pickup trucks are incredibly useful vehicles. The newer ones have the room and comfort for five of a nice sedan and can haul and tow most things a suburb dweller will ever need.

and the vast majority of urban living types driving pick-me-ups will never haul/tow anything - that's what urban-cowboy Jason Kenney is the poster-boy for!


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« Reply #847 on: July 29, 2021, 04:58:14 pm »
and the vast majority of urban living types driving pick-me-ups will never haul/tow anything - that's what urban-cowboy Jason Kenney is the poster-boy for!



You are wrong about that they don’t constantly get used as trucks but they do get used for a ton of things you can’t carry or tow with a regular car.
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Re: No llores por mí Alberta
« Reply #848 on: October 23, 2021, 11:55:08 pm »
so the Alberta public inquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaigns just released its long awaited, long delayed report (the "Allan Inquiry" - over-budget and thrice-extended public inquiry at a cost of $3.5 million) - and it served up a big ole' nothingBurger!

~$1.3 billion is the amount the report says it found foreign donors provided in grant funding to Canadian environmental organizations between 2003 and 2019. Of the ~$1.3 billion, around $554 million went to well-known and respected conservation groups like Ducks Unlimited Canada, which does not participate in “anti-Alberta” campaigns - only somewhere between $37.5 to $58.9 million was specifically granted to anti-oil and gas campaigns in Canada.

so sad, too bad Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Interestingly, Kenney was no where to be found during the provinces official press conference gaslighting of the report claiming it actually vindicates Kenney - go figure!

as covered in the New York Times, no less: Alberta Took on Environmental Groups, but Only Proved They Did Nothing Wrong --- The report from a provincial inquiry into “anti-Alberta energy campaigns” didn’t back up Premier Jason Kenney’s allegations.
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But instead of giving Mr. Kenney the firepower he sought to diminish the influence of environmental groups, the inquiry’s findings offered little support of Mr. Kenney’s argument.

Between 2003 and 2019, the powerhouse accounting firm Deloitte calculated that Canadian environmental charities raised 8.1 billion Canadian dollars. But the firm found that during that period those groups only received 37.5 million to 58.9 million dollars in “foreign funding directed to Alberta resource development opposition,” or an average of 3.7 million Canadian dollars per year across the sector, at most — just slightly more than the cost of the inquiry itself.

Alberta lost to a bunch of C-list celebrities, shoe-string ENGOs and Neil Young --- The Allan inquiry is an incredible admission of incompetence and failure by successive Alberta governments.

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In other words, the inquiry spent $3.5 million to fully unpack an environmental movement that had already been widely reported in the media.

Allan wasn't able to come up with a specific number for the amount of foreign funds that went to stopping Alberta's oilsands, but did find $54 million "prescribed for 'anti-Alberta resource development activity'" between 2003-2019. This is only a fraction of foreign funds directed to broader environmental campaigns: total foreign funding of all "Canadian-based environmental initiatives during this period was $1.28 billion.”

It should be noted, here, that most funding for "anti-Alberta resource development activity" came not from Americans, but rather Canadians who were moved to donate because, well, they opposed Alberta’s resource development activity.

Allan also reported that he found no evidence of illegal activity. Environmental activists and organizations did what environmental activists and organizations do. They seek issues to target and then mobilize people and tactics to oppose those targets.
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Re: No llores por mí Alberta
« Reply #849 on: October 25, 2021, 11:42:29 am »
to be expected, Postmedia rags went full gaslight on the findings of the, 'Alberta public inquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaigns (the "Allan Inquiry")'. And then there's the outright lies coming from assorted UCP MLAs and the UCP Caucus itself... the following shows a graphic debunking the claims of a UCP Caucus tweet (h/t David Climenhaga):


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Re: No llores por mí Alberta
« Reply #850 on: November 12, 2021, 05:09:46 pm »
In my posts, I tend to focus on the batshit craziness of the U.S. right and one of the reasons for that is what they do is increasingly finding purchase with our own homegrown doofuses. Recently I posted about a school administrator in Texas who was trying to help teachers understand the implications of the states' new anti"CRT" laws and who landed in hot water for suggesting the laws would mean having to provide perspectives on both sides of the Holocaust. Well here in Alberta, the UCP is adopting the same approach with their curriculum only they are making "you have to talk about the good stuff the Nazi did" quite explicit. Oh and to add insult to injury, this is in the section called "guidelines for recognizing diversity and promoting respect". This is where "we need to be unbiased and let the historical record speak for itself" leads you.

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Re: No llores por mí Alberta
« Reply #851 on: November 12, 2021, 05:31:12 pm »
In my posts, I tend to focus on the batshit craziness of the U.S. right and one of the reasons for that is what they do is increasingly finding purchase with our own homegrown doofuses. Recently I posted about a school administrator in Texas who was trying to help teachers understand the implications of the states' new anti"CRT" laws and who landed in hot water for suggesting the laws would mean having to provide perspectives on both sides of the Holocaust. Well here in Alberta, the UCP is adopting the same approach with their curriculum only they are making "you have to talk about the good stuff the Nazi did" quite explicit. Oh and to add insult to injury, this is in the section called "guidelines for recognizing diversity and promoting respect". This is where "we need to be unbiased and let the historical record speak for itself" leads you.

I'd think that any study of how the Nazis were able to achieve power and inflame extremism in the general public would need to take into account the national mood in Germany following the Great War including the economic turmoil and popular resentment of the conditions the Treaty of Versailles imposed on the country.

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« Reply #852 on: November 13, 2021, 01:24:06 pm »

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Re: No llores por mí Alberta
« Reply #853 on: November 15, 2021, 11:39:56 am »
hey now Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, does federalism work... well does it? 2020 marks the first time since the 1960s that Alberta received more in federal spending than was raised in revenue:




which doesn't include/factor today's child-care announcement: Ottawa, Alberta reach deal for 'affordable, quality child care

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early learning & child-care agreements signed between the Liberal federal government and:

=> July 8 - British Columbia;
=> July 12 - Nova Scotia;
=> July 23 - Yukon;
=> July 27 - P.E.I.;
=> July 28 - Newfoundland and Labrador; and now:
=> August 5 - Quebec
=> August 9 - Manitoba
=> August 13 - Saskatchewan
=> November 14 - Alberta

and still... Conservative Premiers Ford/Ontario & Higgs/New Brunswick are hold-outs!

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Re: No llores por mí Alberta
« Reply #854 on: November 15, 2021, 05:38:02 pm »
I'd think that any study of how the Nazis were able to achieve power and inflame extremism in the general public would need to take into account the national mood in Germany following the Great War including the economic turmoil and popular resentment of the conditions the Treaty of Versailles imposed on the country.

 -k

No one is objecting to teaching that context, it's the requirement to include "positive behaviours and attitudes" to balance out any negative ones.
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