She dug her heels in because she's jockying to move up to the provincial legislature. Getting fired is part of building her reputation as a conservative culture warrior. The board really did not want to fire her.

And if people are suffering, the solution is to increase the rebate (or increase it's frequency). If it ends up being revenue deficit temporarily, fine, still better than vanity exemptions like this. This breaks the whole model. It removes the incentive to switch for people already looking replace old equipment, it removes the reward for those who did change, and it creates a whole inefficiency of administration for figuring out which fossil fuel burning is "free" and which is taxed. That bureaucracy is just going to burn money that could have went into the rebates.

Almost ALL brand new furnaces being installed even the most heatpump friendly places in Canada are NG or propane right now, and will continue to be for years to come. Even new home builds are virtually exclusively gas. This is taking away event he slightest incentive to change that.

Not just to prop up O&G company stock prices, but also to further their long-running process of tying absolutely every Albertan's financial well-being to O&G. Right now, if O&G drops, yeah, Albertans will lose jobs and the province's social services go unfunded, but they still have CPP to rely on. With this change, their retirement will also vanish.

The more they go "all in" on O&G, the more every voter in Alberta absolutely NEEDS the O&G industry to remain profitable. Keep that going, and the political party that is most pro-O&G will stay in power perpetually.

That's not understanding, that's whitewashing (or being naive). Those 3 points don't actually add up to "parents rights" unless you add one key additional component.

Indeed. It's also the province with the most to lose with climate change (likely desertification, they can barely keep their soil as it is), and a province with enough wind and scorchingly sunny days to be the Saudi Arabia of wind and solar. But yeah, they manage that potential well by doubling down on an economy based on oil alone. It makes cow-towing to lobbyists easy if there is only the one major one.

And simple narratives like “everybody in the SS was guilty of war crimes” are more pervasive because they’re much simpler to grasp.

Your whole wall of text seems to be a strawman based on this projection. Canadians obviously don't believe this, or these former SS members would have been strung up by their necks decades ago. However, they should never be honoured, regardless of whether they directly participated in crimes. That membership implies being complicit in those crimes, as they would have sworn allegiance to Hitler, and would have known and understood the Nazi ideology and supported it through their military action.

If a SS fighter doesn't have enough evidence for a conviction, they should simply live out their lives quietly and in shame for being part of something truly evil. If they were fooled in youth, and understood as they grew older, they would abhor any sort of valour or recognition. I'm not going to engage in whataboutism. There are plenty of other examples of people who should do the same thing.

The arguments for parking minimums always sound so poorly thought through that they would be laughed out of the park if it weren't for the entrenched tradition.

If your criteria are that a medical treatment is absolutely 100% safe and can be reversed as if absolutely no intervention was completed, then well, yeah, we shouldn't have Tylenol. Medicine is ALWAYS about balancing risks, and trying to make sure things are the least invasive option. It's done every day, in every Drs office.

Concern trolling about this particular case while spreading misinformation is in fact being "against" those particular people. Let them work out the safest option with their doctor in peace, like you would be able to do with your own health concerns. For all practical purposes, puberty blockers are relatively safe and reversible.

Are you in Ontario? Because Conservatives "cutting red tape" on municipal planning means greenlighting sprawling mcmansion developments on remote farmland, and resort style condo towers in town. Neither of which are intended, or help the housing affordability issue. It's actually the reverse; we have municipalities trying to get developers to infill, and getting overwritten by ministerial zoning orders.

The default rule should be to allow it. We already have some intersections that are signed to "dismount to cross" -and that signage could be used for intersections like this.

likely to gain Trudeau sympathy and/or support as not. The ‘bozo factor’ had sunk Conservative fortunes in the past and seems set to do an encore.

My only concern here is when this gets bad enough, it incentivizes the centrist party to mostly ignore the misinformation and radicalization rather than trying to stamp it out. In the states, the Democrats seems to be just a little too content fundraising on the fringe Republicans. Then you end up with a Trump and/or stochastic terrorism.

Yeah, and don't forget, they won't give up citizenship, because they will keep that safety net, despite railing against paying for it. They come back for the last 10-20 years of their life because that "low cost of living" country they are moving to won't be a good deal when they are old.