I kinda disagree on Ralph Klein he realized how bad ballooning debt was and explained it well I do remember when he addressed the province. He than implemented many cutbacks and than got lucky with the price of oil. He did eliminate the deficit and passed legislation making deficits illegal. Than after he left is when it got bad and folks like Stelmach and Redford and Notley and Kenney did what you said

Also I was more referring to Alberta not having a sales tax , highest paid public sector, some of the highest paid teachers, doctors and nurses , and Kenney slashing the gas tax. If your another provinces its tough to feel sorry for Alberta.


Though I do agree many politicians only care for their power and end up destroying the cities, provinces and Canada.

Saw a poll that says 68% of GOP and 62% of Dems think politicians are in it for themselves

1-2 years I think your dreaming
War ending I think your dreaming
New route and sources being built from were?
Good luck with that

Putin is raking in the cash. The only scenario I see is Germany quietly buying Russian gas again

Your underestimating the power of profits imo .

If oil price stays high long enough , Germany oil market will find supplier guarantee .

https://theconversation.com/one-of-t...ch-year-163250
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A big reason they’re so harmful is because they uproot soil at vast scales, like tractors ploughing a field. Our new research, published today, is the first to calculate the global extent of this and its implications for carbon emissions.

Our findings were staggering. We discovered the cumulative area of soil uprooted by wild pigs is likely the same area as Taiwan. This releases 4.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide each year — the same as one million cars. The majority of these emissions occur in Oceania.
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The government needs to take the lead on hunting down the boars: the infestation, like last year's fires out west and yearly flooding is just the kind of thing a well-funded armed forces could be doing. I see videos of them in the wild (boars, not armed forces) and can't help but think they'd be excellent practical target practice for Canadian drone pilots - they're not only practicing detecting and targeting, having to fire missiles within the border of Canada would require excellent fire control practice to avoid any accidents. At the very least dozens of RCAF drone pilots should be hunting them down right now with thermals and passing the information on - compared to how many boondoggles the army already spends our money on, I can't help but think that large drone air wings have to be amongst the most cost-effective ways to contribute to a war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbfE...dSkullOutdoors

They're freaking insane - I love the bear's face at around 1:18 when he turns to the camera as if to say 'can you believe this ****'.

As Alberta launched its Heritage Savings Trust Fund and then Norway started their own version decades later both funds had ambitious goals to 'rack' the wealth coming out of the resource extraction in a way that a percent of proceeds could benefit all citizens of the Province/Country respectively while providing Funds to spend to transition the economy away from Oil and Gas and in to other opportunities (Green Energy, Tech, etc) .

But as happens, any time special interests and Politicians see a big pot of money growing they can't help but scheme on how to loot it, to get special interests more cash, and for the Politicians to get buy more votes.

it was Klein who decided to gut the Fund and change that course of that forever by instead putting a few more dollars into every citizens hand (no Provincial Sales tax, etc) and that action more than any other, imo, mostly doomed Alberta to be a boom and bust Oil and Gas economy only.

Alberta is not Quebec so you will not see the Federal gov't investing massively to try and improve the future outcomes in that Province. There are too many politicians and voters with disdain for Albertans in Quebec, BC and Ontario for any massive investments to be earmarked for the Province and instead if Alberta is to become the next Manitoba, so be it.

Many Canadians do not know the history of Manitoba and how it was once a bustling hub and growing economic power house as the East/West Rail hub connecting East and Western Canada. And then as airlines came in to play for transport and rail less emphasized Manitoba went into decades of stagnation. As much of the rest of the Country boomed Manitoba saw economic growth flat to nonexistent, population growth flat to nonexistent, and major cities hollowed out and becoming mostly infested by organized crime.

We saw the beginnings of that in Alberta with the last Oil and Gas downturn, starting 2015 up until just recently with the only big Mall in Edmonton's downtown hollowed out and losing most of its stores and Calgary grinding to a halt in the downtown. And all the gov't could do, all the voters would let them do, was double and triple down on a wished for 'next Boom cycle for Oil'. Thank goodness for Russians and the Ukraine war. As all those very rich Albertans who are so heavily invested in O&G get one more huge payday before the coming next Bust.

each Bust cycle now, however threatens to be never ending. Threatens to not come back, as Rail never did for Manitoba, but those AB voters with so much money in O&G assets will never accept that. The deeper the downturn gets the more they will only vote for Politicians who throw ever more money at subsidizing them until the 'Next Boom', as they always believe there will be a Next Boom. They are too invested to believe otherwise.

And that is why long term AB is doomed IMO because without a Fund focused on diversifying the Province you will see over and over what happened in 2015. Voters demanding more subsidies and help to preserve the O&G sector and its investors survive will get gov't to pull money out of every other sector.

After the 2015 crash, the Edmonton and Calgary downtown office segment got decimated. There was one sole bright spot. Start up and emerging Tech companies. Every office tower was racing to turn prior O&G related spaces into Tech shared space hubs (WeWork model). Investment was flowing into AB nascent AI tech community and big companies (Google's Waymo & big Chinese corporate interests, etc) were setting up shop to tap the emerging talent.

That was all taken away to instead bolster the O&G sector, and as the tax incentives to invest in Tech in AB disappeared there was a mass exodus of AB startups and young companies to more Tech friendly Provinces in QB, Ont and BC where they could attract funding.


Anyway I digress but that speaks to the problems of AB, so mired in O&G with no Plan B. The Province is forever All-In and bust is eventually going to happen.

As always happens, you would have very misguided leftist rise up and oppose any such culls, despite the devistitation to the climate and the local wildlife.

As always, the Road to Hell would be paved with their good intentions. They feel they are being 'nice' in blocking the culls and saving the animals while the ignore the far worse downstream events.

As always it will require strong and resilient 'adults' to step in and not allow the vocal advocate left to dictate.

Even as deer and geese populations became sick and unwieldy and were damaging the ecology you had the advocate left fighting against any cull.

Deer, goose and wild pig populations should be regularly culled and the meat sent to local food banks to feed the homeless and to give to the working poor. Hunters will do that work for free if allowed to hunt.

The far left is so manipulative and dishonest that they spin any such suggestion of giving that meat to the homeless and working poor as a bad thing. Like we are giving them the food we don't want to eat. Like it is road kill or something. When in fact it would be a premium meat to the stuff mostly sold in grocery stores from factory farms.

But it is a real challenge for society to have sensible policies wherever a radical left exists. It takes real resolve from the adults in the room.

I don't want to quote your entire post, but it really is crazy how people can come up with their own reality. Even during down cycles Alberta economy is still better than other provinces. Then you just make random things up like there is no tech sector in Calgary because O&G is in a boom cycle. Calgary was just named one of the fastest growing tech cities in North America.

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/calgary-t...lent-1.5952154

Its like the folks that think Hunting is disgusting than go buy their meat from Walmart and have no clue what a factory farm looks like or Vegans that think Lentils are a harmless crop. If only they saw the amount of animals that die to get that crop.

If anyone wants to see the effects of Wild Boars Texas is a great place to start

You haven't addressed what I said. AB economy, up and down the line is linked strongly to O&G and I am not saying all parts stall out, but living in AB as i did, there was no denying the 2015 downturn impact.

You are gaslighting if you want to pretend they were doing well and trying to use a 'whatabout other Provinces' to make that point. Edmonton and Calgary were devastated. The legendary traffic snarls around Calgary gone.

And I never said there 'was no tech centre', so just like our leftie posters here you read what i said, thought it was reasonable and you could not counter it and as such you just lie and make up something that suits you to argue against.

Both Calgary and Edmonton's tech centres WERE hit very hard during the downturn AS I SAID. Investment capital drying up as the gov't cancelled programs to put more money in O&G subsidies.

I never said it would not come back during an AB boom. I never suggested any such thing. When O&G in AB is booming, everything booms as their is cash flowing everywhere. That is why I moved to AB in 2012 to start my company with my partners as it was cash intense and we needed continual investment and AB was the best place to get that.

Argue with what i said, if you can, or prove you cannot by strawmanning. Your choice.

My good friend is a hunter. He goes to Texas every year to an invite only hunt on the Navarro Pecan (?) ranch lands. Acres and acres of land that have challenges with invasive wild boars and an invasive deer species.

The ranch allows thousands of hobby hunters a year to hunt there with the rule being you haul out everything you kill.

The ranch gets free pest control and population control, and the hunters get their hunting fix. And the local community around it (both churches and non profits) have formed butcher groups who will take any donated animals and or butcher and prepare your kills for payment in meat. Win/win/win/win for the Ranch, the Hunter, the charity/church and the poor or others in the community who benefit from the hunt.

Oh and i was a winner too as he used to always bring me back blended wild boar and deer sausage which was delicious.

Have you seen the helicopter hunts they do? Wild

They say wild boar if cooked correctly is deliscious

Remember when Trudeau (and uke) used a tragedy to push their political agenda a few weeks ago. Well here is another example of it happening. I wonder if anyone gets fired or resigns over this.


https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featu...ntrol-efforts/

NO one is getting fired over this. You had two ministers flat out lie to the public and as long as it meets JT's agenda its ok . May say the inquiry is a joke as well

His gun legislation will do as much to stop gun violence as his climate change program will stop that. I honestly believe he will not be the Liberal candidate for PM in 2025.

I'm struggling to care about this story? The murderer used an assault style rifle. These should not exist in Canada. The Liberals, correctly, banned them. I didn't quite get why the RCMP didn't feel it could release the information at the time about what type of firearm it was, but why should I care if it comes out a week earlier or later all that much?

Also lol at lozen who called for handgun ban prior to Trudeau calling for it now dismissing the handgun ban legislation as useless. Buddy, he did what you asked!

No what I said was a handgun ban would make more sense than an assault gun ban . Though once I found out how hard it is to purchase a handgun and the constant background checks you go through as well lots of folks go through it to target shoot I changed my position to all the money should be spent on making sure guns do not come across the border and increasing the mandatory minimums Harper put in place not reducing them

Lets be clear no legally bought assault rifle killed anyone and I can not say that about handguns

Seem in the US mandatory minimums do not change a thing in gun assault ….
Why copy something that do not work ?

But comparing US with all other countries , it is the amount of guns that actually seem to be at the core of the problems …..

Awfully convenient how you were lecturing away about how Trudeau was wrong to not ban handguns and within the day of him proposing to ban handguns suddenly found a whole bunch of new arguments that handgun bans don’t do much. And contorting yourself into these insane positions like being pro handgun bans but anti the objectively more dangerous assault rifle ban while you are at it. I don’t think you can see it from the inside, but the depths of how your partisanship distorts everything is pretty crazy.

So what your saying is I had a position and were provided with a list of facts to debate my position that seemed like a very good argument and thus changed my position makes me partisan.

Im sure those 6 or 8 people shot in Toronto were with legal handguns

Here is the reality we live next to the biggest gun toting country in the world were anyone can buy a gun. Add in the fact we have one of the largest borders to this country and the best way to reduce gun violence is to stop as many guns as possible. Taking away the guns from law abiding citizens that had to go through background checks and training and are not involved in the gun crime we have seems like nothing more than apolitical stunt


I would be fine with a Handgun ban with an exemption for sport shooters.

Well they are removing many of these laws and gun violence is on the rise . Do you realize if you rob someone in NY City with a unloaded gun its not a felony only a loaded gun That is insane

Of course you are. They broke investigation protocol for politics, that should never happen. The firearms used were illegal and smuggled across the border. The RCMP were actually warned about him and his firearms numerous times.

im not saying the RCMP didn’t make in-the-moment mistakes. I think they did. But When it comes to larger political narratives…shrug? It completely solidified the fact that assault rifles should not be in Canada and how completely correct the liberals are to ban them. This story might be problematic to someone like lozen who bizarrely seems to think assault rifles are safer than handguns, but I don’t see how it is problematic for me.

Of course. Your uninformed gut opinion was handguns ban was a great idea and you used that to criticize Trudeau for not implementing one. Then as soon as he announces the handgun ban you inform yourself with the “list of facts” necessary to conclude a handgun ban is useless and swap your position. This was a swing within like two days buddy! And it is exactly how partisanship works, the entire conservative media ecosystem takes whatever Trudeau has done and talks about the “list of facts” the critique it so that their viewers - that is you! - who we all know are going to take the anti-Trudeau opinion do exactly that.

So you have a problem with the opposition providing a list of facts to inform us why a handgun ban is not warranted . See these are facts not like Justin's minister saying the police requested the Emergencies act

Like I said I changed my position but would still support the ban if it exempted sport shooters.

The fact you can not understand that more handguns kill people than assault rifles. I would also guess the large percentage off all gun crimes are with illegal weapons

Well when I take the empirical evidences all around the world , the only place where excess of gun crimes happens is in the US because they have more guns and not because they have lower mandatory laws ….

I would not disagree with you there and they want anyone to be able to carry which is nuts. Luckily we do not live in the USA and have strict responsible gun laws . If only we could keep the illegal guns out


Though if I was a rural CDN my gun of choice to protect my home would be a shotgun or AR 15 .