Whiteycar posted:

Enmax the city's electrical infrastructure provider has been getting poo poo since the flood because their redundant systems are almost non existent.

Colmface posted:

It falls entirely under the purview of ENMAX Power, the city-owned T&D utility. Other utilities may offer assistance in some form, depending on what can be made available in terms of equipment and expertise. Not many other utilities in Alberta use underground power equipment.

MrChips posted:

If a business can't deal with a 4-7 day unplanned disruption to their business, they don't deserve to be in business in the first place.

PT6A posted:

Enmax is planning to reenergise the blackout area by 5AM tomorrow, ahead of expectations. The spokesperson also actually offered an apology, even though it's probably no more her fault or Enmax's fault than it is Nenshi's that something lit on fire.

Guy DeBorgore posted:

Do we know that? I'm not the most up-to-date but I thought an ISIS-affiliated twitter account had tweeted a cellphone picture of the shooter wearing a kefiyeh and holding a gun...

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But hidden in plain sight in the photo is the concrete strength of the National War Memorial. The photo was taken by a tourist as the gunman embarked on his shooting spree, coming around the west side of the monument from the rear.

Ottawa police seized the camera, and it is believed an Ottawa police officer took a picture of that picture with a cell phone.

Pinterest Mom posted:

There's no bridge Warren Kinsella won't burn

Cultural Imperial posted:

so are denton's a bunch of loving clowns or what

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Dentons is a multinational law firm. It was founded in March 2013 by the merger of SNR Denton, Fraser Milner Casgrain and Salans. It has 79 offices across 52 countries and is one of the world's 10 largest law firms by number of lawyers, with approximately 2,600 lawyers and professionals. It has been ranked one of the world's top 20 Global Elite law firms by a survey of in-house counsel around the world.[4][5]

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Randi Rahamim
‏@randiraha
Regrettably, circumstances have changed. Navigator confirms it does not advise Jian Ghomeshi. No further comment will be issued.

vyelkin posted:

Incidentally, this case also proves the ineffectiveness of a travel ban, albeit indirectly, because the way this guy is trying to get around the ban is by having her admitted to the UK and then applying for a Canadian visa from the UK rather than from Sierra Leone, which is apparently perfectly fine and legal since he's a UK permanent resident as well as a Canadian citizen.

bunnyofdoom posted:

Come on, you could be the first goon mp!

bunnyofdoom posted:

You know what Canada needs? A James O'Keefe Figure


No wait, the opposite of that.

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There's only one problem: another participant in the secretly recorded conversation has stepped forward to say it was he, not [Lib candidate] Raynolds, who actually made the offending remarks.

"I don't believe Marlo should have to take the flak for something I said," Canmore resident Tam McTavish told The Canadian Press.

McTavish, who says he voted Conservative in the last election and has never been a member of the Liberal party, last week wrote a comment on [Banff-Airdrie Con MP] Richards' Facebook page, correcting the record. Richards has not responded to it.

[...]

[Sun News douchebag] Lilley has told Raynolds that the change in audio quality is due to the Conservative operative "zipping up her coat when she thought you were getting nervous that she might be recording you."

Indeed, Raynolds said he was suspicious that the woman was up to something from the outset of the Canmore meeting, in part because he was sure he'd seen her at an earlier meeting in Airdrie — although he says she told him that was her look-alike cousin.

Raynolds asked his wife to take some photographs of the woman during the meeting. They match the profile photo posted on the Facebook page of Alexandra Constantinidis, a former parliamentary assistant to Calgary Conservative [ex-] MP Rob Anders.

Heavy neutrino posted:

I don't know why people jeopardize their health by reading Ezra Levant in the first place. Studies show that ignoring Ezra Levant is correlated with lower blood pressure, lower levels of stress, and higher longevity.

da nensh posted:

For context, I've known @ezralevant since we were kids. We've travelled together, shared hotel rooms. He's exactly the same as he ever was.

da nensh posted:

And yes, every time @ezralevant felt he was losing a debate (often) he would jump into personal insults and feigned outage.

Rime posted:

Fine print on Ottawa's $200-million veterans fund: It'll take 50 years to pay

Hexigrammus posted:

Is it possible to donate 2 cents?

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Elections Canada records reveal that 10 top SNC-Lavalin managers and their wives wrote personal cheques in 2009 to two federal Conservative riding associations that showed little chance of winning.
A total of $25,000 was funnelled to the ridings of Laurier-Sainte-Marie and Portneuf-Jacques-Cartier.

Approximately $30,000 was then transferred out to Megantic-L’Erable, the riding of then-public works minister Christian Paradis, CTV’s Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife reported Friday night.

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In a statement on Friday, the Conservative Party said: “Neither Minister Paradis nor his riding association had any reason to believe these donations were anything other than the lawful, individual donations they were. It appears SNC deliberately concealed the alleged wrongdoing from the targets of their actions, including from Minister Paradis.”

MA-Horus posted:

I tried axe-throwing for the first time last night, the league is sponsored by Beaus. They bring in a keg for one of the competition nights.

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Ms. Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands, GP):

Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition, from petitioners in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and particularly in the Ottawa area, calling on the Government of Canada to conduct a parliamentary review into the events that occurred in the United States on September 11.

Hal_2005 posted:

You know China lied about those statistics for like the last 30 years until Deng before he died had the whole statistics set of 'real' numbers sent to DC via Kissenger. right? Reading a book on the country may help you, alot.

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According to @DonMartinYEG Smith, Anderson, Bikman, Stierman, Peterson, Hale and Wilson have crossed the floor. #wrp #pcaa #abpoli #ableg

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Dave Nelson ‏@DaveNelsonn 15m15 minutes ago
Wish I could have had the chance to vote @ElectDanielle out as leader at this years #wrp AGM #sad #grassroots #highriver #turncoats #ByeBye

Pinterest Mom posted:

So just half the caucus, and the WRP rump remains official opposition?

E: Actually, I can't find the original source on that list, looks like just Twitter rumours at the moment.

CBC posted:

Seven Wildrose MLAs are planning to cross to Alberta’s governing Progressive Conservative party, CBC news has learned.

Two party sources said the seven are party leader Danielle Smith, House Leader Rob Anderson, and MLAs Jeff Wilson, Gary Bikman, Pat Stier, Blake Pederson and Jason Hale.

Members of the 14-person caucus met Tuesday afternoon to discuss an offer from the PCs.

The executive of the party is holding a teleconference Tuesday night to discuss what’s next.

The Dark One posted:

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UPDATE: CBC's Chuck Thompson tells CANADALAND that "Amanda did declare her relationship with Geoff Beattie to her executive producer (Robert Lack) and he has the appropriate processes in place."

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Neither the CBC or Lang answered the question. The CBC did respond with a statement, ignoring most of our questions. In this reply, CBC spokesman Chuck Thompson offered a curious detail:

"...the Globe approached Amanda to write an oped about outsourcing for Report on Business."

This seemed dubious to us. Why would The Globe solicit a story on outsourcing from Lang? The idea that they did so certainly undercut the idea that Lang was on a mission to sabotage Tomlinson's story. We didn't include it in our coverage, and the CBC later complained that we "left out important facts".

Problem is, it's not a fact. This statement we received from The Globe and Mail directly contradicts the story put forward by the CBC:

"We have reviewed our records and we can confirm Amanda Lang contacted The Globe to write the outsourcing column we published on April 12, 2013."

In other words, The Globe and Mail says that it was Lang who solicited The Globe and not, as the CBC explicitly told us, the other way around. And no, as the CBC has since admitted, Lang never did ask for management's permission to write The Globe piece. [...]

El Scotch posted:

I wonder how much funding a 1% PST would raise in Alberta.

OSI bean dip posted:

This same Social Credit movement also banned the serving of alcohol by planes flying over its airspace for years until the Lougheed government came into power in the early 1970s.

OSI bean dip posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accurate_News_and_Information_Act


I neglected to mention this one but it did happen. I had texts and letters written by Bible Bill back in the day so I was familiar with his shenanigans. But yeah. This is an example of the LG going "no". I don't have the currency thing readily available however.

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A rewrite of federal job statistics reveals the Canadian economy created 35% fewer jobs last year than originally reported. Statistics Canada rewrote its data citing “re-evaluation of geographical boundaries” as the reason for the revision: “We try to provide our users with the best quality that we can”.

Pinterest Mom posted:

If the premier holds a press conference every time the government manages to cut 600k in expenditures, the Edmonton press gallery is going to be very busy.

FowlTheOwl posted:

That's one of the biggest problems with taxes, even if your taxes are low, people don't want to pay them. It needs a rebranding, like true patriot love funds.

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Hot take about how Stephen Harper is playing 3-D chess again and coordinated this Harper Lee announcement to distract from the Baird news.