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Arivia posted:Random new thread for some reason? Okay The 2020 canpol thread was only expired by about 6 months
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May 28, 2021 18:48
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Lars Blitzer posted:Oh yeah, for a relatively brief time they used aluminum wiring instead of copper. It works perfectly fine, as long as the voltage and amperage isn't too high. Then the stuff melts. Same thing with plastic water lines made from polybutenol. That stuff is the precursor of pex and wirsbo, but it gets more brittle with time and UV light can damage it, so all you can do is adapt it to modern water lines. Poly B is easy to identify at least: it's a dull grey. You see that stuff, best leave it to the professionals. Isn't the other problem with Aluminum wiring that it oxidizes at connections which can increase resistance and thus heat which would lead to that melting scenario? Plus it seems like aluminum work hardens pretty quickly but I don't know if that's an issue as well or not.
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Jul 17, 2021 05:18
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pokeyman posted:I appreciate the (imo misplaced) optimism that every riding wouldn't be named after a bank. Now now, at least 20% of them would be named after Rogers telecommunications.
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Aug 23, 2021 03:35
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Drunk Canuck posted:https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/1438534932624809990?s=19 Getting Brain Candy vibes with names like that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUMnR4SnECU
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Sep 16, 2021 17:42
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PittTheElder posted:LOL I don't understand why people are rushing to log into that, the information it shows in there is pretty crappy, and the non vaccine passport vaccine passport doesn't show up till Sunday. Maybe they'll have gotten through the line by sunday at this rate
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Sep 16, 2021 22:52
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pokeyman posted:Frames had an untimely demise and if browsers kept working on them before giving up they'd be downright amazing. Don't worry, there's always iframes
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Dec 10, 2021 01:06
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DaysBefore posted:People in Halifax are very excited for the upcoming Dennys and I understand IHOP caused quite a stir when it first opened. Just lmao Downtown and even Bedford had some decent eating options but Sackville is very dire for places to eat for some reason so I can see why people from there would be excited I guess? No idea where those things are though so I dunno.
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May 26, 2022 21:08
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Interesting, Lich gets bail again despite violating her previous bail conditions https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/tamara-lich-bail-ottawa-july-26-2022-1.6532149
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Jul 26, 2022 22:48
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DaysBefore posted:Can't help but notice there was no mention of the restaurant....... hellworld indeed.... Make your own at home https://www.cjhk.ca/2022/08/03/you-could-buy-a-vintage-booth-from-a-nova-scotia-zellers-restaurant/
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Aug 17, 2022 16:19
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pokeyman posted:OK we raise pay for and hire more people into the public system, and each premier gets fifty $1 million cheques they can secretly address to anyone they like no questions asked. This plan can hardly compete when governments are already giving away billion dollar toll highways to their friends for 99 years or whatever
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Aug 20, 2022 03:34
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This but real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7eeoteqeuY
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Sep 8, 2022 22:43
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DaysBefore posted:Guess it turned out to be a good thing (by which I mean a very bad thing) that NS Health never even opened up the option of a second booster for my age range because by the time we're eligible there might be enough bivalent supply around lmao Lol yeah they never lowered the age below 50 for a second booster. Also wtf is this from their bivalent announcement: quote:For most people in Nova Scotia, the recommended interval between any COVID-19 vaccine doses after the primary series is 168 days since their last vaccine. People who have become infected with COVID-19 should wait 168 days from their infection before receiving their next dose of COVID-19 vaccine. If you are over 75 the wait is a mere 120 days to get the new bivalent one otherwise it's 168. And I think they are opening it to only 70 plus now with the age dropping 'in coming weeks'.
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Sep 18, 2022 03:51
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pokeyman posted:On the plus side, it opened up quick (18+ can book now). Crazy, was that opening basically unannounced? I saw doctors on twitter yesterday complaining about all the open appointments and asking why the province hadn't lowered the age yet. After I saw your post last night I went and booked an appointment for this morning. That's how little uptake there is
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Sep 21, 2022 13:43
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pokeyman posted:Officially announced an hour ago. I saw a Tim Bousquet tweet last night. The wording was funny too, "18 and older who live in the community", reminded me of the "and yet you live in a society" comic strip. Yeah last night someone on Reddit said they updated the text to say 18+ but the booking still had checkboxes that restricted it to people in care homes or with immune deficiencies and such. Later in the evening they fixed that too so it was fully opened. So I guess they were ironing out the kinks last night before officially throwing the doors open today. When I booked last night there were solid availabilities every 5 minutes at the place I booked. When I got there 10 minutes before the appointment time there were several people waiting for their shots and more showing up steadily as I was waiting, so those slots must have been booking up pretty quickly even prior to the official announcement. At my appointment this morning the doc administering it said they were caught off guard too and had no idea what happened as they suddenly saw all the slots filling up with no explanation. She said she was just happy to be seeing a full clinic though.
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Sep 22, 2022 04:12
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Given the popularity of political campaigns making appeals to supporters based on doubling or tripling your donation in the US, I'm guessing they must have numbers showing that it increases donations. I think people want to feel like they are getting the most value for their money and when they see that their own donation is 'worth' more it makes them feel better about making it. I do see the point that if the government has the money to give, they shouldn't be gating it behind the good will of others. I assume they set aside an amount they are pretty sure will be met so it's not really going to waste.
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Sep 28, 2022 03:51
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Aces High posted:I thought we chose our time for Thanksgiving because when the end of November rolls around everything's covered in snow and lol if you hadn't harvested everything by then. We've had one Thanksgiving, yes. But what about second Thanksgiving?
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Oct 10, 2022 19:12
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McGavin posted:Fewer than 4 percent of the population of B.C. has access to fluoridated water supply through their community. Apparently the ease of access and prevalence of floridated tooth paste makes adding it to the water supply a largely pointless expense for the municipality. Or so I've been told by the former manager of the water department of Kamloops.
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Mar 22, 2023 02:56
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McGavin posted:I am not terminally online, so what's so important about that? I too had to google it but lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain_Charlebois quote:In 2018, Charlebois became the director of Agri-food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie, after resigning as dean following an investigation into complaints involving harassment and bullying.
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Apr 5, 2023 17:25
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DaysBefore posted:Anyone in Hali use Citywide internet? I've heard their service can be iffy but I would like to not pay Eastlink 130 a month for 15mbps if I can help it lol I think they just lease lines from Eastlink don't they? So rather than pay eastlink directly you're paying Citywide to pay eastlink. I don't have first hand experience but when I was using a similar third party provider out west that ran on the Shaw network it was a nightmare if anything went wrong with the connection. Shaw would always prioritize their own customers first plus my provider would get billed by Shaw for doing anything, so they were always super hesitant to open tickets unless they were absolutely certain it was a shaw issue. That meant tons of back and forth with tech support and troubleshooting to make sure it wasn't on my end plus gathering evidence that it was truly a shaw issue.
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May 8, 2023 21:47
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infernal machines posted:It's a completely new design, is there any particular reason to keep him specifically, rather than any of the other things they didn't keep? I don't think it's a big deal really but he did spur a pretty large movement towards funding cancer research that has raised iirc hundreds of millions of dollars. So it seems like a bright spot in our history that might be worth highlighting moreso than people jumping in a lake or whatever. But there's plenty of statues and other ways he is commemorated so whatever.
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May 11, 2023 12:23
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I think wood chips actually consume nitrogen while they decay so plants don't do super well growing in them at first but once the initial breakdown is over they are good for fertilization. We had a bunch of branches chipped up and left it in a pile for a year or two and when I dug into it this year about an inch or two down from the surface it was already well on its way to being converted into nice rich looking soil.
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Jun 9, 2023 12:48
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what's with the sudden appearance of all these Halifax/Maritime goons? Anyway, all this rain is hopefully making up for the insanely dry winter/sprint we had. Plus we don't have to water our newly planted trees which is nice.
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Jun 29, 2023 15:59
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TheKingofSprings posted:It would actually be really cool if there was stuff like reusable tide containers that you just filled up in the store There's a store like that in Halifax (Dartmouth) https://thetareshop.com Squibbles fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Jul 5, 2023 |
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Jul 5, 2023 17:15
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sass menagerie posted:Does BC Hydro even have any fossil fuel-based plants? Yes there's at least 2 natural gas plants I know of off hand. One in port moody and one over on the island. I think they are mostly used for backup when demand gets super high or there's a downed line so they can't get power from the big dams up north down to the lower mainland. I suspect they have a few other non-hydro plants around too. But it's quite a low percentage of the overall power they generate. Edit: 5% from biomass too apparently, but 87% from hydro: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-a...h-columbia.html Squibbles fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Jul 19, 2023 |
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Jul 19, 2023 22:42
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Oxyclean posted:Alternatives are not the best, from what I understand. Or at least, stuff like portable units with the hoses you stick out windows are fairly inefficient due to the part that gets hot being in the space you want to be cold. A tube an a fan (particularly if that tube is also doubling as the intake) only can do -so much- compared to the hot part just being not where you want it to be cold. I thought heat pumps were much more efficient for heating than resistive heaters but not really much different than air conditioners for cooling.
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Jul 19, 2023 23:11
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Oxyclean posted:I mean, they work fine enough, it's more just that I watched a big bunch of videos on this stuff (Technology connections on youtube) and they were pretty critical of the portable units from just like, the fact that it's a less efficient design. It absolutely has use cases like yours. Oh for sure. Heat pumps being able to heat and cool is a really nice benefit. Especially if you can use it to forego baseboard heaters or something. But if heating isn't a concern I don't think a heat pump has much in the way of advantages over an A/C unit. The carrier website says that AC and Heat pumps work in a nearly identical way for cooling I think.
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Jul 19, 2023 23:23
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Maybe that's also including the 300 square foot studio condos that every new building seems to be full of? I agree it looks old though
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Jul 28, 2023 13:53
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Fornax Disaster posted:Municipal tax assessment figures maybe? Interestingly in Nova Scotia they have a law that your house assessment cannot go up more than the rate of inflation. That includes if you sell or give the house to direct family. If you sell the house to someone else then it 'resets' to the market value and then starts ticking up slowly again until the next time it's sold. They do show a second value on the assessment that is supposed to be the "real" value but from the houses I've looked up it seems to be much much lower than the actual sale prices in the area.
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Jul 28, 2023 20:44
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DaysBefore posted:That assessment law is cheating the HRM out of like a hundred millie in tax revenue a year (10% of the city budget). At least Wow I didn't know it applies to landlords/investment properties. That's especially insane.
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Jul 28, 2023 21:01
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DaysBefore posted:Yeah there's been a lot of that. Old churches especially. Yuppies have buying up the cute old wooden churches out in the counties and turning them into cafes or restaurants or homes. Though in the last few months I heard about a bunch of the business ones closing up lol (not a mean lol) Cute churches you say? More like pet foot supply stores https://goo.gl/maps/vuDpfEMniy5TGK4D7
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Aug 8, 2023 15:29
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I don't know if it's still accurate/up to date but this article from a few years ago explains it I think: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/03/facebooks-siren-call/ Basically Facebook encourages people to stay within their walled garden. So there may be a link to the full story on cbc.ca but people just read the headline/extracted excerpt on facebook and don't bother clicking through to an external site where they can be shown ads that generate revenue for someone other than Facebook. It reminds me of when Facebook did that huge push for video content a few years ago using fake/juked numbers to show how much better it was and forced a ton of companies to pivot away from text to video only to see it fail spectacularly. Facebook has a lot of control due to holding so many users and I guess the risk is that if they aren't sharing back to the people actually generating the content for them then those content producers are going to collapse. Syfe probably described it better 
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Aug 9, 2023 00:32
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Fidelitious posted:I found a delightful piece of land in Gatineau. It's a narrow strip behind 3 actual housing lots. You can never build on it and you can't access it from the road unless you convince one of those 3 to give you a right of way which they will never do. In Nova Scotia, a popular real estate viewing app (viewpoint.ca) shows you all the parcels/property lines and there is a rather shocking amount of those weird plots that are enclosed on all sides with no access. I have no idea how they come about or why the province/city allows them
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Sep 8, 2023 05:33
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Randalor posted:So what exactly happens if the APP forms? Is there an actual process for Alberta to extract money from the CPP, and who decides exactly how much Alberta can take from it? Apparently it's determined by the federal government via negotiation with the province withdrawing as per the CBC article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-pension-plan-danielle-smith-change-minds-analysis-dinning-1.6974719 CBC News posted:In Tombe's own newly published paper, he estimates Alberta would be more reasonably entitled to 20 or 25 per cent of CPP's present assets. CPPIB has not worked out its own figure, but Leduc said Tombe's math is much closer to a realistic figure, though even that may be high.
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Sep 22, 2023 20:21
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ZShakespeare posted:This may help you: Also this: https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/info/mc/personal/tools/canadacomplete/default_en.jsf
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Sep 23, 2023 00:52
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Raenir Salazar posted:Have you been watching Dr glaucomflecken as well or is luxury bones a more widely known funny means of referring to teeth? I don't know if this is the origin but it's been around for several years due to a joke like this
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Sep 28, 2023 19:53
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People assured me during the provincial election that the NS PCs were not like these other conservative parties in other provinces and how they were like the old school PCs from before the days of the reform party. Well, still evil as it turns out. Just not so in your face about it I guess.
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Oct 14, 2023 04:11
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It's crazy to be how fast the prices have shifted for home heating. We moved in to our place in Nova Scotia in 2020 and I was researching options then since our place has baseboard electric heat which it quite expensive. Oil was often listed as one of the cheapest to operate, then I saw the place down the road that sold heating oil with a sign out front showing the price per liter go from 60 cents to 90 to over a dollar then they just took the sign down to entirely with the space of less than a year. Now radio ads push propane as being the economical option. Glad we got the wood stove installed so if the prices get too insane for a cord of wood we can always invest in some wood cutting equipment and do it ourselves. Also with this house having baseboard heat it makes heat pumps a bit annoying as an option since there's no vents to to central heating/cooling so we'd be stuck having multiple units around the house I guess? Also our breaker panel is full so I don't know how they'd figure capacity for more power. My first thought would be too reuse the wiring for the baseboards but a lot of people recommend leaving them in place in case the heat pump fails.
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Oct 27, 2023 04:22
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PittTheElder posted:It's a bit of regional handout, but it's also to an absolutely tiny count of households, the number I've seen is 3%. And heating oil is already so cost ineffective that you already have incentives to switch to literally anything else, which is not really something you can say for Nat Gas. Do you mean 3% nationally? Apparently 31% of households in Nova Scotia use oil heat (as of 2021 on the NS Government website)
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Nov 3, 2023 13:51
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PittTheElder posted:Yeah it was a national number I think, but I could be wrong, just heard it on CBC radio I think Apparently new brunswick is only 7% oil heating or something so the 3% national is probably accurate. Also lol I was hearing a ton of ads on the radio here in NS promoting alberta's anti-carbon tax site/stance. I was wondering how much they must be spending to have a national advertising campaign, considering the ad was pretty frequent and playing on at least 3 of the local radio stations. Turns out their campaign was just in 4 provinces and they are blowing $8M on it: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-marketing-campaign-kenneth-wong-danielle-smith-1.6982839
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Nov 3, 2023 19:34
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Private companies are certainly good at efficiency. Efficiently separating people from their money and in this case, health or even lives: https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/
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Nov 17, 2023 04:25
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