[afransen]

I've worked with my condo board on this. We're in a set of three low rise (5-6 storeys) buildings with a common underground garage. The solution they came up with was to take guest spots outside and install high level 2 (20 kW) chargers. But the alternative they assessed? Low Level 2 (7-10 kW) at each of the 130 parking stalls. And a large chunk of the cost was paying for electric service upgrades to the building. These would have been a lot more manageable with a 120V outlet instead. Also more useful, since people can use them for other things, from a vacuum cleaner to an air compressor. Instead, for slight savings, we'd have to give up visitor parking spots, time our charging with parking Tetris and park outside. Really defeats a major advantage of having an EV: thoughtless concurrent charging while you sleep.

At 80%, a NEMA 5-20 would give 1.9 KW continuous. That's enough to add 7-10 km of range per hour for most EV. More than enough, for all but the most extreme commuters. And for 130 spots, at 2.5 KW, the total added service would have only been as much as 3 condos.

I think for most MURBs, the answer is going to be something like a NEMA 5-20 for each resident parking stall, and a handful of high power Level 2s in guest parking.

 

[jje1000]

The EU (progressive gods) have given in, Carney will be hard pressed not to follow suit.

EU to exempt heavy industry from carbon tax on exports

Concessions to support European producers in the face of foreign competition follow calls to ease climate targets

www.ft.com

 

[Northern Light]

Interesting, in light of all the recent discussion in this thread on the subject of EVs, that in his meeting with the country's automakers, the PM was apparently asked to eliminate the EV mandate.

That, from this article in the Globe: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/pol...rney-to-repeal-zero-emission-vehicle-mandate/

From the above:

For the rest, follow the link.

 

[gabe]

Multiple Air Traffic Control towers across Canada, including those at Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Winnipeg, were evacuated due to a series of bomb threats.

Flights disrupted at airports across country after bomb threats prompt temporary ground stops, Nav Canada says

Canada’s air-traffic control agency warns travellers to check for flight disruptions

www.theglobeandmail.com

 

[Admiral Beez]

As if any of them did not intend to stay.

Academics call on Ottawa to speed up Palestinian student visas

A group of Canadian academics is calling on the federal government to speed up approvals of student visas for Palestinians after two students who were accepted at a Canadian university died before they could leave the region.

www.ctvnews.ca

No thanks. If you want UN convention asylum you can apply legitimately, not use the student visa program.

 

[zang]

As if any of them did not intend to stay.

Gawd forbid anyone want a way out of a war zone. So selfish of them not to want to get killed or continue living in apartheid situations.

FFS, man.

No thanks. If you want UN convention asylum you can apply legitimately, not use the student visa program.

I’m honestly disgusted at the moment.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

Meanwhile, in Alberta...

Poilievre has to contend with Alberta separatists as he vies for a Commons seat​

From https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-alberta-byelection-separatists-1.7576239

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's path back to the House of Commons runs through a rural Alberta riding that has become a hotbed for Western discontent and the independence movement — a potentially tricky situation to navigate for a leader with national ambitions.

Poilievre, a Calgarian by birth who has lived away from Alberta for more than two decades, is running in the Aug. 18 byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot, a sprawling riding in the province's east where the oil and gas industry is a major employer. It includes the small town of Hardisty, which sits at the nexus of the North American oil pipeline system and is home to a huge petroleum tank farm.

The riding is easily one of the most Conservative in the country. In the last general election, nearly 83 per cent of voters there cast a ballot for Damien Kurek, who stepped aside to give Poilievre a chance to get back into Parliament after he lost his own Ontario seat to a Liberal. Only one other federal riding, Souris-Moose Mountain in Saskatchewan, delivered a higher share of the vote to a Conservative candidate.

While Poilievre faces only token partisan opposition in this byelection, there's another challenge: How he contends with an increasingly vocal separatist movement in the Conservative heartland.

Jeffrey Rath is a leader of the Alberta Prosperity Project. The group is trying to build support for an independent Alberta, which the province's premier says is at an all-time high. A recent poll found support at about 30 per cent.

In an interview with CBC News, Rath said the byelection outcome is not in doubt.

"People can't stomach voting for anyone else," he said.

Still, Rath said, independence-minded voters are looking for substantive answers from Poilievre on the issues they care about most, namely how Alberta can be better treated in a federation some feel isn't working for them anymore.

He predicts Poilievre will sidestep controversial issues and a close association with separatist voices so he can go back to Ottawa and vie for national power without any Alberta baggage.

"Poilievre ran in the last election against the end of equalization. The dairy cartel-mafia has gotten to him — he says he's not going to touch supply management," Rath said.

"He's pandering to Ontario and Quebec and I can tell you, a lot of Albertans, we're sick of it."

Rath, a First Nations rights lawyer who has floated the idea of Alberta joining the U.S., also objects to what he perceives as Poilievre's hostility toward President Donald Trump.

He said Poilievre should be looking to build bridges with Trump given the importance of the Canada-U.S. trading relationship.

"He's sycophantically following the Liberals, trying to beat them at their own game," Rath said. "People in Alberta aren't overly impressed with Pierre right now."

Rath wants a more aggressive stance on equalization in particular — long vilified in Alberta as sucking money out of the rich West.

The federal program is designed to ensure all parts of the country have roughly the same level of public services by transferring money to places determined to be "have-not" provinces.

Funded from the federal government's general revenues (such as federal income tax), provinces do not contribute to the program. Poilievre has promised not to make any "big changes" to the regime, if he forms a government.

"These places need to operate within their own means to stop bleeding Alberta dry. Those days are over," Rath said. "If you can't say you're going to fight against equalization then you don't belong in Alberta.

"Get the hell out. We don't want you anymore."...

 

[picard102]

Gawd forbid anyone want a way out of a war zone. So selfish of them not to want to get killed or continue living in apartheid situations.

FFS, man.

Just be part of the commonwealth and migrate to another commonwealth country, it's that easy! If they didn't want to be deported they should have been British. /s

 

[81-717]

Gawd forbid anyone want a way out of a war zone. So selfish of them not to want to get killed or continue living in apartheid situations.

FFS, man.



I’m honestly disgusted at the moment.

Just be part of the commonwealth and migrate to another commonwealth country, it's that easy! If they didn't want to be deported they should have been British. /s

Canada's immigration system must put national security ahead of applicants: Expert

"We need to get back to a system that's sane, we need to get back to a system that's secure," said Toronto Immigration Lawyer Sergio Karas

ca.news.yahoo.com

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

^Look how well that's working out State side... /s

 

[Mihairokov]

I wonder if Rath genuinely thinks Indigenous rights would improve if Alberta were absorbed into the US.

Either way, a true shame to see people on the far-right bickering and splintering amongst themselves. Hate to see it.

 

[81-717]

^Look how well that's working out State side... /s

Look how well the opposite of that has worked out across the West over the past decade. /S

Why does the burden of expectation to save the world always fall on Canada (or the West in general)? Ask yourself why Egypt, the UAE, Qatar, etc, don't want to accept them? Why is there no expectation & pressure for said countries to open up their borders (without any due process or background checks of course) like there is on the West? Why is the West always expected to pick up the slack?

 

[zang]

Why does the burden of expectation to save the world always fall on Canada (or the West in general)? Ask yourself why Egypt, the UAE, Qatar, etc, don't want to accept them?

You’re aware of the reason the nation of Israel was formed, right? In part because the west didn’t want Jewish refugees staying in western countries post WWII, and to avoid fewer attempts.

“We don’t want you, so you can have this place we’ve decided is yours now.”

The fact of the matter is that Egypt and Syria want to avoid taking refugees precisely because that’s what Israel wants, and capitulating to that means a greater Israeli dominance over the area, and a greater likelihood of economic and social instability in the region.

Also, what right does the west have to claim it’s false sense of moral superiority over other parts of the world when it’s unwilling to follow its own advice; a problem that’s long-standing and divisive.

 

[guavadelic]

Why does the burden of expectation to save the world always fall on Canada (or the West in general)? Ask yourself why Egypt, the UAE, Qatar, etc, don't want to accept them?

You seem unaware that neighbouring Arab countries are already home to millions of Palestinian refugees that were displaced over the last 80 years. It's not realistic to expect those countries to continue to facilitate further displacement of Palestinians.

 

[81-717]

Also, what right does the west have to claim it’s false sense of moral superiority over other parts of the world when it’s unwilling to follow its own advice

And what advice is that? To keep borders wide open? Clearly the West has already followed that advice (except countries like the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, etc, which made the absolute right call not to).

You seem unaware that neighbouring Arab countries are already home to millions of Palestinian refugees that were displaced over the last 80 years. It's not realistic to expect those countries to continue to facilitate further displacement of Palestinians.

It's not realistic to keep bringing in more people into the West in large numbers when the West is already struggling to sustain its existing population, either.