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Northern Light said:
A quick scan of Toronto areas dominated by large flat roofs, such as Golden Mile, STC and Downsview suggests that the numbers are relatively low.

But 2 retailers stand out for consistently installing roof top solar.

1) Home Depot

2) Loblaws

In both cases, the majority of owned property have intensive solar installations.

3) I looked at several Costco's, none had solar installed.

Among major mall owners:

1) Oxford has some solar and extensive roof on portions of Yorkdale and STC. Neither at Square One.

2) CF didn't not have any installed solar or green roof that I could see at Sherway or Fairview.

3) Riocan does not appear to have any commitment to solar.

Other:

The Toronto District School Board has extensive solar installations on its schools, well over 100 of them.

The TTC does not appear to have any commitment to solar, look at their subway yard and bus depot locations.

Their newest facility, McNicoll Garage does have a majority green roof.
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I would think it's a similar percentage to residential solar.
 
lenaitch said:
Ontario has had a policy moratorium on offshore turbines since 2011. I recall a lot of pushback for a proposal in either the PEC or Kingston area and it seems subsequent governments have determined they're not worth the political capital expenditure.

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Other countries, like France, are experimenting with turbines that have no moving parts. No blades, and quieter.


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lenaitch said:
Ontario has had a policy moratorium on offshore turbines since 2011. I recall a lot of pushback for a proposal in either the PEC or Kingston area and it seems subsequent governments have determined they're not worth the political capital expenditure.

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A big part of this was silliness from people not understanding that you can build far enough offshore that it can't really be seen or would be a blip on the horizon. Terrestrial wind and the politics of it, really ruined it for Ontario. And we're literally going to pay higher prices because of it. First because of the LPO. And now the PCPO.
 
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Other countries, like France, are experimenting with turbines that have no moving parts. No blades, and quieter.


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Unfortunately, this type of geometry isn't very efficient and has scaling limits. Also, rural folks love to dictate what their neighbours can do with their land if it ruins their views.

Pointless pushing on rope. Just build offshore. And when you build offshore, you can build like this:

 
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A big part of this was silliness from people not understanding that you can build far enough offshore that it can't really be seen or would be a blip on the horizon. Terrestrial wind and the politics of it, really ruined it for Ontario. And we're literally going to pay higher prices because of it. First because of the LPO. And now the PCPO.
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Stupid question: how do you build wind turbines in the middle of a very deep Lake Ontario?
 

Carney’s planned cuts will include the foreign service, alarming some ex-diplomats​

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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cuts to government spending will include the foreign service, just as Global Affairs Canada aims to expand its presence abroad.
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Sen. Peter Boehm is a former ambassador, and he says he hopes the government thinks hard about Canada’s place in the world when it looks at constraining Global Affairs Canada’s budget.

Alan Kessel, another former diplomat, voices a similar concern and argues cutting diplomats would weaken Canada’s influence and ability to protect citizens abroad.
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https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...e-foreign-service-alarming-some-ex-diplomats/

Carney's election platform included a vow to send more diplomats and officials abroad, to "restore Canadian leadership". Unlikely that would occur with these proposed cuts. Staffing is already bare bones in many missions.
 
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A Federal Court judge has halted the deportation of a non-binary American in a ruling that criticized Ottawa’s Immigration Department for not properly considering the situation of LGBTQ Americans since U.S. President Donald Trump took office.

Angel Jenkel, a 24-year-old multimedia artist from Minnesota who is engaged to a Canadian, can now remain in Canada while their case is judicially reviewed, in a judgment that their lawyers hailed as precedent-setting.

Immigration lawyers have been inundated with inquiries from LGBTQ Americans about how to emigrate to Canada since Mr. Trump took office, with many who have Canadian parents and grandparents applying for Canadian citizenship.

Adrienne Smith of Smith Immigration Law, a Toronto firm specializing in LGBTQ immigration, said the Federal Court judge stopped their client’s removal from Canada in part because an immigration officer had failed to consider recent evidence about the conditions in the United States for trans and non-binary individuals when assessing the risk of being returned.

Justice Julie Blackhawk, the first Indigenous woman appointed to the Federal Court, said the approach of the immigration officer who carried out Mx. Jenkel’s preremoval risk assessment was “flawed and unreasonable,” and relied on outdated briefing material that “does not address current conditions for LGBTQ, non-binary and transgender persons” in the U.S.

“The officer failed to consider recent evidence of the conditions that may have supported a reasonable fear of persecution,” she said in her ruling, saying that Mx. Jenkel’s deportation must be delayed.
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People facing deportation from Canada can request a preremoval risk assessment by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada before being sent back. They are generally allowed to stay if they are deemed to be at real risk of persecution or serious harm if they are deported.

Mx. Jenkel, who came to Ontario in 2022 as a visitor, represented themself at the risk assessment and was denied the right to remain in Canada. They were due to be deported after failing to get the required documentation to stay in Canada with their partner, a social-media influencer to whom they are now engaged to marry.

Mx. Jenkel told The Globe and Mail that the current climate in the United States is “scary,” and that, being non-binary, they are afraid of persecution if they return.

They said more people should be paying attention to the erosion of trans and non-binary people’s rights in the U.S.

“I also fear not being able to travel to see my family, as most of my family lives in the South, which has already been deemed unsafe for transgender people to travel. And I know that no matter what I do, I look trans. People read me that way, no matter the gender expression I portray.”

Mx. Jenkel said they came out as gender fluid/non-binary to their friends and on social media in 2015 when they were 14 and to their mother a year later.

Their gender marker was changed in the school system while in high school, and they took testosterone as a 15- and 16-year-old. However, their father objected to them taking hormones as a minor, and it was stopped abruptly. They started hormone therapy again at 18.

The Federal Court noted that Mx. Jenkel had fears about returning to an environment where they previously experienced fear as a non-binary person.

It acknowledged that Mx. Jenkel had caring responsibilities for their partner, who has a medical condition that brings on seizures.

Human-rights advocates have been calling on Ottawa to provide a safe haven for gender-diverse residents of the U.S. after Mr. Trump signed an executive order saying a person’s biological classification is “immutable” and gender identity would no longer be acknowledged by the U.S.

Mr. Trump has also signed an executive order to prevent people assigned male at birth from participating in women’s or girls’ sporting events, or from being sent to women’s prisons.

The U.S. government now only recognizes two genders and has stopped issuing passports and identity cards with an X gender marker to transgender and non-binary Americans.

Mr. Trump has also abolished the U.S. government’s diversity, equity and inclusion departments and taken steps to exclude transgender people from the U.S. military.
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Canadian LGBTQ-rights advocate Gemma Hickey has heard from transgender Americans who have had their passports shredded or confiscated since Mr. Trump took office, and others who have been too afraid to renew their identity documents.
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They said they were pleased that the judge had considered the impact of Mr. Trump’s edicts on trans and non-binary people in her ruling on Mx. Jenkel’s case.

“I really applaud the move by the judge, and I think it is precedent-setting,” they said. “There is so much chaos coming out of the White House, and I think it is on purpose. This ruling from this judge will force people to pause and reflect just how dangerous it is for marginalized people there.”

Sarah Mikhail, also of Smith Immigration Law in Toronto, said the judgment is “a really exciting precedent to see.”

“What we’re seeing here is an important determination from the judiciary that this isn’t business as usual, and what’s happened in January with the inauguration and the change in administration has amounted to a difference in conditions to the safety posed to trans and non-binary individuals, and that this has led to a deterioration,” Ms. Mikhail said.

“This is an acknowledgment that these changes are serious and that this is something that has a material effect on trans and non-binary individuals.”

IRCC declined to comment as the matter is before the courts.
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