Duffy’s trial is giving facts about Harper’s criminal gang in his office.

Hands up if you think the Cons will take illegal donations and overspend again.
*shows hand*

This is also the first election in 9 years that I don’t intend to work for Elections Canada so I may volunteer to scrutineer instead.

If you show too much independent thought, you must leave the Conservative Collective.
e.g.:

#WeAreBorg

“Religious assailant” is far more precise than “terrorist”.

I looked on Google with this search
“Religious assailant” -jerusalem
to see what other news comes up. Nothing of note. Apparently this is the first publicly noted crime by a “religious assailant” in years, if ever.

Aron’s autobiography:
“Conservative. Pro Oil & Gas. Man made Climate Change is a farce. Anti Trudeau / Wynne and the biased MSM [Mainstream media].”

Starting the campaign abnormally early is a ploy to burn through campaign budgets of competing parties, rather than making ideas and people the focus of the campaign.

If you’re against a military AI arms race, please sign this open letter: http://t.co/yyF9rcm9jz

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 28, 2015

There are companies like Lockheed Martin making autonomous killing robots, and there are companies like Google making self-driving cars (which kill people by accident or poor design). At least cars don’t tend to kill on purpose, and the Google self-driving car hasn’t had a deadly accident (or one it caused, of any kind). So, what’s worse? Intentionally creating machines that can destroy humans, or accidentally doing it? Let’s aim at neither.

Many people have seen the Sci-Fi movie Terminator and Terminator 2. They were made before the WWW, and before Skynet seemed like a possibility. Now we have 3D printers, we have walking and flying robots who can shoot, and we have a global intelligence network those machines connect directly to. We need to be very cautious in Artificial Intelligence development over the coming years, or a small group of people could make a mistake that could cost millions (billions?) of lives.

L. Lea ‏@YukonGale :
“@althiaraj Basically he’s saying he won’t appoint any more senators but he can’t make that binding upon the next government, right?”

Not without a Constitutional amendment.

15 minutes later:

Perhaps Wall is a bit touchy about fossil fuels because Saskatchewan produces more greenhouse gases per person than any other Canadian province [link added], and is one of only three provinces whose emissions have risen since 1990. The province contains only 1 per cent of the country’s population, but produces a disproportionate 10 per cent of national emissions.

Saskatchewan recorded the highest deposit-paid bottle return rate in Canada (82 per cent) and largest wildfire detection camera system in North America, said the ministry.

Yet we had the worst wildfire season, perhaps ever, this Summer.

“Until we get on top of the big industrial emissions we are going to have great trouble achieving the targets that have been set for the province,” said Coxworth.

“We are looking to beef up that part of our portfolio – with a quarter of our power production already renewable,” said Tremblay.

The ministry on Earth Day focused on what individuals can do in their everyday lives.

{Emphasis added, to highlight that what the ministry is doing is pushing responsibility for the problem off of themselves and onto the actions of individuals who cannot individually organize us into a more efficient system.}

As the province looked to energy awareness on Earth Day, Saskatchewan still remains a leader in Canadian greenhouse gas emissions. Despite an eight-per-cent reduction of GHGs from 2006-2012, the province continues to release more than one-tenth of Canada’s emissions with only about three per cent of the country’s population.

“We want to minimize our environmental footprint wherever we can,” said Jonathan Tremblay, spokesman for SaskPower, but added it’s a delicate balance between environmental impacts, power reliability and affordability. According to the 2015 State of the Environment Report, Saskatchewan’s oil, gas, mining and electricity industries are the largest sources of greenhouse gases (GHG). Together they make up over half of the province’s emissions.

Electricity generation accounts for 21 per cent.

“It has to be a mix (of coal and wind power) so that the lights can stay on when the wind’s not up and the sun’s not out,” said Tremblay, referencing a recent independently built wind-power farm located in the province’s southwest.

Ann Coxworth, board member of the Saskatchewan Environmental Society, disagrees.

Keep in mind that former Wall Minister Tim McMillian now works for CAPP. Wall’s present Environment Minister also didn’t understand climate science sufficiently to comment on it on the day he was appointed to the position.

CAPP was in the news today for having been caught meddling in “educational” materials given through Canadian Geographic to schools.

Rodrigues also removed the term “clear-cut” from Thomson’s explanation of how boreal forest is unearthed to make way for oil sands strip mining.

That CAPP was allowed to vet Canadian Geographic’s educational content challenges the claim of independence and objectivity, and raises questions: is the rest of Energy IQ also edited by CAPP? What about Canadian Geographic’s other sponsored educational programs?

Whether CAPP’s hands-on editing means that they “control” the lesson plans or not is perhaps a matter of debate. What can be said for certain is that CAPP’s changes were executed by Canadian Geographic in the resulting versions of the lessons that appear on the Energy IQ website

Read more about this hijack of our schools and media by Big Oil.

It leaves us wondering what comes next for Tesla. Bizarre Mode? Singularity Generator? A test track built around the Large Hadron Collider? Actually, Musk is, yet again, one step ahead.

In a statement, the billionaire hinted: “There is of course only one thing beyond ludicrous, but that speed is reserved for the next generation Roadster in 4 years: maximum plaid.”

That’s an obscure reference to the ultimate speed in the universe, according to 1987 sci-fi spoof Spaceballs. Geeky movies aside, will human beings actually be able to cope with the sheer pace of the next Tesla Roadster? We’ll find out in 2019…

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Here’s a ‘feature’ they added on April Fool’s Day:

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Don’t buy Bell phone insurance. Get a great case with your money instead.

More than four decades after the Apollo 11 moon landing, a cloth bag full of souvenirs brought back by astronaut Neil Armstrong has come to light.

Among the trove: a 16 mm movie camera from inside the lunar module that filmed its descent to the moon and Armstrong’s first steps on the lunar surface in 1969.

That camera “took one of the most significant sets of images in the 20th century,” said Allan Needell, a curator in space history at the National Air and Space Museum.