Kenney Closes Schools
Generally I'm pretty opposed to the guy, but he made the right move here. Way ahead of the rest of the country.
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Isle of the Dogs - Wes Anderson
Quite enjoyed this, the aesthetic, look, feel, animation, but on that note Wes Anderson commits the sin of having the "American Savior". By this point it should be obvious that they can't even save themselves. So - all in all, a very good film diminished by the gratuitous presence of an American.
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The Ship of Fools
At home, watching videos of the monkey Armageddon in Thailand, of the empty grocery store shelves in the US, the updates from WuHan and Italy, it's like a scene out of 12 Monkeys.
Then I head down to the co-op to get some groceries.
Fuck. The idiots always win - in Calgary it's by sheer strength of numbers.
Personally, when it's all over we should round the "survivors" up and choke them to death on their toilet paper.
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Alberta to lend 100 million to oilpatch to cap orphan wells
10:1 Odds that the companies take the loan...before declaring bankruptcy.
Article here: https://edmontonjournal.com/business/energy/alberta-to-give-100-million-loan-to-decommission-orphan-wells
Classic Alberta.
It seems intuitive that there be a retainer taken by the government BEFORE any wells are drilled to ensure they are capped. Mind you, they've only been doing this for 60 years so don't expect them to get their shit together any time soon. No, transparently this is a "Taxpayers subsidize oilpatch, help the rich get richer, even in this stagnant economy". I'd be very curious how many of these loans they recover and how many wells end up being successfully capped or remediated.
Some links to more information if your curious:
https://extmapviewer.aer.ca/AERAbandonedWells/Index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_wells_(Alberta)
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