Recent content by lenaitch

Toronto historically has the lowest tax rate in the province. Where we are in the weeds outside of North Bay, we pay about $1.17/$100. No transit and a volunteer fire department that will hose down your smouldering foundation.

My dad worked in the mines in northeastern Ontario and northwestern Quebec in the 1930s when they were still pushing through the Ferguson Highway (Hwy 11), and told stories to construction equipment becoming stuck in the muskeg and by the next morning, completely gone, and I was just reading a...

I know very little about the industry but I have heard that the quality/type of wood pellet used for fuel is very plant or burner specific. There was a pellet plant just outside of Wawa that shipped to, if I recall correctly, the UK (if not, certainly overseas). Many of the older...

Many fire crews are seasonal but I'm not aware that they are summer students. Too high risk, too specialized. The MNR still hires summer students for park staff and other support roles. They haven't had their Junior Ranger program for years. One problem with full time fire crews is what to...

Just as a casual observer, place like the Annapolis Valley, esp. around Annapolis Royal, and the Baddeck area, don't strike me as all that inexpensive. Not Toronto-expensive, but not bargoons. A buddy lived in AR -lovely town and they loved living there, but it was the property taxes that...

I agree. Let's buy and sell as much stuff as we can from and to everybody else on the planet. For those tariffs that violate existing trade agreements, tie them up in whatever dispute mechanism there is.

I didn't analyse it that closely but there is fairly broad wording that includes a foreign country treating the US economy 'unfairly'. Provinces taking US booze off the shelves is used as an justification in one EO.

US Tariff Act, Sec. 338 apparently. It give the Executive unilateral authority to impose tariffs up to 50%. It's a long section - I didn't copy.

If I recall the Ontario MNR policy, they will 'monitor' only any fire north of 51* unless a community is threatened. There is virtually no timber value and much of the area is far too remote.

Looking at the image, so many, many comments come to mind. Seventy thousand dollars seems a lot, even for helicopter rates, but then again, . . .

Actions against the government by FNs is a lucrative industry. The defendant (the government) has deep pockets and the plaintiffs (FNs) have little to lose and usually win something, either by judgement or settlement. The most drawn out the process, the more billable hours. Most if not all...

Clearly, not enough testosterone.

Every single tornado that hits southern and central Ontario is spawned from a weather system that entered Canada from the US, primarily Michigan. And they don't seem to care. The rotters.

"Make sure the people suffering get compensated". Are some US politicians that dumb, or assume their public is that dumb, to not realize that people who are suffering will be the ones paying any tariff?

The Province of Quebec has a standing agreement with Los Angeles County for two CL-415s. https://skiesmag.com/features/calming-the-l-a-firestorm/#:~:text=A%20decades%20long%20partnership,Los%20Angeles%20County%20Fire%20Department.