We’re in quite the state up here. One of our biggest problems is that Conservatives rule in many provinces, another problem is leakage of American conservatism up north, and a third problem is our PM is deeply unpopular despite, and I am willing to defend this, being one of the best PM’s the country has had in my lifetime (40 years). It doesn’t matter that one could fill a book with the PM’s accomplishments, the guy has been tuned out by the population and honestly needs to retire. He has been around long enough to have accumulated enough ill will that he drags his party down, my party, and I hate saying it but I feel like he has to go before we end up with a conservative blowout and all the progress of the last decade is erased in just four years.

Here in Canada the last government is asked first, if there is no clear majority anyway.

This “loser” language bothers me because it perpetuates a most seats = government idea that simply doesn’t exist in parliamentary systems. At least not the ones I’m familiar with. You’ve only really “lost” if you can’t pass a confidence motion. Is this different in the Austrian context?

Canada is great.

Trudeau has objectively not made the dollar worse though.

Someone sold you a bill of goods friend.

Ah, you’re one of those.

In 2015, when Harper was in office, the dollar was worth what it is now.

The dollar is back around where it was when Trudeau took office. In fact the last big collapse from parity happened under the last CPC prime minister, in his last year of office, when Pierre was in cabinet.

But how do they do the brainwashing? Water? Subliminal TV messages?

Yes, but typical Canadians aren’t going to use ML to price their bids. At best, for most, it’s a qualitative assessment based on realtor input, and their own judgement.

Pierre asking Trudeau to do a crime should be a bigger story than it is, Pierre asking Trudeau to put our information gathering operations at risk should be a bigger story than it is. Makes me sick to think that weasel could get elected on not much more than Liberal fatigue, and we will pay the cost as a society for it when the childcare funds dry up, green money heads to the oil fields, we adopt punishment based healthcare for those addicted or women, and he reintroduces Harpers sneaky style of voter suppression and court stacking.

Scientists say climate change is caused by an increase in greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere.

No need for the “scientists say” CBC. It’s a fact.

He won’t get security clearance to even learn about traitors in his own party, let alone talk about foreign threats.

Well sir, it looks like the electronically sound one is still less expensive than a house fire. So I’m inclined towards it.

I’m not sure what you mean about paying for your neighbour. Do you cover electricity for the whole building or something?

CATL is producing a battery with a million mile 15 year, 80% charge warranty that is only a bit less energy dense than current batteries. At 15 years, if your battery is 79.9% Soc, they do a full replacement.

For context, CATL is not some start up making a big promise, they’re one of the biggest battery manufacturers in the world and this battery is in production now, headed to EVs in a year or two. This tech ends battery failure anxiety, and will guarantee batteries outlive the useful life of the car.

Thank you for solving my charging hassle at my parents rental. I mean that, this is great. I see there are even cheaper cable splitters, I wonder how they hold up for splitting car/dryer.

For my Chevy, which is out of warranty now, but amazingly still working with little to degradation, it would be around $15000 CAD for a new replacement battery at the dealer. Less if I can source the used part from a wreck and goto my own mechanic.

For the Soul, I have no idea, but I’m 140,000km or 5 years away from being exposed to it.

Just for context, a motor replacement for an ICE car can run anywhere from $5500-$14000 CAD according to JD power and associates.

Battery failure is an interesting problem, dead cells can reduce the range of the car, but is my Bolt with a 300km range useless? Probably not. The batteries can be pulled for home backup uses as well if the failure isn’t catastrophic. When an ICE engine fails, we salvage the parts, EVs have that too. There is a huge community around replacing and upgrading NISSAN leaf batteries, for example, they can be upgraded for half what I mentioned here.

Do you need a full fast charger? I went for months with a 40km commute and only the wall charger, overnight was enough. A 240volt laundry outlet can do it too, for much cheaper than a full charger install.

But yea, renters need support with this, regulating inclusion, building code changes, or incentives to landlords for installation, or public chargers. I don’t know what the solution is, probably a mix, but it can’t come soon enough.