Fuck you Canada! [Canada is on fire thread]

It’s fucking MAY!

How the hell are you already on fire?!?!




https://twitter.com/nwsseattle/status/1658831695485849600

BUILD THE WALL!

BUILD THE WALL!

As you can clearly see you aren’t supposed to catch fire until August.

I'm not supposed to have my air conditioner out yet either, but it was already seeing use at the end of April. I blame Al Gore for inventing climate change.

That's inconvenient.

It's Alberta, which is like the Texas/Alabama/Florida of Canada.

The smoke you're inhaling is a small price to pay if we can get that province to burn to the ground.

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2019/01/alberta-is-canadian-texas-says-man-from-canadian-michigan/

Last Friday, Sat and Sun were all the hottest days on record for their respective dates.

It was 90 Sunday.

This is really early. Vancouver is supposed to get some smoke in this afternoon

If I'm guessing, unseasonably hot weather combined with Alberta not doing proactive, preventative fire control before the summer starts (which they should be doing and what my province does) is probably the cause

Anyways, choke on our smoke like it's a huge dick USA!

Danielle Smith compared people that got vaccinated to Nazis the other day, so I'm guessing preventative measures of any kind are classified as a hate crime by the current provincial government.

On the positive side the smoke is cutting down the heat a little bit by blocking the sun.

This was a friend’s view yesterday.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...ght-wildfires-why-that-may-be-a-bad-sign.html

Shit's getting serious, now they're sending in the bureaucrats to fight the fires

you know it's the Beaverton because it claims he was drinking a craft IPA.

last I checked, PBR was still a fancy import in the 'Shwa.

Alberta being proactive or preventative about anything would be a first.

Are the provincial tories ready to turf Danielle yet for being so bad the NDP feels confident enough to run Rachel Notley again?

The last time I know of that Alberta was proactive about anything was their universal basic income experiment, which was such a rip-roaring success that the Tories killed it and hid the records that they didn't shred.

Still nicer than Newark and all of NJ.

Is any coincidence UA took his name from this place?

the national pandemic related experiment that was CERB was amazing in that it replaced EI for at least half those who were able to claim it, and extended living benefits to folks (nearly triple) who would have otherwise been on welfare. CERB cost us nearly four times as much($81B vs 23B), but when you subtract EI and then provincial welfare costs, we likely came out ahead simply by keeping people off the street.

In that it's on fire from poor regulation or that it dug itself so far into the ground in a few short years?

I was thinking of the wrong province. Hey I’m an American all the prairies provinces look alike to me Look up the Manitoba experiment….

Yes.

yup, pretty familiar with that one.
Crazy what people can accomplish when they aren't struggling to feed themselves...


and yeah, it was an idea whose time had come in what was it? 1978?

(post 28482!!! yay! palindromic numbers-isn't there a word for that?)

It's been warmer here in P-Town the last few days than when I was in Kolkata, West Bengal, back in March. And it was warm just as Holi rolled in.

(Now, of course, Kolkata is much hotter, but that's why I'm here in Oregon, and not in India )

spent July of '88 there. It was hot as balls a lot of that time.

some neat memories to have been a young punk rock vagabond then and there. the entire trip just getting there was insane.

Portland or Kolkata?

Portland... just went for a quick stumble back in time in my blue room.

Well shit, hoped you liked Portland... though I hoped you'd meant Kolkata. The women there...

Is that how it works?

We dealt with overcast from one (thankfully only one) Sierra fire from last year and it still felt hot as balls even though we didn't see clear skies for two damn weeks.

very much... I mean, I didn't see a lot of it, but the people I met were amazing.

Are y'all burying the lede, here, or is this a different fire?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/freebeacon.com/politics/burning-down-barriers/amp/