The high chances of someone getting caught for non-compliance could be a determinating factor here as well.
Look at the data being collected. Much of it is available in existing government databases. Asking people for it again is redundant and wasteful. 3/4 of a billion dollars would go a long way to consolidating or crawling those databases.
Emphasis added, and ugh. Time to change the law, I’d say.
Would take a constitutional amendment:
We don’t use the concept of felony any more, but since the Court gave him an unconditional discharge on the two charges, I doubt that the Senate would consider them to be the equivalent to a felony or infamous crime.
See to it, would you? There’s a good chap.
I don’t know if anybody saw this:
It was pretty big news locally. Everybody was safe, and apparently, Air Canada put the passengers up in local hotels until ground transportation to Calgary could be arranged.
The aircraft cannot be flown until the windshield is repaired. Since the local auto glass shops don’t stock Airbus windshields, the aircraft is still sitting in Lethbridge. I drove past the local airport today, on my way to play golf, and there is is, looking quite out of place at our tiny airport–certainly bigger that most aircraft that use it.
Wow. Meanwhile here in Eastern Ontario, it’s been a fabulous summer.
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It has been here too. In my experience in Alberta, we can have great summer days, but severe thunderstorms and hail in the evenings. I don’t know why they typically happen in the evenings, but I’d appreciate a meteorologist’s opinion.
This year, the thunder and hailstorms seem a little late. We usually get them in June, though mid-July is not out of the question. But late July?
Oh well. At least they can land an Airbus A-320 here at our little airport. I’ve flown Toronto to Calgary many times, with the connection to Lethbridge, so if I had been on that flight, I’d just tell Air Canada to forget the hotel room and connection to Calgary and just grab a cab home. 
NOAA’s NSSL on how a thunderstorm forms.
Thanks, Muffin, but I guess I’m more interested in knowing why thunderstorms on the Prairies form in late-afternoon/evening/night than they do in the daytime.
Here in Alberta, I’ve awoken to a clear, cloudless sky in the morning; but in the evening, we’re being pounded by hail, rain, and thunder and lightning. When I lived in southern Ontario, we got thunderstorms any time of day. We might wake up to them in the mornings, or they might blast at noon, or evenings or nights were perfectly possible also.
Why do they seem to only happen in Alberta in the evenings? That’s what I’d like to know.
If I was to guess, I’d say that once the sun moves past the mountains it will heat up the moist coastal air in BC. That air will rise, cool and spill over rushing down into Alberta and pushing underneath the already present warm air. You’d then get a lot of wind movement (the cooler air now suddenly warming and rising, the previously warm air now cooling and dropping) as well as a lot of moisture mixing between solid/liquid/vapour stages.
Morning air on the other hand would simply see only the cool air in Alberta warming. The coastal air, lacking solar heating, would remain basically where it is.
Southern Ontario just get hammered with whatever wins out between midwest and the Gulf of Mexico
These storms are tiring, I love them and can sleep so well when they break but my poor dog is a wreck. She just cuddles close and shivers, and tries to dig out of her crate but then hides halfway under the king size bed if I bring her upstairs to keep calmer.
Interesting explanation though. Weather is fascinating stuff.
Terrorist suspect killed in Ontario yesterday.
Not much info available. But considering he most likely planned to attack the TTC, which I use, I’m pretty grateful the cops got him (assuming of course he was the right guy).
Any special plans for the final Hip concert tonight?
I was hoping to go to a bar to take it all in, but my son is having a friend over tonight, and I don’t want to leave them alone. So, I’m struggling with figuring out how the browser feature on our smart TV works. I’m hoping this is the good link - http://www.cbcmusic.ca/
I’ve concluded that I really do lack popular culture.
I looked at an article speculating yesterday about what five songs they would end their last concert with.
I didn’t recognize any of them.
The Hip - CBC Music at 09:30 p.m., no commercials.
We had the kids so we watched at home. It was devastating.
Someone wrote about it, “the best moments are those that break your heart and mend it, too.” And so it did.
Kingston boys, and my God what music they made. In their prime they were the best rock band in the world.
I had tears in my eyes. I could write three thousand words and when I have the heart too, I might. Not now, though.
I wish I could’ve caught the concert, but I was at another event instead.
It was an amazing evening. The image of Gord primally screaming those last notes of ‘Grace, too’ while wiping away the tears will haunt me for a long time.
My daughter and I attended the 30 July concert in Edmonton and then watched the Kingston show last night at a friends house. Both shows were amazing. I don’t think I can ever express what the live concert was like and I was so happy that the CBC broadcast the show live last night.
Saw it with friends in Ottawa (Kanata actually). That’s a Canadian moment I shan’t forget, ever.