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Cake day: August 7th, 2023

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  • Let’s be very clear here: HOUSING IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PROVINCES.

    As well, PROPERTY TAX (TAX ON LAND) IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PROVINCES.

    So if by “this government” you mean the Carney Liberals you’re right in the sense they won’t do anything about this — but the reason for that is they can’t. That’s not their Constitutional role, and the levers they can pull in this regard are minimal (and mostly revolve around either mortgage insurance, regulating the financial sector, and dolling money out to Provinces).

    If you’re upset about housing, you should be upset at your Provincial Government, not the Feds.


  • The difference I would note is that in North America those 240V plugs aren’t likely going to be on a 10A circuit — usually they’re going to be more in the range of 30A to 50A, as they’re typically designated in homes for use by a dryer or a range (and if you’re lucky, in the garage for an EV).

    That’s not to say you couldn’t run a lower amperage 240V circuit — there just aren’t a lot of practical uses for doing so (I believe some air conditioners only need 15A 240V circuits, but in my (limited) experience these are usually hard-wired, and aren’t plug-in devices).


  • From a physics perspective any air that exists anywhere on this planet at any time has still got huge amounts of heat stored in it (it’s literally hundreds of degrees above absolute zero, the most blisteringly cold arctic air still represents a huge reservoir of physical heat energy even when it’s cold enough to kill us)

    Great explanation — the fact I always like to use along these lines is that there is enough heat energy in an iceberg to boil a pot of water.