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You posed a double-pronged question: Does anybody really believe that a carbon tax will fix any problem other than a shortage of money in Ottawa for politicians? |
On Dec. 12, 2018, in a Nature Magazine editorial, Canada’s carbon pricing policy was praised as a way of making carbon pricing more palatable to the taxpayer. |
The policy that Ottawa enacted is called carbon fee and dividend. With carbon fee and dividend, 90 per cent of the revenue is returned back to the people on an equal basis and you get 10 per cent more if you don’t live in a big city. |
The other 10 per cent goes to help small businesses. With the federal carbon fee and dividend policy, approximately 80 per cent of the people will come out even or ahead in terms of how much money they receive back from the government. |
We will receive this dividend in April 2019 in our “Climate Action Incentive” after we file our income taxes. This is a good thing because a poll recently found that 46 per cent of Canadians are within $200 every month of not being able to pay their bills. |
Does anyone really believe this will work? |
What do you think about the smidgen of evidence that I am about to share? I can give you a lot more if you wish. |
George Akerlof, Robert Aumann, Angus Deaton, Peter Diamond, Robert Engle, Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, Oliver Hart, Bengt Holmström, Daniel Kahneman, Finn Kydland, Robert Lucas, Eric Maskin, Daniel McFadden, Robert Merton, Roger Myerson, Edmund Phelps, Alvin Roth, Thomas Sargent, Myron Scholes, Amartya Sen, William ... |
Martin Baily, Michael Boskin, Martin Feldstein, Jason Furman, Austan Goolsbee, Glenn Hubbard, Alan Krueger, Edward Lazear, N. Gregory Mankiw, Christina Romer, Harvey Rosen and Laura Tyson. |
Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan and Janet Yellen. |
George Shultz and Lawrence Summers are former Treasury secretaries. |
And, did you know the 46 countries price carbon pollution and 20 per cent of the world’s economy is under a carbon price? |
There are some things to note about Canada’s Environment minister, as well. Catherine McKenna is a graduate of the London School of Economics and is currently the High-Level Co-Chair to the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition. This is a very good thing for Canada because we are being positioned to grab onto the $26 tri... |
As International Outreach Manager for Citizens’ Climate Lobby, as well as in my experiences with civil society at the G7, G20, IPCC and United Nations International Climate Negotiations, I can tell you firsthand that many around the world admire Canada’s carbon pricing policy. |
Those are words that she spontaneously said in a November 2018 after she lobbied on Parliament Hill and listened to some of the MPs not cooperate nor listen to the experts during the emergency debate in the House of Commons for the 1.5C IPCC report. |
What other information do you need? |
— Cathy Orlando is a climate change activist based in Sudbury. |
Rob Benedict grew up around acting and the arts, what with his parents being leaders in their local community theater. He eventually pursued a fine arts education at Northwestern University, which led to guest-starring roles in various television series, and by the late 1990s, Benedict had landed a recurring part in th... |
Pebble has started pre-order of its smartwatch, the Pebble Time. |
According to the TechCrunch.com, users can pre-order through Best Buy in the U.S. and in Pebble's online store if users live outside of the U.S. |
The shipments of the smartwatch will begin in early July. |
Pebble Time is one of two new versions of the smartwatch running the latest OS and a color screen. The Pebble Time uses a new interaction paradigm based on a timeline of events, letting users glance ahead at what is coming up and look back at what has already happened at any time during the day. |
The Pebble Time works with both iOS and Android devices. It is retailing for USD 200 in U.S. at launch. The Pebble Time comes with black, white and red color options for the band and case. |
The child was reported missing about 3:15 p.m. from Thompson School Road. |
Authorities found a 3-year-old boy unharmed except for cuts and scratches roughly three hours after he was reported missing in Corryton on Sunday afternoon, according to the Knox County Sheriff's Office. |
The boy was reported missing about 3:45 p.m. from his grandmother's home in the 8400 block of Thompson School Road. He was reportedly playing with two older children when he ran into a heavily wooded area, the sheriff's office said in a Facebook post. |
The boy was taken to a children's hospital as a precaution. |
The search for the child involved KCSO helicopters as well as police dogs from the Campbell County and Union County sheriff's offices. The Knoxville Volunteer Emergency Rescue Squad also responded to the scene. |
The investigation is ongoing. Further details have not been released. |
OK, as sterling analyst (and we're talking more than currency here) James Enck has pointed out to me, there is at least one other blog with a similar name to this one. All I can say is hey, it's good that the memory of Led Zeppelin is being kept alive. |
OK, as sterling analyst (and we're talking more than currency here) James Enck has pointed out to me, there is at least one other blog with a similar name to this one. All I can say is hey, it's good that the memory of Led Zeppelin is being kept alive. Although if anyone does get too miffed, I will consider a namechang... |
May has taken the unusual - and among her own party, unpopular - step of turning to the opposition Labour Party to try to find an exit deal that will win the support of a majority in parliament. |
To do that she will need to win a vote in parliament approving a Brexit deal and pass the necessary legislation to implement it. Both stages are politically very difficult because lawmakers are divided over the best way forward for the country. |
However, there is no formal mechanism with which dissatisfied lawmakers can oust her without also raising the possibility of a general election and a Labour government. |
One of the consequences of life speeding up is that people have less and less time to think. The culture of business has also shifted to the point where instant communication and solutions are deemed more important than real insight or rigor — both of which require periods of study and reflection. |
This lack of thinking time and the transience of so many subsequent solutions is also related to a lack of thinking spaces. Most modern offices are designed to accommodate as many people as possible at the lowest possible cost. This is considered efficient. The 18th century (sweat) factory model still dominates, and th... |
Of course there’s always a brainstorming room with brightly colored walls, beanbags, and felt pens. But as one marketing director recently said to me, “If I have to sit in that room one more time making mission statements out of playdough, I’m going to kill myself.” Other more inventive solutions to cubicle culture inc... |
But imagine if instead of designing formal spaces to create unplanned meetings or mixing up departments you mixed up whole companies? What if, instead of putting five companies on five floors of a building, you mixed up the whole building? What would happen to thinking if someone from Orange telecom was sitting next to... |
The Green House Project is a nursing home that works on a similar principle. Retirement homes are usually sterile, soul destroying places. Bill Thomas got so fed up with these temples of loneliness that he built something different — the Eden Alternative. Eden encourages residents to use their creativity and accommodat... |
Historically the relationship between space and thinking was well known — but they don’t make cathedrals like that anymore. Nevertheless, some people try. The new Strata Centre at MIT by Frank Gehry is intended to stir the creative juices and inspire people to think a little differently. As Gehry himself puts it, “If y... |
Other organizations that have experimented with the idea that intelligently designed spaces can influence ideas include ad agencies like Chiat/Day in LA which attracted considerable media attention in the 1990s with its innovative office. Unfortunately, the iconic design managed to alienate the very people it was inten... |
Other slightly misguided attempts to design cathedrals for the mind include an office for a media agency in London where all staff sit at a giant 66-foot communal table (no privacy), an email company which had a real lawn in the middle of the office (no water), and a company that created “snow” each morning using shred... |
But is the quality of work genuinely related to the nature of the space you’re sitting in? Looking at history again, the answer would appear to be no. Great artists have not generally worked in inspiring studios sipping fine champagne. They rent the cheapest space available and then struggle to pay for it. Perhaps this... |
Maybe the reason that so much innovation is so mediocre is because companies devote too much time and money to it and people get too comfortable — 70% of all major innovations and discoveries didn’t come out of a garage by accident (actually they did, but that’s another story). |
So perhaps we’re all focusing on the wrong problem. Maybe you can’t make offices inspiring places (or design a fake “garage”), and we shouldn’t even try. |
Research by the Roffey Park Management Institute in the UK says that most insights and ideas occur away from the office. They either happen in neutral locations (going for a walk, in the car or, in my own case, on airplanes) or they happen at home (in the bath, in bed, or in the garden). Interestingly, none of these pl... |
This is not to say that we shouldn’t try to make offices more interesting. Maybe the solution is to let individuals design their own spaces in the sense that they’re allowed to personalize their immediate surroundings. Given the rarity of privacy and quietness these days maybe we should try to bring back the idea of pe... |
Back in the 1990s Asda, a UK supermarket now owed by Wal-Mart, gave people signs to hang on their doors (offices had doors back then) that said “Quiet please. I’m having an idea.” Perhaps in the future people will be given thinking breaks to take their brain for a walk. Or how about reinventing tea breaks or the aftern... |
Sit next to someone you don’t know and tell them what you’re working on. |
Instead of taking work home, take bits of your home to work. Personalize your space. |
If ideas elude you, don’t just sit there. Stop and do something totally different. |
If your office doesn’t feed your mind find a favourite place that does. |
Constantly refresh your space. Bring in outsiders like artists to change it. |
I don't think you can just confess without providing details. |
Confessions need to include key details that no one but the perpetrator would know (and it must be volunteered by the person confessing). It's why cops keep certain details of a crime from the public, so that some nutter doesn't confess to something he didn't do and such that cops don't beat a confession out of someone... |
Life sentences with the possibility of parole or without the possibility of parole? |
I'm pretty sure that they can get parole. |
If this is true, they really should stop taking the piss and calling it a life sentence. |
They have to serve 25 years at least before the possibility of parole, but yeah it's there. |
That's their definition of life. I'm not even sure SA has no parole sentences any more. The only people who appear to have been locked up for life are the likes of that serial killer Sithole who must serve 930 years before he can be considered for parole. |
i'm going to jump in here. |
the death penalty should remain an option for judges, however imposing the death penalty should be put to rigorous test. |
to this end sentencing should be referred to a separate court for review. at this point the accused should receive representation by senior counsel. |
representation would be on a pro-bono basis using some form of rotational list of senior council. |
Your reasons doesn't make sense. Too many innocent people getting executed is a massive stretch. Sure it's happened on occasion before but the likelihood is decreasing rapidly thanks to advances in forensic and DNA evidence. |
How is death lenient, especially when you consider that these animals thrive in prison conditions. Free accommodation and food plus some other "perks" you get to enjoy with your partners in crime. We can rule out torture and making them suffer. |
I say put them down, and use resources elsewhere. They are beyond rehab. |
Many people would say one wrongly executed person is too many, you can try and fix a mistake if someone is serving a life sentence. Depriving an innocent man of his life, especially when our system of justice is pretty hard to justify. |
It's a figure of speech, but I have heard that line quoted as an argument more than once by various people in different countries with regards to the death penalty. " |
Details to the authorities yes, but what if you didnt know details? |
Why wouldn't I know details when they confess in court? |
Because you're invested in what happened to her, her experience. |
I have a nice big axe here in my house. Give them to me. It will be swift and decisive. |
I just read the story from the boys perspective, these things are evil. I wonder if they even think about the people whose lives they distroyed. Pigs. |
These guys definitely appear to be real scum. It's not even like they were being particularly careful to hide their crime, so the only conclusion is that they killed her and attempted to kill Cheslin Marsh because they're cruel and sadistic. |
So at which point do you draw the line. |
What if these guys were smarter and left less evidence, but still did the deed. |
It's also not impossible that in an environment where execution is available the police promise each of them that they can avoid it if they confess and turn on the others. It's not beyond the realm of possibility that an innocent person will confess to something they didn't do if the police have them convinced that som... |
But yes, how much evidence is enough to be considered sufficient for execution since by definition all convictions should only ever happen when the evidence is overwhelmingly convincing? |
This comment from her dad makes me both sad and angry. Those 3 should never take another breath after this. |
And how many other families out there are like this due to the trash we have running around? |
A lot of prisons would have to be built to hold them all. And it will only get worse if the conditions creating these people persist. Even executing people wouldn't be able to keep up with the replacement rate I suspect. |
But it doesn't mean the police couldn't intentionally or inadvertently provide details to suspects being questioned. We rely on police integrity and competence not to have that happen, but frankly there is no police force in the world I'd trust not to step over the line. |
Depends on the sort of prison they're put into. If they're gangsters then they probably will be right at home in the general population of a typical prison. They actually should kept isolated and locked up far away. |
A lot of prisoners are beyond rehabilitation and many get that way in prison, so how do we solve that? |
One is too many. Many people are blasé about it because they assume it will never be them or anyone important to them that gets killed by mistake. |
As the race to choose the next Republican presidential nominee heats up, Sarah Palin is once again going rogue, taking her musings on 2016 from her longtime network TV home to more personalized media platforms. |
Fox News on Wednesday confirmed to the Guardian that it had terminated its contract with Palin at the start of this month. |
Palin, 51, had provided expert views on politics and American life for the network, which characterized the uncoupling as amicable. |
Palin could not be reached for comment. Fox had been paying the former vice presidential nominee an estimated $250,000 a year – a big slide from the $1m a year she made at Fox from 2009 through 2012. |
Fox and Palin have split before. The pair first broke up in January 2013, following what were reported to be testy negotiations between Palin and Fox puppeteer Roger Ailes, who had been quoted by an anonymous third party as believing Palin to be “an idiot”. |
After that first split, the former Alaska governor played the better-than-you card, saying that she was leaving Fox to expand her audience. “I’m taking my own advice here as I free up opportunities to share more broadly the message of the beauty of freedom and the imperative of defending our republic and restoring this... |
That only lasted eight months. Fox re-signed Palin in August, at a reported 75% pay cut. |
Despite this most recent split, Fox has said it will still have her on air from time to time. Palin still retains her show, Amazing America with Sarah Palin, on the Sportsman Channel and her namesake internet television channel is still going strong. She has 4.4m Facebook likes and 1.15m followers on Twitter. |
Palin is also angling to play a role in selecting the next Republican candidate for president. Her political action committee, SarahPac, put out a trailer for a movie to be released this summer, in which a parade of Republican politicians, including multiple current presidential candidates, kiss her ring on camera. |
“She’s making people think,” Donald Trump says in the trailer. |
Elsewhere, Palin is running a poll to determine which woman should replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill. |
BOTTOM LINE: Western Conference foes Sacramento and Dallas face off at the Golden 1 Center. |
The Kings are 17-24 against Western Conference opponents. Sacramento ranks sixth in the NBA with 51.9 points in the paint, led by Willie Cauley-Stein averaging 9.8. |
The Mavericks are 14-29 in Western Conference play. Dallas is 9-19 in games decided by 10 points or more. In their last meeting on Dec. 16, the Kings won 120-113. De’Aaron Fox scored a team-high 28 points for Sacramento in the victory. |
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