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Soft-headed professor at . Terribly intellectually weak as a scholar and professor. Failing to uplift the whole people.

Edmonton, Alberta
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Joined October 2009
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  1. 12 hours ago

    Reminder to all of you. There is help for you, even if you don't happen to be a small business.

    Alberta friends, things are going to get tough. Here's a link to federal supports: For individuals: Canada recovery benefit: Caregiving Benefit Sickness Benefit: For businesses:
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  2. 13 hours ago

    Adding a tweet here with the link to the Alberta small- and medium-sized business grants.

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  3. 16 hours ago

    Some of my colleagues your should follow for more information on these programs: I'll supplement this as best I can with any measures coming from the Provincial Government today. Please, add to this thread with other supports I should amplify.

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  4. 16 hours ago

    Alberta friends, things are going to get tough. Here's a link to federal supports: For individuals: Canada recovery benefit: Caregiving Benefit Sickness Benefit: For businesses:

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  5. 18 hours ago

    Yeah, but solar power was really expensive when Ontario launched its feed-in tariffs in 2009 and the sun doesn't shine at night and the wind doesn't always blow.

    Solar/wind PPA prices are converging via
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  6. 21 hours ago

    Last revisions done, last administrative box officially ticked, confirmed that I have no outstanding fees to pay, and, so far, no nightmares about missed exams. LLM officially done.

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  7. Dec 7

    I know this is not what our government wanted. They rolled the dice. We all lost. I do not envy Premier Kenney and the choices he now has to make. But, we need him to show up and lead even as we're all going to lose a lot more. That's it. That's all I feel tonight. 5/5

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  8. Dec 7

    The vaccine is a light, but it's too far away. It also makes this so much sadder. People who would be at the front of the vaccine lines are not going to make it to their first or second shot. Some cases weren't avoidable. The worst case counts in the country were. 4/

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  9. Dec 7

    I hope the gov't will step up and protect the people and the businesses that will now be the victims of these measures. I hope our healthcare workers can weather the storm that coming and from which there's no escape. It feels really dark today. 3/

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  10. Dec 7

    Now, we're faced with the need for a much longer period with more restrictions on contacts to get control back. We're going to see more deaths and more long term illness than we needed to see. We're also going to miss a lot of things we all enjoy. 2/

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  11. Dec 7

    Things are going to get bad in Alberta. I've been worried about it since our cases started to tip up this summer and govt decided we could manage a little bit of COVID-19 with Goldilocks measures. Going from 25 to 50 cases, or from 50 to 100 cases seemed manageable. It wasn't. 1/

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  12. Dec 7

    Maybe if someone told Premier that said something mean about the oil sands? He'd likely have a response to that on the record in time for the evening news.

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  13. Dec 7

    How long will the Premier wait to address this?

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    "If the goal is to bring down our numbers, we will need additional measures to do that." Here's Dr. Hinshaw's response to what lies after recent new restrictions failed to bend the curve in Alberta.
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  14. Dec 7

    No, you're having too much fun with the last problem set for your class...

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  15. Dec 7

    So, would you say that Alberta should be expanding thermal coal facilities for export? And, if Canada should get credit for LNG displacing coal in Asia, how should we account for our thermal coal exports to Asia? .

    There are currently 350 coal-fired power plants under construction around the world. More than 70% of them are in Asia. Canadian LNG could help those countries transition to a lower GHG intensity fuel source.
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    Dec 7

    Some personal news! Friday was my last day at Vox. Today I'm launching a newsletter called Volts, devoted to my twin passions: clean energy and politics. (And I am now, yes, drvolts.) Drop by to learn more and subscribe!

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  17. Dec 7

    My early impression chart awards. Most on-brand: Most dizzying: and Most depressing: My pick for chart of the year: . Thanks to for pulling this all together again this year.

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  18. Dec 7

    It's chartapalooza day! I chose the graph (excluding COVID cases) that I updated most frequently during the past 8 months: EIA oil demand forecasts. It's startling how the 2008-09 GFC almost disappears from the graph. See all the charts here:

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  19. Dec 6

    Did they hire Steve Allan to manage this project?

    Government spent $12M returning Alberta superlab site to grassy field, documents show
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  20. Dec 6

    All part of the plan...

    1 in every 143 Edmontonian currently has COVID at the moment. 1 in 43 has had COVID at some point. 1 in 4086 has died from COVID.
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