Alberta has a thriving film industry, too. Nearly any Western, or show that’s written for Texas and vicinity will have scenes shot in Alberta. The Last of Us was shot in Calgary, Edmonton, and Canmore along with various “wilderness” locations. The giraffes in the series are Calgary Zoo residents.
The 2022 AB general election was 52.63% UCP, 44.05% NDP. The only reason they have a majority is the dumpster fire that is first past the post.
AB’s about on par with ON, and it’s 5% off from the difference between BC’s two parties in their last election.
And in fact there are people taking steps to force a leadership change. I dont know why you don’t know about it. Maybe you don’t speak with anyone actually in Alberta, and just go off what you read in our right-owned media?
Personally, I’d rather have an effective politician, rather than an exciting one.
Either way, you apparently missed the AB NDPs electing Naheed Nenshi as their new leader. I’m not his biggest fan, but he’s likely to be more “exciting” for you.
Joke’s on you. My password is Abcd1234!
RUSA interference
Spouse of a Canadian nurse who works in forensic psychiatry here! For pedophiles who are caught and charged in Canada chemical castration -is- one of the things that our legal system can order. It seems like you’re under the impression it isn’t already happening, when it is.
I will note that from what I’ve heard, pedophilia comes in two types of “flavours”: the people who are attracted to minors, and are generally direstressed by it and want it to stop, where chemical castration appeals to them as an option to reduce sex drive and thereby the impulses. Then there are those who aren’t necessarily sexually attracted to children, so much as the sense of power that comes from doing these things. I have no evidence, but suspect Epstein et al. to be people with these types of motivations. While the castration can help some of their impulses, there’s more to it that requires other interventions. They’re also typically not interested in reducing this drive because they don’t feel bad about it.
Anyway, gathering more info to better support the folks who don’t want to follow their urges, and stop them from harming anyone before it happens is super important. I think the power motivated are part of a larger problem within our society that isn’t going to be dismantled just through this study. But hopefully I’m wrong, and we’ll at least glean some strategies.
*edited to clarify a thought.
A decent chunk of the meat used for pet food comes from pieces humans won’t eat (obvs. different by region and culture), so would go to waste anyway. Lab grown meat is cool, but I’m worried we won’t get accurate reporting on environmental impact. “This is how much meat we produced” implying benefit vs. “This is how many fewer cows/chickens/etc. were bred and slaughtered for pet food” which can be used to calculate methane and ammonia reductions, etc.
Nope, they still require a number.
From their site:
There are options to spoof a number in the States, and probably some areas of th EU, but many other places are SOL.