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You're kidding right? This wildfire isn't doing anything to help Canada's carbon footprint.
I think/hope he was being sarcastic.
But anecdotally Trudeau was worried about carbon footprints from a camp fire he once attended, but these wildfires don't bother him.
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I think/hope he was being sarcastic.
I am not sure why learned members of HN don't get sarcasm. But anecdotally Trudeau was worried about carbon footprints from a camp fire he once attended, but these wildfires don't bother him.
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1. The value of the Canadian dollar right now is much closer to the historical norm than it was when at parity for a relatively short period. 2. The unemployment rate is marginally higher than in the USA. It's bad here, but it's bad over there too... the recession never ended. 3. That's true, and to be honest, I'm glad it's expensive. Expensive means there is something and/or someone there worth saving. I would argue…
The Obama comparison resonated with me - not in the specifics like policy, or how left/right they are - but in spirit, level of excitement and general sexiness. Obama after bush feels alot like Trudeau after Harper.
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Do you really think Trudeau would be PM (now) without his name? 2nd youngest PM ever, and the youngest is Joe Clark. Still rather have Trudeau than harper, I just dislike electing people based on legacy.
>Do you really think Trudeau would be PM (now) without his name? Yeah I do. You've got a young, good-looking, charismatic leader with what look like progressive policies on things like drugs and other social issues who occasionally slips up with the etiquette like calling an MP a piece of shit on the floor of the Commons. It makes him look like a real guy, and less like a standard shitty politician, which is what the…
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Actually our airspace was saturated. We had more aircraft ourselves we could have put up but it would have been unsafe to do so.
Really? The fire is over 1000 square km, and there's only like 30 aircraft, right? Plus SA isn't contributing aircraft, only people that have gone through a 10-day "boot camp". It seems very weird that Russia and the US have nothing to contribute, but inexperienced folks from SA do.
Canada seems to be in so much trouble - I am wondering how things are there. # Massive flooring of the Canadian dollar. # Continued job losses months on end - Unemployment rate of 7.1% ! # Most expensive Natural Disaster in Canadian history. At least they got their Obama.
Canada seems to be in so much trouble - I am wondering how things are there.
# Massive flooring of the Canadian dollar.
# Continued job losses months on end - Unemployment rate of 7.1% !
# Most expensive Natural Disaster in Canadian history.
# They got their Obama.
Canada seems to be in so much trouble - I am wondering how things are there. # Massive flooring of the Canadian dollar. # Continued job losses months on end - Unemployment rate of 7.1% ! # Most expensive Natural Disaster in Canadian history. At least they got their Obama.
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Really? The fire is over 1000 square km, and there's only like 30 aircraft, right? Plus SA isn't contributing aircraft, only people that have gone through a 10-day "boot camp". It seems very weird that Russia and the US have nothing to contribute, but inexperienced folks from SA do.
By the time Russia came along, much of the populated area's were out of harms way. Adding more aircraft that are all using 1 or 2 airports is just more congestion.
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This comment breaks the HN guidelines, as have others you've posted. We ban accounts that do this, so please stop doing it, and instead post civilly and substantively, or not at all. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11833516 and marked it off-topic.
Offtopic, but this is a repeated offence. Why not suspend or terminate the account?
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Really? The fire is over 1000 square km, and there's only like 30 aircraft, right? Plus SA isn't contributing aircraft, only people that have gone through a 10-day "boot camp". It seems very weird that Russia and the US have nothing to contribute, but inexperienced folks from SA do.
With a wildfire there's no point in fighting 99% of it - you fight the edges that are near people/property, try to contain it, and wait for rain and for it to run out of fuel. So of a 1000 sq km fire it may only be a few dozen linear kilometers that are being actively fought.
From a forestry management perspective, you don't want the forest to live forever, and trying to prevent old, dead trees from burning is a nightmare. Let the fire burn, protect the property, and the forest will reseed itself during the fire.