I was going to move back to Ontario but not after the liberals got a majority government. Especially if you take into account this (here is a synopsis):

Per person, Ontarians currently owe $20,166 (Cdn) compared to $3,844 for Californiansâ"more than 5 times the per capita level of debt. Consequently, Ontarians shoulder much higher debt servicing costs: 9.2% of budget revenues in Ontario are devoted to interest payments compared to 2.8% in California.

People make fun of California and talk about them teetering on bankruptcy. But they look positively peachy compared to California. Granted this is from a right wing think tank, but the truth is the truth. And the new liberal government's budget proposals promise to run 10+ billion dollar deficits per year for the following several years. Ontario is doomed. It is the last place anyone would want to go now.

That was extreme sarcasm in case anyone missed it.

Everyone is responsible for what they eat. Stop fucking blaming everyone else if YOU decide to eat shit. Based on your logic, everyone would be hooked on heroin, but they aren't because people choose not to put shit in the blood stream. This should be no different for food.

Yeah yeah, it's always America's fault. Never any need for being responsible for one's own actions. Sure.

I guess someone had to type your response in because you obviously can't read.

So now being undisciplined is a mental disability. Give me a fucking break. 70 years and more ago, there weren't such a shitload of obese people. Then again their weren't Doritos, Cheezy Poofs, TVs, computers, or game consoles. Kids didn't automatically get cars when they were 16, and most people took the bus or walked. We don't change that much in such a relatively short evolutionary time. If there were a mental disability causing people to be fat now, it would have existing then. Lack of activity and too many calories is the cause, so stop making politically fucking correct excuses.

If a European court passes a stupid law, it's their own fault.

I actually read the news. No recess from French as Montreal schools to scan playground chatter. You need to stop drinking the cool aide. Free speech is free speech. One of the worst excuses for regulating speech and other civil liberties is "to keep our culture pure." It has slippery slope written all over it.

Any other province a business can put ANY language they want on their signs at any size they want. In Richmond B.C. there are blocks where there are only Chinese signs. In Quebec one is not free to conduct business in the language of your choice, so you are not allowed to put anything except French on the outside of your business and can only put very small non-French words on interior signs (under larger French words). The government forces employees of companies to speak French, and children are not allowed to speak any language except French at school, even at recess. There are no non-French public schools. Can you say NAZI state. Even the world court said it was a violation of fundamental freedoms, and the Quebec separatist government that enacted the law ignored it. Even the Canadian courts said it was unconstitutional and Quebec used the not-withstanding clause to veto that ruling.

Canada does not provide for mental health in any meaningful way. The government talks a good talk but that is it. If you don't have private insurance that covers mental health, you don't get access to anything except family doctors prescribing pills. There are basically no psychologists in the public health system and very, very few psychiatrists such that the only sure way to get access to one is to be hospitalized or committed to an institution. The Canadian health care system does not cover everything. It does not cover dental, nor prescription drugs, nor mental health care, and oddly you often have to pay out of pocket for a podiatrist.

The natural resource sector does not pay for any welfare, any more than any other business does in its taxes.

Seriously, where the heck did you get your information? You must have just made it up on the spot.

For unscrupulous nursing homes.

Oil and other resources in abundance.

Good link.

Just replied to the same response you had. :)

The math doesn't add up. 8 short winter hours of sunlight is required to gather and store enough energy (batteries lose ability to store electricity the colder it gets) to heat its own substrate and accumulated snow from say -20 to +1 C, and keep the water liquid till it is drained somewhere. Yes the water has to go somewhere, not just the side of the road unless you want skating rinks there that gradually move toward the centre of the road as it accumulates. So you have to keep it liquid a long time and distance.

Since parts of this are devoted to outputting light, only part can be devoted to solar cells if any. Or are they going to power it from the grid? How much will that cost. Probably more than keeping existing road building materials and plowing and sanding as needed.

This... I have worked with equipment that was built by southerners supposedly rated for 40 below. When it got cold, it failed and we had to rebuild the equipment to work as needed. Considering we spent nearly a million dollars on the particular piece of equipment (a gas analyzer shed), altogether it sucked. This is just one example of many.

I like the idea. I don't think it is anywhere near enough thought out. Nor do I think we have materials that can meet the environmental requirements for places with any significant winter. I think if it works it is better suited to desert and semi arid hot environments.