“When the convoy was in town, we heard that people were shitting in the streets and in buckets and pouring them in the streets,” he said. “Instead of doing nothing about it, we brought them toilets because it solved that problem.”

Well the "we heard" is baloney. Had friends in attendance, watched livestream EVERY day of the protest, talked to people who were there - and if there were people crapping in the streets it wasn't the protesters. The protesters were out every day, sweeping the streets, collecting garbage, giving out food, they weren't feral animals. Truckers dont need to shit in the street, there were still restaurants open and most of the protesters were staying in downtown hotels. Even the claim that someone peed on the war memorial was propaganda used to discredit the protesters. No one saw anyone pee on it and there are animals and homeless people downtown so why did the press automatically assume when they saw some pee that a protester did it? More propaganda.

Go as fast as you want in Montana. Even if you fall asleep and run off the road, there's nothing to hit.

The very root of the word news is new. The tradition of a rocket powered bird is indeed new to you and to me and therefore worthy of being reported.

Its the ratio I objected to. THIRTEEN articles? Who needs 13 articles about ANY topic on the same day? And as much as being trans is the trendy controversial of the day, the fact is that it affects a tiny minority of the population. But that's the CBC's forte: As ex CBC producer Tara Henley once stated (after she left) "People want to know why, for example, non-binary Filipinos concerned about a lack of LGBT terms in Tagalog is an editorial priority for the CBC, when local issues of broad concern go unreported."

And there's nothing controversial about Easter but there are still interesting things to report: Ever heard of the Scoppio del Carro (Explosion of the Cart) in Florence, Italy? A small rocket in the shape of a dove, is lit inside a Cathedral during the Easter Mass, it flies along a wire stretched through the cathedral, exiting the church doors and hits a large, ornate cart packed with fireworks, causing it to erupt in a massive, noisy display of fireworks and smoke and then flies back into the church.

Of course I found that on youtube after a link on facebook. Not likely to see that on CBC.

Its better than those without one, but they still lose range in the cold as the heat pump also takes power. There's an advantage if you preheat the battery while the EV is still plugged in.

The good part of accidents like this is that generally, the rider only does them once. Same with all the bozos who wheelie and then overdo it and end up sliding along on their butt. They might just be a bit physically sore the next day, but once they find out how much all that bodywork, bars or new pipes cost, they (generally) figure out that staying on two wheels is better. The truly dumb just get buried. Having said that, it is Motorcycle Awareness Month. Look twice, save a life. We're sometimes hard to see even at normal speeds.

Ironically, speaking of billions, this just came up on my feed a minute ago: https://www.thedrive.com/podcast/they-spent-billions-they-built-the-future-then-it-all-fell-apart

And your “physics problems” are also solvable, people are currently putting billions of billions of dollars into battery research. There will come a point where batteries are superior to a tank of fuel for most use cases.

So, we're equating spending money with finding solutions to a physics problem?Would that money include the billions for the NorthVolt plant that just went belly up in Quebec? Doesnt seem very successful. Im glad you're certain cause the people with the big bucks certainly don't seem to be.

Have you looked at BYD (the BIG Chinese EV maker) lately? It has a Q1 2026 net profit decline of 55% year-on-year. Thats massive. Companies that cant attract investors dont succeed and when Warren Buffet pulls out of your company after 17 years, you know things are bleak.

Just because some companies spend big money does not in any way guarantee anything. "Hope" does not equal success. More accurately the number of EV startups that have failed far outnumbers the very few that appear to be succeeding. For now.

Im going to assume you're just blinded by enthusiasm or high, but the facts say your wrong, my friend. Look at the total sales figures for F150's in 2025. They went DOWN by almost 10% and out of a whopping 555,704 F150, the Lightning sold only 19,077 (3.4% of all F150s sold).

Those are figures for Ford sales in the US so if "Lightnings were everywhere" then you must have bought a couple thousand yourself because there were only 19,000 sold in the US and we're about 1/10 the population. That would approximate 1900 Lightnings sold in Canada compared to 55,700 gas versions. Thats VERY poor sales - about 4 trucks per dealership in Canada. No dealer is going to train all his techs, invest in new expensive repair equipment and a bunch of unique parts just to sell 4 Lightnings a year.

No coincidence that at the same time, Canada is rushing to try and build massive data centers.

The implications of what and how fast you can very accurately be targeted should really make every Canadian nervous.

It’s deliberately not an open media outlet for broader public consumption, making it a terrible comparison to pubic media outlets

Except that even with ONLY reading their free multiple morning emails, which are a short paragraph each, I learn FAR more about whats going on behind the scenes on the Hill than I do from all other media. And I don't have to pay for that, its their teaser.

How do you get people to pay for media? Provide valuable content. I paid for Blacklock's for a couple of years til honestly, it got too depressing to see how MUCH news was not being reported by mainstream media. Infuriating to realize that most of the time we're getting talking points and sound bites, but a great deal of the backroom and under table news was going unreported.

Also, provide BALANCED news reporting. My prime example would be last year when Transgender Awareness Day happen to fall on Easter Sunday. I emailed the CBC to ask WHY there were THIRTEEN articles about transgender issues on their site that day and ONE about Easter - one is relevant to over 50% of the Canadian population and the other is 0.3% but you couldn't tell from CBC's incredibly unbalanced coverage. They wrote back to point out that I had missed another CBC Easter article and sent a link - it was one story about what stores were closed on Easter Sunday. Yeesh.

Maybe in summer. Real-world EV range loss in winter typically ranges from 14% to 39% based on 2025 AMA tests.