Well the smoke eaters are up to their eyeballs now in wildfires. JL and other authorities are handing out tickets and massive fines to bird watchers, Boy Scouts, hikers and nature lovers as fast as they can write them. The Canadian media is hyperventilating about climate change and focusing the cameras on the capering clowns and carnies.
The adults in the room are reminded that this is how old growth forests die and rejuvenate the young forests that are SUPPOSED to replace them. People forget that half the plants in these forests have evolved seedlings with wing like protuberances that evolved to ride the hellish thermal updrafts that set up during the fire. They’ll be carried aloft and come down far away as they’ve done for eons. It’s a remarkably successful survival strategy. Every year the regions go without fire…they’ll just get drier, and drier until they DO burn.
Ask California how this goes.
Um....exactly where in ALBERTA, where we BOTH live, are you going to get a ticket for walking in the woods?
ReplyDeleteQuit whining and get your damn story straight - this is happening in Nova Scotia only and only because Tim Houston, their premier, is an idiot.
Actually New Brunswick is also banning going into the woods to prevent forest fires, though the fines are much lower than the idiots in NS are selectively enforcing.
DeleteAlso newfieland has a province wide fire ban, this includes in your home and property. An enclosed wood or coal stove is banned, as is an enclosed wood or charcoal bbq, but propane bbq and furnaces are ok. Fines were just raised from $75 to $50,000 for using your bbq on your private land if your property is within 250 meters of a tree.
PEI also has new fine of 50k for using a wood fired appliance on your own property, but charcoal, coal and propane are still ok.
Regardless, it is only the maritimes enacting these stupid rules and PEI only recently (2024) removed the vaxx mandate to visit the island. They are all nuts and enjoy their slavery.
Exile1981
Well you know better than to come HERE and expect a coherent account by now, I should hope? 😂👍
DeleteOf course I am being a facetious dink - and fortunately you guys in law enforcement aren’t wasting time with similar bullshit here. Actually the map I saw should the bulk of the fires over the other provinces east. I suspect our wet weather may have saved us. We have a few… but nothing like the others…
@Exile1981:
DeleteI stand corrected - I just heard about New Brunswick's similar (and equally ridiculous) law not more than two hours ago. I wouldn't be surprised if the rest of the Maritimes follows suit, especially given how, as you astutely point out, the people who live in the Maritimes appear to relish government overreach significantly more than most other Canadians. Considering that the vast majority of Maritimers either a.) work for the government, or b.) are on some form of government income such as social assistance or pogey, this should not come as a surprise.
Just out of curiosity, I read an article in the Globe and Mail on the subject earlier today. I had to shake my head as I read comment after comment of these witless morons cheering on how the government in Nova Scotia has dealt with the dry season issue. Apparently, they have no issues with their own government treating them like toddlers and assuming they're just as stupid and irresponsible as their lowest common denominator. They think this military veteran, Jeff Eveley, is a complete kook, as well. But that's the Martitime culture today, I suppose....it's why I would never live there.
@Filthie: Yeah, I know you were just being a wiseass. To be fair to the conservation officers in NS who gave Eveley that ticket, those guys (even by Eveley's own account) went out of their way to try and avoid giving this guy a ticket. They practically begged the guy to not do this. But he went into the woods anyway for the express purpose of getting the fine. He had no ill will towards the guy who gave him the ticket. The reason he did this, according to the man himself, is because he wants to challenge the fine in court.
Personally? I think he's going to eat turds on this. I know what he's trying to do, but what will happen almost inevitably is this: he's going to go before the judge, the crown will present its case, he's going to be asked if he contravened the specific section of the Forests Act, he's going to be asked if he had any exigent reason for doing so, and when he says "no, but....", that's when the judge will cut him off and ask him if he needs time to pay his fine. The judge MAY let him plead his case, but at the end of the day, it won't amount to anything.
Do I agree with it? No. But that's how the law works...especially over in that part of the country. That's why no person who abhors government overreach should never live there or have anything to do with the place.
@JL,
DeleteI assumed you just been too busy to see the levels of retardedness coming out of the maritimes. I on the other hand was trying to take my mandated days off after my previous 21 days straight working only to be recalled to another one of our sites that desperately needed me the next day. Only to get here to find out they are not ready for me and spend 3 days sitting in my truck waiting for them to be ready, which gives me lots of time in camp to read the stupidity coming from out east
Did you see that Cho the toronto mayor has decided the best way to deal with people being afraid to ride the trains for fear of attack by gangs isn't to increase policing or stop the catch and release of felons but was to offer free access to a psychologists assigned to each station? She showed how safe the trains were by boarding one surrounded by her armed detail and a bunch of media with their armed details.
I hope you never get assigned a detail like that.
Exile1981
@Exile1981:
DeleteI try to keep abreast of what's going on in the rest of the country but with the news cycle being what it is, it's hard to keep track. As for the level of retardedness in the Maritimes...well, that's one thing about working in the federal government. After getting to work with a great many people, both in the military and on the Force who hail from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, etc., I've witnessed this firsthand. It's not even that they're stupid people, it's just that culturally, compared to there and here in the Prairies, we might as well be from different planets.
I'll give you an example: a few years back, I was on a course in Peace River with a bunch of mounties who were from various Detachments scattered acros NW Alberta. We had this one guy on our course from Halifax. One day, during lunch, a bunch of us were sitting around the table in the local BP's and listened to this guy bitch incessantly about being in Alberta (he was one of those guys who joined the RCMP and took a post in Northern AB because he couldn't get a post back in NS where he wanted to be - not uncommon, unfortunately). As far as this guy was concerned, Albertans are a bunch of spoiled brats who have no reason whatsoever to have any grievances against Ottawa or any kind of government overreach. Nobody bothered to argue with him, least of all me. This guy just did not get it. I've found people from those parts with attitudes like his are not uncommon. One of my old partners from when I was in the AB Sheriffs was originally from NB, but came out west in the 90's because there was no work at home and, because he can't speak french, he couldn't get a job back there. He told me that, as he was growing up in the 70's and 80's in the Maritimes, he watched as the place gradually turned into a veritable welfare state. People who once had good paying jobs as millwrights, longshoremen, etc. were gradually put out of work as the government took control of and phased out those industries. The way he told me how it happened, it was a gradual beatdown of people there. What we are seeing now is the end result.
These politicians, both over there, and in Ontario (especially in Toronto) are obviously lunatics. But I'm more wary of the people who live there because they vote for and support these nutjobs and their insane policies.
As for being assigned close protection? I appreciate the sentiment, but I already had a chance at that years ago. I couldn't say 'no' fast enough. Way I've always seen it, if these politicians are feeling that unsafe that they need a rifle section's worth of armed protection, maybe they should consider not going out of their way to piss people off to the point where they'd lash out. But hey, that's just my $0.02.
Yep.
DeleteMy in laws originate in New Brunswick. For about 20 years we were able to barely get along but then things got stupid and adversarial. I dunno if it was advancing age…? But they started hanging around some academics from the U of A that they thought were rock stars because they were “educated”. They became nauseating people to be around.
JL for president! Not really, I would be the ultimate dick to do that to you. If you don't mind, you could just go on being as free as you can manage in Canuckistan and keep us briefed as you see fit.
DeleteThank you, Thangqueverymuch, in my best Elvis Presley.
Years back i was doing work in edm, and called up an old high school friend who was now a govt employee. I hadn't seen them in nearly a decade other than emails once or so a month. I called her up and she invited me to meet up with her and her work friends the next night.We were at a BP's and the friend brought 5 co workers, so me, 5 women and a fruit. . Over dinner there was lots of assorted conversations. Finally one of the coworkers brought up the upcoming provincial election. She asked me if i was voting ndp or liberal. When i told her i was conservative she physically recoiled in horror, she told me it wasn't possible. When i asked why she said because i was well spoken, intelligent and because i hadn't tried to grope any of the women. I talked to her a bit more but she truly believed that conservatives sexually assault women all the time and none of us had a post secondary degree. It was completely outside her ability to comprehend. She cried because i was conservative.
DeleteWeeks later my friend emailed me to say this lady was convinced i must have suffered a head injury at some point to become conservative.
It was then that i realized they are so insular they can not conceive of someone like me, and i'm like hundreds of over guys. But they cant not accept what we are and that means our lives are in danger. I read once that someone programmed will have one of three reactions to something outside their world view. 1 they break out of their world view and free themselves from its constraints. 2 they snap and refuse to acknowledg the thing. Or 3 they destroy the item to prevent it from upsetting the world view. Thats were we are gentleman, our existence undermines that world view enough they will kill us to protect it. Hence why our only option is to not be around people like that. In away before this i was like them, trapped in my own worldview, sure we could coexist. In they end i broke out of my bubble and for that i am thankful to them.
Looking back on my life i realized several years ago this was one of the pivotal events that defined and shaped my current world view.
Exile1981