I think it would be more efficient to issue the $2 bills however I think it became a social stigma if you had $2 bills in your wallet. Everybody would assume you needed them for the whorehouse. So nobody wanted them and they stopped circulating them.
SK Puritans (Tommy "the Commie" Douglas) had BofC stop issuing them because the reputation.
So this explains why Regina is the only town that smells like it sounds!
Good thing Grandma didn't make the transaction with all those $2 bills or they would have been wondering how she got them!
Trudeau touts embattled carbon levy to global audience, says it faces misinformation — The Canadian Press
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending his embattled carbon-pricing prograpple.news
The above is homage to the thread subject.
AGAR: Time for a carbon tax election — Toronto Sun
Can we have a federal election this Thursday? Or do we need to suffer through Justin Trudeau for a few weeks longer, as it takes a bit to organize something like that? It is one thing to have a certified activist such as Steven Guilbeault as minister of environment and climate change, but now...
On the aside, my one Grandma wouldn’t spend a $2 bill, ever. If she go them as change, she put them away because a lady didn’t spend a $2 bill…ever!!! This went on for decades.
Eventually the day came when it was time to do something with these $2 bills. They carpeted their home & paid for it in $2 bills. Seriously…& my Grandma wasn’t there for the transaction. Carpeted entirely funded using $2 bills.
This wasn’t a little place either as they’d raised six boys & two girls in that home, & when enough kids left home, they removed the second story off the house, leaving just four bedrooms, atrium/library area, bathroom, huge kitchen, dinning room, monster livingroom, wash-room (not a bathroom, but a separate wash up room for clean up before coming into the house itself), etc…
This was in the ‘70’s and the total was something like $2000 or so from what I recall.
She wouldn’t have anything to do with it beyond picking out the carpet one day and my grandfather going in paying for it a different day with all those two dollar bills. No way no how!!
Thats not the first time the deuce was used in a tracking experiment. The steel mill in Regina did the samething.
Almost (but not quite) a year ago.
“We’re adding to that hydro system now with sites coming online and we have abundant other energy resources. And you bet we need to build more clean energy to drive our clean economy in B.C. There’s significant demand for that.”
New numbers show BC Hydro imported a record amount of electricity over the last 12 months.
Yada yada yada - they'll need electrical sources that includes O&G for years yet.Almost (but not quite) a year ago.
“We’re adding to that hydro system now with sites coming online and we have abundant other energy resources. And you bet we need to build more clean energy to drive our clean economy in B.C. There’s significant demand for that.”
For some perspective, the amount of power imported last year is more than two-and-a-half times what will be produced by the newly-completed $16-billion Site C Dam.
New numbers show BC Hydro imported a record amount of electricity over the last 12 months.
According to documents filed with the B.C. Utilities Commission, BC Hydro imported 13,600 gigawatt hours of electricity in fiscal year 2024, at a cost of nearly $1.4 billion.
“It’s very disturbing that British Columbia’s now relying on 25 per cent of our electricity to come from outside the province,” Barry Penner with the Energy Futures Institute told Global News.
“Most of that’s from the United States. Just how we got here, I know we’ve had some low water years, but it’s also an indication we just have not been planning ahead and doing what’s really needed to keep pace with the growing demand.”
Much of the power came from the U.S. and Alberta, where it was generated by burning fossil fuels.
The Energy Futures Institute said BC Hydro needs to ramp up power production as demand is forecast to keep climbing.
However, B.C.’s new energy minister Adrian Dix said the number reflects the significant multi-year drought affecting the province.
“We have one of the world’s most significant, most important hydro systems,” he said.
“We’re adding to that hydro system now with sites coming online and we have abundant other energy resources. And you bet we need to build more clean energy to drive our clean economy in B.C. There’s significant demand for that.” Shame it can’t even meet its own demand though.
BC Hydro imported a quarter of the province's power in the last 12 months — Global News
According to documents filed with the B.C. Utilities Commission, BC Hydro imported 13,600 gigawatt hours of electricity in fiscal year 2024, at a cost of nearly $1.4 billion.
& nuclear. Just think when we’re all running electric cars, electric furnaces, etc….
It's a transition to a new energy source. Not exactly the first time. Just think when we all started running our lives and economies on this newfangled "petroleum," switching from good ol' whale-oil and firewood.
