In the case of Toronto presumably water is a municipal responsibility… Reserves are a federal responsibility though so you’d think they would be responsible here. The government has actually been putting in a ton of money on this issue and as the article says the number of boil water advisories is down by like 2/3 since the Liberals came to power. So also kinda weird argument by the justice department here.

In Vancouver 18.5 cents per litre goes to transit.

They are actually locked out, not on strike.

I don’t think there was really much of a housing collapse in Canada…

Variable rate let’s me take on the rate risk and pay (on average) less interest. Fixed interest means the bank prices in the rate risk and you pay for that in a higher rate.

Forced to move into traffic (perhaps unexpectedly) and get run over.

Well, all the data is available for anyone on the internet to use as they please…

Modern heat pumps continue to function down to -20C or below. If it gets colder than that where you live you can supplement with an auxiliary source for cold days.

I don’t think they work like that…

Even this probably won’t result work though because you need to put the clamp around only one wire, not the entire power cable that has live, neutral, ground.

Wouldn’t data centres not turn off though and therefore not be able to recharge?

I believe the RIF dev is working on a client for tildes.