Recent content by lenaitch

One thing that jumped out at me in your blog was the number of passengers impacts by the White River-Sudbury cancellation. Forty-four cancellations impacted 326 passengers; meaning an average impacted ridership of roughly 7.5 passengers per train. Telling.

You're going to have to point us to something that makes a connection between the return of a northeastern Ontario passenger service with a northwestern Ontario resource project. That MOU with Alberta is non-binding and pretty loosely worded, making reference to a "possible rail line to the...

One announcement I heard was going from a 2-year/4 semester teaching program to 1-year/3semester, which is sort of a half reversal to what it was not that many years ago.

Technically, there is nothing in Canadian law that provides for a non-administrative pardon, and certainly not preemptively. There is the Royal Prerogative of Mercy within the reserved powers of the Crown, which would exercised by the Governor General on the advice of Cabinet. We have no...

Not to mention the capital costs to bring the SSM to Sudbury stretch up to a reasonable standard. The advantage that Northlander has is much of it is on ONR's own property and, as you say, supported by freight revenue. Any service to the west would be a completely tenant situation unless the...

Another thing to remember is many of the social justice/equity issues that keep many Americans up at night, such as abortion, same sex marriage and even parental leave, are ones we have walked past, fairly successfully' although not all might agree on that.

I heard that as well. It goes back to my earlier comments about 'the Centre's' need for message control. Quite frankly, I doubt the Premier or minister's really care that much about the minutia of the fares but the minions around them lose their minds over things like this.

Interesting. I get the sense that the ONTC historically considered themselves 'sort of' federally regulated. It looks like CTA is hanging their hat on the fact that the inter-provincial Nipissing Central is federal therefore everything tied to it is as well. Edit: I looked on the CTA's list...

Under the original HFR, it was proposed to use that abandoned corridor. It is apparently railbanked and owned by VIA (?).

There will also be a business class equivalent which I am hearing will be called 'Northlander +'.

If the US formally apologized for an act or omission it would probably be a first. Every government of every stripe and composition since 1998 have failed or refused to recognize the Rome Statute. There are a number of other treaties and protocols that the US is not a signatory to. There is a...

Perhaps. Lots of social media space being taken up by the 'stop it - it's a waste of money' crowd plus guidance how to mark your property with 'no trespassing' signs and admonishing people to refuse entry if requested. The sense I get is most of it is centred around the...

I saw the train at North Bay station today. It must have been press day as I heard uncle Vic on the radio. Sorry, no pic - the lot was really full.

They could lean on his vast diplomatic skills and give him a job in foreign affairs. 🤣 Could be worse. Could be Cheryl Gallant.

I'm not exactly sure how you think the Democrats have any weight here. https://legalclarity.org/does-the-united-states-recognize-the-icc/