Recent content by lenaitch

You'd be surprised how many are 'centennial' arenas, and past their best before date.

On that we agree, and I suspect those against urban projects have the similar motivation.

I obviously don't know what's in the heart of Ms Smith, but I suspect she is playing from the 'Quebec gets stuff by whining and threatening to leave' playbook.

Fair and good point. I wonder if there is a legal foundation (in our context, a constitutional foundation) for imposing a toll on one class of vehicle, particularly if could established that it is considered punative.

He (and the US in general) has very little understanding of the religious and cultural tribalism in the Middle East.

They probably will, given that federal governments providing funding to all sorts of provincial and municipal undertakings but, constitutionally, Alto does cross a provincial boundary. I wonder if Alberta will encounter the 'ruining rural lifestyle' arguments.

I suspect many in the 'northern study area corridor' wouldn't be swayed by improvements to legacy VIA. Many urban people over estimate the number of rural people who actually travel to a large urban area beyond their local 'service centre' community. Hope you didn't pull anything making that...

I wouldn't be surprised if we see a significant de-escalation after Trump and his circle how made their fill from the stock market disruption. The Kurds have to remember the number of times they have been left twisting in the wind by the West.

Even Ontario, which is a whole lot closer to service, is keeping any pricing information close to its vest. I suspect none of the Alto senior staff will be around for the inaugural run.

No kidding. An estimated 16,000 Windsor residents work in the Detroit area (healthcare is a big employer). They ain't driving to Sarnia every day.

The word "war" is coming out in press conferences, etc., probably because maintaining the necessary level of speech discipline is difficult when not working off prepared text (and I suspect Hegseth does see is as a war of righteousness and the rest of them aren't all that bright), but official...

No clue.

They're called study areas. 'This is what we plan to do. We can do it Way A or Way B; tell us what you think'. It's done all the time in EAs. If everything is decided, what would they be consulting on? They could simply send out mailers or post something in local papers.

So two services when the current one is on life support. The re-routing of Canadian was largely to satisfy CP which wanted out of the passenger host business (notwithstanding the major coin they get from RMR) and provide a link to the Skeena.