Recent content by ShonTron

It’s going to include a mounted unit for some reason. The OPP doesn’t have a mounted unit. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/opp-ontario-place-detachment-9.7176396

After nearly three years of inactivity, demolition permits are finally being sought. The entire property - not just surrounding the hotel building - is fenced off now.

I’m not super worried about Bradford yet as he’s very unlikeable with little support in the conservative Family Compact that gave us two of the past five post-amalgamation mayors. But Chow has to give the rest of us the reason to get out and vote for her.

I’d be wary of praising Conestoga though; a lot of its recent expansion was just to accommodate all the foreign students it recruited. Hopefully they do something reasonable with the small downtown presence, but maintaining a single campus location with services easily accessible to students...

Mohawk College is much, much more urban than Conestoga’s campus. It’s less than a ten minute bus ride to Downtown Hamilton. Compare that with Conestoga’s main campus by the 401 and a longer bus ride just to get to the LRT. Are you thinking of WLU? A lot of your other criticism about Hamilton is...

Yeah. KFC is very popular in China. They adapted the menu to local tastes before opening stores (where most Western chains started by just offering the same basic menu and hoping for the hype. Very popular in Japan too, where they learned the lessons first.

They did it anyway – an entire line! – for a terrible person because she was a crony of Doug Ford.

I have some thoughts about Brampton Transit's sudden decline and Caledon's on-demand plans. https://seanmarshall.ca/2026/04/14/caledon-rethinks-its-transit-as-brampton-retrenches/

I believe it is, given that it was occupied until very recently. https://maps1.brampton.ca/PlanningViewer/#data_s=id%3AdataSource_3-Building_Permits_49%3A155716

I’d love to see a morning northbound Route 37 run, and maybe a few weekend trips. Orangeville is growing.

This really should be a Simcoe County Linx service, all they have to do is create an express branch of the Route 2 to go direct to Allandale. It doesn’t work right now because the Midland and Orillia buses only go to Georgian College, requiring another fare to transfer to Barrie Transit.

The Conestoga is also that rare highway that made the urban area better. Having most of the traffic sent there off King and Weber made it a lot easier to built the Ion LRT and focus the high density around it.

A few photos from today. So many trees cut down as major construction starts. This handsome house at James and Wellington Streets will soon be torn down as well, for the greater good.

Yep. The Brantford-Paris section was already built 40 years earlier; it was a relatively easy build between Lyndon Junction and Downtown Brantford. Even at a time when CN was still big on passenger trains, it couldn’t justify maintaining the old GWR mainline between Lyndon and Paris in the...

Yeah. The idea of ensuring AI and data storage remain Canadian and regulated to ensure its responsible use (I recognize that there are promising and legitimate uses for AI) is good. Letting Solomon and the techbros call the shots is bad.