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Well yeah. I have the same level of affinity for North Bay as I do for Sudbury. No interest beyond going there for work. So sure, I don't see any personal benefit in this endeavour. So "they'd".

Alternatives in the Corridor. There's no value in providing alternatives to travellers to/from Sudbury (beyond buses). Our long distance services exist to service communities which have no alternatives (or severely compromised alternatives). Entirely debatable. I think they'd be better off...

Nice try moving the goalposts. How did we go from comparing a city in a country (Canada) to a city in a continent (Europe)? If you want to play that game, the appropriate comparison is 25th largest city in North America. Take a guess where Sudbury falls on that list. As I said, when it...

Because the people you are talking about are fans of a given mode. They aren't all that preoccupied with actual mobility, effective use of tax dollars and improving quality of life.

Still not enough to justify rail service. Those delays maybe inconvenient but it isn't denting the local, regional or national economy substantially. And it's a lot cheaper (with a higher rate of return) to simply improve those sections of road than build rail. You should learn what the...

Any frequency that significantly impacts functionality and utility of a road corridor. I don't think anything you've posted to date would meet that threshold. Nobody has suggested HFR would deter the majority from driving. This is different from what you are insinuating when trying to link a...

1) Sudbury is not a major city. 2) The occasional accident is not justification for multi-billion dollar rail infrastructure. 3) Service that is daily is not sufficient to deter the majority of people from driving.

I can understand why the sitting government won't release names. But one would think the government would be dismissing these MPs from caucus and seeking new candidates for upcoming elections. They could at least announce that nobody who is compromised will run in the next election...

Just a reminder the last high ranking official we caught spying, wasn't a member of the diaspora. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/former-rcmp-intelligence-official-sentenced-to-14-years-in-jail-after-leaking-national-secrets-1.6759260 I don't actually think it's necessarily diasporic MPs. I...

Pass. And I say this as a tail end Gen X'er. Who cares if it's mostly X'ers making the decisions? That fundamentally misses the point that policy is heavily skewed towards the benefit of Boomers. You know this has proven to be false right? The Greatest Generation utterly sank this theory...

We can acknowledge the mistakes of past governments and still judge the past 8 years of this government.

The US is accusing Canada of facilitating the import of goods made with forced labour from China: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canada-us-forced-labour-senator-1.7224599 And our universities have been facilitating covert collection of militarily significant scientific and technical research by...

This documentary was about the UK and how badly British Tories enabled by strong Boomer support have utterly f'd that country over their last decade and a half in power. But there's a lot of parallels to what the LPC is doing in Canada and how equally ineffective our alternative parties are as...

Which government are you talking about? That's the question.

That federal list at G&M is a bit bizarre. They listed the Albert Jackson Processing Centre. This is a $470M facility that opened last year. Bit ridiculous to list it as surplus. Seems like the article simply listed any federal facility of an acre or more as "lazy lands". I'd say that's...

100%. A lot of that wouldn't even create "affordable housing". Sell off the Staff College and Moss Park and you'd create headaches for DND for simply a handful of very expensive condos. Also, a lot of surplus federal space is in Ottawa (about 60%). It's not going to make much difference in...

Well yes. After colonialism robbed them blind (India had something like 30% of global GDP before the Europeans arrived), all that is left to export is people unfortunately. Makes the Western complaints about non-white immigration (particularly in the UK) quite ironic.

I know this is difficult to understand in a country like Canada where everything military is seen as optional or irrelevant, but military facilities are working facilities. Aside from using the parking lot to store and maintain military vehicles, it's kinda hard to attract reservists when we...

Yes. Given the rank level and importance of the personnel trained and educated there, especially the foreigners, security is primordial. There is no way randoms are being allowed on campus. There is a barracks on campus for unaccompanied personnel. Those with families rent (usually) or buy...