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That's a higher spread differential than I've been told by clients ($100/m3) but it is a significant difference. A few clients work both sides of the border and it's always been an interesting coffee discussion.

As I understand it the biggest employment scheme under the US Civilian Conservation Corps during the great depression was tree planting. Mostly in the SE states due to cotton and tobacco fields lacking nutrients and unable to grow food crops well. Yellow pine was a preferred species (native...

Part of the issue is that overall employment per mill has decreased drastically in the last 30 years. Same within the logging front. And trucking front. When I started my carear a log truck often only hauled 40m3 of wood....now I'm looking at 10 axle B-trains hauling 60m3 summer weight...

To be fair to Jasper National Park... The preferred mechanism would be prescribed burns...and they did conduct many low intensity burns primarily north of the community. Unfortunately due to the challanges and risk of prescribe burns this was not an option on the west side or east side to...

Oh I'm fully aware of the size of the 6 Nations vs. many bands out west. I often deal with bands of 2-300 people which create major challenge due to size of community and support needed as any community that size struggles unless they are part of something bigger. And decades of fighting...

It's funny as some of the worse days I remember growing up were due to fires in Siberia blanketing western Canada. I sit here with 4 nations working to support this wildfire...including USA resources...and there is at least a 5th on export elsewhere in Canada. But one of the barriers to doing...

That there is an excellent summery of many of the challenges. And it's the same conversations when I talk to the US, Australia, and any Canadian Province peer over futures. My Spanish isn't good enough to talk specifics with other agencies and I don't know any Afrikans. Think of it this...

Except Ontario can't staff the existing tankers they have and Conair (the contract provider for the new Saskatchewan Q-400's) didn't have certified pilots avaiable either so they almost lost the one plane in La Ronge without completing a single mission. To be fair the plan was to use the...

I'm working on a wildfire as we speak dealing with First Nations. Some are doing okay....others are in pretty rough shape. A lot is dependent upon local priorities and in some cases creating alternate income streams. Unfortunately the local economy is very depressed in this area and...

Bombers don't work when you have crown fires rolling. Only on initial starts are they very effective or maybe the rear/flank areas. But the fuels driving the fire are a very complex situation from both management, long growth cycles and politics (i.e. what do you let burn if you can?)...

So one of the great issues with the Indian Act of Canada is that Treaty lands can not be split into private ownership. So in a nutshell...as a status person living on reserve...you can NOT own your own house. This also has huge implications as it affects not just the land ownership but also...

My biggest concern is that riding is a very right wing area. Blue rocks might be called liberal for getting their way. So now you have official opposition leader dependent upon a far right riding to keep his seat...when it's not a direction for the rest of the country. To PP's credit he...

I knew people that homestead still in the 1970's. No longer an option though.

Well...I figure around 2k for a frozen, no dirt work involved, winter log trail. Take it down to allow single lane traffic and summer haul and it's around $5/km. That's a 6-8m running surface. Now...build something that all season, full width to allow traffic to pass, and gravelled...

My first thought was Cool...gravel. Then I read what they are. Dang it....gravel might be an issue. It's out there but that's alot of muskeg/permafrost to cover without rock. Reminds me of past work where any time we found consistent rock we had to flag it for possible road building...

Cool..I saw the straight lines on the other projects and figured as much but wasn't sure. I'd never heard of Gray's Bay until fairly recently and it's a severely under rated project....plus has all the local buy in already from the Indigenous communities as I understand. There's the Highway...

I'm a little confused by the western corridor which seems to track the Athabasca and the Mackenzie river. There is work in progress to bring a second highway to connect Fort Mac to the the West...and if you go to either Highway 88 (middle of the province running N/S) or Highway 35 (from Peace...

So who exactly do they wish to exclude? Or is the real goal to break the provinces growth off at the knees? When I think of...I don't know....the TransCanada Highway beside me....and the number of travellers who break down/need assistance due to poor luck....do they qualifiy? When I think of...

Local millage may differ but what I've noticed very quickly in recent months is that since the TFW tap was turned off there is actually starting to be kids again in the fast food places, check out lines and some entry level jobs. Many of the jobs are still held by newer immigrants but it's...

Understand the point your're making. And I'm cool with some folks who medically can't get certain immunizations due to allergies or X valid reason. But I think back to even under COVID times and despite a fully immunized team doing to the mental calculations of which team member that...