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Reads like an episode of Boston Legal.

I have heard through my admittedly very thin and nebulous grapevine that it is between North Bay and Winnipeg.

I do. The journey is the vacation; but then again, I'm a biker. I guess it's easier if your vacation destination is an urban area. I'm not sure Uber and its ilk cover Algonquin Park or Cape Breton Island. You have to walk around 'old Quebec'. The last time we were there, we couldn't even...

As an outsider looking in, part of this confuses me. Since they use the conjunction 'or', any one adjective applies. "that involve people of different: rank, (makes sense) seniority (perhaps, particularly if it is extreme; very senior vs very junior) position (does this imply you can only be...

I suppose we could discuss pedantry but, as far as I recall, all five Mark Is flew so I'll stick with calling it an aircraft. I have never read anything that suggested the Arrow was to be equipped with guns. Missiles were intended to be carried in a retractable internal weapons pod that could...

Some people may be forgetting that ALTO is not VIA. The project originally was under VIA but was removed from them, possibly because it was determined that they lack the project planning and management for this level. The government has maintained that VIA corridor service will remain. How...

You forgot the 'grande dame' of Toronto radio - CFRB. My memory is the same. CFTO (CTV) went on the air in 1961. The Arrow became juggernaut in the true sense of the word, driven in no small part by the decidedly un-Canadian personalities of C. D. Howe and Crawford Gordon. Need Titanium...

I am a bit surprised that I haven't seen (social media only, FWIW) more negative feedback from FNs regarding the HSR proposal in Ontario. The study areas are quite large - maybe they're keeping their powder dry.

True, but the federal United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act obliges the Canadian government. Apparently BC has a similar provincial statute. Once you pass a law saying this is the way we're going to do business, people may expect that we do.

VIA was established in 1977 so that network was pretty much 'as received' from CN and CP. A number of those routes don't have rail anymore. They couldn't make money carrying freight. I doubt the taxpayers would be happy subsidizing trains will little to no passengers. A poster on another...

and in his mind he'll still be president.

Really. You mean to tell us that London hasn't been 9Mn people all along? Who knew.

The world, including Canada, is peppered with ghost or struggling communities that were founded resource sites - the so-called 'one industry town'. The day a mine shift is christened, its shut-down clock starts. A few, very few, like Sudbury and Timmins, are rich enough to be stable over a...

It all boils down to how the parties view Article 32 of the Declaration: The federal government views it as a 'foundation for partnership', I suspect many in the FN community view it as a veto and, based on the wording, it's hard to argue. The Declaration says "in order to obtain", not try...

As they do here as well, but convictions and actual sentences are the realm of the courts. Were they part of the over-reach? Often more of a capacity issue and targetting the ones seen as ringleaders or who have committed the most egregious offences. That and it's easier to catch the slower...

Other than money for safety upgrades at crossings and other specific initiatives, and money they have given to some shortlines, does the federal government bail out the Class 1 roads for maintenance, expansion or operating expenses?

Who else creates convictions and metes out punishment? I'm not sorry if I don't view people who climbed walls and fences, enter smashed doors and windows and roamed secure places as not innocently caught up in the crowd.

And there is no guarantee that "some" are not wrong. We have legislated the principle of 'free, prior and informed consent' from the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous persons into Canadian law, but it really hasn't been tested. On its face, it sure looks like a veto to me. and no...

I guess I see a line between absolute sovereignty in all matters, simply for its own sake, and mutually beneficial cooperation with a neighbour who, up until fairly recently, treated us as an ally and with a degree of respect. If we want to spend billions on building locks and dredging channels...

US-bound Air France flight diverted to Montreal. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/air-france-ebola-montreal-9.7206753 Apparently an asymptomatic passenger was from a country currently banned by the US. I heard a passenger interviewed on the radio who said they wouldn't say why they were...