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its like rental housing; If you don't own it you don't take care of it.

not suggesting anything but having spent years involved in government contingency planning I discovered that whenever there was a crisis someone would dial up the page labelled emergency procedures and discover that it called for the used of an ALDIS lamp or a red flare pistol in the event of a...

they would just come up with something else. Isn't that the way of the stumpage fee? and we threw in a police collaboration clause that no one has seen for good measure

the demise of the small farm can also be attributed to more government regs. me thinks. Mennonite friends from near Waterloo ran dairy for years. No electricity so the milk went in cans and in the watertrough until the truck came. Along came the NDP in Ontario and they were told to install...

Let's watch the border figures for a bit. People have slowly been drifting back to their old habits and crossing over for shopping or for Disneyworld. Be very interesting to see if that trend continues or will people go back to the no go.

which makes a Alberta/Sask./Churchill pipeline or unit trains feasible.

what would the difference in cost be if you left it as diesel-electric? Also at 120 mph or less it doesn't have to be graded separated except crossing major routes. 120 mph and a dedicated line would reduce your end to end to perhaps 4 hours as the turbo back in 1970 or so was supposed to...

Going by definition, Toronto to Ottawa is also a provincial issue. The only section that makes it a national one is the little bit between Ottawa and Montreal. In reality, travel should be of concern on all levels but since Ottawa has and continues to ignore the interests of the vast majority...

Why focus on the train notion? The last few years has seen a massive development in Halton county from Milton east through to Mississauga. Whilst all that mud was flying would have been the perfect time to construct a dual track interurban system parallel to Derry Road and meeting up with the...

or work with the province to develop a harmonized system. It was the feds who created VIA by allowing the two majors to divest themselves of their passenger obligations. From what I have read, carrying passengers was the price they paid for receiving the huge land grants that went with the...

Except you aren't serving the corridor either. you are only serving the starting points with no service in-between. An integrated network is needed to make a go of it and that doesn't exist even in the corridor.

as Ukraine is proving, the 80% category works just fine if you can have it now.

SAAB and Bombardier are talking about 40 or more a/c. Those are orders not going to Boeing so you can bet there is a lot of pressure on Trump to do something about the loss.

the cash cow was evident with the Orangeville short line. The company ripped up every foot of rail and sidings that they could and still run a railway because the town was charging them (I think it was a business tax) on each section of rail that was used. When they started there was a decent...

the history of a number of those lines suggests sabotage rather than loss of passenger loads. Havelock to Toronto operated full until they changed the times to ensure commuters couldn't use it; just as an example. They said that it was too expensive to keep a station master for one train a day...

on the other hand, Ukraine would love to have a couple of squadrons of Spitfires or Mosquitoes to launch against those drones. They are using WW2 anti-air systems. We go back to WW2 because that is the last war we really know about. We know what worked and we know what failed. You don't copy...

good questions. Why not? I am referring to rail, as rail is the route we should follow for giving as many Canadians as possible an option to the PMV. Everyone talks about the volume on the 401. As a regular driver between Toronto and Kingston I can testify to the fact that, except for Friday...

back when the DHC2 was based out of ZD for the reserves the vast majority of the pilots were air canada line pilots. I don't know if all of them were retired military or not; I never asked.

finger trouble

The reason for the train going through to BC was to unite all provinces. The same logic can be applied to Perth. It should be part of the consideration of any new transit system and for the same reason: they are part of Canada. 90 billion dollars is a lot of cash especially since it will...