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In the civilian world, they are hobbies or pastimes; what else could they be? Some may be avocations, at best. I'm not I'm understanding how someone who enjoys snowmobiling, kayaking or rifle shooting could be interested in travelling to some government site to do the same thing, only under...

Transportation between points within a province is a provincial responsibility. Alberta is in the very early stages of their proposal. Once they get into dollars that start with a 'B', it will be interesting to see if they go it alone. I'm not, out of principle, against federal contributions...

A number of reasons. For several decades, both Class 1s have shown absolutely no interest in passenger rail, let alone HSR. Neither railroad has a corridor that can support HSR except perhaps in spots. Depending on final alignments, they may have to share in terminal approaches, but they will...

Not only expensive to build but expensive to operate and maintain. The range in our headquarters requires regular changes of very expensive filters, plus regular blood tests for the training personnel. I don't know if workplace rules for the CAF are different but OHSA rules for public servants...

Fair, but does any of that give them licence to shake down any country it chooses for its territory, demand absolute fealty to anything it choses to do unilaterally or expect that it be the sole supplier of commerce?

They should not be travelling together anyway. If folks want to be mad at anybody for worrying more about the security of the President, it's the USSS. In motorcades, there is an entire set of procedures, alternates, etc. for 'the package' (limo, security cars, etc.), not the rest of the...

Very wrong. Cleaver; but wrong.

So does he mean they have sufficient stock to be able to sell some to the EU - at fair market price? Blaming a decision made a couple of years ago does say much about US munitions production capabilities.

https://skiesmag.com/news/porter-airlines-welcomes-plan-for-jet-service-at-billy-bishop-toronto-city-airport/...

Declaring someone PNG, even an ambassador, is not the same as breaking off diplomatic relations. They would just send somebody else and, given this Administration, would likely also be a dick. Breaking off diplomatic relations is a 'nuclear option' and has been described as some as a step...

I'm not sure but I think that was only during Prohibition, and where you required beverage alcohol for 'medicinal purposes'. However, up until the early 1960s, you needed an Individual Liquor Permit and they tracked what you purchased. One of the ways the Liquor Control Board was described...

Wow. A month and a half of mat leave. Such a generous employer and country.

I think the best thing we could do - we as in everybody; governments, media, corporations, is to just ignore him.

Largely true, but over years, Congress has devolved some authorities to the Executive for reasons that probably seemed legitimate at the time. If a future Congress cared, they could pull some of that back.

Reminds me of the guy who invented the USB plug. When he died, they put him in the coffin, then had to take him out and put him in facing the other way.

The whole 'Island Airport Thing' strikes me as Bob Deluce et famille, founder and controller of Porter, having the ear of Doug Ford. All municipalities are 'children of the province', but Ford treats them like step-children. In an industry of rising costs and tight margins, Porter needs to...

When it was originally HFR, the assumed routing from Ottawa to Montreal was on a railbanked ROW (which might be that rail trail - and I don't know if VIA still owns it), and assumed that it go to downtown Montreal using existing CN/VIA trackage. Now there is talk of flipping over to the Quebec...

I would think the tow company, but making the nexus might be a challenge. Even if they did pony up, I would bet that it wouldn't be 100% since they would argue that whatever caused it be towed in the first place was contributory. Civil/small claim are weird sometimes.

This news will be a major step towards that recovery.

GO has had the advantage of sufficient government funding to purchase corridors, and willing railways to sell them. This was largely facilitation by both freight companies pretty abandoning service to and around downtown Toronto. The only 'greenfield' corridor that GO has built, that I can...