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It would also exceed the track safety classification for the CN Kingston sub (assuming that is what is being talked about because it is the route of the current VIA corridor service). Top speed for Class 5 track is 95mph (153kph) and there are all sorts of locations where it is lower...

He doesn't care about 9/11. He'll be off golfing or something anyway.

Was it risk aversion or an active effort by previous governments and ministers to demilitarize the program in an effort to make it more palatable in urban areas? We all remember dark times with school boards not wanting any connection to the military, law enforcement, etc. Honest question...

"We like to get along with everybody". (except those people we don't want to get along with because they don't drink Kool-Aid)

I remember watching a series a few years ago about EMS in the northern prairies/territories. A lot of patient transfers are by contract air carriers and it seems most don't have cargo doors. The one episode followed how they rigged up a roller system - like they use in warehouses - to get a...

The way I read the G&M article, all of that proposed investment is GM's money, not public.

All of this discussion is way beyond me, but all I will say is that thinking that a fixed, shore-based installation would be the same as some portable collection of components that would be regularly dis-and-re connected is likely a false equivalency.

Price-wise, I don't remember and, like many other things, was relative. I wasn't making the same money in the '70s that I was in the '90s. I dealt an early-70s GMC Jimmy with a 3xx V8, and prior to that had an F-150 so was well familiar with truck ownership. This one was brutal and I was new...

Early 1970s. Mid-1970s is when they started tacking on a bunch of emissions stuff to existing engines. I had a 1978 F-150 with the 351 and it was a pig on gas, especially at northwestern Ontario distances. I'm convinced that is their business model. I've become a fan of their on-site lookup...

When working in Sioux Lookout, we would often get calls around 0830 from headquarters in Toronto looking for the boss, and not understanding that it is was only 0730 there.

Our local Canadian Tire has a bank of chargers near the lot entrance. All I see is people hanging around their cars. What fun. I don't know if CT derives any spin-off store business from people waiting for a charge. That is manufacturer specific. The missus' Jeep Compass turbo runs on...

And Timmins/Porcupine area was historically a gold camp, until Canada Nickel starting turning it into a nickel camp in 2019 that is expected to rival the Sudbury Basin.

I didn't know we signed a free trade deal with China. Musta missed that. Assuming the media reports are true (and we may never know what went on in the room), sovereignty also extends to selling of critical minerals to whoever we want, buying whatever military kit we want, and having a say in...

Texas school districts cancel classes amid Covid-19 surge. https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-rapid-covid-spread-schools-classes-canceled-12374696 CDC modeling indicates Covid-19 cases growing in 47 states. https://www.cdc.gov/cfa-modeling-and-forecasting/rt-estimates/index.html?tab=0...

Reporting is a little confusing. Graphics scream 'Line 5' but reporter says not. According to Enbridge, Line 5 is not a compressed natural gas line, but does carry "natural gas liquids".

I suspect not everyone will "move on", including some on here. Hopefully, the 'Alberta 51st State' crowd will simply move.

Duluth-Superior's big advantage (not its only) is its proximity to the still-active iron mines in the Mesabi Range as well as the US 'breadbasket' states. Still, it's a fair point. Thunder Bay was a lot more active under the Crow Rate grain rules, and when Atikokan was still mining iron. I...

A few points: Expanding the Port of TBay would be a great idea - provided that enough blue water ships are willing to show up. If you are thinking of shipping petroleum, I don't know if there would be much enthusiasm for Seawaymax tankers and LNG ships. I can see more potash being bulk...

They could - and do - exist as artisanal and even medium market producers. I'm a fan of Balderson (north of Perth ON) and it is available at supermarkets. But how do you supply dairy products to ~40 million people when roughly 3/4 of us live in large urban areas and when many if not most...

It would be interesting to know how Au and NZ wound up their supply management system. Pre-supply management here, dairies were close by, and dairy farmers complained that they would truck their milk to them only be told they don't want/need it and they ended up dumping it. We won't see...