Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

[dapaterson]

An all-weather road would be a bloody slog. Unforgiving terrain up there. Mostly swamps and bogs.

Which is a major rail maintenance issue.

 

[Czech_pivo]

An all-weather road would be a bloody slog. Unforgiving terrain up there. Mostly swamps and bogs.

Understood but is the terrain substantially different than what we just went through in putting a road from Inuvik to Tuk?

 

[GR66]

Just one point, Humphrey: You can't go that way for the Arctic Resupply route. The way you show can only go to Iklulik. The passage between that route and Baffin Island is unnavigable, so the Arctic resupply route still has to go around Baffin island. That is the reason why St John's is as good a support base for the Arctic as Churchill would be: there is no distance steamed advantage.

Fury and Hecla Strait - Wikipedia

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Technically navigable in the right conditions?

 

[HavokFour]

The polling on holding a referendum is interesting, it seems PQ gaining popularity has little to do with separatism and mostly just a dislike for the current state of other the parties in the province.

Yes: 29%
No: 62%
Undecided: 9%

The PQ might end up shooting themselves in the foot if they go any harder than they already are towards a referendum.

https://qc125.com/proj/2026-01-28-leger.pdf

 

[Czech_pivo]

Fury and Hecla Strait - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Technically navigable in the right conditions?

Is the issue/concern - ice or depths or both?

 

[Czech_pivo]

An all-weather road would be a bloody slog. Unforgiving terrain up there. Mostly swamps and bogs.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/churchill-build-road-engineer-1.4174034

9yrs ago.....

 

[Kirkhill]

An all-weather road would be a bloody slog. Unforgiving terrain up there. Mostly swamps and bogs.

Overseas Highway - Wikipedia

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This Gulf Coast Scenic Byway Is The Road Trip Of A Lifetime

Alabama's Coastal Connection highlights the biodiversity of the delta region, from pine forests to barrier islands, while stopping through charming towns.

www.worldatlas.com

Bet You Didn’t Know These 7 Things About the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge

Everyone in south Louisiana drives over it, but not everyone knows these facts.

1033thegoat.com

Worse than these?

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Fury and Hecla Strait - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Technically navigable in the right conditions?

Is the issue/concern - ice or depths or both?

Both.

Some sections of the strait are very shallow, from a merchant ship point of view or a heavy icebreaker point of view. This is complicated by the fact that there are weird currents and wind effects in the strait due to very large tidal effects and wind tunnel effects, and finally, it accumulates ice in the summer like crazy, in view of the narrowing here and there. As that ice piles up on top of itself, it quickly becomes way too much even for icebreakers.

Five or six years ago (IIRC, could be a little longer) CCGS Terry Fox and Des Groseillers tried escorting a merchant ship through there. Almost right off the bat, the merchant ship realized it wouldn't work when Terry Fox got itself stuck a few kilometers ahead and the path cleared by Des Groseillers closed itself behind her as fast as she opened it. The merchant, which was just getting in the edge of the ice, managed to get itself out and went the long way around Baffin Island, but TF and DG were stuck there trying to work themselves out for a couple of days.