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They needed more runway and failed to turn it into viable product. On Reddit, insiders make it sounds like their board was captured by the founder(s), who should have been supplemented or replaced at least a few years back.

Weighting construction time as a cost in the evaluation of bids. Prioritizing time can seriously push costs, as it causes sub-contractors to schedule a fair amount of idle time to ensure their workers and equipment are ready when the project is ready for them. A good part of it we can't...

Their land is booked at $96.5 mm, with buildings and parking lots at another $144.5 mm. If the grocery business can't sustain market rents, I think Co-Op needs to reevaluate its market position. If it is to provide a cross subsidy to lower grocery prices, they should reposition as a low cost...

Acquisitions are also misrepresented in this i think - Willow Park for example. They have a lot of B2B sales and came with 3 distribution centres to support hospitality sales. Co-Op has been rebranding some stores into Willow Park, including Saskatchewan and Edmonton stores. Lots of potential...

The Vancouver project will come later, so a few years perhaps. Burnaby has a 258.4 m tower on the books, but that needs substantial presales. Just as the downtown Vancouver one does. We will see what the sales price is. If the W and JW projects allow units to be put in the hotel pool, that...

Lots of utility work (including to supply festivals with lots of on site power). Constrained site next to a water body, and very close to residential. The incremental expense of relocating programming that was typically on the plaza. Archaeology of the entire site down 2 metres. Integrating...

In the NE for Saddletown, and the Deep SW, along 162nd, are viable '15 minute' cities that can support multiple grocery options (I think a useful metric lacking anything else).

Here is toddler density per km²in the last census, if that is any guide.

Mainline twinning might fit the bill there. Twinning in the park would provide capacity to Johnston Canyon, Caste Mountain and Lake Louise from Banff that would relieve congestion while concentrating demand in already well used areas. Depends on the philosophy, are you concentrating in some...

I think higher speed, lets say 200 kph, is viable with CPR as a partner and twining for key segments. Combined with the Ghost Dam project, there might need to rethink and realignment working with First Nations partners to gain a mutually beneficial agreement and project. If they're way more...

Being opposition leader is a hard slog. As leader in the Legislature, there will be more budget, especially travel budget, and more direct control over communications and strategy, via both being there, and being able to direct staff. The NDP style had been break a story and then juice it for...

Maintaining two major runways same as YVR divided over fewer passengers it sucks. A problem of Canada’s model I guess. But if we changed the model to one where let’s say the feds maintained all the runways, Calgary money would be going to Halifax and Winnipeg — would Calgary end up ahead or...

I'm not sure. The theory is correct. The capital issue certainly has raised its head with Flair. That being said, I don't think it is the the only determinate. Right now a big one, for the outside observor, is a captain and first officer shortage. Another airline starting up and absorbing more...

Communication based train control is a standard for allowing the communication of train location at high precision, that can enable various train control systems, such as moving block in many contexts. A block is an area that one train can be in that a train control system will limit a second...

Higher property taxes in Calgary, lease versus ownership, a different capital structure for tax purposes (they can have different entities owning the land versus the buildings), and they've been burned before where they had to abandon facilities at a federally owned airport. Full ownership and...

Trying to automate in Edmonton for their tunnel segment created a world of hurt. I am skeptical as whether they've achieved it, or just quietly abandoned it for a workable solution.

A nice to have for sure. A need, no.

Yeah. Numbers I’ve seen is $5 million a station of saving ($7–>$2) but that is old. If land acquisition is a concern or integration into existing street front retail (like 7th Ave when rebuilt) you can see the appeal and cost savings. Whether worth it?

Ottawa's initial fault was a super weird one: culture. Local culture was that if the bus was closing its doors, sticking out a hand or arm into the door was an okay thing to do--the door would open, people would continue to load for a few more seconds, and you'd be on your way. The LRVs, if this...

reducing the costs of certain types of stations. Whether 10 stations of savings is entirely negated by requiring a single larger underground station box, let alone 3 or 4, is what mattered for the purposes of technology choice for previous versions of the Greenline. If high floor LRT is the...