Recent content by darwink

There is the MOU with the province, that has a provision that could be interpreted in two ways. Expires in 2027.

Depends on whether they're counting on belly cargo. HKG is over saturated in that market tbh. So a cargo light flight could work? AC runs 789s on some pretty long legs. Will be interesting to hear cabin layout. AC is adding more premium seats in their refreshes, and WestJet is premium light...

If they want to do a single super connecting bank including international, to USA, definitely not. But different strategies could work, especially if very complementary infrastructure is built, like the train to downtown and banff. running two banks (one optimized for east coast to asia, one...

More than zero in August is a bit of momentum.

The cost issue is daunting. Because it isn't just the current population, but the continual intake and need for continual care to varying degrees. So over time, a system that works becomes progressively more expensive, with repeat rehabs, higher caseload for monitored perscription treatments...

Believe its this:

Legislation to do stuff and budget are not the same thing, though they have been packaged together as a comms exercise in the recent past.

I don't expect the fall budget to be the 'big' budget, like the generation defining budget, like the martin chretien 1995 budget. The big budget will likely be in the spring, and many will be disappointed in the fall. It is just too early to be anywhere close to accurate for the fall. The...

from last fall. https://livewirecalgary.com/2024/10/31/early-calgary-2025-municipal-election-survey-shows-strong-for-farkas-gondek/ It is unlikely much movement would have happened by now. Thiessen at 5% would be a huge accomplishment.

I doubt the cost effectiveness today. But the only way to drive it down is to keep iterating and experimenting. In theory in the distant future a facility of that side should generate around $500k in revenue a year. Not something to sneeze at.

In the Alberta case, they sold exploration leases and then after the fact made the assets worthless. Not so cut and dried since the timeline and decisions in that case are messy, but that is the view of the mining companies. It doesn't help that the Premier has repeated the mining companies case...

No. Well, I think Ottawa (the city) did it in a stupid way and messed up procedurally and might have, but the court has yet to rule. In general, courts have sided that as long as you don't take something for free. In Halifax, the government tried to take something for free (using private land as...

The weirdest part is they do new assessments and then do a projection on wha tthe unit would have been worth if it had existed in 2016! It is pretty stupid, but not as unfair as it seems. It is a communications exercise tbh.

Oh well. The taxi medallions were also already paid. The world moves on. Government created the value, the government can eliminate the value. There is also a transit oriented upzoning initiative. 8 FSR and 30 storeys within 200m, 6 FSR and 20 storeys within 500m and 4 storeys within the entire...

It makes sense when you think about choke points and capacity constraints. For LRT in Calgary you could change the fares to make the LRT system free as long as you're not passing on bridges, tunnels, or viaducts immediately adjacent to downtown, and the system would work fine. Maybe fares for...