Recent content by darwink

I think so.

Calgary - Chicago one of the few connection points where travel is up, year on year by Canadians/residents (I don't think this includes people transferring from Asia, but maybe it does?

They can be unmanned. iIRC civilians sat in the vehicles, as required by provincial law, raising the cost of the program.

I think quite a bit. Visits to Alberta by origin, USA Edit, more current statistics, for departures from airports in southern Alberta. Compared to all of Canada: Here is Calgary to Palm Springs, Las Vegas and Phoenix:

Oh. I'm not even talking about acquisition. That is easy, that exists today, and is easy. Who owns the land doesn't make the process harder or easier (though avoiding reserves is advisable). I am talking about doing the archaeology, the natural asset surveys, all the geology and geotech. For all...

Here is where it falls apart. The permitting is the review and the review is permitting and both interact with consultations. Because how can you know impact if you don’t know what is proposed and where. what you may be talking is permitting and then waiting with a permit. In effect that is...

No one has explained how that would actually work beyond magic. Permitting is really technical and you can’t disconnect that from doing the work on the ground. There are ways to do permitting faster but they cost more since it is doing things simultaneously and going back to align things as the...

There is no need. Would help to have a proposal first. Energy east was always quite a weak proposition. And that was before its budget started spiralling. TC was looking for a way to kill it without being left with the bill to date for years.

This doesn’t make much sense to me but if people think they can do it I guess whatever sure go ahead.

They’ll loose the appeal. But that doesn’t mean the government can’t create a constitutionally valid process. The government just needs to be a bit more competent.

It isn’t that removing the lanes is directly unconstitutional. Doing it arbitrarily is. A traffic study of any kind is needed, that connects the removal to achieving something. The government can weigh the facts and decide reduced safety is worth it for less congestion. But it has to have fact...

My understanding: The old growing presence here, leasing land in the oil sands, was a pre-shale phenomenon where to comply with accounting rules which enable listing on stock exchanges, companies needed to demonstrate they were going concerns by maintaining a certain percentage of yearly...

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"We designed the building for multiple opportunities for future expansion" Was under pressure last time I talked to a specialist doctor there a decade ago. They're planning an inpatient expansion right now, the project was launched in 2023, and they're running a competition for consultants as...

Eventually. Innovation Quarter is in the docket first. Then the city needs to decide that its doing with Crowchild, and eventually, McMahon. TBH, it is too bad there wasn't more talk of land swaps with the field house. Enables phasing a bit more and a better end state where the field house and...