Recent content by DougB

The Douglas Square strip mall.is 5ge former site of an explosives factory: https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/fortney-explosive-day-in-calgarys-history-almost-forgotten I think natural gas is the primary feedstock

Companies were very open to working with students back then. The school even let me take a day off to go to Empress. In elementary, I did a field trip where the whole class caight the Dayliner from the train station at the Calgary Tower. We rode it to Olds where we got off to learn how a grain...

They also tried ethane enrichment to speed tomato ripening. Sprung did both CO2 and ethane enrichment.

That makes no sense given that green field development should have allowed optimal rounding of the Green Line. It should have a stop immediately next to the hospital. It also should have the optionality to extend further south. What were they thinking?

Vandalism and trespassing aren't real jobs

Eighth Avenue Place

Shipping out of Portland usually isn't competitive as the Columbia River Bar is so treacherous. Repurposing an unused berth was likley the main advantage. I've seen lots of Canpotex rail cars moving through Sandpoont so considerable volume must already transit through the US. Also see lots of...

My point is that the Feds can't pull funding from Calgary without pulling it from Toronto. They won't pull it from Toronto as that is its electoral base

Hopefully Guilbault is next to go. His pension is now vested. Wonder what patronage role would suit him?

Doesn't that depend on how much capacity can be delivered by additional sidings and switching upgrades vs. multitracking and grade separations? I would suspect that both CPKC and CN should have considerable options to add small increments using sidings and switching before having to make large...

Did Toronto with its Liberal MPs lose funding? https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/ottawa-doubles-down-on-threat-to-reduce-torontos-housing-funding-following-sixplex-vote/

Parts of East Victoria Park, such as the bus barns, will need to be raised above floodplain. Unsure if plans are to rise the streets around Scotia Place, much like what happened in East Village.

Any news on the two additional towers for London? Those have been on and off for years

Population growth will slow considerably due to reduced immigration, but market dysfunction in ON and BC will create a floor to Calgary's growth. The the dumpster fire rages less intense in Alberta than it does in the rest of the country. The biggest unknown for development will be interest...

It is an option to participate in both streams, not a requirement. Quebec has had thus fir years, but for some reason the sky didn't fall