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The most convincing thing I've read is a review of strong men regimes over time and the concept of virile leaders, and the admiration between virile leaders for their virility. It is a common feature. I think there is also a deeply personal thing at play. There were two buildings in Canada...

I think this is it. Someone in their circles, must have ran a 2050 war game where america because it was split between interests in europe and asia, missed a fleet go through the northwest passage for a sneak attack, defeating america. Hence securing Greenland, the Canal, and Canada. Worries...

Edmonton's went through a deep rebuild in the 2000s at Bombardier. They look like U2s, but I don't know how much commonality they have anymore.

So the Feds can in the future tell a city: no more grants unless your bespoke zoning code accommodates these plans on at least X% of lots, to stop municipalities from gaming their code to not allow housing while claiming the opposite. A secondary thing would be with newer developers. Maybe the...

There is a balance to be had. Certainly we don't exercise 'proportionality' enough. TMX if had done better geotech surveys and better cataloging of migratory birds ahead of time, would have saved a year, maybe 2. I do think the government should step up and pay for a larger part of the process...

They acknowledge further work would be needed to properly weigh pipeline routes. The parks and areas that became the Great Bear RainForest are mentioned. plus

From a 1970s report (this was about importing oil, not exporting oil): Canada. Working Group on West Coast Deepwater Oil Ports. (1978) Potential Pacific Coast oil ports: a comparative environmental risk analysis. Vancouver, B.C.: Fisheries and Environment Canada. Available at...

Costs on that have risen from an original estimate of $65 million to $142 million. Calgary should build something like it, but I am not sure where it would work. Going to produce a lot of noise. Vancouver is looking at 75 nights a year, and amplified sound is pointed out over the inlet.

Yeah. Here is a thing put together for a project. Basically there isn't capacity on an all Canadian route to the ocean for the PADD 2, 3 and 4 sales (and pipeline fed PADD 5 sales). It isn't that we need the capacity to ship it all to the ocean to realize good prices, we need to be able to...

Maya is on the ocean, and can go to other places. WCS cannot. The USA stupidly can pay more for heavy oil to travel to the USA from elsewhere. Then the empty tankers can travel to Mexico, fill up, and take Mexican heavy back across. Since the tanker is full both ways the efficiency loss isn't...

I have a sense that the USA is much more vulnerable than you suspect to standard strongman stuff. The brief to reinterpret the term limits amendment. Trump due to immunity for Presidential 'acts' can also go around and do things way outside of what I believed was possible in a division of...

The market will market. Floating currency rates act as an automatic stabilizer of sorts.

Until today, american imports were incidental only. Basically Alberta sells light crude elsewhere in the USA for more money, and Ontario and Quebec import light crude from the USA for less money that is picked up by the Enbridge mainline along the way. That can change somewhat easily, but...

I am not sure they will. Republicans in Congress seem to be in thrall. Trump's ability to swing race, combined with new PACs financed by the Trump inner circle to enforce those swings, puts them in an even worse place, if they wanted to . Trump's circle is already laying the groundwork for...

The damage is the wider spread here: That is what being mutually captive caused.

Doesn’t need it. The docks and harbour max out at a ship a day, around 550k barrels a day. There is more than enough capacity in the existing lines (with some more pumps) to even double that. A spur to another dock is needed. That dock couple be anywhere on the west coast.

It doesn't work out that way. Instead, when problems happen, both sides motion to stop the clock. If the government had resourced panels with huge amounts of money, maybe it could have happened, but simultaenously they were trying to cut the budgets of NRCan, EC and associated agencies. Really...

I think we can entirely change the frame. The past is a different country as they say. Climate action? Will certainly be worse if we end up as states 51-58. Same with Indigenous rights. Heck, even the ability of Quebec to run their own things in their own way. The Harper government, imo, tried...

Overcoming our malaise of the past 70 years, while we've drawn down/ coasted on incremental additions of what was built from the late 40s to early 60s is the project imo. Canada cannot and will not survive as a nation state without starting another phase of national investments. A big part of...

I think there is a possibility that there is degraded capacity at play, working long days, not eating well, and making up for neglecting exercising and sleep with drugs. There is also, we are used to leaders even if they are technical ones, having an arts and social science background. A...