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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...

I was recently in the BC financial reports for work, and costs per capita have grown by 5% annually while revenue is closer to 2% for the past decade. The natural gas collapse really hurt BC, as has forestry's decline. The NDP also cut taxes. BC needs to raise taxes to return to...

Toronto does not lack land which could be developed. Single family homes very near to areas where towers are now taller than 40 stories exist, and have very different land value. That says to me it isn't land that had the value, it was the development equivalent of taxi medallions. Toronto...

No interlining so not expected to be an issue anytime soon. Also without underground stations expansion is easy in comparison.

Ouch. Closing in on a million a unit, boondoggle level prices for a metro Vancouver public project with daycares, community hub, and crus. Seeing renovation photos I bet there were lots of known unknowns. Plus with an architect competition, some ambitious plans with limited site work. Then...

If it isn’t protected either someone can buy it into protection (including the government) or buy it without protection and do what they want to it.

The requirements have been formalized quite a bit through litigation. It is a very different world than the wild west of 20 years ago where there were wildly different interpretations floating around. As for the second, the crown 'bought' the land from Indigenous peoples via treaties that...

If it requires a federal regulator to approve it, its federal. Now, the federal body in the case of lets say, Calgary-Edmonton high speed rail, could say that the vast majority of impacts are local, and defer most matters to a provincial process. But there will be a federal process to decide...

The obligation of the crown to study whether treaty rights may be impacted and so they can decide whether there is a duty to consult (and to what degree) applies on private land as well. Usually it is covered off on simple projects by providing notice accompanying a project description, and...

A data centre consuming natural gas power generation through a new build power purchase agreement is consumption of natural gas. Little difference to building a pipeline for export, except the 'export' is within Alberta. Natural gas consumption within Alberta that doesn't compete for takeaway...

Most railways fall under the federal railway power, and this project doesn't just incidentally connect to the mainline, the entire purpose is serving the mainline. So the principle that elevated NGTL to federal regulation applies here. (NGTL wanted to be federally regulated). There will be an...

Alberta's long term care system is miles ahead of BC, and much much much more economical for the user, no matter their income level. I'd hazard that that is a concern in this case.

Yeah, railways stuff. Federal permit = federal duty to consult as well.

No where in the article does it mention what federal process is holding it up if any. Not only that, but entering into a new uncertain process instead of a known one is adding more risk (and likely time) not removing any. Pure grandstanding.

The goal is to be less dependent on the USA to reduce a huge strategic vulnerability. That means economics (and therefor delivery to the gulf coast) is no longer the first concern).

I think so.