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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...

https://cochranenow.com/articles/cochrane-family-behind-iconic-stampede-skyride-as-ride-celebrates-50-years

"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...

We've seen clearly that Ontario and BC haven't ramped in response the way Alberta has, despite higher prices. Canada as a whole produces fewer units than in the 70s, on a much larger base. If the entire country built like Alberta, there wouldn't be a housing crisis. Things can't turn on a dime...

An anglosphere problem really.

If they were dutch, it may have reminded them of Indonesia. Shell has big interests there even today.

The province when it estimates costs of resurfacing projects province wides does it in lane km for the yearly package for Treasury Board approval. After 5 ish years of working consistently they'll have done it from Stoney to Stoney. South of Stoney is in a current P3 from when it was built iirc.

Thats how things are priced, so yes.

in 2016 there were 400 staff in Calgary at HQ and 200 in Ottawa (assembly). So more Canadian staff than I expected tbh.

She wants the national parks to not exist any more, so not surprising that taking an adversarial attitude at every step happened and continues to.

To pay for the post Olympic round of renovations, the BC government provides $15 million a year, on top of an $8 million yearly operating subsidy. They're in the middle of a third renovation for FIFA, which is now estimated to be $176 million give or take 5 million. That would be a big cost...

Eventually we will need to just do it. I wonder what a 'minimal viable product' could look like (and cost). Something like a modern auto-stade where instead of trying to stack facilities to save land, facilities (like concessions, bathrooms) were spread out a bit to save money and make the...

Pretty impossible to do so give the number of events and ticket prices, plus the television contract. The CFL isn't an especially (or perhaps at all) profitable venture.

That makes moving the bus barns harder not easier. The land underneath is meant to pay for a good portion of new bus barns.