I may be wrong but I recall learning somewhere that the recent rail project used the UK and Australia as a study for it. Neither of these countries are known for amazing high speed rail. Why didn’t we look at Japan, France, Spain, or other countries that have world renowned high speed rail, high ridership rates, and good frequency?

The the time to build this rail was decades ago, lets use some of the most successful examples to study so we can catch up and build a modern system instead of building something that is already outdated.

Let your grandkids deal with the climate, housing, and oligarch crisis, we have profits to be made today!

Almost as if it is a terrible idea to rip out new infrastructure just to still not solve traffic, but remember, conservatives are “good with money” and “are good for the economy.”

We just simply couldn’t find anyone local in the GTA with the skillset to pour coffee, we need the government to subsidize a worker for us.

Wear PPE and wash thoroughly afterwards. Or call a professional who deals with wildlife to remove as they likely have experience safely handling dead animals.

Part of this is our polticians don’t make enough effort to make their names known. It would be nice if they reached out more with what they want to propose and what they’ve been doing for Canadians.

Tomorrow’s headline: massive wave of rent increases inbound to keep the real estate economy “competitive”

We need to build a country that can support the increased immigration. That means building denser and more affordable apartments and homes. It means investing in transit to move people. It means investing in healthcare to care for our population. It means investing in manufacturing and other sectors to ensure job growth and keep Canada producing things. Instead our politicians are using immigration as cheap labour while we keep growing the housing bubble and stagnate on production.

It almost feels like they want us to keep flipping sides every few years and never make any progress. It just feels so stagnant and every time we make progress like bike lanes, someone else reverses all that work and spends even more money.

One thing that could help would be the liberals pushing forward a new leader. People are fed up with Justin regardless if it is justified. The liberal party will lose voters to the right if they don’t push forward a new face that Canadians are willing to give a fresh shot. If the liberals fail to provide new leadership to their party, they are partially at fault for a conservative win, they refuse to listen to their voter base.

I think a lot of people think trump is good for economy for reasons like stripping away environmental regulations. Sure it might make a company cheaper to operate without regulations but often times it is exponentially more expensive to deal with the damages.

I think people should have some responsibility for the emissions of their investments. If I’m exclusively investing in fossil fuel companies I’d be directly investing in emitting carbon. In the case of the billionaire class, some companies would have never attempted certain projects or even stayed in business without their billionaire supporters. They may have even been able to take losses and coast on investments while they grab their share of the market then shift to being more profitable.

The manipulation some billionaires do with their money is insane. Jeff Bezos managed to shuffle his assets and investments around just right one year that he was “poor enough” income wise to collect a tax benefit for his kid. We absolutely need to include investments when we are judging billionaires, it is often their investments that keep them rich, not some massive pile of cash or gold stashed away somewhere.

The power their money has when invested is far different than yours or mine. They could single handedly ensure certain companies do not fail, get specific contracts, bypass regulations and many other shady things.

Some water company bought land in Colorado, pumped as much water as they wanted, lowered the level of the aquifer significantly enough to cause local wells to run dry for years, and it was perfectly legal for the company to do that. We need protections to prevent similar stories in Canada. Not just people but many local or even distant ecosystems depend on our aquifers.

Not to mention we already spent tax dollars putting them in, why should we waste money ripping them out just to spend more sticking them in again under a new government?

We’ve got jealous of how wild things get in the USA and we had to step up our ridiculous policies to keep fitting in

A proper stroad should have highway speeds (80+), many intersections, every business is allowed direct driveway access, no sidewalk to make room for more car lanes, and there must be at least 3 drive thrus per kilometer.

All cars are bad for the environment, electric cars slightly less bad.

Isn’t Canada too big for bike lanes? I can’t bike from Toronto to Halifax! And the train would take ages to go from Montreal, QC to Victoria BC. Why are you assaulting my freedom of movement by pushing these things on us!?!?!? /s

That is 100% part of our problems with housing, road maintaince and municipal budgeting. We don’t have to sprawl just because we have massive amounts of land, we can also build denser cities, transit oriented develolments, and walkable neighbourhoods.

Cities in Europe have managed to build modern neighbourhoods without sprawl, we could too. We need to stop using the excuse “my country/province is too big for transit” when the majority of people travel within their own metropolitan area on a daily basis.