Recent content by urbanclient

First off, 3-car trains won't be as much capacity as you think. For distances like Mississauga City Centre to Toronto (Cedarvale station is already 22 km), better solutions would be metro, express metro or RER even. An at grade LRT would be pushing commutes to be too long time-wise, while being...

Makes sense That doesn't add up when you consider the constrained capacity of the LRT when faced with the additional passengers going from the heart of Mississauga to Toronto in that hypothetical.

I believe in a different universe, if Layton were healthy, we would see him as PM of a minority government. They need to get back to working class issues, it all starts on the economic side of socioeconomic, something most people could and should get behind. Their marquee project, dental and...

Change of topic and whataboutisms... I'll refer you to this from earlier: Yes, Trudeau was more socially progressive in some ways. This is not mutually exclusive with what I am claiming. Many social conditions worsened under Trudeau. Often a result of high population growth, which lead to...

Agreed.... So the 67% of households owning their home are wealthy? Or are you disputing the fact that homeowners are more likely to accumulate wealth? "In 2021, there were 5.0 million renter households, or a rental rate of 33.1%."...

I am confused, are you against the private ownership of assets in general? Or do you think $70k is enough to retire on? (see my previous post) Emphasis on any wealth. $1 is still wealth. When you are forced to spend all that you earn, you have little left for a rainy day. What some would call...

Related to this discussion: I'll add that the key is profit incentive, if you have state-run things that have no incentive to profit, much less break even, then fiscal unsustainability is much more likely. I am an advocate of for-profit companies, that just so happen to be state-owned. 100%...

There aren't many shining examples of SOEs or nationalization in Canadian history. You'd have to look to other countries.

Speaking to how badly they were managing CN compared to private CP back in the day. Taking 1 billion out of 2 billion in stock buybacks (CN and CP historically have high stock buybacks) for investments in passenger rail infrastructure seems entirely to everyone's economic benefit with little...

The greatest social damage is to prevent people from accumulating any wealth, as wide swaths of the population are priced out of home ownership. The lower rungs of Maslow's hierarchy are being forgotten here. I exaggerate: You'd care less about a theocrat pushing religion into policy, when you...

This is the 3rd or 4th time you've changed the topic with whataboutisms. I get your stance, but can I see the evidence that backs up the point? Or the steps to how you got to your conclusion? I ostensibly agree with what you're saying, massive cuts, and no intention. However, I suspect that the...

Hopefully Carney cleans up the ship, so Ford looks worse. I suspect Ford's record on transit has endeared him enough to urban voters, and his suburban policies are appreciated by well, suburban voters. (To say nothing of the cuts) But the ideologues here will tell me Ford is objectively worse...

Setting aside optics, which I agree are awful. Is the province owning a private jet that much different from chartering private jets? It's also not at all uncommon in the States, or seemingly for Quebec for that matter. "The statement issued by Ford's office contrasts the price of Ontario's...

That was partly due to a high profile honour killing and other gender-related crimes. Paradox of tolerance... I don't see it as being poorly intentioned, even if unnecessary. The status quo is to contact police through regular channels. He's only lionized by the dumpster fire that came after.

I could care less about the jet, it's other things like that slush fund and housing starts that concern me: August 2025: https://www.rbc.com/en/economics/canadian-analysis/canadian-housing/special-housing-reports/canada-isnt-in-a-housing-starts-slump-ontario-is/