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"John R. Meyer, the father of transportation economics and a former mentor of mine, died a week ago, during the night of Tuesday, Oct. 20. " I'm always surprised transportation economics isn't a more important field, given how central the movement of goods and people over greater and greater...

The Best Development Plan in the World Originated With...the British Empire? This is a fairly far out idea, but it's fairly original and presents a neat urbanization-centric take on development which I think is currently lacking. Other Links: Charter Cities @ TED Paul Romer Q&A...

Ottawa moves to reshape the House

This isn't exactly new, but Norm Borlaug recently died at the age of 95. Long story short this is the guy responsible for making neomalthusian doom-mongers like Paul Ehrlich look silly by launching the "Green Revolution" and saving, literally, billions of humans from starvation. Other than maybe...

The following companies should be privatized: Ontario Lottery Gaming Corp: This one has always puzzled me. It is pretty clear that anybody with a pair of dice and some chips could become a casino of sorts, so it can't be that Ontarians need a Crown Corp to let us gamble. The Casino divisions...

Time to rethink guest worker program What xenophobic crap. Next time The Star has Haroon Sidiqui or some CUPE hack going on about how the 'neocons' are racist, they should just read this drivel. It's great to know The Star is together with Lou Dobbs in this glorification of nativistic...

There have been a few threads lately along the general theme of if you were dictator of Toronto, what would you do for transit? Thats fun enough, but what about if you had to plan Toronto's transit network from scratch. Lets say we had no subways, no GO lines, no highways, no streetcars. Maybe...

This is so bloody dumb. What kind of idiot councilor would intentionally reduce the capacity of daycare spaces in a family area? For all the downtown councilors like to paint downtown as a great place to raise kids, its this kind of idiotic crap that makes people move to the 'burbs or outer 416...

This Cato Institute report has been floating around the Canadian blogosphere of late. In brief, the report comes to the conclusion that if small government is your thing then Canada is about as good as it gets in N. America: In the latest Coyne v. Wells blog post, Coyne asks that if the...

This is the dumbest news item in the history of dumb news items. My mind is reeling in how silly the GOP has become. I would probably never vote for them, but this is just sad. Its not good for anybody to have the nominal opposition quite so dumb. Its not good to have people quite so dumb at...

When Bernier announced Canada would boycott this, I was a bit disappointed. Given the flaming failure that was Durban 1, I figured the UNHRC wouldn't let the review conference end up as such a boondoggle. Well, I was wrong apparently. Its a shame that such an important topic, racism, is abused...

I must say, this is one of the weirder stories I've heard about. Should Toronto follow suit? Please try to ignore puns.

I couldn't find the thread, but I seem to recall there was a thread a few months ago along the lines of "what is wrong with Africa?" In short, this. Typical rhetoric to the effect that white people are the root evil of everything in Africa has created a situation where the worst dictators, to...

I'm surprised this never really comes up on UT, but I thought I would start a thread on the future of Ontario's generating capacity. As most people know, McGuinty has been in the process of creating a plan to overhaul Ontario's current electrical supply because of age and environmental concerns...

As per ShonTron's suggestion, I thought I would create a thread specifically about the technical details of any possible subway. And what could more scientificly determine the benefits of each route than an open UT poll? :)

*Mods, this is an Ontario issue, but the authors give quite a lot of attention to focusing on Toronto and other cities and their role. I decided Toronto issues may be appropriate, but please relocate if necessary. To make a long story short, Dalton McGuinty apparently commissioned a study a...

In honor of our 175 year anniversary as a city, the Globe is running a bit on what makes Toronto special to you, in one sentence. First, it is quite impressive how far the city has come in only 175 years. Makes you wonder what things will look like when we are as old as Paris is now. Or even New...

Well, it would appear the floodgates are open on bailouts before the Big3 auto sector bailout is even complete. Incredible. To date, we have mining, boats,cars, mining and unionized make work projects centering around digging holes and filling them. Truly, we will build the economy of the...

(Toronto Issues or Infrastructure?) Apparently there is a storm a brewin' over Toronto Hydro's proposal to consider constructing an offshore anemometer about 2km out from the Bluffs. Personally, I think completely logical to at least study the area to see if windpower could be feasible...

This is kind of neat, the US National Intelligence Council, the long terms analysis branch of the US Intelligence Community, just released their 17 year projection for what the world will look like in 2025. From the webpage: The document itself is quite a whooper, bout 120 pages. Any...