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    Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City)

    Exactly. Trudeau did basically nothing on HFR during his entire first term. Then funded a Project Management Office to do a few hundred million worth of studies. And then during his second term? Funding priority was setting up the Infrastructure Bank. It didn't become Alto until his third...
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    Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City)

    Was obvious it was going to get politicized when the price tag was announced. The nature of Canada. OAS is at $80B/yr going to $100B/yr by 2030. You won't hear a peep about that. Doesn't start phasing out till $90k and phases out at $140k. We would rather give seniors with six figure...
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    VIA Rail

    I am getting disappointed with the Ventures. Their reliability sucks. And it really sucks they haven't been able to fully take over Corridor services. I don't travel as much personally these days. But I'm a huge advocate for VIA at work. It's kinda hard to do that when the service is...
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    The coming $26 billion windfall for the Canadian Armed Forces. What to buy?

    Today's shoot downs in Iran show you how vulnerable 4th gen jets. Just imagine 10, 20, 30, 40 years from now.
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    President Donald Trump's United States of America

    I'm okay with the status quo personally. And mostly because I simply don't trust a country that mostly consumes American media to not copy their republican system because that's what most of us know. Heck, a lot of the 90s was spent with the Reform Party advocating for an American style Senate...
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    The coming $26 billion windfall for the Canadian Armed Forces. What to buy?

    The government doesn't usually give out contract terms on national security contracts. This is a practice not just for this government. Brewster knows this.
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    News from the Middle East

    Mostly accurate. Proportionality and intent are major drivers. This is why there's usually a lawyer in the room when targeting decisions are made. But with this admin, good only knows what the instructions are and whether law and ethics are actually considered. Should be noted that...
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    News from the Middle East

    For Jimmy Carter this ended his presidency effectively. Flip side, Trump called those serve "suckers and losers" and said John McCain (who refused early release from captivity) was only a hero because he got captured. Those comments come to mind. I also know that there's nothing that any...
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    PM Mark Carney's Canada

    Yep. Pretty easy to look at the posting history of the usual suspects and see how often they discussed/mentioned anything else that is either not about Palestine or applies a Palestinian centric view to something else (say the war in Iran). All on an urbanist forum.... Hey now. We have...
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    PM Mark Carney's Canada

    Both. What part of two states wasn't clear?
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    PM Mark Carney's Canada

    Silence speaks volumes as they say. Especially when the same lot are far more noisy for lesser transgressions elsewhere. Define Supremacist Zionist for me. Be specific. Cause I have never once condoned settlement in the occupied territories. But I'm also not one who thinks "River to the...
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    PM Mark Carney's Canada

    Does his speech define the party?
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    PM Mark Carney's Canada

    Setting politics aside. This is such a proud moment for us. I was fortunate enough to meet Jeremy Hansen when he came for his centrifuge training at DRDC Toronto à decade ago. An amazing Canadian.
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    PM Mark Carney's Canada

    For good measure, we also live in a world where the highest opposition to High Speed Rail is from the Green Party:
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    News from the Middle East

    Y'all are misunderstanding what happened. The aircraft was parked on a taxi way. And it's regularly flying. Knowing where it's parked and when it's on the ground is not easy intelligence for a country with no high visit rate intelligence satellites. I'll also note that there's unconfirmed...

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