I think we often discount or diminish the impact of faith in US society and politics. Call it evangelical, southern Baptist, political Christianity, or whatever you wish, but the right side of the spectrum has a lot closer ties to faith than up here. Views on abortion, beyond being just a...

"Pigs"? Did we just time-warp back to the '80s?

For many Americans that could be most anywhere outside of the US - or possibly their home state.

I don't usually splash in online political discourse puddles but, in the end, the US voters elected who they wanted and get to live with the results. It was the Democrat's election to lose and they didn't bring their A game. I'm not a fan of Trump, or anyone who's leadership style is to...

It will be interesting to see for this (coming) administration what will be 'good enough'. Given DJT's distain for NATO, perhaps we should focus our efforts and money on NORAD and the arctic.

I didn't know the Admiral was Irish.

?? For my edification. Tnx

US-style 'Christianity', particularly in the so-called 'bible belt' is a different kind of beast. When it involves politics, it is closer to a theocracy than many people care to admit.

The Linx network is primarily intended to connect County communities for education (college/university campus'), healthcare and, to a lesser degree, employment. For example, the Midland/Penetang - Barrie route stops at RVH and Georgian College. If you want to get to Allendale you have to take...

People may laugh but I used to go Ottawa a fair bit for work in the 1980s and '90s and in the early days it was hard to even find a basic bite to eat after the public servants vacated downtown at 5pm during the week. Towards the end not so bad.

It will be interesting to see if they use the VAC definition of 'veteran', which is anybody who complete basic training and honourably discharged. When most people think 'veteran' they naturally think 'old'. Using the VAC definition, the passenger could be 20 years old and a Bay St...

It could be argued that services such as municipal transit, housing, etc. aren't federal responsibilities at all but here we are.

Fixed that for ya.

Wouldn't that be Treasury Board (TB)? Transport Canada is the regulator - I wasn't aware they doled out money.

They do, and smiley faces and big cheque photo ops help, but they are inconsistent and sometimes require the receiving municipalities to craft complex grant applications (I believe the fuel tax rebate is relatively consistent). Buying the capital items is one thing, ongoing operating and HR...

Well, there is the small matter of the taxpayers in the County who have to pay for Linx.

Thorough analysis, as always. It would be interesting to see if a government could target one specific business, particularly if it was argued that the tax was punitive. That aircraft is used by several other domestic carriers...

Nothing in particular - it was just a question.

This has been interesting. In my admittedly non-consistent travels, I can detect no discernable pattern to the upgrade of crossings. I would expect something like south-to-north, north-to-south, important/higher volume first, important/higher volume last, or something, but it seems completely...

Well, it would be an interesting exercise in a civics or political science course. In addition the the very accurate 'consent of the governed' post, while it is somewhat true that a government can pass pretty much any legislation it wants, there is no guarantee that said legislation would...