It seemed like she was just answering questions after an event, not a press conference.

Then not a very well produced one. It needed to be visual and soundbyte-able to fit in 2 min longer news pieces and social media. The provincial government knows how to effectively communicate.

That is answering a question in a scrum. She should be organizing press conferences and doing interviews with that message.

3, 4 and 3 syllable names respectively. 6 syllables is a mouthful and will get abbreviated. Kinda like how people don't say "let's go to Province of Ontario" (7 syllables), but instead shorten to Ontario (4).

I think picking a native language name for the island is appropriate (unlike Sankofa square which is ahistorical and without local cultural context), but a 6 syllable name is not ideal and unlikely to gain traction for locals.

If Chow were an effective communicator, she would hammer away on why Ford is moving ahead with bike lane removal, but taking no action on automated enforcement for things like blocking the box, which has huge and obvious impacts on congestion (moreso than bike lanes).

Talking about reducing Dundas to one general purpose lane per direction (and no turn lanes) at Hurontario? Bold proposal. I wonder how well that squares with Doug Ford ripping out bike lanes. Do they propose to ban turns at the intersection?

What happens if congestion doesn't improve after the vehicle lanes are added back in? Does that count as evidence that bike lanes didn't cause congestion?

Sorry, but this is typical "low info voter" speak. Go look up foreign aid spending, compare it to total government spending and deficit figures and get back to us.

You mean you don't want a ride the Ontario Line for 3 hours from Burlington to Oshawa?

It seems like Toronto-Buffalo rail service will never be all that convenient unless the customs/border checks are on the Buffalo side.

There are plans in Port Colborne to build a cruise ship terminal that would also act as a market hall. It would be on the west side of the canal. They recently cleared some property in the area, though the site would likely need some environmental remediation. I hear from family that the city is...

It would be nice if we had a better process for dealing with non-emergencies. I saw some roadkill while out for a walk. I called 311 and mentioned where it was. Being a regional road I had to call the region instead. Great. Called the region and they were closed until Monday. I did end up...

We of course have to wait for PP to say so, but we really oughtn't get our hopes up. $10-20B+ investment in intercity rail is not likely to be high on his government's priority list. Trudeau can announce anything he likes. His government won't be around to deliver it.

Sounds like a great place for a megaspa. Move Therme there.

If you remove the work permit and pathway to citizenship the enrollment would drop to near zero, which tells you all you need to know.

For those wondering... https://nationalpost.com/news/world/tony-hinchcliffe-puerto-rico

I encourage people to watch this. I was expecting a doozy and it is worse than I feared. I knew that there were big problems with defense procurement but this lays out just how bad the situation has become. Essentially, Canada regularly is paying 10x what is should cost to procure new equipment...

I always have strange feelings about these types of luxury experiences. It seems like they are inherently built on a backs of an exploited underclass of servants. 'Triangle of Sadness' vibes.

I'm not sure I fully agree. They may understate the difficulties in scaling bioreactors, but there are bioreactor milk protein companies coming to market, as they predicted. The cost scaling has progressed from $1m/kg down to $10-$20/kg. The last order of magnitude will be the hardest They have...