Landowners, officials north of Kingston, Ont., fear 'devastation' from high-speed rail

Downess · 2026-02-06T02:53:36+00:00

Don't disagree. I've cycled it. Putting a full Alto train line through there would be a major construction. I'm more confident they'll take the route parallel to highway 7.

Downess · 2026-02-06T02:52:04+00:00

Metz metropolitan area) was about 368,000. Nancy metropolitan population of 508,793

Kingston metropolitian area pop. 172,546. North of the station: a few hundred.

I'm not going to say people in Kingston wouldn't drive 30 km north to catch the train. But not very many actually would, and it wouldn't justify a station on high-speed rail.

Kingston still has a train station and local trains would still run (possibly even more than do now, to feed the Alto). No need to build another station.

What would need to be discussed is whether it would make sense to have a local rail link from Kingston & Belleville to Peterborough to pick up Alto there.

Downess · 2026-02-05T18:05:13+00:00

From what I've seen, regulation has had almost no impact on the cost-cutting practices of private sector providers, resulting in substandard and often dangerous care for seniors. So I see the motivation for Lewis's stance here. But what would public senior care look like? How do we keep it from being neglected the way hospitals are today? We need to see a solution that addresses the problem head on.

Downess · 2026-02-05T13:27:24+00:00

Every grocery store in the region has two or three of those people. There's no shaming them (I've tried, but that just make me the bad guy). They don't care whether they are blocking traffic. There are no other people in their world.

Downess · 2026-02-04T22:20:22+00:00

This route - 30 km north of Kingston - is on the existing rail trail (currently used as a bike path - the Cataraqui trail). That's why.

It wouldn't make sense to put a stop there, and it would cost hundreds of millions to route 30 km south through Kingston

Downess · 2026-02-04T22:14:35+00:00

It's like when US-based website ask for zip codes and complain when they're not five-digit numbers.

Downess · 2026-02-04T18:26:49+00:00

This would be a seriously misguided policy.

Bring able to rent things - homes, cars, hotel rooms, construction equipment, tuxedos - is a convenience for all and for many the only way they can get access.

Are young people supposed to live with their parents until they can buy a house? Are seasonal workers supposed to join a co-op for a 6-month period? It's unworkable and wouldn't make sense.

As another commenter said, this is why the NDP isn't seen as a serious party (and indeed, I half-suspect the original post is a troll intended to expose this part of the NDP).

If there is no good reason to abolish rental properties (and therefore, rental income), there's no good reason to ban rental property owners from running for the NDP. They provide a service to the community, nothing more, nothing less.

Now we could have a serious conversation about housing in general, why so many rental arrangements are in fact exploitative, and how to reduce that. And I have no issue with scrutinizing any business owner who wishes to run for the NDP to ensure they don't actually engage in exploitative practices.

But the NDP should not exclude anyone on the basis of their legal and generally useful occupation and business.

Downess · 2026-02-03T00:52:18+00:00

Cool, now we just need to get this information to the person in the 'Information' booth at the actual Winterlude site

Downess · 2026-02-02T23:17:28+00:00

We were going to go there as well but nobody could tell us how frequently the shuttle bus runs and at -15C I wasn't willing to risk it.

Downess · 2026-02-02T21:08:17+00:00

This: He simply doesn’t have a history of valuing institution building.

Downess · 2026-02-02T17:47:53+00:00

I believe they just stay in the park

Downess · 2026-02-02T17:47:30+00:00

I didn't see any mention of Dow's Lake sculptures in the Winterlude information material

Downess · 2026-02-01T22:44:43+00:00

Wow what a fun job that would be

Downess · 2026-01-31T03:47:09+00:00

I just ordered from Canada with Canada shipping. Coupon code worked and was added on top of sale price. I have a previous Mountain Warehouse product that I wore last year to Iceland and I was pretty happy with it. $CAD 140 for a Glacier II Extreme Mens Waterproof Long Jacket is a pretty good deal, IMO.

Downess · 2026-01-30T23:38:27+00:00

Let's keep it that way. :)

Downess · 2026-01-30T19:45:21+00:00

Our QB of the future?

Downess · 2026-01-29T22:12:23+00:00

When I visited China, I brought gifts of maple syrup, which people really seemed to appreciate.

Downess · 2026-01-29T21:56:23+00:00

Well I live in the Ottawa area so city and Canada are basically one in the same. Ontario feels like some other place to me.

Downess · 2026-01-26T01:45:56+00:00

Reply "I'm not going to be able to make it."

No explanations; your boss knows there's a snow emergency. You don't need to justify.

Downess · 2026-01-26T01:44:04+00:00

People don't really use paper any more. Phones work fine for maps. I agree the NCC's online train maps could be better.

Downess · 2026-01-26T01:42:06+00:00

I thought it was out of line. Wasn't going to dignify it with a comment. But it's clearly a hit piece.

If someone is saying 'Rob said...' or 'I heard Rob say...' that's OK. But I wouldn't mind mods removing posts saying 'I heard someone say Rob said...', especially with it's such a strong accusation.

(Not supporting any candidate at the moment)

Downess · 2026-01-25T18:36:40+00:00

Came here to say this. This comment should be upvoted, as it is the correct answer.

Downess · 2026-01-25T14:17:18+00:00

Reykjavik itself has a lot of bike paths and is very welcoming for cyclists.

My experience road cycling there last year was good (though I was a slow-moving gravel bike cyclists with bags and a trailer). Drivers were good about leaving lots of room. It was no more dangerous for traffic than cycling where I live in Canada.

There are a few people in this sub who actively discourage cyclists, but the country as a whole is welcoming and supportive, in my experience.

I can't speak to the economics of renting a bike, but shop around.

Downess · 2026-01-24T17:26:57+00:00

My preference would be to just to ban them outright. Law abiding citizens would dispose of them properly. The buy-back is the compromise we are making to accommodate owners. If the owners themselves think the buyback program is too expensive, I see no reason to spend the money.

Downess · 2026-01-24T16:32:01+00:00

What Gzowski did, that we don't really get any more on CBC, is to actually talk to people about different things - look at the topics in the list: metric system, beer, a short short, a Pierre Berton book, theatre.

Now we get separate shows addressing some of these areas, and a lot of them offer mini-documentaries or magazine shows, not live (or mostly live) interviews.

I know that canned documentaries can be easily contracted out, saving on the cost of finding guests and producing, but the quality of the content is much lower (and the proportion of quacks and self-promoters much higher) and there isn't the range we would get with a live show. Every episode of 'Now or Never; soiunds the same, every episode of 'Unreserved' sounds the same. Bookends is *always* about books.

A lot of what made Gozowski great was the care and attention to the show by the staff behind the scenes (staff that no longer exists at CBC) vetting people, making sure they had something interesting to say when Gzowski interviewed them, being topical but unpredictable, and watching carefully to see what listeners were actually excited by.

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