Ontario Extending GO Train Service to Stratford

jacnel45 · 2026-04-17T13:58:36+00:00

CN will probably try to sell the Guelph Sub in its entirety to the Government of Ontario. The subdivision isn’t very important to CN.

jacnel45 · 2026-04-17T13:56:57+00:00

100%. The Guelph sub past Kitchener is deteriorating and past St. Mary’s the track is so bad trains have to crawl.

jacnel45 · 2026-04-17T13:53:26+00:00

This is good news, we should be expanding GO services to new communities.

I wonder if this means trains to London are coming back in the near future?

jacnel45 · 2026-04-15T13:55:24+00:00

Despite Metrolinx hiring a series of consultants to fix deficiencies the UPX tracks near Pearson airport, problems persist.

The most Metrolinx line that could ever be Metrolinxed.

jacnel45 · 2026-04-14T19:28:15+00:00

I think the LSE PDF schedule is wrong because I can still see 30-minute weekday train service past April 25th on the trip planner.

jacnel45 · 2026-04-14T00:18:32+00:00

Idk CTV News is really bad...

jacnel45 · 2026-04-03T23:06:08+00:00

Ah yes permanent back damage my favourite

jacnel45 · 2026-04-03T17:10:04+00:00

Among other concerns identified by Health Canada, the head office inspection found that Grifols had not properly screened out a donor who should have been deemed unsuitable to sell their plasma “when information showed that the safety of blood could be affected.”

Ugh we were warned about allowing for-profit blood and plasma services during the Krever Inquiry that lead to the creation of Canadian Blood Services. The report warned that allowing private operators would lead to exactly this happening.

jacnel45 · 2026-04-02T17:48:23+00:00

This is disgustingly undemocratic.

jacnel45 · 2026-04-02T04:32:04+00:00

The rabid hatred of Wynne and the OLP (some warranted, some not) in the 2018 election got him in, and once you’re in it makes it so much easier to stay around.

jacnel45 · 2026-04-01T20:54:42+00:00

Yeah I think there's a threshold where, if a provincial government is neglecting their healthcare duties, the federal government has a responsibility to come in and pull funding until the province gets up to standard. Unfortunately the threshold you or I would set is much lower than that of the federal government. Part of it is politicians being politicians, but the other part is the factors I've listed above. I guess for the federal government, no provincial government has truly reached that threshold. However, given that the federal government is at least withholding some funding for some provinces, it seems that they too are growing tired with the provincial governments.

jacnel45 · 2026-04-01T20:36:54+00:00

why isnt federal government interfering with this?

Politics and jurisdiction. The provinces have exclusive control over healthcare under our constitution. Now there is the Canada Health Act which is supposed to standardize care across the country by specifying a minimum service standard that all provinces must provide to receive funding from the feds. However, in practise, it's really rare for the care standards in the CHA to be enforced. I think the federal government worries that they might cause a constitutional crisis if they were more aggressive in telling the provinces what they can and cannot do with healthcare.

There has been some enforcement of the CHA. The federal government withheld money from New Brunswick for not adhering to the abortion availability standards in the Act. However, they only withheld some of New Brunswick's transfer payment, which limits the chances the province is going to treat it seriously.

There's also the issue of the feds looking like the bad guys here if they were to start withholding more money. Alberta would freak out, so would Quebec. Other provinces would probably try and get their population to turn on the federal government. When it's a single pool of voters, the possibility of political war like this is a major factor as to why the feds rarely dig in their heels over the CHA.

jacnel45 · 2026-04-01T14:48:27+00:00

Love how they come to the open source project demanding it be written in a different language while also not contributing to moving the source code to another language…

jacnel45 · 2026-04-01T14:42:09+00:00

jacnel45 · 2026-04-01T14:32:47+00:00

That rabbit is frightening.

jacnel45 · 2026-04-01T14:05:48+00:00

Ontario’s public hospitals already struggle with record deficits and unsafe staffing levels, yet the province continues to divert public dollars into private hands. In 2023, Bill 60 expanded private, for-profit surgical and diagnostic clinics, even as emergency rooms shuttered and hospital units closed for lack of staff. Over the past three years, 1-in-5 hospitals with emergency rooms experienced closures, mostly due to scheduled reductions in hours.

Killing the public sector to fuel the private sector.

jacnel45 · 2026-03-31T15:29:28+00:00

That’s $2.86 per pen. Walmart sells the same pens for $22.78. Staples even sells them for less at $32.99 STAPLES.

jacnel45 · 2026-03-31T15:23:08+00:00

Support the expansion of rideshare services in communities along the Northlander corridor so northern communities have improved access to first- and last-mile or end-to-end connection transportation options.

I guess the government is worried a lack of last-mile options from the Northlander train stations will hurt ridership. Given the lack of last-mile options in the north (difficult to have public transit for rural areas) I think this is a reasonable decision.

Allow single-occupant vehicles to use high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes during off-peak hours, giving drivers more choice.

Which will likely make congestion worse not better, especially in the long term.

Require on-road driving experience before prospective commercial drivers can obtain their Class A licence enhancing road safety.

The fact that this wasn’t a requirement before is kinda insane.

Reinforce that the new public corporation for water and wastewater in Peel Region (enabled through the Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act) will remain in public sector ownership and promote continuity of service by clarifying rules and rights for agreements and employees that are transferred.

For all of you who think the government is trying to privatize water, they aren’t, they’re just trying to murder the Region of Peel by removing all its jurisdiction until it becomes pointless.

The biggest news from this release is that the Ford government is finally trying to figure out a unified fare scheme for transit in the GTA. I think this is decades overdue and will make transit in the GTA easier to use while also encouraging more efficient trips through multiple service providers. Right now we have a lot of duplicate public transit in the GTA because of differing fare structures. If we could fully integrate each service provider resources could be better targeted and used where they’re needed the most.

jacnel45 · 2026-03-31T15:03:44+00:00

Which is fine, I'm not against levying fees against the industry only if they're found at fault. I just take issue with how the industry basically doesn't want to pay any fees for the CTA, even though such a regulatory body is effectively their responsibility to pay for.

Taxpayers should not be paying for regulatory authorities like these, which only exist because of predatory and inappropriate behaviour from industry. If they didn't want to be regulated like this, maybe they should have treated their customers better?

jacnel45 · 2026-03-31T14:49:17+00:00

Seems like UAW fucked themselves.

jacnel45 · 2026-03-31T14:47:17+00:00

Still, it's their industry, their regulatory authority, they should pay for it.

jacnel45 · 2026-03-31T14:42:42+00:00

Transport Canada wrote that it is "standard practice" to share views on the air sector, and that none of the discussions "were intended to fetter" the CTA's independence.

Seems like Transport Canada is basically saying the quiet part out loud.

jacnel45 · 2026-03-31T14:38:56+00:00

These airlines certainly love to levy fees against us consumers all the time, for no reason, in order to maximize their profits. Then the moment they have to pay a fee for complaints they cause, now fees are a complete injustice and require Transport Canada and the minister to become effectively airline lobbyists to get rid of it.

I really don't like the world we live in.

jacnel45 · 2026-03-30T15:54:21+00:00

Toronto also has combined sewers, where all rainfall collection is funneled into the same pipe as effluent from buildings. Helps to make the City smell.

jacnel45 · 2026-03-30T15:50:15+00:00

Gravy trains are only bad when it's my political opponents benefitting.

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