It does beg the question of what about the project “requires further development” - it seemed like a pretty comprehensive plan when I looked at it.

The Alto project is on the “secondary” list of projects that are likely next.

“It becomes a profoundly difficult thing to scale that infrastructure in a way that allows you to scale growth in the retail sector,” he says. “So can it work? I think it could, but it would be a very difficult and painful process to get established and to grow.”

One of the Federated Co-ops, Red River Co-op, ceased grocery operations in 1983 - it wasn’t until the Sobeys/Safeway merger in 2014 that they were able to pick up four of the Winnipeg locations that the new megacorp were forced to sell, and re-enter the market. They now have nine grocery locations in and around the city.

It’s hard to take a lesson from that, since you can’t count on those circumstances to repeat every often, but inheriting existing infrastructure certainly seems to help.

Well I’m happy for her - it sounds like it’s a good thing that she reconsidered her life goals, and found something more fulfilling.

I really think you’re putting words in her mouth.

“It felt impossible to go back to that kind of a life and I didn’t want to sacrifice my time with my family” has absolutely nothing to do with the process of transferring credentials to Canada, and everything to do with the job itself. “I feel that I can be a better nurse than a physician" speaks for itself.

There are plenty of stories about the challenges of transferring credentials. This, by her own account, as quoted in this article, is not one of them.

If the process were easier she wouldn’t have been “led” to reassess those priorities.

How does an easier process change her conclusion of, “I would be happier as a nurse?”

Not exactly.

When Tretiak first arrived in Canada in December 2022, she looked into obtaining a license to practice medicine, but the complexity of the process and volume of paperwork led her to reassess her priorities.

That doesn’t say she thought it was “too much.” It says she decided it wasn’t what she wanted to do.

You can argue that the process is too much - and it probably is, at least in places - but she pretty directly states that it led to her deciding that she didn’t actually want to be a doctor, and would rather be a nurse.

She says she sees nursing as an opportunity to engage more deeply with patients through communication and empathy. “I feel that I can be a better nurse than a physician,” says Tretiak, who currently works in a retirement home for Ukrainian-speaking older adults.

“I had lost a lot of people already – including many of my friends – and I no longer connected my happiness to my professional goals. It felt impossible to go back to that kind of a life and I didn’t want to sacrifice my time with my family.”

I’m going to suggest we shouldn’t force her to do something she doesn’t want to do.

Yeah, I wish I could say I was confident that they will be dismissed…

It sounds like the suspensions are for the duration of their investigation:

“Although I have been made aware that these events happened in 2023, these members remain subject to administrative and disciplinary action that may lead to their release.”

This should be an absolute humiliation for Hajdu and Carney, and I hope (but don’t expect) their responses will reflect that.

A new Angus Reid Institute poll suggests a majority of Canadians believe First Nations should be meaningfully consulted on projects deemed in the national interest, but they’re split on who should hold the deciding power.

Forty per cent of Canadians say the government and companies should retain final say, while 25 per cent say First Nations should have a veto if projects infringe on their lands.

I feel like this is an indication that 40% of Canadians haven’t really thought this through.

I’m all for the Alto project being a runaway success and spurring nationwide high-speed rail development, make no mistake.

Yeah, the article doesn’t make it sound like an appealing experience.

One of these latest routes is a trip between the Calgary International Airport and Banff. While Boysan said the company targets customers from all walks of life, most passengers on this trip were backpackers in their early twenties who’d chosen the bus for one reason only.

“We’re kind of like broke college students, so we just got the cheapest thing we could,” Leo Fritsch, 18, said, adding his tickets cost about $25.

That would make sense - I was thinking there were probably some viable BC options, but I honestly never hear people talking about them.

It is, and maybe it will change some day, but there’s a reason intercity rail is concentrated almost entirely in the Toronto - Quebec City corridor - nowhere else in the country has the population density to justify it (though maybe the Calgary-Edmonton route will get to that point one day).

Outside of the major commuter routes between large cities, the demand isn’t really there.

There’s a new CBC Radio article that OP may have forgotten to link to.

It does seem like there’s not much of a use case if you don’t have the requirement to cover a large change in elevation in a relatively short distance - mountains, or to get up and over a shipping lane, or something like that. The article argues for them to be inexpensive, which…I’m sure they are, but they seem to be relatively low-capacity, and pretty limited in terms of the number of stops you could include on a route. But I’m not an expert, and maybe I’d be surprised.

Yeah, there’s a single line that says, “some independent carriers raised concerns that it would make it more difficult for them to compete against larger players,” which is vague.

What part of any of this was boys will be boys?

What part of any of this was hockey related?

Are those serious questions?

But [the case] also revealed the existence of a secret Hockey Canada fund, which the organization eventually admitted it had specifically created to pay settlements in sexual assault cases against players – apparently lifting the lid off a long-simmering culture of abuse and cover-ups extending far beyond the case at hand.