[Canada] Canadian Politics Redux

[crazy canuck]

Yeah, just heard on the radio that the warning has been downgraded.  Not yet an all clear, but reduced risk.

With such a large magnitude earthquake, I guess there isn't a lot of data to be certain that something isn't coming but it's unlikely

[Bauer]

I think tsunami reaching Victoria pretty unlikely, we're around the corner.  Although the waves can bend and ricochet.

Earthquakes need more vertical plate motion to generate big waves, I don't think the initial data can detect the difference.

[crazy canuck]

I think tsunami reaching Victoria pretty unlikely, we're around the corner.  Although the waves can bend and ricochet.

Earthquakes need more vertical plate motion to generate big waves, I don't think the initial data can detect the difference.

I thought that too, but it turns out we are both wrong. 

[viper37]

Most of your are out west, but do your remember hearing about a white shark so close to the shore?
Usually, hearing of white sharks in NS, they are out are large, not near Halifax.

Close encounter with great white shark near Halifax sparks awa, disbelief

[HVC]

The crosstown light rail project in Toronto has suffered so many delays that the trains bought 10 years ago and never used are now old and need more maintenence and testing. this is delaying the project even more lol.

While not his fault i blame Sav

https://www.blogto.com/city/2025/08/eglinton-crosstown-lrt-vehicles-delays/

[Savonarola]

The crosstown light rail project in Toronto has suffered so many delays that the trains bought 10 years ago and never used are now old and need more maintenence and testing. this is delaying the project even more lol.

While not his fault i blame Sav

https://www.blogto.com/city/2025/08/eglinton-crosstown-lrt-vehicles-delays/

 

I've heard of this project, (it's an Alstom project for signaling and it's the same sort of system I worked on for TTC,) but it never got to the point of scheduling our team for installation when I worked at Alstom.

The trains are also Alstom maintained (though that's not my area of the business), because they're old Bombardier trains.

All rail carriers are risk averse (for very good reasons) but Metrolinx is the most risk averse I've worked with (they make Amtrak look bold and decisive) to the point where nothing gets done.  When I was working on the Metrolinx project our leadership told me that the current CEO has never completed a project, despite being on the job for about twelve years now.  The biggest problem I ran into is that they hire consultants to review every aspect of the work being done, and the consultants aren't necessarily experts in the things they were reviewing.  This was frustrating to me since the Metrolinx radio engineers were competent and able to review our work.

[HVC]

It's the Toronto way. While I've never worked with metrolinx I have worked on bidding for other projects. The amount of consultations and change orders that you ascribe to risk aversion I can only ascribe to graft. Everyone knows everyone and it's dysfunctionally incestous

*edit* but at least the department I dealt with got projects done. Late and way over budget, but done

[crazy canuck]

This bit in a NYTimes article describing how rapidly Canada is changing in reaction to the American fall, sums up my thoughts on the idiotic posts we are seeing in this forum regarding the need for ethnic purity.

In several surveys, the overwhelming first choice for what makes the country unique is multiculturalism. This, in a world collapsing into stupid, impoverishing hatreds, is the distinctly Canadian national project.