Tag Archives: railways
Infrastructure Overbuilds: Past and Present
Thomas Gunton of Simon Fraser University’s Resource and Environmental Planning Program had a piece in yesterday’s Globe and Mail raising the question if the statement of support for the Keystone XL pipeline and the approval of two other pipelines was moving Canada to a situation of surplus capacity when it comes to pipelines? Gunton’s answer […]
The National Dream’s Economic Legacy
The completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1885 was more than an impressive engineering achievement; it was also a significant joint economic undertaking by the public and the private sectors and a key ingredient in Canadian nation building as it provided the east-west transport corridor that made the Canadian west an investment frontier. […]
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative 
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