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Relying on post secondary for growth is a fools errand. Even aside from the student immigration scam, demand is generally falling and demand for residential programs is really falling, as more learning moves online. It's increasingly normal for a lot of students to even do large parts of a residential program by distance learning. This doesn't bode well for any new colleges and universities outside of massively subsidized government intervention. And at that point, we really have to ask if there's value beyond simply building up existing universities and colleges.

Also, the immigrant students too, did everything possible to move to the GTA first. Mostly because of employment. So even they didn't really want the boonies. They studied in Belleville or Windsor or Peterborough if that's all they could get for admission. But that wasn't their first choice. And those schools are highly likely to lose students as immigration is tightened up.
 
Northern Light said:
On the other hand. If you're planning to build a 30B + HSR corridor, whose weakest feature might be long stretches with sparse population, it would make sense to consider where additional population along the route might be desirable.
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You see weakness. I see a strength. 🤷

I think it's great that this train has no reason to stop. And instead of trying cram people into Havelock and Madoc, put them in Peterborough and Ottawa and keep them connected with that $30B train.
 
^...while I am not going to complain about a positive step, this really should of been done year plus ago or so when it was apparent that the current occupiers where planning to starve them out. This all feels a little too late here. And to put that mildly. /bleh
 
UtakataNoAnnex said:
^...while I am not going to complain about a positive step, this really should of been done year plus ago or so when it was apparent that the current occupiers where planning to starve them out. This all feels a little too late here. And to put that mildly. /bleh
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It's also still wishy-washy. What happens if Israel agrees to a ceasefire. What happens two or three years down the road when they decide they don't like whatever government Palestinians then-have, or want to continue annexing more and more land? We're back to square one.

Countries need to steadfastly agree that a point-of-no-return has been passed, and that Palestinian statehood isn't just a threat to tamp down on Bibi for a bit, but a legitimate future for the Palestinian people.
 
zang said:
It's also still wishy-washy. What happens if Israel agrees to a ceasefire. What happens two or three years down the road when they decide they don't like whatever government Palestinians then-have, or want to continue annexing more and more land? We're back to square one.

Countries need to steadfastly agree that a point-of-no-return has been passed, and that Palestinian statehood isn't just a threat to tamp down on Bibi for a bit, but a legitimate future for the Palestinian people.
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Yep, and that too.
 
zang said:
It's also still wishy-washy. What happens if Israel agrees to a ceasefire. What happens two or three years down the road when they decide they don't like whatever government Palestinians then-have, or want to continue annexing more and more land? We're back to square one.
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That's the plan. Give just enough to look like they are doing something, and then let Israel do it all over again later.
 
That was such an annoying press conference. It’s as if it was passed by a very angry Anthony Housefather before being read in public. It did too little to condemn the genocidal actions on one side while repeating “October 7” so many times.

With the complete flattening of Gaza and the further settlement and extreme violence against civilians in the West Bank, what chance there will be anything left in September?
 
ShonTron said:
That was such an annoying press conference. It’s as if it was passed by a very angry Anthony Housefather before being read in public. It did too little to condemn the genocidal actions on one side while repeating “October 7” so many times.
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Bibi has long lost the moral equivalency war on that front, IMO...
 
jje1000 said:
My opinion is that aside from industrial development and extraction projects, Canada should be looking at a long term plan of new strategic townsites (i.e. along the HSR), and to expand existing small towns into (100,000 pop +) mid-sized cities, in order create more evenly-spread housing options and to make a strong economic web especially in areas like SWO.
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Missed the majority of this discussion a few pages back, but I wanted to add that in addition to a network of strong towns, we should really be building up a few more cities into major population centres. Specifically thinking of Victoria, Kelowna, Red Deer, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Hamilton, London, Quebec, and Moncton. I believe that Canada would be better positioned if a few of these cities greatly expanded in size.
 
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