The US/Canada Relationship ices over…

or… what to do during the hardest days between two longtime friends. Imagine for a moment, a frigid day across Canada in mid-January, 2010. The Olympics are just around the corner, the athletes are already arriving, and the whole country is revving up with excitement. A cold snap comes… nothing new for Canadians… it reaches …

The Electrification of Vancouver Island (passenger and freight rail)

(There is an addition to this article here) I’ve proposed to a number of people over the past few months that what needs to happen in order to limit our consumption of oil *and* our emissions of climate-change inducing fumes, is to electrify our transportation networks. With regular joes like myself, I usually get a …