Category: Transportation

  • Making Canada Better

    Making Canada Better

    This is a response to a thread on Reddit: What’s something that Canadians should work on in order to make Canada a better country? – we need to address the creeping privatization of public health care. Governments are underfunding the current system and using this as an excuse to extend private services. – housing is […]

  • Gas Prices

    Gas Prices

    There has been a lot of talk about inflation, which I address in an other post, but for now I want to focus on gas prices. First, take a look at the illustration. Notice that even though oil prices are declining, gas prices are still rising. This is known as the ‘crack gap’ and exists […]

  • The Anti-Vaxxers

    The Anti-Vaxxers

    As I write there is a caravan of ‘truckers’ nearing Ottawa at the conclusion of a cross-country trek to protest vaccination laws. I put ‘truckers’ in quotations because they are not, for the most part, truckers, and those who are truckers represent a very small percentage of the people actually doing that work in Canada. […]

  • Transit

    Transit

    Yes, it costs money to operate a transit system. Yes, you can raise some of that money by charging fares. But the more you spend on transit and the less you charge in fares, the more you save in other areas.