It will be the second passenger rail line by the Ontario Northland Railway

They already operate the "Polar Bear Express" all the way to James Bay, which is arguiably the best name for a train service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Bear_Express

So you should be able to go from Toronto to Cochrane on the Northlander, then transfer to the Polar Bear Express to Moosonee.

As someone who just shut down their small retail brand that also had a strong cultural angle, I know how hard it is out there. So I empathize with the owner.

However as a retailer you’re always a for profit company, few cultural grants out there ever fits the criteria. Im sad to see how she was misled to think she « could » get approved for an Indigenous art grant. I see the argument, you give lots of exposure to artists and artistic pieces. But it’s always no, they don’t see business that way

@chanface.bsky.social he’s lying.

Yes both projects had often their planning / design phase released at the same time.

But the funding was never meant to be for the 2 projects to launch together. It was pretty clear waterfront was getting their own funding source as part of the Waterfront Toronto project, which has been its own entity for more than a decade.