Theo Dumont
@theod
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Mostly talk about cities, people, ideally cities for people.
@BrentToderian @CarlosMorenoFr very meaningful moment considering how strained their relationship had become in the past months.
@edihael @straphanger the meme potential was undeniable
@straphanger were you concerned she’d win? I think she was perceived as too elitist for the regular folks and not white enough for the elite, to have a real chance of getting in city hall.
@BrentToderian though outside of Paris, a lot of city halls went to right wing and far-right mayors because centrists and center-left parties didn’t want to partner with LFI. Paris is progressive enough that the centre-left doesn’t need to team up with the centre or the left to win.
@qlub @pierretrudel @ledevoir sovereignist like Paul Saint-Pierre Plamondon staying on those platforms confounds me
@straphanger he also doesn’t realize that Ontario will get more stations once the Toronto-Quebec project is complete and Alto is extended to Southwest Ontario.
@straphanger The premier added he would also like to see more rail stops planned for Ontario. “Maybe make a stop in Kingston, because it’s a little too weighted on the (Quebec) side of the border,” Ford added. “They have a few stops, but we need a couple more stops here in Ontario.”
Deviating from the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal corridor to serve a tertiary city that already has the best rail service in the country relative to its size shows he doesn’t understand the project.
@straphanger have you noticed that French language media has been more fair in their coverage of the project? I wonder if it has anything to do with so much of Canadian media outside of Quebec being American-owned.
@reece but the problems that bogged down those projects have not been purely financial. Maybe people at ALTO evaluated that the regulatory, political and commercial challenges from other solutions would in fact lead to more delays and/or higher costs.
@BrentToderian off topic; I’ve been seeing a lot of Kingstonians demanding that Alto be diverted south on a significantly less direct Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal route in order to serve Kingston. Do you think that’s a good idea?