June 1, 2009
by Ryan Slifka
Being a lifelong Albertan, the first passenger train I’d ever been on (aside from the one that does a loop of Heritage Park) was the high-speed rail line from Madrid to Barcelona. It only went about 200+ km/hour, but it got us to and from in about 4 hours. According to Googlemaps, the drive would [...]
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January 15, 2009
by Ryan Slifka
With U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama calling for “dramatic action” to combat the impending (impended?) depression in the United States, one can’t help but be reminded, at least indirectly, of F.D.R.’s New Deal programs put in place to lift the United States out of the Great Depression of the 1930’s. Massive public works projects were introduced, [...]
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