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Will high-speed rail help get Canada’s electric ambitions back on track?

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To meet the needs of an increasingly electrified society, Canada’s grids must double or even triple their total generating capacity within a generation

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Will high-speed rail help get Canada’s electric ambitions back on track?

To meet the needs of an increasingly electrified society, Canada’s grids must double or even triple their total generating capacity within a generation

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Will high-speed rail help get Canadas electric ambitions back on track? #Canada #CDNNews #QuebecNews #CanadaNews

Chris Turner’s latest book, How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World, won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. Last week, with the country in the grip of a nationalistic fervour the likes of which Canada hasn’t seen in decades, the federal government announced that it was investing $3.9-billion to begin design work on an all-electric high-speed rail (HSR) line from Toronto to Quebec City. This is merely the first…

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Jen Gerson: Just build a damn thing

By: Jen GersonLet me begin by acknowledging the painful and the obvious: yes, I know that last week's announcement of a high-speed-rail line between Toronto and Montreal is a bad joke.Firstly, it isn’t a plan. It's a $3.9 billion plan to create a plan, on top of the other plans and announcements and financial pledges from 1984, 1994, 2016, and 2018. The only thing that would make the 2025 announcement total perfection is if we put a retired Supr…

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