Economy/Recession

[everest8]

Ok, so heres the deal. I am a locomotive engineier for CN Rail in Ontario. All though freight coast to coast. We ship though World wide. So we have seen and have employees off. Economy tip...When you have many trains...good, when you see few, bad...Just look at the container trains, bulk trains as in wheat hoppers, coal etc. Sorry....Ression. Ive been here for 30 years employed and have seen this before. Luckily, I will not get laid off as to seniorty and wife goverment job. My kids..pay more or just come back home. Sorry to all. The railway is the cheapest way to ship and it is a view of the economny, world wide. Good luck to all, Don

 

[everest8]

Re: Economy/Ression

Sorry for the bad writing. Wife is the school teacher. Back to topic. can you belive it is actually faster to ship from China 3/4 the way around the world to arrive in Chicogo the USA largest hub ? Takes to long to travel west from Europe though many countries to arrive on our east shores. Or faster to ship to Canada than Los Angelas due to the curavature of the world.

 

[iceman5689]

Re: Economy/Ression

Me fail English, that's umpossible.

 

[teeroy]

Re: Economy/Ression

give my regards to Sir Topham Hat

 

[moyiesledhead]

Re: Economy/Ression

 

[X-it]

Re: Economy/Ression

So how much to ship a sled from east coast to the west? Is trucking it cheaper? When i see people back to riding in box cars, i know we are in trouble. Should not take to long with that spoiled brat in power.

 

[somethingnuw]

Re: Economy/Ression

So how much to ship a sled from east coast to the west? Is trucking it cheaper? When i see people back to riding in box cars, i know we are in trouble. Should not take to long with that spoiled brat in power.

yes his friends.. WYNN and Vancouver's anti oil dictator of mayor are his friends you know we are in a lot of trouble...

 

[everest8]

Re: Economy/Ression

On a good front due to the canadian dollar, I do see a lot of lumber from the west shipped to the US market. Down from 7 days a week to 2-3 times a week. Container traffic has dropped at least 1/2. Still lots of "m+o" Maritine and Ontario company traffic refriderated traffic so maybe lots of lobsters on dinner plates. They dont tell us what is in the boxes. Mostly advertised as beer, mdse as in household goods/lumber/steel/tires/canada post/purolator/ups/home depot/wallmart etc. So if an iccedent occours we have an idea what is in there as we approach. Like when the army sends live ammunation and there is a fire. Just run up to it and pee to stop the flames, eh !

 

[everest8]

Train 318 used to be 10 000 feet. today 5 thou. Only met 3 trains to get back home, usually 6 trains.

 

[Bigblack]

I would suggest that those last 2 posts definitely indicate a worsening economy....not really a big shocker.

 

[Summitric]

After the May 5 election victory, the NDP turned Alberta on its head, acting aggressively in nearly every area of provincial society, from the social to the psychological, industrial and economic. ‪#‎ableg‬





Braid: Notley says she may slow the pace in 2016 - unless she doesn't
After a year that capped an astonishing NDP victory with agonizing economic problems, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley wants to calm things down a bit in…
edmontonjournal.com|By ,Don Braid, Calgary Herald













After a year that capped an astonishing NDP victory with agonizing economic problems, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley wants to calm things down a bit in 2016.
Or maybe she doesn’t.
During a year-end interview with the premier, I asked if she’s going to focus on implementing the huge changes her government has already announced, rather than rolling out whole new ones.
“I think that’s really going to be our focus — unless it’s not,” she said.
That’s Notley. She can be a bit of a joker, if indeed she is joking. It can be hard to tell.
After the May 5 election victory, the NDP turned Alberta on its head, acting aggressively in nearly every area of provincial society, from the social to the psychological, industrial and economic.
Notley and the NDP firmly believe this is essential and beneficial despite a growing public view that it’s all happening with alarming haste, especially during a period of extremely low oil prices.
Since May we’ve seen hikes to personal and corporate taxes, a minimum-wage increase, a massive climate-change program — including a general carbon tax, which at its heart is the most ambitious attempt to re-engineer the economy ever undertaken in this province. And the royalty review panel hasn’t even reported yet.
Despite obvious fiscal challenges, the government will build the Calgary cancer hospital, probably fund Calgary’s Green Line LRT and finally push a shovel into the southwest ring road project.
On the health-social side, there’s action on the mental-health system, general health care governance, and much more coming in social areas such as poverty-reduction and low-income housing.
It is no exaggeration to say that this government cares far more about improving the lot of Alberta’s underclass than enhancing the privileges of the overclass. After decades of the Progressive Conservatives’ trickle-down economic thinking, the NDP has shifted to trickle-up theory.
There’s no better example of this sharp split than the minimum-wage debate.
Alberta’s conservatives — Wildrose and PCs — believe that higher minimum wages kill jobs, especially in hard times. The NDP argues with equal passion that more money for low-wage earners increases general spending power, and therefore creates jobs.
Change reaches deep into staffing of both government and the vast array of publicly funded boards, agencies and commissions.
It’s now routine for labour union officials to be appointed to significant public bodies, something that rarely happened under the PCs.
And when a major public-sector job opens up, the chances are better than 50-50 that a female will get it.
Notley’s cabinet has more women than men. So does the new health care governance board. The outgoing CEO, Vickie Kaminski, was replaced by senior AHS executive Verna Yiu, in a move that shows both the NDP’s commitment to gender equality and its basic faith in bureaucracy.
Many of the changes are overdue. Indeed, the main reason for the lightning-quick action is the NDP’s conviction that the PCs had fallen decades behind their own society on everything from gender balance to economic equity and environmental policy.
They also believed, with good reason, that the business sector’s point of view was the only one the PCs truly respected.

On the national scene, Notley is determined to prove the province isn’t an “outlier” — her word — with a habitually cranky reaction to major trends in the rest of Canada.
Referring to the PC environmental record, Notley once said the province is “the embarrassing cousin no one wants to talk about.” She had to talk her way out of that one, but there’s little doubt she meant it. Bringing Alberta into the national family (or the premiers’ club, at any rate) is a key part of her agenda.
The New Democrats now judge that despite high-profile conservative fury aimed at nearly everything the government does, they still have plenty of backing from younger, big-city voters who will be even more influential by the time the next election comes in 2019.
The question now is whether Notley is going to lift that heavy foot from the accelerator as Alberta enters a year of deep economic distress in most key sectors, including the once-mighty oilsands job-generator.
“It depends on how you define the accelerator,” the premier says. “From your perspective (in the media), the accelerator is the announcement of the plan. From our perspective, the accelerator is the announcement followed by the execution … we’ve laid out a lot of work for ourselves to execute what we’ve done.”
That includes the complex detail of the $3-billion carbon tax, negotiations for coal phase-out, royalty regime changes (without rate increases in 2016), the start of an incentive program for new green industries, consultations on the emotional farm safety law, an overhaul of the negotiating system with teachers, and literally dozens of other items.
“We have done a lot over the last seven months,” says Notley. “We are therefore going to focus on enjoying our Christmas holidays, and then having extra energy to reach out to Albertans on this fundamental issue which I know everybody’s going to be thinking about — which is their job security, job availability, economic security.
“These are the things which are front and centre in my mind … our focus is going to continue to be how our government can be a willing, collaborative, effective partner to help all Albertans do what I believe we do anyway, which is pull together when times get tough.”
Notley doesn’t quite rule out new government action that could be prompted by circumstances yet to arise. It’s what the New Democrats do. It’s certainly what they did by creating the upcoming carbon tax, without once mentioning it specifically in the election campaign.
Despite the NDP’s slide in the polls, and the fierce pounding from the opposition, there may be seeds of political recovery in 2016.
“They’re three years out from an election,” says David Taras, Mount Royal University political analyst. “Things can change in three years — the oil price can go up, they can do things to improve public confidence, the economy starts going well.”
Taras feels the NDP may continue to govern as long as Wildrose and the PCs are “scratching each other’s eyes out.”
“The third advantage is Notley herself. Even as the party plunges in public esteem, there’s still a lot of confidence in her.
“She has a certain magnetism and a certain charm, and as we saw in the election campaign, lots of political skills.”
Rachel Notley will need all that, and probably much more, as Alberta embarks on a new year already scarred by a devastated economy.
Don Braid’s column appears regularly in the Herald
dbraid@calgaryherald.com

 

[teeroy]

Tl;dr.....

 

[Mike270412]

Tl;dr.....

Really?

 

[everest8]

So...how is hope and change working for you so far ? On a good note, we have seen a slight increase in volume of traffic. Perhaps leftover traffic during the Holidays, dunno yet.

 

[everest8]

Ugly...150 employees of at mill and 50 off a the railroad...town only has a 1000 people.....ugly

 

[X-it]

This is lovely, a currency collapse and a full blown recession.....Thank you Trudeau!! This is what you get when you vote in a spoiled brat that has never worked before.

 

[Grinder]

He wants to legalize weed who do you think majority voted?

 

[S.W.A.T.]

This is lovely, a currency collapse and a full blown recession.....Thank you Trudeau!! This is what you get when you vote in a spoiled brat that has never worked before.

I'm by no means a supporter of JT but please explain how he caused or created the situation?

What would you do different or to help the situation?

 

[Joholio]

I'm by no means a supporter of JT but please explain how he caused or created the situation?

What would you do different or to help the situation?

Holy smokes. I cant think straight! Are you serious or just poking the bear?

 

[teeroy]

He wants to legalize weed who do you think majority voted?

just read an article saying that may not happen due to international anti drug treaties Canada has signed. all them clueless kids that voted lib are gonna be pissed....until they see something shiny.