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How Canadians actually get around, measured from the operators' own records. Delay logs, project schedules, and ridership counts — the open-data files behind the commute.

Map of Alto's planned high-speed rail line from Toronto through Peterborough, Ottawa, Montréal, Trois-Rivières and Québec City, with the Kingston option and the Mount Royal tunnel marked
Transport · Map · 4 min

Alto's High-Speed Rail Map: Seven Stops, a 15-km Tunnel and 130 km of Canadian Shield

Alto plans a Toronto to Québec City line with seven stops, but has not published an alignment. The Parliamentary Budget Officer's cost estimate of 75 to 113 billion dollars names the two stretches it treats as cost drivers: a tunnel under Mount Royal and the Canadian Shield.

October 2026 · Parliamentary Budget Officer RP-2627-009-C, Alto
Montréal-Trudeau airport terminal at dusk
Transit · 4 min

Older Canadians more likely to support airport privatization

Two September polls found the same age pattern in how Canadians view the plan to bring private operators into the country's four biggest airports. Older Canadians were more likely to support it in both.

October 2026 · Léger and Nanos Research
Choropleth map of Canada shaded by 2023 road fatality rate per 100,000 population, by province and territory. New Brunswick is darkest at 8.5; Ontario is lightest at 3.9. Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are shown with dashed borders and an asterisk.
Transit · 4 min

New Brunswick Has Canada's Highest Road Fatality Rate — But the Ranking Changes When You Count Driving

New Brunswick had Canada's highest road fatality rate in 2023, 8.5 deaths per 100,000 people, more than double Ontario's 3.9. Switch to fatalities per kilometre actually driven and Atlantic Canada is still worst, but the order inside it shifts, and a couple of provinces move a lot: Alberta looks mid-table by population and drops close to the national average once its driving distances are counted. Nova Scotia moves the same way.

August 2026 · Transport Canada, Canadian Motor Vehicle Traffic Collision Statistics 2023
A TTC streetcar stopped in mixed traffic on a downtown Toronto street, with a car visible alongside it.
Transit · 4 min

What's actually delaying Toronto's streetcars

Diversions and cars parked on the rail account for 35 percent of all streetcar delay-minutes since the start of 2025, far more than mechanical failure. Crews and cars in the way combined explain six in ten delay-minutes across the full 2024-2026 period.

August 2026 · City of Toronto Open Data
Map of all 71 TTC subway station rows, dot size showing 2025 delay record counts and dot colour showing delay intensity per 100,000 typical-weekday station uses
Transit · 8 min · Follow-up

The TTC stations with the highest delay intensity aren't the busiest ones

Adjusting 2025 delay records for typical-weekday station activity produces a completely different ranking than the raw count. Twelve of the top twenty stations by this measure never show up in the raw top twenty at all.

August 2026 · City of Toronto Open Data · TTC Subway Ridership 2023-2024
Dot plot ranking the top 10 TTC subway stations by 2025 delay-minutes intensity per 100,000 typical-weekday uses, with 95% bootstrap confidence intervals
Transit · 7 min · Follow-up

Rosedale Tops TTC Subway Delay Intensity. The Rest Is Much Less Certain

We ranked TTC stations by 2025 delay-record counts weighted for station usage. This time we ranked them by actual delay minutes instead, and ran a tougher statistical test on top of it. Rosedale, Donlands, Summerhill and Greenwood all lock in a top-five spot. The fifth is a genuine toss-up among five stations.

August 2026 · City of Toronto Open Data · TTC Subway Ridership 2023-2024
Three-panel image of a TTC Toronto Rocket subway at Union station, an Edmonton Valley Line LRT downtown, and a Montreal Metro Azur train at a station platform
Transit · 6 min

Every big Canadian city is losing transit riders again — and only Edmonton ever beat its pre-pandemic level

Six years of ridership data from the agencies' own records show one Canadian city carrying more riders than before the pandemic. Then, in 2026, every city we can measure turned down at once.

July 2026 · City open data · TransLink · TTC · Statistics Canada
A green Metrolinx-branded vehicle showing the Metrolinx logo and wordmark.
Transit · 6 min

Every major Metrolinx transit line is opening years behind schedule

Measured against the opening date first committed for each project, every major transit line in the Greater Toronto Area is landing three to five years late. Two have finally opened. Three are still under construction, and their targets keep moving.

June 2026 · Metrolinx, Infrastructure Ontario, Auditor General of Ontario
TTC subway delay causes bar chart 2025
Transit · 12 min

What's actually delaying the TTC subway

1,385 hours lost across 10,087 incidents. Disorderly patrons top the chart by total time but Line 1 carries 56 % of all delay. Built directly from the open-data file.

May 2026 · City of Toronto Open Data