Perhaps it is time for Canada to adopt a Siberia style of incarnation for forced industrial work, especially for the habitual criminals. At a $152,700.00 + per year per head it is time the tax payer got better value for their dollar.
With regards to Hwy 17 between Manitoba and Thunder Bay there have been many improvements over the decades. Sharper corners have been straightened, sight lines improved and passing lanes have been added. Signage has improved so you know what is ahead. The cars we drive today have also made significant advancements in safety and collision avoidance technology. FWD and AWD vehicles along with continually improving winter tires have made winter driving safer. These improvements unfortunately are lost to the fact that todays drivers do not follow common sense when driving in winter conditions. Many are impatient, lack courtesy and appear to be much less skilled in handling the vehicle they drive. Yes twinning of Hwy 17 between Manitoba and Thunder Bay will mitigate the lives lost but lives will still be lost even when the Hwy is fully twinned. Until that time using your "smarts" when behind the wheel is what will keep us all safe when on the road.
Whoa hold the horses."Germany just activated the world's first commercial molten salt reactor — a nuclear design that uses existing radioactive waste as fuel and is physically incapable of melting down, solving nuclear energy's two biggest challenges simultaneously. The reactor's fuel supply comes entirely from Germany's stockpile of spent nuclear waste from 50 years of conventional reactor operation — material currently stored in expensive interim facilities awaiting permanent disposal. The molten salt process burns this waste fuel 40 times more efficiently than light-water reactors and transforms long-lived radioactive isotopes into shorter-lived forms, reducing the storage time required for waste from 10,000 years to approximately 300 years. Germany's decision to deploy this technology reverses its previous nuclear phase-out policy and positions the country to eliminate its interim nuclear waste storage problem while simultaneously generating clean baseload electricity."