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Erie Canal

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This year marks the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Erie Canal, the waterway connecting Lake Erie to the Hudson River, New York City, and the Atlantic Ocean. The canal slashed the time and cost it took to transport people and products across upstate New York, helping to hasten westward expansion and industrialization and built New York City into the financial capital of the United States.

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Nation-Building or Asset Stranding: What Canada’s Latest Megaprojects Tell Us

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Canada’s second tranche of Major Projects Office investments arrives with a familiar mixture of ambition and contradiction. Ottawa has presented it as another step in a nation-building program that spans critical minerals, northern electrification, reconciliation, and export capacity. On the surface that sounds like a strategy that lines up with … [continued]

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