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Speedy: The prices for housing in Ontario - especially Toronto - exploded in the late 80's due to baby boomer and good economic times. Housing prices increased 300 or 400% in about a five year period. Then the 91 recession hit and the prices fell out of the market. There were people with...

I was born in Ireland in 1965 moved to Canada with my parents in 1975. My parents spent 35 years in Ireland and are always amazed at the economic changes in that country. It has become very expensive to live in Ireland - especially Dublin. The price of housing is ridiculous - my uncle sold his...

Has anyone had any experience with groundwater contamination (solvents) originating from a sanitary sewer. I am involved in a situation where two properties have been impacted by TCE. A concrete sanitary sewer trunk runs along the property line. It is constructed below the water table...

It is interesting to note that no one mentioned the effect of low bid ethos on engineering. In the movie Armageddon there is a great line about being hurled into space by a machine propelled by a million pounds of explosives built by the lowest bidder. My gradnfather always said "You...

Canada is guilty of the same poor spending habits. Zapster is right when he notes that it is our children that will pay the price in lost opportunity. If you look strictly at the education system in Canada it is not uncommon to see young people starting out their careers with student loans in...

Was the saturation of the soil naturally caused or was it the result of some man made situation. I become involved in a situation where the water from a large storm water management pond infiltrated onto my clients septic field and caused it to fail. The local regulators deemed this to be an...

I was wondering what the self-employed consulting-engineers on this forum do to develop business. I head up the environmental engineering division for a small consulting firm and we are trying to increase our business development efforts. I personally use a number of different methods to get...

It my opinion that this will be a real issue in the next decade or two as the baby boomers age older experienced engineers will be retiring and looking for qualified people to take over their positions and perhaps buy out their partnership. The problem escalates in the fact that the cost...

My one comment to this discussion is that at least the professionals in the US are talking to their elected leaders and pointing out the problem. Here in Canada no one believes that there is a problem, there is more concern about the brain drain, where professionals like engineers are leaving...