Eric Crampton: O, Canada.....What have you done to news platforms?

The classic Simpsons “Monorail” episode wasn’t just a cautionary tale about local council megaprojects gone wrong.

Monorail salesman Lyle Lanley told the good people of Springfield that he’d “sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook. And by gum, it put them on the map!”