Sadly, Via Rail won’t get me to Brighton in time for my friend’s wedding.

I’m flying out later this week. First big trip since the start of COVID, and the focus of the trip is the wedding of a dear friend.

Timing and price led us to Air Canada over Westjet this time, but it’s a crapshoot; a day later and we might have booked Westjet, in which case we’d be royally fucked right now.

I still support the mechanics on this one. Companies will ALWAYS bargain in bad faith, if they have the opportunity; and getting government arbitration has become the latest version of bad faith bargaining.

This strike may be truly illegal. It will definitely inconvenience a lot of people. It may, over time, lead to the downfall of Westjet (I have cheap headphones here from Canada 3000, Canadian, and a few others - it can happen!).

I don’t fucking care.

The mechanics didn’t cause this shitshow, they only chose when to act against the shitshow created by the billionaires. This is the fault of Alexis van Hoensbroech and his board of directors. If you miss a flight or a trip of a lifetime because of the strike, remember that: Ten executives at Westjet who EACH make more annually than a mechanic will see in his lifetime have decided not to let those mechanics keep up with inflation.

There is zero incentive for businesses to negotiate in goods faith…

There. That is ALL that needs be said.

Good.

Bring it on! Let them sue, let them lose, and let them be forced to pay damages to the students.

I fucking hope the students can raise the money to make this a big case that destroys the University’s leadership.

Yeah, same thought here. Even more revealing (damning?) Is the fact that it was written by ‘staff.’

I see this style more and more, and they always serm to be written by generic ‘staff.’

2 is for 2-spirit; I’ve seen both 2 and 2S, but either way it refers to Indigenous 3rd-gender folks.

Let’s cut to the chase.

This bill, and many like it, are created with a clear purpose: to subjugate women. Harming the LGBTQ2+ community is almost secondary, since they can do that just fine already.

Sorry, but a shithead losing support doesn’t qualify as news.

PfFt. Amateur level stuff!

Try this on for size:

https://www.audioquest.com/products/dragon-48-hdmi-cable

And that’s not the limit, either.

Gas for the motorcycle, and ride. Maybe $10 for gas and $5 for a coffee somewhere.

Of course we’re not. The only person taking them seriously is Poilievre, and that’s strictly as voters to be conned.

There are two groups on facebook under this name - one is basically silent, and the other is posting doctored videos and anti-Islam posts.

I’ve reported them, but reporting to FB is about as effective as complaining about the weather.

Cold watermelon soup with anise and cracked black pepper.

It was the appetizer to a meal that included duck breast smoked with lapsang souchong tea.

All of ot was outstanding.

Believe me, if I find it again I will bookmark it, download it, and probably even print it. (Same as I did with Umberto Eco’s 14 Common Features of Fascism.) And I’ll let you know.

Specifically, it’s to save their children (who are absolutely all straight and cis-gendered) from any exposure to others; except to ostracize, harm, and eliminate those others.

Here in Alberta, “Take Back Alberta” is a group of fear-mongering hate-based transphobic assholes who organized the “Save The Children” and other protests, and now are pulling the strings in our government. The leader is a contemptible home-schooled evangelical minister.

A handful of years ago, I read an article which concluded that unrestrained capitalism will inevitably result in an entire industry sector being controlled by roughly three companies, working as a collusive oligopoly.

If you’re a plucky startup in any industry whatsoever, expect to get bought or buried as soon as you’re big enough to be noticed.

I used to see Fildebrandt daily as he illegally parked his Dodge Ram to drop his daughter off at the Calgary Classical Academy - a publicly funded charter school founded by Caylan Ford, who was booted (sorry, “encouraged to step down”) from the UCP for being too racist for them.

To avoid putting a brick through the window of his truck (or head) I changed my dog walking route.

They misspelled “utterly fucked over for corporate profit.”

edit: Real estate is now unaffordable for an entire generation - thanks to “investors.” They’ll not only do the same to agriculture, but consequently to agricultural products. Expect to see artificial shortages, increased prices, declining quality, and occasional outbreaks of horror (the current discrepancy between Canada and the US for H5N1 will be erased, for instance).

But it’s all worth it in the end, because some billionaires will get incrementally richer.

I’m an old-ish dude who owns my house outright.

My retirement nest egg doesn’t trump my children’s future.

Can we get a class action lawsuit against these negligent bastards? $1000 per account stolen.