If a company cannot afford to pay its employees for all the hours they are at their workplace, then they shouldn't be in business. If this was the law, all airlines would have to treat their employees fairly. If this required passengers to pay more for their flights, it would not be any different from companies in every sector. Wages go up, materials go up, purchase price goes up.

(Written on 01/05/2022)(Permalink)

Also the home/vacation residences of a large number of super wealthy athletes, entertainers and corporate leaders who flight first class or private jets to their opulent gated communities.

(Written on 15/04/2022)(Permalink)

The report said that she felt bullied by Forkner but it doesn't say that she gave in to his unprofessional behaviour, unless there is more to the issue than reported in the news article.

(Written on 25/03/2022)(Permalink)

I understand that Boeing is the biggest recipient of tax breaks and grants from federal, state and municipal governments in the USA. Is this true?

(Written on 11/03/2022)(Permalink)

Stats Canada: "Beyond deaths attributed to the disease itself, the pandemic could also have indirect consequences leading to an increase or decrease in the number of deaths due to various factors, including delayed medical procedures, increased substance use, or a decline in deaths attributable to other causes, such as influenza." Nowhere could I find any Stats Canada statement attributing more deaths related to lockdowns v the virus. We went through a relatively brief wave where medical staff appeared to be almost unanimous in acknowledging that while the infection rate soared, the ICU admissions and deaths were kept down because of masks, social distancing, vaccines, group size restrictions, etc. No-one liked these restrictions but most Canadians supported them and the national community benefitted from them.

(Written on 25/02/2022)(Permalink)

It wasn't meant to be a trend, just a comparison of three countries with similar populations and cultures but governed differently. All the South and Central American countries have horrendous murder rates perhaps due to their history of authoritarian governments and gang violence resulting from poverty and inequalities.

(Written on 25/02/2022)(Permalink)

World Firearm related deaths in 2019 relative to population: USA 12.21 4.46 Homicides 7.32 suicides Canada 2.05 0.61 Homicides 1.52 suicides Australia 1.04 0.18 Homicides 0.80 suicides It seems that you are right: gun laws do make a difference.

(Written on 25/02/2022)(Permalink)

The symptoms may be less severe than earlier variants but we are still seeing thousands of cases daily with hundreds dying every week in the Greater Toronto area despite having over 80% of the population fully vaccinated. Most deaths are among the unvaccinated.

(Written on 25/02/2022)(Permalink)

The vast majority of flights in North America take less than four hours, about the same time interval between our regular lunch and dinner times. Surely it would be no real hardship to skip eating and drinking for this time aboard. Wearing a mask throughout the flight combined with the excellent ventilation systems would protect passengers and crew and support the beleaguered flight industry.

(Written on 24/12/2021)(Permalink)

Although the Island airport has been there for 82 years, for much of that time it was used by relatively quiet small private and corporate planes. Most of the airlines using it in the 1960s to 1980s had limited success and didn't last long nor did they create much aircraft and passenger volumes. The rapid redevelopment of Toronto's with residential high-rise apartment buildings throughout the 1960s to the present day preceded the expansion of the airport and the successful Porter airline with more than one hundred flights daily. The excellent Dash 8-Q400 aircraft are relatively quiet in their landing approach but extremely noisy on take-offs with the sound reverberating along the waterfront curtain of buildings with hundreds of thousands of residents. Unfortunately, the whole history of the convenient Billy Bishop airport has been one of conflict and intrigue involving politicians, appointed bureaucrats, corporate interests and resident groups.

(Written on 19/07/2021)(Permalink)