You've Got to Be Kidding Department!!!
In spite of efforts to make absolutely doubly everything idiotproof, we keep discovering newer and more creative idiots.
A passenger fell from a Boeing 777 while it was on the tarmac at Toronto Pearson International Airport, sustaining injuries after opening the cabin door before takeoff on Jan. 8.
The occurrence took place during the boarding of flight AC056, an Air Canada flight destined for Dubai from Toronto, as first reported by Global News.
The passenger, who had initially boarded without issue, opened a door on the aircraft’s opposite side while the plane was still at the gate, leading to an unexpected fall onto the tarmac. The event necessitated the intervention of emergency services and authorities.
The incident caused a significant delay for the flight, nearly six hours, which was set to transport 319 passengers.
[Ok. Here is what I don't understand. How does it take 6 hours to pick the guy up, do whatever with him, and get the plane in the air? (I know, I know, It is Pearson, so what can I say?) I also wonder how come if somebody gets a boo boo on a major highway why they close it down for half a day while traffic, including emergeny vehicles, stacks up, and the cops drink coffee and stand around scratching their clueless... er... heads?]
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/air-canada-traveller-falls-from-plane-after-opening-door-before-toronto-takeoff-5563303
Abolish the teachers' unions
Alberta strike cancelling classes across the province shows unions have far too much power
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/carson-jerema-abolish-the-teachers-unions
It is pathetic when you have 5 running for mayor and 24 for city Councillor and you can't come up with 8 you would vote for for Councillor. I pass by if they are a civil servant or don't know the responsibility of the different levels of government. This is Red Deer. I have been waffling on Mayor but have finally made up my mind. Two former city Councillors are HELL NO's and hope to see their asses in rear view mirror.
Tamara & Chris sentenced. The Message is Clear: Dissent is Now a Crime.
Writer: Timothy Knight
Timothy Knight
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Tamara Lich and Chris Barber got 12 months of house arrest today for “mischief.”
Not violence.
Not property damage.
Mischief.
Peaceful Canadians—criminalised for daring to speak out. The same justice system that drops charges for real crimes and lets violent offenders walk free spent three years trying to break two people who stood for freedom.
The Crown had outrageously demanded seven years in jail to make an example out of them.
Why?
To warn you.
To scare anyone who might ever peacefully defy the state again.
Even the judge admitted Chris Barber “came with the noblest of intent” and never called for violence.
But it didn’t matter. They needed bogeymen.
We remember all the others:
Maxime Bernier was handcuffed in Manitoba for speaking at a peaceful rally.
Mark Friesen was fined thousands for organizing gatherings.
Randy Hillier saw convoy charges stayed after years of harassment.
Todd Dube was ...
