WestJet Cancels Over 460 Flights Due to Extreme Cold
WestJet flights across Canada this week, since Thursday, Jan. 11, and it’s expected to cause continued travel disruptions in the Prairie region into early next week.
“We sincerely apologize to guests who have been impacted by cancellations and delays, resulting from ongoing extreme cold temperatures affecting Canada’s prairie region,” WestJet said in a statement issued on Jan. 14.
“With Calgary, AB as WestJet’s main hub and the majority of our operations based in Western Canada, the effects of four consecutive days of frigid temperatures are having a compounding impact on our operations, our crew and partners who are battling these conditions to maintain our network.”
Throughout the week, WestJet has experienced a surge in flight cancellations, with 87 on Jan. 11, 104 on Jan. 12, 153 on Jan. 13, and an additional 120 on Jan. 14, totalling 464. Overnight on Friday, Jan. 12, a winter storm system affected WestJet operations in Ontario, leading to nine flight diversions to and from Toronto, according to WestJet.
The disruption is expected to last until early next week. The company has introduced flexible change/cancel guidelines for guests travelling to or from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba between Jan. 11 and Jan. 15, 2024...
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/westjet-cancels-over-460-flights-due-to-extreme-cold-5565256
New report denounces Havana and claims ‘campaign of subversion’ has infiltrated highest levels of US government
"...There is overwhelming evidence that the machinery of the Cuban Government has been progressively organized around… a fundamental hatred of the United States,” the report stated. “Many of the most significant upheavals in recent American political history —from the George Floyd riots to the rise of Antifa to the explosion of pro-terrorist activism on American college campuses— can be linked, in some way, shape, or form to Cuban influence.”
The report doesn’t just hand-wave. It names names. It details how the Venceremos Brigade and other “revolutionary tourism” programs have funneled thousands of American activists to Havana for ideological (and sometimes literal) weapons training.
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Now there is a plan! Of course dumb Canadians will not have the courage to vote with their brains, instead of their propagandized feelings of fear.
Canada’s economy is stalling badly.
We just endured the worst decade for real GDP growth per person since the Great Depression.
Over the past ten years, real GDP per capita limped along at an average of just 0.6% annually.
And Bloomberg’s consensus forecast for 2026? A paltry 0.7%.
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Because family disposable income follows GDP like a shadow. Anemic economic growth resulting from lower investment means stagnant wages. Period.
The Liberals and fake Conservatives won't fix this.
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Make the Accelerated Capital Cost Allowance (ACCA) permanent – Let businesses write off capital investments rapidly and skyrocket cash flow.
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