So, this guy is suing Sunwing over the fact they served him sparkling white wine instead of champagne. Champagne being a sparkling white wine from the Champagne region in France.
Like, who does this guy think he is? Senator Nancy Ruth?
The Children Are Our Future
Related — America, Your Campuses Are Madhouses
I’m not feeling it.
I’m sure that she had a place to be but if you’re deathly allergic to animals there are only two choices: you get off or they get off and they weren’t the ones being a PITA.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Respect.
Visitors at a the Prittlewell Priory Museum in Essex managed to break an 800-year-old stone coffin after placing a child inside of it for a photo op, museum officials say.
The lawyers got involved.
“The money itself is coming from executive bonuses that are earned under the key employee retention program, but are being forgone in favour of putting the money into this hardship fund,” she said.
$500k of a $9.2M executive bonus fund.
Socialism is the opiate of the masses, but it’s hard to argue with those who want to put Sears up against the wall.
Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?
Where every culture is equal, except your own;
Indigenous advocates from around the world are calling on a UN committee to make appropriating Indigenous cultures illegal — and to do it quickly.
Delegates from 189 countries, including Canada, are in Geneva this week as part of a specialized international committee within the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency.
Since it began in 2001, the committee has been working on creating and finishing three pieces of international law that would expand intellectual-property regulations to protect things like Indigenous designs, dances, words and traditional medicines.
h/t A Deplorable Sewer Rat
I, Napoleon
Published this month in the Journal For The Academically Insane;
The editors of an influential feminist philosophy journal have denounced an academic research paper that argues racial identity can be just as fluid as gender, castigating its Canadian author for causing “harm” and ignoring “violence upon actual persons.”
Curiously, these editors run the journal that published the paper in the first place.
And by insane, I include all of them.
It’s Probably Nothing
What could possibly go wrong? The Toronto-based [Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)]is said to have given the struggling Canadian mortgage lender the loan to shore up liquidity as it faces a run on deposits amid a probe by the provincial securities regulator…
We Need A Famine
Reliving The Terrifying Hours When My Van Was Searched By Canadian Border Services On My Way Home From A Dog Show
Phaw, it’s only tax dollars.
Federal Bureaucrats Rack Up Pricey Relocation Expenses
Wudrick noted that some costs were for long-distance moves, including those to or from disparate locations in the north. But several relatively short moves were very high in cost, such as the CRA employees who received $538,549 and $113,608 just for moving within Ontario, from Richmond Hill to Belleville, and Mississauga to Ottawa, respectively.
Red Rose Country
Alberta’s Minister of the Entitlement: Walking’s for the little people.
CBC asks did @SPhillipsAB walk/bus to studio? She drove+said "isn't about 1 individual's commute" #abpoli #carbontax pic.twitter.com/BGPRu1I1jO
— Paige T. MacPherson (@paigemacp) December 20, 2016
Full interview here, question comes up at about the 31:00 minute mark. At 32:15 she admits to flying from Lethbridge to Calgary. Followed by a caller frustrated that her solar panels aren’t paying for themselves.
We Are All Treaty People
If I can self-identify as male, I can self-identify as Algonquin.
Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett and her Ontario counterpart have signed a historic agreement with the Algonquins of Ontario that will eventually see wide swaths of eastern Ontario signed over to the Indigenous people as part of a modern treaty.
The deal encompasses roughly 36,000 square kilometres, stretching from Ottawa to North Bay, including large parts of the Ottawa Valley. (Parliament Hill itself falls into the catchment area.)
[…]
A key element of the agreement will be a cash payment — although Bennett was unable to provide an exact sum. Earlier negotiations pegged the figure at $300 million, but Whiteduck said that amount is more of a floor than a ceiling.
Let the good times roll.
(h/t Rich W)
You Read That Correctly
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
The Saudis and Russians made a big discovery after the fall of the Soviet Union: that you couldn’t beat the United States the country, but you could corrupt American politicians for what amounted, in their world, to chump change. You could spent a billion dollars on some useless piece of Soviet military junk, or you could spend on a junket. The junket was more effective.
Once they had blazed the trail, the Chinese followed. This system of international “cooperation” was called the “Rule Based International Order”. The Saudis and Russians killed the nuclear power future to prop up oil prices. This was called “Environmentalism”. Then the Wahabi lobby decided to invade the West. This was called “Multiculturalism”.
It rattled along swimmingly until the wheels fell off the wagon and the curtain went up with everyone’s britches down. This was called “2016”.
Making the computer sing.
New Zealand researchers said Monday they have restored the first recording of computer-generated music, created in 1951 on a gigantic contraption built by British genius Alan Turing.
Meanwhile at iTunes:
JESUS CHRIST: It didn’t just add duplicates — iTunes fucking replaced several hundred songs. On its own. Without so much as asking.
— Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) September 26, 2016
It’s Probably Nothing
Last week’s meeting was extraordinarily candid. And it provided a brief, reality-based peek behind the financial charade taking place not only in Oregon’s pension system, but also in systems across the country.
I’m sure they’ll find the money somewhere.
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
RCMP allege more than $1.2 million in public money was fraudulently obtained by a former co-manager for the Kashechewan First Nation in northwestern Ontario between 2007 and 2012.
Giuseppe (Joe) Crupi, 50, from Thunder Bay, Ont., has been charged with fraud following an investigation.
The money came from a program that was meant to provide breakfasts for about 400 elementary school children on the First Nation.
The RCMP allege Crupi took close to $700,000 of this money for his personal use.
That’s a lot of fish soup. (h/t Raymond)
What’s The Opposite of Diversity?
Debt Clock Campus Tour to kick off at Université Laval today… Instead we got expelled for 'unsanctioned activism' pic.twitter.com/9H5h4DjfPi
— Generation Screwed (@GenScrewedCdn) September 7, 2016