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I seem to recall that Onex corp wanted to acquire air Canada back in the 90's, and the minister of transportation was all over that. I cannot remember the general outcry, but there was enough public pushback to cancel the deal. It is imteresting, then, that Onex Corp. has acquired Westjet for the benefits of the shareholders. "Who do you think you're foolin?" "The Shareholders, sir! It's good PR to be seen, flying with real westjet-onex customers..."
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vyelkin posted:Northern Ontario is nice, dude. ...compared to what?
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May 13, 2019 22:54
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Let's talk about airline software. WestJet adopted Sabre in 2010 or possibly earlier. Sabre is an industry standard piece of software that WestJet acquired so they could do codeshares and play with the big boys. The trouble is that it is a byzantine piece of poo poo with a laggy GUI stuck on top. It lets you gently caress with things you shouldn't while preventing you from doing the things you want. Name changes are incredibly stupid to do and basically require a bug to do correctly. How do other airlines do it easily? They either a. Don't use Sabre or b. Use native Sabre which has and feel and syntax of using DOS. Native lets you break the program over its knee but is Dark Magic not easily taught.
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May 13, 2019 22:59
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infernal machines posted:...compared to what? New Jersey?
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May 13, 2019 23:01
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Oh, yeah, that's probably true.
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May 13, 2019 23:02
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Unless Northern Ontario stretches down to North York or maybe Ottawa, I think I'll take my chances in Jersey. I haven't seen a horsefly or a blackfly in years.
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May 13, 2019 23:40
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https://twitter.com/mbueckert/status/1127980841005658113
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May 13, 2019 23:47
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Nine of Eight posted:I’m gonna cool down the whole Quebec memes thing for a bit, I’m running out of good content about current events that isn’t the dead horse of PL-21 being flogged some more. That said I’m not going out of business yet. These things have been great, thanks for posting them.
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May 13, 2019 23:48
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infernal machines posted:...compared to what? My recollection of NO is curvy tree-hugged roads in the middle of a nice forest, it wasn't particularly efficient to travel through but it was very pretty. I'll take that any day over the "get there directly but maybe kill yourself from despair before you reach it" Prairie drives I used to do frequently.
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May 14, 2019 00:06
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My recollection of Northern Ontario is peeling tarpaper shacks and exposed styrofoam insulation and crushing poverty and meth smiles and being eaten alive by bugs
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May 14, 2019 00:13
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I assume that you're all familiar with The Blackfly Song but if not watch this now.
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May 14, 2019 00:21
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So how long do we think it's going to take Onex to fully strip mine Westjet and send them into bankruptcy? My guess is a little over five years, assuming they don't get "assistance" from the feds at some point. I don't like Westjet any more than anyone else in this thread but this isn't going to end well for anyone who's not an Onex shareholder.
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May 14, 2019 01:10
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quote:Jagmeet Singh Grilled On B.C. LNG Project In Light Of NDP Push For More Climate Action There's an embedded video of the scrum and Singh is spinning and being pretty evasive. It's hard to get a feel for if this is a genuine policy shift where the Fed NDP are backing away from any LNG support, or whether he's proposing some sort of Trudeauesque, 'we can do both' policy on LNG where certain projects could be allowed if aggressive climate targets can still be met. If the Fed NDP is suggesting no more LNG projects going forward well then is there any daylight between the NDP and Greens on environmental issues?
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May 14, 2019 03:06
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Maybe it's because Svend and many members aren't supporting the LNG pipeline. I hope it's part of their yet-to-be-announced GND. Regardless, I'm not sure other party leaders would have been grilled as much.
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May 14, 2019 03:17
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infernal machines posted:My recollection of Northern Ontario is peeling tarpaper shacks and exposed styrofoam insulation and crushing poverty and meth smiles and being eaten alive by bugs oh sure but the question was about places that are nice to drive through and it's a gorgeous part of the country as long as you don't mind only ever eating in family diners and sleeping in lovely motels.
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May 14, 2019 04:56
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Winnipeg Transit is taking job action tomorrow and will collect no fares. http://www.atu1505.ca/index.cfm?action=article&articleID=01AE704A-008A-4D9A-9D84-6FF7AFA979C3
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vyelkin posted:oh sure but the question was about places that are nice to drive through and it's a gorgeous part of the country as long as you don't mind only ever eating in family diners and sleeping in lovely motels. We're nearing the day that most of those 50s motor inns that predate affordable commercial air travel are going to be go from "quaint but pretty iffy" to "flat out unlivable"... Or are we already there? Rental RVs will be the only way to do domestic vacations through the hinterland... And I dunno how many of you have driven those, but boy do they have crappy gas mileage. Lots of room for big old batteries, though... Need an EV RV, once the charging infrastructure is there.
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May 14, 2019 06:48
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My guillotine is gonna need some sharpening for all y'all who make enough to go on vacations.
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May 14, 2019 06:52
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James Baud posted:We're nearing the day that most of those 50s motor inns that predate affordable commercial air travel are going to be go from "quaint but pretty iffy" to "flat out unlivable"... Or are we already there? Infrastructure won't be a problem once you slap some aerodynamic solar panels on top of (and on the sides of, and behind) the RV. And replace the kids' seats with a couple of stationary bikes.
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MikeSevigny posted:So how long do we think it's going to take Onex to fully strip mine Westjet and send them into bankruptcy? My guess is a little over five years, assuming they don't get "assistance" from the feds at some point. I don't like Westjet any more than anyone else in this thread but this isn't going to end well for anyone who's not an Onex shareholder. If Onex is one of the really shady private equity funds like Bain Capital, the way they do their business fucks over everyone including their shareholders. I remember an article about Bain Capital where it pointed out that the average shareholder did see marginal increases in their share price over the time period where Bain was buying up and doing the leveraged bankruptcy buyout stuff, but nowhere near what you would expect given the obscene amount of cash the top people at Bain were pulling in. If I remember correctly, the true scam is to arrange to have WestJet pay your directors massive management fees, then those fees become the debt / expenditure that justifies WestJet having to sell off any valuable assets they own / lay off employees to balance the books. Thus begins the great cycle of selling off the assets of WestJet and extracting all value possible out of the company in the form of the management fees. How long the company lasts depends on how solid it is to start off with, and with all you hear about WestJet 5 years might be an optimistic projection. long story short, if you work for WestJet I think it's time for you to start looking for a new job.
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My company was owned by ONEX for quite a while, purchased directly from private ownership. They were far and away the best private equity group that has owned us, we're on #3 now and getting the hard shaft from the new ones. They seemed less interested in stripping the company for all it was worth than doing some serious capital investment.
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incontinence 100 posted:My guillotine is gonna need some sharpening for all y'all who make enough to go on vacations. My vacations these days consist of driving 2 hours to Moncton Costco. Please have pity.
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https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/regina/2019/5/13/1_4420575.html What the poo poo
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mik posted:My vacations these days consist of driving 2 hours to Moncton Costco. Please have pity. Comrade, our time will come when we line all the bourgeoisie up against the baked goods section.
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incontinence 100 posted:My guillotine is gonna need some sharpening for all y'all who make enough to go on vacations. Being incapacitated by a car accident is the working class vacation.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/regina/2019/5/13/1_4420575.html Lets just take a moment and in the absence of any specific information assume the investigation is in fact into the guy flying the Nazi flag and not the guy who took them down.
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Entorwellian posted:Being incapacitated by a car accident is the working class vacation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv43UsG6fhY
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Wistful of Dollars posted:https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/regina/2019/5/13/1_4420575.html Storytime. A guy I worked with used to be a prison guard, and when he was young and stupid he had the misfortune to be out in the yard when a con got beaten to death in the yard. Picture a ring of cons, then a big empty space, then a guy down on the ground and my former colleague and his then-older-and-wiser boss next to what was obviously a body. Old fart pulls out his pocket mask, puts it over what's left of the con's face and starts doing chest compressions. "Breathe", he tells his protege. Young guy asks him why bother, because the guy's dead, he might have friggin hep, no way I'm doing CPR on a dead man. Boss stops. "Look around. See them? Cause they see us. And if they see us standing here doing nothing while one of their own dies, guess how that's gonna go later? Breathe." And that's how I learned that what you're seen to be doing sends just as much of a message about what you're actually doing. The nazis are watching the cops to see what they do. If they ignore this theft and mischief, that'll send a message the cops don't want these lunatics receiving. I should hope that prosecutorial discretion will handle the rest.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/regina/2019/5/13/1_4420575.html quote:RCMP says displaying the flag is not illegal, but discussed the feeling of the community with the home owner. A 34-year-old Nazi gets the benefit of the doubt because he's just a kid who never grew up, but indigenous teens are threats to life and limb who need to be shot if they enter your property.
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^It is with a moon-eyed optimism unseen outside of puppies in pet-store windows that I anticipate this "investigation" was undertaken specifically to stop a racist guy with a gun from drawing that same conclusion and lying in wait next to a racist flag of his own.infernal machines posted:Lets just take a moment and in the absence of any specific information assume the investigation is in fact into the guy flying the Nazi flag and not the guy who took them down. quote:“I made the decision when the authorities weren’t going to make it,” said Pelletier. “I believe it affected so many of our people so I took matters into my own hands and now they are taken down and burned.” I don't feel good about that assumption.
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flakeloaf posted:^It is with a moon-eyed optimism unseen outside of puppies in pet-store windows that I anticipate this "investigation" was undertaken specifically to stop a racist guy with a gun from drawing that same conclusion and lying in wait next to a racist flag of his own. Nor do I but I also don't want to be that pissed off this morning, so I too am going with moon-eyed optimism.
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So I guess Canada is going to declare a climate change emergency tomorrow. 
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A short while ago Elizabeth May was being interviewed on the CBC and was asked what real climate change looks like for every day Canadians. She was vague and the interviewer had to ask again, but May's final answer was home retrofits, a west/east electricity grid, solar panels and electric cars. That's some real bold action on climate change that I'm sure snow bound Canadians will not laugh at at all. It reminds me of Layton focusing on high cell phone bills and an airplane travellers bill of rights.
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Femtosecond posted:A short while ago Elizabeth May was being interviewed on the CBC and was asked what real climate change looks like for every day Canadians. She was vague and the interviewer had to ask again, but May's final answer was home retrofits, a west/east electricity grid, solar panels and electric cars. That's some real bold action on climate change that I'm sure snow bound Canadians will not laugh at at all. It might also look like having to spend a fortune re-doing the dock on your summer cabin and higher insurance premiums on your waterfront home. These are the sort of things I really hope the Greens have a plan for and there will be subsidies and tax rebates to ease the burden on our already taxed to death home owners.
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Femtosecond posted:A short while ago Elizabeth May was being interviewed on the CBC and was asked what real climate change looks like for every day Canadians. She was vague and the interviewer had to ask again, but May's final answer was home retrofits, a west/east electricity grid, solar panels and electric cars. That's some real bold action on climate change that I'm sure snow bound Canadians will not laugh at at all. She got pilloried when she blamed the fort mac fire on climate change
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DynamicSloth posted:So I guess Canada is going to declare a climate change emergency tomorrow. The House of Commons is going to pass a non-binding motion affirming "that Canada is in a national climate emergency which requires, as a response, that Canada commit to meeting its national emissions target under the Paris Agreement and to making deeper reductions in line with the Agreement's objective of holding global warming below two degrees Celsius and pursuing efforts to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius." That's uh very different.
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May 14, 2019 17:59
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We need to support middle temperature ranges and climates working towards joining the middle temperature class.
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There's got to be tons of people who are actively rooting for Climate Change in hopes that it will make Canadian weather less cold.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Actually, I think you'll find the average temperature in Canada, between Alert and Point Pelee is a balmy 22°. Everything is fine. BC is on fire and Quebec is under water. On average everything is just peachy. infernal machines fucked around with this message at 18:11 on May 14, 2019 |
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