I don’t think they were voting for CPC in any case, their point was that at least then the CPC alternative wasn’t simply shameful.

Nice, they should close hospitals too. No sick people here! City of health!

Regardless of how I interpreted it I’m just remarking that the use of the language stood out to me, next to “I support the CBC” after it.

Makes you think about words and how we use them and how that shapes us.

Anyway, ignore me.

I know this is not your point, but it stood out to me with your choice of words: “I’m NDP” and “I support the CBC”

You’re just you and you support the NDP too!

I’m sure that’s what you meant anyway but it’s just interesting the way we use words of identity with political parties. Eventually those words take root and it actually becomes your identity and other people become truly others.

I flew outside the country for the first time in a while and my flights (domestic and international) on other airlines were an eye-opener. Both the Canadian airlines are an embarrassment these days.

Just because I’m a car history guy, I think you have some broken information about Opel.

The company predated Nazi Germany by a long shot as a general equipment manufacturer in the 1800s and was one of the biggest auto producers in the 1920s holding over 25% of the market. They were actually bought by General Motors (not Ford) in 1929.

Where you did get it right is the famous Brandenburg factory was funded partly by the Nazi government and to specifically make the Opel Blitz trucks. Which were at the time just a general work truck in high demand. But soon after GM lost control and the plant was used to exclusively make military trucks for the war. But this is the same for any factory at the time.

A lot of this can be explained by the US political attitude to Germany where they kept up positive diplomatic relationships up until the attacks in the Pacific. The large companies like GM didn’t have a direct reason to divest from their ties to Nazi regime, as they weren’t really denounced themselves and still an important trading partner. Their investors would have had protests on a change of course. For GM, Opel was a huge success at the time.

Of course cutting ties and divesting would have been the moral thing to do, but capitalism has no morals… Apple doesn’t mind making products in China today but sanctions on tech are already changing the course for companies like Nvidia, not without lots of protest by their leaders.

Also yes Henry Ford was idolized by Hitler and Ford didn’t mind that one bit.

There are the mandated penalties for late arrivals. Diverting could result in a 24h delay for ~250 passengers which could mean a 250k fine

Except despite all the BS reasons AC says flights are outside of their control, this one is definitely outside their control.

So that doesn’t hold.I wonder what their decision was based on.

I used to fly them a lot and for international travel and I thought they were passable. Comparable to other options.

The domestic stuff was sometimes served a lot better by WestJet but even they were quite scrappy. Domestic is hard, European carriers do that a lot better.

But post-pandemic even their international stuff is an embarrassment. And among my colleagues (worldwide team) they’ve noticed too!

You need to know your place. You are still bottom class, we are just letting you survive.

Air Canada hasn’t always been this bad but in the last few years I’m currently embarrassed they are our national flag carrier.

Can you forward me some info on this?

Contrary to what you may think, I’m down to work my own single acre. Seems like a good way. I already live in rural Canada.

Land prices are much higher than you indicate around here.

For example, the smallest and cheapest plot I can find for rent is 60 acres. It’s $40 per and also very difficult to access with no water supply either, hence the low price. So, 2.4k minimum. If I organized a community then we could get something done and we for sure aren’t growing fruits and vegetables. But that’s not what you are describing.

Where did you get your $300/acre/yr figure?

Maybe if you rented 1000 acres.

Unless you’re suggesting we collectivise agriculture, then sure.

I hope one day it will just be “people”