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Here in Ontario they have ben reporting the numbers, which are trending lower, but are adding the fine print that this number includes "catch up" number from previous days. This artificially inflates our daily numbers, again, which are trending ever lower. The Governments Response... Lets INCREASE restrictions.. Only the government can take something thats working and make it worse.

GArneau all but said it in an interview.

Taken straight from the press conference and news cast. $2000 for the 3 days and if positive you are shipped off to a government facility (????) to server your 14 day quarantine AT YOUR COST. This was reiterated by the now foreign affairs screw up.

No. that is the 3 day cost including your room service and private security to prevent you from bolting.

I have no desire to go on a cruise. I go on vacation to get away from crowds not to place myself in the middle of one.

I read the comments on this article online. Alot of ill informed laymen out there. A severe hate on for the MAX with little information to base the hate on

This always comes up when someone spends THEIR money on something THEY want. How many of you take a Vacation every year to some sunny resort for a week or 2 or more? Well that money could feed a family for months. Why not donate it? Its just scale. This guys dream is to go to space and he has EARNED the funds to do so then let him have at it. This is his week at a resort. I get a little tired of this "Oh you earned a million dollars this year, you should give it away" crap. If someone chooses to support charity then they will, if they want to use the money to make a lifetime dream a reality then have at it. The money is not going into space to be lost forever. that money is being paid so it can again be paid to all of the support staff, contractors, employees, etc. That $55M IS putting food on peoples tables.

Sometime around Dec. 21, she said, she realized that their annual insurance for their stay was still booked for Jan. 1, so she called the insurance provider and rescheduled it to start that day, getting a new policy number. On Dec. 22, Wayne fell and couldn't get up, and she couldn't help him because she felt so weak. An ambulance was called and took them both to hospital, where they tested positive for the virus. “He didn't look right, he looked awful,” Mailman said of her husband, who until that day told her he felt fine. Mailman said she was hospitalized for eight days and on oxygen, but her husband's condition was worse. He was on a ventilator for a time, and remained in hospital until he was airlifted back to Nova Scotia last week. He remains in a 14-day quarantine at Valley Regional Hospital, where he is on oxygen and still unable to walk. Mailman, though, is still in Florida. “They wouldn't let me on the ambulance with him, because I hadn't had a recent negative COVID test,” she said. “I've been going everywhere to try to get one.” The Canadian government requires Canadians returning here to have a negative test within 72 hours of a flight. She has a test booked for Wednesday, and a flight for Thursday. She said they don't know how or when they contracted the virus. “I have no no clue,” she said. “We only bought groceries and wore a mask. We didn't go anywhere without a mask and mostly stayed in the park.” She doesn't remember anything of her first three days in the hospital, but was told that within an hour Wayne went into cardiac arrest and suffered a collapsed lung. He was put on the ventilator that day. When she got back to her Florida home after the hospital stay, she heard from the insurance company. It said it isn't going to cover their medical costs. “I argued, but they wouldn't listen to me,” she said. The company told her the policy was null and void because the couple already had COVID-19 when they updated the policy. Nor would it honour the Jan. 1 policy, when her husband was already in hospital, because the virus was also a pre-existing condition. “That's what I've been fighting,” she said. She said the company did arrange the air ambulance to bring Wayne back to Nova Scotia so he wouldn't keep accumulating hospital bills there. But, she said, she's been told the bill for her husband's stay could be upwards of $300,000. She doesn't yet know what the cost of her stay will be. “Right now I just can't even think about it, upsets me so much and I get a migraine,” she said. “I've decided to put it on the back-burner for now, until I get home and see what kind of condition Wayne's in. I'm just going to concentrate on him.” After the couple was hospitalized, Mailman didn't see her husband again until he was being prepared for the air ambulance because he had been in isolation. “He's lost a lot of weight, he's very sick,” she said. She said she had talked to him four times a day since he arrived in Kentville, and she can tell from his voice that he's getting better and stronger. But, she said, he's still on oxygen and needs to learn to walk again. ZERO Sympathy

The best part is today on the news in Ontario. Lowest number of cases since Dec 10. Establishing a week long DOWNWARD trend. Apparently though we need to lockdown more to stop the spike. Do you want to tell him its a trough or shall I?

One should be aware of the purpose of and what is being conveyed to a warning light. Your example of the check engine light is a good example. If the check engine light comes on STEADY. you are ok to operate the vehicle as normal but avoid hard acceleration and undue stress on the engine. Have engine diagnosed when possible. If the light is FLASHING. Pull over immediately and stop the vehicle. have the vehicle diagnosed and repaired. Same light two functions, two failure modes. In the Cockpit when a light comes on, the number one reaction should be that the sensor has found a fault and something is wrong. Shut her down and diagnose the issue. PERIOD. Too many times of my 30+ years have I seen the "Oh its just a sensor fault" Really? Prove it. The only way to prove it is to do the procedure required to validate the fault. anything else is cutting corners. When the light comes on, you do the steps. PERIOD. Yes we all get to know our respective planes quirks and know when it may be a bad sensor but we still go through the process, delay be damned. /end rant

International travel is easy to blame. "It's not Canada fault...See look at all the international flights" When you deflect like that, you are fully expecting the general public to agree because they don't know any better and you would be totally correct. On a given day in Ontario right now we are seeing 2500 - 3000 cases with a positivity rate of around 4% based on testing. On a given day Canadian Airlines are moving around 20,000 - 30,000 passenger at most (I know our numbers but can only guess at others numbers) likely that number is actually high. So say we have 20 flights that have confirmed Covid cases on board. Sounds scary when taken completely out of context. However the average load on these flights is well under 50% and more likely under 30% right now. So lets say 50% and Average seating of 250. thats 125 people per flight (WAG Numbers but not totally unreasonable) that is a possible infection rate of 2500 HOWEVER that is Canada wide NOT just ontario and of those 2500 only 4% of them based on a positivity rates from testing will be infected. so 100 people possibly infected canada wide from international travel. So the impact in Ontario in the off chance that they all end up in YYZ would be 0.03% of all positive cases per day could directly from international travel. Yes that number could grow by contact transmission but not likely close to 1% So as stated above the 80% in long term care homes that are falling like flies get all the media but no solutions while 0.03% of all cases deserve national outrage and immediate cessation of all international travel. This is an example of how not to fight your way out of a wet paper bag. /NOTE: I do realize that the numbers above are not perfectly accurate and frankly I was too busy with work to do the research for accurate numbers. Mainly used for illustration purposes to point out the idiocy of the policies.

all this as the transmission rate drops below 1.0 which means the case numbers are DROPPING. Just stick with the current plan if its working

The original idea for fedex was drafted as a business plan for a university course. The very detailed plan was given a poor grade and the professor said something like would never work and the logistics would be impossible to manage. Post graduation he started the company and could only afford to pay the pilots with shares in the company (Those guys are rich today) the rest is history. I worked with FedEx for some time and I can tell you it is a great company to work for.

That is not a hard landing. That is a crash.

FedEx is an excellent company to work for.

I didn't read the whole article. Did they Mention that the Business plan received a failing grade from his university professor because "It would never work'

Orbital has been doing this for years with an Ex Air Canada L-1011

I had heard that 2 767 were being converted in Europe before Christmas. Perhaps it was just conjecture

"Will?" Are they not already in process of conversion?

likely fewer pairings on other aircraft types.

a USED TUG for pulling baggage carts runs around $22,000. Good on them for finding a cheap solution

that number includes monies already paid out. Of course there could have been an outside deal with AC.

Thats a 727 not an F-18 Cleared for the visual, your discretion.

Agreed however it is not a right under the charter. the charter grants you freedom of MOVEMENT and TRAVEL. No mode is specified. The purpose is to say that you have the right to go anywhere in canada without restriction. HOW you get there is on you and the privilege of gaining the required certificates and licences are NOT guaranteed under the charter. If cannot grasp the operation of an automobile you will not be allowed to operate one LEGALLY. Same for other modes of transportation. Airline Tariffs essentially say thanks for buying a ticket, we may or may not get you there. There is case president for that too. Any Private carrier of any mode of transportation has the right to refuse carriage to anyone for cause. Too Drunk...Not Flying. Rights only extend to a point. when you have a right you also have a responsibility.

Well I retain the right under authorization of the MTO to DENY you a Drivers License because you fail to meet the criteria set out by the MTO. If it were a RIGHT I would not have that ability.