Aristides

Trump didn't win the popular vote in either of his wins. If you can't win the popular vote, your only alternative is gerrymandering and winning the electoral college and Congress.

It's only excessive if you break the law. 25k is peanuts compared to fighting a forest fire. BC spent $1 billion fighting wildfires in 2023 and almost a $1.1 billion in 2024.

The IRB has ordered them back to work. If they refuse, the union can be subject to huge fines. They are probably due for a big raise. Workers gave up a lot of concessions when airlines were on the brink during things like the economic melt down and covid. As far as getting paid from the time they show up goes, that will be problematic. Being paid only when the aircraft is in motion is pretty much industry standard for FA's and pilots in North America and anything else would put the company at a disadvantage to their competitors. Apparently the company offered half pay for some of the time but we don't know what "some" means or what the union is demanding.

You sure love to make shit up. It must suck to be that paranoid and ignorant of real history. Just stay out of the bush. Fines are meant to be deterrents, not penalties.

I've probably read more history than you ever dreamed of. I'm old enough to have known camp survivors and gone to school with their kids and that's why I think you are an insult to their memory. Yes there was some overreach during Covid but comparing it to what the Nazis did is just a pathetic insult by someone who is really ignorant of history. For starters I read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich when I was 17, all 1250 pages of it and all six volumes of Churchill's The Second World War. Have you?

Saying bloodymary three times isn't going to burn down a forest. Most human caused fires are due to stupidity or accident, not arson.

Don't be an ass, nothing like that happened or could have happened. You people cheapen what happened to Jews and other groups with your ridiculous persecution complex. What a bunch of goddamn children.

Does it? If you don't intend to break the law, what difference does the fine make? If you do, be prepared to pay whatever it is.

Atrocity! FFS, what a snowflake. You bore no responsibility for protecting society and those that did had to do so with limited knowledge of something unknown. I accept the fact they could have got some things wrong to begin with and had to adapt. That's what responsible people do but zealots can't. I didn't like restrictions anymore than you did but the enemy was a virus, not people. Your comparing them to the real atrocities committed by the Nazis just shows what an ignorant SOB you are. You are an insult to the victims of Nazi atrocities, and wouldn't know a real atrocity if it kicked you in the nuts.

Being alive, the same as you.

I don't ignore anything, I'm just not obsessed with them. Far worse things have happened in our history.

Everything reminds you of Covid.

Do you think police, military, firefighters, paramedics, doctors, nurses etc should be allowed to strike?

Look. I have no problem with people being critical of some of the things the government did during Covid, they probably deserve some of it. But worse than Nazis? If you actually believe that, you are an id!ot. Either that or incredibly ignorant.

Well, if the airline was to shut down completely it would take them a week to get going again. That would affect over half a million passengers, many of them stuck overseas. I understand the union's frustration but basically they work for an essential service. If they are going to force arbitration it is a lot better to do it soon rather than later. It's a crap shoot for both the union and the company, you don't know what an arbitrator is going to impose.

Ryanair could start an airline in Canada if it met Canadian ownership rules. Virgin did in Australia which has the same rules. There are reasons most low cost carriers don't make it in Canada. https://financialpost.com/transportation/airlines/why-so-many-discount-airlines-fold-canada

Id1ot.

Anyone who hates liberals more than Nazis is one f*cked up excuse for a human being.

It favours those in power at the time. It's a shit system that no self respecting democracy would touch with a barge pole.

Both sides gerrymander. Just one more thing that makes the US electoral system a joke.