Commentary
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Excellence
Our more than 1,000 First Air employees remain dedicated to excellence in customer service and our belief in continuous improvement. Scott Bateman: President and C.E.O. First Air Eleven days ago we had a food mail order from Northern Fancy Meats in Yellowknife delivered to First Air Cargo there. As we've yet to receive the order,
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Gallow’s Pole
I meant to post this earlier, a congratulations to New Mexico for becoming the fifteenth State to abolish the death penalty. It didn’t come from a realization that the Death Penalty is fundamentally wrong, but from the, almost as important, realization that justice systems, despite their best efforts otherwise, are unable to guarantee that no
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Perhaps its time to move to the private sector.
This just saddens me.
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If Lattes were Air Fares: A short film
INT STARBUCKS DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER EVENING Two people stand in line at a well lit, clean Starbucks. Micheline, a third year University student and aspiring actor is behind the counter. JACK, the first customer, dressed in a ski jacket taps his foot impatiently as Micheline approaches him from across the counter. JACK I've got a bus
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For what it is worth
I decided this morning that I would try to extend my coverage of my commentary on air travel (and who knows maybe pick up a reader or two) and fired off this email to my MP, my MLA, the Prime Minister, several cabinet ministers, Senator Adams, and the leaders of the Liberal and NDP parties.
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Taking care of business
I guess it has been a good week for ranting against the high cost of air travel here. This little news item caught my attention today. Now I'm not sure if it is because I'm getting older but I sure am getting a lot more cynical about things these days. In a nutshell, one of
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So what does that cost exactly?
After my last post on air transportation costs (and to be clear I think the high cost of air travel up here is a social justice issue, and it is high time the different levels of government, and others start thinking of it as such) I got to thinking about how best to put travel
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Fly away home
If I were to book a flight from here to Ottawa in about two weeks time, staying south for a month, airfare would cost me between $3642.00 and $5298.00 plus additional taxes and fees. In practical terms this means that for the four of us to go visit my family in Manitoba it would cost
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Just desserts
Dennis Cheeseman and Shawn Hennessey were sentenced yesterday for their role in the senseless murders of Anthony Gordon, Leo Johnston, Brock Myrol, and Peter Schiemann some four years ago. I was surprised, and gratified, to see that the last couple of articles on CBC's website did not have a comment section. In general comments on
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Perhaps a larger box next time.
I got Leah a new camera for Christmas, a Sony, and after it arrived I ordered an extra battery for it from Sony Style. It arrived today. I don't know, I'm thinking padded envelope would have worked.