Sunday, March 29, 2015

This was a little more than "abrupt"

Air Canada says “hard landing” — passengers say “crash landing”



A minor quibble in the larger scheme of things, but I found it offensive that Air Canada would try to "spin" the Halifax crash as merely a "hard landing".
The plane came in too low and slow, touched ground behind the runway, hit a landing guidance tower that sheered off the landing gear and the nose, bounced onto the runway, then skidded through the snow losing engines and breaking the wing. If it hadn't been for the snow, the plan might well have caught on fire.
And the RCMP apparently heard about it when one of the passengers called 911.


Saturday, March 14, 2015

The country protests C51

Thousands of Canadians marched against C51 today, including here in Saskatoon

Hundreds of people marched through downtown Saskatoon to protest the federal government's proposed anti-terrorism legislation Bill C-51. Lasia Kretzel/News Talk Radio



And across the country:
Thousands say no to anti-terrorism legislation
Vancouver


St. Johns


Toronto

Bill C-51 rally - Calgary
Calgary

Protestors gathered by the Nelson Court House to show their opposition of the proposed legislation Bill C-51, also known as the Anti-terrorism Act, 2015.  - Tamara Hynd
Nelson, B.C.

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Montreal

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Toronto

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Victoria

bill c51
Ottawa


Sunday, March 08, 2015

Guess what day it is today?


I always thought it was very clever of my mother to have me and my twin sister on International Women's Day, too.

Sunday, March 01, 2015

Leonard Nimoy

I don't know where this is, but isn't it great?
It was posted on the #LeonardNimoy thread at Twitter, where William Shatner is doing a tribute.