World Firearm related deaths in 2019 relative to population: USA 12.21 4.46 Homicides 7.32 suicides Canada 2.05 0.61 Homicides 1.52 suicides Australia 1.04 0.18 Homicides 0.80 suicides It seems that you are right: gun laws do make a difference.

(Written on 02/25/2022)(Permalink)

The symptoms may be less severe than earlier variants but we are still seeing thousands of cases daily with hundreds dying every week in the Greater Toronto area despite having over 80% of the population fully vaccinated. Most deaths are among the unvaccinated.

(Written on 02/25/2022)(Permalink)

The vast majority of flights in North America take less than four hours, about the same time interval between our regular lunch and dinner times. Surely it would be no real hardship to skip eating and drinking for this time aboard. Wearing a mask throughout the flight combined with the excellent ventilation systems would protect passengers and crew and support the beleaguered flight industry.

(Written on 12/24/2021)(Permalink)

Although the Island airport has been there for 82 years, for much of that time it was used by relatively quiet small private and corporate planes. Most of the airlines using it in the 1960s to 1980s had limited success and didn't last long nor did they create much aircraft and passenger volumes. The rapid redevelopment of Toronto's with residential high-rise apartment buildings throughout the 1960s to the present day preceded the expansion of the airport and the successful Porter airline with more than one hundred flights daily. The excellent Dash 8-Q400 aircraft are relatively quiet in their landing approach but extremely noisy on take-offs with the sound reverberating along the waterfront curtain of buildings with hundreds of thousands of residents. Unfortunately, the whole history of the convenient Billy Bishop airport has been one of conflict and intrigue involving politicians, appointed bureaucrats, corporate interests and resident groups.

(Written on 07/19/2021)(Permalink)

I wonder how long the enhanced service provided at the Island airport will last at the expensive Pearson facility. Also, how does their business plan work with the need to hire more jet trained mechanics, air crew, maintenance services, customs, etc. in a high cost airport, as well as the huge competition from Air Canada, Westjet and other airlines.

(Written on 07/17/2021)(Permalink)

Surely this also applies to NZ which is heavily dependent on international trade by air and water.

(Written on 01/09/2021)(Permalink)

One has to feel sympathy for the workers in Washington as they watch incompetent leadership destroy their major industry but no sympathy for this heavily tax supported corporation which maliciously set out to destroy Canada's developing commercial airline industry. With the assistance of Donald Trump's illegal tariffs, they succeeded but still couldn't preserve their own flawed organization.

(Written on 10/23/2020)(Permalink)

The incident was created by one passenger who apparently refused to wear a mask yet the first video started with another woman sitting without a mask and eating prior to take-off. During the interaction, two male passengers interceded with neither wearing a mask. Clearly more information is needed to understand this siutation.

(Written on 10/23/2020)(Permalink)

In Canada he would not have the right to ride a bus without a mask. Hope he has a good bicycle or sturdy shoes for walking!

(Written on 07/31/2020)(Permalink)

Over the years. Bombardier employed tens of thousands of highly skilled and highly paid workers around the world including Montreal, Toronto, North Bay, Kingston, etc. These workers spent most of their earnings in Canada contributing to its wealthy economy and enriching the municipal, provincial and federal tax bases. Political and corporate mishandling has cost us many of these jobs but thousands are still employed by the new owners, building aircraft, trains, subways around the world. Our tax money was not wasted and has been repaid in many ways.

(Written on 06/12/2020)(Permalink)