Pretty sure the flip isn't unprecedented, although coming out of it with a mostly intact fuselage, no deaths, and no plane-gutting fire might be. I'd guess that the plane had already shed a fair amount of speed as part of the landing process.
Well, they don't seem to be actively contradicting each other.
“Mark Carney is not telling the whole story" I'm sure there are details that Carney didn't bring up, but are they the kind that would actually matter to anyone more than a decade later? It's possible that they are, but it seems more likely that he left them out because they were irrelevant to anything except Harper's ego.
"[Former] prime minister Harper certainly does not support Mr. Carney in any way.” Well, no, not now he wouldn't. Doesn't mean he never did, and Carney was talking about Harper's attitude of a dozen years ago, not that of the present.
My interpretation: Harper asked him as a joke/with no intention of following through, and Carney took advantage of that to do a bit of virtue signalling at the Conservatives' expense, without actually lying.
I actually saw the interview, because someone else in the house was watching it while I was in the kitchen. The bit about Harper was pretty much a throwaway, and not what people should be focusing on. Move along, nothing to see here.
"Canada is smiling evilly and brandishing a bassoon and a hot glue gun while dressed in a gopher mascot costume. Better back away slowly, or there's no telling what it will do."
True enough. I joined a British instance for reasons that seemed good enough to me at the time I signed up. I kind of pity any Canadian who decided to sign up with an American instance somewhere back in the depths of time, though—I don't think Trump will manage to put a tariff on electrons, but I wouldn't put it past him to try, and the last I checked, migration of accounts between servers in the Fediverse was still kind of half-baked.
Very few of the people who actually served in the war on either side are still alive (if we assume they had to be at least 15-ish in 1945, none of them would be less than 95-ish today). I suppose it might lead to a few problematic situations involving nursing homes, but most likely anyone trying to track these people down (a process likely to take years even with the list of names) will just find a series of gravestones.
Criminal prosecution of any who are still alive and committed crimes not subject to the statute of limitations (and not previously prosecuted) should be possible, but seems like a waste of time (especially given that our criminal justice system is sufficiently backlogged that the defendants would likely die of old age waiting for a trial date). I doubt the Crown would bother. Civil proceedings (for loss of specific objects, general pain and suffering, etc) could be brought, I guess, but I can't see it resulting in more than maybe the return of one or two heirlooms.
Their kids, who are not responsible (legally or otherwise) for their parents' actions, should mostly vanish into the large mass of Boomer-aged Canadians who have German-derived surnames. Many of them may not even know about their parents' involvement in the war. Since most of them won't have their records and personal histories splattered all over the Internet, tracing them is likely to require a lot of painstaking scrutiny of old paper documents, in return for not very much. Those hot-tempered enough to bother with extralegal persecution are more likely to concentrate their efforts on the Palestinians right now.
Like it or not, the time for any effective revenge in matters relating to that war is decades past, and the list is largely symbolic now. Should the current legal proceedings drag on for a few more years, it will become entirely so. I won't say there's no risk of some innocent descendant being doxxed, because people do really stupid stuff sometimes, but it seems like a low risk.
Yeah. And that means there wouldn't have been much opportunity to comparison shop or look for sales—they'd have been buying the first acceptable option they found, at full price.
About a thousand each. If they'd made reservations for an expensive evening out, and had to replace their outfits for that down to the dress shoes, plus another change of clothes or two, plus the minor stuff, the number maybe isn't all that crazy.
It's an obsolete usage of "beg" that's now preserved only in that particular set phrase. One of English's many linguistic fossils, which you should learn more about before trying to critique anyone's language use.
I would guess your first language isn't English. "Middle age" is not a statistical term, but a traditional one that arises from dividing adults into three roughly equal-sized age groups:
20-39 years: young
40-59 years: middle age
60+ years: old
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The lower bound will never drop below the traditional 40 years, although there has been some argument from time to time about raising it to match increases in life expectancy.
It's useful because it's ubiquitous. Everything that can take in music files supports it.
Is MP3-encoded audio of the best possible quality? No, of course not. But for most people it's Good Enough, especially if you do most of your listening in a noisy environment. MP3s are to lossless formats what CD was to vinyl for so many years.
According to whom? Fifty years ago, 40 was considered the lower bound for middle age, and if anything, the number should have gone up since then, not down.
It almost doesn't matter what the final verdict turns out to be here, because the result of the investigation isn't really the issue.
Because of the institutional history of racism, the RCMP's decision on whether or not to investigate the death (or disappearance) of an Indigenous person isn't considered trustworthy anymore. Their only option if they want to regain some credibility is to investigate even if they don't think it's necessary—investigate every case that's even remotely questionable for the next several decades. They did this to themselves.
This also holds for many other police forces throughout the country. They ignored or dismissed (or even caused) these incidents for many years, and now the chickens are—slowly, but inevitably—coming home to roost.
Pretty sure the flip isn't unprecedented, although coming out of it with a mostly intact fuselage, no deaths, and no plane-gutting fire might be. I'd guess that the plane had already shed a fair amount of speed as part of the landing process.