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  • This just happened to me a week ago. WestJet missed their own connecting flight and they found seats on an American Airlines flight to my destination via an extra overnight stay in the USA, gave me a few meal vouchers (useless at the airport 7-11) and paid for the hotel. They didn't tell me I'd have to:

    • pay for my luggage again
    • pay roaming fees to call only to find out they gave my hotel shuttle to someone else
    • pay for a taxi ride to my resort because their shuttle service marked me as a no-show on the day I would have arrived had they not screwed up.

    The US customs agent was bewildered when told I didn't want to visit the united states but had little choice.

  • I mean, yes, it technically fits the definition of manifesto, but the word that comes to mind a "blurb".

    I wonder if Ted Kaczynski or anyone else's manifestos along anti-corporate-establishment lines are being censored. If not, maybe it's because they're a little less digestible. If so, then maybe some articles by Elizabeth Rosenthal could be posted.

  • CSIS is generating clickbait now?

    Remember the last time someone had "some information" about "possible foreign interference" and it was "someone else paid for their meal and they didn't document it in the ethics ledger."

    I'm not saying that either is fine (accepting gifts/meals, nor forgetting to do some routine documentation) but stop issuing press releases informing the public that you're about to issue a press release.

  • Just as an example of how ass-backwards and nickle-and-diming Canada's universal healthcare is, I had abdominal surgery several years ago. Sure, the surgery was covered, but the travel and parking weren't, and neither were the pain meds and cane for my recovery.

  • Is this because they get limited compensation from the union for a short time during strikes and lockouts, and by being laid off at this time, this employment insurance may kick in around the same time as their union strike benefits dwindle?

    I know so little about these things. I'm just going by what my wife has mentioned in passing, and she was a local president (not as glorious a position as it sounds -- more like whomever got the short straw every two years).

  • That's exactly it, and I'm surprised more people don't see it that way. For such fiction, there will almost always be a bigger nerd that eclipses your own knowledge on any particular aspect of canon, and yet someone pays half-attention to a child's curriculum or reads a Dawkins or Hitchens book and it's treated as an insult to their intelligence to politely inform them of something they may have missed.

    At least fanfic arguments tend to lean more civil, and are generally seen as an expression of zeal between peers who all enjoy the same thing, albeit with differing opinions on the details.

  • It's best to avoid all ribbon campaigns altogether to avoid being misinterpreted, including poppies.

    When someone asks me why I'm not wearing {x}, I tell them I am making a stand against peer pressure.