Daily Archives: Fri,December/15/2006

Lunacy Knows No Borders

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Just so you don’t think I’m only US bashing when it comes to the war on Christmas trees, my own Canadian province of Ontario is not immune from the asshats who read far too much into the symbology.

Justice Marion Cohen who oversees administration for the Ontario Court of Justice in downtown Toronto, ordered a small artificial Christmas tree, decked out in lights and ornaments, moved to an administrative corridor on Monday. In a letter to staff, she said it is a Christian symbol that might alienate people of other creeds and cultures.

What makes us a little different than the US is that our Premier, Dalton McGuinty immediately stepped up to say that Madame Justice Cohen was wrong.  “I think it represents a misunderstanding of what we are working so hard to build here in Ontario,” McGuinty said today, noting Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and other faiths’ celebrations are marked at Queen’s Park (our Provinical Legislature).

Hats off Mr. Premier, I don’t care for your politics but I respect you for taking a stand against this stupidity.  Well done Sir!

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Flight Log

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Not much in the way of posting yesterday.  Two reasons, my buddy Mike sems to be laying low and I took a quick trip to Montreal and back to visit our branch there.

Air Canada once again provided the go-go and, all in all, everything went very well.  Flew down on a 767-200 which was packed.  We met the departure time of 0800 and would have arrived a few minutes early except there wasn’t a gate available so we sat out in a holding area for a few minutes. Flight was comfortable and the bran cookie was tasty.

After a full day of meetings, got back to the airport at around 4 and killed some time up in the Air Canada Lounge.  I’m not enough of a Frequent Flyer to get access but you can buy a card that allows it – an expensive option which I use to its full advantage.  Came back on a Airbus A320 with the new entertainment system in the seatbacks.  For a 1 hour flight it’s hard to get a real impression of how good this system is but I wasn’t all that impressed.  Looked like lots of people were having trouble with the touch screen aspect and there was a little bit of a row because one passenger was repeatedly stabbing the screen on the back of a business class seat.  The mucky-muck wasn’t too pleased with all the bouncing and complained to the FA.

Got back to Toronto at 10 to 7 and I was in the local bar in under a half an hour.  Gotta love travelling with carryon baggage only.

That’s it for 2006 travel!