Customer complaints at Pearson airport go untracked Passengers from across the country with unresolved complaints used to be able to lodge them with the Air Travel Complaints Commissioner, a position created in 2000 to document problems. But that job is sitting vacant. The last complaint report covered incidents in 2004. … To make matters worse,continue reading
Rave, meet Bath
Courtesy of ParentHacks (which is a pretty fun site): Toss a couple of glow sticks in the tub, and turn off the lights. Voila, a multicolored glow-in-the-dark bath! What a blast. And glowsticks are only about $0.99 now so it’s cheap fun for little kids. But gee, you think the guy who thought that upcontinue reading
So you don’t have to
Reviewed in this inaugural segment of I read political bumpf so you don’t have to: 1. Strange Dianetics-like two-page brochure called Get to know Stephane Dion. Dion appears backlit, and immediately below him, Hubbard-like, is an inspiring quotation. (It’s something about Canada and human achievement — I’ll leave the rest up to your imagination.) Thecontinue reading
Word of the Day – Malaccamax
I recently read an article in the Economist about the pending Panama Canal expansion. Fascinating to those who find such things fascinating — I think the containerization revolution is one of the great mostly-unknown stories of modern time. A few interesting angles I hadn’t been aware of: – Some people suggest that a more efficientcontinue reading
Impractical wine advice
Lailey Vineyard is one of these newish premium small Ontario VQA wineries, that typically make small batches of wine that never make it into the LCBO, and fetch a premium price-wise as well. We’ve bought and uncorked a few bottles from them and have often been a bit ambivalent about the product–not always competitive atcontinue reading
I’m still a bad person …
… I look at a story like this and think $11.70? What a deal! Vancouver artist Mike Svob*’s latest acrylic painting, East Side Snowfall, can be purchased from a Whistler gallery for $1,970. Or you can spend five minutes on the Web and buy a knock-off for $11.70 (U.S.) from the appropriately named chinaoilpaintingwholesale.com, thecontinue reading
Name that intersection
This seems to be a regular feature on spacing.ca: guessing an intersection from an early 20th-C photo. The best ones are challenging, but have enough clues to solve the mystery. Older ones here and here. They have a better setup this time around, in which you can’t see other people’s responses until the comments expire.continue reading
Name & shame?
QUEEN’S PARK – Three individuals who had defaulted on their court-ordered child support payments have been found thanks to the McGuinty government’s new www.goodparentspay.com website, Minister of Community and Social Services Madeleine Meilleur announced today. “After one week of operation, goodparentspay.com has been a huge success with over 10 million hits,” said Meilleur. “Thanks tocontinue reading
Floor refinishing adventure
Yes, I know this is from a knitting blog, but it has nothing to do with knitting. The lady hired someone to refinish her bedroom floor and drama ensues.
Double-ouch
This is a big black eye for the CRA, even if it ends up being only short-lived, given the space given to promoting of online filing in all the materials they distribute, and the exquisite, post-RRSP-deadline timing: Online tax services suspended by CRA OTTAWA, March 6 /CNW Telbec/ – Commissioner of the Canada Revenue Agencycontinue reading