Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Yet another Air Canada story, with a special twist
For a long time after the government of Canuckistan privatised the former TCA (Trans-Canada Airlines, aka Tin Can Airlines) and renamed in Air Canada, it enjoyed a pretty good reputation for on-timne performance, customer service, safety etc. Within living memory it was voted the best North American airline. But not lately.
AC has been struggling since it got "woke", because the push for DEI (Diversity, Equity and Includsion) has forced the airline to hire staff based on how many boxes they check on the woke list, instead of merit. And there's a whole slew of employees now whose job is to ensure compliance with the wokeness mandate.
One of those employees is Stephanie Cadieux (woman, French-Canadian, disabled), whose lofty position is that of Chief Accessibility Officer -- the first of her kind in Canada. Recently, Mlle/Mme/Ms Cadieux (Walt isn't sure which honorifc applies) complained on X-formerly-known-as-Twitter that the airline had forgotten her wheelchair. Here's the photo she posted of Herself waiting in front of an AC service desk in a replacement wheelchair.
Ms Cadieux left YYZ (Toronto) on Friday, October 20th, and arrived at the Vancouver airport (YVR) without her wheelchair. In her post, she wrote "I'm now without my essential equipment. Independence taken away. I’m furious. Unacceptable." ["Unacceptable" is the liberals' go-to expletive for anything they don't like. Ed.]
Unlike most helpless Canadian travellers, Ms Cadieus is in a position (maybe) to do something about the "unacceptable" service. After all, she's entitled, having been appointed Chief Accessibility Officer in May 2022. Before that, she was a member of B.C.’s legislature from 2009 to 2022 and has held several ministerial positions.
In response to her post on X, Air Canada said that what happened is “certainly not the level of service we strive to provide” and said they would certainly do something about it, if she would just provide more information to the customer service department by filling in this form yada yada yada. Rotsa ruck, Stephanie.
Saturday, October 21, 2023
10 ways to improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at your workplace
The following article was published on October 17th in the Babylon Bee. It was sponsored by the Goldwater Institute, a non-profit organization empowering all Americans to live freer, happier lives. Walt endorses the Institute and its work.
Every company wants to grow, thrive, and be successful, but only truly GREAT companies want to do it by focusing obsessively on the skin color and sexuality of their workers. Improving your company's DEI score is the most important thing you can possibly do for your company.
The Babylon Bee has compiled the following list of ways to turn your workplace into a wokeplace.
1. Take off your shoe and smack a white person in the head with it: Bonus points are available if the striker shouts "White! White! White!" while doing so.
2. Hold a mandatory indigenous spirit dance in the boardroom every Tuesday: Any team member who refuses to participate or don the required loincloth will be fired.
3. Amend the employee handbook to require everyone to be gay: A perfect workplace is a workplace overflowing with gayness.
4. Go to Starbucks, point at the first woman of color with a septum piercing you see, and say "You're hired!": If it works for making appointments to the Supreme Court, it can work for you.
5. Keep having 3-hour diversity seminars until all the white guys quit: Removing an entire race of employees is the first step toward inclusion.
6. Offer a bonus for anyone who gets an abortion: We're not sure why this improves your DEI score, but the WEF confirmed it does.
7. Provide free gender surgeons in the restrooms: On-site gender surgery means less time off needed by employees.
8. Invite Hamas to give a talk about killing Jews: It's important to get the perspective of the brave resistance fighters who are fighting their colonizers by murdering babies.
9. Allow minority workers to loot the desks of their white coworkers whenever they want: If any white employee's desk goes un-looted, simply take reparations out of their paycheck.
10. Offer unlimited curry in the cafeteria (this will get you Indians): A guaranteed way to score some of the most sought-after employees.
Follow the steps above and your workplace will be well on its way to a stellar DEI score! Good luck!
NOT SATIRE: The Goldwater Institute recently won a massive victory in Texas over radical DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) bureaucracies.
The Texas bill completely shuts down the entire "diversity, equity, and inclusion" apparatus used by the radical Left to instigate race- or gender-based radicalism on college campuses.
The Goldwater Institute is looking to raise $10,000 help fund our efforts. Click here to donate today to help the Institute achieve more victories like this.
Thursday, October 19, 2023
VIDEO: Is wind power really the way to a clean, green future?
The "progressives", including the recently arrested Saint Greta Thunberg, keep telling us that to rid the world of all the pollution caused by oil and gas, and save the world from burning up, we must convert to "green power", aka renewable resources, NOW.
Solar power and wind power are just what we need (they keep saying) because they're clean, efficient, non-polluting, and above all safe. Is eco-wienie putting up a forest of wind turbines in your back 40? What could possibly go wrong? Check out this video taken recently in Adair County, Iowa.
The video, from Des Moines TV station KCCI, shows smoke billowing from the wind turbine, and a giant blade crashing to the ground in flames. Emergency crews could only watch as they didn't have ladders tall enough to reach the top of the turbine.
Authorities said they were investigating the cause of the fire. I'm waiting for Hellery Clinton to blame those deplorable MAGA terrorists.
Footnote: That black stuff dripping down the pole looks to me like molten plastic. Plastic?! Are the blades and other fittings made of PLASTIC?! Don't the greenies know that plastic is made of, errr, oil?
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Poor Len Canayen's Habs report: Déjà vu all over again
We welcome back our National Sports Editor, Poor Len Canayen, for his first look at the 2023-24 edition of Canada's Team, aka the Montréal Canadiens. Actually we had to twist Len's arm more than a bit. It took a case of Crown Royal to get him to promise to endure what looks like being a repeat of last year. Over to you, Len.
Tank youse, Hed, for giving away my punch line. What do you want me to say now? Let's start with this. One of the reasons the Habs got into the draft lottery this spring (read: finished near the bottom of the standings) was injuries.
There were times last season when half the regulars were in sick bay. Paul Byron and Carey Price didn't play at all. Others -- e.g. Brendan Gallagher and Kirby Dach -- missed so many games that we kind of forgot they were on the team.
Byron hung up the skates, and got a long standing ovation when we was introduced during the first home game last Saturday. The others are still on the roster. Price is (justifiably) on the LTIR, which brings us down to two. Gallagher is getting old and even slower than before, but he still leaves it all on the ice and is truly the heart and soul of la Sainte Flannelle.
Which leaves us with Kirby Dach, who impressed during the Habs' first game vs Toronto, and then for a couple of shifts in the first period of Saturday night's game vs Chicago. Then this happened.
Dach was checked into the Blackhawks' bench by defenceman Jarred Tinordi. After being pushed back onto the ice, he was able to skate just as far as his own bench. He then headed to the locker room and never came back. Merde!
In the 3 1/2 periods Dach played this year, he had two assists, slotting in as the Habs' second-line centre behind Nick Suzuki. Last season -- his first with les Glorieux -- he recorded 14 goals and 24 assists in 58 games, missing the last 24 games due to a lower-body injury followed by an upper-body injury. Before yesterday's game vs Minnesota, the Habs announced Dach had sustained injuries that will require season-ending surgery.Shame....
Now let's talk about last night. Montréal always seems to have trouble with "the Wild". (What kind of a name is that for a sports team? It should be something plural -- animals or birds or even fish.) Last night was no exception. The first two goals of the game were scored by Minnesota... short-handed... on the same penalty! That's all ye know and all ye need to know, except that....
Kaiden Guhle was forced to exit late in the first period due to an upper-body injury. So far the team hasn't given any timeline for his return, leaving us fans with serious concerns about the impact his absence will have on the Canadiens' defensive lineup.
Looks like Justin Barron is the likely candidate to step into the lineup if Guhle is unavailable for the upcoming game vs Washington. Barron played for the big team in a couple of games last season, faut de mieux. I watched him during this year's exhibition games and have to say that, if he's called up, coach Martin St. Louis had better keep him off the ice during power plays and penalty kills.
In summary... The Canadiens are 1-1-1 in the first three games of the 2023-24 season. That's .500 hockey, about the same as last year. And they've already lost two "regulars", with not a whole lot of talent waiting in Laval for their big chance.
Pray to St-Jean-Béliveau that nothing happens to Nick Suzuki or Cole Caufield. One more serious injury will open wide the door to the cellar.
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