Is this weird?

The Ayn Rand who received Social Security and Medicare benefits?

WestJet’s soon-to-be launched route between Vancouver and Austin, for example, has been delayed to October.

The carrier is also suspending routes between Calgary and New York, Calgary and Fort Lauderdale, Edmonton and Chicago, Kelowna and Seattle, and Winnipeg and Las Vegas, among others.

Not an actual ‘list’, but an indication of some of the routes.

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Changes" is a song by American rapper 2Pac. It was recorded in 1992 before being remixed and released as a single from Shakur’s Greatest Hits compilation on October 13, 1998

Changes" is a song by the English musician David Bowie from his 1971 album Hunky Dory. RCA Records then released it as a single from the album on 7 January 1972.

27 yrs vs 53 yrs…,

Ooh, yeah (oh)
C’mon, c’mon

I see no changes, wake up in the morning, and I ask myself
Is life worth living, should I blast myself?
I’m tired of bein’ poor, and even worse I’m black
My stomach hurts, so I’m lookin’ for a purse to snatch
Cops give a damn about a negro
Pull the trigger, kill a nigga, he’s a hero
Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares
One less hungry mouth on the welfare
First, ship 'em dope and let 'em deal the brothers
Give 'em guns, step back, watch ‘em kill each other
It’s time to fight back, that’s what Huey said
Two shots in the dark, now Huey’s dead
I got love for my brother, but we can never go nowhere
Unless we share with each other
We gotta start makin’ changes
Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers
And that’s how it’s supposed to be
How can the devil take a brother, if he’s close to me?
I’d love to go back to when we played as kids
But things changed, and that’s the way it is

Come on, come on
That’s just the way it is (changes)
Things will never be the same
That’s just the way it is (that’s the way it is)
Ooh, yeah
Come on, come on
That’s just the way it is
Things will never be the same (never be the same)
That’s just the way it is (way it is)
Aww, yeah

I see no changes, all I see is racist faces
Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
We under, I wonder what it takes to make this
One better place, let’s erase the wasted
Take the evil out the people, they’ll be acting right
‘Cause both black and white are smokin’ crack tonight
And the only time we chill is when we kill each other
It takes skill to be real, time to heal each other
And although it seems heaven sent
We ain’t ready, to see a black president, uh
It ain’t a secret, don’t conceal the fact
The penitentiary’s packed, and it’s filled with blacks
But some things will never change
Try to show another way but you stayin’ in the dope game
Now tell me, what’s a mother to do?
Bein’ real don’t appeal to the brother in you
You gotta operate the easy way
I made a G today, but you made it in a sleazy way
Sellin’ crack to the kid, I gotta get paid
Well, hey, well, that’s the way it is

Come on, come on
That’s just the way it is (changes)
Things will never be the same
That’s just the way it is (that’s the way it is)
Ooh, yeah
Come on, come on
That’s just the way it is
Things will never be the same (never be the same)
That’s just the way it is (way it is)
Aww, yeah

We gotta make a change
It’s time for us as a people to start makin’ some changes
Let’s change the way we eat
Let’s change the way we live
And let’s change the way we treat each other
You see, the old way wasn’t working
So it’s on us to do what we gotta do, to survive

And still I see no changes, can’t a brother get a little peace?
It’s war on the streets and war in the Middle East
Instead of war on poverty
They got a war on drugs so the police can bother me
And I ain’t never did a crime I ain’t have to do
But now, I’m back with the facts givin’ 'em back to you
Don’t let 'em jack you up, back you up
Crack you up and pimps smack you up
You gotta learn to hold your own
They get jealous when they see ya, with your mobile phone
But tell the cops, they can’t touch this
I don’t trust this, when they try to rush, I bust this
That’s the sound of my tool, you say it ain’t cool
But mama didn’t raise no fool
And as long as I stay black, I gotta stay strapped
And I never get to lay back
'Cause I always got to worry ‘bout the payback
Some buck that I roughed up way back
Comin’ back after all these years
Rat-a-tat, tat, tat, tat, that’s the way it is

That’s just the way it is
Things will never be the same
That’s just the way it is (way it is)
Aww, yeah
That’s just the way it is (the way it is, the way it is)
Things will never be the same (you’re my brother, you’re my sister)
That’s just the way it is
Aww, yeah
Some things will never change

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The mug shots totally complement the headline.

And then, are they embalmed through the rectum?

Curious minds indeed!

Rational doesn’t infer correctness.

…and once it’s ‘fixed’, it starts doing it again within weeks. Always the same one…

One upvote for rational thought process.

But he plays keys in rock-ish ensembles - he almost looks chill!
Not Carney finger-signing chill, though.

No, they weren’t.
Which is the big issue. As the GP alluded, Canadians get ‘tired’ of the same old Liberal gov’t in an 8-10 year span, and plug our noses and vote whatever iteration of ‘Tory’ is most tolerable: fiscal responsibility (supposedly) and all that. But then they defund rehab and social programs, and throw weed smokers in jail…
I voted for Clark way back bc he platformed tax relief/credit on home mortgage interest! Sadly, his gov’t spun out in mere months.

tmi, I digress…

They need to do better than PP.
Both Harper and Mulroney are Bronze Adonisis by comparison.

Quack?

Doubled-checked to make sure this wasn’t The Beaverton.
That tunnel will never happen.

To be fair, it’s an ‘ok’ article, as it brings the topic to light, however it appears the self-reported cannabis use would be dominated by smokers given the relative ‘newness’ of alternative consumption methods.

The results echo a 2022 study from the U.K., which found that among participants aged 40 to 69, those who reported smoking cannabis were more likely to have a heart attack compared with non-users.

–buried amongst the fluff in the article

Smoking.
Which was far more prevalent (99.9%?) pre-legalization.
Vaping and ingesting cannabis are far more common now.

Smells like Brut33 in the rain.

I’ve lost $50 more than once not knowing I lost $50.
So, you’re light years ahead.