I think I’m missing something. Air Canada pissed you off by having an expensive flight to Timmins that WestJet didn’t have? Or Air Canada pissed you off because WestJet lost your luggage?
I am sorry I wasn’t more clear. Air Canada’s general distain for Canadians has pissed me off for the last time. The bereavement fair was way out of line. It was $14O0 for my partner to book a flight to Timmins in Januarypurching two weeks in advance. A bereavement fare of $1800 was not a discount. Their bereavement to Thunder bay were also over $1100 per person. Their “official policy” is bereavement fare is the same as their three week advanced fair prices" Except it wasn’t. Also they wanted death certificates, forms etc faxed in before the booking. We had just lost my father in law and while the individual CSR was very kind the process was awkward, stressful and the discount was still horribly expensive.
West Jet merely took my father in law’s name and the name of the hospital. They Googled his name first and found the death notification. Nonfaxed forms or effort on our end. They assisted us with a discounted car rental. On the plane our first checked bag each way was free. His fare was $620 return because he flew out on the Tuesday, and I flew back the next day for $579. Our two return fares were only $100 more than one Air Canada flight to the same destination. Our total with car rental was stil less than his Air Canada flight to Timmins. Something in our ticketing was flagged and at every opportunity we received kindness and consideration. When they lost JL’s bag they made good. They allowed him an extra checked bag for free on the return trip.
The contrast between the ways in which we were treated left no doubt as to which company will continue to get my business.
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Thanks. It felt like a sit-com, figuring out flights and car rentals and realizing that flying out of our way, doubling back, then driving 600 km was cheaper and more convenient than flying a mere 166 km from the destination.
However, the best part was I had supper with my favourite cousin and our 96 year old Grandmother, and the next morning breakfast with my best friend of all time.
My grandmother, for the record, still lives in the ground floor senior’s apartment that she moved into over 25 years ago. She doesn’t cook much anymore, mostly eats pre prepared dinners she microwaves, but she does make herself scrambled eggs or other simple dishes from time to time. She follows the news, and has opinions on the American political scene. She said “I don’t know if Donald Trump needs to grow up, or needs a good spanking. Maybe both.”
And stick a fork in Tom Mulcair. Only 48% of the NDP convention delegates voted for him in the post-election review. He had been saying he would need at least 70% to stay on. The article in the National Post described him as Ashen-faced after the vote. Sounds like he didn’t appreciate the depth of the discontent with his leadership.
Really? I’ve never been asked a question like that. This is literally the first I’ve heard anyone even say it’s a thing.
Air Canada is bad. Most other airlines are worse. Delta’s a goddamn nightmare. It’s a purely price-driven industry. Within five years they’ll charge extra for oxygen.
The whoosh of a very low flying jet.
Thunder Bay’s Simpson Street is the roughest street in a town that frequently vies for murder capital of Canada. But there are far more good people there than bad. For example, a Canadian Legion, which kindly advertises on it’s building-front:
**[INDENT]Shags.
Showers.[/INDENT]**
Now I ask you, where else in Canada can you go to a Legion for a shag and a shower?
Remember a few years ago when the stripper was suing over discrimination because her employer said she was too old to be pole dancing anymore?
So, I wonder what you’re going to get when you ask for the ‘shag’ service at a Legion A WW2 vet or, if you’re lucky, someone who last saw action in Korea?!
Is there an alternate meaning to shags here that I’m missing? Is it a typo?
And other NDP leader is out after losing an election:
Cam Broten resigns as leader of Saskatchewan NDP: ‘This was not an easy decision.’
When I first moved to TBay, I lived in a rough area of town (well actually, for the first few weeks I lived on a tent on Mt. McKay on the reserve, but then moved into the slums once I saved up enough). A teen-ager was murdered in my back lane the first week I was there, and an adult was eviscerated in the the house across my back lane the week I moved out a couple of years later, and an inquest is just wrapping up over why so many aboriginal youths from remote reserves come here to go to school but end up dead in the neighbourhood. People on the street between home and work kept trying to sell me tickets to shags, but I always politely declined, for I figured that buying tickets for sex was neither enjoyable nor safe, particularly given the neighbourhood.
It got really creepy when my boss’s wife (who sadly was #1 bat-shit crazy, and #2 had nothing but sex on what remained of her addled mind) kept trying to sell shag tickets to me, while trying to rub up against me and saying she wanted to dance with me. She also kept asking me if I had ever eaten a Persian, and telling me that she wanted to lick me afterwards.
It wasn’t until the next summer when I was approached to purchase shag tickets by an acquaintance who was a nice, normal person, gainfully employed as a teaching assistant, and volunteering in a couple of worthy causes, that I finally asked the big question: “What is a shag?”
She laughed, and kindly explained to me that in Thunder Bay, family and friends hold shags for couples who are going to marry. A hall is rented, a band or DJ is hired, food is catered (perogies, pasta, pizza, persians, etc.), and a cash bar and prize draws are arranged. The family and friends sell a few hundred admission tickets to further friends, co-workers and plain old strangers. Shags usually cover their own costs, plus a healthy profit of several thousand dollars, which is given to the couple who are getting married. She also told me that persians were flat donut like pastries slathered on top with berry flavoured pink frosting.
So yes, there is an alternate meaning to the term shag, and Persians are tasty.
So a shag is what I would call a Stag (or Buck) and Doe party?
Yes.
I wouldn’t call that a Stag. Out here, a Stag is put on by the groom’s friends a few days before the wedding. It’s not a fundraiser.
Muffin was pretty accurate about Shags but lets see uf I can fill in more details. It’s not a stag, it’s a SHAG. The name comes from a blurring of (bridal)“Shower” and “Stag”. It’s a.big dance that charges admission of 3-5 dollars or so. It’s basically a wedding fundraiser. Completely illegal actually, contravenes liquor and lottery licenses. But if no one complains the OPP or the LCBO officials don’t show up and shut it down. They could though.
“SHAG season” from late.winter to the end of June is pretty much considered the best time of year to meet a prospective partner.to date through wedding season.
Cite: when I last lived in Thunder Bay I worked with a lot of 20 somethings. Bought a lot of Shag tickets regardless if I went or not. Trust me, if you worked in such a reciprocity driven profession as nursing you bought a ticket. In nursing reprisals could literally be shitty.
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Thanks. I’ve never heard the term used that way, although it is exactly we would call a “stag and doe.” They happen here, but probably not with the same frequency. They’re definitely more common in the valley than they are in the city.
Legally, you cannot findraise for a person or couple. We were informed of this by the powers that be when my partner and I were in the fundraiser business. We were also told that every shag is illegal, but they never act until they get complaints. I know of people who have had huge Shags, used the funds to put a downplay mentioned on a house, then eloped and never had a big wedding. A Co worker was so angry at her sister form doing that (maid of honour blues) that she has boycotted all family functions if her sister would be there. She also tried to retroactively go after her sister for having the Shag, but it was two months later.
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Aka “a Social” if you’re from Winnipeg.
Taken literally, that’s preposterous. Of course you can raise funds for anyone or anything you want. There is no law against giving a couple gifts or asking someone who give them gifts.
Where people can run afoul of the law is if booze is being served, because then you can break the law around liquor licensing. Having said that, you absolutely CAN legally sell tickets to a booze-selling place providing you’re careful about how exactly you do it.
I found an article with some handy guidelines: