Bellingham-Plattsburgh rt via Vegas (Allegiant):$314 ($434 with bag) + 2 hotel nights Vancouver, Twice a Day On the dates I checked in February, Allegiant flies 2 flights a day to Vegas from Bellingham (Vancouver)! Montreal, Twice a Week Allegiant’s new Plattsburgh (Montreal) service to Vegas, in February, is only 2 times a
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Altavistagoogle: Free News
Shortcut: http://j.mp/news2013 We don’t pay for maps or encyclopedias any more, why should we pay for news or, worse, opinions? Pay for news if you want, but I prefer to spend my money on food, rent and the occasional beer. Here is my list of free news (keep in mind you
Continue readingAltavistagoogle: Ski Lake Louise Now In Google Streetview
If this view isn’t enough to get you to contact your travel agent, it should at least motivate you to connect your computer to your high definition television set. It’s a bit colder in real life and it is sometimes windy. But it is always that sunny. 🙂 When you
Continue readingAltavistagoogle: $29.3 Million F1 Fraud, Texas Style
“State Comptroller Susan Combs has approved payment of $29.3 million from the state Major Events Trust Fund to organizers of November’s Formula One race” […] “Under trust fund rules, the amount granted to the event organizers should be equal to the amount of additional tax revenues generated by the major
Continue readingAltavistagoogle: iPhone Maker Using Slave Labour
16 year old teens working for free, including nights. Ironically, that is the case of many teens in Ontario, where a volonteer internship is mandatory. But from a French perspective, the Chinese situation is unacceptable. The frech version of this report was shown on French TV news. French version (same, but easier to understand
Continue readingAltavistagoogle: Alberta and Atlantic Canada Should become One
As you know, many people born in Atlantic Canadians now live in Alberta. A recent unfortunate example of this is an elderly lady who's entire family is in Alberta. She moves to Alberta to be close to them. She gets a stroke. Alberta then tells her to move back to
Continue readingAltavistagoogle: False Confessions on 60 Minutes
I had to pause the latest 60 Minutes report on False Confessions because it was getting me angry. People become bureaucratically stupid. Remember that unilingual blind man’s dog that was barred from an English immersion class at UNB? I listened to one of the staff people involved, months after the events, still
Continue readingAltavistagoogle: The Amazing Race Visits Canada, via Australia, Cuba
The American Amazing Race has been to Montreal and other Canadian destinations, but I took significant pride in my country watching the Aussies navigate Vancouver. Highlights include: -Australians signing the lumberjack song (Monthy Python), the actual lumberjacks were not amused. -Australian signing a Brian Adams song on her way up Gross Mountain.
Continue readingAltavistagoogle: The 9 Countries that Voted Against Palestine
According to Wikipedia (the UN site is down as I write this), these are the 9 countries that voted against Palestine. 40 countries, like, for example, Australia, didn’t care enough to form an opinion.
CanadaCzech RepublicIsraelMarsh…
Altavistagoogle: When Governments Lie: The City of Austin and the State of Texas Exaggerate F1 Impact
The lie: Formula 1 will attract 300,000 people to Austin.The reality:120,000 people spending over a hundred dollars for a sporting event is impressive. The fact that many of those 120,000 will be attending the event over 3 days, requiring a hotel stay,…
Continue readingAltavistagoogle: Sebastian Vettel
The time zone friendly Austin Grand Prix is tomorrow and Sebastian Vettel is going to have pole position.
For your F1 enjoyment, here is a bit of humanizing.
Sebastian Vettel at Top gear – Behind the scenes par gr8manav
Continue readingAltavistagoogle: Texas: Racing Mecca
Texas has 25 million people. In 2013, there will be 4 major car races in Texas. One Formula 1 (Austin), two Indy (Houston and Fort Worth) and one Nascar (Fort Worth). Well, officially, there will be two Indy races in Houston on the same weekend, but …
Continue readingAltavistagoogle: Sarah Ellen Robertson Raises Eyebrows
This just storry just blow my mind. Skip the Cadburry commercial if you have seen it a million times.
There is some obvious stop motion going on there.
This half Aussie half philapeno girl one-ups them.
Two years later……
Continue readingAltavistagoogle: Boycott Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Paraguay
If yellow fever and rampant crime aren’t enough to stop you from visiting the south of the equator part of South America, try entry fees.
An entry fee! At least requiring a visa fee has some semblance of being rational (you know, to cover the paperw…
Continue readingAltavistagoogle: Well That Was Stupid
Remember in that episode of the West Wing when Belarus comes to the White House for inspiration on a new constitution? The staff were adamant that the American system is not one to be emulated.
I concur.
Granted, I’m Canadian and u…
Continue readingAltavistagoogle: LOL
How is it possible that this video has only generated 2.6 million views in the entire world?
Anyway, it is very funny and 99% of people like it (I did the math).
Enjoy.
This one is also good. 700 million views. 95% of people liked it.
Continue readingAltavistagoogle: Gangnam Style
600 million views may seem like allot, but it really is just 100 million people watching it 6 times on their iPad, Gangnam style. By the way, I found out about the Korean music star PSY from this week’s Newsweek. Newsweek! I feel old. Unlike my trip across the US last century when
Continue readingAltavistagoogle: Toronto is a Popular Destination
There is some pretty impressive data here on passenger numbers (hat tip The Economist). You can compare 2003 and 2011 numbers between specific US and international cities. The data isn't perfect. For example, you can't tell if it is Americans or foreigners on those planes. Still, there are some important observations that
Continue readingAltavistagoogle: Ezra Levant and Sun Media Commit a Hate Crime
The Nazis compared Jews to Rats. Ezra Levant says being a Gypsy is like being a member of the Hells Angels. Unlike the Nazis, however, Levant hasn’t murdered a million of them, yet. Hat tip Paul Wells. By the way, I do think Eastern European members of the Roma community that want
Continue readingAltavistagoogle: Canada Should Ban Immigrant Smokers
Canada has socialized healthcare. Canada also has a very restrictive immigration system. Problem Canada allows foreigners, addicted to nicotine, to immigrate to Canada and kill Canadian citizens by allowing them to smoke in Canada. Even when they smoke alone in their igloos, immigrants who smoke are costly to other Canadians. Non-smoking immigrants
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