Learning to play Sid Meier's Civilization VIII while on God-Mode is hard.

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Is "The Onion" taken?

There is actually volunteer / charity organization of private pilots who fly patients to larger centers for care.

Pilots like to fly. If they can do it and help people, so much for the better.
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and
www.angelsofflightcanada.com

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‘Caught me ridin’ dirty’: Jose Bautista on a scooter Jays hero departed on a modest set of wheels after Game 5 win.

He was probably but a child when Joey Bats blew peoples minds. www.thestar.com/sports/blue-...

Also, it likely costs millions to produce a fighter pilot. I had a gf whose father flew fighters in the RAF, stationed in west germany. He flew with a cold once, and then he never flew jets, or anything else in the RAF, again. Barely lived to tell the tale.

Florence Nightengale, pioneering nurse, was also a bit of a maverick science communicator. Here she demonstrates with cock's comb chart that the major causes of mortality (blue) in the British Army in Crimea, in any given month, weren't combat related, but "Preventable and mitigable [sic] dieases".

And screw Florence Nightengale too. She was woke anyway.

*best care* = or ANY care.

To be fair, the concept of flying patients to where they can get the best care in the province, or flying practitioners to where their care is needed most in the province is not a concept Doug would quite understand.

Doug Ford's entitlement collapses the nose strut of a $28M private jet on take-off roll. Always calculate your weight and balance prior to flying, kids.

OOF!

Our faculty once asked us why our unit (human anatomy) costs so much. Answer, basically: "You throw students and dead people into our facility and out pop doctors, nurses, PT's, OT's, midwives, PA's and even artists. That's what it costs to make those people. Do you wish to continue making them?"

There's probably a few occasions that call for a private jet. Fine, hire one. Hiring is probably way cheaper than owning and operating one. As for getting around this "huge" province, there are better choices of aircraft that, while not as fast/fancy, can reliably get off a 4000' runway.

I don't think he is. I don't even think he loves politics or governing. I just think he's great greedy fat twat who loves wrecking good public things and selling the parts to his buddies in return for...presumably some kick-back. He's just a schemer (and probably a crook), useful to his buddies.

"Double standard", "unfairly scrutinized". blah blah blah. If he didn't do 2-3 shifty, shitty things to our democracy or province on average per week, he wouldn't be treated like he does 2-3 shifty, shitty things to our democracy or province per week.

He's buckshot full of FOI's for a reason.

Live by the tort, die by the tort.

This is the most expensive way in the world to stand in Ontario towns with your thumb up in front of a camera.

When this is over, we need to run this man and his family out of Ontario.

When all this is done, can we make absolutely sure Doug Ford is run out of the province? Preferably with as little money as possible.

I’m pretty sure, at upper levels of gov work, exec jet travel is probably warranted. There are exec jet services and they probably already use them. Fine. But I can’t see that spending $28M on a jet (+pilots, hangar, maintenance, fuel) is smarter than just paying for that service as needed. So daft.

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So they probably used a pay-as-you-go executive jet service up until this point, which is perfectly fine for this line of work. I'm not sure why that wasn't good enough and they had to go get their own --> when and why will this purchase pay for itself?

It's pretty typical of this guy. I don't know much about the inner workings of governments, but Ontario cabinet ministers and the Premier, probably all use a pay-as-go executive jet service when traveling on major provincial business. Why wasn't that good enough for them?

Probably not. It's barely, barely long enough for this type of aircraft to make a fully loaded take-off. It probably won't ever fly fully loaded, so...

Billy Bishop, though, would need to be doubled in length to safely accommodate this jet, and more than doubled for anything larger, which is silly.

Yeah nothing seems to stick. On him or with Ontarions. The ambivalence of Ontarions (outside of Bluesky) just seems to be...I dunno, so typically naval gazy "What can you do, eh?" Canadian.

Also, to accommodate this type of aircraft, the runway at Billy Bishop would need be be just about doubled in length. It would need a bare minimum, no margin, length of 6000' for fully loaded take off. Current length is 3988'.

I get the feeling that Marit Stiles is a decent, nice person, and I respect her that.

But for the love of dog, this guy can barely dribble the ball and he's practically lowered the net so everyone can dunk on him, and the opposition is all "No, sorry, I'm into novels". DUNK ON HIM! DUNK EVERY DAY!

There goes anonymity. Silver lining, if you could call it that, is that this bonehead will take it to his cottage, which is easily trackable. It will be way easier to truly establish the ratio of days at the cottage vs days in Queens Park.

At least it will be easier to track when he goes to his cottage.

That confusion, that's dementia. The weirdest, most random things are just not plugged in and connected.