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JetBlue employees in Florida pull 18-month-old from flight
The Daily News (Kamloops)
Fri May 11 2012
Page: B9
Section: News
Column: Warren Kinsella
Dateline: FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.
Source: Associated Press
Officials say an 18-month-old girl was mistakenly pulled off a JetBlue flight before it left Fort Lauderdale because airline employees thought her name was on the U.S. no-fly list.
The child’s parents told ABC television network affiliate WPBF they believe they were targeted because they are of Middle Eastern descent and the mother wears a hijab.
© 2012 The Daily News (Kamloops)
Great journalism
Ornge and Cons: latest update
Can’t wait to hear tomorrow from the anti-gay Ontario PC campaign manager with, er, a pharmaceutical interest!
Also coming up in coming days: this session by Messrs. Giorno and Martin, both at Fasken’s, both advisors to Ornge and both card-carrying Conservatives!
Wow! There sure were a lot of card-carrying Conservatives making big bucks at Ornge, weren’t there?
Oh, yes, there were. Stay tuned!
This was hard to read
VIS are always hard to read, but this one more than most.
In today’s Sun: Con war room, missing in action
Brad Lavigne looked stumped, for a moment or two.
Lavigne — the brilliant Jack Layton loyalist who helped pilot the New Democratic Party to its historic gains in the election of one year ago — seemed uncertain, however briefly, about what his answer should be.
In an exchange with Tim Powers — the much-liked Conservative Party pundit — Lavigne had been asked about when Stephen Harper’s war room intended to start attacking newly minted NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair.
Lavigne eyed Powers warily. The two political strategists were on a stage at the Ottawa Congress Centre for the annual gathering of Canadian realtors. Finally, Lavigne allowed that he did not know, exactly, when the ruthless Conservative attack machine would strike. “But it’s coming,” Lavigne said. “It’s coming.”
Indeed it is. But when? And, more significantly, why hasn’t it happened already?
The questions aren’t irrelevant.
This is weird
Sent by reader Scott, spotted in NYT on Sunday. He and I found this weird. You?
Third, and fading fast
The Alberta result should remind us all that is foolhardy to read too much into polls, and particularly one poll. But this depressing result is consistent with a batch of other recent surveys – that the contest is now between the Conservatives and the New Democrats, federally. And that the once-mighty Liberals don’t factor. At all.
What can we do? Well, a bunch of things. I spoke before the annual gathering of Canadian realtors in Ottawa, this morning, and suggested in response to a question that the Liberals’ problems aren’t just about leadership. The problems are myriad: membership, fundraising, policy, organization, readiness, you name it.
But – without even having seen this poll – I made one other point: Bob Rae has been the leader during the entire period when we languished in third place. Even against a lightweight like Nicole Turmel, Rae couldn’t make us competitive.
To me, Bob Rae is the wrong choice. He’s the wrong choice because of his tenure as NDP Premier of Ontario. And he’s the wrong choice because of his term as interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, too.