Rookie, I wasn’t characterizing all or most people of faith as perverts, or implying religious people are more likely to be so. Rather, I was simply making the point that many sex offenders use religion for cover. Talking about your faith tends to work better at building trust than does talking abou...

If had a dollar for every pervert I worked with who had a bible tucked under his arm, I could have retired years earlier. If your god is the only thing keeping you from harming others, you need mental health care.

Haven’t read through the entire thread, so not sure if any has already covered this off. There’s little to no risk of a pedophile pilot molesting some kid during a 20 minute flight. However, a pilot who is a pedophile will very likely seize the opportunity to meet kids, start building relationships,...

Whether your savings are forced through membership in a DB pension plan, or imposed through self-discipline is irrelevant notwithstanding the former makes the task easier. The point is simply that anyone can maintain their income in retirement by diligently saving and investing throughout their work...

I'm collecting a DB pension from a provincial government. The plan is well managed and fully funded with employees contributions fixed, and the government's share adjusted up or down from a defined benchmark % as determined necessary by the actuaries. In my 30+ years, I never saw the government's co...

If it's just you flying yourself, you'll only need to worry about CRA. The people I know who used their airplanes for business travel all got audited by CRA. The ones that had no problems with the audit had well documented reasons justifying why using their airplane made the most sense, and they wer...

They use different aircraft because they have to. The RCAF only has 6 Buffs remaining out of an original fleet of about 28. Most were retired and sold off due to budget cuts.

I've worked both union and non-union jobs, and managed unionized workplaces. Unionization and the benefits of collective bargaining is what created the middle class and the bulk of health and safety regulation in North America, and its no accident that as unionization rates are decreasing, the middl...

If you commit fraud against your employer, you have likely caused irreparable harm to the employment relationship and you will be legally toast. If the fraud was in some other aspect of your life but committed while employed by your current employer, it will depend on the context. Can the employer a...

It came off an amusement park ride.

Clearly this women is involved in organized crime. Nobody else has a secrect compartment filled with drugs and a gun installed in their car and keeps the car registered in a parent's name. Those are also not things that low level dial-a-dope dealers do. It is entirely consistent with a mid-level or ...

Register a company or society that owns the aircraft, and then sell shares to an odd number of partners so that there will never be a tie vote when making decisions. Set out in writing all the details of how the company/society will function and attribute costs to the partners. For example, what con...

Nobody needed to give TSB the phone records. They would either recover the information directly from the device itself or obtain a production order for the service provider to supply the records.

The pattern looks like he might have been typing out a response to the last test message recieved. Combine that with being tired at the end of long day and black hole affect... I feel sorry for the people he was talking and texting with. They will almost certainly feel a sense of guilt or resonsibil...

In labour law there is a difference between alcohol abuse (drink too much or too often without being addicted) and alcohol dependency (an alcoholic). Alcoholism is considered a disability and an employer generally cannot terminate on the first occasion of being intoxicated on the job. However, the d...

If you log time as PIC, your name must be in the journey log as the PIC. If your friend's insurance policy does not cover you, his policy will be void for that flight, and possibly every subsequent flight. Your name in the log book as PIC is documented proof of the owner breaching the terms and cond...

Sounds like the crew need a lesson on how to apply restraints. Zap strap their hands behind their backs, sit them in their seats and tighten down the lap belts. They won't be going anywhere. Cuffing their hands in front accomplishes very little, which is what they must have done if they were able to...

One thing you can be sure of, nothing either side is saying to the media is the truth; To do so would be complete idiocy from a security/intel perspective. Hell, maybe the thing was deliberatley allowed to be intercepted and captured after being laced with some bio agent that will disease and kill t...

I got a chuckle reading last weekend's Vancouver Province. The mayor of Dawson Creek was in Vancouver, stopped by the "occupy" site and tried handing out some business cards for people to call if they wanted work. Seems the unemployment rate in DC is 0% with many jobs unfilled, but alas, none of the...

Morning news says fatal with only the pilot on board. No names released yet for vicitm or owner.

Absolutely nothing will come from this "occupy" movement because they are nothing but a rabble without a common or even real cause to rally around. They will soon disperse back to their previous lives as either street people or professional protesters. The few who do not fall into either of these tw...

Are you really suggesting that being paid $40k to start training, and $60k at five years, plus benefits, plus a defined benefit pension plan isn't good enough for someone with nothing more than a grade 12 education? You do realize that in much of BC, $225 to 250k will buy you a decent BC box home? S...

Well, if they really want jobs they should look at the Province of BC website once in a while for starters. I just had to repost a competition and run a bunch of newspaper ads because I didn't get enough applicants the first time round to fill even half the vacancies I have. $20/hr to start, fully p...

It's primarily the usual crowd of professional protesters. Bums with an unlimited capacity for rationalizing that protesting is a legitimate career option with their salaries paid by welfare or EI. True social justice would be cutting them all off since they aren't looking for work. As a tax payer, ...

His reasons may be foolish, but the notion of moving much of the smaller charter, corporate and commuter traffic out of YVR is not necessarily so. A very well respected airport manager had floated a regional airport plan about 15 years ago that made a lot of sense then, and probably still does. It j...