The Vancouver Province

[200hr Wonder]

Any one notice that there was 4 aviation stories in it this morning and none positive?

The home built crash in Courtenay
The report on the Gruman Goose crash in Port Hardy
The JFK tower control kids at work day
The pilot for the Turkish airline who flew without a license for 13 years

Can anyone recall the last positive aviation story they saw in a news paper?

[Old Dog Flying]

The Province...BCs version of The Guardian...what could anyone expect! I learned the hard way a long time ago, never to talk to anyone from any newspaper, tv or radio bobble head.

[Ogee]

Can anyone recall the last positive aviation story they saw in a news paper?

Lindbergh Wins Orteig Prize?

[North Shore]

The Province...BCs version of The Guardian...what could anyone expect!

What? The Guardian? You've got to be joking, correct? More like Vancouver's version of the Winnipeg Sun, except without the bikini pageant - small-c, populist politics, and a pretty surface skimming of complex materials. All that's missing to turn it into the Sun is snarky comments on the 'Letters' page.

I try to read the Guardian whenever I can, and avoid The Province unless my parrot is getting desperate...

[BGH]

I've always thought of it as the Provincial Enquirer.

Daryl

[iflyforpie]

I'm more of a Daily Telegraph person for world news (oh no, does that make me a conservative!) The Guardian is NSFW and Canadian papers for the most part suck.

The only thing I liked the Province for was the Sunday Funnies...

[bmc]

A well known Vancouver radio station has a policy in its newsroom that if you ran with a story in the Province and couldn't substantiate it, you were fired. Case closed.

Bird cage liner.

[aileron]

The Vancouver Province is a simplified Vancouver Sun, aimed at the working class. The paper consists of about 75% adds and watered-down articles found in the Sun.

And there isn't a Sunshine girl in either; not like the "Sun" found in other cities.

[Ogee]

It certainly isn't the Guardian. The Guardian is the finest English language newspaper in the world.

The Telegraph is a right wing rag.

[Sidebar]

Can anyone recall the last positive aviation story they saw in a news paper?

I can see the headline now: Millions travel without incident! Who would buy it or read it? Bad news sells papers and ads. Good news doesn't.

[L1011]

I remember last summer when The Province had a front page story in which their main source was a twitter update which may or may not have belonged to the person the article focused on....

[The Old Fogducker]

I think you would be far better served by a subscription to "The People's Daily."

I recall one of the headlines in the Sun when a mental patient escaped custody and sexually assaulted a young woman.

The headline was "Nut Bolts and Screws"

One of the things I did enjoy about my mercifully short newspaper career was thinking up the headlines for the stories ... a great place to use illiteration and humour. Far more fun than anything else about the job, and I was very glad to get back to broadcasting from newspapers which was like working as the pit crew for a tortise race.

The Old Fogducker

[iflyforpie]

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[bmc]

One of the things I did enjoy about my mercifully short newspaper career was thinking up the headlines for the stories ... a great place to use illiteration and humour. Far more fun than anything else about the job, and I was very glad to get back to broadcasting from newspapers which was like working as the pit crew for a tortise race.

The Old Fogducker

Was it only Montreal?

[AEROBAT]

I think you would be far better served by a subscription to "The People's Daily."

I recall one of the headlines in the Sun when a mental patient escaped custody and sexually assaulted a young woman.

The headline was "Nut Bolts and Screws"

One of the things I did enjoy about my mercifully short newspaper career was thinking up the headlines for the stories ... a great place to use illiteration and humour. Far more fun than anything else about the job, and I was very glad to get back to broadcasting from newspapers which was like working as the pit crew for a tortise race.

The Old Fogducker

Classic!

[HS-748 2A]

No - No; The headline was about the man who broke out of the insane asylum and got a piece of arse in a laundomat and then fled -

Nut screws washer and bolts!!

[Siddley Hawker]

The Guardian is the finest English language newspaper in the world.

Probably why they call it The Grauniad.

I like the guy from the Winnipeg Free Press who headlined a Christmastime story about some chick who had castrated her boyfriend, Oliver, with the headline "She Decked The Halls With Balls Of Ollie." You may have run into him in Montreal OFD, John Ferguson.

[iflyforpie]

One of the things I did enjoy about my mercifully short newspaper career was thinking up the headlines for the stories ... a great place to use illiteration and humour.

Like: Alliteration And Alliterates: An Awful Affair?

[HS-748 2A]

One of the things I did enjoy about my mercifully short newspaper career was thinking up the headlines for the stories ... a great place to use illiteration and humour.

Like: Alliteration And Alliterates: An Awful Affair?

Speeking of illiterate;


Nice Catch..

[Ogee]

Years ago I went to an Irish university which was very famous for the writers it produced. Even though I wasn't in a writing program, the course director tells all of us that given the reputation of where we were studying, she was going to ask us all to write a three page essay on a question she would give us. She did and a couple of weeks passed and she appears before us again.

She says "I've looked at your essays, and I'm sorry to say that all but four of you are illiterate"

There's a wee engineer from Donegal sitting in the back of the room. He immediately responds with, "I'm not illiterate. Me parents were married."

[tcas]

Anyone notice the nice story on AVCANADA about how the WESTJET crew had completed their day after a medical emergency but it took 16 hours and all the aviators on here had to tear it apart. Damn Reporters!

[The Old Fogducker]

One of the things I did enjoy about my mercifully short newspaper career was thinking up the headlines for the stories ... a great place to use illiteration and humour.

Like: Alliteration And Alliterates: An Awful Affair?

Indeed Pie .... good thing I had an editor.

OFD

[GTODD]

Can anyone recall the last positive aviation story they saw in a news paper?

The Province has said a lot of nice things about Harbour Air in the last few years. In particular I can recall a full page article (including color pictures) they did on Harbour Air’s Christmas sightseeing promo, where profits went to a charity. They also seem to have spent a lot of time reminding us that Harbour Air is now Carbon Neutral.

[The Old Fogducker]

We'll see how far that carbon neutral BS goes when a crowd of angry Green Peacer's and Elizabeth May's Green Party nutbars are picketing the dock to "educate the public" about how airplanes are polluting the skies, killing babies, causing birth defects in whales, deforming garden slugs, causing an increase in sea level near the docks because of the weight of those heavily loaded airplanes displacing water, how low tide now is no longer a place for rare shorebirds to feed because of the wave action of taxiing floatplanes along the shoreline, and any one of ten thousand weird crap ideas they come up with.

The pitiful part ... an average Jane & Joe apartment dweller in the west end end that feels they want to do something (anything) to sort of help out some poor River Otter that looks so cute & cuddly in the TV ads will listen to that drivel, and without so much thought as it takes to swat away a mosquito, will conclude ... "Ah, yeah .... I always thought those noisy little airplanes flying over our place weren't really safe. Lets head down to the dock this afternoon, when we are taking Roverette for Sunday walkies, and have a look at what's going on."

Next thing you know, business is down 20% and the owner doesn't have much choice but to start laying off staff to protect the core segment of his enterprise. Before much longer, that segment of the industry is gone.

All due to some mis-guided dorks that refuse to wear deodorant because its a sell-out to corporate America. The women won't shave their underarms or legs because they heard from Rosie O'Donnell its bad for them, and a shaved leg in nylons wearing a pair of high heels is nothing more than sign of submission to male dominance.

Zeesh!

All one needs do is recall the devistating effect of a few SARS cases had on air travel to "Toronto The Ugly" a few years ago.

These Green Bozos are a big threat to pilots and AMEs ... just as surely as if you were employed as being a part of the dreaded "Big Oil," or maybe "Big Coal," businesses and heven forbid that you should ever be identified with another industry the Greens have designated as one to be destroyed, like the Oil Sands Project.

The Old Fogducker

[Cat Driver]

How can Harbor Air be carbon neutral if they burn as much fuel as any other company that operate airplanes?