Category: Travel

Good to hear they are not wasting any time  jacking up prices……!

Wed., May 20, 2020 OTTAWA—Battered by the steep drop in air travel, the company that runs Canada’s air traffic control system is hiking fees by almost 30 per cent — costs ultimately passed on to passengers — after being unable to get federal help to cope with dramatic revenue losses.Nav Canada announced the increase Wednesday as plummeting air traffic hammers its bottom line.“We are proposing this only after pursuing all available alternatives, including government assistance,” Neil Wilson, the company’s president and CEO, said in an interview.“We will continue to pursue any other alternatives that are there to see if we can minimize or avoid the rate increase. But this is where we are at this point,” he said Wednesday.

Source: As COVID-19 grounds travellers, Canada’s air traffic control agency is hiking airline fees by 30 per cent | The Star

HIGH SCHOOL HEALTH CLASSES, IT turns out, have been around since the 16th century. That’s when a school rector in Bavaria, writing under the name Vincent Obsopoeus, published a poetic guide to responsible drinking, geared toward young men who—then as now—didn’t appear to know their limits. “Can it really be true?” asks “Drunkenness” herself in the book’s lyrical preface, written by a friend. “Should I really believe this book can teach people how to rationally lose control?”

Source: Tips for Responsible Drinking, From 16th-Century Germany – Gastro Obscura

An important item for people to understand is the tax consequences when withdrawals are made. All withdrawals are considered ordinary income taxed at your full marginal tax rate regardless of the original type of income.For many people, the more important item to factor in is the tax consequences upon death. Effective January 1, 2020, a new top personal income tax rate was introduced in B.C. This increase essentially adds an additional 3.7 per cent tax to many estates final taxes.When a registered account owner dies, the total value of their registered account is included in the owner’s final tax return. The final tax return is often referred to as a terminal tax return. The proceeds will be taxed at the owner’s marginal tax rate. The highest marginal tax rate is currently 53.5 per cent (British Columbia 20.5 per cent and federal 33 per cent).

Source: Kevin Greenard: Increase in B.C. taxes results in harsh tax on death | Times Colonist

SpaceX will take another crack at its first crewed mission today (May 30), weather permitting, and you can watch the historic liftoff live.A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch the Crew Dragon capsule today at 3:22 p.m. EDT (1922 GMT) from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, kicking off the crucial Demo-2 test flight to the International Space Station (ISS). You can watch the launch and lots of pregame festivities live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV; coverage begins at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT).

Source: SpaceX will try again to launch 1st astronaut mission for NASA today. Here’s when to watch live. | Space

Stockmarket history is packed with drama: the 1929 crash; Black Monday in 1987, when share prices lost 20% in a day; the dotcom mania in 1999. With such precedents, nothing should come as a surprise, but the past eight weeks have been remarkable, nonetheless. A gut-wrenching sell-off in shares has been followed by a delirious rally in America. Between February 19th and March 23rd, the s&p 500 index lost a third of its value. With barely a pause it has since rocketed, recovering more than half its loss. The catalyst was news that the Federal Reserve would buy corporate bonds, helping big firms finance their debts. Investors shifted from panic to optimism without missing a beat.

Source: A dangerous gap – The market v the real economy | Leaders | The Economist

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It’s impossible to watch John Daly’s son take his long, powerful swing and not recall his dad’s grip-it-and-rip-it approach to playing golf. On Tuesday, John Daly II grabbed a share of the lead at a national junior tournament—and it couldn’t have come at a more fitting place. Crooked Stick Golf Club

Source: UPDATED: John Daly’s son shines in big junior golf event—and the venue couldn’t be more fitting

A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifting off on a Falcon 9 rocket at 4:33 p.m. EDT May 27, from Launch Complex 39A in Florida, for an extended stay at the space station for the Demo-2 mission. The specific duration of the mission is to be determined.As the final flight test for SpaceX, this mission will validate the company’s crew transportation system, including the launch pad, rocket, spacecraft, and operational capabilities. This also will be the first time NASA astronauts will test the spacecraft systems in orbit.

Source: NASA DM-2

This is the inside tale of Michael Jordan’s deep family history, back to Wilmington, North Carolina, down a tiny stretch of rural Highway 117, where five generations of Jordans came before him.

Source: Michael Jordan — A history of flight