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Bizarre incident inside Oakville home reportedly sees intruder go through fridge, lie down on couch

A 32-year-old Toronto man has been arrested following a strange incident at an Oakville home on Thursday, Dec. 8.

At around 6:30 p.m., a man approached a residence on Heritage Way and entered through an unlocked front door, police said.

The individual was confronted by a resident, but rather than leave he reportedly went through the victim’s fridge and then laid down on the couch.

Police were called to the scene and made an arrest.

A 32-year-old Toronto man has been charged with breaking and entering.
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I'll keep check for further details. :cool:
 
Seaplanes running trial flights on Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin

Canberrans will be able to view seaplanes taking off from and landing on Lake Burley Griffin from this week, as trial flights for the scenic journey from Sydney begin.

The Sydney-Canberra route was first proposed more than a year ago and the trial flights are intended to confirm the "best arrangements to minimise disruption to those who use the lake for sporting and recreational activities", a statement from the National Capital Authority (NCA) said.

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The use of seaplanes on the lake has drawn ire from some in the community, with more than 65 per cent of public submissions rejecting the proposal.

In 2021, when the idea was being discussed, the Canberra Yacht Club said it presented a "significant risk" to the club's "continued existence", and threatened the safety of lake users.
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As far as I can tell this will cost almost twice as much as a regular flight from Canberra to Sydney.
 
arthwollipot said:
Seaplanes running trial flights on Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin



As far as I can tell this will cost almost twice as much as a regular flight from Canberra to Sydney.
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Which only the most corrupt politicians can afford these days anyway.

Really, after all the dicking about with getting to the terminal and security and check-in and getting on board, etc., before the flight, and debarking and baggage pickup and getting an Uber/taxi/train into the city, it's actually faster and easier to just drive instead.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Really, after all the dicking about with getting to the terminal and security and check-in and getting on board, etc., before the flight, and debarking and baggage pickup and getting an Uber/taxi/train into the city, it's actually faster and easier to just drive instead.
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While this is true, you don’t get to land in Rose Bay.

Also, if the fine, salt of the earth people of Rose Bay can tolerate the occasional seaplane, so too can those in Canberra. Canberra Yacht Club? Pfft. Not a patch on the Sydney Yacht Squadron….
 
arthwollipot said:
Seaplanes running trial flights on Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin



As far as I can tell this will cost almost twice as much as a regular flight from Canberra to Sydney.
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But will cost the taxpaying public about 10,000 times less than the mythical fast train...

:D

So there's that at least.

(As an exercise as part of my Master's, we calculated the cost of VFT tickets for that project... From memory, it needed something like two million people to make the trip per day with tickets costing something like six times the airfare)

Don't trust those figures, memory is very fallible, but the takeaway was that the project simply could not be economically feasible.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Which only the most corrupt politicians can afford these days anyway.

Really, after all the dicking about with getting to the terminal and security and check-in and getting on board, etc., before the flight, and debarking and baggage pickup and getting an Uber/taxi/train into the city, it's actually faster and easier to just drive instead.
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Fun fact.

I once hired a car and driver for myself and three others to travel to Sydney from Canberra for a mandatory departmental meeting in Sydney.

It cost roughly half what the airfares cost, and we spent less time travelling than via plane.

That was because the car took us from point to point directly, while via air, we would have had the extra steps of getting to/from the airports at each end and all the 'dicking about'.

NB. The department tried to punish us all over that journey, but failed because we SAVED money. (Amazing that they even tried, but there you go).

(The driver was particularly pleased with us, because he visited his mum while we were in the meeting).
 
novaphile said:
Fun fact.

I once hired a car and driver for myself and three others to travel to Sydney from Canberra for a mandatory departmental meeting in Sydney.

It cost roughly half what the airfares cost, and we spent less time travelling than via plane.

That was because the car took us from point to point directly, while via air, we would have had the extra steps of getting to/from the airports at each end and all the 'dicking about'.

NB. The department tried to punish us all over that journey, but failed because we SAVED money. (Amazing that they even tried, but there you go).

(The driver was particularly pleased with us, because he visited his mum while we were in the meeting).
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I had a similar situation at Boeing, when I drove from my home in Everett, WA, to Portland, OR. The travel people couldn't quite comprehend why I wouldn't want to have them pay more so I could sit at a couple of airports and get a rental car. I actually saved them three tickets because a coworker who had flown down earlier drove back with me.

Back a little more on topic, there is seaplane service from Seattle to Victoria, BC. I'm sure it costs significantly more than driving and taking a ferry or than taking a commuter airline from airport to airport. But they fly at about 2000 feet so you can see the view.
 
A pod of 8 dolphins got beached. The humans went over and kept them alive for a while, then killed them. Like we do with our own.
 
Lead story in today's paper (condensed version)

Back in 1914, a former VT governor donated a bunch of money to Middlebury College to build a chapel, which was named Mead Chapel after him. Recently, in recognition of Gov. Mead's advocation of eugenics and its actual fallout, of forced sterilizations, the college removed his name from the Chapel. Another former Gov, who is the residual trustee of the Mead estate, is suing the college and its board for its "cancel culture." His argument is that Mead dedicated the chapel to his ancestors, and it was not dedicated by the college to him.

It appears that Mead's construction of the chapel was at the time conditional on its being a memorial to his ancestors, in particular an evangelist who brought the Holy Bible to the then wilderness....and thus, according to ex-Gov. Douglas, this is a perpetual obligation in the form of a contract. And he says Mead wasn't a eugenicist anyway.

As is usual in such cases, it's being touted as rampant "cancel culture," and the "complete erasure" of Gov. Mead's good deeds from history.

In the last few years, several colleges in Vermont have gone bankrupt, and the State system is planning a cost cutting measure of eliminating books from its libraries. But there's no erasing going on there, nosirreee!
 
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