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Flight from Edmonton to Toronto Kitchener-Waterloo
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Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from Edmonton to Ontario for the following prices or less: to Ottawa C$ 269 one-way - C$ 385 round-trip, to Toronto C$ 161 one-way - C$ 266 round-trip
High season is considered to be January, November and December. The cheapest month to fly to Ontario is April.
Morning departure is around 7% cheaper than an evening flight, on average*.
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Top 4 airlines serving Edmonton to Ontario
WestJetOverall score based on 9097 reviews
There wasn't an option for not applicable under food. No food on this flight. Good coffee though.
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Cons: "The first flight was late because the personnel was forgotten at their hotel. My luggage was lost'"
Pros: "Great flight. No problems."
Cons: "Because of Boeing disaster did not go to Halifax but were sent by Westjet to TO and then on with Air France. Boarding areas in TO are a long way away (lot of walking) and customs in TO is frustrating and takes a long time."
Pros: "Crew was very friendly and helpful"
Cons: "This was the first time in 37 years that I have flown so i had a little motion sickness but that has nothing to do with your crew or airline. This experience was very good thank you"
Pros: "Unreal service by all WJ employees. Great service getting my 87 year old mom to and from everything."
Pros: "Crew was good, on time, good landing"
Cons: "could have a bit more leg room"
Pros: "Left early and arrived early"
Cons: "Cabin was way too warm. Also not as much space on 737-700 as 737-800"
Cons: "We landed in Phoenix and spent over an hour on the runway, when we did finally get a gate it didn't work. The delays caused me to miss my ground transportation."
Cons: "Flight was delayed. Otherwise fine."
Pros: "Check in was quick and easy. Boarding and flight was right on time!"
Pros: "West jet always communicates"
Cons: "Waiting to board.. always a hassle"
Pros: "Safety and on time."
Cons: "Grumpy cabin crew."
Pros: "Very friendly and helpful staff at both baggage check-in and during flight. That is why I fly WJ."
Cons: "Leg room on plane."
Pros: "Crew and staff are pleasant."
Cons: "There was a typo in my reservation (either a WJ problem or a Kayak problem). As a result I couldn't do an online checkin and ended up getting a middle seat at the airport."
Pros: "Flight crew remained jovial and pleasant despite the many issues."
Cons: "Mis messaging and changing/non factual information as the flight status changed. I had personal issues ongoing which resulted in a flight change, and having to go back to security multiple times, which would have all been easier if I had been told that I didn't have to run like a mad woman through the airport as the flight was already determined to be significantly delayed. West Jet tried......they just don't see to be able to know anything."
Pros: "What a great experience flying west jet!! The crew was so accommodating. I got sick on the plane and there were so many people jumping to help me make sure I was confortable. I've flown all airlines and will be flying West Jet again."
Pros: "The friendliness, the options through the app with movies etc"
Pros: "Overall an easy experience. Cheap!"
Cons: "West jet has got to figure out a better way to board the plane- the "zone" model is a nightmare."
Pros: "It was easy getting through the line and onto the plane. The seat was on the window, which I wouldn't normally sit in, and was comfortable enough for me to get an hour of sleep on an overnight flight; I'm content with that."
Cons: "The fee for changing my assigned seat, thus the window seat, and one of the flight attendants was very impolite; though overall the flight attendants were pleasant enough."
Cons: "Due to the fact that my trip to was not clearly indicated as non stop it is the first time in thirty years of regular travel that I did not have a direct flight to Calgary. Then I was not able to change my flight at the airport even though there was room available on a direct Westjet flight leaving as close to the same time. But the worst part as after landing we waited for a very long time for the plane to pull up to a gate (unnecessarily burning fuel and poluting the environment). And finally we waited another very long time for the doors of the plane to be opened for disembarkation. More than 3/4 of an hour waiting on the ground after a one hour flight very late in the evening. As a result I hat to take a cab home from the airport. Now I will try my best to not fly Westjet."
Pros: "The on board entertainment is very good, just remember to download the westjet connect app."
Cons: "Seats are ok, very cramped together, hard to get in and out of. I had picked plus seats but kayak didn't honor my selection so was forced to sit at the rear of the plane. As for the flight itself, the airliner sells only Coca Cola products, no cash purchases, credit and debit only. No free bag checks,"
Cons: "Boarding attendant demanded to see my passport for a domestic flight even though I had produced the government-issued photo ID required."
Pros: "Upgraded to Plus - it was great."
Cons: "Too bad we have to pay extra for Plus to get a reasonable amount of room."
Cons: "I was told they don't help you store your carry on. At 66 and 5 feet tall this seems like an impossible feat likely to create issues as it falls on my head."
Pros: "Crew was good as usual."
Cons: "Thought the flight may have been delayed due to issues with ice rain in Toronto. From what was said, it wasn't that, some other issue with the plane and a cancelled flight in the west. No email in advance, no apologies, no freebies (like even a stupid sandwich). You sit an extra 2 and a half hours in an airport with a 5 year old before a 4 hour flight, and see how much the lack of anything grates. And paying for the first bag on the flight. And the emails they did send were after we were already at the airport-in no time to do any good. I Usually like West Jet , but losing my faith in them. Wonder how flair is..."
Pros: "Good in flight entertainment and food"
Cons: "Not enough leg room"
Cons: "No in flight entertainment unless you download their app, however there was no signs or announcements to warn passengers of this. Flight was delayed and they lost my baggage even though it was a direct flight. Not impressed."
Pros: "I went through customs and then walked via escalators and moving walk ways to b4. It took me almost a hour. I was the last to board I am sure And had to collect my own luggage and take it from one point to another. I am 70. thank god, when I got on the plane I sat in 3a and was offered a free glass of wine. halleluya. I was exhausted Toronto airport is always a nightmare. I travel a lot and will avoid this airport if I can. I do like West jet but Delta /west jet connection means I have to take my bag from one place to another and I walked miles and could have missed my flight. I am tired. I am going to bed"
Pros: "Korean air is very efficient."
Cons: "We had to rent a car to get to Ottawa because West Jet had cancelled all their flights due to weather. All Air Canada flights were operating. We waited in line for 2 hours at the airport for West Jet to tell us that we needed to call them regarding a refund. We called them and were on hold for an hour and 45 minutes. Then we were told we had to call the travel agent...we on hold for 2 hours. We then called Korean air and they told us they couldn't contact West Jet-no one knew what the value of the flight from Toronto to Ottawa was. We were only provided with a refund of $4 (for the taxes) when it cost us $280 to rent a car to get to Ottawa. I will never book a flight with West Jet again."
Pros: "Nice, professional crew."
Cons: "I have a dog in the plane with me. None of my flights offered to make me board first. It harder to move through the aisle by myself with my pup in her carrier and my personal effect . Some nice passengers helped me when they saw I was struggling but O feel that is the crew's job."
Pros: "THE flight got me home"
Cons: "Th check in staff made light of what seat I was assigned stating it was the best seat. 23A a bulkhead back row seat that did not recline. I was then Seated next to an individual that should have had two seats to themselves instead of most of my seat and theirs. I was literally pressed into the bulkhead by the very large person next to me. Who had another large individual next to them. WestJet used to be a great airline that Had a little more legroom. Now airlines like flair offer the same flights with more legroom wider seats and far lower costs. WestJet has lost me as a customer that used to pay a little extra if There was a WestJet flight option"
Pros: "I liked the friendliness of the crew and how accommodating they were of me and of their guests!"
Cons: "There was quite a delay on my flight and I didn't get an email to let me know there was a delay. Because I happened to go to check in earlier, I happened to noticed the delay. I wasn't happy about not getting an email. I called West Jet to find out about the delay and it took approximately an hour to speak to someone. When I did, the delay was explained as weather related and the reason for not getting an email was because they hadn't gotten to it yet I believe. I wasn't happy with that as a reply. The flight was then delayed again by several minutes. I would have appreciated some form of compensation as I was going to get a lift home from the airport and ended up having to pay for a taxi as I was coming in so late. In all other flights, I know west jet to be quite an accommodating airline. The crew was great, I simply didn't appreciate how the delay was handled."
Cons: "Of the four flights I took with WestJet this holiday, 3 were delayed. The flights were frigid. On this flight the agent at the gate was very rude when I asked about checking my bag, lecturing me about the size of the bag and insisting she would have to charge me if it was a full flight, which she said it wasn't. It ended up fitting just fine in the overhead. Totally soured my experience. I will not use this airline again."
Cons: "Didn't fly on the day I was supposed to fly due to delays. I had to figure out for myself that I wasn't going to make my connection and thus I went back home. We agreed to itinerary for the next day that had a 2+ hour wait at la Guardia and yet I still almost missed the N.Y. to Tampa flight due to delays out of toronto. Had to sprint from one terminal to the other. In Toronto we sat on the tarmac for 90 mins, and this was after dealing with security and other issues with checkin before i even got on the plane. For example, it was difficult to explain that i had already paid for my checked bag the day before. As a result I never got a chance to eat the entire day. And then my bag didn't get to Tampa until later that night anyways. Although the individual staff members were all very nice, there were institutional flaws that made two days very frustrating. I have some sort of debilitating delay on more than half my flights over the last few years, and rarely is there ever an explanation or compensation."
Pros: "Quick boarding on departure and exit at arrival."
Cons: "Delayed flight."
Pros: "The crew on the plane were very friendly"
Cons: "Was told to go to the wrong place by multiple people when trying to get to u.s. connections in Edmonton. Almost missed my flight because of it"
Pros: "Kayak was great to book through. Very simple. Plane ride there was great."
Cons: "Plane ride home wasn't good due to the airplane propellers being louder then usual and noisy, a little unsettling."
Pros: "Friendly people+ great service"
Pros: "It was on time. Quick to board."
Cons: "I'm used to entertainment."
Pros: "Friendly crew"
Cons: "Entertainment selection is lacking."
Pros: "Quick, efficient and funny friendly staff"
Pros: "Overall flight and connections were good. Board process was smooth and flight departed and arrived on time. Watch for baggage delays when arriving in Fort McMurray as they can sometimes be excessive. No entertainment provided on the smaller planes but most people have some form of entertainment with them."
Cons: "One of the crew members was not careful enough while taking something out of the overhead cabinet and dropped something on my head while I was asleep. The crew apologized but it should not have happened in the first place while the aircraft was flying smoothly and there was no turbulence of any kind at that time."
Cons: "Delays Boarding: boarding from both doors: back door and front door, but no direction from the crew to anyone. Ended up with passengers trying to get in the front from the back and passengers trying to get to the back from the front. This created another extra 15 minutes delay when everyone were stuck in the middle...The rest of the passengers waited outside in Canadian winter cold. On a flight already late."
Pros: "The staff were friendly as they had to deal with many annoyed customers. I thought the staff handled the constant delays and cancellations well."
Cons: "My flight to Calgary never happened. In fact due to weather conditions, many, many flights were delayed, some cancelled. No more flights to Penticton, so I had to take a flight to Kelowna after 6:00pm or fly the next day. I met a couple to share a ride to Penticton once I reached Kelowna. My luggage was lost in Calgary and so I went on to Penticton, to Osoyoos. The next day, West Jet delivered my suitcase to me. I appreciate the voucher I was given to buy a few things and the promptness of my luggage. We live in Canada, the weather in the winter can be quite an annoyance and so it was last week."
Pros: "The crew was very helpful."
Cons: "Il serait bien d'avertir plus à l'avance les passagers au sujet de l'application nécessaire pour l'entertainement ou permettre de l télécharger via le wifi de westjet"
Pros: "Everthing"
Cons: "They lost my sleeping bag before my backpacking trip forcing me to buy a new one and would not reimburse me."
Plus seating
There is no in-flight entertainment or food on this flight but for the price it was perfect - direct flight, on time, easy check in and boarding experience
You get what you pay for. It was all good.
Cons: "Was very late. Could not sort out simple boarding issues"
Pros: "Flight once it got to Edmonton was ok"
Cons: "Communications with travelers...5 hour delay! Meal vouchers were given with only one restaurant open and maxed out on space and good items...just a bad situation."
Pros: "Great"
Pros: "Pricing is great"
Cons: "Seats, complimentary food, timing of flight"
Pros: "That it was cheap when we booked it online."
Cons: "Apparently it wasn't that cheap of a flight after all. We had to pay for our luggage instead of a carry on. And the plane was empty not full with passengers. That to us was a ripoff. Don't Deceive passengers to fly cheap with you when you'll make them pay you for carry on when it's not needed."
Brand spanking new planes and amazing crews.
Pros: "cabin crew was friendly enough"
Cons: "The flight was delayed over an hour on the tarmac because an engine wouldn't start!"
Pros: "Great crew, fast boarding, nearly empty plane so I had the whole three seat row to myself."
Cons: "The hydraulic pump for the inboard flaps sounded like it was on it's last legs and howled whenever adjustments were made. The cabin pressurization system whistled so loud that I had to put ear buds in to protect my hearing (just on takeoff/landing). Proper maintenance is important!"
Pros: "Comfortable seat with plenty of hip & leg room."
Cons: "Charged $35. for luggage because I didn't know I could go online with the Flair Air website & pay prior to check in. They were friendly and advised me to do this in the future."
Pros: "The plane didn't crash like website and they did not charge $10 for printing off my boarding pass, as no one could with website down. Also, some budget airlines now only allow 40lbs in checked baggage, Looks like they allow 50lbs."
Cons: "Similar problem on the way home, could not book luggage online but could check in. Shop closes at 5 CST so could not call. Even though we told at checkout that it was because of the Christmas volume online, still had to pay Airport (extra) price to check-in baggage. They said I could perhaps get the penalty fee returned if I called in. Told her it's not worth 2 hours on a paid long distance call to get $20 back."
Pros: "Crew were great."
Cons: "I was told by transat to down load an App. to watch entertainment only to be told by Flair Air that they did not provide the service and that I was given the wrong information. So no TV for 5 hrs."
Cons: "New leaf discontinued their Sunday Halifax to Hamilton flight which was to be my return flight home. They did offer me a full refund if I needed to cancel or to rebook on a different flight but I couldn't make the new dates work so I took the full refund. I booked the flights in December for a flight in Feb and they cancelled half way through January so there wasn't a lot of notice given"
Pros: "Everything about Newleaf was awesome."
Cons: "I have no complain it was good for the most part for, more food lol"
Pros: "The on-board crew were great. Super friendly and chatty. Almost a WestJet feel instead of the serious aloofness that AC is known for"
Cons: "The entire HUGE MESS from booking til sitting on our last airplane. The "new reservation" system is a horrible joke. The right hand doesn't know what the left is doing so you get completely wrong info and they won't do anything about it. I'm a wheelchair assist and had to call 6 times to remind them to put it on my ticket even though each time I was shown that it had been added. They kept seating on the back row of the plain and blamed me for not calling ahead to "let them know I was wheelchair assist so they could reseat me" BUT...they won't answer you call unless it's 24 before your flight and then to check at the airport who then tells us it's out fault cause we didn't call more then 36 hrs ahead...YOU CANT CALL THAT FAR AHEAD...and ...get this "they don't have wheelchair assist on my ticket/file". I about lost my mind over the hours on hold and every different answer as to what what to do and in the end blamed us. ASTONISHING TO ME. THEN THEY HAVE THE NERVE ON-BOARD TO ANNOUNCE THEY ARE THE BEST AIRLINE IN NORTH AMERICA 2019...HORSE PUCKY!!!"
Pros: "Great flight crew and smooth landing"
Cons: "Pretzels are not a good snack"
Pros: "The crew was nice."
Cons: "Everything is too cramped. The sound on the entertainment unit is terrible."
Pros: "Nothing good to say for this flights overall."
Cons: "Spent over two hours on the plane/tarmac waiting for take off. Air Canada sucks."
Cons: "Extra rules about headphones are annoying and no beverage options. Horrible terminal that does not let you get a drink before boarding and gate agent did not update boarding when it was late, so no one could venture off and get a drink of water before flight."
Pros: "We didn't crash."
Cons: "We continue not to crash."
Pros: "The few were friendly."
Cons: "The food selection was poor."
Pros: "Service counter staff was helpful to confirm seating although I did not like being put on standby. This happens too often with Air Canada."
Cons: "Stop the overbooking!!!!!"
Pros: "Entertainment options"
Cons: "My wife's screen did not work. The pitch between the seats was too narrow for a transatlantic flight. Older plane that needed to be cleaned and updated."
Pros: "Gate crew were very good at keeping us apprised of the status of the inbound plane and our estimate departure time. The flight crew were all very helpful and engaging. Not easy on a packed flight where too many people brought too many carry-on bags."
Cons: "I am a true-blue Air Canada customer but their checked baggage fees has created a disaster when it comes to boarding flights and getting planes in the air on-time. Many people had too many carry-on bags or very large carry-on bags so the time it took to board was ridiculous. Better rules need to be enforced with carry on (not that I blame people for trying, considering the increase in checked baggage fees) so that flights can be boarded more quickly and planes can take off on time."
Cons: "See above - seats worn out, entertainment worn out, Crew battling old tired aircraft. Massively overpriced. Bring on WestJet direct to Ottawa."
Pros: "Extra legroom but I paid for that"
Cons: "Not getting the meal I prepaid for and the curtain of business class constantly hitting me it was not good."
Cons: "For 2 1/2 hours the baby was kicking the back of my seat. I Thurber around a few times, said something once the the so called parents were not willing to help. I mentioned it to the flight attendednt but being a full flight there were no seat. Changes available. The parents even switched seats but only with each other, they kept the baby behind me. I can only hope they have a baby kicking their seat in the future"
Pros: "On board crew was friendly and capable."
Cons: "My first and last flight on the CRJ 9. It's much less comfortable than a prop plane, for a 90 minute+ flight."
Pros: "Great service- friendly patient helpful, pilots that kept passengers updated and very reassuring and confident sounding. KAYAK got me perfect seats!"
Cons: "Food wasn't spectacular, and being limited to credit card purchasing is always a problem for many travellers. Pre-purchasing options are a great option except for last minute wishes."
Pros: "The seat beside me was vacant, so I had extra room."
Cons: "Flights in the late evening from Toronto to Ottawa always seem to be delayed. We spent a lot of time boarding, and a lot of time de-icing before take off. There would have been plenty of time to serve refreshments during de-icing. But refreshments and dismemberment of ear phones only began once the plane was airborne. There was not enough time to service all the passengers at that point. I'm not sure why Air Canada cannot at least give you ear phones when boarding. And why cannot refreshments be served during de-icing?"
Pros: "I didn't like anything"
Cons: "I had problems rebooking , they made multiply mistakes costing ME over 300 dollars cad ... very upset , flight was cancelled, they didn't pay for my hotel .. worst experience.. flying with west jet next time"
Pros: "Crew was friendly"
Cons: "Air Canada was a disaster on our vacation. Delays, re bookings, cancellations. Every thing was told to us as an excuse from the weather, flight attendant was running late, not staffed enough, need supplies on the plane, someone died, planes needing de-icing, planes too small, planes overbooked... you name it they said it! New York to Toronto, Toronto to Edmonton and return. Not one single flight was on time! We got put in a Hotel - only nice part of the trip - got Vouchers for $15 each - such a low amount!!! Didn't get our luggage with our clothes and amenities to use at the hotel - had to sleep in our plane clothes. Spend extra money we didn't have... it was awful! We will be staying away from Air Canada for awhile!"
Cons: "Flight was delayed due to ATC"
Pros: "The flight was good, on time, and comfortable. Crew was polite and informative."
Cons: "The sound did not work on my screen, even after trying 3 different sets of headphones."
Pros: "the cew was nice"
Cons: "The terminal had no food options at all when we were in a very delayed flight and hungry. We were not given seats ahead of time and therefore were assigned the last row which was very uncomfortable and could not recline. No one was at the desk to help with the seats for a Very long time. The boarding process was not good."
Cons: "My bag was delayed and I end up paying to buy a pant from sports chek and now when I am trying to connect with Air Canada flight to make a claim, they are not even responding to my request."
Pros: "The crew on board all flights were pleasant and efficient."
Cons: "When I arrived at my destination I found that the item I had gate checked had been damaged- an instrument case I was no longer able to close. The zippers had both been busted off. Due to time constraints I was invited to write a review and email which I intend to do. The item itself was gate checked for safety - and to me the damage says that still somehow it is unsafe to fly with an instrument which as a professional musician is frustrating. In addition flights have very limited food options that accommodate persons with gluten/dairy allergies."
Pros: "Two full drink services was nice"
Cons: "USB outlet didn't work, and my seat didn't have a normal AC outlet"
Pros: "Arrived on time"
Pros: "Wasn't too late. Plane seemed clean."
Cons: "Seated beside a young child with behavioral problems. Father mostly slept. Child stood on seat and jumped up and down, crawled under seats, threw ipad on my foot repeatedly, spilled his drink all over himself and his seat, screamed whenever his seat belt had to go on or his table top couldn't be down. At one point, the dad lost his temper, swore at the child, and covered him with a blanket in a big screaming match before doing up his seat belt--I was afraid he had smothered him but it had the effect of calming him down. No attendant even tried to intervene apart from asking "can I see your kid's boarding pass?" People should have to disclose when they are travelling with a child with severe behavioural problems and attendants should rescue anyone forced to sit beside one or at least make the parent care for the child. Also, a minimum of crackers or pretzels would be nice with drink on 5-hour flight. The entertainment system wasn't operating correctly and kept having to be reset by crew or reset itself. And, after first class etc. board, why don't they board the people at the back of the plane first, not the ones at the front? It took forever because people in front zones hadn't settled into their seats before people from the back zones tried to board."
Pros: "Not anyone's fault --- delayed due to Fog. Then on rout to Ottawa when they started selling food, they ran out of the main breakfast meals and or cheese plates by isle 19."
Pros: "Paid for the "upgraded" seat only to be told we had to be in the back of the plane. Moving back all rows had one person and one chair open, so we had to sit apart. Useless crew as an elder couple asked to sit together and were told to check with passengers. Oh and the flight was delayed 3 times."
Pros: "Air Canada you suck. Told us that our flight wouldn't leave before we boarded as the computer system was down country wide. We still stood in like for an hour and hey could have manually checked us in as they did others. We were promised no planes would leave and when we got to the gate our plane was pulling away leaving 10 of us to scramble to find another flight. Customer service argued with me saying no flights were going to Ottawa and my Kayak app told me otherwise. Thanks for making my flight home for a funeral that much more stressful and having my family wait 4 hours risking all of our lives with freezing rain drive home."
Pros: "I think cost me without needing to go back and forth"
Pros: "Pathetic delay time that was not weather related, they should have had another plane. I will not say that I will never fly Air Canada again just because departure time may leave me no choice but given a choice that suits my travel schedule it will not be them."
Pros: "The trip to Edmonton was very smooth and right on time. Everything was very good.....including the baby behind us. I will fly Air Canada again."
Cons: "I didn't like the change in gate at Edmonton to Vancouver. No one told us until boarding time. Even tho there was ample time to get there since it was the next door gate, I was in a wheelchair and if it had been any further, it could've been a disaster. We arrived right on time. I'd go Air Canada again."
Pros: "Free business class"
Cons: "Food and no entrainment available"
Pros: "was a really great trip- I took the dreamliner last week and that was an amazing treat"
Cons: "Westjet gives pretzels or cookies complementary- I was surprised Air Canada didn't do the same Was a little squishy but all planes are!"
Pros: "Left on time, arrived on time. Tell the complainers that they should try flying Aeroflot."
Cons: "Nothing bad to say other than passengers should seriously re-consider taking babies and toddlers on the red-eye flights. Let your kids have a good night sleep and fly during the day."
Pros: "good overall...so MUCH BETTER THAN Air Canada rouge service we took from Ottawa to Venice. Rouge service is very poor!!"
Pros: "Flight was on time. Flight attendants were pleasent."
Pros: "In general, everything is fine. Boarding was good"
Cons: "Lack of food options for people with celiac disease. No ingredients on the dip in carrots and celery dip. Was told it was gluten free, but had a very bad reaction to it."
Cons: "Flight was delays from anotjer air company i had to paid 160$ to get on the next one.."
Pros: "Good selection of free movies and shows on board. Some great and helpful flight attendants."
Cons: "The staff at check in were not overly helpful. We were running late and possibly going to miss our flight and they did not seem willing to help us out at all."
Pros: "The crew was inviting, helpful, and very kind."
Cons: "Entertainment system did not work. No WIFI on the plane (which was, admittedly disclosed upon ticket purchase, so it was no fault of air canada). Chairs were very uncomfortable and the individual in front of me reclined fully for the entire trip."
Cons: "Cancelling flights , lying about reasons why, running away from customers when the flight finally after 10 hours was canceled"
Cons: "Both my flights (there and back) were delayed, my luggage was lost after I was asked to volunteer to check it in and on the delay (YYC to YUL), I wasn't even given a food voucher after being made to wait 8h in the airport. This was AFTER the crew promised they would hold the other flights (also operated by AC)"
Cons: "In order to make more money, Air Canada purposefully sits couples, families etc. who book together separately, in order to try to get them to buy upgraded seats together."
Pros: "Landed alive in vancouver"
Cons: "Second time in two months that they delayed my flight by at least 3 hours."
Pros: "It was great"
Cons: "My "window" seat was beside a wall. So i actually didn't even have a wi dow seat, not really."
Pros: "They were able to put me on standby for the next flight and I made it on. I would have been upset if had to wait for the last flight at 10:55pm. I understand this is not always in the airports control."
Cons: "My flight from Montreal to Ottawa was canceled and I almost had a panic attack. I was flying alone for the first time."
Cons: "Staff needed assistance in folding stroller - whereas this has never been a concern on porter. - stroller was thrown on the floor at landing and retrieval."
Pros: "In-flight entertainment console is pretty good"
Cons: "Departure was 40 minutes delayed right off the bat for reasons unknown and unexplained. Then, worse, mechanical trouble on the tarmack, we had to return to the gate and power down the plane, while still remaining on board, unventilated and unpleasantly sweaty, in the dark even for a while. What should have been a quick 1.5 hour flight and 8:30pm arrival thus became a sweaty 4-hour ordeal and almost 11pm arrival. Not the end of the world, but I was a bit taken aback at the absence of apologetic behaviour, like perhaps serving drinks while we're sweating on the tarmack, or heaven forbid, a meal of some sort considering we were departing later than we should have all already been home."
Swoop7.6
Flair Airlines7.2
Air Canada7.1
Safety measures for airlines flying from Edmonton to Ontario
Airlines flying from Edmonton to Ontario have enacted additional safety measures and adjusted policies to better accommodate travellers. Policies vary by airline.
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"Bait flavor preference and immunogenicity of ONRAB baits in domestic " by Are R. Berentsen, Scott Bender et al.
Rabies is responsible for an estimated 59,000 human deaths worldwide, and domestic dogs are the primary reservoir and vector of the disease. Among some nations, widespread vaccination has led to elimination of rabies in domestic dogs, yet dogs are still susceptible to rabies infection from interactions with wildlife reservoirs. On Tribal lands in the United States, less than 20% of domestic dogs are vaccinated for rabies, and parenteral vaccination is often unfeasible. Oral rabies vaccination may provide a solution, but a suitable bait flavor and vaccine must be identified. We evaluated 5 bait flavors (bacon, cheese, egg, fish, and sweet) in pairwise flavor-preference trials using placebo Ultralite baits in 26 domestic dogs on the Navajo Nation, Arizona. Each bait flavor was offered a total of 104 times. In all paired comparisons, bacon was more frequently preferred to the alternative. The sweet flavor (the flavor used operationally for oral rabies vaccine (ORV) distribution in Canada) was least preferred. Forty domestic dogs were offered baits containing ONRAB ORV: 14 received the sweet-flavored bait packet and 26 received bacon-flavored baits. Serum was collected from dogs before vaccination and at day 14 and 30 or 37 days after vaccination. Thirty-seven dogs consumed the baits, 2 baits (both sweet flavored) were chewed and spit out, and 1 (sweet flavored) was swallowed without apparent chewing (gulped). Eight dogs had preexisting rabies virus neutralizing antibody (RVNA) titers and 13 naïve dogs failed to seroconvert during the study period. Overall, 27 dogs (67.5%) showed increased RVNA titers after vaccination, including 1 dog who chewed and spit out the bait and all dogs with positive baseline RVNA titers. Geometric mean titers for all dogs that seroconverted during the study period peaked at day 14 (1.2 IU/ mL; n = 24) and decreased slightly by the final sampling day (0.8 IU/mL; n = 27).We conclude that bacon flavor may be a suitable bait flavor for ORV distribution in loosely kept or free-roaming domestic dogs. Seroconversion among dogs who ingested ONRAB-filled baits was variable. Why 13 dogs who consumed ORV baits failed to seroconvert remains unknown. Additional research to improve seroconversion rates in domestic dogs after vaccination with ONRAB is recommended.


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Seahawks: Penny's SDSU background improves NFL chances
His football color scheme has changed from red and black to dark blue and neon green — but Rashaad Penny, the former San Diego State running back, said his Rocky Long-shaped, rugged Aztecs pedigree is improving his chances of NFL success with the Seattle Seahawks, a bloody-your-nose outfit.
Penny, a 5-foot-11 running back who's heavy by NFL standards at 236 pounds yet also fast, said both teams are fundamental in their devotion to "power" and "downhill" run designs, and to developing the muscle memory and toughness needed to carry out such withering duty.
"It's the same," Penny said, appreciatively. "I didn't take anything different from San Diego State to Seattle."
In the draft this year, Seattle went larger on Penny than his media-draftnik rankings would've indicated. Picking him at No. 27 was also a break from Seattle's habit of trading out of the first round where guaranteed money is much steeper.
But in a recent chat with the Union-Tribune, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said the abundance of Seahawks-style runs on Penny's SDSU game tape increased the comfort of the evaluation.
"They continue to stay with the physical approach and the running game and all that," Carroll said of Long and staff.
"It's part of the reason that we went after their guy, because he showed us the stuff we needed to see."
Spread, pass-flinging offenses are the rage in college football.
Long is devoted to the sledgehammer.
A kindred spirit is fellow old coach Carroll, 66, who drew a parallel between Long, 68, and his own devotion to smashmouth while coaching USC.
"When we were at SC, we didn't want to become a spread offense," Carroll said. "We wanted to be a very balanced team as well. We always stayed with running the football, and we thought it gave us an edge. Look at Alabama. Look how they're doing it. They continue to stay with the physical approach and the running game and all that, and I think it's obvious that that gives you a chance to be successful, and that's what Coach (Long) has done."
Spread devotees have collected trophies, too. And NFL rules favor the pass — which spreads the defense for run plays, too — but Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon noted that Carroll's core values have translated into two Super Bowl trips including Seattle's lone Super Bowl trophy.
"What you have when you can run the ball, you have a chance to run the clock, you have a chance to eat up a lot of time of possession, and it keeps your defense fresh so that when they come in, they run around and fly to the football," said Moon, a Seahawks broadcaster.
"What you have to remember is," said the ex-QB, "we also have a quarterback in Russell Wilson who is probably one of the top-5 quarterbacks in the league. So, we're going to throw for a lot of yards, too."
A smart plan is important. Living up to it is harder.
The Seahawks have lacked a sturdy ground game since the decline and departure of Marshawn Lynch, the explosive and powerful rusher who pounded opponents for each Super Bowl club
Successors to Lynch have fizzled. Some couldn't hack it. Others fell to injury. None came close to matching the reliable Lynch, whom Carroll and General Manager John Schneider traded for in 2010 in their first year together.
Have the Seahawks recovered since opting not to give Lynch the ball with the Super Bowl on the line four years ago? Probably not.
Will Penny be different from the other would-be successors?
"The guy has extraordinary talent," said the Aztecs coach who knows Penny best, offensive coordinator Jeff Horton.
Horton said the speed of regular-season NFL football awaiting Penny will challenge any rookie, and Moon said that NFL edge rushers — a freakishly athletic species — pose perhaps the biggest challenge for a rookie back because blitz pick-up is essential.
But Horton, mindful that NFL collisions are far more forceful than Mountain West collisions, singled out another critical aspect to Penny's transition.
"He'll have to really understand how important it is to take care of your body," said the coach. "Work extra on your stretching. Go to the training room, and let them work extra on your body. Especially your legs. Your legs are your lifeline, and it's a long season.
"I think talent-wise, he'll be fine."
Penny's meal ticket is a thick-legged yet supple and fast-twitch body that weighed 231 pounds eight months ago for SDSU's bowl against Army.
He slimmed to 220 in March for the NFL Scouting Combine, where he ran the 40-yard dash in 4.46 seconds. He regained the weight plus two pounds as of Aug. 21 and added three more pounds in recent days. Horton quipped that going from hamburger at SDSU to steak in the NFL has increased Penny's intake.
It's a much faster game, though. Where Penny could "bounce" runs for SDSU by simply jetting around defenses, he said NFL speed mandates a more north-south approach.
"In this NFL, in this day and age, you don't think about bouncing the run," the rookie said. "You've got to take what you can get. And that is something that I have learned from these coaches and just the head coach in general."
Good blocking helps. There, the Seahawks have fallen off since their Super Bowl era.
However, Moon said Penny stands to benefit from fellow SDSU alum Mike Solari, the team's new offensive line coach.
Moon detects improved blocking and a better mesh between talent and scheme under NFL veteran Solari, a 63-year-old who played for Aztecs coach Claude Gilbert in the mid-1970s and began his coaching career at Mission Bay High.
Penny, for his part, said he's indebted to his Aztecs coaches. He's grateful they didn't coddle him.
"Coach Long, being taught that 'tough' football, and the mental aspect as well, and just being physical — that's all from the college I came from, and the system that Coach Long brings," he said. "I loved every minute in that system, because it allowed me to be who I am today. It also humbled me. And, I'm glad to be a part of this situation. Because if it wasn't for those guys at San Diego State I wouldn't be here."
Seattle's season opener comes Sept. 9 at Denver.
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Patriots: A Nation Under Fire
a game by 4D Rulers Software, Inc.
See also: First Person Shooter
From the moment you first run out of ammunition and literally explode a terrorist's head with your hammer, to the first time you trigger a Mexican-sounding terrorist into saying "I like to shoot them 'een the eyes", you'll be aware of a stupid, illogical charm in Patriots.
Sure, it's too hard to be any fun. Not hard in a challenging way - more in a stupid, dull way that has EASY opponents refusing to shoot, and HARD opponents taking perfect cover and sniping you from the moon.
And sure, I ended up walking outside the play zone - unable to reenter the combat, and leaving dentmarks on the invisible wall with my hammer. Sure, there's not enough ammo to give you a sporting chance, so many terrorists it just feels like a stupid zombie mod, and your squad love nothing more than to stand in your way and not move. Oh, and I couldn't get the sniper's alternate fire to work. It's easy to list a million ways in which this game fails to grip, entertain, engage or even work.
So Patriots: A Nation Under Fire may be one of the worst games I've played this year, but to its credit, it knows full well how rubbish it is. Hardly a reason to buy it, but you've got to admire the style of a company who make their terrorists sound like Speedy Gonzales. I want to give it a higher score, but I'd be quite justifiably ridiculed, attacked and sacked if I did.
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Hickory Knolls Offers Unique, Winter Scouting Out Programs
Have a Cub Scout or Girl Scout in your family? Take advantage of several unique events designed for Scouts ages 5-12 hosted by Hickory Knolls Discovery Center.
"These special events are a way for Scouts to earn and go beyond the requirements for badges through nature and science-based activities in a fun, unique setting," said Laura McCoy, nature programs supervisor.
During Scouting Out Evening Explorers, Scouts will participate in an hour of hands-on activities revolving around a theme. From 6:30-7:30 p.m. Jan. 16 during Marshmallow Madness, Scouts will use simple machines to launch marshmallows. Then from 6:30-7:30 p.m. April 23, Scouts will have the opportunity to hunt for treasure in the natural area during Letter Boxing, following clues and hiking trails. All activities can be applied to scouting requirements.
Scouts won't want to miss the Girl Scout Overnight on Jan. 31 or Cub Scout Overnight on March 13, which provides a winter camping experience with outdoor hikes and a campfire, but the comfort of sleeping in the warm discovery center. Scouts must bring their own sleeping bags. Dinner and a light breakfast will be served.
Additionally, an all-afternoon STEAM Scout Day will be held from 1-4 p.m. March 20 at Pottawatomie Community Center. Led by park district staff from various departments, Scouts will rotate through hands-on stations to help earn requirements.
"This Scouting event is a cohesive package with a wide variety of activities to explore all aspects of STEAM, but in ways Scouts may not be used to," McCoy said.
For example, she said instructors will demonstrate math through dance, and dedicate time for the A for art in STEAM. Additionally, they will craft and have animal adventures.
"It will be a really fun day, with hands-on activities at every station, hitting a variety of areas from across the park district under the overarching theme of STEAM," McCoy said.
Outside these special events, Hickory Knolls offers guided and self-guided Scout programs for dens as well. Guided programs are $50 for 15 Scouts for one-hour of staff-led programming to earn a particular badge. Self-guided programs are $15 for one day of materials and instructions for Scout leaders to use on or off site.
For more information about Scouting programs or to schedule a Scouting Adventure contact Laura McCoy at 630-513-4393 or lmccoy@stcparks.org.


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I have been a glam bag subscriber since the days it was Ipsy… that's four years now that I have subscribed to their services. This week I cancelled my subscription. It feels weird and I will miss it… I think. I didn't cancel because I was angry or anything dramatic. I might even come back to it someday. But today I cancelled my subscription.
For those of you not in the beauty obsessed world, glam bag is a monthly subscription service that sends you 3 to 5 "deluxe" beauty products once a month for $10. You can check it out here.
For those of you who know me personally, you know I am a make-up junkie. I love make-up, both high end and drugstore; I love wearing it; I love playing with colors and new products. When I joined Ipsy, it was brand new and I adored Michelle Phan; plus, I wanted to really experiment with new products because I was new to makeup and I really didn't know what I liked.
All sounds great, right? So, why did I leave? Part of it is financial in that I feel like next year will be very tight financially and I need to slim down on unnecessary stuff. But at $10 a month, I could have easily kept it if I wanted to. In truth, I mostly did it because I want to start being much more intentional with my beauty budget. I am in a place now where I am more confident in what I like. I would honestly rather ridiculously indulge in my favorite $20 mascara a few times a year or buy one new palette that I love than try 3 to 5 samples of new products that I may or may not like 12 times a year. My makeup drawers are overflowing and I am ready to simply streamline and indulge in the products I know and love rather than constantly searching for the new thing for me.
So, I have no grudge against Glam bag and I think they are wonderful for beginners, but this beauty fiend is off to other adventures for now.


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Medicinal marijuana advocate assembles new defense team
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By Mark Minton
A Garden City medicinal marijuana advocate facing various drug charges has hired new legal counsel.
Shona Banda, who is charged with endangering a child, distribution or possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of school property, unlawful manufacture of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia, has hired Kenneth B. Miller of Wichita and Michael Minardi of Minardi Law in Florida after already having gone through two defense attorneys.
According to a press release issued Saturday by Stacie Swanson-Crass, a member of the The Human Solution International (THSI) advocacy group for the legalization of cannabis and a supporter of Banda, the new legal team was assembled by Banda with donations from supporters and the general public.
However, Menardi said he would be willing to serve Banda pro bono if necessary.
"This isn't about money," he said. "This is about caring about a person and making sure that someone isn't treated unfairly because her choice of medicine is a plant that's been in this world since its beginning vs. these pharmaceutical drugs that are killing people each and every day."
According to the press release, Minardi is well known for arguing cases that have resulted in acquittals and reduced plea bargains in Florida, where cannabis is illegal medically and recreationally, just as it is in Kansas.
Miller will be acting as Banda's Kansas counsel while Minardi, who is not licensed to practice law in Kansas, will advise him on matters pertinent to his experience and expertise.
"I am, I think, one of very few people in this country that have won a medical necessity case or argued a medical necessity defense in a nonmedical state, and that is why they brought me on," Minardi said.
Banda's charges stem from an investigation by the Department of Children and Families and Garden City police in which authorities searched Banda's home in March 2015 and seized suspected marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
The intervention was spurred by the comments made by her then 11-year-old son at school, where he said his mother and other adults in his home were avid users of marijuana and that there was a lot of marijuana use in his home. The state removed Banda's son from her custody after the investigation.
Banda is well known for her use of cannabis oil in treating her Crohn's disease and authored a book on the subject titled, "Live Free or Die." She also has appeared in YouTube videos and online articles, espousing belief in the medicinal benefits of cannabis oil. The story of her son's removal from her home in 2015 garnered national attention and calls to decriminalize medical marijuana in Kansas.
Minardi said that as far as the defense goes, it comes down to an issue of survival.
"This woman has been through numerous surgeries," he said. "She's suffered through constant and regular pain. She had a choice whether or not to continue on with these medications that cause significant side effects that don't work and don't do anything to help, or use something that can give her quality of life, to allow her to spend quality time with her children without suffering."
In July, the Finney County Attorney's Office filed a motion asking Chief District Judge Wendel Wurst to rule whether Banda should be allowed to claim the benefits of medical marijuana as part of her defense. Wurst has yet to make a ruling on the motion.
In late November, Judge Wurst granted a motion by public defender Ron Evans, who was representing Banda, requesting that a mental competency evaluation be performed on Banda to determine if she is competent to stand trial.
Banda said in court that she was agreeable to the evaluation, which was scheduled for Jan. 5 at Compass Behavioral Health. A subsequent hearing to review the findings of the evaluation is scheduled for 11 a.m. Jan. 17 in Finney County District Court.
Minardi said he does not know if the evaluation has taken place and has not seen a report on her mental competence.
"I would say she is clearly competent and understands what's going on," he said. "How that issue came up, I have no idea. And why the public defender would even argue it, I have no idea. But from every conversation I have had with her, she is a brilliant woman who is just trying to save her life."
In March, Banda filed a lawsuit in federal court in Wichita naming the Garden City Police Department, Garden City USD 457, the State of Kansas, the governor and the DCF, among others, alleging that her rights to use cannabis for medicinal purposes and to maintain custody of her son had been violated.
In late December, a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit.
Despite that, Minardi is confident Banda's case can be tried successfully.
"From my perspective, she has a great case, her condition is clear, her use of cannabis is clear, the science behind cannabis is clear," Minardi said. "This poor woman wanted to be a good mother, wants to live for her child, wants to be able to be there and be a good parent, and if cannabis is the medication that helps her do that, she should be able to use it."
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Rachel Harrison: Conquest of the Useless
30 April – 20 June 2010
Creating kaleidoscopic fields of visual sensation and cultural references, Rachel Harrison combines a wide range of mediums including photography, painting, sculpture, video, installation and architectural interventions. At the heart of this survey show is her installation Indigenous Parts V, 1995-2010, a work which has been recreated in multiple locations, mutating with each context. Here it incorporates pedestals borrowed from London's museums clustered into a landscape of towers and plateaus on which objects are arranged in idiosyncratic scenarios. Both a display and a stage set for the viewer, Indigenous Parts is simultaneously cryptic, devotional and funny.
The title of this show is drawn from Werner Herzog's reflections on his 1982 film Fitzcarraldo, the tale of a would be rubber baron who aims to build an opera hall in the Amazonian jungle. The quixotic yet epic folly of this and Herzog's own, nearly fatal vision of re-creating his subject's quest to drag a steamer over a Peruvian mountain, finds its parallel in Harrison's practice. It courts a range of references and antecedents, a give-and-take between pop culture and the history of art. At once ridiculous and profound, Harrison's vibrantly coloured sculptures and deadpan videos create a labyrinthine panorama where works bearing the attributes of Johnny Depp and Fats Domino jostle for space alongside elaborate and subtle ruminations on vision, objecthood and phenomenological experience.
Born in 1966, Harrison lives and works in New York. She has shown across the US and in Europe, where she was recently included in the 53rd Venice Biennale and Tate Triennial of 2009.
The exhibition was organised in collaboration with the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and made in co-operation with Portikus, Frankfurt am Main.
With thanks to Greene Naftali Gallery, New York and the Exhibition Circle: Connie Caplan, Cranford Collection, London, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Renée & Mark Rockefeller, Chara Schreyer and those who wish to remain anonymous.


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MusiciansKen Harris
Kenneth (Ken) Harris started his musical journey at the age of nine where he had lessons on the clarinet. He continued to play clarinet all throughout high school, switching to double bass at the age of 17 where he was lucky enough to learn from Justin Bullock. Ken then went on to play bass in Melbourne, freelancing as a jazz, folk and classical musician. This time in Ken's life saw him tour nationally and internationally, playing in some of the best festivals and concert halls.
He then studied at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, learning from Robert Nairn and Ben Hanlon. While studying he received the Corinna D'Hage Mayer String Scholarship. After two years Ken transferred to the Queensland Conservatorium of Music where he studied under Dušan Walkowicz and Marian Heckenberg. Ken will be commencing his first year at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) in 2021 where he will train under Damien Eckersley. Ken is currently a casual bass player with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and freelances around Australia.
Some highlights of Ken's career include playing Principal Bass for Melbourne Opera's production of Tristan und Isolde, performing Britten's chamber opera Curlew River, as well as Shostakovich's Symphony no. 5 at the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore. Ken also has a passion for new Australian music and has premiered a number of new works for double bass.
If you don't see Ken at the Abbotsford Convent or the concert hall, you may see him riding one of the many bike tracks around Melbourne, or searching far and wide for Melbourne's best craft beer.
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Our finally-finished-almost-a-year-later review of the finally-released-three-years-after-completion 2009 horror film from director/co-writer Drew Goddard and producer/co-writer Joss Whedon, the team behind some of my favorite episodes of Buffy and its spin-off, Angel. (Sadly, Drew didn't join Team Buffyverse until shortly before the end of the former and the cancellation of the latter. But I don't hold that, or Cloverfield, against him.)
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15 thoughts on "The Cabin in the Woods (2012)"
Daniel Knepp says:
Cabin in the Woods was a fantastic film. Hopefully, Joss will do more work in the horror genre after he tires of Avengers. I do wish you had gone more into the landscape changes of the horror genre between 2009 and 2012 though.
David DeMoss says:
I wish I'd gone into that, too. Pulled the camera back, as it were…but doing so would've made things at least ten minutes longer. Best to save those rants for another time, or at least stagger them out. You heard the Indestructible Cheerleader (I know, I know…but Hayden Panettiere will always be Claire Bennet to me): there's a long list of opportunities for me to talk about the Rise and Fall of the American Horror Film in This Benighted 21st Century. Though I'll gladly spoil myself by saying 2012 was, actually, not that bad a year, from a purely numerical standpoint. Certainly better than 2008, the year that probably inspired Cabin's initial conception.
As far as my inner horror fan's concerned, 2008 was an evil, evil year. But at the time my inner comic book fan's jubilant celebrations ("An Iron Man movie and a Batman movie in the same summer, neither of which sucked?!?! I must be dreaming.") drowned out my inner horror fan's cries for help. Just look at the top ten highest grossing horror films from that year (not the best metric, I know, but better than nothing). You'll find:
-1 sequel, right at the top (Saw 5, the last of them to hit #1 at the box office before Paranormal Activity seized their throne)
-1 Adaption of a 2003 novel from the author of A Simple Plan (The Ruins, which played like more Torture Porn thanks to the intervening five Saw films, and their influence.)
-1 Spanish haunted house movie no one saw…not even me. (The Orphanage – its English-language remake is still "in development" at the time of this writing.)
-6 Remakes (The biggest being Will Smith's I Am Legend which barely counts, since it has little to do with its source and came out in 2007's pre-Christmas season…but there it is. Then there's Prom Night, which is Prom Night. The remaining four – Quarantine, Mirrors, One Missed Call, and Shutter – are all remakes of non-English horror movies, none more than 5 years old at the time, and made specifically because Hollywood thinks we're too stupid to go see a movie with subtitles.)
-And last, though not least because it should've been first, we have Let the Right One In. Which got its own English-language remake in 2010, to the surprise of absolutely no one.
2012 had 3 sequels in the top ten (Paranormal Activity 4, Silent Hill 2, The Collection), and the whole list is warped by the presence of Prometheus (so that's one kinda-sorta-prequel-but-not-really), but English-language bastardizations are nowhere to be found and you have to go all the way down to the 20s before you find a Nostalgia Remake (Silent Night). I suppose that's something. If we could somehow limit ourselves to a maximum two Exorcist rip-offs per year, we might actually start getting somewhere.
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You should see The Orphanage, it's actually really, really good.
Consider it added to The Black List.
RogerBW says:
I approached this as not a horror fan (though I'm vaguely familiar with the genre), and not a Whedon fan – but I ended up in much the same place as you. The snarky kids are wearing when they're the only focus of attention, but the control room scenes break things up enough that they didn't grate on me the way they did in Buffy. The characters are underdeveloped, but the setup makes their underdevelopment part of the point.
Sure, it's not perfect. But it comes a lot closer than, well, pretty much any other film I saw last year.
I find it faintly bizarre that, once this film had come out, anyone could contemplate churning out yet another generic horror remake. But of course they do and they are.
And they'll continue to do so. And I'll continue to see them; separate the time-killing distractions from the complete wastes of everyone's time. At least they pushed the Carrie remake back to October, giving me that much more time to work on any potential Carrie-athons I may or may not be planning. Actually, a lot of the remakes I was dreading have gotten shoved into 2014, including my new favorite source of rage, RoboCop. Perhaps the abysmal failures of Total Recall and Red Dawn have taught someone, somewhere, a lesson.
Then again, those were primarily action movies (obvious SF elements of both notwithstanding), and horror movies are easier to remake. Most re-makeable action movies (which now means 80s action movies) were star vehicles and most of those stars are still alive, more than willing to return for one last go round…or seven. Horror movies are a name and a monster costume to most of Hollywood's decision makers. Been that way since at least the 1930s (as my pile of Universal Monster Movies will attest), and it'll remain true as long as people value comforting familiarity above…well, everything else.
While all of that is true, I'm still looking forward to the Evil Dead remake. The red band trailer makes it look like it has balls, and I can't believe they brought back the rape tree!
Well it wouldn't very well be an Evil Dead remake without an angry molesting tree, now would it? Balls are easy to come by. 49% of the population's got 'em. I'm more interested in whether or not it has any brains. But we'll put a pin in that to explore sometime around…let's say, April 17th.
Todd Puglisi says:
while this film was quite a ride(no pun intended-I realized about a nanosecond before Hemsworth's demise what would happen,and I roared when it did;it was also much fun watching Miss Weaver bring Ripley to a conclusion that involved punching someone in the face),for my satirical dollar I prefer "Tucker And Dale Vs. Evil". Perhaps living in the Deep South (O what a Horror) shades things for me,but T&D almost gave me hope.It's the first time I haven't hated a Southern Drawl in a couple decades….
A decent Southern accent would be enough to get me watching for sheer novelty alone. Despite never having seen Tucker and Dale at the time of this writing, I have seen several of my contemporaries compare it, favorably and otherwise, to Cabin in the Woods. Behind the Mask is often mentioned in the same breath and praised for getting many of the same things right. Obviously, I'm going to have to go on some manner of satirical horror movie kick as soon as I foil my Evil Self's plan to drive me mad with all these New Releases.
Charles Phipps says:
I love Cabin in the Woods and I think it encapsulates everything I love about Joss Whedon's style, which is that he manages nice "Reconstructions" of things he deconstructs, if I may use popular buzzwords. He carefully deconstructs all of the cliche, silly, and dumb plot points of your generic horror film only to explain–yes, in fact, these things are scary. Most movies which attempt to parody these things just say, "haha, isn't that dumb." The key to CITW success is that it says, "not, necessarily."
The character's likability is a big factor to the success, as you mentioned, and I think all horror movies should follow this formula. It's the rare movie I'd actually like a sequel too. Even though, of course, one is impossible.
I will say I believe you're dead wrong about the Old Ones being Warner Brothers versus the audience. The creators of the generic dumbed-down schlock are definitely the producers in the labs. They produce this because the audience WANTS dumbed down crap versus intelligently written stuff. Let's face it, most slasher movies aren't exactly produced as mega blockbusters.
My .02.
Whenever anyone mentions the possibility of following this up, I think back to that mantra on the first Scary Movie's theatrical poster: "No mercy. No shame. No sequel." If I were in charge of Cabin's marketing I… would've preserved the original poster campaign from 2009 ("If you hear a strange sound outside….have sex." "If an old man warns you not to go there…make fun of him."). But my second choice would be to emblazon the Rubix Cube design with, "No dudebros. No dumb broads. No goddamned, motherfucking, ass-kissing, bottom-line-inflating, producer-pandering, cheap-jack, bullshitty sequels!"
In a similar vein, as a life-long horror movie audience member, I don't ever recall asking for dumbed-down schlock. That may have been what people heard when I asked for things like "more Frankenstein, damnit!" but I can't control how much wax others have in their ears. Nor did I ever ask for "mega blockbusters," save in the vein of, say, Army of Darkness…which always got shelved in the Action section anyway. In fact, as time's gone by and one disappointment after another has broken my spirit down to a crusty nub, I've stopped asking for much of anything beyond "a good story, well told." Because, really, who wants a shit story, told poorly? Besides idiots?
Basically, I revolt at the notion that we, the audience, are the Elder Gods because what power we have in the horror movie fan relationship is largely illusionary. There's the power of our (usually empty) wallets and the power to bitch about things on the internet. Great: the rhetorical equivalent of haranguing a New York City street from a throne of trash in some maze-like network of back-alleys. I feel as empowered as any citizen of Rat City. Seriously, I could shout myself horse and, in raw terms, my power would never equal the studio's ability to lead gullible fools, pied-piper style, to the next depressingly mediocre thing through sheer Force of Advertizing Omnipresence. That's why boycotts have gone the way of the numeric pager: they just don't work in a world where the average person sees 5000 ads a day and the next one they see could be yours…if the price is right. For all our efforts, Prometheus is still the highest grossing Horror movie its year, and I still have to explain – to my dentist, no less – that, no, she isn't crazy: the similarities to Alien are not only intentionally, but one is supposed to follow the other. "But that makes even less sense!" she said to me as we waited for the Novocaine to kick in. "As usual, Doc," I said, "You've hit the nerve exactly."
[In a similar vein, as a life-long horror movie audience member, I don't ever recall asking for dumbed-down schlock.]
I, too, am a life-long horror aficanado. In fact, it was my search for articulate reviews of movies which do not deserve them (see FTT and ANOES' later works) which lead me to this site. As much as I see your point, I'd argue that Whedon is stating that as long as audiences keeping buying tickets to it. I see Cabin in the Woods as a reaction to the horror fan not asking for a better class of horror. A condemnation of the movies (at the time) and before which were yet another endless parade of young victims going to their doom at the hands of Hostels or Jigsaw or whatnot.
The thing is, I think Joss is wrong even if I disagree with his target. There's nothing wrong with dumbed down mass-marketed shlock IMHO. I don't mind masses-pleasing fast food and I don't mind it in my movies. One can retell the same story a million times as long as it's a good story and I feel the same way about horror movies. No, we have no power over the movie-makers anymore than the rats in rat city but I always felt the movie-makers don't really CARE about what they produce at the higher level so long as it's being eaten up.
All they notice is the rats like cheese, so cheese they produce…in abundance.
joe cable says:
When all is said and done, this movie would not exist without Wes Craven's "Scream" and Good Ol' Alan Moore….
also, how can you not love a flick whose basic premise is that God is Fucking Asshole?


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Personal finance can be a dry topic. Reasons can be many. For a start, it is a vast topic with many options, hence suffering from paradox of choice. Then, it lacks instant gratification, something we like. Worse still, it involve some self-disciplining... Damn still... it is more work. No wonder I have a modest crowd to my budgeting app, despite being express and free.
To make things fun, my friend @Douglas Owusu introduced me to a free multiplayer online game richdad (inspired by RichDadPoorData philosophy of Kiyosaki?) I see many remain stuck in the inner circle of paycheck to paycheck. Possibly an eye opener for many. I think discussing with like-minded friends will keep afloat. Knowledge sharing will hopefully divide the work. Need to diversify revenue streams. I invite suggestions from readers?
I hear from my large clients claiming how much money a contractor makes compared to a full-time employee (FT). I have always wondered the real cost of a contractor to a client. So, I did the maths, and surprisingly the results show that the dollar cost is about the SAME!
How? Assume contractor cost of $100 per hour, and pay of the similar FT is at $130,000 with a modest annual combined contribution of CPP, EI, TFSA, RRSP and severance insurance of $15,000. I subtracted 1_month_risk_premiums from contractor invoice since a contractor is always on the hook!
Both worker types cost about the same. Am I missing something?
Whether contractor can get more take home income is another story. Possibly, at the cost of risk of express redundancy, no severance, no EI, filing additional taxes, self-training etc. For a FT, an employer has to provide most of them.
Then, why does the employer prefer FT?
Likely, the government incents for keeping FTs. An FT has to be loyal for, at least, three years and grows with the employer. The truth is my fellow contractors and I are delivery-ready, love our work, want to deliver, avoid bureaucratic meetings and be responsible for our own learning.
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How To Make A Billion Dollars From Big Data
Posted by Bernard Marr on May 11, 2015 at 12:00pm
Among the new faces making their debut on the Forbes 2015 billionaires list are a growing number who have made their fortunes from Big Data.
These Big Data billionaires are at the top of their game – all of them have built empires on their ability to collect, interpret and use data in ways no one had thought of before.
Most operate in the mainstream consumer markets – where their focus on improving seemingly mundane aspects of everyday life – hailing a cab, or choosing a movie to watch – has proven hugely successful.
Others operate in specialist markets – combating terrorism and financial fraud by providing experts with previously unavailable insights.
So here's a brief bit about how each one of them has gone about putting big data to work to change the world and turn a profit.
Travis Kalanick, Uber
The college dropout CEO of Uber leads the charge of newcomers into the rich list, with a net worth of $5.3 billion.
The mobile app-based service which connects people needing a ride with a network of drivers ready to get them to their destination may have angered traditional taxi drivers around the world, but that hasn't stopped it being valued at $41 billion.
Uber stores and monitors data on every journey its users take, and uses it to determine demand, allocate resources and set fares. The company also carries out in-depth analysis of public transport networks in the cities it serves, so it can focus coverage in poorly-served areas and provide links to buses and trains.
Recently Kalanick has claimed that the new UberPool service, which analyzes ride data, to set up car sharing arrangements could cut traffic on the streets of London by a third.
Reed Hastings, Netflix
After a brief stint in the Marine Corps followed by the Peace Corps, Hastings studied computing at Stanford University before forming his first company Pure Software in 1991. Following a public floatation Hastings was made CEO and went on to form Netflix with Marc Randolph, which started out as a DVD-by-mail business. Today, Reed has an estimate net worth of $1 billion and he also sits on the board of directors of Facebook, another company built on big data.
Netflix has been transformed using big data analytics to 'give people what they want', as the New York Times put it. The company is analyzing detailed viewing data from their 55+ million subscribers to not only optimize their recommendations but also find the next 'House of Cards' blockbuster.
Predicting what you will want to watch next is the primary goal of Netflix's data strategy. To do this it has employed teams of movie buffs to scour years' worth of film and TV and tag the common themes they contain. It also regularly runs crowd-sourced contests with million-dollar prizes for anyone who can come up with algorithms that more accurately predict audience viewing habits than its existing ones.
Brian Chesky, AirBnB
The 33-year-old co-founder and CEO of AirB'n'B is said not to have owned his own home since 2010, almost continuously using his own service, which connects travellers with property owners willing to offer short term lets.
24 million bookings have been made in 34,000 cities since the service launched in 2008, meaning that the company has collected a huge amount of data – estimated at half a petabyte – on people's holiday and traveling habits.
This insight enables them to ensure they concentrate efforts on signing up landlords in popular destinations at peak times, and structure pricing so that the use of their global network of properties is optimized. Proprietary machine learning algorithmsare in place across the network to predict fraudulent transactions before they are processed, and a robust recommendation system allows guests and hosts to rate each other to build trust.
It has also just unveiled Airpal – a user-friendly data analysis platform designed to allow all of its employees, not just those trained in data science, access to all of the company's information, and tools to query it with.
Chesky and his co-founders – Nathan Blecharczyk and Joe Gebbia – are said to be worth $1.9 billion each.
Vincent Viola, Virtu Financial
Viola founded the high-frequency trading (HFT) specialist Virtu in 2008, and is currently thought to have a net worth of $1.7 billion. His company developed its own proprietary trading algorithms based on big data principles, to trade equities, commodities, currencies and options on international markets. Plans to take the company which made him the first HFT billionaire public were shelved last year but are thought to be back on the table this year.
HFT, which uses algorithms to make thousands of trades, profiting little but often from tiny movements in price, relies heavily on vast datasets culled from the world financial markets. It is said to account for nearly half of all US equities traded, and 60% of futures.
Last year, the company announced that it had only suffered one day of overall trading loss in the previous five years – attributing this success to its real-time risk management strategy and technology.
Evan Spiegel (and Bobby Boggy Murphy), Snapchat
At 24 and 25, Spiegel and Murphy are the youngest newcomers to the rich list. The two met when they were studying at Stanford University and in 2013 they made headlines by turning down a $3 billion offer from Facebook for their social picture sharing app. This turned out to be a good move as the company last month valued itself at up to $19 billion.
Snapchat started with a gimmick – there were lots of picture messaging services but they were the first to spot that not everyone, for whatever reason, might want the pictures they send to friends to remain visible forever. By implementing an automated self-destruct feature they hoped to build trust. There have been a few stumbles but the service has been phenomenally successful.
Since then the product has evolved with the inclusion of data-driven features intended to help users connect with others, and to tell collaborative stories based on shared timelines.
Alexander Karp, Palantir
Karp had help from the CIA with building Palantir, which uses big data algorithms to combat terrorists and financial fraud around the world. Its biggest customer is the US Government, which uses its software to predict everything from the placement of roadside bombs to fraudulent transactions.
Much of its work is naturally veiled in secrecy, but it is widely known that its routines for spotting patterns and anomalies in data which indicate suspicious or fraudulent activity are derived from technology developed by Paypal. Karp's co-founder at Palantir is Peter Thiel, who also co-founded the online payment service.
Data from DNA databases, surveillance records showing movements, social media data and tip-offs from informants can be drawn together to predict the activities of bad guys, enabling an appropriate response.
A key philosophy of the company is that human intervention is still needed to get the most from data analysis – particularly when you have to think one step ahead of an enemy. To this end, they provide hand-picked expert consultants to work alongside their clients on data projects.
Initially concentrating on security and anti-terrorism for government clients, Palantir now casts its net much wider and offers its services to the financial and pharmaceutical industries.
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Series: Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies
The Global Rise of the Far Right
By Walden Bello July 2019
"A tour de force, required reading for all concerned about our political fate wherever we may be." —Michael Burawoy, professor of sociology, University of California at Berkeley
Speculative Harvests
Financialization, Food, and Agriculture
By Jennifer Clapp and S. Ryan Isakson April 2018
The centralization of finance and the corporatization of agriculture is having a very dramatic impact on the quality and availability of the food we eat.
Science and Politics
By Peter M. Rosset and Miguel A. Altieri October 2017
Our global food system is largely based on unsustainable industrial agricultural practices, is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, is controlled by a handful of large corporations and produces unhealthy food. Agroecology is a solution to these increasingly urgent problems.
Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements
By Saturnino M. Borras, Jr. and Marc Edelman April 2016
"The prayers of those of us who have long hungered for a comprehensive, historically deep, learned and accessible account of international agrarian movements have finally been answered in full. We will long be in debt to Edelman and Borras for this exceptional and lasting contribution to agrarian scholarship." - James C. Scott, founding Director, Yale University Agrarian Studies Program, author of The Art of Not Being Governed
Agrarian Change, Migration and Development
By Henry Veltmeyer and Raúl Delgado Wise April 2016
The focus and concern of Agrarian Change, Migration and Development is the problem of labour migration. Veltmeyer and Wise explore the dynamics and development implications of the migration processes set in motion by the capitalist mode of production. The dynamics of these processes are both international — in regard to the international or cross-border flows of labour migrants — and internal to countries that have undergone, or are undergoing, a process of agrarian change and social transformation.
Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development
By Ian Scoones August 2015
"This is an extraordinarily important book. Concise yet comprehensive, combining and drawing on the perspectives of many disciplines, accessible to all readers, professionally impeccable, and on top of all this, original in its analysis and extension into new fields, this book is a wonderful contribution to development thinking and action." — Robert Chambers, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions
By Philip McMichael August 2013
Philip McMichael explores the relationships between contemporary food, energy, climate and financial crises and food regime restructuring, which includes agrofuels, land grabbing, the bioeconomy, agro-security mercantilism and the food sovereignty movement.
Peasants and the Art of Farming
A Chayanovian Manifesto
By Jan Douwe van der Ploeg May 2013
Many impressive studies on the changing nature of the global food system have been published, and nearly all address changes at the macro level. The far less visible changes occurring at the micro level have received relatively little attention, especially in the realm of critical rural studies. This book is a reflection of the far reaching and complex transformations of food systems that have occurred as a result of liberalization and globalization.
Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change
By Henry Bernstein September 2010
Agrarian political economy investigates the social relations of production and reproduction, property and power in agrarian formations, and how they change. Using Marx's theory of capitalism the book argues that class dynamics should be the starting point of any analysis of agrarian change.


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#include "bgp/inet6/inet6_table.h"

#include <boost/functional/hash.hpp>
#include <boost/scoped_ptr.hpp>

#include "base/util.h"
#include "bgp/bgp_path.h"
#include "bgp/routing-instance/routing_instance.h"
#include "bgp/inet6vpn/inet6vpn_route.h"
#include "db/db_table_partition.h"

size_t Inet6Table::HashFunction(const Inet6Prefix &prefix) {
    const Ip6Address::bytes_type &addr_bytes = prefix.ToBytes();
    return boost::hash_range(addr_bytes.begin(), addr_bytes.end());
}

std::auto_ptr<DBEntry> Inet6Table::AllocEntry(const DBRequestKey *key) const {
    const RequestKey *rkey = static_cast<const RequestKey *>(key);
    return std::auto_ptr<DBEntry> (new Inet6Route(rkey->prefix));
}

std::auto_ptr<DBEntry> Inet6Table::AllocEntryStr(
        const std::string &key_str) const {
    Inet6Prefix prefix = Inet6Prefix::FromString(key_str);
    return std::auto_ptr<DBEntry> (new Inet6Route(prefix));
}

size_t Inet6Table::Hash(const DBEntry *entry) const {
    const Inet6Route *route = static_cast<const Inet6Route *>(entry);
    size_t value = HashFunction(route->GetPrefix());
    return value % DB::PartitionCount();
}

size_t Inet6Table::Hash(const DBRequestKey *key) const {
    const RequestKey *rkey = static_cast<const RequestKey *>(key);
    size_t value = HashFunction(rkey->prefix);
    return value % DB::PartitionCount();
}

BgpRoute *Inet6Table::TableFind(DBTablePartition *partition,
                                const DBRequestKey *key) {
    const RequestKey *rkey = static_cast<const RequestKey *>(key);
    Inet6Route route(rkey->prefix);
    return static_cast<BgpRoute *>(partition->Find(&route));
}

DBTableBase *Inet6Table::CreateTable(DB *db, const std::string &name) {
    Inet6Table *table = new Inet6Table(db, name);
    table->Init();
    return table;
}

BgpRoute *Inet6Table::RouteReplicate(BgpServer *server, BgpTable *src_table,
        BgpRoute *src_rt, const BgpPath *path, ExtCommunityPtr community) {
    assert((src_table->family()  == Address::INET6) ||
           (src_table->family()  == Address::INET6VPN));

    Inet6Route *source = dynamic_cast<Inet6Route *>(src_rt);

    boost::scoped_ptr<Inet6Prefix> prefix;
    if (source) {
        prefix.reset(new Inet6Prefix(source->GetPrefix().ip6_addr(),
                                     source->GetPrefix().prefixlen()));
    } else {
        Inet6VpnRoute *vpn_route = dynamic_cast<Inet6VpnRoute *> (src_rt);
        assert(vpn_route);
        prefix.reset(new Inet6Prefix(vpn_route->GetPrefix().addr(),
                                     vpn_route->GetPrefix().prefixlen()));
    }

    Inet6Route route(*prefix);
    DBTablePartition *partition =
        static_cast<DBTablePartition *>(GetTablePartition(&route));
    BgpRoute *dest_route = static_cast<BgpRoute *>(partition->Find(&route));
    if (dest_route == NULL) {
        dest_route = new Inet6Route(route.GetPrefix());
        partition->Add(dest_route);
    } else {
        dest_route->ClearDelete();
    }

    // Replace the extended community with the one provided.
    BgpAttrPtr new_attr =
        server->attr_db()->ReplaceExtCommunityAndLocate(path->GetAttr(),
                                                        community);

    // Check whether there's already a path with the given peer and path id.
    BgpPath *dest_path =
        dest_route->FindSecondaryPath(src_rt, path->GetSource(),
                                      path->GetPeer(), path->GetPathId());
    if (dest_path != NULL) {
        if ((new_attr != dest_path->GetAttr()) ||
            (path->GetLabel() != dest_path->GetLabel())) {
            // Update Attributes and notify (if needed)
            assert(dest_route->RemoveSecondaryPath(src_rt, path->GetSource(),
                path->GetPeer(), path->GetPathId()));
        } else {
            return dest_route;
        }
    }

    BgpSecondaryPath *replicated_path =
        new BgpSecondaryPath(path->GetPeer(), path->GetPathId(),
            path->GetSource(), new_attr, path->GetFlags(), path->GetLabel());
    replicated_path->SetReplicateInfo(src_table, src_rt);
    dest_route->InsertPath(replicated_path);

    // Notify the route even if the best path may not have changed. For XMPP
    // peers, we support sending multiple ECMP next-hops for a single route.
    //
    // TODO: Can be optimized for changes that does not result in any change
    // to ECMP list
    partition->Notify(dest_route);

    return dest_route;
}

bool Inet6Table::Export(RibOut *ribout, Route *route, const RibPeerSet &peerset,
        UpdateInfoSList &uinfo_slist) {
    BgpRoute *bgp_route = static_cast<BgpRoute *> (route);
    UpdateInfo *uinfo = GetUpdateInfo(ribout, bgp_route, peerset);
    if (!uinfo) {
        return false;
    }
    assert(ribout->ExportPolicy().encoding == RibExportPolicy::XMPP);
    uinfo_slist->push_front(*uinfo);
    return true;
}

static void RegisterFactory() {
    DB::RegisterFactory("inet6.0", &Inet6Table::CreateTable);
}
MODULE_INITIALIZER(RegisterFactory);

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