Derek Perkins

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“It should come as no surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working people would find that the working class has abandoned them”. Bernie Sanders puts his finger on the election débâcle.

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@AirCanada Want to get to know some people who had to pay an extra $32,000 to get flights home to Japan because you cancelled their original flights after they missed the first one - without telling them? I hope any response does not include Kenya scammers who promised to help the last time

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@WalesOnline Yes, but I live the way she stopped her watch first!

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#5 The cost for all the extra tickets: $32,448. What price a little compassion in acknowledgment of the odious practice of cancelling paid flights with no warning - then re-selling them to other travellers?

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#4 No Air Canada seats available on their original return flights - clearly sold twice, once to them, once to other people. Not all Air Canada’s fault, but does this sound fair to you? No offer of compensation at airport.

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#3 So, no flights back to Japan from Boston when they arrived to check in at the end of the trip. The group had to book more new one-way flights - again and at a premium in order to get home.

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#2 No advice on visas being needed to transit Canada. At airport, visa system was down, so they missed their flights, so the group had to book completely new (one-way) flights. Air Canada then cancelled ALL their remaining flights with NO NOTICE given.

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Thread #1 of 3 - @AirCanada travel nightmare. A trip to the US in June 2024 to celebrate my son’s Japanese wedding with a total of 13 people from Japan, including 3 children under 10 - all inexperienced travellers. Flights booked on Air Canada, Tokyo-Toronto-Boston return.

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@implausibleblog Why is the BBC giving prime air time to this marginal candidate ?

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@brianmoore666 Wear the bloody thing, you’ve earned the right to. It can also inspire others - I’ll never forget seeing Mervyn Davies wearing his Lions blazer when I was a schoolboy. Cathartic (even if it didn’t elevate me to the subliminal me heights of elite rugby!).

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@MLP_officiel @RTLFrance Remarquez comment elle ne précise jamais ce que sont exactement ces ´problèmes’.

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@RichardJMurphy A brilliant discourse and one which should be in the slightest controversial if only we were to live in the true democracy that the politicians we lumber ourselves with and who claim to ‘love’ spend most of their time undermining.

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@dallaglio8 Where are you, North Korea?

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@SquidgeRugby Whichever ´song’ they sang, it was boorish and disrespectful in my opinion. I know some evzn of the rugby players disgrez with that.

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@RepAdamSchiff Thoughts are, of course, with the victims of these atrocities but the rush to blind support of Israel by the West masks the need to also place the plight of ordinary Palestinians in a realistic context of decades of (illegal) occupation and oppression.

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@SquidgeRugby Try the Rugby World Cup website, it has free video highlights of the games.

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@Rugbyworldmag No

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@ProgressiveRug Maybe club and national team coaches should be made to attend tackle school with the offending players?

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@bmay Why do you have to do this in public?

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@LondonEconomic I don’t think he flew on Japan Airlines, though, per the picture.