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Air Canada Pilots Can't Stop Bringing Porn Into the Cockpit

Aleksander Chan · 10/02/14 09:17AM

According to an internal Air Canada memo leaked to CBC, officials at the airline had to implore its pilots—again—that they shouldn't be bringing their porn into the cockpit with them. "I am disappointed to have to raise this issue once again but unfortunately we have some people that have yet to understand the message," Rod Graham, Air Canada's chief pilot and director of fleet operations and training, writes in the memo.

Drunken Bathroom Brawl Forces Flight to Divert With Military Escort

Andy Cush · 08/29/14 10:01AM

Two passengers who had allegedly consumed a "significant quantity" of alcohol caused a Sunwing flight from Toronto to Cuba to return to the airport under a military escort after they smoked in the bathroom, tripped a fire alarm, got into a fight, and made a "threat against the aircraft."

Canadians Make Us Look Bad by Building Nicer Benches for the Homeless

Adam Weinstein · 07/02/14 12:40PM

The homeless have it hard lately, what with all the anti-homeless measures municipalities have implemented to keep them off benches and sculptures and sidewalks. Except in Vancouver, where one charity is building "pop-up" shelters that invite the weary in.

Adam Weinstein · 06/19/14 04:08PM

"Let me first assure you: We do not have a plan on the shelf for the invasion of Canada," the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told a Senate panel yesterday.

Man Sues Hospital Claiming Surgery Shrunk His Penis

Andy Cush · 06/16/14 10:12AM

In 2011, an anonymous Canadian man fractured his penis while having sex with his wife. As if that indignity wasn't enough, surgery to correct the injury allegedly left him with a dick that was "about an inch" shorter than before.

Ted Cruz Is No Longer Canadian

Andy Cush · 06/11/14 07:11AM

Canadian citizenship never befitted Ted Cruz, a man who's made it his mission to put the 'merica back in America since his election to the Senate last year.

Canadian Shooting Suspect Justin Bourque Arrested After Manhunt

Aleksander Chan · 06/06/14 07:12AM

Early Friday morning, police arrested 24-year-old Justin Bourque, the man accused of killing three police officers and wounding two others in New Brunswick, Canada earlier this week. His arrest came after a 30-hour lockdown of the Moncton neighborhood where the shooting occurred Wednesday evening.

Canada's Highway of Tears and the Women We Forgot

Rawiya Kameir · 05/21/14 11:05AM

Over the past 30 years, more than 1,200 indigenous women have disappeared in Canada. The aboriginal community estimates that some 43 of them have been plucked off what is known as the Highway of Tears, a 500-mile stretch of road that runs through the wilds of British Columbia. It may not sound like a whole lot, but consider 43 families not knowing what happened to their daughters or why. The majority have not even had their losses acknowledged by the police, who only count 18 missing.