Paul Martin at the NEXUS machine
 

Arriving back in YUL this evening, I heard a man saying "You're welcome" to the NEXUS machine after it had thanked him for answering the questions. I chuckled and looked over at... Paul Martin.

He was accompanied by an airport employee and a burly RCMP type hovered not too far away.

Rex Murphy MLL YHZ
 

Bumped into Rex Murphy at the MLL in YHZ last night. Briefly chatted with him about a luncheon speech he gave a few years ago that I attended. Nice encounter.

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LHR enroute BGO

A few years back I sat next to CBC Anchor Gloria Macarenko in J. Tall, elegant-looking lady, really quite hot. A lot more salt-of-the-earth than you'd think. We had a nice talk and I learned a lot about Canadian politics that I had no idea I was missing.

I was a couple of rows behind Calgary's Paul Brandt in J once. I didn't know it was him until we were deplaning.

I have an ex-GF who is a flight attendant for American. She usually works the front cabin, and she's met all kinds of celebs. She told me Nicholas Cage is really short, and really liked his bar service. Rebecca Romijin is tall (5'10" or so) and was a warm human being and was incredibly beautiful, more so than the big screen portrays.

Last month on AC 142 YVR-YYZ, I saw David Suzuki in J, again he was very low key reading his newspaper. Then I thought, why would he sit in J, I thought you pollute more by sitting on a bigger seat on a airplane?

Ummm. Because he's a huge hypocrite?

I hereby and solemnly declare, +1

Yep - sounds about right...

but if he bought carbon offsets to offset the CO2 from his flight, doesn't that make him a socially acceptable hypocrite?

Ah yes, "those that do a little must do it all, while those that do nothing complain about how little the doers do."

Rex Murphy is the "Don Cherry" of the CBC! :D

Isn't Don Cherry the Don Cherry of the CBC?

While most certainly not Canadian, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay had cause to swear at AC recently on a visit to YYZ:

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/...html?id=494199

After having his luggage lost by Air Canada, and then almost being burned alive by a ferocious journalist, Gordon Ramsay ended his state-like visit to town last week not with a bang, but with a worry. Would he, that is, hold it all against us, and still open his Canadian virgin-resto in Toronto, and not anywhere else?

I wonder what he thought of AC's J food ;-)

Brian Mulroney yesterday on yyz flight

He probably said #@!*#&

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