Air Canada Rouge to offer flights to Gatwick + MORE Jun 26th

The revised plans to the concept of the Memorial to the Victims of Communism.
Outside of read-aloud story time in the children’s book section of a good library, it’s rare to hear such a soothing tone of voice as Steve Willis, the National Capital Commission’s executive director of capital planning, used today to present to the NCC’s board a revised design for the government’s proposed victims of communism memorial.
His presentation to the NCC’s open board meeting had been anxiously awaited by the memorial’s many opponents, who object to its massive scale and imposing design and, especially, to plunking the monument down on the site chosen for it by the Conservatives—a rare patch of vacant space near Parliament Hill, right next to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Willis took pains today to describe how the revised design would cover only 37 per cent of that prime piece of real estate, much reduced from the 60 per cent the original plan would have taken up. And he stressed that the scaled-down version wouldn’t be the aggressive concrete mass illustrated, to the alarm of so many, in previous design drawings…

The second-largest U.S. health insurer made a formal offer this week in the form of cash and stock, according to several people with knowledge of the matter, and could reach a deal as early as this weekend

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Welcome to another fine Weekend Reading edition!  Hard to believe June is almost a memory and we’re reaching the mid-point of summer.  Earlier this week I starting thinking about how to manage my small LIRA and I reminded you saying “we can’t afford it” remains taboo in most financial discussions.
Enjoy these articles about defriending, advice from Vanguard, how much money might make you happy and more this weekend.  Take care!
Kerry Taylor said its simple to get confused about how much your paying in money management fees, and this comes up when she talks to friends. Kerry goes on to state the best way to lose friends is to help them with their finances:  “The defriending process often begins when I agree to review a friend’s finances. By drafting a balanced financial plan that cuts spending, boosts debt repayment, and automates saving, I can turn a friend into a foe in minutes. Maybe a month…

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MONTREAL – Air Canada and WestJet are taking their domestic rivalry to London with both companies now adding flights to Gatwick Airport next year.
The country’s largest carrier, which already flies to Heathrow Airport from eight Canadian cities, announced Thursday it will add flights from Toronto to Gatwick on its leisure subsidiary Rouge next summer.
Benjamin Smith, president of passenger airlines, boasted that Air Canada (TSX:AC) will be the only Canadian carrier servicing multiple airports in the London area.
“Air Canada Rouge is ideally-suited to serve London-Gatwick, with its focus on leisure travel and provide easy access to southern London,” he said in a news release.
The move comes several days after Calgary-based WestJet (TSX:WJA) said Gatwick would be its first transatlantic destination for its wide-body Boeing 767s. That service is slated to start next spring but the originating airports haven’t been disclosed.
Bob Cummings, executive vice-president commercial for WestJet, said last week the planes will allow service to England from anywhere in Canada and to other international destinations…