This week in Canada.

**The AD** · 08-08-2023, 10:58 PM

Oops...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...htning-gondola

**bennymac** · 08-08-2023, 11:02 PM

paging puregravity for an explanation

**frorider** · 08-09-2023, 12:23 PM

https://dailyhive.com/canada/social-...y-mourns-death

**ötzi** · 08-09-2023, 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by The AD

Oops...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...htning-gondola

It seems like everyone was at the top of the mountain? Were there any people still on the lift?

**waxman** · 08-09-2023, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by The AD

Oops...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...htning-gondola

Ok, it's been a while but could they not just walk down?
Way back in the days of rigid high end mountain bikes 3 of us climbed the hiking trail to the top much to the amazement of the camera carrying tourists. Maybe the layout has changed?

mntlion to the white courtesy phone please.

**Ted Striker** · 08-09-2023, 12:53 PM

I'm assuming tourons + bad shoes + darkness + scary animals

**The AD** · 08-09-2023, 01:17 PM

Originally Posted by Ted Striker

I'm assuming tourons + bad shoes + darkness + scary animals

Precisely. I think it happened at 8:30 pm, so even if you started down then you'd probably be in the dark by the time you got to the bottom (about a 5 km hike). I'd like to think I'd take the hike down in the dark as opposed to spending the night at the top, but obviously not everyone would make that choice, especially the elderly and those with children.

Good point by otzi. I didn't see anything about anyone needing to be evacuated from the lift.

**XXX-er** · 08-09-2023, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by Ted Striker

I'm assuming tourons + bad shoes + darkness + scary animals

complaining there was no contingency for a situation which had never happened before

**The AD** · 08-09-2023, 01:25 PM

It would suck to be stuck at the top of the mountain overnight, but it's not like they were stuck outside or something. Not really that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things. I'm sure the gift shop sells decks of cards.

**riser4** · 08-09-2023, 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by Ted Striker

I'm assuming tourons + bad shoes + darkness + scary animals

This where you need the guy fucking a bear costume from Super Troopers! Terrified tourists unprepared for the task encounter a guy fucking a bear. Now that would be hysterical.

**Ted Striker** · 08-09-2023, 03:29 PM

Ha! yes. That would be perfect

**riser4** · 08-09-2023, 04:02 PM

"Who wants sloppy seconds?"

**XXX-er** · 08-09-2023, 09:07 PM

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...dola-1.6932132

a wedding night they will never forget

this is Banff, I've seen people hike Johnston canyon in high heels

**The AD** · 08-09-2023, 09:31 PM

And to answer iceman's question:

She said the gondola has an auxiliary generator that allowed the company to bring guests who were in the gondola cabins down safely when the outage occurred.

"In accordance with the Canadian Standards Association's rules for passenger ropeways, backup emergency drive systems are used exclusively for deboarding guests in gondola cabins in the case of a stoppage," she said. "It is not for unloading guests off the mountain."

**LHutz Esq** · 08-24-2023, 05:14 PM

Trouble in paradise

https://www.nelsonstar.com/news/back...ered-to-close/

I may be able to provide some comfort to Mr. Holsworth, I don't think his complaints were the the cause of his woes.

Having worked both for the BCFS and the BC Attorney General - the BCFS folks on learning of an insult to one of their AG counterparts are going to chuckle and make a few lawyer jokes, not enter into a conspiracy.

**XXX-er** · 08-24-2023, 09:01 PM

Duno if I will ever be able to tour again but is that lodge ever likely to operate ?

Of course i am not looking for a legal opinion just what you think

**garyfromterrace** · 08-24-2023, 10:36 PM

Originally Posted by LHutz Esq

Trouble in paradise

https://www.nelsonstar.com/news/back...ered-to-close/

I may be able to provide some comfort to Mr. Holsworth, I don't think his complaints were the the cause of his woes.

Having worked both for the BCFS and the BC Attorney General - the BCFS folks on learning of an insult to one of their AG counterparts are going to chuckle and make a few lawyer jokes, not enter into a conspiracy.

I remember skiing with Trevor back in the 2000's when it was wild horse cat skiing. He seemed like a nice guy and a decent guide.

Sorta feel a bit sorry for the dude (subject to change when all the dirt comes out of course), that's a shit ton of money he'd lose if he has to walk away.

**LHutz Esq** · 08-25-2023, 07:53 AM

I ended up reading one of his tax cases. He self-repped and won on appeal, by accident, but couldn’t follow the plot on the retrial.

It appears he may be suffering from a persecution complex. Looks like another failure of our mental health system.

**bennymac** · 08-25-2023, 09:34 AM

Try forcing someone with a persecution complex into involuntary mental health treatment and see how that goes.

**LHutz Esq** · 08-25-2023, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by XXX-er

Duno if I will ever be able to tour again but is that lodge ever likely to operate ?

Of course i am not looking for a legal opinion just what you think

I don't see why the lodge wouldn't be able to open again.

If the lease has expired, generally the tenure will revert to the crown and be available- subject to application, vetting, inspections, approvals, consultation etc. for re-leasing

**XXX-er** · 08-25-2023, 02:25 PM

souns like you mean all the stuff Trevor didnt do on the 1st go round

**BCMtnHound** · 08-25-2023, 02:58 PM

Not that I know shit about this particular tenure (but I might know a wee bit about a few folk that started it), but when the lodge and/or the rec plan first started, wasn’t this area owned by German Darkwoods, who then returned it to the crown some years ago as a land conservancy in partnership with some other NGO? That might be complicating things is the tenure holder started their investment and then was forced to start over under all the regular govt stuff.

But just spitballing there. Maybe I am confusing this with Wildhorse catskiing?

**LHutz Esq** · 08-25-2023, 03:02 PM

Generally, depending on the nature of interest, agreement with the prov and some other factors- when a tenure ends the holder is required to remove all structures, improvements etc. from the tenure.

However, where there is a cancelation of a disposition for a default the improvements become gov't property.

I have never actually seen this, mostly because cancelations are really rare in my experience and the ones I have seen were in furtherance of Treaty/Land Claim settlements and compensation was paid.

Not sure Trevor will be so lucky if he remains recalcitrant.

His best bet may be to find a buyer, who can step in and make their own deal with the Prov.

**frorider** · 09-08-2023, 08:39 PM

This stoner journalist thinks Ontario is a city.

For one thing the study was only conducted in Ontario, Canada. In terms of sample size, that is one city in a country with very specific cannabis laws

But he nonetheless concludes

there is a small but statistically significant chance that a link between cannabis legalization and severe traffic accidents exists

https://hightimes.com/study/canadian...accidents/amp/