By Kristy Dorsey UK and European markets will be among the last to recover from the airline industry crisis triggered by pandemic travel restrictions, the head of aviation services group John Menzies has predicted, while countries with large volumes of internal travel have already shown “some degree” of rebounding. Speaking after the Edinburgh-based group posted a £120.5 million pre-tax loss for 2020, chief executive Philipp Joeinig said overall volumes are not expected to regain 2019 levels until 2023. During the 12 months to the end of December, Menzies suffered a 59 per cent decline in ground service activity and a 46% fall in fuel servicing, while air cargo service tonnage held up better, down 18%.
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Vancouver is a city on the edge. The edge of what is an open question.
It seems politicians and the police are unable, unwilling or incapable of stopping what has turned into a version of Dante’s Hell on the Downtown Eastside illicit drug sales, open drug use, the stolen property bazaar, garbage, weapons, assaults, rape. On the sidewalks and in the back alleys, there is truly human waste with people lying catatonic or twitching.
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A Townsend s solitaire is shown. (Scot Stewart photo)
“I pray this winter be gentle and kind a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.” John Geddes
It has been uncommonly warm in northern Michigan this winter. Always strange when the biggest snows come in October! A snowstorm, or even a big snow shower, will jolt life back into winter in the Upper Peninsula. The lack of true winter has made for many strange sights across the U.P. the past two and a half months, with many tree buds already showing some green, but especially for bird life reluctant to leave the mild climate that settled into the area this fall and early winter.
At the National Gallery of Canada, art in and for a time of crisis
Paul Wells: How Canada s national gallery and its director, Alexandra Suda, have been working to keep the doors open to new art and new realities
December 22, 2020 Suda, director of the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa on Dec. 17, 2020 (Justin Tang for Maclean s Magazine)
Somebody once said anecdotes are the only evidence. I wanted to write about Alexandra “Sasha” Suda, the director of the National Gallery of Canada. I wanted to contrast the difference between the year she expected her first full calendar year running the nation’s flagship visual-arts institution and the year she wound up having instead, which in many ways was the same gong show we all lived through. But first I asked her about a big orange painting she’d shown on her Instagram account. She took me upstairs, to one of the gallery’s largest display rooms.