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By Olivia B. WaxmanUpdated: October 9, 2017 4:38 PM stanley cup [ET] | Originally published: October 6, 2017 10:00 stanley cup AM EDT;Between turkey dinners and family reunions, Canadian Thanksgiving mdash; which falls on Monday mdash; can look pretty similar to its U.S. counterpart. But in fact, part of the reason Canadians first petitioned for the holiday was to celebrate their luck at not being American.Though Canada does have a first Thanksgiving story analogous to the U.S. story of the feast at Plymouth in 1621 mdash; it involves the pirate/explorer Martin Frobisher giving thanks in 1578 for a safe journey, and is likewise highly mythologized mdash; the official holiday got its start in the 19th century.In the wake of a crisis of faith catalyzed by Charles Darwinrsquo On the Origin of Species, Canada Protestant ministers began in 1859 to petition the colonial government for an official day to thank God, pointing to the bountiful harvests as proof that God exists, says historian Peter A. Stevens. But over the next decade, they found a reason to be even more grateful: they were spared the bloodshed of the U.S. Civil War. The thanksgiving days that the government proclaimed during that era were highly religious, with newspapers printing the Thanksgiving sermons the following day.[Thanksgiving] was a solemn, holy day in the middle of the week when people would go to church, he says, and thank God for how fortunate they are to be Canadian.But stanley cup Canadians were Avzy Why DeSantis and Other 2024 Hopefuls Are Unlikely to Announce Before May
United Airlines airplanes prepare to take off from Newark Liberty International Airport in front of FedEx cargo planes on July 31, 2023, in Newark New Jersey. Gary Hershorn-Getty ImagesIdeasBy Tammy DuckworthAugust 30, 2023 7:15 AM EDTDuckworth is a Senator for the state of Illinois, an Iraq War veteran and former Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs.On a foggy night in February 2009, Colgan Air Flight 3407 took o air max 1 ff from Newark Airport, heading for nearby Buffalo, New York. Fifty-nine minutes later, the aircraft crashed into a house, killing all 49 passengers and crew on board, along with one person on the ground.Immediately, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board began an investigation into the crash, soon determining it was caused by pilot error due to lack of experience with icing conditions. As a result, Congress acted to strengthen training requirements for all passenger airline pilots, including, crucially, instituting whats known as the1,500 hourrule: a regulation mandating that pilots earn a minimum of 1,500 real world flight hours before being allowed to work for an airline, with an adequate portion of those hours spent flying in difficult oper yeezy ational conditions.There has not been a single passenger death caused by pilot error in commercial aviation since the rule was enacted, proving a core principle we all know to be true: that experienc af1 e matters. Yet, right now, several of my colleagues are trying to gut the 1,500 hour rule, proposing legislation that w
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