Tag Archives: Travel Security

Stand Back! It’s a Breast Pump!

Posted on 03. Feb, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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My blood began to do a slow boil when I read earlier this month about how Vancouver-Mount Pleasant MLA Jenny Kwan was denied boarding at Vancouver’s airport enroute to Kamloops for a caucus meeting because her breast pump was deemed a security threat. Airport officials found it suspicious she had the pump but not her [...]

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Airline Madness

Posted on 31. Jan, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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All right, so maybe Regina isn’t the world’s most attractive destination, but Eder Rojas’s reaction was a bit extreme. On May 8, 2008, during a Compass Airlines flight from Minneapolis to Regina, the flight attendant ignited a fire inside a paper towel compartment in the rest room because he was upset he had to fly the [...]

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