Rex Murphy: The Miseries and Indignities at Canada’s Airports When Things Don’t Go as Planned

Airline employees tend to passengers at the Vancouver International Airport after a snowstorm crippled operations leading to cancellations and major delays, in Richmond, B.C., on Dec. 20, 2022. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Commentary

I know the world is awash with conflict, anxiety, mad leaders, bad leaders, economic turmoil—huge crises of every sort. As Hamlet’s Claudius said of sorrows, we may say of the desperate troubles of our time: they come not single spies, but in battalions.