VANCOUVER — Failure to find a partner for BCAA Travel has led parent company BCAA to slash its retail travel services, moving from brick and mortar at 27 B.C. locations to either ‘click’ or ‘call’.
The graduated closures, to be fully completed by Jan. 15, 2010, will affect 157 full-time and part-time positions, 124 in BCAA’s [...]

Weekly update
As of 17 October 2009, worldwide there have been more than 414,000 laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 and nearly 5000 deaths reported to WHO.
As many countries have stopped counting individual cases, particularly of milder illness, the case count is significantly lower than the actually number of cases that have occurred. [...]

TRAVEL CLINICS

Bowmont Travel Clinic
6535 Bowness Road, NW
(403) 247-9797

Calgary, AB. T3B 0E8
(403) 247-0787

Odyssey Travel &
2004 14th Street, NW.
(403) 210-4770

Tropical Medicine Clinic
Suite 208

Calgary, AB. T2M 3N3

Medisys Health Group
321 6th Avenue, SW.
(403) 323-6244

Suite 960

Calgary, AB. T2P 3H3

Starpoint Health Corp.
Foothills Industrial Park
(403) 236-8400

#202, 3716 61st Avenue, SE

Calgary, AB T2C 1Z4

The ECM Group
880 16th Avenue, SW.
(403) 216-6120

Lower Mt. Royal [...]

This is worth the couple minutes it will take to read.
Some new points that haven’t yet been drilled into us thru the media (yet):
Apparently it is a similar strain to the flu of 1918, which took over 50 million.
It also targeted women and children.  So I guess we’ll get in line
The following advice, given by [...]

 
Visitors should be vigilant at all times when travelling in the country due to high levels of crime.
The hurricane season extends from June 1st to November 30th. For more information, please see our Global Issue on the hurricane season.
OFFICIAL REGISTRATION RECOMMENDATION: We offer a registration service for all Canadians travelling or living abroad. This service [...]

From: Reuters  Fri Oct 23 16:03:43 EST 2009 Fri Oct 23 16:03:43 EST 2009
 A NORTHWEST Airlines flight carrying 144 passengers from San Diego to Minneapolis in the US, lost contact with air controllers for more than an hour and overflew its destination by 241km, officials said today.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the two [...]

Most Canadian visitors to Saudi Arabia do not experience problems.
In 2009, the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca will take place from November 26 to 30. Peak of the pilgrimage is during Eid. Pilgrims should be aware of safety risks at religious sites due to overcrowding. See section 4 of this Travel Report for information on [...]

October 23, 2009 – 10:51AM

Air France will begin charging economy class passengers for checking a second bag on flights between Europe and the United States, the carrier said on Thursday, in line with US and British airline policies.
“If passengers would like to check a second bag … they may do so for a fee of [...]

Rum and island music will be on display in Toronto during Caribbean Week in Canada’s second annual Caribbean Rum & Rhythm Festival, to be staged, Oct. 30 from 6 p.m to 9 pm in Toronto’s Distillery District.

Award-winning rums will be available for tasting, in addition to rum cocktails served up by the region’s top mixologists. [...]

There’s never been a better time to send clients to the land down under, says newly-appointed regional manager for the Americas Daryl Hudson. “If your clients have been wondering about going to Australia, put it in front of them now…with the packages and the attractive airfare that’s out there, that whole barrier of price is [...]