Basically you need to get as much trip cancelation insurance as is available because flights are a "maybe" no matter who you're flying with and there is absolutely no guarantee you'll get where you're going, so you'd better make sure you won't end up stuck with the hotel bill for a room you're not in.
The bigger issue for me in this case was YVR incompetence. Yes, sometimes there are winter storms in Vancouver. Some years there aren't, but it's far from unprecedented. To be completely unable to handle any significant snowfall, and screw up air travel for half the country, is simply not acceptable. Any other airport in the country could have handled that storm with minimal disruption to travel schedules.
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