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The ongoing Canada Post strike has reached the three-week mark as the two sides continue to trade proposals through a government-appointed mediator. The work stoppage centres around a variety of issues, including disputes over wages and weekend delivery. Here’s a snapshot of the issues underpinning the standoff between the Crown corporation and union. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers, which represents 55,000 Canada Post workers, said at the start of the strike that wage increases must be kept in line with inflation, with cost-of-living adjustment payments rolled into the basic wage rate. The union initially called for a cumulative wage hike of 24 per cent over four years. CUPW negotiator Jim Gallant said that figure has moved since the start of negotiations, but declined to comment on the union’s latest proposal. “We have just lived through the worst cost of living crisis in a generation,” the union’s national president Jan Simpson said in a post on Tuesday. Canada Post says it has offered what it calls “competitive” wage increases totalling 11.5 per cent over four years and more paid leave. It notes labour costs rose by $242 million in 2023, or about 6.5 per cent, compared with 2022. The organization declined to comment on Thursday. One of the main snags in negotiations has been a push to expand delivery to the weekend, but the two sides are at odds over how to staff the expansion. Canada Post has pitched seven-day-a-week delivery as a way to boost revenue and “secure the future of the company” as it struggles to compete with other delivery companies. The Crown corporation says it would staff weekend delivery shifts with a mix of new permanent part-time positions and some full-time, which would “create flexibility while not adding significant long-term fixed costs.” But the union characterizes Canada Post’s proposals as “attacks on full-time work,” accusing the Crown corporation of wanting to increase the part-time mix to more than 50 per cent of the workforce. It says it is concerned some part-timers could be scheduled for as few as eight hours per week and wouldn’t be eligible for benefits until they reach 1,000 hours. “Canada Post has every ability today to deliver parcels on the weekend, inside our collective agreement at straight time,” Gallant said in an interview. “We think it can be done with full-timers ... We’re just saying, ‘Instead of hiring 10 part-timers, you can hire three full time.” The union has highlighted a number of its demands for better job security, including a request for “improved protections against technological change.” Gallant said Canada Post is “always looking for new technology” that could threaten workers’ duties. “This loading and unloading of trucks by robots is one that they’re really, really looking at (and) forklifts that drive themselves through a plant,” he said. “We’re always afraid.” When it comes to retirement, CUPW says Canada Post wants new workers to accept a defined contribution pension plan, even though its defined benefit pension plan is overfunded by 140 per cent. “All workers deserve the right to retire with dignity, and for us, that means postal workers — present and future — maintain their defined benefit pension plan,” Simpson said. Canada Post says its proposals are “focused on protecting and enhancing what’s important to current employees ... while protecting the defined benefit pension and their job security.” The union has said it wants job security rights for rural and suburban mail carriers in line with those granted to urban postal workers. It has outlined a number of issues affecting its Rural Suburban Mail Carrier bargaining unit, saying it wants an hourly rate system with appropriate time values, union involvement and “safeguards against (Canada Post’s) unilateral change.” The union says Canada Post must maximize and maintain eight-hour routes for rural workers, grant improved rights for on-call relief employees, and uphold paid meal and rest period rights. It says the Crown corporation must also ensure the bargaining unit’s involvement in service expansion projects. Earlier this week, Simpson called on Canada Post to commit to working with the union “to expand services at the post office including postal banking and electric vehicle charging stations.” The union has demanded the full elimination of Canada Post’s “separate sort from delivery” system, which entails certain employees spending the entirety of their shifts sorting mail for letter carriers to go out and deliver — as opposed to carriers performing both tasks. It says this system overburdens carriers, who as a result spend more time outdoors and potentially exposed to extreme weather events. “Postal workers suffer the second highest rate of disabling injury among workers under federal jurisdiction, behind only the road transportation sector,” Simpson said. “Growing neighbourhood mail volumes and changing work methods like separate sort-from-delivery are only making things worse.” The union has also proposed increases to short-term disability program payments and injury on duty payments, along with more paid medical days. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 5, 2024. Sammy Hudes, The Canadian PressBy Ja'han Jones WNBA star Caitlin Clark has given MAGA world a conniption with her latest comments about white privilege. This week, Clark was named Time magazine’s athlete of the year, and in her feature interview, she gave a shoutout to the Black ballers who paved the way for her. She said : I want to say I’ve earned every single thing, but as a white person, there is privilege. A lot of those players in the league that have been really good have been Black players. This league has kind of been built on them. The more we can appreciate that, highlight that, talk about that, and then continue to have brands and companies invest in those players that have made this league incredible, I think it’s very important. I have to continue to try to change that. The more we can elevate Black women, that’s going to be a beautiful thing. No notes from me. This was a powerful example of how to use white privilege to lift up marginalized Black people. Clark even name-checked some of the trailblazing Black players she was talking about: Lisa Leslie, Sheryl Swoopes, Cynthia Cooper, Dawn Staley and Maya Moore. Predictably, this sent MAGA world into a full-on tantrum. Predictably, this sent MAGA world into a full-on tantrum. Among some right-wingers, Clark has been portrayed as a “Great White Hope” in a largely Black league , and her mere acknowledgment of the privileges she’s been afforded as a white woman clearly upset them.That anger was stoked, in part, by right-wing provocateur Megyn Kelly, who has essentially built a career as a cog in the conservative outrage machine . After Kelly threw a fit online, portraying Clark as “ on the knee all but apologizing for being white ,” the hoops star seemed unfazed Wednesday during a Time event. Asked about the outrage, Clark said: I think my best skill is just blocking out the noise, and hopefully it continues to be, because with the way things are going and where the WNBA is going, you want that attention, and you embrace it, and that’s what makes this so fun. Some folks in the conservative movement are clearly angry that Clark isn’t interested in being their ignorant MAGA princess, and their cries would be hilarious if they weren’t so pitiful. 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Forthright and fearless, the Nobel Prize winner took pot-shots at former prime minister Tony Blair and ex-US president George W Bush among others. His death came after repeated bouts of illness in which images of the increasingly frail former president failed to erase memories of his fierce spirit. Democrat James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr swept to power in 1977 with his Trust Me campaign helping to beat Republican president Gerald Ford. Serving as 39th US president from 1977 to 1981, he sought to make government “competent and compassionate” but was ousted by the unstoppable Hollywood appeal of a certain Ronald Reagan. A skilled sportsman, Mr Carter left his home of Plains, Georgia, to join the US Navy, returning later to run his family’s peanut business. A stint in the Georgia senate lit the touchpaper on his political career and he rose to the top of the Democratic movement. But he will also be remembered for a bizarre encounter with a deeply disgruntled opponent. The president was enjoying a relaxing fishing trip near his home town in 1979 when his craft was attacked by a furious swamp rabbit which reportedly swam up to the boat hissing wildly. The press had a field day, with one paper bearing the headline President Attacked By Rabbit. Away from encounters with belligerent bunnies, Mr Carter’s willingness to address politically uncomfortable topics did not diminish with age. He recently said that he would be willing to travel to North Korea for peace talks on behalf of US President Donald Trump. He also famously mounted a ferocious and personal attack on Tony Blair over the Iraq war, weeks before the prime minister left office in June 2007. Mr Carter, who had already denounced George W Bush’s presidency as “the worst in history”, used an interview on BBC radio to condemn Mr Blair for his tight relations with Mr Bush, particularly concerning the Iraq War. Asked how he would characterise Mr Blair’s relationship with Mr Bush, Mr Carter replied: “Abominable. Loyal, blind, apparently subservient. “I think that the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.” Mr Carter was also voluble over the Rhodesia crisis, which was about to end during his presidency. His support for Robert Mugabe at the time generated widespread criticism. He was said to have ignored the warnings of many prominent Zimbabweans, black and white, about what sort of leader Mugabe would be. This was seen by Mr Carter’s critics as “deserving a prominent place among the outrages of the Carter years”. Mr Carter has since said he and his administration had spent more effort and worry on Rhodesia than on the Middle East. He admitted he had supported two revolutionaries in Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, and with hindsight said later that Mugabe had been “a good leader gone bad”, having at first been “a very enlightened president”. One US commentator wrote: “History will not look kindly on those in the West who insisted on bringing the avowed Marxist Mugabe into the government. “In particular, the Jimmy Carter foreign policy... bears some responsibility for the fate of a small African country with scant connection to American national interests.” In recent years Mr Carter developed a reputation as an international peace negotiator. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his commitment to finding peaceful solutions to international conflicts, his work with human rights and democracy initiatives, and his promotion of economic and social programmes. Mr Carter was dispatched to North Korea in August 2008 to secure the release of US citizen Aijalon Mahli Gomes, who had been sentenced to eight years of hard labour after being found guilty of illegally entering North Korea. He successfully secured the release of Mr Gomes. In 2010 he returned to the White House to greet President Barack Obama and discuss international affairs amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula. Proving politics runs in the family, in 2013 his grandson Jason, a state senator, announced his bid to become governor in Georgia, where his famous grandfather governed before becoming president. He eventually lost to incumbent Republican Nathan Deal. Fears that Mr Carter’s health was deteriorating were sparked in 2015 when he cut short an election observation visit in Guyana because he was “not feeling well”. It would have been Mr Carter’s 39th trip to personally observe an international election. Three months later, on August 12, he revealed he had cancer which had been diagnosed after he underwent surgery to remove a small mass in his liver. Mr Obama was among the well-wishers hoping for Mr Carter’s full recovery after it was confirmed the cancer had spread widely. Melanoma had been found in his brain and liver, and Mr Carter underwent immunotherapy and radiation therapy, before announcing in March the following year that he no longer needed any treatment. In 2017, Mr Carter was taken to hospital as a precaution, after he became dehydrated at a home-building project in Canada. He was admitted to hospital on multiple occasions in 2019 having had a series of falls, suffering a brain bleed and a broken pelvis, as well as a stint to be treated for a urinary tract infection. Mr Carter spent much of the coronavirus pandemic largely at his home in Georgia, and did not attend Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration in 2021, but extended his “best wishes”. Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Mr Carter during his term as US president, died in November 2023. She had been living with dementia and suffering many months of declining health. “Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,” Mr Carter said in a statement following her death. “She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”CALGARY - Former NHL star Joe Thornton and Calgary Flames front office executive Brad Pascall are heading the management team for Canada’s Spengler Cup squad for a second straight year. Hockey Canada announced its 2024 Spengler Cup management group Tuesday, with Thornton and Pascall working as co-GMs and Hnat Domenichelli joining them as an assistant. Thornton made his international management debut at last year’s Spengler Cup, when Canada lost 4-3 to Czech squad HC Dynamo Pardubice in the semifinals. He ended his 25-year professional playing career after the 2021-22 NHL season and finished with 1,539 points in 1,714 games with Boston, San Jose, Toronto and Florida. His international career includes gold with Canada at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver and a Spengler Cup title in 2004 while playing for the tournament host team, Switzerland’s HC Davos. Pascall is currently in his 11th season as assistant general manager of the Calgary Flames, and his second as vice-president of hockey operations. Domenichelli has served as general manager of HC Lugano in Switzerland since 2019. As a player, he had an 18-year professional career that included 922 games in the NHL, American Hockey League and Switzerland’s National League. The Spengler Cup runs Dec. 26-31 in Davos. The hosts are the defending champions. Canada and Davos are tied for the most Spengler Cup titles with 16, though Canada hasn’t won since 2019. The 2020 and 2021 tournaments were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 12, 2024.

UCF researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal one-of-a-kind attributes of (2060) Chiron, a distant “centaur” in space sharing properties of both a comet and an asteroid, giving clues to our Solar System’s origins in a newly published study. Although our Solar System is billions of years old, we’ve only recently become better acquainted with one of its more dynamic and captivating inhabitants known as (2060) Chiron. Chiron belongs to the class of objects that astronomers call “Centaurs.” Centaurs are space objects that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune. They are akin to the mythological creature they borrow their name from in that they are hybrid, possessing characteristics of both asteroids and comets. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, UCF Florida Space Institute (FSI) scientists recently led a team that found, for the first time, that Chiron has surface chemistry unlike other centaurs. Its surface it has both carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide ice along with carbon dioxide and methane gases in its coma, the cloud-like envelope of dust and gas surrounding it. The researchers’ results were in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. UCF FSI Associate Scientist Noemí Pinilla-Alonso, who now works at the University of Oviedo in Spain, and Assistant Scientist Charles Schambeau led the research. The new findings build upon prior discoveries from Pinilla-Alonso and colleagues that ) for the first time earlier this year. Those observations, paired with ones of Chiron, are creating foundational knowledge for understanding the creation of our Solar System, as these objects have largely remained unchanged since the Solar System was formed, Pinilla-Alonso says. “All the small bodies in the Solar System talk to us about how it was back in time, which is a period of time we can’t really observe anymore,” she says. “But active centaurs tell us much more. They are undergoing transformation driven by solar heating and they provide a unique opportunity to learn about the surface and subsurface layers.” Since Chiron possesses characteristics of both an asteroid and a comet, it makes it rich for studying many processes that could assist in understanding them, she says. “What is unique about Chiron is that we can observe both the surface, where most of the ices can be found, and the coma, where we see gases that are originating from the surface or just below it,” Pinilla-Alonso says. “TNOs don’t have this kind of activity because they’re too far and too cold. Asteroids don’t have this kind of activity because they don’t have ice on them. Comets, on the other hand, show activity like centaurs, but they are typically observed closer to the Sun, and their comas are so thick that they complicate the interpretations of observations of the ices on the surface. Discovering which gases are part of the coma and their different relationships with the ices on the surface help us learn the physical and chemical properties, such as the thickness and the porosity of the ice layer, its composition, and how irradiation is affecting it.” . — The discovery of these ices and gases on an object as distant as Chiron – observed near its farthest point from the Sun – is exciting because it could help contextualize other centaurs and provide insight into the earliest era of our Solar System, Schambeau says. “These results are like nothing we’ve seen before,” he says. “Detecting gas comae around objects as far away from the Sun as Chiron is very challenging, but JWST has made it accessible. These detections enhance our understanding of Chiron’s interior composition and how that material produces the unique behaviors as we observe Chiron.” Schambeau specializes in studying centaurs, comets and other space objects. He analyzed the methane gas coma and determined that the outflowing gas detected was consistent with it being sourced from a surface area that was exposed to the most heating from the Sun. Chiron, first discovered in 1977, is characterized much better than most centaurs and comparatively is unique, Schambeau says. The newly analyzed information helps scientists better understand the thermophysical process going on in Chiron that produces methane gas, he says. “It’s an oddball when compared to the majority of other Centaurs,” Schambeau says. “It has periods where it behaves like a comet, it has rings of material around it, and potentially a debris field of small dust or rocky material orbiting around it. So, many questions arise about Chiron’s properties that allow these unique behaviors.” The researchers concluded that the coexistence of the molecules in various states adds another layer of intrigue for studying comets and centaurs. The study also highlighted the presence of irradiated byproducts of methane, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide that will require further research and could help scientists further reveal the unique processes producing Chiron’s surface composition. Chiron originated from the TNO region and has traveled around our Solar System since its creation, says Pinilla-Alonso. The orbits of Chiron and many other large non-planetary objects occasionally experience close encounters with one of the giant planets where the gravitational pull from the planet changes the smaller object’s orbit, taking them all over our Solar System and exposing them to many different environments, she says. “We know it has been ejected from the TNO population and is only now transiting through the region of the giant planets, where it will not stay for too long,” Pinilla-Alonso says. “After about 1 million years, centaurs like Chiron typically are ejected from the giant planets region, where they may end their lives as Jupiter Family comets or they may return to the TNOs region.” Pinilla-Alonso notes that the JWST’s spectra showed for the first time Chiron’s plethora of ices with different volatilities and their formation processes, she says. Some of these ices, such as methane, carbon dioxide, and water ice, may be primordial components of Chiron inherited from the pre-solar nebula. Others, such as acetylene, propane, ethane, and carbon oxide, could have formed on the surface because of reduction and oxidation processes, she says. “Based on our new JWST data, I’m not so sure we have a standard centaur,” Pinilla-Alonso says. “Every active centaur that we are observing with JWST shows some peculiarity. But they cannot be all outliers. There must be something that explains why they appear to all behave differently or something that is common between them all that we cannot yet see.” The analysis of Chiron’s gases and ices opens new frontiers and opportunities for exciting research, she says. “We’re going to follow up with Chiron,” Pinilla-Alonso says. “It will come closer to us, and if we can study it at nearer distances and get better reads on the quantities and nature of the ices, silicates, and organics, we will be able to better understand how seasonal insolation variations and different illumination patterns can affect its behavior and its ice reservoir.” The JWST is the world’s premier space science observatory, and it is solving mysteries in our solar system, looking beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probing the mysterious structures and origins of our universe. The JWST is an international collaboration led by NASA with its partners the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. Pinilla-Alonso was a professor at FSI who joined UCF in 2015. Most of her work on this project was conducted while she was at UCF. Pinilla-Alonso also holds a joint appointment as a research professor in UCF’s Department of Physics and has led numerous international observational campaigns in support of NASA missions, such as New Horizons, OSIRIS-REx and Lucy. Pinilla-Alonso is a distinguished professor at the Institute for Space Sciences and Technologies in Asturias, within the Universidad de Oviedo. She received her doctoral degree in astrophysics and planetary sciences from the Universidad de La Laguna in Spain. Schambeau is an assistant scientist who received his doctoral degree in physics with a concentration in planetary sciences in 2018 from UCF. He subsequently joined FSI where he expanded upon his work examining comets and centaurs as part of UCF’s Preeminent Postdoctoral Program. Astrobiology, Astrochemistry,

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Jaland Lowe flirted with a triple-double as Pitt improved to 6-0 with a 74-63 win over LSU on Friday afternoon at the Greenbrier Tip-Off in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Lowe finished with a game-high 22 points to go along with eight rebounds and six assists for the Panthers, who have won their first six games of a season for the first time since the 2018-19 campaign. It would have been the second straight triple-double for Lowe, who had 11 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists against VMI Monday. Ishmael Leggett chipped in 21 points and Cameron Corhen supplied 14, helping Pitt outshoot the Tigers (4-1) 44.4 percent to 37.3 percent overall. Vyctorius Miller and Jalen Reed recorded 14 points apiece for LSU, with Reed also snatching seven boards. Cam Carter contributed 11 points. Pitt took control in the first four-plus minutes of the second half, opening the period on a 13-0 run to build a 40-28 lead. The Tigers were held scoreless following the break until Carter converted a layup with 13:13 to go. It was still a 12-point game after Zack Austin hit a pair of free throws with 12:50 remaining, but LSU then rallied. Corey Chest, Reed and Jordan Sears each had a bucket down low for the Tigers during an 8-1 spurt that made it 43-38. However, Lowe stemmed the tide, answering with back-to-back 3-pointers to put the Panthers up 49-38 with 9:31 left. Miller did everything he could to keep LSU in contention, scoring eight points in a span of 1 minute, 23 seconds, with his four-point play getting the Tigers within 56-52 with 6:03 to play. But Pitt never let LSU get the upper hand, and it led by at least six for the final 5:05 of the contest. The Tigers had a 28-27 edge at intermission after ending the first half on an 8-2 run. LSU overcame a quick start by the Panthers, who raced out to a 12-6 advantage and led by as many as eight in the first 20 minutes of action. --Field Level Media

White House official says Pakistan long-range missiles can target US Islamabad's conduct raised "real questions" about its intentions, says Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer WASHINGTON: A day after the United States imposed sanctions over Pakistan’s ballistic missile programme, a senior White House official on Thursday said that the country is developing missiles that eventually could strike targets outside of South Asia, including the United States. Deputy national security adviser Jon Finer said Islamabad's conduct raised "real questions" about its intentions. "Candidly, it's hard for us to see Pakistan's actions as anything other than an emerging threat to the United States," Finer said in a speech to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The latest statement comes only a day after the US State Department said it was imposing additional sanctions related to Pakistan's ballistic missile programme, targeting four entities that it said were contributing to the proliferation or delivery of such weapons. The statement, issued on the State Department's website, said that the decision was taken “in light of the continuing proliferation threat of Pakistan’s long-range missile development”. It added that the four entities were being designated for sanctions pursuant to Executive Order (EO) 13382, which targeted proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery. "Pakistan’s National Development Complex – which is responsible for Pakistan’s ballistic missile program and has worked to acquire items to advance Pakistan’s long range ballistic missile program – and Affiliates International, Akhtar and Sons Private Limited, and Rockside Enterprise – which have worked to supply equipment and missile‐applicable items to Pakistan’s ballistic missile program, including its long range missile program – are being designated pursuant to E.O. 13382 Section 1(a)(ii) for having engaged, or attempted to engage, in activities or transactions that have materially contributed to, or pose a risk of materially contributing to, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or their means of delivery (including missiles capable of delivering such weapons), including any efforts to manufacture, acquire, possess, develop, transport, transfer, or use such items, by Pakistan," read the statement. However, Islamabad reacted strongly to the development, terming the the decision as "biased" and stressing that the step from the US has "dangerous implications for strategic stability of our region and beyond". "Pakistan’s strategic capabilities are meant to defend its sovereignty and preserve peace and stability in South Asia. The latest installment of sanctions defies the objective of peace and security by aiming to accentuate military asymmetries. Such policies have dangerous implications for strategic stability of our region and beyond," Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said in a statement. The Foreign Office stressed that the county's strategic programme is a sacred trust bestowed by 240 million people upon its leadership, adding that the sanctity of this trust, held in the highest esteem across the entire political spectrum, cannot be compromised. In September this year, Washington targeted five entities and one individual with sanctions, which were involved in the expansion of ballistic missiles and controlling missile equipment and technology to Pakistan. Department spokesperson Matthew Miller alleged that the Beijing Research Institute of Automation for Machine Building Industry had worked with Pakistan to procure equipment for testing rocket motors for the Shaheen-3 and Ababeel systems and potentially for larger systems. However, Pakistan categorically dismissed "unilateral" US sanctions on technology companies allegedly linked to the country's ballistic missile programme, calling them "unfair, unfounded, and uncalled-for". "Pakistan considers this action as biased and politically-motivated. Similar listings of commercial entities in the past were based on mere suspicion; involved items not listed under any export control regime and yet were considered sensitive under broad, catch-all provisions," said Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Mofa) had said. Similarly, the US — in October 2023 — imposed sanctions on three Chinese companies for supplying missile-applicable items to Pakistan. The sanctions also affected China-based firms Hubei Huachangda Intelligent Equipment Co, Universal Enterprise, and Xi’an Longde Technology Development Co. Pakistan-based Innovative Equipment and a Chinese national were sanctioned for knowingly transferring equipment under missile technology restrictions. Rangers official injured during PTI's November 26 protest passes away Imran gives govt new deadline to meet demands or face civil disobedience movement Non-bailable arrest warrant issued for six cops in Dr Shahnawaz killing case Qureshi calls for dialogue instead of confrontation as PTI-govt talks in limboTORONTO , Nov. 22, 2024 /CNW/ - Fidelity Investments Canada ULC ("Fidelity") today announced the estimated 2024 annual reinvested capital gains distributions for Fidelity's suite of ETFs ("Fidelity ETFs") and ETF Series units of Fidelity mutual funds ("Fidelity Funds"). Please note that these are estimated amounts only, as of the date set out in the tables below, and reflect forward-looking information, which means the estimates may change. These estimates are for the annual capital gains distributions only, which will be reinvested, and the resulting units immediately consolidated, so that the number of units held by each investor will not change. These estimates do not include estimates of ongoing periodic cash distribution amounts, which are reported separately. We expect to announce the annual reinvested distribution amounts, as well as the monthly cash distribution amounts, on or about December 18, 2024 . The ex-dividend date for the 2024 annual distributions will be December 27, 2024 . The record date for the 2024 annual distributions will be December 27, 2024 and those distributions will be payable on December 31, 2024 . The actual taxable amounts of reinvested and cash distributions for 2024, including the tax characteristics of the distributions, will be reported to the brokers through CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc. in early 2025. Fidelity ETF Name Ticker Symbol Net asset value (NAV) per unit as of October 16, 2024 ($) CUSIP ISIN Estimated annual capital gain per unit as of October 16, 2024 ($) Estimated annual capital gain per unit as a % of NAV at October 16, 2024 Fidelity Canadian High Dividend ETF FCCD 30.5855 31608M102 CA31608M1023 - - Fidelity U.S. High Dividend ETF FCUD/ FCUD.U 38.6317 31645M107 CA31645M1077 0.06994 0.18104 % Fidelity U.S. High Dividend Currency Neutral ETF FCUH 33.9863 315740100 CA3157401009 - - Fidelity U.S. Dividend for Rising Rates ETF FCRR/ FCRR.U 43.5301 31644M108 CA31644M1086 - - Fidelity International High Dividend ETF FCID 27.4370 31623D103 CA31623D1033 - - Fidelity Systematic Canadian Bond Index ETF FCCB 22.7420 31644F103 CA31644F1036 - - Fidelity Canadian Short Term Corporate Bond ETF FCSB 25.5315 31608N100 CA31608N1006 - - Fidelity Global Core Plus Bond ETF FCGB/ FCGB.U 22.1376 31623G106 CA31623G1063 - - Fidelity Canadian Monthly High Income ETF FCMI 13.3488 31609T106 CA31609T1066 - - Fidelity Global Monthly High Income ETF FCGI 14.1577 31623K107 CA31623K1075 0.00969 0.06844 % Fidelity Global Investment Grade Bond ETF FCIG/ FCIG.U 21.8159 31624P105 CA31624P1053 - - Fidelity Equity Premium Yield ETF FEPY/ FEPY.U 26.0725 31613F100 CA31613F1009 0.00795 0.03049 % Fidelity ETF Name Ticker Symbol Net asset value (NAV) per unit as of September 13, 2024 ($) CUSIP ISIN Estimated annual capital gain per unit as of September 13, 2024 ($) Estimated annual capital gain per unit as a % of NAV at September 13, 2024 Fidelity Canadian Low Volatility ETF FCCL 35.5930 31608H103 CA31608H1038 0.36779 1.03332 % Fidelity U.S. Low Volatility ETF FCUL/ FCUL.U 49.5615 31647B109 CA31647B1094 0.73937 1.49182 % Fidelity Canadian High Quality ETF FCCQ 35.7181 31610C100 CA31610C1005 1.23441 3.45598 % Fidelity U.S. High Quality ETF FCUQ/ FCUQ.U 59.2350 31647C107 CA31647C1077 1.96091 3.31039 % Fidelity U.S. High Quality Currency Neutral ETF FCQH 55.0663 31648J101 CA31648J1012 0.94267 1.71188 % Fidelity Canadian Value ETF FCCV 14.5178 31609U103 CA31609U1030 0.19424 1.33794 % Fidelity U.S. Value ETF FCUV/ FCUV.U 17.6805 31647E103 CA31647E1034 0.78098 4.41718 % Fidelity U.S. Value Currency Neutral ETF FCVH 16.9022 31646E104 CA31646E1043 0.80408 4.75725 % Fidelity ETF/ Fund Name Ticker Symbol Net asset value (NAV) per unit as of October 31, 2024 ($) CUSIP ISIN Estimated annual capital gain per unit as of October 31, 2024 ($) Estimated annual capital gain per unit as a % of NAV at October 31, 2024 Fidelity International Low Volatility ETF FCIL 29.9627 31624M102 CA31624M1023 0.36141 1.20620 % Fidelity International High Quality ETF FCIQ/ FCIQ.U 38.7658 31623X109 CA31623X1096 - - Fidelity International Value ETF FCIV 34.2295 31622Y108 CA31622Y1088 1.56630 4.57588 % Fidelity Sustainable World ETF FCSW 45.957 31642F105 CA31642F1053 0.80747 1.75701 % Fidelity Canadian Momentum ETF FCCM 12.6438 31609W109 CA31609W1095 0.22387 1.77059 % Fidelity U.S. Momentum ETF FCMO/ FCMO.U 16.1196 31649P106 CA31649P1062 1.12776 6.99620 % Fidelity International Momentum ETF FCIM 12.6547 31623V103 CA31623V1031 0.47878 3.78342 % Fidelity All-in-One Balanced ETF FBAL 12.7233 315818104 CA3158181048 0.24165 1.89927 % Fidelity All-in-One Growth ETF FGRO 14.4152 31581P106 CA31581P1062 0.36718 2.54717 % Fidelity Advantage Bitcoin ETF® FBTC/ FBTC.U 32.2683 31580V104 CA31580V1040 - - Fidelity All-in-One Conservative ETF FCNS 11.2096 31581E101 CA31581E1016 0.16380 1.46125 % Fidelity All-in-One Equity ETF FEQT 13.6541 31581D103 CA31581D1033 0.39853 2.91876 % Fidelity Advantage Ether ETF ® FETH/ FETH.U 46.8092 31580Y702 CA31580Y7028 - - Fidelity Global Innovators® ETF FINN/ FINN.U 17.0973 316241108 CA3162411084 0.66936 3.91500 % Fidelity All-Canadian Equity ETF FCCA 8.3755 315813105 CA3158131050 0.19733 2.35604 % Fidelity All-International Equity ETF FCIN 7.999 31581R102 CA31581R1029 0.27874 3.48469 % Fidelity All-American Equity ETF FCAM 9.077 315812107 CA3158121077 0.48030 5.29140 % Fidelity Canadian Large Cap Fund (ETF Series) FCLC 11.6691 31606J788 CA31606J7886 0.83867 7.18710 % Fidelity Global Small Cap Opportunities Fund (ETF Series) FCGS/ FCGS.U 14.2129 31624Q822 CA31624Q8222 0.10361 0.72899 % Fidelity Greater Canada Fund (ETF Series) FCGC 11.8295 31620X730 CA31620X7302 0.46339 3.91724 % Fidelity Canadian Long/Short Alternative Fund (ETF Series) FCLS 11.6112 31610F822 CA31610F8221 - - Fidelity Long/Short Alternative Fund (ETF Series) FLSA/ FLSA.U 11.2839 31624U823 CA31624U8234 - - Fidelity Global Value Long/Short Fund (ETF Series) FGLS 8.8318 31623A828 CA31623A8288 - - Fidelity Market Neutral Alternative Fund (ETF Series) FMNA 10.1879 31623B701 CA31623B7016 - - Fidelity Global Equity+ Fund (ETF Series) FGEP/ FGEP.U 10.5463 316215102 CA3162151029 0.69836 6.62185 % Fidelity Tactical High Income Fund (ETF Series) FTHI 10.4252 31642L664 CA31642L6641 0.15984 1.53321 % Fidelity Emerging Markets Fund (ETF Series) FCEM 10.3874 31613T795 CA31613T7950 0.15170 1.46042 % Fidelity Global Equity+ Balanced Fund (ETF Series) FGEB 10.4932 316220102 CA3162201022 0.41011 3.90834 % Forward-looking information This press release contains forward-looking statements with respect to the estimated December 2024 capital gains distributions for the Fidelity ETFs and Fidelity Funds. By their nature, these forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause the distributions to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Material factors that could cause the actual distributions to differ from the estimated distributions include, but are not limited to, the actual amounts of distributions received by the Fidelity ETFs and Fidelity Funds, portfolio transactions, currency hedging transactions, and subscription and redemption activity. About Fidelity Investments Canada ULC At Fidelity Investments Canada, our mission is to build a better future for our clients. Our diversified business serves financial advisors, wealth management firms, employers, institutions and individuals. As the marketplace evolves, we are constantly innovating and offering our clients choice of investment and wealth management products, services and technological solutions all backed by the global strength and scale of Fidelity. 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ORCHARD PARK — Kyle Juszczyk was inches from the goal line. Matt Milano’s arms were wrapped around his waist, but his legs were still pumping. And then Taylor Rapp made a quick right jab at the ball, jarring it from Juszczyk’s grasp as it rolled to Christian Benford’s waiting hands. Juszczyk’s fumble came on the first drive of the second half with the San Francisco 49ers trailing 21-3. But the 49ers moved the ball during the first half, started the second with a 60-yard kickoff return and could sniff the end zone. Instead they came away with nothing and lost 35-10. It wasn’t a turnover, Buffalo Bills defensive coordinator Bobby Babich insists. It was a takeaway and the Bills have created one in every game this season, seemingly always at the right moment. The Bills are second in takeaways (one behind the Pittsburgh Steelers) and 11 of their 24 forced turnovers have come on their side of the field. It might seem like fool’s gold, luck or a dangerous way to play. But in a flukey statistic, the Bills are consistently among the NFL leaders under coach Sean McDermott. In fact, the Bills have 212 takeaways since 2017 and no other team in the league has 200. The Bills have finished in the top-10 in takeaways each year since 2018, finishing in the top-four since 2021. Meanwhile, Buffalo’s 130 interceptions since 2017 are one behind the New England Patriots, while finishing no worse than eighth since McDermott took over. “You get what you emphasize,” Babich said. “... I think what happens is kind of when you walk in this door, that standard is kind of like a cloud just sitting over the top of us of, they know, even in practice, as simple as it is, if we don't take the ball away, we make sure we understand that that's not good enough.” The #Bills won their fifth AFC East championship in a row, while the #Sabres followed three wins with four losses to remain predictably unpredictable. @billhoppe.bsky.social dig into it all. fireside.fm/episode/sMvb... Emphasis or not, it’s up to the players to force turnovers and a large piece of that comes down to the type of players the Bills place in their defense. Both McDermott and general manager Brandon Beane have spoken at length about finding football players with instincts rather than eye-popping workout results. When the Bills can’t draft those players, they find them in free agency or in the draft. Rapp had 10 takeaways in four seasons with the Los Angeles Rams, while cornerback Rasul Douglas had 11 in the 2 1⁄2 seasons with the Green Bay Packers before being traded to the Bills last season. There are some instincts that cannot be taught, but the Bills have been able to develop and strengthen instincts for players who are in the system for a longer period of time. The Bills teach players to be aware of the ball, to not just make a tackle, but swipe at the ball while doing so. In a scenario like Rapp’s forced fumble, the Bills teach players that the first man’s responsibility is to make a tackle and the second man goes for the ball. “I'd say for me, like, as far as, like, my mind being on the ball more often than it was when I was a younger player,” said Bills cornerback Taron Johnson, who has four forced fumbles in the last two seasons after recording four in his first five years combined. “So I'm looking for opportunities, more opportunities to take the ball away than I was when I was younger.” Turnover consistency has been steady despite the Bills slightly tweaking their defensive philosophy in recent years. During McDermott’s first five seasons, the Bills blitzed on more than 30% of passing plays and that number has dropped to 21.5% over the last three seasons, including 17.5% this year under Babich, the third-lowest rate in the league. Early in McDermott’s tenure, the Bills were one of the best teams in the league at disguising coverages, changing what the quarterback was seeing pre-snap compared to when he actually had the ball. They still do their share of disguising, but now the Bills try to attack the quarterback with four rushers and play a soft zone in the secondary until opponents cross midfield. “We always talk about rush and coverage working together,” Bills linebacker Terrel Bernard told GNN Sports. “So we do our part on the back end of disguising the picture or studying routes and understanding concepts that makes them hold it a little bit, which in turn gives the D-line a better chance to get back there and affect them. When that happens, then the ball comes to us.” If the Bills can affect the quarterback with four rushers, not only can they prevent more big plays, but more areas in the secondary are covered. But it’s not a simplistic defense, . Being comfortable with the different communications and disguises takes time. The Bills had the same safety pairing for most of McDermott’s first seven seasons and the system has largely been the same for his entire run. Even without Jordan Poyer and ) the Bills still had plenty of experience on defense. Fifteen players have been with the Bills at least three seasons, with eight having at least four. “The more comfortable you are in the system, the better you can disguise because you know your issues in certain defenses and certain coverages,” said Bills practice squad quarterback Mike White, who played against the Bills for three seasons with the Dolphins and Jets. “But it's interesting. You know what they're going to play, they know you know what they're going to play, but they still do a good job of disguising and get you to just second-guess for a minute.” It’s a brand of defense many teams have adopted in the NFL, which is why rushing yards are up and passing yards are down. The Bills have given up the fewest 30-yard passes (79) and the fewest passes of 50 yards or more (14) since McDermott became coach. “That’s part of our philosophy and who we are,” said Bernard, who has nine takeaways in 26 games as a starter. “I think that standard has just been set since before I got here. So buying into that and believing that and I think everybody on this defense believes in that.” WR Keon Coleman (wrist) and S Taylor Rapp (neck/shoulder) wore red non-contact jerseys and were limited in practice Thursday. ... TE Dalton Kincaid (knee), TE Quintin Morris (shoulder/groin) and WR Curtis Samuel (foot) were also limited.

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Jaland Lowe, Pitt charge past LSU in second half to move to 6-0Tenor Announces $5.4M Seed Funding to Scale AI for Leadership DevelopmentWith nearly all of the votes counted, left-leaning Mr Milanovic won 49% while his main challenger Dragan Primorac, a candidate of the ruling conservative HDZ party, trailed far behind with 19%. Pre-election polls had predicted that the two would face off in the second round on January 12, as none of the eight presidential election contenders were projected to get more than 50% of the vote. Mr Milanovic thanked his supporters but warned that “this was just a first run”. “Let’s not be triumphant, let’s be realistic, firmly on the ground,” he said. “We must fight all over again. It’s not over till it’s over.” Mr Milanovic, the most popular politician in Croatia, has served as prime minister in the past. Populist in style, the 58-year-old has been a fierce critic of current Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic and continuous sparring between the two has been a recent hallmark of Croatia’s political scene. Mr Plenkovic has sought to portray the vote as one about Croatia’s future in the EU and Nato. He has labelled Mr Milanovic “pro-Russian” and a threat to Croatia’s international standing. “The difference between him (Mr Primorac) and Milanovic is quite simple: Milanovic is leading us East, Primorac is leading us West,” he said. Though the presidency is largely ceremonial in Croatia, an elected president holds political authority and acts as the supreme commander of the military. Mr Milanovic has criticised the Nato and European Union support for Ukraine and has often insisted that Croatia should not take sides. He has said Croatia should stay away from global disputes, thought it is a member of both Nato and the EU. Mr Milanovic has also blocked Croatia’s participation in a Nato-led training mission for Ukraine, declaring that “no Croatian soldier will take part in somebody else’s war”. His main rival in the election, Mr Primorac, has stated that “Croatia’s place is in the West, not the East”. However, his bid for the presidency has been marred by a high-level corruption case that landed Croatia’s health minister in jail last month and which featured prominently in pre-election debates. Trailing a distant third in the pre-election polls is Marija Selak Raspudic, a conservative independent candidate. She has focused her election campaign on the economic troubles of ordinary citizens, corruption and issues such as population decline in the country of some 3.8 million. Sunday’s presidential election is Croatia’s third vote this year, following a snap parliamentary election in April and the European Parliament balloting in June.