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super jili vip What is it about a postal strike that leads to instant panic over the future of the post office? Although neither Canada Post or the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) have made existential demands in the current labour dispute, it took only a matter of days for Canada’s broadcaster, the CBC, to ask if the post office will survive. And it did so in the most provocative manner possible, featuring Carleton Professor Ian Lee on two of its national flagship programs calling Canada Post a “Potemkin post office” requiring a complete re-engineering to end mail delivery in urban areas, franchise all post offices and eliminate more than 50,000 jobs. How anyone at CBC thought this was a useful contribution to coverage of the postal strike issues is mind boggling. Canada Post’s mandate to deliver mail to Canadians is not a strike issue and there are no proposals to change what we expect when we put something in the mail. Lee nevertheless ranted on about the costs of door to door mail deliveries as if it was a relevant matter. But hardly anything Lee had to say was about the strike issues and how they can be resolved. His intervention was designed to muddle opinion over the real issues and leave an impression that any measures sought by the union to improve services or protect good jobs will hasten an imminent disaster. The actual issues in the strike are practical choices, mostly over the parcel delivery business or the “Courier, Express and Parcel (CEP) sector.” Canada Post remains the single largest player in the sector despite losing market share during and after the Covid crisis. Pre-Covid Canada Post had 62 per cent of Canadians; that’s down to 29 per cent now. Both Canada Post and the CUPW want to build back that business, but the union is determined to secure wage increases that keep pace with their private sector competitors and to limit the use of part time workers. While Lee paints a picture that the entire mandate of Canada Post is unsustainable, the corporation has a more modest agenda to move closer to the business models of its private sector competitors like UPS and FedEx. They are unionized but in the case of UPS, over half of its workforce is part time. Canada Post’s mostly full time workforce is not the source of the problem in the parcel business. UPS and FedEx became the beneficiaries of the massive shift to online selling by leveraging their US and global logistics and state of art technologies and tracking systems, and most of all their relations with online sellers. Canada Post could have been more nimble by leveraging its advantages and national logistics, and it would have had a willing partner in the union. It was a management failure. A case in point at issue now is Canada Post’s limited capacity to make weekend deliveries which have been gobbled up by UPS and other competitors. A good part of that business can be brought back, and CUPW has proposed weekend deliveries that includes part time workers. The strike issue is that the limits and impacts on the existing workforce must be negotiated. Wages at UPS and FedEx are higher than at Canada Post, even with their part time workforce. The average wage for a Canada Post delivery driver is $28 per hour, compared to over $30 per hour at UPS, and UPS average wages will rise to about $38 an hour at the end of the current collective agreement with the Teamsters. CUPW’s wage demands will still leave them slightly behind unionized workers at UPS. Total labour costs at Canada Post are slightly higher than its parcel delivery competitors because of the defined benefit pension plan that provides retirement security for 55,000 CUPW members and 30,000 more Canada Post workers and managers. Canada Post wants a different and lesser pension plan for new hires – a non starter with the union membership. The pension plan they have is fully funded with a surplus, and the company is currently enjoying a contribution holiday. Who would want to mess with that? Moreover, unionized workers at UPS also have a defined benefit pension plan that was improved in their last round of bargaining. However Canadians listening to the CBC heard nothing about the industry standards in the unionized parcel industry. According to Lee, Canada Post should retreat from the national parcel business altogether because the upstart gig sector has a cost structure for deliveries well below Canada Post and UPS/FedEx. It is the case that almost half of the Canadian CEP sector is now diversified among smaller low cost companies like Intelcom/Dragon Fly where gig and contract work is common, wages hover at or just above minimum wage, and there is no pension plan. It is a convenient distraction for Canada Post to have Lee make good jobs at Canada Post the problem rather than the growth of precarious work in the gig sector. The solutions to precarious gig work require labour law reforms and union organizing – they won’t be found in Canada Post bargaining. There is one more smoke bomb that Ian Lee wants to throw into the middle of the Canada Post strike. The crown corporation is losing money and that can not stand. A postal apocalypse is in the mail, says Lee. Canada Post’s balance sheet has never determined its mandate or public support. For a century the post office was a direct government service until the Crown corporation was created in 1981. It wasn’t until 1987 when it began to make money. It lost money in 1994, 1999, 2009, 2013, 2016 and has every year since 2018. However, after all of that, 64 per cent of Canadians oppose privatization of the post office, and far higher numbers oppose service cuts, post office closings and even price increases for stamps. Not even the Canadian Federation of Independent Business supports privatization or a major downsizing of Canada Post, pointing out that eight in 10 small businesses rely on Canada Post. To the contrary there has been strong and steady public support for postal workers in successive rounds of bargaining. That’s why the government has not been keen so far to intervene in this dispute. Unless that changes, the strike will end when a contract is negotiated. It is not by accident that Ian Lee was trundled out with his neo-liberal apocalyptic declaration that the entire post office model is sinking like the Russian battleship Potemkin and it’s time to abandon ship. It is a sad comment on the CBC that it fell for the trick. Support rabble today! We’re so glad you stopped by! 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Megyn Kelly Goes Off on Caitlin Clark for Her 'Sad' 'White Privilege' PanderingLAS VEGAS — Dajuan Harris scored 14 points and top-ranked Kansas withstood the ejection of star center Hunter Dickinson to beat No. 11 Duke 75-72 in the Vegas Showdown on Friday night. Dickinson, who entered the game averaging 17.8 points and 10.4 rebounds, received a fragrant-2 foul and was ejected for kicking the Blue Devils’ Maliq Brown in the head midway through the second half. Highly touted Duke freshman Cooper Flagg took advantage of Dickinson's absence, and the Blue Devils kept it close all the way to the buzzer. Zeke Mayo added 12 points for Kansas (6-0), and Dickinson and AJ Storr each scored 11. Tyrese Proctor led Duke (4-2) with 15 points, Flagg scored 13, Kon Knueppel had 11 and Sion James finished with 10. Mayo put Kansas ahead for good when he made a jumper with 1:57 left for a 73-71 lead. Flagg hit a free throw for Duke and Rylan Griffen answered with two foul shots with 2 seconds left. Kansas has won four of the past five meetings with the Blue Devils and six of eight. Nine of the past 10 meetings have been decided by single digits. Kansas forward KJ Adams (24) the ball against Duke guard/forward Cooper Flagg (2) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024, in Las Vegas. Credit: AP/Lucas Peltier Takeaways Kansas: Overcoming the loss of Dickinson could serve the Jayhawks well later in the season. Duke: Flagg had six points when Dickinson went out, but then on four trips to the lane had two dunks, a layup and a free throw. Key moment Knueppel had a 3-point try rim out at the buzzer that would have forced overtime. Key stat Duke shot 50% from the field and 42.3% from 3-point range. Kansas shot 49.1% overall and 47.1% from 3. Kansas forward KJ Adams (24) reacts after scoring against Duke during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024, in Las Vegas. Credit: AP/Lucas Peltier Up next Kansas hosts Furman on Saturday. Duke is home against Seattle on Friday.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 25, 2024-- Thunderbird Entertainment Group Inc. (TSXV: TBRD, OTCQX: THBRF) (“Thunderbird” or the “Company”) has granted an aggregate amount of 143,317 restricted share units (the “RSUs”) to its non-executive directors on November 25, 2024, pursuant to the terms of the Company’s equity incentive compensation plan. The RSUs will vest on December 14, 2024. Each vested RSU entitles the holder thereof to receive one common share of the Company. The Company also granted an aggregate amount of 171,606 RSUs to certain members of the Company’s executive management team, pursuant to the terms of the Company’s equity incentive compensation plan. The RSUs will vest over three years, and each vested RSU entitles the holder to receive one common share of the Company. Additionally, 400,412 performance share units (“PSUs”) were granted to certain members of the Company’s executive management team, based on certain performance targets to be met. Subject to the satisfaction of such performance targets, the PSUs will vest on the one-year anniversary of the date of the grant. Each vested PSU entitles the holder to receive one common share of the Company (or can be paid out in cash at the discretion of the Company’s board of directors). Thunderbird Entertainment Inc. (“TEI”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, has also entered into an Addendum to the Executive Employment Agreement dated July 1, 2021 between TEI and Jennifer Twiner McCarron, the CEO of the Company (the “Addendum”). Under the terms of the Addendum, effective from July 1, 2024, Ms. Twiner McCarron has agreed to forego a guaranteed bonus and has agreed to a bonus structure that ensures eligibility for annual short term incentive payments is driven entirely by performance based on the achievement of AEBITDA targets and strategic objectives established by the Company’s board of directors. 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The slump in the number of people heading to the shops during Boxing Day sales signals a return to declining pre-pandemic levels, an analyst has said. Boxing Day shopper footfall was down 7.9% from last year across all UK retail destinations up until 5pm, MRI Software’s OnLocation Footfall Index found. However, this year’s data had been compared with an unusual spike in footfall as 2023 was the first “proper Christmas” period without Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, an analyst at the retail technology company said. It found £4.6 billion will be spent overall on the festive sales. Jenni Matthews, marketing and insights director at MRI Software, told the PA news agency: “We’ve got to bear in mind that (last year) was our first proper Christmas without any (Covid-19) restrictions or limitations. “Figures have come out that things have stabilised, we’re almost back to what we saw pre-pandemic.” There were year-on-year declines in footfall anywhere between 5% and 12% before Covid-19 restrictions, she said. MRI found 12% fewer people were out shopping on Boxing Day in 2019 than in 2018, and there were 3% fewer in 2018 than in 2017, Ms Matthews added. A man carries bags from JD Sports after shopping in the sales in London’s Oxford Street (Jordan Pettitt/PA) People are also increasingly stocking-up before Christmas, Ms Matthews said, and MRI found an 18% increase in footfall at all UK retail destinations on Christmas Eve this year compared with 2023. Ms Matthews said: “We see the shops are full of people all the way up to Christmas Eve, so they’ve probably got a couple of good days of food, goodies, everything that they need, and they don’t really need to go out again until later on in that week. “We did see that big boost on Christmas Eve. It looks like shoppers may have concentrated much of their spending in that pre-Christmas rush.” Many online sales kicked off between December 23 and the night of Christmas Day and “a lot of people would have grabbed those bargains from the comfort of their own home”, she said. A member of staff at Selfridges in London’s Oxford Street prepares for the store’s Boxing Day sale (Jordan Pettitt/PA) Footfall is expected to rise on December 27 as people emerge from family visits and shops re-open, including Next, Marks and Spencer and John Lewis that all shut for Boxing Day. It will also be payday for some as it is the last Friday of the month. A study by Barclays Consumer Spend had forecast that shoppers would spend £236 each on average in the Boxing Day sales this year, but that the majority of purchases would be made online. Nearly half of respondents said the cost-of-living crisis will affect their post-Christmas shopping but the forecast average spend is still £50 more per person than it was before the pandemic, with some of that figure because of inflation, Barclays said. Shoppers on Oxford Street, London, during the Boxing Day sales (PA) A total of 65% of shoppers are expecting to spend the majority of their sales budget online. Last year, Barclays found 63.9% of Boxing Day retail purchases were made online. However, a quarter of respondents aim to spend mostly in store – an 11% rise compared with last year. Karen Johnson, head of retail at Barclays, said: “Despite the ongoing cost-of-living pressures, it is encouraging to hear that consumers will be actively participating in the post-Christmas sales. “This year, we’re likely to see a shift towards practicality and sustainability, with more shoppers looking to bag bargains on kitchen appliances and second-hand goods.” Consumers choose in-store shopping largely because they enjoy the social aspect and touching items before they buy, Barclays said, adding that high streets and shopping centres are the most popular destinations.

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