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Extra, Extra: Collisions, Tense Negotiations, and Cute Baby Animals
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- If you look into the gaps between all of today’s gloom-and-doom labour dispute news, you’ll notice that they are filled with pictures of a baby polar bear. Save us from ourselves, oh white and fluffy one.
- Have you seen the Globe‘s amazing interactive map of all reported cycling collisions that have happened over the course of the past 25 years? Such tragic data, and yet… such a fun, clicky way of packaging it. We’re so confused.
- We found out earlier today that the negotiations between the City and CUPE Local 416 are close to the brink, but what does it mean when the City says it will “impose” its conditions upon the union if a settlement isn’t reached by Sunday? York University law professor David Doorey explains.
- BREAKING: Big money buys crappy house in good neighbourhood.
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