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This was a TTC delay that we actually expected.

There are now three recent Ontario arbitration decisions that address whether an employer may require its unionized employees to be vaccinated. While directly relevant to unionized...

>> there happens to be a big difference. despite the fact that we have weird names. i would argue yours may be weirder. >> oh, mine is definitely weirder. >> you and i dont believe things that are untheter to reality. you and i are like most americans. i dont know if you heard this story. i was outside my house trying to do -- instead of being surrounded by paparazzis, i had power workers out there and they were all about the vaccine. they were arguing about the vaccines and the vaccines can hel...

I think maybe im being too opti optimistic. i think that wins out in the end. >> mike, there happens to be a big difference. despite the fact that we both have weird names, i would argue yours might be weirder. >> mine is definitely weirder. >> you and i dont believe things that are completely untestered to reality. and get angry whenever anybody tells us that. i mean, you and i are like most americans. you know, i dont know if you heard this story. i was outside my house trying to do sprints, h...

See some of the power is starting to trickle back on, thanks in part to folks like these, literally tens of thousands of power workers who are in the region trying to get things back up and running. but when you think about the magnitude of the task, you have literally 22,000 power lines that either or damaged or destroyed in this hurricane. more than 5000 transformers, so it will be a long slog, a quarter of new orleans residents now have power back on, that still leads to upwards to half 1 mil...

Jan Johnstone, an education and community leader, is the NDP’s candidate for Huron–Bruce.

Area strong enough to knock dow threes. so people being advised to stay inside the center. its all about 50 miles off the western coast of florida. that means much of the heavy wind and heavy rain is hitting the coastline. we could see rain in this area of about 25-8 inches the storm surge, pension potentially anywhere from 2-5 feet. key west got hit hard to the morning hours. wind speed there are 60 miles a hour. about 4 inches of rain. in this area does not been any mandatory evacuation. its j...

Community. please, get vaccinated. we have plenty of vaccine available. >> straight from the doctor, dr. william schaffeener, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> well, delta airlines says it plans to hire more than 1,000 pilots by next summer because of the huge and really unexpected jump in demand for air travel. this follows yesterdays announcement from american airlines that it is cancelling hundreds of upcoming flights, partly due to shortage of staff. >> thats right. its not just the airlines ...

Middle class job until they unionized and made it a good middle class job. lots of jobs might get created and the question about how much power workers have over their wages ends up being the determing one. >> you hit the nail on the head. where unions have been the massive force for better compensation and benefits but its declined by 50% over the last number of years and as a result most americans are not benefitting from that collective bargaining power. if you put this foundation of $1,000 a...

Different people with different skills in smaller numbers than the jobs being lost in communities around the country. >> but isnt that partly a question of labor bargaining power and redistribution? there was no reason that, for instance, making a car was a good middle class job until the uaw unionized and made it good middle class job. the question about how much power workers have over their wages ends up being really the determinative one. >> yeah, you hit the nail on the head. where unions h...