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#Rant
Rob Shaw is solidifying his position as the new Dean of Right Wing, anti-Worker Legislative Reporters in British Columbia.
With these gems, it's incredible that he has an education or goes to a doctor at all…
"The BCTF is typically one of the most militant unions, and quickly prone to job action.”
BCTF Strikes since 2000:
2005
2014
phew! almost got to three!
Remember that this was at the time of a union-busting BC Liberal government that had to go to the Supreme Court of Canada to get told that they ripped up union contracts unconstitutionally and were *forced* to compensate many years later.
"The ratification is a win for a New Democrat government. And extraordinarily expensive for taxpayers, too."
“extraordinarily expensive. Really? How is a wage increase that is *barely* in line with inflation after literally decades of below-inflation increases, “extraordinary”? I'll wait.
"Teachers can thank the BCGEU for turning what was an initial 3.5 per cent wage offer over two years by government, into a more than 12 per cent increase over four that is now forming the baseline for all other union deals."
Indeed! For those who can do math, that means 3% each of 4 years instead of 3.5 over two. But thanks Rob for making it seem like 4 times more!
Thanks BCGEU members for your solidarity and perceverence! I have been on strike. It sucks HARD. But it was worth it and it works.
"The ratification by the BCTF means roughly half of the 450,000 public sector employees now have deals of some sort with the province. Two majors left on the table are nurses and doctors.”
Oh no! Let’s not pay doctors and nurses! Surely they'll stay regardless in our incredibly overworked and under resourced healthcare system!
Like how does Mr Shaw believe we are to stay competitive or attract people. Or is he just not worried about getting sick….
"The skyrocketing deficit has the NDP government inking sweetheart deals with organized labour on the one hand, while pledging to cut public sector jobs with the other.”
Ya, we could have kept those public sector jobs if it weren't for fools like you who demanded governments cut taxes over the past 20 years instead of reasonable rises to... again…keep up with inflation and retain service!
It is a crappy balancing act that the NDP is doing and I do not like a lot of it. At the same time as Mr. Shaw complains about "sweetheart deals" for people in post-secondary, I am seeing historic cuts in that same sector. It's a blood bath actually. So the potential wage increases are going to be welcome, but feel pretty hollow as so many collegues have left.
Rob Shaw would have had us all lose our jobs and take a pay cut at the next one for good measure.
Thanks but no thanks Rob, your world view sucks.
https://www.nsnews.com/economy-law-politics/rob-shaw-ndp-deal-with-bc-teachers-sets-another-costly-precedent-for-public-sector-talks-11966874

Mapping ICE's un/under-reported detention sites:
The official count of immigrants detained by ICE passed 73,000 in January. But in the rush to expand several thousand more are being held each night in sites not include on the agency's public reports.
An analysis based on FOIA-supplied data…
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Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.DS. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DS/new
[1/1]:
- Graph-Based Nearest-Neighbor Search without the Spread
Jeff Giliberti, Sariel Har-Peled, Jonas Sauer, Ali Vakilian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06633 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCG_bot/116039510003959758
- Tensor Hinted Mv Conjectures
Zhao Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07242 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCC_bot/116045166832661818
- Compact Conformal Subgraphs
Sreenivas Gollapudi, Kostas Kollias, Kamesh Munagala, Aravindan Vijayaraghavan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07530 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116046310688959095
- The Parameterized Complexity of Independent Set and More when Excluding a Half-Graph, Co-Matching...
Jan Dreier, Nikolas M\"ahlmann, Sebastian Siebertz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07606 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCC_bot/116045172877973476
- A Two-Layer Framework for Joint Online Configuration Selection and Admission Control
Owen Shen, Haoran Xu, Yinyu Ye, Peter Glynn, Patrick Jaillet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07663 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathOC_bot/116046008531918566
- Efficient Adaptive Data Analysis over Dense Distributions
Joon Suk Huh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07732 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116046380158677039
- Wheeler Bisimulations
Nicola Cotumaccio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07964 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csFL_bot/116045203254419984
- Trellis codes with a good distance profile constructed from expander graphs
Yubin Zhu, Zitan Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08718 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_bot/116046151403913561
- Near-optimal Swap Regret Minimization for Convex Losses
Lunjia Hu, Jon Schneider, Yifan Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08862 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116046574152052711
- Distortion of Metric Voting with Bounded Randomness
Ziyi Cai, D. D. Gao, Prasanna Ramakrishnan, Kangning Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08871 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_bot/116045826992016756
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I was one of those people who grew up with frozen orange juice in the freezer. I might still have one last can in my freezer right now.
I noticed it was gone from freezer section at my local store yesterday.
There seems to be a lot of 'mystery' about why people stopped buying it…
once again, the media just takes what the press release says and doesn't talk to anyone.
The reason?
It got expensive!
The whole point of the stuff is you could buy 5 cans for a dollar and keep it in your freezer and have orange juice for two weeks.
Now it was often at least $2 per (also noticeably smaller) can... so why bother?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/minute-maid-discontinuing-frozen-juice-9.7065520

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