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Apparently, there's a mass dismissal of workers in the works this weekend.

So you might want to heed Allison Gill's advice in the link below before reading any of your office e-mail.

No joke.

https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-employees

Current Mood: worried

Guessing that some of you might have already heard of this.

Current Mood: amused

sabotabby and

james_davis_nicoll - among others - have already noticed this on their own accounts.

https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-43/session-1/bill-28

Noting this in the opening text of the legislation:

"The Act provides for new collective agreements. The central terms for those collective agreements are set out in the Schedule. The Act requires the termination of any strike or lock-out and prohibits strikes or lock-outs during the term of the collective agreement.

The Act is declared to operate notwithstanding sections 2, 7 and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Act will apply despite the Human Rights Code.

The Act limits the jurisdiction of the Ontario Labour Relations Board, arbitrators and other tribunals to make certain inquiries or decisions. It also provides for there to be no causes of action or proceedings against the Crown for certain acts. Certain proceedings are deemed to have been dismissed.

The Act provides for regulations, which may be retroactive. Regulations providing for transitional matters will prevail over the Act in the event of a conflict."

Meanwhile, over at Twitter:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/twitter-to-start-layoffs-on-friday-internal-email/ar-AA13IGgO

I'm wearing purple today, because it's been noticed that Ford's developed Putinist Colour Revolution Allergies.

Current Mood: determined

Noticing that the Canadian journalism website is calling for editors to pass word along re: whether they're looking for pitches from freelancers right now:

https://j-source.ca/article/journalism-jobs-work-from-home-edition/

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home

I found out this morning by way of a job ad sent to me by Charity Village. It's called the Canadian Headache Society or "Migraine Canada". Turns out they're currently using a "migrainecanada-dot-org" domain name, seeing as the more logical "migraine-dot-ca" is being cyber-squatted upon.

I just got a request for donations from the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting re: an ad complaining about 35 layoffs at CBC, most in the news division.

Where would I look to confirm that the layoffs have happened? Canadian Media Guild, maybe?

And apparently, I've just answered my own question with a "yes". :-(

https://www.cmg.ca/en/2019/11/15/workforce-reduction-at-cbc-radio-canada-network-news/

This is worrying news.

Current Mood: worried

Found at charityvillage.com: psycho-educator (forensic).

Just leaving this here for investigation/discussion...

I am thinking of the "round table" introductions of the bridge crew in "Brother" at the start of the current season. Something came to mind: being in the alpha-shift bridge crew doesn't always translate to being head of whatever department/division they're in, right?

So, I'm still wondering who's in charge of what aboard USS Discovery NCC-1031. Our roster is incomplete on this point.

Current Mood: curious

There are people not content with proposing that Canada Post start providing banking services again (as they used to do until 1968)...

http://www.deliveringcommunitypower.ca/

I know: after the last couple of years of expense scandals, who'd want to get a job in our upper house AKA the Red Chamber, right?

Even so, you might know a Canadian who might qualify. Someone you suspect could be productively useful in politics but wouldn't cope well with the traditional election processes in place for the House of Commons. (Hint: Not me. I don't meet the property-holder requirement.)

And there is now a process in place for applying or recommending potential members.

Details available here. Limited time for this process, so get moving!

Current Mood: amused

A Tor.com report on SF&F in Nairobi.

From Regina: a story about the consequences of not properly funding the details of international justice...within Canada. (No, I did not make a mistake using "international". There is at least one treaty involved here.)

David Brin asks - and is not alone in asking - when did optimism become Uncool?

Pete Evans at CBC News gets to the heart of the dispute between Canada Post Corp. and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers: the need of workers to avoid starvation in retirement. Even if Evans doesn't frame it with that language.

Also, we note Jason Kenney's quest to save Alberta from civilization. (This is not Mr. Kenney's POV about his goals, to be sure. But as Stephen Colbert once noted, reality does have a certain bias about these matters.)

Congratulations to NASA's Juno team for getting their probe into Jovian orbit yesterday. I won't call what you did "conquering" Jupiter, mind you, because of colonial-mindedness in the undertones of that. But what you did is a positive achievement!

Now here's something that the likes of Peter Parker or Jimmy Olsen might have been facing...and doing videos for their respective news services about facing. Courtesy of the Toronto Star's photographers, we have a series in progress, Master Glass...

Current Mood: intrigued

They were my first ISP, I keep my main website hosted with them to this day, and they're looking for a new Executive Director. Be prepared to move to Ottawa if you're not already living here. We're a community operation, have been for a long time, and we like it that way.

Details here.

Current Mood: hopeful

Some news from the animation field about how learning on the job might end up more problematic than many would prefer:

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/cgi/digital-domains-john-textor-brags-to-investors-about-exploiting-animation-student-labor.html

Vermont vs. Monsanto. Possibly.

http://www.alternet.org/food/154855/monsanto_threatens_to_sue_vermont_if_legislators_pass_a_bill_requiring_gmo_food_to_be_labeled/?page=entire

Both of these things worry me for different reasons. Should I worry?

Current Mood: worried

I'm about 20% done on the pencils for Local Hero # 3 as I write this, and there's more. I'm about to head back to an old day-job in office work for the next few months. Which usually means a bit of a production slowdown, as in years past. Not an ideal situation, obviously, but bills have to be paid down or paid off. And some of those just don't go away no matter what you're doing to earn your pay.

Meantime, Doug Drexler reminded me of something important: the value of persistence and enthusiasm. Go take a look at that article. Then start rummaging around a while if you've got the time. Even if you're not a Trek or Galactica fan(both of which he's worked on, and I expect he'll be on staff for Caprica as well), I think you'll find stuff worth sticking around for.

Current Mood: indescribable

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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted one job. One dream job.

I wanted Charles Schulz' job. Equally as important, I wanted the characters he built. Charlie Brown and Snoopy, two sides of the coin metaphor of my life when I was in school. Not to go into a lot of detail, as that metaphor fits my self-perception in those days well enough that extra detail isn't needed.

Eventually, though, I got just enough of a dose of reality - namely Mr. Schulz' plans for his own future and those of his best-known toys - that it made sense to try for something a little easier to achieve.

So I looked to Spider-Man, and his friends and foes in the Marvel pantheon...and eventually matured to where DC made at least as much sense. Sometimes more sense. DC's like CBC: it's something you grow up into appreciating, and sometimes wanting to shape.

And now, today, I'm working on pencils on an indy comic. The whole artform and industry seems to be just shaking itself down just as I'm finally making my inroads into both. And yet I don't want to be doing anything else really.