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The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has required Canadian governments, including Ontario’s, to react quickly with new programs and policies.
Both the federal and provincial governments have designed a wide array of economic emergency programs to help people, businesses, and non-profit organizations weather the financial impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. But while the speed and creativity of these responses have generally been impressive, these efforts are being undermined by the way they have been communicated. The communications-related uncertainty around these programs harms their effectiveness and contributes to business closures and the exit of parents (especially women) from the workforce. This reflects a key point: communications is not tangential to public policy; it is crucial to public policy implementation, especially in a crisis.
There are three main components to the government response to the pandemic: the response within the healthcare system, the public health emergency measures, and the economic and fiscal rescue packages. While many have focused on the strengths and weaknesses of public health communications during this crisis, this analysis is focused on how governments have communicated their relief packages for people, businesses, and institutions. It finds that delayed and vague messages have undermined the effectiveness of those rescue efforts and exacerbated economic pain.
The traditional approach to government communications is inadequate for this crisis. As the Ontario government navigates the second wave of COVID-19 and adapts policy responses for the ongoing crisis and recovery, it must focus on building greater confidence and clarity for businesses and residents. Overcoming uncertainty will depend on a change in the way government communicates about economic policy; for example more regular and transparent communication, sharing scenario analysis and contingency plans, and outlining trigger points for changes in policy direction. This change in course is necessary for an effective response that protects businesses and households from economic scarring.
Communications in a crisis cannot be an afterthought — clear, timely, and transparent communications is a core part of the response itself. Even with a much more significant role for government in backstopping and directing economic activity than in normal times, our successes and failures in this crisis still depend on choices made by Ontarians. And that means that the podium is probably the most important tool in governments’ response.
Communications is often dismissed as political sales, with ribbon cuttings and press conferences for politicians to take credit for spending public money. But communication itself is core to the effectiveness of policy, from agenda setting through to implementation. It matters to inform, motivate, and listen to the people affected by the policy.
A 2019 review of government economic communications by the International Monetary Fund highlighted the importance of communications to public policy outcomes. As the author (along with the IMF’s communications director) explains:
“Communications are increasingly seen as a policy tool in itself. To be sure, communications can never be a substitute for good policies. But economic reforms are more likely to fail or even be reversed unless they are understood, believed, and accepted by those whom they affect.”
This perspective is reflected in a range of other research about public policy and administration. For example, a 2011 report published by the UK-based think-tank, Chatham House, on the role of public communications in defence and national security policy, highlighted “the role and potential of strategic communications as a means of delivering policy.” And Canadian public administration researcher Michael Howlett has also pointed to the different ways that communication serves as a critical policy tool.
The key takeaways from this research are confirmed by the experience of this crisis: government communications must be viewed as a crucial component of policy design and implementation.
This is even heightened in a crisis. The importance of effective communications has been clear in the public health response to the crisis. Strong communicators have built public trust and helped people make informed decisions. They helped build a working understanding of asymptomatic transmission, aerosols, and testing sensitivity. British Columbia’s Chief Medical Officer Bonnie Henry’s accessible and direct communication has inspired no less than five musical tributes. The regular presence of government briefings in people’s information diet in 2020 reflects the importance of reliable, understandable guidance.
On the other hand, ineffective communication on public health has undoubtedly played a role in exacerbating the pandemic. Protracted confusion about mask wearing delayed widespread adoption and invariably led to a higher number of cases in the first wave. Here in Ontario, confusion over the role of “social circles”, mixed messages on testing protocols in schools and the relative safety of different behaviours have likely contributed to both “pandemic fatigue” and virus spread.
But even while messages have conflicted at times within and across different orders of government, and even where efforts have fallen short, there is no question that regular and direct communication with the public has been a clear priority of the public health response.
The same cannot be said about the economic crisis response. In this case, both the Ontario and federal governments have resorted to more traditional messaging calendars and controlled “roll-outs” — communicating in talking points delivered when governments are ready. That typical pattern includes an early but very general signal of policy direction — in this case a promise that “help is on the way” — followed by deflection of questions until government is ready for a more traditional political announcement with a podium, and even more significant outreach when the program is already live.
There is good reason for this pattern in normal times. It makes sense to take some time to get details right before announcing them, and governments also have a responsibility to respect parliamentary privilege for legislatures to weigh in where appropriate.
But, in normal times, most of the businesses and workers in the economy do not hinge their decision to stay open or to continue to work on a public policy decision.
We are not in normal times. Businesses and families are being forced to choose between the least bad of the options in front of them, based on the information available. As of early summer — when conditions were improving — one-third of businesses reported that they would have to reduce operations or look at closure or bankruptcy within a year at their current revenue levels. In businesses that cannot “pivot to online,” like restaurants, tourism, and personal services, the situation is more urgent. Even before the arrival of the second wave and closure of indoor dining in Ontario hotspots, 60 per cent of restaurants reported that they were at risk of closing in three months without aid.
In this context, businesses cannot just wait to find out what kind of relief is available. Details matter, and the shape, size, and eligibility of those relief packages will shape decisions going forward. Smaller businesses, in particular, have burned through their cash reserves and exhausted lines of credit. Business owners are often forced to personally guarantee their leases, which means they could stand to not only lose their business but their homes if things go wrong.
The realities of operating a business, especially in the face of these risks, require some measure of clarity for advance planning. Businesses cannot easily turn operations on and off like a switch — supply chains and workforces depend on some advance notice. Businesses at risk are more likely to shut down while government is making up their minds, meaning that rent relief or wage subsidies offered retroactively are more likely to subsidize those who need it less urgently.
Parents too have been forced to make decisions about working while waiting for information to come from the provincial government and local school boards. The late confirmation of details for school re-opening plans (combined with the changing pandemic conditions) robbed parents of the runway to make choices for their families. Without clarity and confidence that there would be schools and childcare centres open in a safe and reliable fashion, many parents needed to make arrangements that would let them (and their children) stay home, pulling away from their jobs or businesses. The potential for protracted school closures in the second wave is repeating this cycle.
Some of the challenge of these delays is about the impossibility of making good decisions more quickly. These are complex challenges in new contexts, and the humans involved in designing the policies are also living through a pandemic. They are concerned for their families and are often juggling homeschooling and work themselves. But those delays have been amplified significantly by communication failures. In trying to tightly control their messaging, governments have in fact undermined the effectiveness of their own response.
This is not a question of “Monday morning quarterbacking” or trying to take lessons for the next crisis. Getting the economic crisis communications right is at least as important now as in the first wave of COVID-19. Even if the second wave of the virus is brought swiftly under control, economist Frances Donald has warned of an economic second wave that could be driven by uncertainty and the withdrawal of government support before a vaccine is in place. For businesses and families that have already depleted their financial and mental reserves in the last seven months, clear and direct communication will be even more important in the months ahead.
Economic response packages have come on timelines that suit governments, without regard for how businesses operate. While the idea that economic policymakers cannot understand the economy if they have never “made payroll” is overblown, the COVID-19 response would have benefitted from some grounding in how things work in practice, rather than textbooks.
Businesses need lead time for policy to shape their investment decisions. But relief packages and closure orders have generally been communicated with little to no notice period and mere weeks of “runway” until the next cliff of uncertainty. The cost of that fog is to push more businesses into hibernation or closure and more parents out of the workforce. The cost of greater uncertainty will be greater pain in the short-term and the long-term.
We know that this economic pain will not be equally distributed. We know, for instance, that the impact of the pandemic has been borne disproportionately by racialized and low-income communities. Through mid-September, 82 per cent of Toronto’s COVID-19 cases came from racialized communities (compared to 52 per cent of the population). Lower-income workers are less likely to be able to work from home to reduce their exposure.
The uneven impact also extends to the question of who bears the burden of economic policy uncertainty. That volatility is hitting small businesses harder than large ones, women worse than men, and younger workers more deeply than mid-career workers.
- Large business will be better positioned to weather the storm, with better ability to shift their businesses online or to rely on finance departments to provide forecasts and navigate the complicated details of government aid programs. Complexity of government programs is a much taller hurdle for a restaurant owner managing their own books while trying to pivot to takeout business. Large businesses also generally have greater access to financing to bridge the delay between the impact on their business and the arrival of relief. Combined, these factors give larger businesses more runway to stay open while waiting for clarity, while small businesses may be forced to shutter to stem their losses.
- The initial shutdowns in the spring hit women harder than men. Female fulltime employment dropped by 834,400 between January and April; from 6.8 million to 5.9 million. Female labour force participation hit the lowest levels in 35 years, driven by a combination of economic job loss in women-led sectors and disproportionate share of childcare responsibilities as schools and childcare centres closed. Immigrant women have seen even sharper job losses. The
- uncertainty around back to school plans has continued to push women out of the workforce this fall, and employment recovery has been weakest for single mothers and weaker for mothers with young children than for fathers or for women without kids.
- Young people have been hurt disproportionately by COVID-19 job losses. They are more likely to work in in-person services and are more likely to have precarious employment situations where they are first to be let go. The youth employment rate dropped from 58 per cent to 38 per cent between February and April 2020 and the number of youth not in education, employment or training doubled during that time. Beyond the impact on their education, uncertainty caused many summer jobs to evaporate. Post-secondary students headed into the academic year with little clarity about whether school would continue online or in person.
Much of this uncertainty is a product of a new virus and an unfamiliar pandemic that looks different than anything in living memory. But some of this uncertainty was created or exacerbated by policy decisions and the way they have been communicated. The roll-out of wage subsidies, commercial rent assistance, and school re-opening provide three examples of how these communication breakdowns have increased the cost of the pandemic.
Case Studies in Confusion
Making payroll: stumbles in emergency wage subsidies
Wage subsidies have been a core of the federal government’s emergency response package since the beginning of the pandemic. The initial decision-making was swift: a 10 per cent small business wage subsidy was announced on March 18th and the much more substantial 75 per cent Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) was announced on March 27th. The wage subsidy was intended as a cornerstone of the government’s economic response, hoping to keep workers connected with their employers to avoid the heavy cost of long-term unemployment. But this swift response was undermined by uncertainty and delays in communication, especially around program timelines.
When first announced, the federal government expected the CEWS to cost $73 billion over 3 months — three times the size of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit. But by October 2020, a program with extended eligibility was projected to cost $5 billion less in total over 9 months. This is not, unfortunately, a story of an unexpectedly strong economic recovery.
Initial delays between when the program was announced and when details and applications where actually available led to poor take-up. While massive companies like Air Canada were in a position to re-hire laid-off workers right away, smaller businesses were more likely to lay off workers to collect the Canada Emergency Response Benefit instead while those businesses waited for details. By the time the applications were opened, there were only a few weeks left before the program was set to end on June 6th — hardly a strong incentive to rehire and then re-lay-off staff.
These delays between commitment and details have been repeated since. The details of a mid-May extension through August were not released until mid-July. A subsequent extension through June 2021 promised in the September Speech from the Throne was clearly intended to provide more long-term certainty. But details about how the first twelve weeks of that extension (covering September 27th through December 19th) were not released until November 5th. Even businesses reacting rapidly to this new information have barely a few weeks of clear runway to make decisions on that basis.
The further we get into the pandemic-induced recession, the more the uncertainty will matter. Instead of building confidence that relief will be responsive, businesses have been forced to bear the cost of that uncertainty. With reserves spent and credit lines maxed, each delay makes it more likely that the support will not reach small businesses and those that need it most. Businesses owned by women, Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and members of racialized communities have seen sharper drops in revenue and, on average, have less ability to survive public health limits on their business without support. For the CEWS to work as it should, it needs to be communicated clearly and proactively.
Past due: uncertainty in commercial rent assistance
The rollout of commercial rent assistance support for small business is a similar story. This part of the economic rescue package was intended to help main street businesses survive the effects of forced closures. Calls for rent relief were among the early and most urgent calls from the small business community as a necessary condition for the survival of small businesses and the health of local economies. Federal and provincial governments announced the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (CECRA) program on April 24th. Like with the wage subsidy, the communication challenges that followed factored significantly into disappointing results.
Part of the communication challenge with CECRA was simply confusion about how the program worked and who was responsible. Initial backgrounders made it unclear just which landlords and which costs were eligible, and as governments, landlords and tenants pointed fingers at each other, businesses failed.
The other main challenge of CECRA communications breakdowns mirrors the shortfall with CEWS. The tentative extensions of the program ignored the reality that businesses need lead-time to make decisions (and pay rent). The extension to July was not announced until the last day of June, and the same thing happened the next month. A September extension was not announced until the 8th of the month — a week after rent was due.
As the second wave of the pandemic arrived in Ontario and Quebec, and the temperatures dropped making outdoor patios and other temporary solutions unworkable, this story was repeated once again. While the federal government committed on September 8th to a new program to support small businesses with rent and other fixed costs, the program details and eligibility were not shared until November 5th (after two more months’ rent had come due).
With the risk of losses piling up and business and personal bankruptcy looming, businesses need greater clarity about how the new rent support program is going to work to stabilize the economy. Restaurants considering investment in heated patios and other measures need clarity on what kind of support will be available in different scenarios.
The new program includes an automatic top-up if a business is temporarily shut down by public health authorities, which is helpful to provide confidence. However, without clarity on who will qualify, how, and for how long, and given the frustration from all sides with CECRA, the sporadic revelation of details is likely to undermine the new program just as it did the previous one.
Parents stuck in suspension
Uncertainty exacerbated by communications failures is not limited to the federal government or to businesses. The Ontario government’s approach to the re-opening of schools and of childcare centres pushed the burden of uncertainty onto schools, school boards and childcare centres – and ultimately onto families. Beyond the substantive limitations of plans to safely re-open schools and childcare centres, the persistent uncertainty has driven more parents out of the workforce to care for their children and assist with home schooling.
In June, Ontario’s Education Minister Stephen Lecce asked school boards to prepare for three different scenarios of return to school, depending on the state of the pandemic by the time school was to start. This was a good example of proactive communication by the government regarding how the response might vary depending on public health conditions. But by the time “back to school” ads were airing, parents had little clarity about what return to school would look like.
In late July, the government pre-empted their own deadline for school boards’ plans with a back to school plan of their own. School boards in turn pressed parents to make decisions between in-person and virtual learning before they had a clear picture how either would work. Without clarity on contingency planning should cases rise, many families opted for online learning. With approximately one-in-three GTA elementary school students starting the year virtually, this meant that parents had to find ways to stay home to support their children.
It is mothers with younger children who are being pushed out of the labour market. Tammy Schirle and Mikal Skuterud found that mothers with young children had recovered 36 per cent of their lost work hours by June, while mothers with grown children had recovered at more than twice that rate. As cases have risen and more families are shifting to virtual school — or simply juggling bouts of isolation due to symptoms or exposures — the employment gap between mothers of young kids and everyone else should be expected to grow.
These three examples highlight the extent to which policy effectiveness is, in major ways, a function of how and when policies are communicated. Policy uncertainty is harmful in any circumstance. But in a crisis, it can have serious economic repercussions. Although Canadian governments have generally done a good job of clear and effective communications with respect to public health issues, their record on economic-oriented programs and policies is more mixed, as the cases above show.
Overcoming these communications breakdowns in the face of very real uncertainty is not simple. But governments do not have to be perfect to do better. They just have to demonstrate the flexibility to communicate differently than they do in normal times. Local, provincial, and federal leaders in Canada have been ready to make themselves available to the public and media throughout the pandemic on a regular basis. They have been at their best when they speak directly and honestly to Canadians about what they know and what they do not about the science of the pandemic and public health responses. But this same communications approach has not extended to economic policy, where governments have generally followed traditional guarded approaches.
We know from past experience in Canada and elsewhere that policy uncertainty has real economic costs. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco estimated that policy uncertainty in response to the global financial crisis (amplified in the US by political dynamics that led to government shutdowns) led to an unemployment rate 1.3 percentage points higher than it would have been. Similarly, Moody’s found that policy uncertainty reduced US GDP by $150 billion USD and employment by 1.1 million jobs. And, as a recent Ontario 360 paper pointed out, the pandemic has brought on the highest levels of uncertainty ever recorded.
Adapting communication practices to the realities of the pandemic can alleviate some of this uncertainty. Businesses and families do not have time to sort through hard-to-find policy backgrounders on a government website. Clear and targeted outreach can do much to ensure that economic rescue packages reach those who need them most.
The following three tactics can help ensure that the next round of economic response does not suffer the same pitfalls as the cases highlighted in this report.
Outline scenarios and clear trigger points
As Ontario is in the midst of a second wave, the public is getting a first (but perhaps not last) taste of the re-opening and re-closing roller-coaster. While the re-opening of Ontario through the summer followed a staged approach tied to metrics, these were not the same metrics tied to the stepped-up public health measures with the second wave. These changes have amplified uncertainty among the population about how the government will respond to the pandemic.
Former Chair of the US Federal Reserve Paul Volcker warned governments that, in a crisis, the only asset you have is credibility. Businesses and families need to hear what government will do when — specifics matter for business planning and family decisions about work and school.
A major shortcoming of how the wage subsidy and rent assistance program were communicated was the constant looming uncertainty about whether the program would be extended. While governments need to maintain policy flexibility, they could have reduced uncertainty significantly by clarifying how their economic policy response will vary depending on different scenarios.
Here, economic policymakers can learn from their public health colleagues. Both political leadership and Medical Officers of Health have repeatedly shared epidemiological scenario modeling with the public and explained the different pathways that the virus might take. Businesses and families need to hear greater clarity about what economic policy responses will look like under those scenarios. In some cases, it is possible to lay out clear triggers for the introduction (or withdrawal) of rescue packages: if 7-day case averages reach a certain level, or if employment is at a certain level, then wage subsidies or rent assistance will continue. These kinds of clear signals put the power back in the hands of businesses to make their own decisions.
In early November, the Government of Ontario unveiled a program that uses this type of clear trigger point. The $300 million fund for businesses affected by public health measures is directly tied to the new colour-coded reopening framework. The announcement included clarity on which businesses would be eligible and the level of support they can expect. Though the thresholds themselves have since shifted, this type of approach helps, businesses plan with the insurance of knowing exactly the level of support they can anticipate from the province if conditions change. The “lockdown support” in the new federal commercial rent assistance program also moves in this direction. This type of clear trigger point is a useful model for other federal and provincial economic responses.
In monetary policy, central banks have increasingly embraced the importance of this kind of communication as a policy tool in its own right. “Forward guidance” is used by central bankers to signal to markets — sometimes explicitly, sometimes more cautiously — how the bank will react to different economic conditions. This practice however, does not typically carry over to finance departments. Budgets include different forecasts about scenarios of economic growth, but little about how governments will respond to those scenarios. In normal times, being prescriptive about future decisions is likely to lead to normal responses. Given the essential role of economic rescue programs during COVID-19, businesses and residents are depending on policymakers to clear some of the fog.
This type of scenario-based communications can not only help signal to households and businesses under which circumstances new rescue programs may be implemented or existing ones may be expanded and renewed, but they can also start to lay out an evidence-based framework for when extraordinary spending may eventually be wound-down. This will be important to ensure that rescue programs are neither withdrawn too early nor too late based on political considerations but instead that these policy decisions are rooted in the evidence about the economic and public health conditions.
Target outreach about new programs to help people navigate
Governments have invested significantly in building public awareness that new supports are available for business and residents, using advertising and outreach across traditional and social media. In addition to these broadcast messages, governments should use proactive targeted outreach to specific communities and targeted partners.
Most businesses will turn to outside advice to help them navigate programs like wage subsidies and rent assistance. By working with professional bodies like the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario to identify potential questions and disseminate information about the programs, governments can anticipate and proactively address potential sources of confusion. Chambers of commerce and cultural associations can also be partners in helping to ensure that information reaches members across regions and languages. Just as the Canada Revenue Agency works with trusted community partners to encourage tax filing and access to benefits among lower-income Canadians, community organizations have the credibility and the reach to succeed where government communications fall short.
But they need good information from government to do so.
Other forms of active outreach can also be effective in helping connect people with policies. Text messages, letters and other direct outreach to residents can show strong results at very low cost. Governments have the contact and context information to do targeted outreach to businesses that may be eligible for supports and to streamline application processes with pre-filled forms.
Show some trust in residents
Governments have a tendency when it comes to economic programs to deliver two distinct messages: a sanitized one for the public and a detailed and technical backgrounder, often hidden from public view, for those impacted directly. But to build the trust in government that is necessary for economic recovery, government needs to show more trust to residents in return.
People have learned to understand concepts like asymptomatic transmission. They have adapted their lives and their businesses, and then done it over again. While plain language is important, tiered approaches to content at different levels of technicality should provide residents the option of learning more, rather than hiding details in a different location than the main message.
As part of the public health response, experts and political leaders have regularly communicated with the public about what they are working on, what they are learning and what they are concerned about. The economic policy response has been more likely to feature a message of “help is on the way and we will have more to share soon.” In addition to helping replace the information vacuum, providing ongoing and regular updates about economic crisis response can help to build trust.
As Ontario faces the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a long winter ahead, both the federal and provincial governments have made it clear that their goal is to support businesses and families to make it through the economic downturn and limit the long-term “economic scarring” that could result. The response to date has been significant both in the range of new programs and the scale of investment. But the rescue plan has been held back by the way it has been communicated and implemented, creating continued uncertainty instead of confidence.
Whether it is a small business deciding whether to close its doors and cut its losses, an employer weighing whether to re-hire staff, or parents deciding how to navigate the school year ahead, Ontarians need more clarity to make decisions. Measures like wage subsidies and commercial rent assistance are designed to provide some insurance to businesses. But these have fallen short because the specifics have come too slowly, and with short expiry dates.
Just as a crisis calls for different policy responses from government, it calls for a different approach to communication. When it comes to public health measures, for better and for worse, public officials have been in regular communication with the public, answering questions, sharing modeling and signaling potential change ahead. But that same openness has not been extended to the economic response.
There are some specific tactics available to governments to provide better economic clarity in the face of uncertainty: they can outline the economic and public health trigger points that would see supports increased, extended, or wound-down; they can use proactive outreach to ensure overburdened business owners get the details they need; and they can ditch sanitized political messaging in favour of direct communication. To reduce the economic scarring that comes from closed businesses and parents leaving the workforce, businesses and families need to know what is coming before the rent or payroll comes due.
Noah Zon is a co-founder and Principal of Springboard Policy, a public policy research and advisory firm based in Toronto.
The author is grateful to Munk School alumni Saif Alnuweiri for research assistance and to Sean Speer, Drew Fagan and Jamie Van Ymeren for helpful comments
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 Government of Canada, “Prime Minister Announces Partnerships with Provinces and Territories to Deliver the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance for Small Businesses ,” April 24, 2020, https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2020/04/24/prime-minister-announces-partnerships-provinces-and-territories.
 CBC News, “Rent-Relief Program Confusing — and Too Risky for Landlords, Broker Says ,” May 25, 2020, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/commercial-rent-relief-program-too-confusing-and-risky-1.5583670.
 Nick Taylor-Vaisey, “Rent Relief: What Went Wrong with Ottawa’s Small Business Rescue Plan,” Maclean’s, May 19, 2020, https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/the-long-wait-for-rent-relief-and-what-went-wrong-with-ottawas-small-business-rescue-plan/.
 Erin Millar, Jon Shell, and Ben Coli, “Four Ways Canadian Governments Can Help Small Business Survive COVID-19’s Second Wave,” Medium, September 14, 2020, https://medium.com/@jonshell/four-ways-canadian-governments-can-helpsmall-business-survive-covid-19s-second-wave-216bdfc85259.
 Millar, Shell, and Coli.
 Department of Finance, “Government Announces Extension of Rent Relief for Small Businesses ,” September 8, 2020, https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2020/09/government-announces-extension-of-rent-relief-for-small-businesses.html.; Department of Finance, “Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy – Backgrounder,” November 5, 2020, https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2020/11/canada-emergency-rent-subsidy.html
 Government of Ontario, “Ontario Prepares for the Safe Reopening of Schools ,” June 19, 2020, https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/57309/ontario-prepares-for-the-safe-reopening-of-schools.
 Government of Ontario, “Ontario Releases Plan for Safe Reopening of Schools in September,” July 30, 2020, https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/57838/ontario-releases-plan-for-safe-reopening-of-schools-in-september.
 Nick Boisvert, “Significant Percentage of GTA Students to Begin School Year Online over COVID-19 Concerns,” CBC News, August 18, 2020, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gta-school-boards-online-learning-1.5690896.
 Tammy Schirle and Mikal Skuterud, “The Moms Are Not All Right ,” C.D. Howe Institute, July 15, 2020, https://www.cdhowe.org/intelligence-memos/schirle-skuterud-–-moms-are-not-all-right.
 Sylvain Leduc and Zheng Liu, “Uncertainty and the Slow Labor Market Recovery,” Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, July 22, 2013, https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2013/july/us-labor-market-uncertainty-slow-recovery/.
 Mark Zandi, “A Budget Battle Postmortem A Budget Battle Postmortem,” October 2013, https://www.economy.com/mark-zandi/documents/2013-10-21-budget-battle-postmortem.pdf.
 Sean Speer, Drew Fagan, and Michael Cuenco, Navigating Uncertainty in Ontario’s Budget, Ontario 360, October 23, 2020. https://wp-a52btu2v90.pairsite.com/policy-papers/navigating-uncertainty-in-ontarios-budget/.
 DealBook, “The Legacy of Paul Volcker ,” New York Times, December 10, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/business/dealbook/paul-volcker-death-legacy.html.
 Government of Ontario, “Ontario Releases COVID-19 Response Framework to Help Keep the Province Safe and Open,” November 3, 2020, https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/59051/ontario-releases-covid-19-response-framework-to-help-keepthe-province-safe-and-open
 Government of Ontario, “Businesses: Get Help with COVID-19 Costs,” Accessed November 6, 2020, https://www.ontario.ca/page/businesses-get-help-covid-19-costs
 Olga Ilinichna Stankova, “Frontiers of Economic Policy Communications,” International Monetary Fund, May 21, 2019, https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Departmental-Papers-Policy-Papers/Issues/2019/05/20/Frontiers-of-Economic-Policy-Communications-46816.
 Leonard M. Lopoo, Colleen Heflin, and Joseph Boskovski, “Testing Behavioral Interventions Designed to Improve On-Time SNAP Recertification,” Journal of Behavioral Public Administration 3, no. 2, September 23, 2020, https://doi.org/10.30636/jbpa.32.183. ; OECD, “Improving Regulation and Outcomes through Behavioural Insights,” in OECD Regulatory Policy Outlook 2018 (OECD, 2018), 147–62, https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264303072-10-en.
 Robert Benzie, “Doug Ford’s Tories Will Table an Ontario Budget on Nov. 5,” Toronto Star, October 26, 2020, https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2020/10/26/doug-fords-tories-will-table-an-ontario-budget-on-nov-5.html?rf. ; Department of Finance Canada, “Address by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance to the Toronto Global Forum: Canada’s Plan for a Strong Economic Recovery from COVID-19 ,” October 28, 2020, https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2020/10/address-by-the-deputy-prime-minister-and-minister-of-finance-to-the-toronto-global-forum-canadas-plan-for-a-strong-economic-recovery-from-covid-19.html.

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A study of primates reveals permanent changes in bone composition after birth and breastfeeding.
Reproduction permanently alters females’ bones in ways not previously known, a team of anthropologists has found. Its discovery, based on an analysis of a kind of primate known as rhesus monkeys, sheds new light on how giving birth can permanently change the body.
A group of anthropologists has discovered that reproduction permanently changes women’s bones in ways that were not previously known. The discovery, based on an analysis of rhesus monkeys, gives new insight into how birth can permanently alter the body.
“Our findings provide additional evidence of the profound impact that reproduction has on the female organism, further demonstrating that the skeleton is not a static organ, but a dynamic one that changes with life events,” explains Paola Cerrito, who led the research as a doctoral student in New York University’s Department of Anthropology and College of Dentistry.
The scientists discovered that females who gave birth had lower calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus concentrations. These changes are connected to giving birth itself and to lactation.
They do, however, issue a warning that although prior clinical studies have shown the importance of calcium and phosphorus for healthy bones, the current findings address overall health implications for either primates or humans. Rather, they assert that the study reveals the dynamic nature of our bones.
“A bone is not a static and dead portion of the skeleton,” notes NYU anthropologist Shara Bailey, one of the study’s authors. “It continuously adjusts and responds to physiological processes.”
Timothy Bromage, a professor at NYU College of Dentistry, Bin Hu, an adjunct professor also at NYU, Justin Goldstein, a Ph.D. student at Texas State University, and Rachel Kalisher, a doctoral student at Brown University, are the other authors of the study, which was published in the journal PLOS ONE.
It’s been long-established that menopause can have an effect on females’ bones. Less clear is how preceding life-cycle events, such as reproduction, can influence skeletal composition. To address this, the researchers studied the primary lamellar bone—the main type of bone in a mature skeleton. This aspect of the skeleton is an ideal part of the body to examine because it changes over time and leaves biological markers of these changes, allowing scientists to monitor alterations during the lifespan.
In the PLOS ONE study, the scientists examined the growth rate of lamellar bone in the femora, or thigh bones, of both female and male primates who had lived at the Sabana Seca Field Station in Puerto Rico and died of natural causes. Veterinarians at the field station monitored and recorded information on these primates’ health and reproductive history, allowing the researchers to match bone-composition changes to life events with notable precision.
Cerrito and her colleagues used electron microscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray analysis—commonly deployed methods to gauge the chemical composition of tissue samples—to calculate changes in concentrations of calcium, phosphorus, oxygen, magnesium, and sodium in the primates’ bones.
Their results showed different concentrations of some of these elements in females who gave birth compared to males as well as females who did not give birth. Specifically, in females who gave birth, calcium and phosphorus were lower in the bone formed during reproductive events. Futhermore, there was a significant decline in magnesium concentration during these primates’ breastfeeding of infants.
“Our research shows that even before the cessation of fertility the skeleton responds dynamically to changes in reproductive status,” says Cerrito, now a research fellow at ETH Zurich. “Moreover, these findings reaffirm the significant impact giving birth has on a female organism—quite simply, evidence of reproduction is ‘written in the bones’ for life.”
Reference: “Elemental composition of primary lamellar bone differs between parous and nulliparous rhesus macaque females” by Paola Cerrito, Bin Hu, Justin Z. Goldstein, Rachel Kalisher, Shara E. Bailey and Timothy G. Bromage, 1 November 2022, PLOS ONE.
The study was funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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In an unusually fast turnaround, Microsoft replied within hours to Novell CEO Ron Hovsepians “Open Letter to the Community from Novell.” In a statement, Microsoft acknowledges that Novell never agreed, as some critics of the deal have claimed, to Microsofts vague contentions of patent violations in Linux.
In his open letter to the community, Hovsepian wrote, “Microsoft asked that we cooperate on patents as well, and so a patent cooperation agreement was included as a part of the deal. In this agreement, Novell and Microsoft each promise not to sue the others customers for patent infringement. The intended effect of this agreement was to give our joint customers peace of mind that they have the full support of the other company for their IT activities.”
In an eWEEK interview, John Dragoon, Novells senior vice president and CMO, further explained, “Some customers, for whatever reasons, decided they did not want the hassles of addressing intellectual property issues. Our doing this agreement with Microsoft is not an admission that we believe Linux is impugned in any way, but it is an admission that we wanted to remove whatever impediments there are to the adoption of Linux and open source and do that on behalf of our customers.”
Hovsepian also wrote, “Our agreement with Microsoft is in no way an acknowledgment that Linux infringes upon any Microsoft intellectual property. To claim otherwise is to further sow fear, uncertainty and doubt, and does not offer a fair basis for competition.”
According to a Microsoft representative, “Microsoft and Novell have agreed to disagree on whether certain open-source offerings infringe Microsoft patents and whether certain Microsoft offerings infringe Novell patents. The agreement between our two companies puts in place a workable solution for customers for these issues, without requiring an agreement between our two companies on infringement.”

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The Nationalist party voted in favour of a bill which it deemed ‘merely superficial’. Why?
EARLIER this week, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition discussed the femicide bill, six weeks after the horrific murder of Paulina Dembska.
It was an opportunity for both sides of the house to come together for a common cause. The fact that the Bill will be passed with a unanimous vote is indeed a positive step.
It was also an opportunity for both political parties to have their position known on a crucial theme, and propose a way forward.
But overall, the debate was a disappointment.
Despite declaring his support, the Leader of the Opposition went on the attack, going as far as describing the Bill as a superficial one that will give the government a tagline to use in its next billboard.
It was an opportunity for both sides of the house to come together for a common cause.
During the debate, the Prime Minister showed sensitivity on this crucial issue, sending a clear message that the government wants to be the voice of victims who are suffering behind closed doors. “We cannot turn a blind eye to these realities. It is only in this way that we truly represent our people. Only in this way do we truly address the realities of the people,” Prime Minister Robert Abela said.
Disappointingly, to this, the Leader of the Opposition stated that this was all a result of the Government decision failing to legislate in the past on this topic and that it was in fact the idea of the Opposition to propose this bill.
While Bernard Grech stated that what is being proposed needed more changes, he failed to mention what else needs to be amended in our laws. He missed another opportunity to show what his party stands for.
Grech’s speech focused on trying to pinpoint where Government had failed and thus failing to focus on actually bringing change or proposing a better way forward.
This amendment is important as it will lead to a much needed change in mentality, beyond legislation. NGOs and individuals who have called for it want a successful amendment which both parties agree upon. They deserve as much.
Instead of focusing on the major shift this country is making, the Opposition is once again stuck in the past.
Today’s generation fails to relate with this mindset, but is eager to hear new proposals that not only bring about a change in mentality, but also seek to defend those who are the most in need in our society.

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There was an immense amount of information revealed yesterday regarding the Justice League movie. It took us most of the day to really go over everything and also get a better sense of understanding what was announced.
The general consensus by the journalists and critics that were invited was that this movie was going to be lighter and a lot more fun than Batman v Superman. The fact is, Zack Snyder had to do this now and he knew it after the divisive reception to BvS.
It also seems from everything we have read that he heard what fans and critics said, and he is listening. We’re going to be honest. We loved Batman v Superman. Yes, it had its problems, but we enjoyed his vision and we liked how different it was. We said from the second we left the theater that this was a true comic book movie and we appreciated the film, but not everyone agreed.
It looks like we might just be getting a movie, both die hard fans, casual fans, and critics will love and we are now more excited than ever.
So let’s break down what we have learned. You may want to get comfy. This is going to be a long article.
When the story is set according to Producer Deborah Snyder:
“So what can I tell you about the story? Well, the story takes place a few months after we left off with BvS. As you know, with the death of Superman, his death really impacted Batman in a profound way,” Snyder explained. “And he really, I think, starts to regain his faith in humanity. He also feels like there is something coming, something imminently coming, maybe even here already. So he feels, and with the help of Diana Prince, that he needs to find the rest of the metahumans. So basically this story is about finding the group and bringing them all together. And it’s a lot of fun because we get to go on that journey, and we get to see the different personalities of all the members of the Justice League. And that’s really generally what it’s about.”
They also were pretty clear that this was a standalone movie.
Zack Snyder had this to say:
“It is a complete movie,” Snyder said.
When he was asked if there would be a cliffhanger at the end of the film, Snyder was hesitant because he didn’t want to spoil anything, but he did tease, “The movie doesn’t end and you’re like, ‘Okay, well that’s the DC Universe.'”
How Justice League will appeal to a broader audience according to Deborah Snyder:
“I think Justice League is much more inclusive [than Batman v Superman],” said executive producer Deborah Snyder. “It’s all about the characters, too. We have these two very young Flash and Cyborg characters and they’re definitely lighter. I think they’re going to appeal to a younger audience. I think Suicide Squad has its own audience, and I think Wonder Woman has its own audience. Not just women because I think the movie, I’ve seen a little bit of it, and [Director] Patty [Jenkins]’s still working on her director’s cut.”
“I think it’s going to be broad-reaching,” Snyder added. “I think the darkest [we’re going] is where we’ve been.”
Ben Affleck promises more humor & fun:
Warner bros. and Snyder sent a clear message inviting members of the press to the film’s London set: Justice League will be fun.
“There’s definitely room for more humor,” Affleck says. “DC movies are, I think, by their nature still a little bit more Gothic or more mythic rather than some comic book movies are, but [Batman v Superman] was a heavy, dark movie. It was really rooted in Dark Knight Returns, which is a heavy, dark book. This is not that. This is a step in evolution from that about bringing together all these characters, ones who had their origins and it’s about multilateralism and it’s about hope. It’s about working together and the kind of conflicts that you have trying to work together with others. It’s a world with all these other superheroes that exist.”
Affleck went on to explain where Justice League’s humor comes from. “There’s comedy that goes in that necessarily, trying to work with other people and people trying to accomplish goals together is the root of all great comedy in my view, so there’s definitely hopefully some fun in it, but it’s recognizably these characters and these stories,” the actor and executive producer says before concluding, “It’s not turning it upside down.”
Bruce Wayne Builds Tech for members of the JL:
One thing that stuck right out to a reporter was a WayneTech logo on the costume for The Flash, who we all know appeared to Bruce Wayne in a vision in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
“Obviously Wayne has certain resources, and he and Alfred have certain abilities, and so they’re working on a lot of things to help the team as they come together,” said costume designer Michael Wilkinson.
“It’s safe to say that I think Alfred and Bruce are developing a lot of tech that helps them all, and I think you’ll see a lot more of that,” Snyder said.
She declined to say if he was going to provide any other potential help for individual Leaguers, but Batman does have new vehicles (including a small vehicle called a Crawler, and a huge Justice League Transport called the Flying Fox).
The Mother Boxes will have their own origin:
In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, when Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) is viewing the “Metahuman Thesis” files Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) obtained illegally from LexCorp, she comes across a series of videos with Silas Stone (Joe Morton, Jr.), a S.T.A.R. Labs scientist.
He’s conducting experiments on his son, Victor (Ray Fisher), who we see in the background. Victor’s missing most of his body after being in a horrible accident. Silas was able to keep Victor alive with his immense talents and skills in technology, but when his son’s health begins to deteriorate rapidly, the desperate father activates a Mother Box. The mysterious, moving box, which is referred to as an “alien artifact,” gravitates toward Victor, fuses with him, and rebuilds him into a cyborg.
Additionally, three Mother Boxes appeared in the deleted scene that Warner Bros. officially released back in February. In it, we got a glimpse of Darkseid’s uncle, Steppenwolf, holding the boxes.
So, what are the mother boxes? We talked a little bit about it here.
“These Mother Boxes are best used and work in threes, and back before there was a history, these Mother Boxes – this is an Amazonian Mother Box, this is Atlantean, and this is mankind,” producer Charles Roven explained. “So when –again, let me just set this over here. So sort of back before history, mankind, the Atlanteans, before they were underwater, the Amazons, and actually the old gods, teamed together and decided that, based on an event that happened, these Mother Boxes were going to be placed in the care of as I said, the Amazons, mankind, and the Atlanteans. So that allowed us to get into some of those environments in our story.”
In DC Comics, Mother Boxes attach themselves to a host and help them in whatever way they need. With the “New 52” reboot, Cyborg’s backstory was adjusted to include powers granted by a Mother Box.
The Flash Costume and Info:
One thing that struck us in Batman v Superman is that The Flash’s costume looked almost like armor than the sleek one piece is he normally associated wearing. A few of the reporters were lucky to see the concept art and said that the suit for Justice League is actually a little more like the comics, where presently artists seem to like depicting it as little fragments that come together when it pops out of Barry Allen’s ring.
“So the question was how many pieces go into a Flash costume. I believe the count is 148,”Justice League costume designer Michael Wilkinson told reporters during a set visit last week. “So you can see in this diagram here – one of my favorite documents is how to put together your own Flash costume. And you can see here all of the notation, and all of the different parts. They all have numbers right and left and they all go together when these great costumers are assembling these costumes.”
“Okay, so when Zack and I started talking about Flash, he loved the idea that because this is the first time we’re establishing this character in our cinematic universe, that’s it’s kind of like a prototype suit. He’s discovering his powers, he’s working out what his thing is, and he is testing things. Some things work, some things don’t work. Some things are in development. And so this suit is incredibly beaten up. This is a suit that’s being assembled. If you look this way, that is the full suit how it appears in the movie,” Wilkinson explained. “It’s a prototype suit. It’s something that is designed to protect him when he moves incredibly fast through space. And so we studied aerodynamics and vehicle design. What moves through space the fastest? We have this sense of rigid pieces at the front that deflect towards the back….There’s a sense of a blade like in a plane wing here, and then venting back here. So it all feels very aerodynamic. He’s testing different materials. You can see smooth materials like tech materials. We figured he’s an incredibly smart, resourceful young man. He moves very fast, so perhaps he’s stolen 3D printers. I’m not saying anything. Maybe he’s nipped into NASA and stolen some of the materials that they’re developing there.”
Of course, one of the suits seen on the set visit sported a WayneTech corporate logo, but maybe that’s his costume towards the end.
While not much of Barry’s story has been revealed just yet, we’ve learned that Miller’s portrayal just might be the best part of Justice League for a number of reasons but from all accounts, he’s fun, enthusiastic, witty, and energetic, which shouldn’t be too big of a surprise to anyone because that’s how Barry Allen is supposed to be. We have a feeling Ezra Miller is going to be the character that steals every scene he is in…calling it right now.
One detail which was revealed, though, was Barry Allen’s exact age and birth date. On the set of Gotham City Iron Works (which has more or less been converted to a high-tech Batcave) Bruce Wayne left a couple computer monitors up with the footage of Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash playing, along with some information about the meta humans. One such detail was Barry Allen’s student ID card at Central City University. On the ID card, it was spotted that Barry Allen was born on September 30, 1992, making him 23-years-old at the moment, 25-years-old by the time of Justice League’s November 2017 release.
Barry Allen Meets Bruce Wayne:
We found a word for word scene that takes place between Bruce and Barry Allen. This was the first clip shown to reporters.
Commissioner Gordon Meets Members of the JL:
J.K.Simmons’ Gordon is summoned to police headquarters by the Batsignal, but he is startled to find not only Batman, but Wonder Woman and The Flash. We get a hint at the film’s plot when Gordon says that eight scientists have gone missing.
“Nine,” a mysterious voice corrects him. Stepping out of the shadows is Ray Fisher’s Cyborg. “a Star Labs scientist was taken tonight,” he announces, presumably in reference to his father Silas Stone, played by Joe Morton, who appeared briefly in ‘Batman V Superman’.
Reportedly, Wonder Woman gives him a big smile. Apparently when she went to recruit him, he turned down her offer, but now that his father may be one of those scientists taken, he has decided to join. Some reporter claimed she looked at him seductively, but we don’t buy it. Wonder Woman is always happy when all the Justice League is assembled and working together.
When the Parademons are described, Commissioner Gordon looks confused.
Batman reportedly replies deadpanned “Flying monkeys?”
Then Wonder Woman clarifies who they are facing, who Batman should have recognized from his prophetic nightmare in ‘BvS’.
Wonder Woman says “There must be a nest nearby,” to which Batman responds that he thinks they are hiding out in an abandoned tunnel between Metropolis and Gotham City.
When Flash points to Cyborg and says, “If he’s coming (referring to Cyborg) we’re not all gonna fit into the car,” Batman declares he has something bigger, a vehicle called the “Nightcrawler.”
Then in true Gordon fashion, he turns his back and when he turns around, the heroes are gone… all except The Flash who mutters, “Oh, so they all just left? That’s rude”
Yup, Seppin called it after seeing the deleted scene titled ‘Communion’. The big baddie will be Steppenwolf. When asked if the role had been cast yet, Snyder reluctantly said he has not but insists they are close to finalizing a deal.
An uncle to Darkseid, Steppenwolf is one of the despot’s most trusted lieutenants. He’s been killed and resurrected more than once, the first and most notable time after he assassinated the wife of Izaya, the Highfather of New Genesis and Darkseid’s opposite number.
Steppenwolf’s sister, Heggra, was Darkseid’s mother, until she was killed by her husband. The villain is generally depicted as the great military mind behind Darkseid’s forces.
Steppenwolf will be leading an army of Parademons, which we saw briefly in Bruce Wayne’s BvS nightmare scene.
William Dafoe’s Character revealed:
William Dafoe’s role has been a mystery until now. We have learned that he is playing Vulko. Vulko is an Atlantean politician and a mentor to Aquaman. He offers level and sound advice in time of crisis and lives as the city’s oldest dignitary. How big a role he play we do not know, more than likely it is a cameo that helps set up the Aquaman solo movie.
Ray Fisher’s character, Cyborg, will be almost entirely CGI in the movie.
Costume designer Michael Wilkinson revealed designs for the Cyborg character, which were almost entirely chrome, with lights coming from Cyborg’s chest and eye. One design even featured a weaponized Cyborg with an extra arm soaring into battle alongside Wonder Woman above a Batmobile being flipped by Parademons.
However, the only part of Ray Fisher we will really see in Justice League is his face. On set, Fisher wears a motion capture suit with different color legs and markings along his limbs. We will also see Cyborg blending into the world by wearing civilian clothing. Concept art in the costume design area showed the character wearing a sweatshirt with a hood on and more casual pants.
There is still a lot more to report, but we will be doing a separate post on the Batman solo film later.
So what are your thoughts?


text: The Ties that Bind, is finished. And boy, it was an amazing album! Buck returns, Eugene and Katrina have a child, Wooton proposes to Penny, and Jules returns to Odyssey. Many people (including myself), now consider it their favorite album. As I think through the past month, I ponder the new memories, plot twists, and new friends. The only thing that makes me wonder is the former adversaries. There were no adversaries that have ever been in the series before, but maybe this is a hint of next album! One of my favorite parts was when Jay Smous was cast as a zombie in Family Survivor. Album 59 will most likely be a follow up of 58, and I am expecting a Basset wedding, and the return of Mr. Skint. Maybe some Jimmy Barclay action. JK!

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The Buffalo Sabres say they are doing it "for the fans."
The National Hockey League franchise is rolling out a new pricing chart for the 2004-05 season -- if there is a season -- and with it comes a cut in several seating categories and variable pricing.
The Sabres say for season ticket holders, which numbered about 8,200 last season, the average price will be $35 per seat, lowest in the 30-team NHL. The overall average ticket price, which was $45 in 2003-04, will drop to $38.
"We are introducing this new pricing today for the loyal fans because they have always been the backbone of this franchise," said a statement from owner B. Thomas Golisano, who bought the team out of bankruptcy a year ago.
Before the start of last season, the Sabres slashed prices by an average of just over 4 percent. Still, despite 12 sellouts and an 11.6 percent increase in tickets distributed, there were many nights when HSBC Arena was well below capacity. Attendance for 40 home games (one was played in Rochester) increased to just over 15,000 from 13,619 the previous year when the franchise was operated by the NHL.
The Sabres, for the first time in the 35-year history of the franchise, have not advanced to the playoffs in three seasons.
Season tickets will now range from $10 per seat in the 300 level IV sections to $69 per seat in the 200 level club and will include a new $21 seat in the 100 level. Individual game prices will be broken into four categories under the variable pricing chart -- gold, silver, bronze and value game. There will be 11 silver, value and bronze games and seven gold games. The breakdown will be determined in another week when the league releases the schedule.
Prices for those sections will range from $17-$120, gold; $15-$80, silver; $15-$82, bronze; $10-$69, value.
All said, team officials said prices will drop between 12-28 percent. The Sabres will again play one regular season game in Rochester, Golisano's home town.
Sabres director of public relations Michael Gilbert said the pricing chart will be in effect "whenever there is hockey again," a reference to the NHL's labor uncertainty. The Collective Bargaining Agreement expires Sept. 15 and Commissioner Gary Bettman has called for significant changes because of hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. Without a new labor agreement, owners may choose to lock out players.
In year one under Golisano, the Sabres claimed losses of approximately $8.5 million.

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The Mumbai Police arrested the distribution head of Republic TV, Ghanshyam Singh, on Tuesday, 10 November, in the TRP fraud case. Ghanshyam Singh had earlier been questioned by the crime branch in connection with the case along with the CEO and COO of Republic TV.
This is the twelfth arrest in the case. So far, five channels have been accused of manipulating TRPs for better rating, these include – Republic TV, Maha Movie, News Nation, Box Cinema, and Fakt Marathi.
Expressing shock over Ghanshyam Singh’s arrest, Republic TV in a statement wrote that, “Mr. Ghanshyam Singh who heads Republic Media Network’s Western Region Distribution has continuously cooperated with the Mumbai Police in the case. In fact, in the spirit of cooperation even in a fake and hollow case, he continually appeared before the Mumbai Police on numerous occasions.”
The statement further added:
"“He has cooperated throughout and answered all questions of the police to the best of his knowledge and ability. Ghanshyam has personally been through over 40 hours of semi-custodial interrogation, and his current detention crafts a new low in the highhanded tactics of the law and order machinery in the state of Maharashtra which is functioning unchecked.”"
The channel further claimed that Singh has been booked under “frivolous sections in a fake TRP manipulation case, which itself doesn’t stand vis-a-vis the evidence.” Thus, terming his arrest ‘illegal’.
The Mumbai crime branch had reportedly told a Magistrate’s court earlier in November that a cable distributor from Thane had admitted to paying Rs 15 lakh every month through an associate to select households to boost Republic’s ratings.
The police have also been probing payments made by Republic TV to Hansa Group, a company that was contracted to install bar-o-meters in households to measure viewership.
The BARC affiliated Hansa Research Group has, meanwhile, filed a petition in the Bombay High Court asking for the investigation of the scam to be transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Singh’s arrest comes just days after Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami was arrested by the Maharashtra police over abetment to suicide charges in connection with Anvay and Kumud Naik’s deaths.
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HOUSTON ― June 20 2017
Crane Worldwide Logistics is pleased to announce that Ashley Herren has joined the organization as Global Director – Quality, Health, Safety, Security, and Environment (QHSSE) based in Houston, Texas.
Herren brings over 18 years of experience in the transportation and logistics field to this new role. Herren previously developed and deployed QHSSE management systems in two other leading logistics companies.
Specializing in enterprise QHSSE programs, technology and regulatory compliance solutions, Herren brings a successful resume of developing excellence-driven corporate strategy backed by innovative performance management systems. Herren has practiced and championed QHSSE techniques in over 20 countries across the globe and holds certifications in occupational safety, fleet safety, multi-modal dangerous goods management and lead auditing.
“We are excited to have Ashley join the team in this important new role,” comments Tracey Anthony, Chief Compliance Officer at Crane Worldwide. “Ashley’s experience and background in global QHSSE leadership will complement our current efforts in this space and help to elevate our corporate culture.”
Standards in quality, health and safety, security and environmental concerns are constantly evolving throughout the industry as both clients and consumers demand more innovation and waste reduction from service providers. In this newly created global role Crane Worldwide will focus on aligning, standardizing and scaling top QHSSE practices throughout all operations while creating more value for company stakeholders through higher-performing services, risk avoidance and reduced impact on the communities in which it operates.


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Jan Tilley and her team celebrate National Womenâs Health Month with the launch of her newest book, Eat Well to Be Well.
Online PR News – 04-May-2016 – San Antonio, Texas – PRESS RELEASE â For Immediate Release San Antonio, TX (May 9, 2016) â Jan Tilley and her team celebrate National Womenâs Health Month with the launch of her newest book, Eat Well to Be Well . . . Living Your Best Life Through the Power of Anti-Inflammatory Food. Her book is a powerful toolkit guiding readers to make wise choices in how they eat, sleep, exercise and manage stress. Eat Well to Be Well is available on Amazon and in all major book stores (Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Airports, Book World, etc.), as well as in e-book format on device sites (Kindle, Nook, iBook, Google Books, etc.). âMy career in nutrition and wellness started with a passion for gathering my family around the dinner table to enjoy âgood for youâ foods. Eat Well to Be Well expands this focus showing women (and men) how learning to manage their food, exercise, stress and sleep can help avoid chronic inflammation to prevent chronic disease. Itâs the combination that achieves the âmagicâ! I hope all my readers will take the pledge!â explains Tilley. To learn more visit www.WomensHealth.gov where all are encouraged to take the pledge. âI want to be the healthiest 50-something [or any age] I can be. I pledge to take at least one step [this month] toward a heathier lifeâ! Jan says, âWellness can become a reality by making a series of small but significant changes to achieve big results.â Eat Well to Be Well is a well-researched, step-by-step guide to reducing inflammation and maximizing health. Readers will find a continuous theme throughout the book reminding them that food is medicine. It has an incredible power to heal and repair our bodies which will ultimately lead us to improved health and well-being. Visit JTAWellness.com to read Janâs weekly blog, as well as additional recipes, resources and to sign up for the JTA lifestyle newsletter.Contact: Jan@JTAwellness.com or Diane@bounceology.com for press interviews or for an electronic copy of the book for review.About Jan Tilley and JTA: Jan Tilley, President and CEO of JTA Wellness, is a registered dietitian and national leader in nutrition counseling, wellness and chronic disease management. Her private practice, JTA Wellness, includes a team of professionals who work with patients using an evidence-based approach to wellness. Holding an MS in nutrition, Jan has over 20 years of experience in the food and nutrition industry. In 2014 Jan received the National Association of Women Business Owners Entrepreneurial Spirit Award. Jan has written numerous books including Getting Your Second Wind and Healthy Meals for Hurried Families. Eat Well to Be Well, her third book, focuses on empowering readers to live their best life through the power of embracing an anti-inflammatory lifestyle by making wise choices in eating, sleeping, exercising and managing stress.

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Dutch Baby, German Pancake, Baked Pancake...whatever the name, this is a weekend breakfast favorite in our house. The star in the recipe is eggs, so I always like to make sure that I use good ones (from the farmers market or at the very least, free range organic). It bakes up high and mighty and is quite an amazing sight when it is removed from the oven. But don't blink, because it deflates quickly, which doesn't affect it's flavor, of course. A mixture of eggs, flour, butter and milk, this is really quite simple to prepare. A squeeze of lemon and a sprinkle of powdered sugar are all you need to top it, although I've known folks to enjoy it with maple syrup too.
My high school boyfriend's mom used to make it every Saturday for her three (well four if you count her husband) hungry boys. I think that she only made one pan's worth. She must have been a much better rationer of food than I am, because we always have to triple the recipe.
Dutch Baby Pancake
To serve my piggies (there are 5 of us) we TRIPLE the recipe and put 1/3 of the mixture in a cast iron skillet and the rest in a 9x13.
3 large eggs, room temperature
1/2 C milk
1/2 C all purpose flour
1/2 t salt
2 T melted butter
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Butter a 12 inch skillet. Break the eggs into a mixing bowl and whisk until mixed. Add milk and blend well. Sift the flour and salt into egg mixture while whisking to prevent clumps. Add melted butter and mix briskly until the batter is smooth.
Pour batter into prepared skillet and place in the oven and bake for 15 minutes. Without opening the oven, turn the temperature down to 350 degrees, and bake for another 10 minutes. The pancake will be high and golden. Sprinkle pancake with lemon juice and confectioners' sugar and serve while hot.


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– Michael Erkelens, CEO, Logaholic.
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- The new ‘Inpage Analytics’ helps determine visitor behaviour by statistics visualization. Data is displayed in the user’s website and people can people find the links which are clicked on, search behavious etc.
“Logaholic 4.1 offers lightning fast web analytics with tons of new features,” said Michael Erkelens, CEO, Logaholic.
“Logaholic 4.1 represents a huge leap forward in terms of speed, features and usability. For example, users asked if they could get a daily PDF of a dashboard via email. That’s in there now,” said Mark Spier, Technical Manager, Logaholic.


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Moroccan Chicken with Pumpkin and Sweet Potato Puree
- Capable cooks
- 0:25 Prep
- 0:35 Cook
- 3 Servings
Great for people on the paleo diet, or people staying away from processed foods.
- 2 chicken breast fillets diced
- 3 tbs coconut oil
- 400 g canned crushed tomatoes
- 3 garlic cloves diced
- 2 white onions diced
- 1 bay leaf large
- 1/4 cup cashews
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- 1/4 cup coriander
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp black peppercorns fresh
- 1 tsp red chilli flakes
- 700 g pumpkin
- 700 g sweet potato
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1/2 tsp salt and pepper *to taste
Melt coconut oil in a very hot pan, then brown chicken.
Add diced garlic and onion to the pan. Cover pan until onion is soft.
Add tomatoes, cashews, herbs and spices.
Cook over high heat until everything ahs reduced for approximately 20 minutes.
Puree: Steam pumpkin and sweet potato according to how many servings are required.
Process with 1-2 cloves garlic, then add salt and pepper. Add water if the puree is too lumpy.
Serve Moroccan chicken on top of puree.
I prefer to use can organic crushed tomatoes.
Use white or yellow onions.
If you like the sound of this recipe, you might also like this Moroccan Lamb.


By I.A Rehman
February 07, 2013
IT is time the pernicious idea of giving a few years’ contract to some caretakers to clean up Pakistan’s rotten-egg politics and put the affairs of the state in order was buried as deep as possible.
Such ideas have been spewed every now and then by armchair cynics whose antipathy to democratic governance is incurable. Of late, however, they have been gaining currency in quarters that enjoy a certain credit for seriousness. And, of course, there are quite a few jaded actors who are always keen to assume the role of counsel to the luckless people of this country.
For instance, the former president-general Pervez Musharraf: After lamenting General Kayani’s failure to do what he would have done the moment Maulana Qadri’s caravan arrived in Islamabad, he has suggested the formation of a transitional regime backed by the army and the judiciary for three years. The fact that a greater part of the media ignored his press conference perhaps does not imply rejection of the prescription as much as lack of faith in the self-appointed healer.
A more detailed proposal for an operation to secure Pakistan from the clutches of democracy has been offered by Lieutenant General (retd) Shahid Aziz, a key organiser of the 1999 coup, in his autobiography. Far more sensational than revelations about the Kargil misadventure is his disclosure of the kind of unsavoury goings-on in the defence services. It is impossible to enjoy a devastating exposé of an institution that, with all its faults, Pakistan cannot do without.
After dismissing hopes of better days as a result of elections as baseless, declaring the present system to be beyond redemption and rejecting any possibility of the system being reformed through an evolutionary process, Lt Gen Aziz proclaims that all democratic systems in the world have become derelict. “Then, our economic and social realities are different, civilisation and culture are different.”
Democracy cannot lead Pakistan to its destiny which, in his words, is: “A self-governing, self-conscious, honourable and progressive Islamic state that can guarantee justice, equal social rights to all and the protection of dignity, in which every citizen could live in peace and we become a model system for the world.”
The romantics in all camps — red, green or any other colour — will find little wrong with this generic formula. (The leftists might let the expression ‘Islamic state’ pass if it can defy its conceptual pull and deliver all that is promised.) But this plan will start dissolving into thin air the moment one asks whether the ideal of social equality applies to both Muslims and non-Muslims, men and women, whether the landless peasant will have as much dignity as a feudal, and whether power in this self-governing state will be wielded by a majority or by a small group of pious men only.
What is Lt Gen Aziz’s plan to realise this destiny? An organised people’s movement will capture the streets and stay firmly there, and the government will fall. Military rule will be acceptable neither to the people nor to the military. The Supreme Court should give powers to a revolutionary council which should negotiate (its mandate?) with the military. After the formation of a transitional government under the revolutionary council a new system (constitution?) should be established. After elections under this system a new government should be formed. The military should back this entire change without interfering with the process. How very simple!
There is reason to believe that the two former generals’ ideas about winding up the democratic experiment are shared by some pressure lobbies. There are people who have not stopped loving the magic of coup-makers. The ingredients of this save-Pakistan Masala can be found in the rhetoric of Pakistani and Arab military ‘revolutionaries’.
The trouble is that no attempt to cure an imperfect democracy with a dose of authoritarianism has worked anywhere. Indeed, it has nearly always left the patient worse off than before.
References are made to the Bangladesh experiment of army-backed caretakers’ attempts to deal with politicians’ aberrations. Are Bangladesh’s governance and politics any different from what they were before the caretakers’ extended regime?
Why should one look at Bangladesh’s travails when Pakistan itself offers several instances of the failure of extra-democratic interventions? Recall Ayub Khan’s rhetoric. After subjecting politicians to a barrage of calumny, much of it exaggerated, he dismissed democracy as incompatible with Pakistani people’s genius, gave a veneer of basic democracy to an edifice of dictatorship, and appropriated to himself the right to issue a constitution under his sole signature. What did we get? After a decade of so-called stability the country was dismembered.
The other self-styled messiahs — Yahya Khan, Ziaul Haq, Pervez Musharraf — did no better. The people are still paying for their costly experiments with the polity. All of them captured power as caretakers and posed as saviours of democracy.
The worst part of the disservice done by these dictators is that they condemned the people to be ruled by inefficient and self-serving masters. By banning politics they achieved two horrible results. On the one hand they enabled the clerics to take the centre stage. On the other, by sending politicians home for five to nine years, they extended these politicians’ careers. Had normal political activity been allowed political parties would have acquired maturity and new leaders would have replaced the discredited ones. Do we want to repeat this expensive farce? The only safe way to get rid of bad politicians is through open voting.
One often hears the argument that the people have a right to overthrow bad rulers through street power. Haven’t we failed in such efforts? The street agitations of 1968-69 and 1977 only paved the way for takeovers by the army. Street agitation without the guidance of a well-knit, democratic organisation will only create anarchy and invite anti-democratic elements to grab power.
Besides, before running behind any Pied Piper the people should try to ascertain whether he is at all in a position to deliver on his rosy promises. All political organisations and services are guided by their class interest. There is little wisdom in expecting religious parties to establish democracy or capitalists to install labour in power.
The cause of the people will not be served by another deviation from the democratic path. Let’s move on to elections. These elections are unlikely to throw up ideal rulers but the chances of securing a somewhat better form of democracy are today better than ever. Public opinion will not allow the election winner to trifle with law and democratic norms as has been the case hitherto. Nothing will be gained by avoiding going through the mill of democratic evolution because that is the only way to keep alive the dream of the people’s accession to power.