Unknown Speaker 0:04 You're listening to RSJ Radio. Unknown Speaker 0:11 Hello, and thank you for joining us on this terrific Tuesday afternoon. I'm Taybo Moyo. Unknown Speaker 0:16 I'm Amanda Gilmore. And this is are you listening? Today in the news Trans Canada has put a halt on the development of the Keystone pipeline. Speculation is rising about Justin Trudeau, his new cabinet, and Quebec schools have been evacuated due to bomb threats. Here are the details. Unknown Speaker 0:33 In a stunning turn of events the Trans Canada Corporation has asked the US State Department to put a pause on the Keystone pipeline. Until recently, the company had been pushing for approval. The Keystone pipeline is an $18 billion project that will carry us and Canadian oil to American refineries. There has been no speculation to the Trans Canada to that Trans Canada is hoping a pipeline will be approved after the US President Obama leaves office in 2017. But the company denied this. Unknown Speaker 1:02 The Trudeau government is set to announce its final cabinet members tomorrow. The hot topic right now. Trudeau is call for equal representation of women in his cabinet. Reporter Christina Esposito has more. Unknown Speaker 1:16 The Liberals lips are sealed until tomorrow when Trudeau announces his official cabinet members. Even though members were sworn to secrecy, Trudeau still managed to flip tradition on its head by explaining his strategy for choosing a more diverse leaner bunch. Despite winning a majority government and being handed stacks of new possible candidates for his Advisory Council to those promises will stick to a quota that may be controversial. So what is he promising that's splitting opinions across Canada. He says exactly 14 men and 14 women will make up his cabinet a quota that some say is unnecessary and takes away from merit based decision making. Dr. Kim Stanton, a legal director at the women's legal education and Action Fund in Toronto disagrees. She says Troodos quota can affect Canada's view of women in Parliament for the future. Unknown Speaker 2:03 The difficulty is that in the past, people have not made a point of putting women in leadership roles who are qualified and we don't see them role models and we don't see them in those positions. The reality is there's plenty of qualified women who've been elected who could easily take on the roles and cabinet and don't think it's about quota. I think it's about having a reflection of our society. Unknown Speaker 2:27 According to Stanton, it's a step forward for women in government positions. And it's no surprise that women feel under qualified to even apply for government positions in the first place. Unknown Speaker 2:36 It's really important to have women who are elected role that chose Cabinet Minister so that other women will be hired to run in the first place. But the important thing is to also see changes in how party's handled the nominations process. We've known for decades that that is still the place where women have the hardest time getting through, but they need the support in the party operations in the first place to get in the door. Unknown Speaker 2:59 Even with the equality and gender, a 28 member cabinet is still quite lean. That's 11 fewer members than the previous conservative cabinet, but Trudeau still promises to have proportional representation. For the first time in federal history. Trudeau says two out of 28 cabinet members will be Aboriginal and promises a balanced representation of minority groups. Many think Troodos diversity approach will yield positive change for how minority groups are represented and heard when it comes to public matters. For Are you listening, I'm Christina Esposito. Unknown Speaker 3:31 A waiver of bomb threats has for some schools in Quebec to close for the day. A single email targeting 40 institutions was sent from an anonymous source. Montreal police have searched some schools but no schools in Montreal have been evacuated. Quebec province Provincial Police say that they don't know whether or not the threat is credible. Unknown Speaker 3:50 Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi politician who helps persuade the US to invade Iraq in 2003 died this morning in his home at the age of 71. Iraqi officials are saying that the cause of death was heart failure. Chalabi is survived by his wife and four children. Unknown Speaker 4:07 There will no longer be TV and radio coverage of Islamic militant groups in Pakistan. This comes after Pakistan electronic media Regulation Authority announced that media ban late Monday night. The band comes a year after Pakistani government vowed to crack down on militant groups. The media Regulation Authority said failure to abide by the orders would result in cancellation of broadcast license. Unknown Speaker 4:30 Toronto police held a press conference today detailing the arrest of Fathi Rafi. Rafi faces 13 charges related to a string of sexual assaults that began earlier this year in the Rathburn Road and Renforth Drive area. Rafi allegedly approached underage girls in your schools asking for directions before sexually assaulting them. According to a spokesperson for the Toronto Police. There may be more victims. Yes, Unknown Speaker 4:57 I definitely believe there are other victims. There's is ongoing. It's he's been doing at least on a monthly basis pretty much since April. So I have no reason to disbelieve that there wouldn't be more. Unknown Speaker 5:11 The investigation is ongoing and police will release more information as it becomes available. Unknown Speaker 5:17 Ontario's acting environmental Commissioner released her annual report this morning, titled small things matter. In her report, she encouraged the Ontario government to take a stand and to do more to protect the diverse environments in province. Maria Figueiredo has more. Unknown Speaker 5:34 Their release focused mainly on water issues of Ontario parks. Ellen Shortsells says that although people don't pay for water use, the Ontario government spends more than 60 million on water management. The few industries that are charged only pay $3.71 per million litres of water. This works out to less than $10 to fill an Olympic sized swimming pool. short sell says her office is urging the province to charge users for water to encourage conservation and increased water management resources. The report shows that many water taking permits are not available for public viewing on the environmental registry unsure so things that's wrong. Unknown Speaker 6:12 These are permits that the public should have a right to see and comment on. And not only because transparency is a worthy principle Ontarians should be paying attention to water quality issues. Unknown Speaker 6:23 Ontario parks and protected lands were also a big part of the report. short sell says that low budget for parks is not enough to protect new parcels of land. The report shows that in South Ontario parks only covers 1% of the land. We observe that it has been years since the province spent any significant money to acquire new conservation lands. A decade ago the Ontario government had $5 million for land acquisition programs but last year it only had $1,000 for the entire province. This is Maria Figueiredo for Are you listening? Unknown Speaker 6:57 Roméo Phillion, who spent 31 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of a murder has died. He had been convicted of murder in 1972 for the stabbing death of an auto a firefighter. He confessed to the murder while in custody on a robbery charge, but later said it was a bad joke. He got a new trial which led to him receiving bail in 2003 and the charges being withdrawn in 2010. Phillion who had been in failing health for years, was admitted to the hospital on Sunday and passed away yesterday. He was the longest serving inmate in Canada to have a murder conviction overturned. Unknown Speaker 7:36 10s of 1000s of records about settlement process with the survivors of Indian residential schools will be released tomorrow for the first time ever. The documents will be available after the official opening of the National Research Research Center for truth and reconciliation. At the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. The batch of records being released will contain information of 139 schools between 1883 and 1996. Unknown Speaker 8:03 The richest Canadians are still the richest Canadians. Canadian one percenters still hold 10.3% of the nation's total income. Stats Canada released a new report this morning, breaking down the numbers of how much the wealthiest make the average income for a member of Canada's top 1% was close to $455,000. Ontario had the most members of the 1% with more than 40% of the total. Unknown Speaker 8:34 It's voting time again. The Ryerson Art Society or RAS is holding a referendum in hopes of establishing a student led body. Eva Selawik has more. Unknown Speaker 8:45 The referendum might just cast a role for the committee that RAS will be representing the 11 programs which make up the Faculty of Arts, one of the few faculties without a student union says the organizing committee's chair Marzia Riaz. Unknown Speaker 8:57 They're still in their very like early stages of becoming like history, philosophy, they're still have they still haven't had their first batch of graduates era. So I think that's what it is to a lot of the other faculties. For example, engineer and Ted Rogers. They have been around for a long time and they've had this time to sort of establish themselves and establish their own student leaders, whereas well, we're still in the process of making the first batch of student leaders. Unknown Speaker 9:23 Ryerson's Board of Governors approved the group's referendum after the committee conducted a survey of just under 300 students, in which majority were in favor of the Union. A vote would decide whether or not students will pay an additional $30 fee per semester to fund the society's operations, the change would commence in the new school year. If enrollment numbers are similar to that of last year's the RAS would collect an estimated $245,000. The funds would go towards organizing networking events supporting course unions, as well as academic funding, such as research grants, scholarships, exchange or special projects are represented. From each program, we'll make up the board of directors to ensure the money is distributed fairly. Marzia is optimistic about establishing a community within the arts faculty. Unknown Speaker 10:09 We've only had our first day so far, but the turnout has been amazing people we've talked to seem to get really engaged and really excited about it. Either. They already wanted something like they already didn't even realize that they were lacking something. Unknown Speaker 10:21 Voting begins online today and will run until November 5, their student Rams accounts. I'm Eva Selawik for Are you listening? Unknown Speaker 10:29 Recapping today's top stories, a man wrongly convicted of murder dies at the age of 76 Ryerson art society is having a referendum to have its own Student Union, and 1000s of records at the settlement process with the survivor of Indian residential schools will be released on Wednesday. That's all for the that's all in the world of news. Amanda Gilmer has the latest and Current Affairs. Unknown Speaker 11:08 In current affairs, the Ryerson Art Society holds an event to showcase comedic and poetic talents. the sports world is going crazy over Toronto's very own Raptors. A new paper released by NASA shows that Antarctica is not contributing to rising sea levels and self driving cars are the hottest thing in business,but first two Arts. Unknown Speaker 11:30 In the world of arts and entertainment. The controversial director Quentin Tarantino is burning bridges with the police. Adele has hit record sales and the Supliers Theater has announced their lineup for 2016. Here's caught Catherine Machado with these stories, and more. Unknown Speaker 11:46 This week the Ryerson Art Society is hosting events in hopes of bringing attention to the school's arts community. They've kicked off the week with the Ryerson showcase last night. Here's a Adelia Law with the details. Unknown Speaker 11:56 apostle for runs the Eaton lecture theatre at the Rogers Communication Centre last night with the first ever Ryerson in comedy and poetry showcase. The Ryerson Art Society and this shows your work Students Union co-hosted the event with two other organizations and contest and sponsor, poets and comedians included the Argo poetry collective, the Rachel's an award winning comedian and feminist Ashley Mofat, performed on stage and brought up some social issues with their work. The event organizer Michael Freidman says the event is trying to raise awareness. Unknown Speaker 12:30 So I think the theme of this event and I was social issues that are prominent in our Canadian society, because of its being run by social work students union, you know, you want to incorporate some sort of social topics like racism, sexism, and so on so forth. Unknown Speaker 12:43 Ryerson has not been hard for arts activities in the past, Michael believes the heat among the audience last night proves a thriving interest in arts among Ryerson students. Unknown Speaker 12:53 People are willing to come out on a Monday night when assignments and midterms or do you know that they're willing to put that aside for a night to go and have fun and engage with material that they don't engage with in this way so often, so I think it's like really high energy and lots of people are willing to participate in our forums. Unknown Speaker 13:13 Ashley Mofat, who plays around with heavy issues like sexual orientation, single parenthood and feminism in a hilarious way won a lot of praise last night. Here's an example. Unknown Speaker 13:23 The main message I was trying to convey was that I am super talented. Period. Unknown Speaker 13:29 The showcase is part of the referendum activities of the Art Society which are going on to November 5, and there's definitely an arts vibe going on in Ryerson. This Adelia Law from Are you listening? Unknown Speaker 13:40 Pull your calendars the Soul Pepper theatre announced their lineup this morning for 2016. The lineup features the play father comes home from the wars by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Suzan Lori Parks, the plays a new spin on the classic poem, The Odyssey, and is set during the American Civil War. Soul Pepper's artistic director Albert Scholtes told the Globe that he thinks the season is going in the right direction, with four female writers, three directors of color and two writers of color. Theatre fans also have a chance to watch returning shows such as 12 Angry Men, The Odd Couple and Jitters. Police groups have called to boycott the film director Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight. This comes after he made comments against police brutality during a rally in Brooklyn last month. He said he believes there is murder going on and that he is on the side of the murdered. The National Association of police organizations asked officers to stop providing security traffic control or technical advice for any of the directors projects. The boycott has put pressure on one of December's most anticipated releases. Tarantino has yet to respond publicly to the backlash, and Adele is added again. Unknown Speaker 14:48 Her new song Hello has become the first song to sell 1 million tracks in a week. This is the singer's fourth number one on Billboard's Hot 100 chart following Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You and Set Fire to the Rain. Hello is the first single from Adele's third album 25. The album is set to be released November 20. Good luck not getting this one stuck in your head. I'm Katherine Machado for Are you listening? Unknown Speaker 15:10 Next up in Health and Science, climate change could cause malnutrition by 2018. A new device to prevent bacteria spreading in hospitals and Antarctica has been accumulating more ice. Here's Pascal Diverlus with more. Unknown Speaker 15:25 A UN expert has predicted the negative impacts of climate change could subject 600 million people to malnutrition by 2080. Live warned extreme weather floods, droughts and rising sea levels will threaten people's access to food. They're recommending a shift from large scale industrial agriculture to supporting local food movements and small scale farmers. It's bad news for skiing enthusiasts. Unknown Speaker 15:50 Sweden will experience less snow by the end of the century. Experts say global warming is the reason behind the shrinkage, the length of the snowy season will be reduced 40 to 80 days. Despite worries about climate change, Antarctica has been gaining more ice reporter Mitch Bowmile has more. Unknown Speaker 16:11 Ice Ice Baby. A recent paper published by NASA has revealed that Antarctica is actually gaining more ice than it's losing. This contradicts previous studies released in which Antarctic is loss of ice was contributing to rising sea levels. Director of the Center for Global Change science at University of Toronto Richard Peltier believes that Greenland is much more of a contributing factor. Unknown Speaker 16:34 The dominant source or a very significant and much more significant than Antarctica, Antarctica source of global sea level rise is the mass loss from Greenland, okay. There's also very significant mass occurring from the ice catchments over over ask Alaska and the Yukon territories. Unknown Speaker 16:55 The data from the paper was all discovered using satellites. Unknown Speaker 16:59 The rate at which Antarctica is losing mass is basically constrained by the gray satellites, which have been in space now since about 2002. And these satellites measure the time dependence of the gravitational field. Unknown Speaker 17:18 Lead author of the paper and NASA glaciologist Jays Wally said that the trend could reverse in a couple decades and Antarctica could contribute to the rise in sea levels. NASA will continue to measure Antarctic ice. The US space agency is in the process of developing a new satellite that will be able to measure long term changes and Antarctic ice sheets better. The new satellite is planned to be launched in 2018 for Are you listening I'm Mitch Bowmile. Unknown Speaker 17:45 A new device has been invented to stop Jeremy smartphones from infecting hospital patients. Clean Slate works by putting a phone under a UV light and 30 seconds later your phone is germ free. Clean Slate is meant to target c difficile, MRSA VR II and other dangerous bugs that are hospital borne. I'm Pascal Diverlus for Are you listening? Unknown Speaker 18:06 This Week in sports the Jays keep Bautista, Encarnation and Dickey on the team. The players will be earning 10 and $14 million each next season. Plus the Raptors start off the season on top, the least finally end their losing streak. And well we'll explore a wearable technology that is changing the game of sports. Olivia Cirillo has more. Unknown Speaker 18:27 The Raptors are back and they're getting buckets. The team started off the season three you know for the first time since the 2008 - 2009 season. They won their first game against the Indiana Pacers followed by a win against the Boston Celtics. The third victory was against the Milwaukee Bucks. This game marked the 100 and 57th win for Dwayne Casey as coach for the Toronto Raptors. This pushes Casey past former coach Sam Mitchell on the franchise's all time wins list and raises his winning percentage to the best mark in franchise history. The Raptors will be playing their fourth game at 8:30pm tonight against the Dallas Mavericks. Leaf fans finally get to celebrate after the team's for one win against the Dallas Stars last night. This was only their second win of the season after a six game losing streak. The leafs play a home game tomorrow at 7pm against the Winnipeg Jets. From the rink to the court sports players need to know how they perform if they want to be winning. wearable entertainment and sports Toronto is a conference willing to tackle this question. The conference hosted a range of tech startups, all looking at ways to improve a player's training. Michael Solartech brings you the story. Unknown Speaker 19:51 People hit back to see how fast it can throw a punch. A nearby computer shows off the speed each punch is thrown at is a brand new technology by Hixo a startup looking to improve a boxers throw their group involved in wearable entertainment and sports Toronto. It is a conference all about how wearable technology is improving the athletic world. Patrick Chandler is a data scientist for Hixo. Unknown Speaker 20:15 Showtime showed interest in us and the product to be able to put it live on matches. So we can have up to 56 more statistics about boxing matches, whereas now it's like people only talk about four or five and it's cayos win loss, number of punches per round and things like that, where we can get speed, impact, strength, all these things you can you could be in the match and feel the punches, which is something that's that's unprecedented in history. Unknown Speaker 20:38 Another group called Alden fit, looked at a different angle in training. They strap little devices on athletes in order to record their form when working out. Ivadad Bambra engineered the devices in his last year of university, Unknown Speaker 20:53 We feel technology can really play a great role in helping provide the same knowledge to the people that a real person can so we're trying to emulate the whole experience through technology at the same time making it more affordable and accessible. Unknown Speaker 21:06 The mastermind behind the entire conference is Tom Enrich. He says wearable technology is the future of sports. Unknown Speaker 21:13 Wearable technology is not quite new for athletes, coaches or scientists. And that's mainly because as an athlete, you see your body as a machine. So you're used to using tools that give you insight as to how your machine is doing, how your respiratory is doing your heart rate, your activity, monitoring things like your performance as well as mitigating risks of injury. You need to have your your machine well oiled and ready for game time. Unknown Speaker 21:41 Enrich starts the conference in Toronto believing it to be a sports centric city. Now in its second year, the event continues to track curious eyes from all over the sports world. Michael solartech Are you listening? Unknown Speaker 21:54 The Kansas City Royals won the World Series championship on Sunday after a 7-2 victory over the New York Mets. The city will be throwing a huge party today to celebrate the team's first World Series championship in 30 years. City officials say they expect a parade of over 200,000 people in downtown Kansas City. The players, coaches and team officials of the Kansas City Royals will all be in attendance for one of the biggest parties in the city's history. That's all for sports. I'm Olivia Cirello for Are you listening. Unknown Speaker 22:30 In business today self driving cars, the hottest christmas toys and Sears has appointed a new president. We're going over to Bailey Vickers with more. Unknown Speaker 22:41 Nissan is looking to increase the safety of driving by introducing self driving cars to the road. The Associated Press took a pre programmed half hour test drive in the prototype vehicle. There was one human intervention when the car didn't recognize an unclear line but other than that it showed potential. Nissan is preparing for the self driving car options to go on sale in 2020. Until the technology is finely tuned, Nissan will offer individual features and other models such as keeping a safe distance from the car in front. Sears has hired retail veteran Carrie Kirkman as the new president and chief merchant. Kirkman has worked with Nine West shoes as well as Jones apparel, giving her extensive background in retail. She aims to focus on women ages 35 to 50. Because the percent of shoppers in this range is at a low 18%. She would place clothing lines such as Jessica Simpson more prominently to attract younger shoppers. Speaking of retail the Canadian Toy Association presented Hot Toys for the holidays in Toronto this morning. Trevor Hewitt was there. Unknown Speaker 23:44 Well it was a sight for bored eyes at the Ontario Science Center this morning as a barrage of wheels and mechanized legs whizzed across the floor. The event paired up children of all ages with this season's hottest new gadgets, games and gizmos. meccanoid on the game floor seven year old Mary has found a new metal chum and meccanoid a toy robot. What do you think your favorite story that you've seen so far? Unknown Speaker 24:10 I definitely have to go in. Unknown Speaker 24:13 So cool he's like a robot as a toy. Unknown Speaker 24:17 Board Chair Steve Morris says that the event is an effort to promote a return to traditional toys based on connection and teamwork. Unknown Speaker 24:24 One of the things that's interesting about toys today, and I learned I was at a seminar a few years ago and and it's just three years ago and the person speaking says we have a crisis in our industry. When four year old children are playing with iPads. Unknown Speaker 24:45 Morris says that in 2015 it's the parents and manufacturers responsibility to make sure that kids are playing with age appropriate technology that encourages positive growth. Unknown Speaker 24:55 It makes it more important for us as toy manufacturers and toy retailers as well to ensure that parents are telling their kids that there's more to play than just electronics. Unknown Speaker 25:14 According to Morris that means adequate research into what kids like and what works. Unknown Speaker 25:19 And millions and millions of dollars in. in research and development manufacturing is put into making these toys come to life and teach kids how to play and how to play with other kids. Unknown Speaker 25:38 In addition to showcasing new toys, there's a charitable aspect to the event, as 1000s of toys will be sent to needy children in northern communities and distributed by the RCMP. Unknown Speaker 25:47 They get put on a one of those big military cargo planes and they will fly I believe they go to Goose Bay and Thunder Bay and and Inuvik, I think are the three places and then they're distributed by the RCMP to needy kids. Unknown Speaker 26:06 Well, the toys here might not be the same old Woody and Buzz we all know. They sure are going infinity and beyond for a good cause. For Are you listening. I'm Trevor Hewitt. Unknown Speaker 26:15 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is faced with a billion dollar decision early on in his mandate, the Quebec government has invested $1 billion in helping lombardia complete its commercial jet program and is asking for two does help. The struggling airplane and train manufacturing company employs 1000s of residents in Troodos home province. A decision will be made later this week. That's all for business. I'm Bailey Vickers. Are you listening? Unknown Speaker 26:42 And now today's mini docs, security guards at Woodbine casino are back on the job after three weeks of being locked out. All 150 security guards will be on the picket line getting paid half of what they usually get paid. And it's all because they were fighting for the rights to keep their pension and benefits. Here's Amanda Gilmore with the story. Unknown Speaker 27:02 It's been a while since those blue security shirts have been walking inside Woodbine casino but they're back to do their job. If you had an OLG security guards radio, you would hear them being called to help. And if you stood in the middle of the casino floor, you would see the blue shirts running to patrons aid. The fact is the security guards are the lifeline of the entire casino. When someone trips and falls it's the security guards who were there to help them and in the worst of times, it's the security guards who were there when a patron needs reviving due to a heart attack but then word came of an unknown new provider taking over OLG workers next year, leaving the workers in the dark about their benefits and pension. Part time security guard Roya King is a single mother of a seven year old son she relies on her family to babysit for her because she doesn't make enough money for daycare. She's depending on her pension so she can leave money for her son. Unknown Speaker 28:00 The company that's going to take over or the provider is going to take over they're going to take over the name of Woodbine. OLGthey get this the same of what happens on the floor and they get a percentage of the profit. So they're going to make the money but they're going to lose they don't have to pay the employees in it. We wanted to know what was going on with our pension and benefit once the new provider takes over. Unknown Speaker 28:18 That's when the 150 security guards took their concern to their union, Unifor. Unifor has won cases for many different OLG workers all across Ontario. They took the case immediately and got the security guards to make an offer to OLG. Unknown Speaker 28:33 According to the Union, the company walked out and walked away from the table when it came to the benefit and pension they kicked us out. It wasn't a strike. Once they locked us out. They sent everybody a letter saying Well, we're giving you a fair offer but we don't understand why you're not taking it. Unknown Speaker 28:46 And in a snap of a finger, all 150 of the lifelines to the casino were gone. The guards were replaced by only 10 non-contract security. The OLG security guards may not have been found inside the casino but at every entrance to the parking lots stood many. Full time security guard Monique who didn't wish to give her last name as a single parent to a two year old daughter because she's a modified worker due to her back injury. Her hours are shorter than other full time employees in order to relieve her back pain she relies on her benefits. Unknown Speaker 29:18 I first started off we did Tuesdays, we have Mondays and we did um Wednesday of Tuesday back Friday Saturday Sunday. They said 18 hours but I did remember one day I did like almost 10 hours now that's that that'll be like almost my whole time in one day but I did more than that because I didn't have another job. Unknown Speaker 29:34 Two weeks into the lockout and no new offer from OLG sparked fire to the security guards fight for patrons coming into the casino started changing they had to slam on their brakes. As security guards held signs and marched across parking lot entrances. They were forced to listen to Unifor and the security guards tell them what they were fighting for. Some patrons got fed up with the long wait time and drove away. Then on Friday afternoon of the second week of being locked out, patrons were told they weren't allowed to enter the property. Part-timer Roya was picketing at the time. Unknown Speaker 30:10 The day we stopped, people don't come it wasn't us. It was Unifor and they came in, they fully shut the site. They got the cops, the cops knew what was going on. And just to avoid any accidents, the cops pretty much say because there is no court order on anything. So they had no choice but to allow us to have Oh, it was good because it did do an impact in here. It was a ghost town inside. Unknown Speaker 30:28 A week later, Unifor got the call from olje saying they had a new offer. The vote on the offer was 70% in favor and 30% not. Full-timer. Monique voted in favor of this offer. Unknown Speaker 30:38 The part-timers lost a lot but maybe in full time I never lose anything much except a language about a pension dishonorable and they've got a $2500 it automatically took everything out of the collective agreement about pension. So we will have to negotiate when the new owner comes in. Unknown Speaker 30:53 Part-timee ROya isn't as happy with the offer that was given. Unknown Speaker 30:56 We got nothing. Pretty much whatever we went to the table with and the company decided not to give us they forced us to come back with that exact same numbers. I don't agree with it. When somebody kicks me out. I come back on my terms not there's. People that saw the $2500 signing bonus. They were blinded by that 20 $500 not what they lost to get that $2500 signup bonus but when you sit down to break it down for them, they realize technically they got nothing after taxes. Unknown Speaker 31:18 They may be back on the casino floor in their blue uniforms running around with their radios buzzing but it's clear this labor dispute has pitted full time against part time. The guards used to have great communication with each other. Now the part timers won't call the full timers and the full timers won't call the part timers for assistance on the gaming floor. Other workers inside the casino and the patrons can feel the tension building between the two sides and it's causing an unsettling workplace. I'm Amanda Gilmore for Are you listening? Unknown Speaker 31:48 After 22 long years, the Toronto Blue Jays finally made the playoffs this year. Fans across the nation banded together to cheer on the only Canadian Major League Baseball team. Here's Alexandria Pankratz with the story. Unknown Speaker 32:06 Starstruck fans not only exist in Toronto, but rather in cities all over the country. Shelby Pierce is originally from Vancouver, but moved to Toronto for school. She attended several of the playoff games and gave her family and friends back home play by play updates. During the time of the Jays we're in the playoffs this year everyone was so excited back home like they kept they were always calling like if there was a game and they knew that I was watching it or add the game like they everyone was like messaging and getting me to send pictures and videos and like live updates from every every game and just like always wanted to like keep in touch and know what I was doing and know what was going on in the city to support the team. Unknown Speaker 32:46 The Jays averaged 1.7 2 million viewers across the nation during their playoff run, which was the second highest in Sportsnet 17 year history. Lorraine Cordray is a marketing and insight manager at IPG Brands Toronto, she noticed that the Jays popularity exploded on Twitter, especially after they made the playoffs. Unknown Speaker 33:08 I just looked this morning and previously before the postseason, the most number of tweets in a day was on the 30th of July, which was when David Price was traded, and there was 34,000 tweets just about the blue days. And just it's again this morning. And now the most number of tweets in one day there were 257,000 tweets on the day. On the game of game five, when you know there was the seven seventh inning the 53 minutes seventh inning there was the win to the alts and then on to the next state all those celebrations. So huge. That's a huge volume of tweets, we analyze other events as well. We analyzed the Pan Am Games we analyzed the Women's World Cup this year. We analyzed the men's World Cup last year, and Blue Jays have really really kicked out the park in terms of volumes of tweets and excitement behind that event. Unknown Speaker 34:02 Brendan Kennedy has been covering the Jays for the Toronto Star for the past three seasons. Since working with the organization, he thinks that Paul Beeston, the former president of the Jays played a key role in molding the Jays into Canada's team. Unknown Speaker 34:18 His influence was was really big in terms of really playing up the fact that the Blue Jays were Canada's team. And they did that in a few different ways. One, you know, going back to the old uniform design and which displays the Maple Leaf prominently and then that's part of it. I mean, it's just purely symbolic, but I think that that's part of it you you notice now on their batting practice caps, they the entire logo is just a red maple leaf. So that is that these are conscious efforts to to tap into you know, the entire the national market and then there's the good business reason for that as well just because, you know, Toronto itself is a big market but when you include all Canada, you know, you expand from you know, four or 5 million people if you include the GTA to you know 35 million people 36 million people so you know there's there's a good business reason to do it as well. But in addition to those, those symbolic showings where they added the maple leaf, or return the maple leaf to the logo, you know, they also have done things like the winter caravan, you know, every off season now, I think it's been going five or six years. They they take players and they go to different places across Canada. This past year, they went to Banff and Calgary and Edmonton. I think they went to Vancouver as well, the year before that they went out east in previous years, they've gone around Ontario. So they're really trying to you know, reach out to fans across Canada. Unknown Speaker 36:01 Kennedy also believes that painting North America blue helps set the fan base on fire. Unknown Speaker 36:11 Yeah, I mean, especially with this past year, you know, the, the excitement level and you know, has never been higher in time that I've been covering the team. A big turning point was was going back to the the classic uniforms, and the classic logo and they revamped it. They sort of modernized it. But returning to that to the classic Blue Jays logo, the classic Blue Jays uniform. You know, I think that that that actually did a lot to the fan base. You can see it in you know, in the number of people wearing caps around Toronto. You know, a younger, hipper fan base it's it's remarkable in the last few years how well traveled the Jays fan base is it seems no matter what city they're going to, you know, because I kind of the team on the road as well. And I'm always surprised by how many Jason's are, you know, in in places like Minneapolis and Phoenix and Arlington. You know, you expect them in Detroit. You expect them in Seattle. But, you know, these days, they're there all over. Unknown Speaker 37:19 The team may have fallen short of winning the World Series, but the fiery fandom ignited, still burns deep in Canadian hearts. Alexandria Pankratz. Are you listening? Unknown Speaker 37:35 That's all for current affairs. Thanks for tuning in to Are you listening. I'm Amanda Gilmore, Unknown Speaker 37:41 and I'm Taybo Moyo. Have a tremendous Tuesday.