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A labour expert said the tense bargaining between Loblaw and its distribution workers in Calgary is emblematic of the wider labour movement in 2022 amid the effects of the pandemic and rising inflation. The Teamsters Local Union 987 of Alberta said almost all of the 534 unionized workers at a Calgary distribution centre for Loblaw were served layoff notices effective this week amid ongoing contract negotiations. The union said workers have rejected two offers from the employer and are asking for better quality-of-life and wage increases. Simon Black, an associate professor of labour studies at Brock University, said while wage increases are important to workers at a time of high inflation, there’s also an increased focus on working conditions in negotiations, such as scheduling, time off and breaks. He said the recent strikes by education workers in Ontario are an example of this, where workers were asking for guaranteed staffing levels. “They’re not bargaining strictly around wages,...

TFW you just met their father. Screenshot : How I Met Your Father/Hulu Back in the mid-aughts, How I Met Your Mother seemed destined to become the next Friends —the kind of perennially rerun, rewatched sitcom that doesn’t often exist anymore. But then that finale happened, and fan enthusiasm for the show grew quickly less, uh, enthused. Nevertheless, brand recognition remained strong enough to garner a direct-to-streaming spinoff in Hulu’s How I Met Your Father , and even though no one seemed to like it very much , that Hillary Duff comeback vehicle still got renewed for a second season, starting Jan. 24 . Apparently Cobie Smulders even returned for the season one finale, a fact I just learned today, despite being Extremely Online and writing regularly about streaming TV... which should tell you something. Here’s a trailer promising to tell you “all you need to know,” though I think the preceding paragraph really should suffice. How I Met Your Father Season 2 Release Date ...

TFW you just met their father. Screenshot : How I Met Your Father/Hulu Back in the mid-aughts, How I Met Your Mother seemed destined to become the next Friends —the kind of perennially rerun, rewatched sitcom that doesn’t often exist anymore. But then that finale happened, and fan enthusiasm for the show grew quickly less, uh, enthused. Nevertheless, brand recognition remained strong enough to garner a direct-to-streaming spinoff in Hulu’s How I Met Your Father , and even though no one seemed to like it very much , that Hillary Duff comeback vehicle still got renewed for a second season, starting Jan. 24 . Apparently Cobie Smulders even returned for the season one finale, a fact I just learned today, despite being Extremely Online and writing regularly about streaming TV... which should tell you something. Here’s a trailer promising to tell you “all you need to know,” though I think the preceding paragraph really should suffice. How I Met Your Father Season 2 Release Date ...