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• WestJet Unionization Drive Boosted By Flight Attendants Earning Less Than Minimum Wage

  16-03-2018 21:05
  MONTREAL — A WestJet flight attendant says rules that effectively pay starting workers less than minimum wage because they're compensated only for time in the air is helping shore up support for a union drive at Canada's second-largest airline.The employee, who doesn't want to be identified for fear of reprisal, says several colleagues have complained about an industry-wide system that compensates flight attendants only for time between leaving one airport gate to arriving at the destinati
  
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• There's A New Type Of Northern Lights And It's Called 'Steve'

  16-03-2018 01:01
  CALGARY — Amateur scientists in Canada have helped researchers discover a new type of northern lights.The glowing ribbon of purple — and sometimes green — that runs east-west in the night sky has been observed and photographed by aurora borealis chasers for years."My involvement is being the goofball who named it Steve," said Chris Ratzlaff, a Calgary photographer who's a co-author of a research paper published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.The luminous light, disti
  
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