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Both contracts—Marvel and Disney fall under one agreement, and Avatar team Lightstorm has its own—offer minimum wage increases and access to IATSE’s pension plans and meal penalties. In terms of differences, Lightstorm’s contract guarantees preferential hiring rights on future Avatar films for current bargaining employees (and without a pay loss), new wage scale rates based on a 40-hour work week for those future films, and minimum call rates for the sixth and seventh days of work. This contract also has “protections against technological change and subcontracting” and AI-related language adopted from IATSE’s Basic Agreement.

Marvel and Disney’s specific contract ensures extra pay for “hazardous set conditions, and health and comfort during long postproduction assignments,” plus job descriptions for each role and legally binding agreements “enforced through a grievance and arbitration procedure.” Cael Liakos-Gilbert, a VFX wrangler for Marvel, considers the ratified contract “not just a victory for [us], but a much-needed win for the entire VFX industry. Seeing this come together after over two years as an organizer, contract negotiator, and now a founding union member is one of the proudest moments of my life. […] We’ve put ink to paper and given our people the contract we deserve.”

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LoglineThe Doctor’s quest to get Belinda home to Earth leads to a space station hosting a famous song contest. But a harmless night of fun soon becomes a battle to survive.

Written by: Juno Dawson

Directed by: Ben A. Williams

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

I can only assume that our version will be called CORN.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

I'm hardly an expert, but I think the Navy is in notoriously bad shape, even by Canadian national defense standards.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

TrekCulture isn't a misinfo outlet, so I would trust their reporting to be accurate.

That said, Mulgrew has made similar comments in the past.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

School boards are also very vulnerable to this kind of coordinated attack:

Low voter turnout, [Take Back Alberta leader David Parker] said, is the key to victory.

"Albertans and Canadians are apathetic and lazy. They never show up," he said during another October 2023 speech in Calgary. “You could take over every school board in this entire province."

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

You're right, of course - but I'm going to continue to be unimpressed until we get some actual details!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

His description of finding out about Hugh's impending death in season one is pretty rough:

I didn’t know right away [that Hugh would be coming back]. In the first season, I was not a series regular, I was a recurring character. I also had another gig at the time, 13 Reasons Why. Star Trek shot in Toronto and 13 Reasons Why shot in Northern California. I was shooting both at the same time. They called me on my first day of shooting the second season of 13 Reasons Why. I had just gone through makeup, my phone rings, and I see it’s [showrunner] Aaron Harberts. I was like, “Maybe he’s calling to wish me luck on my first day.” He was not. He was calling to tell me that my character on Discovery was going to be killed.

I lost it. I couldn’t even fake it. I tried really hard to keep it together and be professional, but I literally lost it because the character of Hugh had already meant so much to me, and I got to work with my friend Anthony [Rapp]. I had bonded with this cast. I had to shake it off because it was my first day at work on 13 Reasons Why. They had to put my makeup back on because I had ruined it.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It certainly would have been interesting to see what they did with her over time. I have my doubts that she ever would have become a very deep character, but I'm sure she would have had some decent episodes.

At the very least, they could have done more to explore her background in a more fulfilling way than they did with the episode featuring her sister.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

THE RACISTS YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ARE NOT RACIST

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

A new survey suggests that most Canadians feel news should be free and accessible for anyone

Yes.

while also believing that media will find other ways to make money.

Doubt.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

No EV suit would have protected them, either - the Enterprise was affected as well.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

I think it would behoove the series to revisit this issue in the future, and maybe shed some more light on why the eugenics laws exist, and why they're implemented in the way that they are.

As it stands, they haven't done much more than gesture toward the Eugenics Wars and said, "we don't want that to happen again." That's pretty much the bare minimum of what they should do - past franchise instalments have suggested that (human) genetic augmentation tends to produce unstable megalomaniacs (as Spock crudely put it, "Superior ability breeds superior ambition"). It would be nice to know whether this is still a likely side effect.

I'd also like to see more examination of what other Federation worlds have to say about this. Have other species had their own Eugenics Wars? Have any of their societies flirted with Gattaca-style hellscapes?

Overall, I keep coming around to this idea that the series is presenting regulations on eugenics as a bad thing, and I think they need to shade in some of those grey areas.

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