HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mdanjou@gel.ulaval.ca (Martin d'Anjou)
Subject: Survey Results/Resultats du sondage!
Keywords: grad, survey
Reply-To: mdanjou@gel.ulaval.ca
Organization: Dept. Genie Electrique, Universite Laval
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:27:17 GMT

Here are the results of the survey on 'TA' salaries in the Canada.
Voici les resultats de l'enquete salariale des 'assistances de profs' (depannages) au Canada.

Normalise a 15 semaines par session, 4 mois par session sauf indication contraire.
Normalized to 15 weeks per session, 4 months per session except where noted.


============================================================================
Universite	Salaire $/hr.	$/session	hr/sem.	Dept.
University	Bac.	Grad.			(!)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
N.-Brunswick***	?	31	4000		8	Informatique
UToronto@	?	28(PhDs)3920		9
York		?	25				Philosophy
Queens		?	23.25	1850		7	EE Dept.
McMaster*	?	23	3000		8-9	?
UOttawa		?	22.22	2400$		5	Physics
Waterloo**	?	22	2800		10	G. Electrique
UMontreal	?	20	1500		5	Info. Recherche OP.
UBC@		?	19	3750		12	unixg.ubc.ca
McGill		?	18	1625		6	Physique
Sherbrooke	12	18	?		?	Informatique
Laval		7	16	1600		10	Tous
Saskatchewan	8	12	?		?	jeeves.usask.ca
============================================================================
(!) Moyenne. Certaines universites offrent un taux de 50$/h. pour 4 heures par semaines. L'etudiant doit aussi faire la preparation qui dure environ 5 heures pour un total de 9 heures/semaine.

(!) Average. Some Universities offer 50$/hr., 4 hours per week. The student must also prepare the course, this adds about 5 hours. The total for one week is then 9 hours.

* Avant le prelevement des frais de scolarite sur le salaire/before scholar fees are taken from salary
** Session de 13 semaines/ 13 weeks per session
*** 1000$ par mois/$1000 per month
@ Syndiques/Unionized
@@ PhDs = $21.53

L'ecart entre les Universites est plus que du double entre la plus offrante et la plus pauvre!

Comments?

Newsgroups: can.general
From: jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
Subject: Re: Voting Systems (was Re: Proportional representation)
Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:38:58 GMT

In article <nhgjhwmpn@tmsoft> mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason) writes:
>In article <1992Nov10.232346.16365@ee.ubc.ca> jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes:
>>However, there is a process to *minimize* the error you make, if you
>>want {3,4,3}. The voter can vote randomly, and observe the outcome.
>>If the voter wants {3,4,3} and votes for D and the outcome is {2,6,2}
>>then the error is {-1, 2, -1} and then the next time the voter can select
>>A or H.
>>
>>In a large enough system (enough voters) which is efficient (ie information
>>is relayed back to the voter, elections are frequent enough). The voter
>>can vote-observe-correct in order to make knowledgeable, and obvious choices
>>to maximize the outcome he desires.
>
>This is subject to positive feedback and you might well see the
>sequence {2,6,2}, {4,2,4}, {1,8,1}, {5,0,5}, {0,10,0}, etc.  For this
>to work you need a damping effect.  Perhaps having only some people up
>for election each time?

"positive feedback" would mean unbounded growth in one direction.
You might see oscillation, but not a runaway affect. It might be
like a stock market fluctuating up and down

>A rose by any other name would be polymorphic                     ../Dave Mason
>         -Pardo (David Keppel)                        <mason@TMSoftware.CA>


-- 
__________________________________________________________________________
 John Paul Morrison                     |  
 University of British Columbia, Canada |  
 Electrical Engineering                 |   .sig file without a cause
 jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca              VE7JPM |  
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Xref: sparky can.general:5414 bc.general:513
From: mason@tmsoft (Dave Mason)
Subject: Re: Voting Systems (was Re: Proportional representation)
Followup-To: can.general
Reply-To: mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason)
Organization: TM Software Associates, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:11:11 GMT

In article <92315.0256512893684@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> andy <2893684@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
>In article <1992Nov10.055830.12949@ee.ubc.ca>, jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul
>Morrison) says:
>>In article <92313.2156392893684@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> 2893684@QUCDN.QueensU.CA
>>>How are these people paid. Do all delegates get the same wages, do they all  t
>>ge
>>> support staff, offices, constituency offices etc. Your system has the
>>>potential for dramatically increasing the number of reps we have and the
>>>related expenses. Also, you ignore that there is more to being an MP than
>>>voting, there is also lobbying on your constituents' behalf and helping them
>>>with their problems and bureaucracy. Obviously a riding with 4 MPs has an
>>>advantage, even if their delegates votes have the same weight as a riding
>>>with one delegate, they are still better represented and have better service
>>>and better access to the government and bureaucracy.

>>If you DO want to discuss details of this hypothetical system, I would
>>would suggest that the delegate get payed proportionally to how many votes
>>they get.

>and how bout staff?

I'd say that the MP's would have to pay for their staff out of the
salary (making the salary appropriate: say $2-3 per voter (basically
take what parliament now costs and divide it by the number voters)),
or make the allowance for staff be proportional to the votes they get.

This would have the effect of usually only the top 2-4 delegates going
to parliament, except for the occasional rich crackpot who got 10
votes.  To deal with crackpot MPs, you would probably want to limit
access to debate, question period, etc. to some function of the votes
the delegate has.
-- 
A rose by any other name would be polymorphic                     ../Dave Mason
         -Pardo (David Keppel)                        <mason@TMSoftware.CA>
Newsgroups: can.general
From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
Subject: Re: Almost botched drug bust?
Organization: The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:46:40 GMT

In article <1992Nov21.010334.12101@sol.UVic.CA> klassen@sol.UVic.CA (Melvin Klassen) writes:
>>In typical stupid gov't ineptitude, they send out fighter planes
>>to "do something" with a slow long range cargo plane.  I mean,
>>if they're not going to shoot it down, send up a prop-driven long
>>range plane to follow the damn plane until it lands or crashes.
>
>What did you expect?  That the F-18s would blast it out of the sky,
>like that misrouted commercial airplane which was destroyed ten years ago?

Read my text.  I said "if the're NOT going to shoot it down, then send up
a plane that CAN follow them where ever they might go".  They lost a similiar
sort of drug plane a while ago (so the media says) because the amreicans that
were following it couldn't or didn't get permission in time to land and stop
the transfer of the drugs into trucks.  That almost happened this time.
It seems that the canadian authorities simply applied brute-force search
tactics and sent planes/helicopters to every possible landing strip in the
area, and eventually found them.  Kinda sounds like the keystone cops to me.

>(I see that Boris Yeltsin handed over the "black-box" from that airplane
>earlier this week.)  Just following it, and ordering it to land, using both
>radio and hand-signals, is the truly-Canadian way of doing things!

Sure they used the "truly Canadian" way of doing things...
Almost botching the thing because X different gov't agencies and
local/provincial authorities bungle their way to work together
(while trying not to step on each others toes).  We should just let the
american's come in and follow/land/arrest then take back the smugglers
and the planes and the dope and the people involved.  At least it would
get done professionally, and it would save us a ton of $$$ not only for
the chase, gut the court costs as well.
From: dale@dale.CAM.ORG (Dale Wharton)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: alt.FTA/NAFTA panel 21 November
Date: 17 Nov 92 03:51:28 GMT
Organization: private


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.
     P A N E L   Open to the public--Saturday, November 21, 9:05-11:15
                            ------------------------------------------
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                            ------------------------------------------
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.
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Newsgroups: can.general,bc.general
From: merce@xenitec.on.ca (Jim Mercer)
Subject: Re: Making child suppo work - was: PARENTS REALIZING CHILD SUPPORT
Organization: XeniTec Consulting, Kitchener, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:30:48 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.174806.21427@oneb.almanac.bc.ca> kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay) writes:
>I know of a case where orders have been in force for _years_, but the amount
>collected is nearly nil. The ex-husband works 'under the table' in order to
>avoid the attachment orders, does not use his chequing account to avoid that
>attachment order, does not file income tax forms to avoid _that_
>attachment.... well, you get the idea. Eventually, if he doesn't leave the
>country, his ass will end up in jail, but it will probably take another four
>or five years to get _that_ done. In the meantime, he takes his
>under-the-table cash while telling welfare he's down and out...

please remember that NCP (non-custodial parents) can be women too.

also be aware that sometimes the NCP with-holds support because the CP
is with-holding access.  of course, the NCP looks bad because they are
not paying their support, but not much is said about CP's with-holding
access.

as a CP, think of how you would feel if you couldn't see your child, or
how it feels to have to pay money to see your child.  sometimes that's
how CP's make NCP's feel.
(i get access the weekend after my biweekly pay).

>Legal Aid, which will help the husband avoid supporting his ex and children
>for nothing, won't help the wife collect on outstanding court orders - the
>case I know of involves back support in excess of $15K, and absolutely
>_no-one_ will help her collect it.

Legal-Aid also helps the CP impoverish the NCP who probably makes too much
to qualify for legal-aid.

a friend was involved in a divorce, (no kids), and his ex told him to his
face that she didn't care how much it cost, since it was _his_ money
she was spending.

he ended up selling his house, give 50% of the proceeds to his lawyer, and
the other half to his ex.

>Any legal eagles out there who can do some pro bono work for women in this
>situation, like drafting orders for them, etc?

there are various newsgroups out there, i only really know those for NCP's
the FREE mailing list and alt.dads-rights.

for CP support newsgroups, i think there is a misc.family.law.
a post asking for group references to soc.women would probably get some results.

-- 
[ Jim Mercer   Reptilian Research  merce@iguana.reptiles.org  +1 519 893-6085 ]
[             I don't want to work for a company that has a CIO.              ]
[              Disclaimer! I don't need no stinking Disclaimer!               ]
Newsgroups: can.general
From: carlos@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Miguel Borges)
Subject: Re: Almost botched drug bust?
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 13:20:20 GMT

klassen@sol.UVic.CA (Melvin Klassen) writes:

>In article <@> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
>>if they're not going to shoot it down, send up a prop-driven long
>>range plane to follow the damn plane until it lands or crashes.
>>I heard early reports that the 4 guys on the cargo plane were 
>>caught because of suspicious residents in the area.  If this is the
>>case, I don't think the authorities will elaborate...   :)

>What did you expect?  That the F-18s would blast it out of the sky,
>like that misrouted commercial airplane which was destroyed ten years ago?
>(I see that Boris Yeltsin handed over the "black-box" from that airplane
>earlier this week.)  Just following it, and ordering it to land, using both
>radio and hand-signals, is the truly-Canadian way of doing things!

The CF-18's (Canadian version of the F-18) were from Goose Bay, Labrador.
They tracked the plane for awhile, then had to return to base to refuel.
For two hours, the drug plane was completely lost.  It was flying below
radar, so it was untraceable.  When the CF-18's were airborne again, they
simply flew by every airfield and made a visual check for the plane.
 
Residents did not become suspicious of the alleged drug runners until
they saw two CF-18's buzz their local runway.  So it was the luck of one
of the fighter pilots that found the drug runners, not the local residents.
In fact, one of the local residents was actually haelping the drug runners.
He gave them a ride in his truck.  (He was interviewed on "As It Happens"
on CBC radio)  Apparently the drug runners tried to steal his truck
when the CF-18's began circling the runway.
-- 
   ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
  // C. Miguel Borges               A.K.A.                Carlos M. Borges //
 // carlos@morgan.ucs.mun.ca                    carlos@garfield.cs.mun.ca //
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Newsgroups: can.francais
From: cflds@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Don Sundheim)
Subject: correspondance estudiantine
Summary:  on cherche des correspondants francais	
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Distribution: can.francais
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:44:39 GMT
Expires: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 06:00:00 GMT

J'enseigne un cours de redaction dans le dept. de francais pour
des etudiants au niveau de 3ieme annee a mon universite.  Nous
avons un double but:  de nous orienter dans ce reseau et le courrier
electronique en general et d'ameliorer non pas simplement notre 
francais bien sur mais aussi d'echanger des nouvelles, des points
de vue de  toutes sortes (pas mal des memes etudiants suivent un
autre cours sur le Quebec ce qui sucitera des discussions j'espere).

Si vous vous interessez a cette sorte d'echange de courier, je vous
prie de m'envoyer une reponse et je vous passerai une liste des
adresses des 16 etudiants a qui vous pourriez ecrire.

Merci d'avance pour votre aide.
              
* Don Sundheim                                 
* Dept. of Foreign Languages
* 105 Coleman Hall
* E.I.U., Charleston, IL  61920
* phone:  (217) 581-3021
* fax: (217) 581-2722
* internet:  cflds@eiu.edud

              <<ce qui n'est pas clair, n'est pas francais>>>

              <<c'est en ecrivant qu'on apprend a ecrire>>

              
-- 
              
* Don Sundheim                                 
* Dept. of Foreign Languages
* 105 Coleman Hall
Newsgroups: can.francais
From: rbgorbet@kingcong.uwaterloo.ca (Rob Gorbet)
Subject: re: Correspondance Estudantine... 
Followup-To: Correspondance Estudantine...
Reply-To: rbgorbet@kingcong.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:18:51 GMT

I would also be interested...oops, sorry!  :)

Je serais, moi aussi, interesse par un(e) correspondant(e) de votre classe.
J'ai essaye une fois de vous repondre a l'adresse indiquee, mais pour une 
raison ou une autre, mon logiciel de courrier electronique n'a pas pu vous 
trouver...

Dites a vos etudiant(e)s (ceux qui voudraient correspondre) de m'ecrire, et
je serais heureux de leurs repondre...

Merci d'avance...
Rob Gorbet
rbgorbet@kingcong.uwaterloo.ca
From: serge.cote@synapse.org (Serge Cote) 
Newsgroups: can.francais
Subject: correspondance estudiantine
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:22:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: SYNAPSE BBS - GATINEAU, QUEBEC - 819-561-4321
Reply-To: serge.cote@synapse.org (Serge Cote) 

From: serge.cote@synapse.org
To: cflds@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Don Sundheim)

DS>J'enseigne un cours de redaction dans le dept. de francais pour
DS>des etudiants au niveau de 3ieme annee a mon universite.  Nous
DS>avons un double but:  de nous orienter dans ce reseau et le courrier
DS>electronique en general et d'ameliorer non pas simplement notre
DS>francais bien sur mais aussi d'echanger des nouvelles, des points
DS>de vue de  toutes sortes (pas mal des memes etudiants suivent un
DS>autre cours sur le Quebec ce qui sucitera des discussions j'espere).

Bonjour Don,
        Je suis int.ress. . correspondre avec vos .tudiants, pour autant
que les sujets ne soient pas trop techniques ou scientifiques.  Je vois
que votre message ne contient aucun caract.re avec accent.  Est-ce que
vous voyez les miens, ou il serait pr.f.rable que je ne les utilise pas?

DS>Si vous vous interessez a cette sorte d'echange de courier, je vous
DS>prie de m'envoyer une reponse et je vous passerai une liste des
DS>adresses des 16 etudiants a qui vous pourriez ecrire.

        Je ne pourrai probablement pas initier moi-m.me de discussion
avec eux ou elles, mais il me fera plaisir de r.pondre . leur courrier.


Serge C.t.
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Newsgroups: can.canet.stats
From: root@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Operator)
Subject: UofNB NNTP summary
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Distribution: can
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:06:46 GMT

NNTP stats for csd.unb.ca  from Nov 20 02:10:17 to Nov 21 02:05:17.

                              +--------- stats ---------+ +-- ihave_stats ---+
Host                           offer accept reject   fail accept reject   fail
============================= ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ======
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From: news@nott.onet.on.ca (News)
Subject: nott news summary, Nov 23 1992
Original-Message-Id: <92Nov23.081309est.442019@nott.onet.on.ca>
Original-To: news-reports
Distribution: can
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:12:54 GMT

News log summary from Nov 22 07:10:58 to Nov 23 07:08:15

Sitename              Accept Reject Junked I-Have Sendme   Total    Sent
------------------------------------------------------------------------
torn                   11289      .    118      .      .   11407     248
dgbt                     153      .     11      .      .     164   10984
cunews                    65      .      2      .      .      67   10565
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bnrgate                   24      1      .      .      .      25   10344
emr1                       2      .      .      .      .       2   11230
netfs                      1      .      .      .      .       1      42
hpb.hwc.ca                 1      .      .      .      .       1    3420
nrcnet0                    .      .      .      .      .       .    3524
hobbit.gandalf.ca          .      .      .      .      .       .   10405
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csi.uottawa.ca             .      .      .      .      .       .   10510
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ObjecTime.on.ca            .      .      .      .      .       .    8714
             Totals:   11597      1    131      .      .   11729   94598

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From: <root@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Subject: Manitoba NNTP Server Report
Originator: root@mizar.cc.umanitoba.ca
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Distribution: can
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:00:18 GMT


NNTP peer article transfers

Article Reception (they contact us)
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TOTALS                    32794 23067  9726     1  30%  39:06:02   0:43:10   2%

Article Transmission (we contact them)
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TOTALS                    46715 35783 10932     0  23%  28:02:01   0:16:16   1%

Transmission Connection Attempts         ------errors-------
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