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Hi Everyone! Here we are in our eleventh day of our strike. Today's news is that we can be "cautiously optimistic." Our negotiation team is back at the table and we have a "professional mediator" coming in Monday. (What does it say about the state of our world that one can claim mediating as a profession????) I am the only Inkshedder who is a union member. (Roy, are you still a member of Inkshed?? Roy Graham is on Site 3 with me every weekday morning). On the picket line this morning (plus 3 celcius and not raining very hard--just hard enough to need to cover the signs with plastic bags) we were joined by reps from faculty associations at Lakehead, Trent, Mount St. Vincent, and Memorial. All in all there are 17 other associations from across canada supporting us. It's great to have that support. and as I walk the picket line I too am thinking NO; my Canada includes Quebec and my spirit is with my Quebec colleagues... I am using my email from home and it is very slow--took me days just to get an opportunity to log in--so i'll sign off for now. A bientot, Pat Sadowy