In the news today: Strike deadline passes for public service staff

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : These assessments -- known as Impact of Race and Culture Assessments, or IRCAs -- analyze how a convicted person's experience of systemic racism contributed to their criminal charges.
58% : The actor, who was born in Ohsweken, Ont., and is from the Six Nations Reserve, starred in a steady stream of film, television and theatre projects from the late 1970s onward.
53% : The BCGEU has about 34,000 members in fields including social services, health care, education, government liquor stores, prisons, courts and public administration.
52% : The union said the strike vote was called after a breakdown in negotiations between the union and the agency in July, and it was revealed after voting closed on Friday that 92.7 per cent of members were in support of job action "if necessary." The Quebec government has turned down federal funding aimed at combating systemic racism in the criminal justice system, saying it doesn't agree with the program's approach.
47% : "We are not party to any funding agreement involving Impact of Race and Culture Assessments, as Quebec doesn't subscribe to the approach on which the funding program is based, namely systemic racism," Marie-Hélène Mercier, a spokesperson for Quebec's Justice Department, told The Canadian Press in an email.
42% : Canadian actor Graham Greene dead at 73 Oscar-nominated Canadian actor Graham Greene, who broke through with memorable roles across several genres at a time when the entertainment industry shunned Indigenous talent, has died at age 73 Greene's management team said he died on Monday in Stratford, Ont., after a long illness.

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