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New Australian research has revealed how fussy men and women are about education when online dating.

Carried out by researchers at Queensland University of Technology, the study looked at 41,936 men and women aged 18 to 80 who were members of online dating website RSVP.

The researchers analyzed 219,013 participant contacts during a four-month period in 2016, and found that across all age groups women are more likely than men to state their preference about what education level they prefer in a partner.

However, when the researchers excluded members who were indifferent to educational level, they found that men and women’s preferences did differ for different age groups.

In particular, women under 40 around the age of peak fertility are choosier about the education level of men they prefer and are seeking the same level or higher in a potential mate.

However, how specific women are about education level decreases with age, and over 40 it is men who are pickier than women about the education level of a potential partner.

“It’s an amazing way to look at human mating behaviour (internet dating websites like RSVP) because it gives us a really vivid snapshot of such a large and diverse age group (18-80 years) of people in a pretty uniform mate choice setting,” said co-author Dr. Stephen Whyte.

“Previous online dating research has demonstrated similar or higher women’s preference for education level in a mate but as our data encompasses a range of ages between 18 and 80, we are able to comprehensively show how those preferences change across the reproductive life cycle.”

“However, for all age groups in our sample, women had a clearly higher minimum standard for the education level they wanted in their mate,” he said.

“Evolution favours women who are highly selective about their mates and in many cultures, women have been shown to use education as an indicator of quality because it is often associated with social status and intelligence — both attributes that are highly sought after.”

The results can be found published online in the journal Psychological Science.

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There are two types of people at any Canada Day barbecue: the gracious guests who bring the finest beer or cider, and the boors that pawn off the cheap brews.

And yes, there’s now evidence proving there are annoying guests who steal the premium stouts and IPAs, leaving nothing but cheap lager in their wake.

A poll released on Friday from Research Co. found that one in four Canadians would help themselves to someone else’s beer in a cooler at a social gathering. Of those that have no qualms with taking another guest’s drinks, 83 per cent said they’d be kind enough to limit it to six beers or less.

“If you bring a six-pack of Old Milwaukee and decide to drink a dozen of someone else’s double IPAs, then you are a douchebag,” Robert Mangelsdorf, editor of the B.C.-based craft beer publication, The Growler, said in an email. “And you probably have an alcohol problem.”

This happens more than you’d think. One Ontario poll respondent revealed that he once brought an expensive raspberry-infused craft microbrew to a party and dropped it into a cooler. He returned only to find nothing but Pabst Blue Ribbon, an infamously inexpensive American lager.

Outside of trading in a PBR for a high-end craft beer or something rarer, Mangelsdorf says it’s OK to grab something different out of the cooler.

“If you spot something else you’d rather try, then obviously ask first,” he said. “After midnight, it’s pretty much a free-for-all, though.”

While 25 per cent of Canadians may want to pinch a drink from a party cooler, 62 per cent said they would only drink the beer they brought.

The poll also found that the younger generation is less likely to indulge in this systematic pilfering than older partiers. Only 16 per cent of people ages 18 to 34 would drink beer they didn’t bring compared to 32 per cent of those 55 and older, who said they’d have no issues indulging on another’s premium beer contribution.

Those aren’t the results Research Co. president Mario Canseco was expecting considering a stereotype of millennials being “moochers.” He pointed to two likely culprits for the discrepancy: either the pickier beer preferences of millennials or the more congenial nature of boomers. While differences in wealth and income appear to be reliable indicators, the poll showed that income had very little correlation with the likelihood of beer swiping.

Regionally, Quebecers had significantly fewer problems with taking beer that wasn’t theirs. They were also more than twice as likely as the rest of the country to take more than six cans of beer that didn’t belong to them.

Thirty-five per cent of Quebecers would help themselves to someone else’s beer, which is 10 percentage points higher than the national average.

Canseco suggested that the discrepancy is likely the result of cultural differences.

The poll confirmed Canesco’s expectations that women would be less likely to drink beer belonging to others than men. While 30 per cent of men help themselves to other people’s beer, only 20 per cent of women do.

So this Canada Day, use proper beer cooler etiquette — ask before you take what you didn’t bring, and if you’re not going to drink the cheap stuff, leave it at home.

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Canada’s unemployment rate dropped to 5.6 per cent in November, the lowest rate in comparable records going back to 1976, Statistics Canada said.

The country added 94,000 jobs in the month, an unusually strong showing and well above economists’ expectations. The gains were led by increases in full-time work, StatCan noted.

And the numbers got a notable boost from Canada’s rapidly-growing cannabis sector.

The number of people directly employed in non-medical cannabis was 10,400, on average, over the past three months, Statistics Canada said, up 266 per cent from a year earlier.

Marijuana became legal for recreational purposes in Canada on Oct. 17.

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While the total number of people directly employed in non-medical cannabis is relatively small, the industry’s expansion “clearly boosted total employment across various industries,” BMO senior economist Robert Kavcic wrote in a client note.

More than half of cannabis jobs (58 per cent) were in agriculture, while others were in retail, educational services and health care, Statistics Canada said.

Notably, cannabis-related jobs pay better than the Canadian average, with hourly wages at $29.58, compared to $27.03 for the country as a whole.

Quebec leads job growth

Quebec saw the strongest job growth, adding 26,000 jobs in the month. Its jobless rate, at 5.4 per cent, is close to the lowest the province has ever seen.

In a rare bit of good economic news, Alberta added 24,000 jobs in November, and its jobless rate fell a full percentage point to 6.3 per cent. Ontario added 20,000 jobs, and its jobless rate held steady at 5.6 per cent.

But the numbers were so strong that some experts questioned their validity, noting that StatCan’s Labour Force Survey numbers tend to swing wildly from month to month.

CIBC economist Royce Mendes called the Alberta job numbers “a suspicious detail,” while TD Bank economist Brian DePratto wrote that, “as always, a grain of salt is needed when interpreting this volatile series.”

But Friday’s report also contained disappointing details.

Year-over-year average hourly wage growth for permanent employees continued its decline in November to 1.46 per cent, to deliver its weakest reading since July 2017.

Experts have been expecting wage growth to rise thanks to the tightened labour market, but it has dropped every month since its May peak of 3.9 per cent. It now sits well below inflation.

The Bank of Canada keeps a close watch on wages ahead of its interest-rate decisions. On Wednesday, the central bank held its benchmark rate at 1.75 per cent, but in explaining its decision it highlighted other economic negatives such as weaker-than-expected business investment and the sharp drop in oil prices.

Mendes said the Bank of Canada will take notice of the “massive reading” in the November jobs report as it mulls next month’s rate decision.

“The large gain in jobs will keep a January rate hike on the table for now, but we’ll need to see similarly positive evidence from other indicators and no major reversal in the next jobs report,” Mendes wrote in a research note to clients Friday.

— With a file from The Canadian Press

AMSTERDAM — Mutated strains of HIV circulating in Saskatchewan are leading to faster developing AIDS-related illnesses in the Indigenous population, new research has shown.

The research from the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Simon Fraser University was presented at the 2018 AIDS Conference in Amsterdam on Thursday. It showed that the strains of HIV in Saskatchewan have high levels of immune-resistant mutations compared to ones in other areas of Canada and the United States.

“Physicians were saying there’s something going on here that isn’t right, people are getting sick very, very fast,” said Zabrina Brumme, the lead author of the study and associate professor of health sciences at Simon Fraser University.

“It’s almost as if the virus is nastier.”

Saskatchewan’s HIV incidence rates are among the highest in North America, with 2016 rates in some areas more than ten times the national average. Nearly 80 per cent of people with HIV in the province are Indigenous.

The researchers hypothesized that the quickly developing illnesses were linked with resistant strains that had adapted to the specific immune profile of Indigenous people.

“In Saskatchewan, like other places in the world, HIV is adapting to the host populations in which it is circulating,” Brumme said.

“In Saskatchewan, the majority of HIV-affected persons are of Indigenous ancestry so HIV as a result has adapted to these populations.”

The multi-year analysis compared more than 2,300 HIV sequences from Saskatchewan with sets from elsewhere in Canada and the United States.

They looked at 70 different mutations, but one key mutation was found in more than 80 per cent of HIV strains in the province, compared with only about 25 per cent of HIV strains found elsewhere in North America.

HIV treatment effective on mutant strains

More than 98 per cent of the HIV sequences collected in Saskatchewan had at least one major immune-resistant mutation. Researchers said that means the strains with similar mutations are being frequently and widely transmitted.

Jeffrey Joy, research scientist with the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, said while the findings are concerning, the good news is that if people get tested, the treatment still works on immune-resistant strains.

He said it’s critical to expand access to HIV testing and treatment in Saskatchewan because antiretrovirals not only makes a person’s symptoms diminish, it also can stop the spread of the mutated HIV strains.

“Strains that carry the mutations will slowly die out because they won’t be transmitted to other individuals,” Joy said.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – As a result of her outstanding play over the past week, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) has selected senior infielder/pitcher Bayley Hammel of Canon City High School in Canon City, Colo., as the MaxPreps/NFCA National High School Player of the Week.

 

 

Hammel was a perfect 16-for-16, with 12 doubles and 13 runs batted in three games during the nomination period of Sept. 1-7. She walked in her only other plate appearance.

Meanwhile, in the circle she went 1-0 with a complete-game shutout in three appearances, with seven hits and no runs allowed over 10.2 innings, three walks and 26 strikeouts.

MaxPreps.com, the official high school statistical provider of the NFCA, provides all statistics for the NFCA High School Player of the Week award. To nominate a player for the award, the coach must enter his or her athlete’s game stats into MaxPreps.com by Sunday evening to be eligible that week.

The MaxPreps/NFCA High School Players of the Week are announced on NFCA.org every Monday during the spring season, with one representative chosen from each of five separate high school regions. During the fall campaign, just a single player is selected representing all participating regions.

MaxPreps is a free stat tool that is available to high school coaches across the country and is one of the most recognized and respected high school athletics websites on the internet. Coaches who enter their team’s stats on Max Preps will not only be nominating their players for this award, but they will be getting their team’s information out to thousands of high school sports fans and college coaches across the country.

To obtain a coach’s login, please contact [email protected] or call 1-800-329-7324 x1. To enter a team’s stats on the MaxPreps website, please click here.