THE OFFICIAL TRUTH IS NEVER ENOUGH. It never includes what it was, and is, like for the people who get caught in the middle of a catastrophe they could not escape. The Ottawa People’s Commission on the Convoy Occupation continues to work away to provide that part of the convoy truth.

QUOC TRUONG HAS A REAL JOB. He’s a licenced steamfitter. He’s also a Hammer Heads program graduate­—one of over 500 workers who have gained the skills they needed to get solid, well-paid jobs in the licenced building trades.

BETTY LUPTON was walking a picket line in Vancouver last week. But she isn’t on strike. Lupton is one of about 1000 shipyard workers walking picket lines in solidarity with 165 workers who are on strike.