ANTI-CHOICE IS ON THE RISE IN THE USA. It couldn’t happen here. Could it?

A strange way to help

Don't call 911. It's busy.

A public library is an unqualified good.

TWO NIGHTS AND DAYS OF WAITING DIDN’T HELP. The 4000 nursing home workers in New Brunswick are still waiting for a contract and waiting to find out if their Charter right to strike will be honoured.

The word alcohol or beer appears 46 times in the Doug Ford budget. Coincidence?

THERE WAS SOMETHING DARK ABOUT IT ALL. Dark enough so that the mass evictions of more than 500 Heron Gate residents last year prompted a human rights complaint against the City of Ottawa and the landlord behind the largest mass eviction in Canadian history.

THE RICH MAKE APRIL THE CRUELEST MONTH. It is the month we have to pay our taxes. That often leads us to dark thoughts about the whole system; dark thoughts about who pays what and whether what we pay gives us all that we deserve to get.

DOUG FORD FAILS TO DELIVER AGAIN. Ford and the Conservatives promised that people making minimum wage would be better off getting a tax break in place of a scheduled $1 per hour increase to the minimum wage. Now we find that’s not the case.