YOU WORK. YOU GET PAID. Thirty-five thousand students in Quebec took to the streets to drive home that simple principle again in mid-March.

Doug Ford says that he wants our young uns to learn readin’, ritin’ and rithmetic. Back to the basics. What does that look like? Here’s what we do know so far.

THEY CALL IT ‘CODE CRITICAL’. But the government continues to ignore warnings from the 1,100 paramedics in Nova Scotia. This is bad for the paramedics and bad for the general public, says the union representing them. So bad the paramedics have taken to twitter to warn the public about it.

ONTARIO IS IN TROUBLE. Everybody living there—your family and friends—everybody, they’re all in trouble. They need our support.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford brushes aside science and parents to impose cuts to benefits for almost every child with autism in Ontario

NUNAVUT MAY BE THE HUNGER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. Food Secure Canada says food insecurity rates in Nunavut are the highest among indigenous people anywhere in the world.

“TELL ME HOW THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM SLAVERY?” It’s a question interns often ask—but always anonymously. That fact alone makes the case against unpaid internships self-evident.

MOHAMMAD HOSSAIN’S BIG CHANCE DIDN’T LAST LONG. Ontario Premier Doug Ford snatched it from him in January.

HOW LONG BEFORE THE FABLED PHOENIX RISES OUT OF THE ASHES? Thousands of federal government workers ask that question every day as they continue to suffer the tortures of the broken Phoenix pay system, three years after it was activated.

UNEMPLOYMENT IS LIKE THAT OLD “BAD NEWS/GOOD NEWS” JOKE. The bad news is there is nothing to eat but buffalo chips. The good news is that there are plenty of buffalo chips. Our current low unemployment rate is like that. What should be good news is actually bad news.