MYSTERY CUTS

PAYDAY IS NOW A MYSTERY FOR DANIEL FEUER. He no longer knows how much he will get paid for his work. There are thousands like him in Canada and the USA. They all work as “shoppers” for Instacart, an app that takes grocery orders online and has their shoppers deliver them to customers’ homes.

BLACKED OUT

ALL THE NICE WORDS DIDN’T MATTER. A coalition of Black activist organizations has rejected a proposal to create a National Institute for People of African Descent. They say they had no choice because what the federal government offered is far different from what the acivists had in mind.