THE GOVERNMENT OWES US A JOB. It seems like a crazy idea: something only a communist like Che Guevera, or a “socialist” like Bernie Sanders, might promote.Except it’s not.

IT WAS ALWAYS A LAME EXCUSE: paying workers less because they got tips. Those days will be over in Ontario come January 1. This could reduce take home pay, say some. But not necessarily.

TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT are not just the lyrics to a Johnny Paycheck country music song any more. It’s a message more and more workers are delivering to their bosses these days. The bosses are worried. And they should be.

DEMANDING MORE WORK MAKES NO SENSE wrote Paul Lafargue in 1880. More and more workers are coming to that same conclusion today.

STEVE NELSON MAY BE DOWN but he’s not out. He’s a survivor—a twenty-first century hunter/gatherer roaming the back streets and alleys in Vancouver. “Binning” and stayin’ alive.

WORK JUST AIN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE and that’s the way to keep it say most Canadians faced with an end to the changes in worklife brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

TAKING IT TO THE STREETS has a whole new meaning in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver these days. Teams of dedicated health care professionals are out in the streets taking the COVID-19 vaccine to the most vulnerable in the city. The results are impressive.

NICOLE GNAZDOWSKY KNOWS THE CRUEL TRUTH. What she doesn’t know is why and how. What else she doesn’t know—and can’t explain—is why she is the one working the hardest to find out.

IS THE CHIEF WILLIAM SAULIS FISHING BOAT A COFFIN? The RCMP is in no hurry to find out.

NURSES ARE NOT UNBREAKABLE. Nobody knows this better than Cecilia Yeung—a BC nurse who started a support group to help nurses suffering from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).