WE’RE JUST NOT FEELIN’ IT. No matter how much the carnival barkers in charge of the economy keep telling us how lucky we are...things just don’t feel right. We’re stressed out: particularly about how thin we are stretched payday to payday and about the frightening reality of the climate crisis.

NURSES AREN’T BOUNCERS. But their life on the job can too often be almost as violent. They’ve had enough of it.

WE TREAT MIGRANT WORKERS LIKE SHIT. We did when we brought them from China to build our railroads over a century ago. We still do when we bring them here today to work our farms. It’s the Canadian way.

MAYBE DOUG FORD MISSED ALL THE FUN COLLEGE KIDS HAVE, but that’s no reason to run Ontario like a frat house.

HELPING THE HOMELESS HURTS. This truth is revealed in a recent study by Professor Jeannette Waegemakers-Schiff at the University of Alberta.

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN B.C. IS CRIMINAL. The BCGEU (British Columbia Government and Service Employees Union) wants to know exactly how criminal. They want a public inquiry to find out.

NOBODY WANTS NURSES TO GET TOO EXHAUSTED TO CARE. Yet our provincial governments keep making that a real possibility. Nowhere more so than in Newfoundland and Labrador.

REGULAR WORKING GUY HAS THE HEART OF A POET

THE RIGHT TO STRIKE IS NOT OPEN TO INTERPRETATION. That’s the principle at the heart of a case the BC Ferry & Marine Workers Union (BCFMWU) has taken to the BC Supreme Court.

ALL JOBS ARE BULLSHIT JOBS. It’s in the nature of the beast we call capitalism to make them that way. Deep in our reptilian brains we all know this. A graduate degree in economics is not required. A Tim Horton’s degree will do.