WE KNOW THEY ARE NOT HEROES. Not the kind we give medals to, anyway.

MATTHEW LINNITT HAD TO RUN FOR HIS LIFE AND LIE ABOUT IT. It was the only way he could save himself and his job.

SAM FITZPATRICK’S COMPLAINTS DIDN’T SAVE HIM. Sam was killed on the job on February 22, 2009. He was crushed to death under a huge bolder. He had warned his bosses something like that might happen just the day before.

GOOD PEOPLE ARE STILL DOING GOOD THINGS. It’s a truth worth remembering in days like these; days overflowing with news of bad people doing bad things.

WORKERS KILLED AT WORK IN NOVA SCOTIA BECOME ‘THE UNDEAD’: they are not allowed to rest in peace. They are kept alive in a bureaucratic limbo of secrets and obfuscation. Families are denied details of how and why their loved ones died; deaths are even hidden from the public.

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.